a peace offering drabble for dorrie6

[marginalia]

coffee - harry/draco. *sigh*

Draco's hands always looked cold to Harry. Draco curls them, fingers pale and thin, around a steaming mug of coffee, a Muggle affectation he picked up during the war. Some mornings he doesn't even drink it; he just sits consuming the warmth and the scent.

Harry wanders in, half-asleep and dreaming of breakfasts at the Burrow. When he awakes, he'll remember that the Burrow is gone. Only Ginny survived, writing on the walls of her room at St. Mungo's. But for now, he is just a young man in the kitchen with his lover, whose kisses taste of coffee.

Comments

Re: thanks Jaci!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

...

you've gone over the edge. there's no hope for you now.

i'm. um. writing a creepy monaboyd story. what sucks is it's going to totally give me nightmares, but not be at all effective on the page. or in pixels. whatever. because it needs to be longer than the length of story i can write. *angst*

Re: thanks Jaci!

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

1. You underestimate your own power with words.

a. You can write long things if you want to. Look at me with that H/D thing I'm working on... sure, it's not done, but it's gotta be way longer than anything I've tried before.

Re: thanks Jaci!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

YOU DID THE ONE WITHOUT THE TWO!

Re: thanks Jaci!

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

It was an old joke to amuse myself... from this obscure Sondheim musical, Anyone Can Whistle, which I have never seen, but my mother explained the plot to me once, and I've always loved this one element of it. In the story, everyone escapes from the local insane asylum, so the town is filled with "sane" and "insane" people, and nobody knows for sure which are which. So someone divides them into two groups, Group A and Group 1. And then they still don't know. It's very silly, but... yeah. Hee. So I sometimes do 1. and a. :)

Re: thanks Jaci!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

that's ok - the one without the two amuses me for a different reason - because we wrote the seinfeld script.

"nobody can do the one without the two"
"not even tony bennett"
"especially not tony bennett"

Re: thanks Jaci!

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

Excellent. So it works for both of us! And who else matters anyway? :)

Re: thanks Jaci!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

....

i sure can't think of anyone :)

Re: thanks Jaci!

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

Exactly! :)

Re: thanks Jaci!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

(and then i hit enter without posting my actual thought. which is that right now i only know the nightmare part of the story, and i need to figure out the real life that goes in between. it'll go up on belle_epave tonight, i bet. i'm just impatient :) )

Re: thanks Jaci!

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

Yay!

I love belle_epave... I like getting sneak previews. :)