On orange nights (Drabbles #18 & #19)

[oudeteron]

Why orange? Well, it's been snowing and the streetlamps are making everything seem to have that colour. The snow, the air. (How poetic.) Sometimes nights like this also look purple, but this time, it's orange. Never mind me. XD

Anyway. Screw the world, I'm writing drabbles! One is happy and the other sad. I won't tell you which is which. You have to find out... it is pretty obvious.

They're both inspired by the snow because it's beautiful and I'm in the mood.

Title: Tranquility
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: SFW
Word Count: 100
Summary: Remus and Sirius spend a cold day out. MWPP era.
Disclaimer: The HP universe is created by JKR. I make no profit and intend no copyright infringement.


“Remus,” he calls out, a little breathless, “what’s this all about?”

But no answer comes from Moony, who is by now running ahead of him past the lake, across the school grounds, towards the first towering trees of the Forbidden Forest. Snowflakes are aflutter in the air, no doubt about to engulf everything.

Finally, they halt at the very edge of the Forest; Remus lets him catch up and turns to him, smiling. Sirius does his best to look annoyed, but his heart is simply not in it. “Well?”

“Tranquility, “ Remus chuckles, and they are rolling in the snow.



Title: Forever and Never
Pairing: Albus/Gellert
Rating: SFW
Word Count: 100
Summary: Albus has plenty of time to reflect.
Disclaimer: The HP universe is created by JKR. I make no profit and intend no copyright infringement.


Sometimes, like on this day in winter, Albus wishes to wipe his memory blank or turn back time. He suspects—he knows—that he has enough magical ability to accomplish either, but he will always stop short. Perhaps he is slipping into habits of old age; an amusing prospect, he finds, although it indeed is too late to forget the past that has shaped him now. He has accepted.

Whirling snowflakes. Long ago, he looked forward to such winters with Gellert—Gellert with his gaze sharp as December wind. With Gellert, always and never.

In truth, it only was once.