The 5 Things Meme.

[quigonejinn]

You know the drill.

Do me a favor and ask for five things. My fandoms are: Star Wars, Hornblower, RPF for Paul McGann and/or other Hornblower actors, Supernatural, West Wing, Venture Brothers, Boondock Saints and really, anything that you might desire to see done in a halfassed way. If anybody wants it, I'll even write Battlestar Galactica, Nip/Tuck, and Harry Potter.

Be greedy and ask for lots. I'm in a rut these days, and writing these short little things will help me pare down my blather tendencies. :D

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[marvolo.livejournal.com]

LMFAO okay, I really wanted to ask you some Imperius ones, because I can't help myself. So feel free to go OH SHUT UP if you want. :D

- Five things Graham does the day Beatrix dies.

- Five times Attie and Pansy allllllmost did something naughty but didn't quite, before that time in fifth year. (that's the most convuluted phrasing ever, but you know what I mean.)

- Five things in Attie's memory too good for dementors to take away, even after a three-month stint in Azkaban.

- Five things Stewart won't ever tell Graham, no matter how long they live in Australia.

I COULD GO ON, BUT I WON'T. kdljf Even if you just do, like, one of them, I would be deliiiighted.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE NO DOUBT TOTALLY MOVED ON, BUT I FINALLY FIGURED IT THESE OUT. I can't remember whether we had canon about that day or not, but I'm assuming not. And I'm assuming that Graham wasn't present.

1. Remove pipette bulbs from under cheek. Fallen asleep at the laboratory bench again.

2. Do work. Good, solid research, thankfully, not paperwork. There are some slowstones that his much unloved primary investigator thinks could be converted to a leyline-focused weapon -- they can't, Graham suspects, at least not the Moroccan kind that the Lord's Army has to work with.

He's been putting together the setup to test it for the better part of a week.

3. Eat lunch in the break room. Chew slowly. Read the newspaper three times from front to end, mostly to kill time until the teagirl came around with the cart. Nice legs. Nice rear end. Very nice rear end. Smart mouth on her, too.

4. Take slowstone from incubator oven for second grinding under ventilation hood. Bump hip against the gas valve and be reminded of bumping up against Beatrice the day that she -- maybe accidentally, maybe not -- sprinkled ground slowstone on Stewart, who spent a good half hour lagged as hell and pissed as anything and swearing at them in slow motion while he very, very slowly it over to his wand on the other side of the room.

5. Found out about Beatrice.

No memory of anything that happened after that.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

1. Treehouse. Pansy was too young to know it, and Attie only had a vague idea of body parts and cabbage leaves, and they were only tickling, but a hand up the shirt is a hand up the shirt is what sixteen year old boys subsequently feel guilty after they've masturbated to it.

2. "If I'm old enough to play spin-the-bottle, I'm old enough to be kissed with tongue."

3. Dress-up. Pansy was too old to be playing it, but it was raining, and she had a captive audience that hadn't been paying enough attention to her recently. Old-fashioned robes from the attic; they'd belonged to some great-aunt or the author. Attie refused to play along, so he was in a standard black trousers and a gray jumper. She sat on his lap; he tried to put her off, and she put her arms around his neck and hung on for dear life.

He learned and she remebered that there wasn't anything on underneath the antique robe but her knickers -- in the flailing, their noses bumped, and his hand ended up rather far under the robe and up her knee.

Cotton knickers, trimmed with just a little lace around the leg.

4. "It's not like I take up a lot of room on the couch. Not nearly as much as the fat cow you've started seeing."

5. Adrian's parents had a party the summer before Attie was a sixth year. Lake. There was a fountain, so of course Attie and Adrian and C had to dunk each other. Attie was the last one in, and by the time he got out, the party had moved on except for Pansy. She wouldn't help him out of the (hired, imaginary, looked and tasted like pink champagne) fountain because she knew he'd pull her in, and this was a new dress thank you very much, but she had stayed by the side until he got out and waited while he retied his shoes, then had to take them off again because they squelched too much to walk in.

"They hired fireflies," Pansy commented. Attie was trying to pull one shoe off his foot and looked up and saw her face outlined against a bit of the moon.

They took the long way back to the party, talking and looking at fireflies. It had been a while since they were together like this, and they ended up walking hand-in-hand. Lanterns were hung around the paths, here and there, and Attie discovered that if he touched her dress with wet hands, the material stuck to her skin, and he could almost see her skin under it.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

1. Maybe Dementors can take the memory of particular good times on the pitch away from you, but they can't take away the memory of what it means to fly. That's written in the bones.

2. The way that Auntie had put her hand over his when he enlisted.

3. Going back to see the old family place, in ruins maybe, but with the countryside still wild and beautiful around. Attie can't explain why it made him so happy, so maybe happy isn't the word. Maybe pride is.

4. Some woman in the mud of a sewer. She had curly hair and pale skin. Attie doesn't remember her name, but he remembers how frightened she was, and how she'd screamed before she died.

5. A house with trees around. First son, old enough to giggle, but not old enough to walk, but squirming in the arms. Smiling woman wearing a black and white dress with ivy leaves on it and little red coral earrings. It never happened, except insofar as Pansy conjured it up for a fancy one afternoon in bed at the Galleon. Maybe this is why the Dementors can't take it, but the joy at being loved, at being with Pansy, was real enough.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

1. The big order that kept them afloat for the first six months was actually placed by a family friend. Stewart contacted him, asked for a favor, and the friend refused to let Stewart give him the money. "An honor," he said.

2. When Stewart went back to England last year -- rehabilitation tour, they called it; public relations shite, Graham had called it -- Stewart saw some of his family. They were surprisingly friendly, and when his mother still hadn't asked about Graham at the final dinner, he brought Graham up.

Stewart won't ever tell Graham what the old woman said.

3. The truth about how his father died.

4. A fact: If Graham came from a good family, he'd know how Stewart's father died without Stewart having to tell him.

5. It's been eight years since they came to Australia. Ten years since the war ended. Every once in a while, Stewart wakes up, orients himself as lying on the right hand side of the bed, in a comfortable room with his things in it. He decides that he feels happy today, and when he rolls over, he expects to see Beatrix next to him.

[krauthead.livejournal.com]

...OMG. THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR MY :D RIGHT NOW. LKSJDFLKSDF!!

I can't believe you got around to this! It fills me with delight! I had somehow forgotten how much I love these characters, AND NOW I REMEMBER! Thank you for doing these!