AU meme, out of schedule

[madam_rosmerta]

HARRY POTTER AU MEME You're a wizard! Or perhaps you're a magical creature or a ghost. More importantly, where do your loyalties lie? Are you the Dark Lord or one of the Death Eaters? Perhaps you teach at Hogwarts or work at the ministry. Are you a member of the Order of Phoenix? Are you a student in Hogwarts? In which house did the Sorting Hat place you? Leave a comment with your character's name and canon and your preferences in the title line. Then put down a few ideas about your character in your top level. Both AU characters and canon characters are welcome. List of prompts: (Choose from these or make up your own.) 1. HOGWARTS Are you a teacher or a student? Which house are you in? What subjects do you teach? Next week might be the most important quidditch match of the year and you're the team captain! Maybe you're the potions professor and someone just blew up their cauldron. 2. AURORS Are you a trainee? The head Auror who has been dueling with dark wizards all your adult life? A dark wizard? Catch you if we can! Or maybe you're an auror breaking curses in a Death Eater safehouse. 3. DIAGON ALLEY A bustling locale filled to the brim with wizarding shops and taverns. Are you a business owner? Perhaps you're a wand maker or a student buying your books for the next year in Hogwarts. Maybe you just want to get a shot of firewhiskey in the Three Broomsticks. 4. MINISTRY OF MAGIC Do you work here? You could be in the Department of Mysteries, handling a new case about vanishing cabinets. Or maybe you work in the misuse of muggle artifacts office, dispelling singing teacups or flying cars. Is it a busy day, a slow week, or just another day in the office? Maybe you're one of the gossips who just heard of the newest bit of juicy gossip. 5. THE OLDEST AND PUREST BLOOD Were you born to a pureblood family? Perhaps you're an heir of great, questionable fortune. Maybe you'd like nothing to do with your family who supports the Dark Lord. What if you fell in love with someone your family doesn't approve of? Or maybe both of your parents are muggle born and this is still all new to you. 6. FLYING There are great many ways to fly: broomsticks, hippogriffs, dragons. Take your pick and soar through the skies! 7. DUELING/SPELL CASTING What's the fun in being a wizard if you can't cast spells? Are you good at something specific? Do you use silent spells a lot? Perhaps you're the best dueler with a wand that's been seen for ages. Or maybe you're just starting out, and a spell just backfired in your face. 8. ST. MUNGO'S HOSPITAL FOR MAGICAL MALADIES AND INJURIES Did your spell go haywire? Did you stick a satsuma up your nostril? It happens. Happily there's a hospital for your needs. Or maybe you work there, healing all those poor and silly wizards who turn up in desperate need of your care. 9. AZKABAN A fortress island in the middle of the Northern sea, full of the most dangerous dark wizards. Are you a resident, or visiting? Watch out for those dementors! 10. POTIONS You brewed the best pick-me-up potion but something went wrong? Maybe you ended up purple in the face. Or you gave a love potion to the wrong person. Maybe you mixed your hangover potion with magical viagra? It happens. But now you have to deal with it. 11. MAGICAL CREATURES Do you work with dragons? Perhaps you have some giant blood in you. Or maybe you were bit by a werewolf and your first full moon is nearing. Maybe you found an injured unicorn. Or your house has become infested with boggarts. 12. WILD CARD Come up your own scenario.

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[betteralready]

"Not at all."

A grin as he squeezes his hand.

"We can-- figure it out together, mm?"

[midship]

Maybe that's for the best. Even if they're both miserable at it, it'll be good to scramble through that together.

"I suppose we can."

[betteralready]

That gets an even brighter grin.

"At risk of sounding repetitive, just-- Brilliant."

[midship]

"And we'll be all right, until then?"

He's enjoying this careful hand-holding. He's enjoying this deeper cut of honesty.

He's not entirely sure how all that will go over in the rather cozy quarters of the basement.

[betteralready]

"I think so."

A careful squeeze.

"I mean I-- guess we'll figure out if-- anything really needs to happen?"

[midship]

His lips press half-nervously together for a moment before he nods.

"Might it?"

[betteralready]

"I mean--"

Another blush, even as he squeezes Horatio's hand soothingly once more.

"I suppose I might-- want to hold your hand more even-- before then."

[midship]

That wouldn't be such a difficult thing. Really, that would probably be an incredibly nice thing.

He examines their fingers all the same, nodding again more slowly and thoughtfully. "That's pretty easily managed, I think."

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[betteralready]

His somewhat nervous smile brightens yet again at the statement.

"Yeah? All-- All right, then."

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[midship]

"All right."

It feels like at least the beginnings of a plan. It's demystifying, really, to contemplate that the little bits and pieces he's never focused on before can be charted out like this.

"Thank you, Archie."

I DID NOT ANTICIPATE U FINISHING IT

[betteralready]

"Me?" he echoes, soft and a little baffled, "Thank you. For thinking about it."

LOOK AT THAT RIDICULOUS LITTLE HAPPY FACE THO.

[midship]

He can shift himself slightly closer now. He can let his fingers feel properly relaxed around Archie's, enjoying the sensation rather than made nervous by it.

"Still. You-- asked."

If left to his own devices, Horatio isn't certain he'd ever have properly managed it.

IT'S THE BEST ARCHIE LOVES IT

[betteralready]

"That's fair."

It still doesn't stop him from grinning, entirely unable to help himself.

"Guess that's a-- good start for us both, mm?"

AS IS ARCHIE'S FACE.

[midship]

"Suppose we might even do well at this."

It already felt like a success, really. Archie grinning and flustered like this is clearly a success.

/facesquish

[betteralready]

"I guess I'm not surprised."

It's the two of them, after all. They've always seemed to do remarkably.

/facecling

[midship]

His breath comes in a happy sort of huff.

"Quite a good team, after all."

It's a bit amazing they hadn't come to it sooner, really.

/snuggles

[betteralready]

"We are."

And he's entirely overjoyed for the fact of it.

/purrs

[midship]

"And it's all right?"

Hogwarts is an imperfect place. Fumbling through this together would hardly go unnoticed. Most of school wouldn't care, certainly, but he's always been one to fret.

"When we get there?"

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[betteralready]

"It is."

Although, after a moment, he does have to quell his natural optimism somewhat.

"I mean if-- people give us a hard time, we can always tell a Prefect or a professor, right? And just-- make sure to look out for one another."

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[midship]

"We've always done that."

He'd nearly been kicked out for the impulse to protect Archie. He'd certainly be willing to do it again.

[betteralready]

"So we should do-- just fine now, mm?"

He certainly seems entirely confident in the thought.

[midship]

With anyone else, he'd have felt at such a loss. With anyone else, there would have been fumbling to understand anything at all.

With Archie, it's apparently practically built in.

"Brilliant, isn't it."

[betteralready]

"Really is."

And, he very dearly hopes, it's going to stay that way.

[midship]

Fighting for Archie had always been easy. The idea of fighting for this new, vulnerable piece of themselves--of defending something that makes Archie look so flushed and happy--will be just as natural, he's certain.

"Funny, though, isn't it. Seems like we've already been-- half way here all along."

[betteralready]

"It does," he agrees contentedly, "Suppose some people might not be surprised."

Might even be supportive. He hopes so.