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posted by [personal profile] drusillas_rain at 09:37pm on 29/12/2008 under ,
omg, you guys, one of my stories just got recced!!!!

The only fest I participated in this year was for the Lily/Severus/Remus holiday exchange hosted by [livejournal.com profile] dark_flowers. I wrote Why Must I be a Teenager in Love? for [livejournal.com profile] karasu_hime.

I was already thrilled with the quality of the feedback, especially because it's such a short fic, and a niche set of pairings. But, yes, thrilled, because it's the first story I was able to complete in over a year, and because I really did work on it.


Gift For: For the wonderful and talented [livejournal.com profile] karasu_hime. Request listed at end of story.
Title: Why Must I be a Teenager in Love?
Author: [livejournal.com profile] drusillas_rain
Pairing(s): Severus/Lily, Severus/Remus, Lily/James
Rating: PG
A/N: Beta'd by the fantastic and ever lovely [livejournal.com profile] arionrhod. Any and all remaining errors are mine.
Summary: Teenager in Love (link goes to youtube song)
“One day I feel so happy, next day I feel so sad
I guess I'll learn to take the good with the bad
Each night I ask the stars up above
Why must I be a teenager in love?”



You can read the fic here (goes to ij).
There are 3 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] callistianstar.livejournal.com at 08:11pm on 31/12/2008
Lulabelle72 rec'd this.

This was really really good. I love Lily, though with some stories like this it has been hard to still like her. This was probably the best way for her to get Snape to hate or dislike her, in her mind, but it is sad that James and Sirius went after him for something that she did. Did you intend for her to only do that because she just wanted to make Sev smile?

Beautiful ending. In such a short span you did a fabulous job of setting up these three emotions and perspectives.
 
posted by [identity profile] drusillas-rain.livejournal.com at 09:11pm on 31/12/2008
Thanks for the lovely comment :)

To me (at least in this piece) Lily really does love Severus, but as a brother. The kiss was just an expression of the affection she felt. Being so young, she didn't really think it could be misinterpreted as anything but that. It was never her intention to lead him on.

It was challenging to get everything that I wanted to get in with the very short wordcount required by the fest, but I'm so happy at the quality of feedback I've received from everybody.
 
posted by [identity profile] callistianstar.livejournal.com at 09:42pm on 31/12/2008
Though it might seem silly, that makes me feel better (about Lily). lol Thanks.

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