Drum-Taps

Title: "Vigil Strange I Kept"
Word Count: 11,355
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: Hard R/NC-17
Warnings: Angst, sexual situations, instances of crude language, implications of major character death, AU
Characters; Pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, with appearances by Teddy Lupin, Lolly, and Harry Potter
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and not mine. I make no profit from this piece of fiction.
Summary: Remus' lycanthropy has caused his body to seriously deteriorate over the years due to the constant stress of the transformations, and by his fifty-sixth birthday, it's certain that he won't live to finish out the year. However, a cure has recently been discovered - but what if the cure is just as bad as the disease?
Author's Notes: My infinite, heartfelt thanks goes to ceredwensirius, who helped shape this story and give our boys life. You're wonderful, darling, and I hope you enjoy. Thank you also to the speedy beta by remuslives23, for which I am grateful, and thanks also to toujours_nigel. Title from Walt Whitman's poem "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night."

Written for rs_games 2010, Team AU, prompt 12.

LINK TO 'VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT' AT THE RS_GAMES

Title: "A Bridge, Burning (in Six Parts)"
Word Count: 1,500
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: R
Warnings: Angst, 1981, sexual situations, language
Characters; Pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
Summary: They built the bridge between them in silence and dismantled it much the same.
Written for rs_games 2011, Team Remus, prompt 1.
Lollyverse

LINK TO "A BRIDGE, BURNING (IN SIX PARTS)" AT THE RS GAMES 2011

Title: Doing Lunch (it's a euphemism) [1 of ?]
Word Count: ~400
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: PG
Warnings: AU, angst, sexual themes
Characters; Pairings: Remus Lupin/Tobias (OMC)
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of J.K. Rowling. I make no profit from this piece of fiction. All characters depicted are of legal age. The character "Tobias" is my own intellectual property.
Summary: Lunch with Tobias, who means well.

( 'You should get out more,' Tobias says to him one afternoon over lunch. )

Title: A Good Man
Word Count: 3,260
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: R
Warnings: major character death, suicide ideation, angst, drinking, some crude language [S1 compliant; no spoilers for S2 except the concept of Reichenbach]
Characters; Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes; D. I. Lestrade
Summary: “Sherlock Holmes is a great man - and I think one day - if we’re very, very lucky, he might even be a good one.” Lestrade calls on a grieving John.
Author's Notes: For the infinitely lovely and talented lotherington. Thanks go to ceredwensirius for the beta-work. You ladies are marvellous, and I honestly couldn’t have done it without you.
Disclaimer: Sherlock Holmes and its related characters belongs to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is/are not mine. The BBC incarnation of Sherlock belongs to Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. I make no profit from this piece of fiction. All characters are depicted are of legal age in their country, the author’s, and the reader’s.

linked/cross-posted: here at watsons_woes, here at johnsherlock, and here at sherlockbbc


( set fire to the falls and let us burn as we go down together )

Title: "si lo que sientes tan fuerte es mi corazón" / "if it's my heart you're feeling so strongly"
Word Count: ~215
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: PG
Contains: angst
Characters; Pairings: Blaise Zabini/Draco Malfoy
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of J.K. Rowling. I make no profit from this piece of fiction. All characters are of legal age.
Summary: Blaise's will never let go, and he'll never let Draco go again.
Author's Notes: For toujours_nigel, who has my heart.
Lollyverse

( The way he touches you, sometimes, when he thinks you’re asleep, tracing his fingertips along the edges of your oldest tattoo... )

Title: "the nature of correspondence"
Word Count: ~1,500
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: PG-13 ish
Contains: implied sexual situations, angst, brief language, violence
Characters; Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Blaise Zabini
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of J.K. Rowling. I make no profit from this piece of fiction. All characters are of legal age.
Summary: Draco doesn't write Blaise, over the summer holiday, because you don't write people who aren't your friends.
Author's Notes: For toujours_nigel, who wrote the original, inspirational sentence, and also because she is wonderful and can never have enough fic written for her. Thank you for letting me borrow Draco for a spell.
Draco POV.

ETA: Oh sweet mercy she's written a post-Bella sequel to this and it made me cry. These boys.

( DEATH: The first man you kill is tall enough and dark enough and young enough and beautiful enough that you wonder in waking nightmares whether you didn’t kill Blaise instead. )

Title: "la tormenta ya tendrá que pasar / the storm will yet pass"
Word Count: 500
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: PG-13
Contains: angst, sexual images, one instance of strong language
Characters; Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Blaise Zabini, Remus/Sirius
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of J.K. Rowling. I make no profit from this piece of fiction. All characters are of legal age.
Summary: Draco is a bit of a voyeur.
Author's Notes: For toujours_nigel; thank you for letting me borrow Draco and the second person for a while to get back in the angstbucket saddle. Much love for you and the boys.
Draco POV.
Lollyverse

( You watch them, sometimes, when they think no one but the elf is watching. )

Title: the end of the world as we know it
Word Count: 300
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: disturbing images, violence
Characters; Pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, MWPP
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of J.K. Rowling. I make no profit from this piece of fiction. All characters depicted are of legal age.
Summary: When what should have been a routine mission escalates into what will become the bloodiest battle of the First Wizarding War, two soldiers cling to what fleeting moments of life they find they might have left to them.
Written for mp_ldws, Round Two/Week Ten.
Prompt: "Order Mission" "candle" "300 words exactly" "Team Padfoot"
(crossposted here at mp_ldws)

( And around them, the world was on its way to ending in a shower of sparks and fallen heroes, but they — they were alive )

( Winner, Team Padfoot, MP LDWS, Round Two, Week Ten!! )

Title: "delicate sensibilities"
Word Count: 225
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: PG
Warnings: implications of debauchery, cross-gen (?)
Characters; Pairings: Remus Lupin/Draco Malfoy
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and not mine. I make no profit from this piece of fiction. All characters are of legal age.
Summary: Just a little bit of birthday fluff on a lazy morning in bed.
Author's Notes: For toujours_nigel on the occasion of Remus' birthday. This is, I think, the only time I will write this pairing, and only for you, chiquita.
Lollyverse AU... I think

( 'Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.' -- Jack Handey, 'Deep Thoughts,' Saturday Night Live )

Title: Pressed
Word Count: 300
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: angst, sexual situations, brief language
Characters; Pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of J.K. Rowling. I make no profit from this piece of fiction. All characters depicted are of legal age.
Summary: Managing the wolf before full moons takes everything Remus has, draining him physically and mentally. He can't give what Sirius wants, and although Sirius understands, sometimes he just can't help himself.
Written for mp_ldws, Round Two/Week Eight.
Prompt: "Everybody Knows What the Full Moon Does to a Werewolf's Libido" "fervent" "up to 300 words" "Team Moony"
(crossposted here at mp_ldws)

( 'I’m back,' Sirius whispers hoarsely between open kisses sucked onto the back of Remus’ neck, 'And I— missed you, Moony— three days without you in Lithuania— no privacy for anything...' )