Raw by Gilpin25

[gilpin25]

Title: Raw
Author: gilpin25
Rating and Warnings: R for sex. Please note.
Prompt:“You are determined to hate him, Harry," said Lupin with a faint smile. "And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as your godfather, you have inherited an old prejudice. (HBP16)
Word Count: 6367
Summary: Remus Lupin has made his way so steadily into her life,

Comments

[jadeddiva]

Oh, wow. I love this, every bit of it more than I think I've ever loved a story before (and for that, it's getting pimped out by me like mad, just fyi). Everything is perfect, your Remus and your Tonks and the interaction between them and the morning after and the sex and it's so incredibly tangible and real.

Honestly, this is the best story I've read in ages and I do not say that lightly.

[gilpin25]

I felt a bit like Tonks did waking up on the morning after the night before to find this - thanks so much!:D I'm gob-smacked really, but very chuffed you liked it so much. It was such a race to get it done in time that I never thought I would, especially at 1.30am this morning when I was struggling to find an ending for it. But... I just love to write this pair, and see them very much like this, so it's great that you do too. (Especially as I'd be really crap at Snape/Giant Squid;)).

Thanks again, and especially for the pimping. Made my day. :)

[a_t_rain]

Mmm, lovely. The toast-in-the-rain scene makes me smile :)

[gilpin25]

Thank you - glad you enjoyed it. :) The toast-in-the-rain scene was the first thing I thought of as I needed something to fit with the prompt - so it's probably my favourite as it was the least trouble, lol.

[remus_recs]

Oh this is just lovely. So richly detailed and warm-hued and poignant -- unsentimental yet beautiful. I adore your Tonks and want to ravish your Remus.

I'm writing up a rec for this now. Many many congrats for getting this one in under the wire, and thanks for sharing it with us all.

[gilpin25]

Thank you so much for this and the rec - I was nearly as happy as Tonks was waking up to find this. (Though sadly minus the smut;)) It was just a simple idea, really; that she wakes up in bed with Remus, and we find out what they both think of that, and the story of how they got there. I do remember thinking it would be told in half the words, though, and I really wasn't planning on pulling my hair out at 2.00am this morning trying to finish it, lol.

Glad you want to ravish Remus, I thought I'd be totally self-indulgent with this last pre-DH one, and write him in the way that makes him irresistible to me. And Tonks. ;)

Thanks again. It's very much appreciated. :)

[bway_love]

Hear hear to jadeddiva's comment of tangible and real! That's what I loved most about it and what struck me from beginning to end. Other things I loved about it were: perfect Tonks narrative voice, perfect dialogue between them, perfect Remus, perfect first meeting and events from then on which continued to grow more perfect, the vivid and lively and yet not cliched descriptions of....everything (the stuff that happens isn't earth-shatteringly different from many R/T fics, but it feels so because your take on it is so fresh. I fell in love with these two all over again along with them. and don't you dare worry, the "intimate stuff" was gorgeous, particularly swirled in with all the other perfectness.) Other things I loved: every single random detail - it feels like your world is full and fleshed out just like JKRs, I started picking out moments and lines and plot ideas that I particularly loved at this point as well but it was getting ridiculous and I would've ended up quoting the whole thing back at you so I'm not going to do that. Sufficit

[gilpin25]

Firstly, thank you for mentioning the Butterbeer - I meant it in the sense that it was as harmless as drinking squash, so could hardly be blamed for him ripping her shirt off (or whatever;)), but when I looked at it again you could easily take it either way, and I think you'd be more likely to take it yours than mine! So it's been tweaked and I'm grateful you said

[iamweebles]

Oh. my.

I completely agree with jadeddiva - you've captured the Remus that I fell in love with perfectly. Wise, witty, lonely and unpredictable. A lot of quiet strength and what I like best about this is that there's no teeth gnashing. Their relationship grows and ebbs and yet is never boring (quite the contrary - the physical aspects of the story are quite sexy!) And Tonks - you've hit the perfect note with her as well.

My favorite bit? The morning after - "I knew you'd make everything all right, didn't I?" *shivers* And I love the language throughout the whole thing - starting right in the first paragraph - it makes me want to rewrite everything I've ever done to capture that rhythm (but I never could so the only teeth-gnashing is on my part :P).

[gilpin25]

Sorry to be late with this reply but obviously the weekend has been a bit ... distracting. ;) Thank you very much, I'm extremely chuffed you liked it so much as it was both pleasure, pain and a race against time to write and finish, and I find those tend to be my favourites. Though this was very close to the wire!

I very much wanted to write this as I see R/T and their get together, and I tried to say less, rather than more, as much as I could. Mainly because with the 'how-they-got-there' scenes, the reader is ahead of them anyway, and knows how it will end, so will hopefully fill in the gaps straight away as when they immediately click as people with something in common. Even if it's eating toast, lol.

the physical aspects of the story are quite sexy!)

Everything I learnt about smut writing, I learnt from you and house elf slash. Though I wished you'd warned me that writing about "the velvety skin underneath him" was not a good idea when the hair stylist appears very silently behind you. ;)