Team Epilogue: 9. Reparo in time saves nine.

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Title: Reality is Broken
Team: Epilogue
Author: acromantular
Prompt: 9. Reparo in time saves nine.
Wordcount: ~2500
Rating: very NC-17
Warnings: Adultery, spanking, very mild bondage, rimming.
Summary: What must Harry break to have what he loves?
Author's Note: Thank you to my beta, E, who somehow manages to read my handwritten scribbles, and to my fantastic

Comments

[okydoky]

Arghhh, love this so much! This fest needed a bit of porn, and this was gorgeouuuuuuuuuus! ♥

[acromantular]

♥
The porn fairy delivers. :)

[smirking_muse]

First of all, I loved your title. It is brilliant and makes me chuckle a bit on its own! Secondly, WOW. That was the BEST beginning to a story- really wonderful! I like how demanding Harry is- it’s very hot! I adored the things he said to him. Your Harry seems a lot more dangerous and edgy than usual- so I think it wasn’t too much of a surprise that he was cheating (although I usually don’t imagine that to be in character). And to be honest, in the beginning scenes, it didn’t bother me much- it did a bit in later scenes when they had children and real lives with these women

[acromantular]

Infidelity is something of a curse to Epilogue-compliant fic, so I'm glad this worked reasonably well for you. I'd like to think that the infidelity troubled them as the reality of their lives with wives and children settled in, but it was too late to do anything but try to go forward through the disaster they'd created.

As for Ginny - people are notoriously good at believing the world works the way they want it to, at least until it smacks them in the face. It's unclear where Harry was storing the memories, so perhaps it was somewhere she really never should have been able to find them?

Thank you for such a thoughtful comment!

[irisqi]

Gosh, an ode to sex, I love it! =D

I love how you display the way their relationship develops through sex, and how the most important moments in their relationship are marked by sex. It brings a sense of urgency and joy to their relationship.

I can't really vocalise it properly, but suffice to say I loved this very, very much and thought it was a superbly executed concept.

[acromantular]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it.

My theory is that they couldn't really have these discussions in any other situation besides during sex - any other time they'd be together and surrounded by family, and if they're alone they're shagging like bunnies. Rather forces the timing. ;)

[irisqi]

Oh yes! That's very logical, because they're time together is so limited they spend all of it having sex.

[misscake]

I really liked how each part more or less picked up where the last one left off even though it was clear that months or years had passed in between. Well done!

[acromantular]

I think these were just the most particularly pivotal points of a long-running discussion - they probably rolled around the subject a million times, but sometimes manage to nail what they're really after. (And those are the special memories Harry stores separately.)

Thank you. ♥

[sugareey]

I love how sexual this is. Seriously, it's a perfect way to show the progression of the relationship between the boys and the separate parts and the ending works so well with the prompt!

You totally got their personalities in there and this was awesome. Nice job!

[acromantular]

I think lots of things come out during sex - sort of the "oops, was that out loud?" sort of honesty they wouldn't necessarily have in normal interaction. And so glad to hear it worked, as this is the highest density of sex I've ever written, and it's a bit scary to try and carry plot and a prompt almost entirely within bedroom conversation!

Thank you for the great comment. ♥