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Still, where did the lighter fluid come from? (emiime) wrote in emific,
@ 2009-01-03 15:23:00

Entry tags:

character: harry, character: neville, genre: slash, pairing: harry/neville, rating: g

Shouldn't (Harry/Neville, G)
Title: Shouldn't
Pairing: Harry/Neville
Rating: G
Word Count: 311
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Not mine. JKR's.
Summary: Boys shouldn't kiss boys.
Notes: A teenyfic gift for isidore13 from swtalmnd, who requested sweet Harry/Neville with awkwardness.

The first time Harry and Neville kiss, it's because they know that Seamus has kissed a girl and because they both want to kiss someone and because it hasn't ever occurred to either of them that boys shouldn't kiss boys. They are twelve years old and snow is drifting outside and the rest of their dorm-mates are in the common room warming themselves by the fire. Harry and Neville are conspiring on their Potions essays, lying on Neville's bed together, shoulders touching in a way they haven't yet learned isn't a way boys touch. Boys shouldn't lie close with other boys.

Harry laughs gently at something Neville has said and turns his head and sort of blinks, and Neville blinks, too, and he blurts that Seamus kissed a girl from Hufflepuff, and Harry says he knows. Neville looks at Harry's lips and Harry looks at Neville's and shrugs and leans in.

Neville's lips are dry and his breath is warm and his eyes are closed, and Harry wonders if he should close his eyes, too. He thinks that lips on lips is nice, and he wonders why the older students he's seen kissing have to put all that tongue and spit into it.

He pulls away and smiles at Neville with half-closed eyes and Neville smiles back. They decide that that was nice and maybe they can do it again. Maybe they can do it again right now, even.

So they do, but Ron comes in and he looks and them and makes a face. Neville and Harry pull apart.

"Boys shouldn't kiss boys," Ron says, and he stomps over to his trunk and starts rooting through it.

"Oh," says Harry softly, and he and Neville start working on their essays again.

Harry still wants to kiss some more, though, and when Ron leaves, it turns out that so does Neville.

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	mariamme 2009-01-03 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	melts This is so adorable. And Ron, though he annoyed me, is very true to most twelve year old boys, I think. grin (Reply to this) (Thread)

emiime
2009-01-03 06:22 pm UTC (link)

Aw, thank you! Yeah, I think most young boys who've been told that would all too gladly reiterate it to their friends. I can also see neither Harry nor Neville ever having had heard that, Nev growing up with his Gran and Harry left alone by his relatives. So to them, it's just something that feels nice, there's no weird gender shit involved.

Heh, I'm overanalyzing.

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	mariamme 2009-01-03 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	I like your over-analysis. It makes for good fics. beam (Reply to this) (Parent)

	coffee_n_cocoa 2009-01-03 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, boys! snuggles them Ignore Ron, you've got the right idea! ♥ (Reply to this) (Thread)

	emiime 2009-01-03 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	They certainly have! :D ♥ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	swtalmnd 2009-01-03 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	Eeeee! I loff eet, and I bet she will, too. I like the ending, and how true to being 12 it is, both the experimentation and the snap judgements. ♥ (Reply to this) (Thread)

	emiime 2009-01-04 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Yay, glad you enjoyed! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	secretsolitaire 2009-01-03 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, this is lovely. :-) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	emiime 2009-01-04 12:18 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	isidore13 2009-01-03 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	Awwww! That's so cute! smishes sweet innocent boys thank you! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	emiime 2009-01-04 12:18 am UTC (link)
	Glad you liked! :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

iamisaac
2009-01-04 10:21 am UTC (link)

Oh, cute. *snuggles them* I reckon Ron's jealous - after all, he's Harry's best friend - what's Harry doing kissing Neville? ;)

I remember talking to male friends about the difference in sleepovers between girls' and boys'. In ours, we all used to see how many people it was possible to fit in a double bed, all curled up together. The boys, it seems, had their own separate patches of floor with No Touching!

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	emiime 2009-01-04 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	Hee, thank you! Yeah, it's so strange how differently we are cultured from boys! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	qzee 2009-03-27 01:09 pm UTC (link)
	very cute and it may, eventually, lead to greater things. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	emiime 2009-03-28 02:59 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)