wook77: (Deamus - Kiss)
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Title: Five Times Dean Drew Seamus
Author: [livejournal.com profile] wook77
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Dean/Seamus
Rating: PG
Wordcount: ~600
Summary: The five times Dean drew Seamus.
A/N: Written for the prompt of the same name for [livejournal.com profile] oconel. Unbeta'd.


1.) They're on the train, heading to Hogwarts that first year, and Seamus refuses to stop moving around. He's a bit like a monkey, all knobby knees and arms and jerky movements as he swings from perch to perch. Dean can't help but to grab his sketch pad and draw out a monkey with Seamus's face. He expects Seamus to be mad at him. What he doesn't expect is the way that Seamus swings an arm around his neck and then hoots like a monkey before picking through his hair. By the end of it, they're laughing so hard that they have tears. When they finally recover, Seamus doesn't move away, just keeps his arm around Dean's shoulders and leans in, whispering, "You're going to be my best mate."

2.) Dean's heart twists at the way that Seamus sits off to the side in the Common Room. He's got his books around him, plenty of parchment and quills, but it's obvious, at least to Dean, that Seamus is brooding. He's mad at something, probably the fact that Dean is supposedly taking Harry's side and joining Dumbledore's Army. Whatever it is, the expression on Seamus's face tugs at Dean until he sneaks up to their room and grabs his sketching supplies. Only charcoals will do to capture the emotion on Seamus's face, how he stares at nothing at all and wants something that Dean isn't sure about.

3.) He gets Seamus's letter and reads between the lines. It's not going so well at Hogwarts. He can't help the anger that he feels, though, towards the way that Seamus is upset. At least he has food and he's warm and not stuck in the fucking woods with the fucking rain and no fucking tent and no fucking fire because it takes too fucking long to break down either and both when he's fucking running for his fucking life. By the end of the yelling – and he has screamed it all to the trees, much to his dismay – he's sketched out Seamus lying in the dirt, holding his throat as he strangles. It's an appalling drawing and Dean quickly scuffs it out of existence with his foot.

4.) When Dean wakes up the morning after, he catches himself staring at the way that Seamus sleeps curled in on himself with his hand on Dean's bare chest. The differences in their skin tones strikes him and he reaches towards the beside table to pull out the sketchpad and a pencil. He barely sketches any of himself in the drawing. Instead, he concentrates on the way that Seamus's face is relaxed in sleep and his hand clutches at Dean's skin. When he's done, he quietly sets his pad back on the table and then wonders how, exactly, he can possibly tell Seamus that he's in love with him.

5.) It takes him a year to get the drawing just right. The fox scampers around a tree, sometimes hanging from a branch just like a monkey and sometimes, it curls in on itself at the base of the tree. Sometimes it shouts at the moon and sometimes it stares out at him and wonders where he's gone. By the time the tattoo artist gets it completely embedded and animated, Dean knows that this is exactly how he wants to tell Seamus. When they crawl into bed that night, Dean leaves the lights on and watches Seamus's face as he realises. "Oh Dean," Seamus breathes out before he touches it with questing fingers.


As always, I'd love to hear what you thought.

Date: 2009-07-06 04:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shygryf.livejournal.com
awwww yay!

*hands you cookies*

Date: 2009-07-08 02:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Thanks! <3

Date: 2009-07-06 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yaycoffee.livejournal.com
So sweet! I loved it :-)

Date: 2009-07-08 02:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Thanks! It's fun writing them. :D

Date: 2009-07-06 09:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hpuckle.livejournal.com
I have missed your Deamus! Complete perfection!

xxx

Date: 2009-07-08 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Thanks <3 I do love these boys so much.

Date: 2009-07-06 10:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanseedee.livejournal.com
Aww, that was lovely.

Date: 2009-07-08 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Hee! Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed!

Date: 2009-07-06 11:01 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] snegurochka_lee
Oh, so lovely! The monkey image for Seamus is so cute. #3 broke me, and #4, oh. Beautiful.

(see timestamp. cannot spell). :)
Edited Date: 2009-07-06 11:02 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-07-08 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
LOL! It's ok! You were typing away all night, you're allowed to have problems typing ;)

After writing something so large, I'm trying to be much more succinct in my words. It's been a very fun experiment :D

Date: 2009-07-06 12:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfietala.livejournal.com
Eeep they were all so lovely :D

I loved them ^__^

Date: 2009-07-08 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Thanks! Im very glad you enjoyed!

Date: 2009-07-07 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretsolitaire.livejournal.com
Wow, gorgeous.

Date: 2009-07-08 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Thanks! *beams*

Date: 2009-07-07 10:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mavoorik.livejournal.com
This was lovely and sweet and the tattoo was such a brilliant idea. (I wonder where the tattoo was exactly though *wink* haha jk!) This line particularly spoke to me:
When they finally recover, Seamus doesn't move away, just keeps his arm around Dean's shoulders and leans in, whispering, "You're going to be my best mate."

Best mate love, I can never get enough of it <3

By the way, I was wondering for your opinion on what Dean's Patronus would be and why, since it was never mentioned in the book. (Dammit Rowling!) I'm not too sure myself (I don't think I'm going to say a hound for the er, obvious poetic connotations, though it seems kind of Deanish.) Maybe a black greyhound? I think his Patronus would be something long legged and graceful, faithful, er, relaxed? And er, I guess in DH Dean successfully ran away from the snatchers, haha though otherwise a greyhound's speed doesn't really seem to apply to him.

I dunno, I just think I'm too unimaginative to think of something more fitting.

Do you have any other thoughts on what other characters' Patronuses that weren't revealed in the book would be? (I read in a forum somewhere a suggestion that Fred's should have been a peacock and George's a platypus hahaha... also that Luna's shouldn't have been a hare but instead a Crumple-Horned Snorkack.) God, I wish Rowling would do more interviews... :(

Date: 2009-07-08 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Yanno, that's a really good question. Honestly, I don't know. I'd think he'd be something like a rabbit, tbh. Or even a lion. He's so very loyal and trusting. I'll have to keep thinking on it cause IDK.

I sort of wish she'd do more interviews and sort of wish she wouldn't :/ I'd like her to tell that sort of background but I don't want her telling me who Dean marries or anything of the sort.

Date: 2009-07-07 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gala-apples.livejournal.com
i love part three. the idea that dean thinks seamus is so much better off when he's likely being tortured and having to draw in the dirt, it's just fantastic.

Date: 2009-07-08 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Thanks! It's odd how we think about other people's situations. IDK that Dean knows that Seamus is being tortured, he probably thinks it's all homework and verbal abuse.

Date: 2009-07-08 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gala-apples.livejournal.com
yeah, i'm sure Dean doesn't know. that's why i imagine post-DH super angsty conversations, where Seamus can't stand to be touched and Dean is all clausterphobic being under roofs after so long outside and *shivers* oh DH, Deamus was the only pairing i love that made it out alive.

Date: 2009-07-08 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sugareey.livejournal.com
Love it, of course. I love it when Dean just draws. Nice work. =D

Date: 2009-07-08 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Hee! Me too. I love an artistic Dean so much!

Date: 2009-07-12 05:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lttlelola.livejournal.com
i love all your stuff and this is no exception

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