Summersmut Mod (summersmutmod) wrote in hp_summersmut, @ 2008-08-27 08:00:00 |
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Entry tags: | 2008, anthony goldstein, anthony/percy, percy weasley |
[FIC] Bashert: Anthony/Percy :: gift for wayharshtai
Title: Bashert
Author:
Recipient: wayharshtai
Pairing: Anthony Goldstein/Percy Weasley
Rating: R
Word Count: 2007
Warnings: Frank and sometimes unpretty discussion of religion.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Anthony is a Jew, he's small, he's homosexual, and he lives in Sheffield. He's fucked.
Author's Notes: The summary quote is bastardized from Alan Bennett's History Boys. Immense thanks to everyone who helped me with this, whether they knew they were helping or not.
Anthony is nine, and his brother is dead. There are about a thousand people in his house that he doesn't know. He's sad about his brother but his belly is full of eggs.
His mother is still wailing, and her cries are making Anthony's head ache. He understands dead in an abstract sort of way—he knows he will never see his brother again—but he also knows that his brother is better now, not coughing all night long every night in the bed next to Anthony's and keeping Anthony awake so that he yawns in the afternoons.
His mother is certain that this is the beginning of a cycle of tragedy, though his father stoically insists it is not. Anthony can hear them, though they have closed their bedroom door.
He hears his mother say lots of things, and then he hears the words might not even get into Hogwarts.
Yes, I will, Anthony swears silently to himself. Yes, I will. He curls his hands into fists and his nails cut half-moons into his palms.
Yes, I will.