Title: The Fog
Author: animimares
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: PG-13 because of the F-word.
Prompt: Bank
Word Count: 100, according to Word.
House: Slytherin.
Author’s Notes: Angst for juwely_d and a rather fucked up relationship.
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Harry tries imagining their future in the privacy of night, Malfoy soundly asleep next to him, but it’s impossible to see further than a couple of hours; possibly the next fuck.

Their relationship is hidden in banks of mist and Harry never stops feeling blind while stumbling through the darkness. The adventurer in him, his inner Gryffindor, craves the rush it is, but Harry wonders if it’s worth it.

It’s not because he has not tried to walk away – they both know he has – but no matter how far Harry runs, he always returns, letting himself disappear in the fog.

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: bank, draco malfoy, draco/harry, harry potter, rating pg-13
Current Location: On my way out the door...
mood: don't wanna go
audio: BSB - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

Title: Shades of Grey
Author: animimares
Character(s): Draco Malfoy, mentions of Lord Voldemort, Narcissa Malfoy and Harry Potter
Challenge: Born to be Bad
Word Count: 100
House: Slytherin
Author's Notes: Okay, so I played around a little. There is evil in it, but that is not the focus. Sorry.
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You do not exactly consider yourself evil.

You look at Potter and think that if Potter is good then you are not, but evil is not the word for it.

Evil is something else entirely and it holds your mother in capture as a way of making sure you do as it tells you to. And until now you have followed its rules.

No, it isn’t evil to stand here in front of Potter, asking for asylum – but it isn’t good either. It is somewhere in between, shades of grey, if that is even possible in a war like this.


~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: born to be bad, draco malfoy, harry potter, lord voldemort, narcissa malfoy

Title: Penguins
House: Slytherin
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: Luna, mentions of Pansy/Luna
Challenge: In Memoriam.
Author's Notes: Crossposted to luna100 for the challenge zoo
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Luna goes to the ZOO every Sunday. Strolling down the pathways, she thinks it’s almost like magic; the way every step conjures up a memory.

As she comes to a halt in front of the penguins, her lips slowly form a smile, a Sunday once upon a time entering her mind.

“Did you know penguins mate for life, Pansy?”

“I wouldn’t be surprised; I imagine it must be difficult finding multiple partners looking like that.”

“I think they’re beautiful.”

“Of course you do.”

Luna never had time to tell Pansy that penguins live on in loneliness when their mates die.



~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: in memoriam, luna lovegood, pansy/luna

Title: Where Eden Is
Author: animimares
Challenge: Directions
Pairing: Pansy/Luna
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: This is... just strange.
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Pansy never believed in God. Not many Purebloods do (their traditions older than Christianity); but as she stands before the wide open field (battlefield; land of victory) with the dead and wounded strewn across it in an imitation of red blossoming flowers she is more than ready to ask for directions to Heaven (Hell cannot be worse than this).

“Come.” Someone takes her hand and the voice is faintly recognisable as Luna Lovegood’s. Pansy is about to tell her to fuck off, but Luna’s next sentence stops her.

“I know a haven.”

Pansy follows (far away from fire and brimstone).


~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: directions, pansy/luna, rating: pg

Title: The Unknown
House: Slytherin
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Songfics
Characters/Pairings: Pansy/Luna
Author's Notes: “Like nothing I’ve ever known” is taken from the song “Nothing I’ve ever known” from the “Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron” album; performed by Bryan Adams.
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Pansy, Luna writes slowly with her finger in the snow covering her mother's tombstone, is everything good in the world, mom. She makes me feel warm inside – and she says I make her smile. There’s no greater purpose of existence than that; than making somebody feel that happy.

Luna stands in quiet anticipation, awaiting a response. The wind makes the trees sway in gentle dance and that’s all Luna needs. She can read the signs; she listens to the unvoiced words.

I know, she answers, filling out the last vacant snow on the grave, it’s like nothing I’ve ever known.


~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: songfic, luna lovegood, pansy/luna
mood: good

Title: Inevitable
House: Slytherin
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Songfics
Characters/Pairings: Draco/Harry
Author's Notes: Inspired by Celine Dion’s “Rain, Tax (It’s inevitable)” and the last line is almost an exact quote from the chorus.
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Every time they meet they agree on it being nothing but coincidence (not fate).

“Why, Potter – you still stalking me?” Malfoy will ask when they once again find themselves face to face at work, in Diagon Alley or at some party.

“Well, Malfoy, it’s not my fault you always get in my way,” Harry will answer and not protest in the slightest when Draco pins him against the nearest unnoticed wall; kissing stealing their breaths away.

They part with a hushed “see you around” because they both know it’s inevitable (a fact of life; thunder will always crack after lightning).

~*~

Title: Believer
House: Slytherin
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Songfics
Characters/Pairings: Pansy/Luna
Author's Notes: “What you give is what you get returned” is from the song “Affirmation” by Savage Garden.
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Pansy watches Lovegood and wonders how she can keep believing. Those odd little ideas… they make no sense in a war-torn world (not in any other world for that matter), but Pansy finds herself… fascinated (is that the word?)… anyway; by the way Loony keeps her faith even when she’s on the battlefield; curses whistling through the air.

“What you give is what you get returned,” Luna answers Pansy’s unspoken question one day when they are on their way out from an Order meeting. Pansy stops to stare at her; realising it’s true.

Because Pansy has become a believer too.



~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: songfics, draco/harry, pansy/luna
mood: content
audio: Britney Spears - Everytime

Title: Till Love Do Us Part
House: Slytherin
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Songfics
Characters/Pairings: Pansy/Draco, mentions of Pansy/Luna and Draco/Harry
Author's Notes: The lyrics used are from Johnny Cash’s “One”. Arrakis is a star in the “Draco” constellation and that’s also why I’ve chosen this name for Pansy and Draco’s son.
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“You will not meet him again,” Pansy tells Draco slowly, “because if you do I’ll divorce you and take Arrakis with me.”

The flame Draco’s trysts with Potter always leave in his eyes dies at her words.

Pansy doesn’t care if Potter and Draco fuck, but she envies their happiness; envies the way Draco’s marriage doesn’t hinder their love. It’s not fair.

“You owe me your faithfulness,” Voice broken, Pansy clutches Luna’s letter (I cant be holding on when all you’ve got is hurt) tightly in her left hand, “I’ve given up so much for you; you owe me, Draco!”



~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: songfic, draco/harry, draco/pansy, pansy/luna
mood: crappy
audio: Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come

Title: Runaway Bride
House: Slytherin
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Songfics
Characters/Pairings: Pansy/Luna
Author's Notes: The drabble is inspired by the song “Runaway” by The Corrs.
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The Malfoy-Parkinson wedding would probably have been the most outstanding event of the year, had the bride decided to show up.

Pansy didn’t.

Instead she walked barefooted through the Manor Gardens, heading for the forest; no footprints left behind in the dewy grass.

Luna was waiting for her under the ancient oak. As Pansy approached, her wedding dress ruined from dirt and thorns, Luna held out her hand, eyes sparkling.

“That dress was expensive.”

“Well, it wasn’t my money,” Pansy smirked, following Luna further into the woods, their fingers entwined.

Neither of them cared much about Draco Malfoy’s brideless wedding.


~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: songfic, pansy/luna
mood: amused
audio: The Corrs - Runaway

Title: Simple Song
House: Slytherin
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Songfics
Characters/Pairings: Harry, Luna, others
Author's Notes: The song is “American Pie” by Don McLean, though the version I listened to while writing this was the version interpreted by Madonna.
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The day the music died...

The war is over in a green-flashing moment of action in slow-motion and all it leaves behind is a silence so thick that Harry thinks they will all die from suffocation.

No birds sing and no one dares to speak (Voldemort won; he stole every sound).

We started singing...

But then the fragile voice of Luna Lovegood starts to sing; a gentle melody Harry recognises from his childhood. It is a simple song about hope and new opportunities.

Soon other voices mingle with Luna’s and even Harry sings along; his voice hoarse but not broken.



~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: songfic, harry potter, luna lovegood

Title: Failure
Characters: Harry, Draco
Rating: G
Warnings: Character Death
Challenge: Constant Vigilance
House: Gryffindor
Word Count: 100
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Harry had trouble sleeping at night. He knew that to stop paying attention meant death and he thought he had quite enough lives on his conscience as it was.

Harry lay awake alone; the tent canvas spelled to show him the sky. His eyes roamed over the millions of stars, searching – always searching; for someone, for something, a hint or a sign – but nothing unusual was to be seen.

He rested.

The next morning he found Draco Malfoy dead a few metres from their camp. Harry understood that it was his fault; he failed to look closely enough. He failed.




~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: constant vigilance, draco malfoy, harry potter, rating: g
mood: crappy

Title: Lessons
Author: animimares
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Dark Mark
House: Slytherin
Author's Notes: This is dedicated to juwely_d for being the Draco my Harry will always love and try to support (though it can be a tough love at times) and because she gives me so much lovely Draconess to work with.
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“Our choices make us who we are, Malfoy – leave it be.”

Harry watches Malfoy read through yet another Potions book, searching (always searching for an answer). Malfoy looks at him, gaze haunted by regret and terror before yanking up his sleeve. The Dark Mark stands out – blackishly – against his pale skin. Harry has seen its ugliness before and it does not disgust him like it did once.

“This, Potter – Is. Not. Me.”

Harry sighs, turning back to the kitchen to make more tea. Malfoy will understand eventually that life gives you scars – teaches you lessons – some more cruel than others.



~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: dark mark, harry/draco, rating: g
mood: melancholy
audio: Outlandish - Look Into My Eyes

Title: Bachelor
Author: animimares
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: PG
Challenge: Party
House: Slytherin
Author's Notes: Well, imagine Harry and Draco had a relationship going a year back and Draco left to do what was expected of him and marry a girl. In this case Pansy Parkinson. This is what happens when the git invites Harry Potter to his sodding party.
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The Malfoy-Parkinson Wedding is the biggest party of the year so of course Harry attends. Not because he wants to – not because he does not want to beat the hell out of Malfoy for inviting him in the first place – but because it is expected of him.

He watches Malfoy greet his guests; proper bows and handshakes depending on their status and bloodline. Harry wonders if Lucius would have been pleased to see how well he has raised his son.

Malfoy stops in front of Harry, smirk becoming predatory.

“Theoretically I’m still a bachelor for the next two hours, Potter.”


~ animimares

Tags: author: animimares, challenge: party, rating: pg
mood: stressed
audio: ABBA - Money Money Money