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Fortune Favors (Various, PG)
Originally posted variously; see the series tagfor specifics.

TITLE: Fortune Favors [1/10]
CHARACTERS: The end of Remus/Tonks
RATING: PG
WORDCOUNT: 100


Remus Lupin stared at the tiny paper in his hands. He'd been enjoying the meal, a thing called take-away that he was introducing Tonks to, but the little cookies were supposed to be harmless fun, not... this.

There is yet time enough for you to take a different path.

"Remus?"

He looked up guiltily. Tonks' heart-shaped face hovered too close, and he had the urge to pull away even further.

"You okay?"

He swallowed against the dryness. Was he so afraid of being alone that he would give up what mattered most?


TITLE: Fortune Favors [2/10]
CHARACTERS: Remus, Snape
RATING: PG
WORDCOUNT: 100


Frowning, Severus cracked open the strangely-shaped "cookie" and fished out the small piece of paper. He gave Lupin another suspicious glare, and turned the paper over to read it.

"This is ridiculous, Lupin."

The werewolf was smiling, but he looked strangely nervous. "What does it say?"

Severus thrust the paper under Lupin's nose. You have an unusual magnetic personality.

"What rubbish. Any idiot who read that would think it applied to them, and feel flattered - but I am no idiot. It's completely random."

Lupin actually smiled more at that. "It is, isn't it? And yet..."

"What?"

"I'm not getting married."


TITLE: Fortune Favors [3/10]
CHARACTERS: Snape, Draco
RATING: PG
WORDCOUNT: 100


"He did?" Draco's eyes furrowed slightly as he considered this. "And what did you say to that?"

Severus set down the carton he had been eating from. "What do you think? I told him I had to think about it."

A barely noticeable pause, then, "Of course."

Severus scowled. "Stop smirking. Eat your blasted cookie."

Draco bit into it, then spit out a piece of paper. "What the hell - "

Severus smirked. "Muggle custom. It tells your fortune."

"'Every wise man started out by asking many questions'. What kind of fortune is that?"

"Perhaps you should consider that your first question."


TITLE: Fortune Favors [4/10]
CHARACTERS: Draco, Harry
RATING: PG
WORDCOUNT: 100


"I don't see what's so funny about it." Draco shoved his hands into his pockets.

Potter, still chuckling, wiped the tears from his eyes. "Sorry... I'll tell you." He glanced at Draco's fortune again.

"Well?"

"Muggles have a joke: add the words 'in bed' after the fortune. So yours means you should ask questions... in bed. Get it?"

Draco started to retort - he hardly needed advice from lovers - but then he caught Potter's eye. He wasn't making fun... he was blushing.

"What's yours say, then?"

Potter's blush deepened. "You are about to make a new friend."

How interesting.


TITLE: Fortune Favors [5/10]
CHARACTERS: Harry, Ron
RATING: PG
WORDCOUNT: 100


Harry wasn't surprised when Ron showed up at his flat with takeaway. Whenever the married pair of the once-Golden Trio were having a spat, Harry invariably got a visit from either Hermione or Ron, bearing tissues or dinner, respectively.

Chinese food meant Ron knew whatever the fight was about was his fault. Harry did him the favor of not mentioning the argument, keeping conversation light, until they were reaching for the fortune cookies.

"Ignorance never settles a question," Ron read, and then sighed.

"They brought three," Harry noted. "Why don't you take the extra to Hermione and see what happens?"


TITLE: Fortune Favors [6/10]
CHARACTERS: Ron, Hermione
RATING: PG
WORDCOUNT: 100


Hermione was wary when Ron held out the plastic-wrapped fortune cookie and called it a peace offering.

"This doesn't change anything," she warned as she opened it. "I still think you shld learn to drive, and if we're going to be in America..."

"I know," he said in the silence when she paused, looking at the paper. "And I'm going to try, but you have to swear not to laugh... What's it say?"

"The pleasures of life are meant to be shared," she read softly. "Oh Ron, I'm sorry, I've been so stupid." She threw her arms around his neck.


TITLE: Fortune Favors [7/10]
CHARACTERS: Hermione, Gabrielle Delacour
RATING: PG
WORDCOUNT: 100


Hermione was in a wonderful mood the next day when Gabrielle came to Bill and Fleur's house as usual, to take over watching their two toddlers while the parents were at work.

"They've just gone down for their nap," Hermione told her. "Oh, and there's leftover Chinese from lunch if you want any."

Gabrielle considered. "I 'ave nev-air 'ad eet."

Hermione fished in her pocket. "Here, have a fortune cookie. The boys had one each, but this one was extra."

Gabrielle opened it, bemused, as Hermione left. The time has come to put your plan into action. Quelle très intéressant.


TITLE: Fortune Favors [8/10]
CHARACTERS: Gabrielle, Lucius
RATING: PG-13
WORDCOUNT: 100


"Eat zees," Gabrielle said when Lucius opened the door, handing him something.

"My dear, I do not eat just anything that I'm... told..." He trailed off as she stepped past him, turned, undid her robe. It slid along her body and pooled on the floor around stiletto-clad feet, revealing a lithe form and pert breasts, covered in nothing more than green satin bra and panties.

"Oh?" she purred, sliding her hands up her thighs toward her panties. "Zat ees too bad."

He read the slip of paper inside the cookie an hour later: A healthy body will benefit you forever.


TITLE: Fortune Favors [9/10]
CHARACTERS: Lucius, Severus
RATING: PG
WORDCOUNT: 100




TITLE: Fortune Favors [10/10]
CHARACTERS: Snape, Lupin
RATING: PG
WORDCOUNT: 100