Title: Turn the Night on Fire
Author: paulamcg
Recipient: such_heights at rs_small_gifts
Rating: PG-13
Highlight for Warnings: *smoking of unidentifiable grass*
Word Count: 1,173
Summary: In December 1978 celebrating solstice according to Lily’s idea means waiting for the sunrise and more.
Prompts: sunrise (and a first time, and a specifically Wizarding winter tradition)
Beta: The amazing framlingem. Thank you so much, Em!
Author's notes: This small thing can stand on its own, but it also belongs to the big story of my Remus’s life and of his love for Sirius which I’ve been writing since 2003.

“Nox!” Remus says close to my ear.

Title: then there are blackbirds
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Word count: 1106
Summary: You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell. ~Emily Dickinson
Notes: Written for mysecretashes at rs_small_gifts; thanks to whymzycal and such_heights for looking this over! Title borrowed from Joy Harjo's poem Desire.

Life is simpler, here in the hills.

Title: Exhibit A
Author: minnow_53
Rating: PG-13/R
Warnings: Some violence; non-magic AU.
Summary: A key witness recounts the events leading up to a murder trial.
Prompt: My bed is covered yellow - Oh Sun, I sit on you
Oh golden field I lay on you
Oh money I dream of you
More, More, cried the bed - talk to me more -
Oh bed that taked the weight of the world -
all the lost dreams laid on you
- from "My Bed is Covered Yellow" by Peter Orlovsky

This is a repost of my rs_games fic for Team AU, with a link to the original post here.

(Everything has a voice...)

TITLE: Rebuilding Block Castles
AUTHOR: sopdetly
RATING: R
WORDS: 38,146
FANDOM: Harry Potter
PAIRING: Remus/Sirius, James/Lily, Tonks/OC
SUMMARY: A number of chance encounters with an intriguing man named Remus Lupin sets Sirius off on a path to fall in love, and to learn what it is to fight for the people he loves.

NOTES: Thank you to h4yleyg for making me sound less like an American. Many, many thanks to theemdash for being my sounding board, alpha, and beta as I've fought this fic since the start of the year. Written for the 2009 bigbangblackout. Visit the main archive to see the wonderful artwork mavoorik drew for this story!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Commenting is on for the final part only, becasue I'm anal like that.

x-posted to remusxsirius, the_kennel, and sirius_centric

Title: Tesserae (the Missing Pieces Remix)
Author: glass_icarus
Summary: Post-PoA. Sirius is picking up the pieces, but putting them back together requires help.
Rating: PG
Original Story: When Love Took a Train Headed South by gryffindorj
Notes: Written for remixredux09. To my beta/babble/think-tank crew- reddwarfer, avendya, ineffabili_tea- thank you so much. &hearts you all!

There are still twenty minutes before Remus is due to arrive, and someone’s abandoned the crossword section of today’s paper.

Title: All Those Bohemian Ideals
Author: shaggydogstail
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Summary: 'I may never convince you how lovely you are,' he says wistfully, 'but you must believe this: you're lovely to me.'
Prompt: Beauty, for cliche_bingo
Author notes: Title, and blatant theft of various song lyrics, bits of poetry and the like inspired by Moulin Rouge. Many thanks to red_squared for beta help.


How the poster-child for male beauty can see anything attractive in him - plain, ordinary boy, not much to look at - is a constant source of bafflement to Remus.

Title: In Lines of Charcoal
Author: paulamcg
Written for: leafyaki in rs_small_gifts.
Beta: The amazing ishonn. Thank you once again for the priceless inspiration, help and encouragement.
Rating: PG for touching
Prompt: All the three prompts: 1. "One imparts an intimate smile, /One chews a grass, one lowers his eyes, bashful, /One is ridiculous with cocky pride – /Six months after this picture they were all dead." - Ted Hughes, 'Six Young Men'
2. Anything to do with winter clothing and the cold
3. Anything to do with artistic boys
Summary: In December 1995 Remus rests in Sirius’s arms at the setting of the full moon. He draws new sketches, and trusts that there is still life waiting for the two of them.
Other notes: This piece can stand on its own, but it also belongs to the story I tell in all my fanfiction.
The link takes you to rs_small_gifts.


(with him as a measure)

Title: 22 Magnolia Mansions
Author: minnow_53
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; especially when that woman is an exclusive flat invaded by two uncouth schoolboys.
Era: MWPP, last year at Hogwarts.
AN: This story is based on magnetic_pole’s prompt for Small Gifts: A flat that Remus or Sirius hates (or learns to love).

Link to my journal....

Title: Childish Things
Author: minnow_53
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Remus struggles with life after school, his relationship with Sirius, his first flat and a new job.
Era: Immediately post-Hogwarts: September-December 1978.
Thanks: To westwardlee for the beta.
AN1: This was written for magnetic_pole in rs_small_gifts. The prompt was A flat that either Remus or Sirius hates (or grows to love).
AN2: The London branch of Gladrags may or may not be in Diagon Alley: however, I’ve located it there for the purposes of the story.

(Link to fic...)

Title: Right there beside you
Author: Esinde Nayrall
Rating: NC-17
Warnings/kinks/squicks: Slash. Cross-dressing. Object insertion. Light bondage. Nurse!Sirius.
Challenge: None.
Notes/Extras: Written for rs_games and originally posted here.
Beta: midnitemaraud_r
Word count: 7,610
Summary: You nurses are all sluts, aren't you?

Links go to my Live Journal/Insane Journal.

Title: FRANKIE SAY RELAX (SECTION B)
Rating: R
Warnings: Did I mention DRUG ABUSE?
Summary: A pop quiz in seventh-year R/S, seventies nostalgia, Frank Longbottom-as-a-pimp crack. Plus diagrams.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters. They are owned by J.K. Rowling.

("Don't worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.”)


Cross-posted to remusxsirius.

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 22

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.
A/N 2: This is not the end. There will be an epilogue. When I finish it.

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: "It was fine when it was lying to the enemy, but now you’ve got me lying to my friends – all of us lying to everyone – and I know, I know we’ve got to, but I just can’t stand it."


Chapter 22


Prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six
seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve
thirteen | fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen | nineteen
| nineteen (a) | twenty | twenty (a) | twenty-one | twenty-two

Link takes you to my ficjournal, ficsbynell. Cross-posted a little.

From the rs_games....

Name: lls_mutant
Team: Post-Hogwarts
Title: He That Believeth In Me
Rating: PG-13 with smatterings of R
Warnings:
1.) Contains a lot of references to religion- both positive and negative.
2.) Canon compliant, even if the summary sounds crack-worthy.
3.) Sirius/OMC before Remus/Sirius
4.) I got carried away.
Summary: Voldemort's reign shattered homes, families, and dreams. Sirius Black was no exception: once, he'd wanted to be a priest.
Prompt: Taurus: Like a garden that has endured a long winter, your leaves have shriveled and your stems have withered. But with Venus now in your sign, your zest for life will return and inspire an old and nearly forgotten dream. A revival has begun.

Genre(s): Angst/Drama, Hurt/Comfort

He That Believeth In Me

Title: FRANKIE SAY RELAX (SECTION A)
Rating: R
Warnings: exam paper format, smoking Remus, marijuana & alcohol abuse, Frank Longbottom, frequent POV changes, and it's not that S/R heavy in this section.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters. They are owned by J.K. Rowling.

(There is no end to education. "It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”)

ETA: Okay, so now the link to the fic actually works... *headdesk*
Cross-posted to remusxsirius.

Title: “A little less conversation-”
Rating: R?
Summary: A love-story with no dialogue.
Warnings: Er, smoking?
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters. They are owned by J.K. Rowling.

(A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.)

Cross-posted to remusxsirius.