CLOSING GAMES ENTRY #3: Team Cauldron - Leela Cat! CLOSING GAMES ENTRY #3 - Team Cauldron's Leela!
Leela has submitted some great drabbles for some of our art entries! We are pleased to present:
Title: Entwined Hands (For Into the Light by Jin Fenghuangjin_fenghuang) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > PG-13 * Character Death (and life-after) * Word Count: ~100 Beta: The ladies of chat Summary: Harry Potter has gone missing.
Minister for Magic Harry Potter had been missing for days. Conspiracies were suspected. Former Death Eaters dragged in for questioning. Tracking charms and Unspeakable spells cast.
His ex-wife and children hid from the spotlight.
One night, when the Aurors were distracted, Hermione Apparated to Hogwarts.
He was lying on the floor in front of the Mirror of Erised, as she'd expected. She knelt beside him and felt for the pulse she knew would be gone.
Entwined hands flashed in the mirror. Once-familiar laughter echoed in the room and faded. And she smiled through her tears as she Summoned the Aurors.
Title: In the Minutes Before (For In Everlasting Remembrance by Mayflomayflo) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > PG-13 * None * Word Count: ~100 Beta: My teammates Summary: Harry can't simply accept the past.
Harry stood in the hallway outside Snape's quarters. He'd made his plans, obtained the potion and powder from a dodgy shop in Knockturn and an unregistered wand from an even dodgier attic above an alley off a lane off Knockturn.
Revenge, he reminded himself, that's why you're here. This... this... bastard betrayed your parents, might as well have taken his wand and killed them himself.
Ignoring the ache of loss, of jealousy, he pulled the hood of his cloak over his head and gripped the wand tightly. Three steps took him to the door.
"Wiping your nose on the teacher's arse now, Snivellus?" had been Potter and his psychophants.
Crueller words came from my housemates, born from their fear of not delivering a tame potions genius to their Dark Lord.
Hands trembling, I entered without knocking. One foot in front of the other, I kept moving until I was touching him, crawling over his desk, kissing him.
At first, I thought I'd made a horrible mistake. Then his hands cradled my head with more care than I'd ever known. He kissed me. And saved me.
Title: He Can, He Will (For Come Over to the Dark Side by Nimorinimori) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > R * Incestly Groping, just like the art * Word Count: ~100 Betas Thanks to the slashchat ladies for the once-over. Summary: Severus tempts Harry.
He's tempted, I can tell. He clings to the balustrade as if it were the only thing anchoring him in the Light, clutches his light sabre as if the fact that its colour matches the spell scars on my neck means nothing.
"Potter," I whisper in his ear, "I am your father."
"You can't... she wouldn't..."
He falters, words trailing into silence.
"I can. She did." I grip his hip with one hand. The other snakes around and fondles his erection.
He squeaks. His cock stiffens, grows, as I squeeze.
Day after day, month after month, year after year, we stood together. Severus protected me. I protected him. His sword, my staff, our magic defended us against all comers.
But it wasn't enough, and we knew it. We needed to do more than survive each fight. We had to win the war, put an end to the never-ending battles.
Finally, after weeks of plotting and planning, after one last kiss, one last frantic orgasm, we attacked the Dark Lord. Standing back-to-back, sword and staff at the ready, we clasped hands before taking up our weapons.
It was our final fight.
Title: Just For One Day (For Heroes by Chaeche (akemi42) chaeche) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > PG-13 * None * Word Count: ~100 Beta: My teammates Summary: One kiss started it all.
One kiss, that's all we had. I can still feel it on my lips, still dream of it every night.
That kiss was a promise -- of things to come, of our future. Now, it's a bitter memory, urging me to destroy this world you sacrificed your life to save.
"If there's a chance," you said, as you held me safe for the first and only time. Then you returned to play your part, leaving me alone again.
Your grave's quiet, peaceful. The obsidian stone gleams in the light of my candle.
One chance, I think, and spin the time-turner.
Title: The Claiming (For My Son by JoJo Meowjojo_meow) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > G * None * Word Count: ~100 Betas:eeyore9990 and the other folks in chat Summary: Severus snatches Harry out of Dumbledore's clutches.
"How dare you!" Severus snarled at Dumbledore. Slamming the gate open hard enough to leave it hanging off its hinges, Severus strode down the path to the front door of number four, Privet Drive.
He lifted Harry and his swaddling of blankets from the steps, then announced in a voice that allowed for no doubt and sent magic spiralling through the tawdry Muggle street, "My Son! I will protect you."
Cradling Harry in his arms, Severus favoured Dumbledore with vicious glare number forty-two. "We will discuss this."
He gave Minerva a quick nod, in thanks for her warning, and Disapparated.
Title: Persuasion (For If I Could Can Turn Back Time by Jin Fenghuang jin_fenghuang) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > NC-17 * References to double penetration * Word Count: ~100 Betas: The folks in chat Summary: Severus persuades Harry that two of him can be better than one.
"We've done it before," Severus said. "That's how I know it can be done."
"I dunno." Harry shook his head. "Messing with time... it can be dangerous."
Time-turner around his neck, Severus drew Harry on top of him. "Just think about it," he purred into Harry's ear. "Not just my cock inside you, but two of my cocks."
Harry shuddered as Severus thrust inside him.
"Thick and hard and deep. Filling you. Claiming you. In front, behind, everywhere. Just me and you and me."
"Fuck... yeah. I..."
"While we travel."
"Please." Harry arched back, drawing Severus's cock in deeper. "Now!"
Severus had promised many things before we left on this voyage of chance. His words painted vivid scenes of weird landscapes and universes beyond my imagination. And I'd wanted the adventure, the opportunity to visit new places, but mostly, I wanted to be alone with him.
"Do you see?" Severus kept his eyes on his wrist calibrator.
"It's fantastic."
"Do try to hold on. I have neither the time nor the patience to chase after you."
"Don't worry," I assured him. "I won't let you go."
Severus looked away from his instrument, and our eyes met as he murmured, "Good."
Title: Serendipity (For Pirate Booty by Amyswtalmnd) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > NC-17 * extremely dubious consent, bondage, impending misuse of a belaying pin * Word Count: ~100 Betas: The folks in chat Summary: Captain Snape ties excellent knots.
The mark of a sailor was in his knots. A good sailor made good knots. Captain Snape's knots were perfect, even if he did say so himself.
At least Potter, his new cabin boy, seemed to appreciate their efficacy. He'd barely struggled against them.
Trailing an appreciative finger up Potter's trembling flank and getting a grip on his arse, Snape reached behind him for a... belaying pin? He frowned, wondering what on earth it was doing in his trunk. Then he glanced from Potter's exposed arse to the pin and back.
Perhaps a belaying pin was exactly what he needed.
Title: Secret Keeper (For Epilogue by Umbrusumbrus) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > PG-13 * None * Word Count: ~100 Beta: Team Cauldron Summary: Ron Weasley feels smug.
Ron Weasley felt smug as he watched his little sister's wedding begin. She'd overwhelmed Harry, barely giving the poor sod time to breathe after the final battle before dragging him to the altar, and definitely not giving him time to mourn, or to think.
She'd wanted a hidden island. To protect their special day from the press, she'd claimed, but Ron knew what and who she was really hiding Harry from.
And Ron had taken care of that. Quite nicely, he thought, as he watched Severus Snape slam through the doors.
Ginny really shouldn't have made him the secret keeper.
Title: An Evening Out (For Stardust by Xingouxingou) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron (artist from Snitch, sadly) Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > PG-13 * None * Word Count: ~100 Beta: The ladies of chat Summary: Severus and Harry enjoy an evening out.
"It's not that I only ever wear black, Potter," Severus admitted. "It's simply that black suited my mood and my situation for so many years."
"And it provided protection." Harry traced his hand down the curving S on Severus's cheek.
"Quite."
They stood for a moment, watching the singer prance around the stage.
"The first time, in the seventies, did you..." Harry trailed off, not knowing how to ask.
"Not like this. Not anything like this."
Severus tilted Harry's chin up. Their kiss was full of promises that Severus hadn't known or made before.
Temptation has always been named Harry Potter. Sitting in my classroom, laughing in the Great Hall, flying astride a broom. And now, asleep in his bed, laid out like a banquet.
My banquet.
Still asleep, he murmurs incoherently as I draw the covers back. His right hand reaches for me, grazes my hip as I lean over him. His body twists towards me, even as he faces away, baring his neck.
His scent is not sweet. Earthy, human, male, it makes my fangs ache, has me clawing at the covers.
I want him. I need him.
When he wakes...
Mine!
Title: Escape (For Love Rides a Red Horse by Venturousventurous) Author: Leela (leela_cat) Team: Cauldron Rating/Warnings/Kinks: > PG-13 * Nagini dies * Word Count: ~100 Betas Thanks to the slashchat ladies for the once-over. Summary: Harry rescues Severus from Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
"No!" Severus yells at the Death Eaters chasing them. Avada Kedavra streams green from his wand.
"Take that, you bitch!" Harry hisses in Parseltongue, and his green fire kills Nagini.
Thena, their horse, runs. Her hooves clatter against rock as she races downhill. At the bottom, outside the wards, Severus wraps his arms around Harry and activates the Portkey that spins them all home,
On arrival, Severus and Harry slide off Thena. Supporting each other and their stumbling horse, they walk through the gates towards Hogwarts. Another day, they'll have to return and fight Voldemort. But today, they are safe.
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