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Highland Fling (9/11)

Dec 22, 2011 00:26

Title: Highland Fling (9/11)
Author: pica_scribit (complete fic archive)
Word Count: ~26,000 and counting...
Rating: M
Warnings: Scottish!Remus, American!Sirius, references to past sexual assault and cottaging
Genre: Total romance novel, present-day non-magic AU
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Summary: The summer before college, Sirius goes backpacking through Scotland ( Read more... )

sirius black, au, slash, remus lupin, remus/sirius, smut, fic: highland fling

Comments 6

_jenc_ December 22 2011, 15:19:08 UTC

Oh doll this is a bloody wonderful chapter! Genuinely sweet and vulnerable and I love it! I've got a grin on me from ear to ear ( ... )

pica_scribit December 23 2011, 02:13:05 UTC

Did Lily point him in the direction of the Den or did he just figure it out?

Remus mentioned in passing in Ch 3 that he always goes to the Den on the solstice.

I wasn't wholly convinced until the last few sentences that he even wanted Sirius other than for a shag, let alone felt anything half to what Sirius feels for him. It was quite sad in a way because I'm thinking 'this guy is willing to give up everything, family included for you! Show some enthusiasm man!'.

That's probably something I need to tweak in future drafts. I'm so focused on Sirius's experiences in this story that Remus's have become sort of secondary. I feel like this story has a lot of flaws that I need to work on, but I also feel like the final version will be something I can be very happy with.

I reckon he'd willingly accept his best friend so long as he didn't try dry humping his leg :P

Heh. James has been poking me for a while now about getting his side of this particular story told. He has a lot of thoughts and feelings he needs to get out in the open.

As ( ... )

_jenc_ December 23 2011, 08:52:00 UTC

It seems my memory is worse than previously thought. Well done you on contingency, it would appear that sadly such coherency between chapters is lost on my shitty brain ( ... )

pica_scribit December 23 2011, 09:11:42 UTC

I probably need to work on being less of a perfectionist. I spend so much time editing things I've already written that I could be spending writing new material. Of course, that's not going to stop me from completely redoing Survivor's Guilt (and probably Tropical Adventures, too). Of course, that's a million years away because I can't do that until after ACOC and my First War fic are finished. That's so much writing ( ... )

jademg December 22 2011, 15:21:25 UTC

YES!!!!!!!!!!!! You just made my day! I have such a busy day ahead, I thought about perhaps saving this for later, but I realised I couldn't do that! I'd wonder all day long about the next chapter. :P

I'm so glad they found each other again! And at the Den, of course. It makes sense. I can't believe Sirius wrote those letters!! I mean, I get that he's in a completely different country, but I feel like that's something I'd have to say in person, or at least over the phone. Maybe a letter is best though. Allows the other person to sit and think it through and not have a gut reaction they might later regret.

I can't wait to see where it goes from here! :)

pica_scribit December 23 2011, 02:05:52 UTC

Thank you! Yeah, I much prefer to do my important communication in writing. It's easier to sit back and take a moment, to avoid saying anything hurtful, and to keep the conversation from getting derailed.