BONUS FIC: Shade of the Morning Sun for brighty18

[midnitemaraud_r]

Title: Shade of the Morning Sun
Author: midnitemaraud_r
Recipient: brighty18
Rating: PG
Contents or warnings: None
Word count: ~3,700
Summary: It's Boxing Day, 1977, the morning after the full moon, and Lily accidentally finds out about Remus' 'furry little problem'.
Notes: Many thanks to the awesome whymzycal for the beta. Title is from New Order's "True Faith." I actually set

Comments

[bearshorty]

Aw. Sirius is so sweet here while being perfectly in character and very protective of Remus.

[midnitemaraud_r]

Part of my headcanon has Sirius being very protective over Remus, who doesn't generally like being doted on, but likes being the focus of Sirius' attention. Then again, I have so many different 'headcanons' for them. :-P I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for commenting! :)

[brighty18]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! You've no idea what this means to me, honestly. I love fandom and I really love this fest. It's one of the highlights of the fandom year!

And the story itself was just wonderful. I've always had an enormous soft-spot for Sirius protecting Remus, but this is exceptionally nice in that what you're really done is explored Sirius' feelings about that protectiveness: It wasn't that he thought Remus unable to protect himself, and certainly he could wield his wand like a pro, but there was a vulnerability to him that made Sirius want to safeguard him from any threat, real or imagined. Of course, that had led to a few incidents through poor judgment, but he refused to feel guilty for such indiscretions. Estrangement from his family had only drawn him closer to his friends, intensifying his personal mantra of "You fuck with me and mine, and I'll show you just how vindictive a bastard I can be." It was the only way he knew how to survive in a world where even the protective walls of Hogwarts couldn't keep out the coming

[midnitemaraud_r]

You're welcome! ♥ ♥ I'm so glad you liked it! And thanks for the rec! :-D

[aheartthen]

Oh god, this is perfect and beautiful. I have a soft spot for Lily and Sirius interacting and this was amazingly in character and natural and augh, it's lovely and everything right with the world.

[midnitemaraud_r]

Thank you so much! I have one as well, especially since that letter she wrote to him in DH. I've had this scenario in my head for a long time, so it was nice to finally sit down and write it, even if that wasn't my initial intention at the time. (I literally opened a blank doc and said, "Ok, let's write some quick and dirty porn!" and then Lily was there and, well. Not that I'm complaining, it's just funny how the brain works sometimes!)

I'm really glad you enjoyed it! :)

[kg99]

That was lovely

[midnitemaraud_r]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[secretsolitaire]

This is really lovely -- I liked Sirius's gentle protectiveness (the image of him carrying Remus is just *clutches heart*), and your Lily is fantastic. I also thought your characterization of Peter was quite well done in the little moments where he's mentioned.

[midnitemaraud_r]

Thank you so much! It's funny - as I said above to another commenter, when I sat down to write this, I was planning to write some quick and dirty porn, but it obviously went in a completely different direction! I'm glad though, because I'd wanted to write this scenario for a long time. I love Lily, and I love Sirius. We know they become closer later on, and it's common in MWPP fic for Remus and Lily to be friends, but there's not as much Sirius-Lily that doesn't directly involve James (or isn't porn! Hee!)

I'm really glad you liked it! Thanks again! ♥