Title: Breathless
Author: Bratanimus
Rating & Warnings: PG for sexual innuendo
Word Count: 1,552
Summary: Tonks is claustrophobic. Remus sighed, reflecting that Tonks looked a bit like an angry, yellow dragon in this state. Then he wondered why he found it such a turn on.
Author’s Notes: Written in 2006, this story was inspired by a strange dream I had ( Read more... )

Title: Stars in My Fists, Moon Round My Wrists
Author: Bratanimus
Rating & Warnings: PG for sexual innuendo
Prompts: Christmas dinner (with a turkey or a goose) and a knitted jumper or hat
Word Count: 721
Summary: Christmas during HBP. After the Burrow, against his better judgment, Remus goes to Tonks’ flat.
Author’s Notes: Written for the MetamorFic_Moon Christmas fic ( Read more... )

Title: Fortune's Fool
Author: bratanimus
Rating & Warnings: PG
Word Count: 1,695
Summary: “I guarantee you there’s no Seer here. For Entertainment Purposes Only, like the sign says.” For a laugh, Remus and Tonks visit a fortune teller. A companion piece to A Star Danced.
Author’s Notes: Written in 2006, this was a scene that I (and gilpin25, who commented on it ( Read more... )

Title: The Middle of the Story
Author: bratanimus
Rating & Warnings: PG-13 for talk of death, gross slug activity
Prompts: Day of screams, flesh-eating slugs, horror, and location #18 (the tree)
Word Count: 2,254
Summary: A ghost story that started with an ending, and finished with a beginning.
Author’s Notes: Written for metamorfic_moon's 2007 All Hallows' Moon ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, duck_or_rabbit!!!! I'm so grateful that you started talking Sirius characterization with me over one of my stories a year or so ago. Now you're one of my dearest friends, and I can't imagine not having you in my life! You are astounding in so many ways, and I hope you know it. If not, I'll keep reminding you ( Read more... )

Title: Released (Part 5 of A Change of Heart)
Author: bratanimus
Rating: R for this chapter
Spoilers: Set after Eclipse with theories about Bella’s post-change “gift.”
Warnings: Animal hunting, feeding, and post-hunt sex. DO NOT READ if sex plus animal blood will squick you.
Pairings: Edward/Bella, all other canon pairings
Word Count: 4,584
Summary: It ( Read more... )

Title: No Matter How It Ends
Author: bratanimus
Summary: So it has happened, the unthinkable: Edward has fallen in love, and with a human. Monologue, Jasper POV. Pre-Edward/Bella, all other canon pairings.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Talk of killing
Prompts: Wild Card, and the lyrics I don't want to be your friend/I just want to be your lover/No matter how it ( Read more... )

Title: Mastered (Part 4 of A Change of Heart)
Author: bratanimus
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Set after Eclipse with theories about Bella’s post-change “gift.”
Warnings: UST, a little blood.
Pairings: Edward/Bella, all other canon pairings
Word Count: 4,916
Summary: I no longer cared whether or not I caught Jasper; he’d tasted human blood before, had already ( Read more... )

Title: For Good (Part 3 of A Change of Heart)
Author: bratanimus
Rating: R
Spoilers: Set after Eclipse.
Warnings: Mid-transformation suffering
Pairings: Edward/Bella, all other canon pairings
Word Count: 6,552
Summary: I was witnessing now, before my undeserving eyes, the vast, incomprehensible scope of her love for me as she lay dying in my arms. She’d ( Read more... )

Title: Consummation (Part 2 of A Change of Heart)
Author: bratanimus
Rating: R
Spoilers: Set after Eclipse.
Warnings: Sexual content, blood.
Pairings: Edward/Bella, all other canon pairings
Word Count: 6,112
Summary: Our wedding night wasn’t supposed to be like this. They’d decided that Bella was too great a risk, and they were prepared to kill all of us ( Read more... )