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Today's [livejournal.com profile] one_bad_man rec send me into paroxisms of delight. [livejournal.com profile] minerva_fest always delivers sharp, intelligent, witty and thoughtful work, and Accommodations is the fest at its most sublime for a Severus/Minerva fan like me. Every word breathes and sighs with honesty and life. It sings from start to finish. This is pristine writing in any person's genre. Please go and read this gem and give it's Mystery Author a lot of love.

Excerpt:

To anchor himself in the present, Severus focuses on Minerva's hair: the feel, the reality of that long, grey-streaked mass. He's always liked to touch it when it's loose; he likes to see it disheveled and wild: her hair is wanton, the way she is when they make love.

The thought makes him pause. "Make love." He can almost hear Minerva snort and tell him tartly that they have never "made love." "Fornicate, Severus," she'd said once. "We fornicate."

"We fuck," he'd replied, partly because he knew she disapproved of that word and partly because saying it to her made his cock twitch.

Mostly, though, he'd said it because he'd needed to create distance between them. He had never let himself think of "making love," either.

But suddenly he understands: that's what they'd done last night. That's what had been different. They had made love.

He leans back into the pillows, feeling oddly disturbed. He has no idea what this might mean, if anything. He's used to thinking of himself as unloved and unloving; he's not sure he knows how to feel anything else. Or whether he wants to. He certainly doesn't know whether Minerva wants to.

Why would she? In the past, Severus had never quite been able to believe that Minerva actually wanted him, with all his bony ugliness and his Death Eater history. He'd told himself that he was simply convenient for her -- a man available and willing and with a certain semi-youthful stamina. Because really, what other options did she have in a place like Hogwarts?

Date: 2014-10-21 01:58 am (UTC)
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I squee'd so loud when I read this one last week and I KNEW I wanted to rec it today -- I've had my fingers crossed ever since that no one would beat me to it :)

And that line about 'What other options did she have in a place like Hogwarts' totally made me laugh, because true! Flitwick, Hagrid, Slughorn, no no no. Still, I like to think that she'd have chosen Sev even in the face of lots of other competition. The two of them are such a great fit (at least in my head).

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