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snapelyhols_mod (snapelyhols_mod) wrote in snapelyholidays,
@ 2009-12-14 03:44:00

Current mood:	tired
Entry tags:	2009_fic, fic4:karasu_hime, snape/lupin

fic for karasu_hime 'Misery Loves Company' (Snape/Lupin)
karasu_snapely09
Fic for: karasu_hime
Title: Misery Loves Company
Author: eeyore9990

Pairing: Snape/Lupin
Rating: R
Warnings/Content Info: highlight between brackets if you prefer story warnings:
[Minor Canon Character Death prior to the beginning of the fic, extremely disrespectful!Snape, AU after Oct 31, 1981]
Summary: Once Snape and Lupin have hit rock bottom, there's nowhere for them to go but up. Against all odds, they might even do it together.
Disclaimer: The world of HP and its characters belongs to Rowling. The author of this fic has borrowed them for the purposes of storytelling. No profit was or will be made.
Word count: ~10,800
Author Notes: Many thanks to r_grayjoy, leela_cat, and jin_fenghuang for their excellent beta skills and again to r_grayjoy, without whom I would have abandoned this before I even started. It is my fondest hope that this fic is everything you ever wanted, karasu_hime!

Thanks also to psyfic for continuing to run an utterly fantastic fest.

Misery Loves Company

x-posted to DreamWidth & LiveJournal

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	jin_fenghuang 2009-12-14 01:50 pm UTC (link)
	I just love your Snape Dumbledore interactions. I love the thin veneer on the mutual loathing the still have for each other and how you can see that it may grow. Lupin and Snape make sense in this setting, their despair and how they form a connection through it, despite their past. Great job, mystery author :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you, Jin! smooches you (Reply to this) (Parent)

alisanne
2009-12-14 11:42 pm UTC (link)

Oh my!
Your Snape is simply perfect. Snide, snippy, a thorough bastard, and yet his grief comes through so clearly in your very capable hands, mystery author. And you managed Lupin perfectly, too. He's a difficult character for me to sympathize with at times, but you made him interesting (something I'm afraid JK didn't manage) and there was a wonderful balance between the two of them here. The give and take of their relationship was perfect.
And the Snape/DD interactions! *nods* I bet this is exactly what it was like for them before Snape grew to respect DD (and before DD grew to trust Snape).
Brilliantly written!

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	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! No way I could have pulled this off without y'all's encouragement. hugs (Reply to this) (Parent)

	leela_cat 2009-12-15 01:37 am UTC (link)
	Snape/Lupin takes work for me, and this story does that work brilliantly. By the end, I can believe that Snape and Lupin can have a future together and that there's a basis for a relationship between them. The conversations with Dumbledore and the slow movement towards an ability to talk with Lupin, never mind a relationship really worked amazingly well. Excellent work. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you so much, darling! For everything! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kelly_chambliss 2009-12-15 03:18 am UTC (link)
	The Snape/Lupin relationship develops so believably, in fits and starts, with exactly the sort of hostility and distrust that one would expect, yet with moments of connection (like laughing over Petunia) that make clear that these two outsiders have a lot in common. Severus's prickly interactions with Albus work well, too. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you so much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

nehalenia
2009-12-15 05:29 am UTC (link)

Oh. My. God! This was a stupendous fic! I think I've been dying for a Snupin fic just like this but didn't know it until I started reading. The characterizations are superb, and I especially love how you made Lupin able to hold his own against Snape while remaining believable. Snape's awkward discomfort, Lupin getting more and more frustrated as he misreads Snape's signals (or maybe not, right?), the zinging dialogue, the great atmospheric descriptions -- this totally ROCKED!!!!

There are so many good scenes in here, but the one that really got me was at the end when Lupin announced "you may not need anyone but I do, and you're it) and sat down beside Snape and forcibly hugged him. (Kind of makes me think of that 'Engineers Guide to Cats' video with the 'corporal cuddling'.)

The sex scene was marvelous but I think the build up was even better. I seriously love me some UST, especially when Lupin's so frustrated he's about to bite something and Snape's like 'whut?' Oh gosh, just a delicious fic and *exactly* what I didn't know I was looking for. Definitely going in the 'faves'. Thank you so much for writing this.

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	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	glee Thank you so much! Your comment totally rocked my week, hee! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sweetmelodykiss 2009-12-15 05:31 am UTC (link)
	That was so very well written. I just loved this fic so much. Excellent work! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you so much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	skitty_kat 2009-12-15 02:39 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, this is fabulous. The characterisation is wonderful - through all the misery and snappiness. Oh, and pinned-to-a-wall fun too. Proper job! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lore 2009-12-15 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	Arrgh! I meant to point Karasu over here last night. I think she hasn't seen it yet. Sorry, Santa! Also, I read the story and it contained some great writing and character moments. It reads like a classic. Thank you so much! love, lore (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you so much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tetsubinatu 2009-12-16 03:51 am UTC (link)
	I really enjoyed this fic - the bitterness, their neediness and grief was beautifully done. Thanks. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you for your lovely comment. (Reply to this) (Parent)

r_grayjoy
2009-12-16 04:10 am UTC (link)

I think my feelings about this fic can best be summed up thusly: OMG!!! ::flaily flaily flail flail::

Your opening scene is so powerful; it just sucks the reader into the world and the story. You've captured immediately-post-first-war Severus and Remus so beautifully. Severus a seething, barely contained ball of anger and bitterness while Remus is sinking into despair and desperation. Then they gradually develop a peculiar friendship out of their shared misery, comforting each other in odd and subtle ways.

And then the UST sets in! I just adore resistant!Severus and persistant!Remus, and poor Remus being utterly frustrated by Severus' mixed signals. Tthen the sex -- when it FINALLY happens..!!! OMG, you're trying to kill me, aren't you?! Just... abjludfalfa!!! Remus making Severus admit that he wants it..!!! I just have no words other than GUH.

And the END! ::melts:: Both of them there for each other once again, in that quiet, subtle way of theirs. Amazing romance without schmoop. Wonderful blend of angst and humor and real feeling. Love, love, love this. ♥

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	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	Eee! Thank you so much! Dude, just... no words can adequately describe how very much this fic's entire existence owes to you, lol. glomps you THANK YOU! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	venturous 2009-12-16 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	fantastic fic! for some reason, I am falling in love with Snupin this season, and in so doing, taking an interest in the 70's era... it's said in many of the comments here, but this moment in time feels brilliantly evoked, and really makes canon-sense out of SS/RL. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you so much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	etain_antrim 2009-12-17 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Wonderful. Two men who have been deeply wounded and turn to each other when there is no one else. This feel true, as do Dumbledore's interaction with them both. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mcmuffins_js 2009-12-17 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, that was amazing - totally earned it's rec on Daily Snitch! I'm so glad I tried a Snape/Lupin story - I really enjoyed watching them circle closer and closer to each other, and it was very touching, and then, also? Very hot :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	:D Thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

torino10154
2009-12-18 01:31 pm UTC (link)

Brilliant. I just love the visceral anger they both have bottled up inside them. Your opening scene was just marvelous-the anguish and pain they were both feeling. Dumbledore is spot on. And I just loved Severus and Remus's one step forward, two steps back form of relationship negotiation. :P Excellent fic.

Oh, and full points from me for Severus's reaction to Petunia being the one to take Harry-I have a real kink for any sort of mention of the fact that they knew each other and I really feel it's under utilized in fic.

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	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	Whee! Thank you so much! hugs you (Reply to this) (Parent)

	karasu_hime 2009-12-20 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	clap clap clap THANK YOU! I enjoyed this fic a lot! The slow buildup with an awkward Snape and frustrated Lupin. Guh. The build up to the sex scene, was especially nice! They are so messy with their anti trust, anguish, pain and attraction to one another. This certainly was a joy to read! thank you again! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	You are so welcome! Thank you for your wonderful comment and for your marvelously inspiring prompts lol! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	centaury_squill 2009-12-21 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	Some great dialogue between Lupin and Snape, and a much more believable characterisation of Lupin than many I've read. Well done! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you so much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fluffyllama 2009-12-31 01:09 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, very enjoyable, and that's a great point to start going AU from -- an ideal time for them to mend fences if things went differently. Thanks for a great read! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	szefi 2010-01-10 09:16 am UTC (link)
	Snape's bitterness was so tangible, I hope Remus will be able to help him. Well written story:) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	eeyore9990 2010-01-10 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you so much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bonfoi 2010-02-13 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	The bitter anger at the beginning is so fitting, so in tune with my own views that it hurt to read. And, I agreed with both Severus that Dumbledore was manipulative...this made it much more open than canon. Amazing work as always and thank you so much for sharing! (Reply to this)

	terrible_tues 2010-10-09 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	Bittersweet story. I love this line: "You don't have to need me. But I need someone and I've decided to make that someone you." (Reply to this)