(Beauty is in) The Eye of the Beholder

Recipient: venturous
Author/Artist: purplefluffycat
Title: Clouds of White
Rating: R
Pairings: Filius Flitwick/Peter Pettigrew
Word Count: about 4750
Warnings: Teacher/student slash, in which Peter is 17.
Summary: He would never have looked at the boy, at first. That was the truth by Merlin, and Filius reminded himself of that fact for many years after the event had passed. He was not a bad man, after all. Indeed, quite the opposite; didn't everyone always say that he was cheery and good natured and would go out of his way to help someone in trouble?

Well, yes. And that was quite possibly how the whole thing had started.

Author's/Artist's Notes: Inspired by the prompt: “Filius Flitwick has a fling with a marauders-era student; a schoolboy crush becomes something more, it threatens his career. How he survives,” although this tale has possibly meandered a little from that prompt. Many thanks to venturous for the inspiration, and to bethbethbeth for running this fantastic fest!

( Clouds of White )