wl_mods (wl_mods) wrote in wizard_love, @ 2011-03-01 00:57:00 |
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Entry tags: | *fic, 2011, luna, ron |
Special delivery for martinius
Title: Darkness Falls
Author/Artist:
Recipient's LJ name: martinius
Pairing(s): Luna/Ron
Rating: R
Summary The Burrow strains; it quivers beneath the weight of all the things being unsaid. The fear, and the uncertainty. Ron just wishes that it would be acknowledged, rather than avoided.
Word Count: ~1100
Warnings/Content: slight angst, hurt/comfort, characters under the age of 18 engaging in sexual activity.
Author's/Artist's notes: What a long and tortured path this one took. I think I tried every pairing on your sign-up form before finally fixing on Luna/Ron. I'm guessing that this barely makes the R rating, and for that I apologise, but things didn't want to take that direction. Thanks to ragdoll for putting up with my incessant disorganisation and lateness.
Summer wanes, and it seems to Ron that the Burrow strains; it quivers beneath the weight of all the things being unsaid. The fear, and the uncertainty.
As his mother bustles about the house giving orders about this and that for Bill and Fleur's wedding, Ron thinks that it is as though the family's excitement and joy at the occasion is exaggerated, forced.
An enormous plaster carelessly slapped over a gaping wound.
But it isn't enough.
It may never be enough.
It still bleeds.
In every assertion that everything will be fine, and in every gaze that Ron's parents can't quite hold, the blood trickles in thin, surreptitious rivulets from the wound.
“Everything will be alright, everything will be alright.”
Ron swears he can hear it in his sleep, a tired mantra that rings throughout the house, hollow.
And under these cracking words Ron can feel everything crumbling beneath his feet.
Everything.
With a low, mournful sigh, he scrawls a note and attaches it to Pigwidgeon's leg before ushering him out through the window.
Ron watches the sun set from his bedroom and waits for night to fall.