Title: Through The Years
Author: ???
Rating: R
Characters: Padma Patil/Millicent Bulstrode
Prompt: #71 Femslash, pleaseeeeeee.
I'm not even picky on the couple, I'd just like to see two women enjoying their first (or second or twentieth or fiftieth, you get the idea) Christmas or Yule together, by
dexstarrWarnings: None
Summary: The events of one short night change Padma’s life forever.
Word Count: ~13K
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
A/N: First of all a big massive spanking thank you to C for helping me pick the pairing for this and for the cheerleading, it was great fun writing this and without you I would never have had the opportunity to do this and I’m so incredibly glad I did! *squishes* Also thank you and hugs and kisses and flowers and shiny things to her and G. I hope you both know that I love you something fiercely and that I mostly wrote this fic for both of you! <3 Thank you also to E (I love you) for an additional beta to those of C and G who did a super fantastic job, who told me if things I wanted to do didn’t work and have been nothing but supportive and brilliant! Thank you also for letting me run stuff past you when I couldn’t figure it out by myself. Thank you to K for the handholding, you are wonderful and I fucking adore you! Another thank you goes to V for looking at something with new eyes and telling me whether it worked. You’ve all been wonderful and I appreciate you more than I can express in words.
A big shout-out of eternal gratitude and love goes out to
alisanne for writing a fic that made me see Millicent in a new light and appreciate her as a character. Without you, my darling and your awesomeness and love, this would never have happened. Thank you!
Thanks to
dexstarr for the prompt, I hope this fic is somewhat along the lines of what you were hoping for. I was really happy to see a femme!slash prompt out there and had to do it. :)
Thank you to the mods for their patience and for making this awesome fest available. ♥ I wasn’t even going to take part in any seasonal fests and then you made it all special and shiny for me! ♥
And to everyone else, this is my first attempt at femme!slash, I’ve been wanting to write some for a while and with C’s first inspiration I found I enjoyed it quite immensely. Thanks for having me!
Acknowledgements: The stanza at the beginning of the fic is a direct quote from that brilliant Christmas song “Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas” I was thinking of either the version by Mel Torme or the one by Tori Amos; thank you to my entire f-list for their input on what the bloody hell one does in a coffee shop when waiting for somebody; and on top of everything, there’s a line in this fic I shamelessly stole from that beautiful 2006 adaption of Jane Eyre, staring Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson, also, that second to last scene was totally inspired by it as well.
( Through The Years )