1:15 PM
Slash FanFic Reading I.
I’ll probably clean up the messiness that is the previous 2/3 mobile updates/posts after this.
I’m a known procrastinator though, so I might not.
Anyway.
I felt like i haven’t logged onto LJ since forever and whilst reading my 1603 messages on the site, I discovered this fine drabble by a personal favourite slash fanfic author of mine.
The Thousandth First Kiss
"What are we doing here, Potter?"
"What do you think?"
"I think you've finally gone mad."
Harry grinned. He couldn't help himself. "You don't remember?"
"Should I?"
"You should stop being evasive and answer the question."
"I believe it was I who asked the question and it is you who is being evasive." Draco looked around, still obviously confused. "What are we doing out here in the middle of nowhere?"
"Our first kiss," Harry answered. "Do you remember it?"
Draco's eyes met Harry's, the confusion turning into a mixture of guilt and uncertainty. "Of course I remember."
"I don't think you do."
Draco scowled. "We were at a pub for Weasley's birthday. He was furious that you'd invited me. I could never forget the way his face turned from red to purple so quickly when I informed him—"
"That I invited you because I had been secretly in love with you for months." Harry grinned again. "You lied."
"Of course I lied. But you kissed me anyway. I still don't understand why you did that."
"That wasn't our first kiss."
"Harry, I remember clearly—"
"Three months earlier," Harry interrupted. "We were chasing Johansson's thugs through Diagon Alley when one of them Apparated. I grabbed his sleeve and Splinched myself. By the time you caught up with me I had almost bled to death."
Draco's eyes widened as realization set in. "You said you didn't remember—"
"I lied," Harry answered, taking a step closer, grabbing Draco's shirt to keep him from escaping.
"But you said—"
"Draco, by the time I kissed you in that pub, I had been in love with you for months. I just didn't know how to tell you."
"So you lied to me? For bloody months, you've—"
"A year," Harry interrupted again. "Exactly a year ago today you knelt in the mud right there on the road and told me I couldn't die because you needed to kill me yourself for being such an idiot, and then you kissed me."
Draco narrowed his eyes, but his lips quirked at one corner, just enough that Harry knew he wasn't genuinely angry. "You are a devious prat, you know that?"
Harry tried for nonchalance, but he couldn't contain the smile that had been threatening to break free since the moment they'd arrived. "I've learnt from the best."
"So you're really in love with me, eh?"
"Completely, absolutely, utterly, unapologetically in love with you."
Draco's slight grin morphed into a beautiful smile. "Prove it."
And for the thousandth time, Harry did. “
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Made me *squee* like the 14 year old girl that I am inside ㅠ_ㅠ
Truthfully though, I’m such a bloody romantic at heart :D
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I don’t wanna overburden this post so the rest will be continued on Slash FanFic Reading II, up tomorrow or the day after.
p/s:
You fine blogger folks might not be familiar with the terms but:
1. drabble essentially means a short piece of writing, usually <1000 words.
2. slash fanfics simply means fan-fiction comprising of same sex pairing.
