Deck the Halls, These Prison Walls

[an_fhanai]

Title: Deck the Hall, These Prison Walls
Author: celtmama
Ratings & Warnings: PG-13, for moderate language and sexual innuendo.
Featured Characters: Sirius, Tonks, Remus
Prompts: travel brochures
~ and ~
Haul out the holly
Put up the tree before my spirit falls again
Fill up the stocking
I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now"We Need a

Comments

[iamstarmom]

This is lovely, Katie! Sirius just breaks my heart in this... Well done.

[an_fhanai]

Thanks, Shelly! :D Yeah, I just want to hug Sirius in this, poor man.

[freakinwinky]

Very sweet, funny, and interesting peice. I loved "To the Victor Belong the Spoils", and am very glad you wrote this as I was one of those people who has been wanting a follow up to that for ages.

I liked the fact that this stand alone follow up created something very new rather than a rehashing of the first plot, as some follow ups tend to do. I thought that Sirius in particular was nicely in character here and the bit with him at the end was both hopeful and heartbreaking. Great work, as always.

[an_fhanai]

Thank you! :D I'd been struggling over how to continue "Victor" and the prompts I got just seemed to flow right into what I needed, so it worked out well. Maybe I can make this a holiday tradition, one update a year. ;)

[an_fhanai]

Thank you! :D And yeah, the library thing is something I do too. I was more than a little envious of Remus when I imagined him getting to go to all those cities. Kind of sad... :P

[belladonna1986]

That Katie, was just wondeful! I already loved the prequel and to have a sequel now is even better!

I'm glad to see you writing again.

Love your use of the prompt and if I had to guess, I would assume that you were partly inspired by the book about libraries you recently mentioned? I love Tonks' gift to Remus, kind of envious about that *lol*

It was so much fun to read, liked the different pov's. You also captured Sirius feelings about being trapped very well and showed that even, if he was glad about the two, he still couldn't forget his own imprisonment.

Great work and I wish you a happy new year!

[an_fhanai]

Hee, I was wondering if anyone would catch that - the Libraries book definitely influenced which cities were picked in the story. Thank you! Happy New Year to you as well. :D

[bratanimus]

Wow, just wonderful. Needless to say, I loved the prominence of Sirius in this fic, and I think you write him remarkably well. :) Loved the details you've chosen for him (e.g., his long-fingered, nail-bitten hand) which reveal so much about his state of mind without going overboard one bit.

All three characters, in fact, we very well drawn. I adored Tonks' idea for the gift (I remember that link you posted, lol!), and I loved that she totally called Remus on his reasons for wanting Oxford rather than the exotic and exciting cities (she does indeed know him better than she thinks); so she takes matters into her own hands and give him both the exotic and the academic, brilliant woman. And how fitting that she decides to share part of that inspiration with the man who GAVE her the idea in the first place, and finds out by asking his best friend just as she had asked Sirius about his best friend earlier. Gift-giving in the true spirit of Christmas. Just lovely, and deftly executed

[an_fhanai]

Thank you! :D

Yes, Sirius threatened to run off with this fic altogether - I'd written the entire first section before I realized that I'd meant to have it in Tonks' POV, lol. But then I couldn't let go of some of that internal monologue of his and had to rethink the entire story. Sad that an imaginary man has me so thoroughly wrapped around his little finger... :P

[an_fhanai]

I just now noticed that you have an Andy Goldsworthy icon, yay! :D

[bratanimus]

I knew my fellow Goldsworthy fan would notice! :D I recently changed my LJ layout and I've used that photo in the header, hence it has become my default icon and displaced Christmas R/T icons that I had to move out to make room for new ones.