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: 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: "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: "a simple plan"
Word Count: 300
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: G
Contains: fluff
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 and Blaise elope escape to Greece. Before France.
Author's Notes: For toujours_nigel, who graciously gave me the prompt of Draco/Blaise elopement fluff. Both you and those boys make me go awww ♥
Blaise POV.
Lollyverse

( 'Come away with me,' Draco whispers into his shoulder... )

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: the cracks in our foundation
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: G/PG
Warnings: implied drug use
Word Count: 100
Characters; Pairings: Remus Lupin, Max Krause; Remus/Max (Remus/OMC)
Summary: Max finds what Remus has been keeping hidden behind the bathroom sink.
Disclaimer: Characters belong to JKR; no profits are being made and only fun is intended. The character of Max Krause is mine.
Author's Notes: Lollyverse canon. Max is stuck in my head and I can't get him out. Way to be distracting me from the R/S, schatz. So here's to hoping a drabble will satisfy him for the time being?

( Max looks at you, anger flush in his cheeks )

Title: "can he make you feel as i do?"
Word Count: 100
Author: whitmans_kiss
Rating: R, probably
Warnings: Dark bizarre sex, bloodplay
Characters; Pairings: Remus Lupin, Max Krause (OMC); Remus/Max Krause (OMC)
Disclaimer: The character Remus Lupin is property of JKRowling. The character Max Krause is original and mine. No profit is being made from this.
Author's Notes: Remus POV. Lollyverse. Song "Howl" by Florence + the Machine, discovered some time after this was written. I found it quite fitting and thought to include it; love the religious imagery in the lyrics for Max.


( what races inside you )