hd_holidays Post #3

Learning to Breathe, for lesyeuxverts00
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Harry/Ginny, Draco/Astoria.
Summary: Draco knew what his life was going to be like, there was never any doubt. He never expected to fall in love especially with someone who wasn't his wife. But, he did, and somehow, Harry Potter became the thing that kept him breathing.
Rating: NC-17.
Warnings: Excessive use of profanities, explicit sexual situations, angst, infidelity.
Epilogue compliant?: Yes, fully.
Word Count: 18,000
Author’s Notes: I adored writing this fic, so thank you for the opportunity, I very much hope it is to your liking, lesyeuxverts00. Happy Holidays.

Thank you to L_S for reading this numerous times and helping me along, C for an early read and reassurance and L_C for beta-ing this. Any remaining mistakes are my own.

Here's Looking @ You, for bryoneybrynn
Pairings: Harry/Draco (established relationship), mention of past Ron/Hermione
Summary: Some Muggle inventions aren't all that useless for wizards after all – or so Minister Shacklebolt claims. His Muggleborn employees suspect that the real reason behind his sudden enthusiasm for magi-technical innovation at the Ministry is the fact that he found out about internet porn, but that isn't terribly relevant for the following story…
Rating: PG-13
Epilogue compliant? No epilogue, no interviews
Word Count: 1600
Author's Notes: Happy H/D Holidays, bryoneybrynn - I took one of your prompts and ran with it, and I hope you like the way it turned out. Many thanks to my lovely and faithful betas!

Breakdown, for harrysde
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione, assorted minor characters.
Summary: Draco Malfoy’s reappearance years after the Last Battle wreaks havoc on Harry’s carefully organized life.
Rating: R
Warning(s): a bit of violence, a bit of canoodling between consenting adult males, slightly heavy on the angst
Epilogue compliant? Pre-epilogue, could possibly be considered to be interview/epilogue compliant or not, depending on the reader’s interpretation of events.
Word Count: 11,182
Author's Notes: Happy hd hols, harrysde! I took your request for denial, angry/wall sex, and ties and ran with it –I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! A million thanks to M. and her fabulous patience & beta skills; I owe you big-time, Pads.

My original idea for this was inspired by Thou Shalt Not Kill (the fifth part of Dekalog, a Polish movie series), an excellent movie – though I recommend getting something unspeakably fluffy to watch directly after!

Marked, for sillyshy
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Summary: After Gryffindor win yet another Quidditch match, Draco to get a little of his own back on Potter
Rating: um...R because there is a bum on show?
Warning(s): BUM!
Epilogue compliant? Could be, its more like it would be set during the 8th year...thing

So Hard a Master, for sherant
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco; also Harry/Ginny, Draco/Astoria, very minor mentions of Ron/Hermione
Summary: When it comes to love, not all dreams can come true. But how do you know which dreams to let go of and which ones to hold on to as tight as you can?
Rating: PG-13
Betas: The most amazing beta team of T, U, and W - I owe you big; and also A for her input and support
Warning(s): Angst, swearing, minor violence, miniscule bit of explicit het
Epilogue compliant? Umm... epilogue-ambiguous?
Word Count: 24,500
Author's Notes: Sherant gave me a lovely list of prompts and one crucial that almost killed me (see if you can guess which one it is). Here are the ones I attempted to include in the fic: something that explores their canonical hate-obsession with each other and not the physical side - to the end that maybe they never actually do get together, or maybe they never get to/want to take it further than a touch or a kiss, at most; anger, frustration, angstyness, regret, hope; a secret uneasy truce, like when they have to be stuck together they actually can talk a bit and enjoy the company - but would likely never admit it; annual Yule Ball; a fight in the snow; winter coats in Diagon or London.

Sherant – I’m not sure how successful I was at capturing the canonical relationship and I think it’s a bit different than what you had in mind, but I hope you like it. It was a pleasure to write for you. And HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

No Happy Ending, for celandineb
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Harry/Ginny, implied Draco/Astoria
Summary: If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. But what if one person loves two people?
Rating: NC-17 to be safe
Warning(s): non-linear, random switching PsOV and tenses (including flagrant abuse of 2nd person), brief infidelity, rimming, implied polyamory, wee bit o’ dirty talk, smidgen of het, angst, bisexual!Harry
Epilogue compliant? I’d say this was epilogue-ambiguous, but the next-gen kids do exist.
Word Count: 4,700 approx
Author's Notes: celandineb, it was a pleasure to write this for you. It was also a complete departure from anything I’ve ever written before, but I took your requests for polyamory and ‘at least one of them to be genuinely bisexual’ and this was the result. If you were to ask me to describe this story I would say, ‘It’s like scattered pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and though some may be missing or incomplete you can still see what the whole picture looks like.’ I can only hope you like what you see.
Major thanks go out to my wonderful beta! *squishes* Any remaining mistakes are mine, not theirs.