Circe ([info]circe_tigana) wrote,
2005-04-14 00:15:00
for [info]ponderosa121, who scribbled a pic to match.

five freckles
ron/remus





  • Ron has a crush on Professor Lupin, but he never talks about that. Not to Harry, not to his brothers, not to Seamus or Dean. It isn't that he's ashamed, though there's a trickle of that, delicious and strange, in the darkest depths of him. It's more that Ron now has a secret, and as the sixth child in a family of seven children, he's loathe to give up the first thing that feels truly his.


  • Ron hates that summer of awful anticipation. Waiting for Harry, waiting for news, waiting for You Know Who to make a move, waiting for the Cannons to win a bloody match. It's like everything's waiting, and Ron's fed up. He paces about, avoiding his mum, avoiding Hermione, impatient with everyone. The entire house is on edge, but there's something off about him: he can't settle, can't fit in. Ron finds Professor Lupin in the kitchen. Everyone wants it to end, Ron complains. Lupin studies him, smiling slightly, maybe sadly, though to Ron it merely looks like a smile. And you just want it to begin, don't you? You're very like Sirius in some ways. Oh, says Ron. They all know about Professor Lupin and Sirius Black. He flushes and sips his tea.


  • Ron searches for Professor Lupin in the burned wreckage of the house where the Lovegoods once lived. He calls out in horror, nearly faints in relief at the answering call. I'm not your professor any more, says Lupin, I've asked you before to call me Remus. Yet he still corrects Ron's pronounciation as Ron levitates a large portion of the roof that is trapping his broken leg.


  • Ron doesn't understand how Remus can possibly believe himself to be unattractive. You're not, he says, and kisses the other man again. Later, when they are quiet once more, Remus wants to know how Ron can want him. How can you desire this body, he asks, when the proof of what I am is written all over me, scored into my face, into my flesh? And Ron, rolling over, sees that the question is in earnest. So he takes up Remus's hands, long fingers and scarred palms. He traces them across the spattering of amber on his own body: one, two, three, until they lose count and breath both. Ron says: Harry has his mother's eyes and his father's face and a great ruddy scar from You Know Who. No one will ever look at me and see anything but a Weasley. We're all marked in our own ways. But he's Harry, and I'm Ron, and you're you. Then he grins, and ducks his head. And I'm bollocks at this, so enough about it, right? But I'm old, Remus protests. And Ron looks him over, carefully, deliberately. Yeah, he laughs. I'll give you that.


  • Ron tells him, I love you. He's often said the words to his family though never to another, yet somehow he's not surprised to find that this feels no different. Just as warm, and as necessary, and unquestionably right. After all, this secret, this love, has always been his.


Tags: fic, fic - harry potter

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[info]ponderosa121

April 14 2005, 04:20:14 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, Circe. ;-;

It's so beautiful! *rolls all over you omg*

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:22:28 UTC 7 years ago

*molests you omg*

i'm glad! since i FAILED at snape/lockhart ;)

[info]ponderosa121

7 years ago

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7 years ago

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[info]viverra_libro

April 14 2005, 04:20:38 UTC 7 years ago

Excellent use of bullet points! Lovely characterization of Ron, too, btw. :)

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:22:41 UTC 7 years ago

thanks!

[info]musesfool

April 14 2005, 04:23:58 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, Ron. That's lovely.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:38:54 UTC 7 years ago

THANK you, V :) Bit of a stretch, so glad to hear it worked.

[info]ignited

April 14 2005, 04:24:30 UTC 7 years ago

I love your Ron so much. You make me like him, you do. Mmm. This is compelling, poignant and just...all around lovely. Thank you for this. :)

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:39:08 UTC 7 years ago

Heeeeeee. xoxoxoxoxox

[info]scanky_chops

April 14 2005, 04:26:30 UTC 7 years ago

I am absolutely KNACKERED right now [blame late night karaoke and Belgian boy bonding] but that was lovely. Gotta love Ron in this one. And i don't like Ron. Much.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:39:23 UTC 7 years ago

Wow. Partying! :)

[info]scanky_chops

7 years ago

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[info]vertrauen

April 14 2005, 04:26:47 UTC 7 years ago

Ah... so this is what the bullet call was for. :)

Very sweet... and for some reason... hits a little too close too close to home at the moment. But sweet nonetheless. Another target hit, doll. :)

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:39:39 UTC 7 years ago

Awww, ::cuddles you::

Thanks, sweetie.

[info]not_sally

April 14 2005, 04:27:55 UTC 7 years ago

OMG you genius. Suddenly Remus/ron seems like the best pairing ever...

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:40:06 UTC 7 years ago

Heh. I suddenly wondered ... where's the ron/remus ... does it even exist? and then, of course, had to try it out myself.

[info]barbed_whispers

April 14 2005, 04:33:30 UTC 7 years ago

How do you make the most random couples seem so natural??

::reads this over and over and over::

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:40:22 UTC 7 years ago

Luck and perversity :)

[info]anniesj

April 14 2005, 04:35:09 UTC 7 years ago

GYAH!!! ANGST! Freckles and scars and professor-crushing! It's so good! And I have this terrible kink for Remus talking about how ugly he thinks he is. It breaks my heart and I *love* it. EEEEE!

*adores*

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:40:47 UTC 7 years ago

your icon is SCARING ME OMFG.

GAH.

Also, now I'm wondering if ron/sirius exists :)

[info]gypsyjolie

April 14 2005, 04:36:03 UTC 7 years ago

Ah, you make me all goose-pimply. (fanon) Ron gets to me, how he's not great at anything and tries so hard to figure what he's special for... and then he just nails the truth of something that no one else seems to see.

Lovely!

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 04:41:03 UTC 7 years ago

So glad you liked! :)

[info]smiling_flash

April 14 2005, 04:51:41 UTC 7 years ago

Best random pairing evar. Now I will be entirely convinced that professor-crushing=TRUE LOVE FOREVER OMG. Huzzah for something sweet and still entirely personal, yeah.

*is pretty much new*

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 13:09:09 UTC 7 years ago

LMAO! Yes! Your professor crush will turn into TRULUV4EVA most definitely! ;)

Hi! Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed.

[info]sillyfilly

April 14 2005, 05:03:41 UTC 7 years ago

Precious!!!!!!!!!!!

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 13:09:21 UTC 7 years ago

:)

[info]cavalaxis

April 14 2005, 05:40:13 UTC 7 years ago

That *really* works, m'dear. Even your thumbnail sketches are devastatingly beautiful.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 13:09:38 UTC 7 years ago

thank you, c.

[info]msjoplin

April 14 2005, 06:32:58 UTC 7 years ago

This is wonderful, I loved it. *hands over cookies*

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 13:10:00 UTC 7 years ago

cookies are the best feedback ever.

*gobbles*

[info]xylodemon

April 14 2005, 06:33:52 UTC 7 years ago

I don't know which I love more; the fic, or the bullet points. Ok, the fic. But the bullet points rock. :D

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 13:10:13 UTC 7 years ago

Hahahaha. <3333

[info]snarkhunter

April 14 2005, 06:45:09 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, lovely.

Thank you so much for this. It's a pairing I never really considered (though Ron/Sirius occured to me...), but it works here, in some strange shaded world.

(I'm not making sense. Sorry. It's nearly 3.)

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 13:10:46 UTC 7 years ago

It's a pairing I'd never thought of until 5 minutes before I tried it. I was curious :)

[info]ter369

April 14 2005, 07:04:09 UTC 7 years ago

One of the lovely things about this surprise!pairing is the writer can look at the characters from a fresh point of view - just as Ron looks at Remus.

Bullet points & freckles: v.g.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 13:10:59 UTC 7 years ago

*vbg*

[info]delirieuse

April 14 2005, 12:02:01 UTC 7 years ago

Lovely. Well-executed as always. Brava.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 13:11:12 UTC 7 years ago

thank you!

[info]phineasjones

April 14 2005, 13:13:29 UTC 7 years ago

i don't understand how this... how you...

wow.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 13:16:28 UTC 7 years ago

Heeeeee.

<3

[info]circe_tigana

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[info]penknife

April 14 2005, 13:50:05 UTC 7 years ago

I ... wow. I would never have thought this pairing could work.

Brilliant.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 16:01:19 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you! It was certainly a challenge!

[info]reposoir

April 14 2005, 14:14:30 UTC 7 years ago

[info]phineasjones recced this and I was a little hesitant to read this, but I'm glad I did.

Awww! *wibbles* I really loved the bulletpoint format- adds a touch of unconventionality that I love to see in fics. Also, I really liked how it was short and to the point. It really worked with the piece, imo.

Thank you for sharing this! I really liked it! Maybe one day there'll be more Remus/Ron out there- this is certainly the first one I've seen.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 16:00:52 UTC 7 years ago

Heee. It's the first I've seen too! Thank you very much!

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[info]failing_light

April 14 2005, 14:31:46 UTC 7 years ago

<3s Ron. And Remus. And YOU!

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 16:00:28 UTC 7 years ago

<3

[info]girlandetc

April 14 2005, 14:50:37 UTC 7 years ago

ahhh<3 i love the second one! cute.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 16:00:11 UTC 7 years ago

thanks, babe :)

[info]balefully

April 14 2005, 15:21:43 UTC 7 years ago

Ohmygod. So at first I was all "...Ron/Remus?! WTF?!" but this was just gorgeous and I love it to teeny little smitherines. Are there more fics with this pairing out there somewhere?

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 15:59:41 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you! And damned if I know! I wondered about the pairing for the first time last night and decided to try it myself.

[info]hackthis

April 14 2005, 15:48:35 UTC 7 years ago

Ron says: Harry has his mother's eyes and his father's face and a great ruddy scar from You Know Who. No one will ever look at me and see anything but a Weasley. We're all marked in our own ways. But he's Harry, and I'm Ron, and you're you. Then he grins, and ducks his head. And I'm bollocks at this, so enough about it, right? But I'm old, Remus protests. And Ron looks him over, carefully, deliberately. Yeah, he laughs. I'll give you that.


Oh, fuck. I'm not supposed to find Gryffindors endearing; I'll be smote! And yet, it's not them, but you and the way you've written this and made it so quiet, and right, and it's absolutely fan-fucking-tastic. Rock on, Circe.

[info]circe_tigana

April 14 2005, 15:59:05 UTC 7 years ago

Oh! You made me all squirmy, Z! You WILL be smote ... how entertaining!

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