Here are three fic recs for Friday: one dark and two humorous.
Title: One Echo
Author:
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snegurochka_leeCharacters: Snape/Lupin, Lily, James. Snape/Lily, sort of, but no more than you get from canon.
Rating: R
Words: ~3,400
Warnings: Domestic abuse. (Minor, offstage) character death. Quite far into AU territory, too, I should think. Possibly suspect magical theory.
Summary: Snape saw the moment it registered. Lupin was an idiot, to be sure, except when he wasn't. His gaze swept over Lily, pausing at the pertinent swells of purple on her arms and the way she hunched over in shame. If only both of them had looked into her eyes.
Written for the Dark Side challenge on
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lupin_snape, this is dark indeed, and will send a chill down your spine. I can't say too much about it without giving away the ending, but I highly recommend it. Actually, I highly recommend anything by this author, who somehow has a way of writing so well that her stories overcome all my usual squicks. (I usually don't care for dark fic and prefer happy fluffy stories, but this story is incredibly compelling and I don't regret reading it at all, although I still shudder a bit when I think about it.)***
Title: Fleabane
Author:
geri_chanRating: PG-13
Pairing: Snape/Lupin
Word count: ~7,100
Disclaimer: No money is being made off this story; consider it a little wish fulfillment on my part.
Sequel to: Snupin Meme
Prompt: "The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too." - Samuel Butler
Summary: Lupin wants to adopt a stray dog, but Snape has other plans.
Author's note: Inspired by a prompt from
lupin_snape's April Fools Challenge, although I didn't finish it in time for the challenge. This is one of mine, with my usual snarky-with-a-side-of-fluff Snape. Post-war AU where Snape and Lupin never died and are living together happily as an established couple. Lupin brings home a stray mutt, and our long-suffering Potions Master is determined to get rid of it, but...well, I'm sure you can guess how this is going to turn out. ^_^
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Title: The Lecture
Author: grindylowe
Pairing: gen
Rating: R
Author's Notes: Inspired by a post of Severus Snape Slyth Society Board about Snape teaching Sex ED. I never said it was an original idea! Not ONCE!
Hey, a non-Snupin rec! ^_^ I stumbled across this link on another comm, where someone mentioned a fic where Snape teaches a sex education class--how could I resist? It features a hilariously snarky Snape teaching Sex Ed to a soon-to-be-traumatized class of male students: "Let me start of by saying that the information I am about to impart to you will gain you nothing but trouble. You thought my potions midterm was, perhaps, frustrating and humiliating? It has nothing on this, especially for us men. At least with the potions midterm there's a chance, however slim, that you could study harder and get a better grade in my class. With this the only way to learn is from practice. And from the looks of most of you that will be hard to come by."
And it only gets funnier from there!
I do recommend that you read this promptly, as the fic is archived on a Geocities site (Yahoo's free web page service), and Yahoo is planning to shut down Geocities later this summer. So if you don't read it now, it might not be there later.