Rare Pair Shorts

This is our last straggling submission of this year's exchange! We hope that you enjoyed reading all of the beautiful pieces created and see you in a few days for the anonymous masterlist and the guessing game!

Author: flyingharmony
Recipient: bluemermaid
Title: Bells in the Distance
Pairing: Andromeda/Ted
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1648
Summary: Ted and Andromeda’s new life as husband and wife is full of struggles at first, but there is nothing they cannot overcome as long as they are together.
Author’s Notes: A very, very merry and slightly belated Christmas, my dear Crystallove! <3 You know how much I adore you and I really, really, really hope that you like this! *bites nails nervously* This was supposed to be some sort of O’Henry-ish Christmas story at first but then totally got away with me – in the end I’m still quite happy with how it turned out!


( Bells in the Distance )

Author: digthewriter
Recipient: flipflop_diva
Title: Unexpected
Pairing: Hermione/Pansy [Neville/Ginny background]
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~2300
Summary: Hermione is a bookshop owner who gets an unexpected customer.
Author's Notes: First time fic writer for an f/f pairing. I hope you enjoy this. Thanks!


( Unexpected )

Author: bluemermaid
Recipient: secretlypadfoot
Title: The Promise of Ruin
Pairing: Ron/Draco
Rating: R for naughty words and references.
Word Count: 970
Summary: Maybe it was because it had been several months since he'd seen Malfoy; maybe it was because it was New Year's Eve with its promises of fresh starts and the glittering allure of everything new. Or maybe Ron was just drunk off his arse and horny as a lonely teenage boy.
Author's Notes: I do hope you enjoy this, secretlypadfoot!


( The Promise of Ruin )

​Author:​ flipflop_diva
​Recipient:​ luvscharlie​
​Title:​ Firewhisky and Cinnamon
​Pairing:​ Harry Potter/Pansy Parkinson
​Rating:​ R
​Word Count:​ 1,062
​Summary:​ The New Year’s Eve party at the Parkinson house was the last place Harry wanted to be. At least there was firewhisky. And Pansy in a tight dress.
​Author's Notes:​ Thank you to A for the beta on super fast notice! And thank you to Crystal for hosting this awesome fest and being super patient with me, as always. And to luvscharlie​, this started out as a drinking fic per your request, but then it got a bit sidetracked. I hope you enjoy it anyway!


( Firewhisky and Cinnamon )

Author: articcat621
Recipient: sirmioneforever
Title: Winter Surprises
Pairing: Hermione/Rabastan
Rating: T (PG-13)
Word Count: 848 words
Summary: Rabastan and Hermione take advantage of the freshly fallen snow.
Author's Notes: sirmioneforever, I hope that you enjoy this bit of Christmas fluff. I love writing the Lestrange brothers, and Rabastan was really calling out to me here. I hope that you like it.


( Winter Surprises )

Author: slumber
Recipient: rachelleneveu
Title: take your time (coming home)
Pairing: Roger/Cho
Rating: G
Word Count: 1300
Summary: Thirteen years of friendship in thirteen drabbles.
Author's Notes: rachelleneveu, you had such great pairings I had trouble picking, but I've always flirted with Roger/Cho so in the end, I couldn't resist going with them. I hope you enjoy this! Thank you, Crystal, for running this fest, and as always, C, thank you!


( take your time (coming home) )

Author: hikarievandar
Recipient: alley_skywalker
Title: Candlelit Vigil
Pairing: Severus Snape/Evan Rosier
Rating: PG
Word Count: 866
Summary: Severus has never really believed in the pureblood traditions that his lover followed. But the Yule after Evan’s death, he decides to give one a try.
Author's Notes: Merry Christmas! I hope you like your fic. I loved your prompts and all of your requested pairings, and it was really hard to pick one. I’ve never written these two together before, but the idea really intrigued me so here we are! Warning: The fic contains references to canonical character death.


( Candlelit Vigil )

Author: secretlypadfoot
Recipient: leontinabowie
Title: A Little Respite
Pairing: Remus/Regulus
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,541
Summary: There was no way things would end well between them, but perhaps they could have a moment and pretend.
Author's Notes: I hope you enjoy your gift leontinabowie. It was a pleasure writing this pairing for you. Many thanks go to gelsey for being such an amazing beta and coming up with a title for me.

( A Little Respite )

Author: rzzmg
Recipient: slumber
Title: Cause Célèbre
Pairing: Cormac/Pansy
Rating: R
Word Count: 2,654 words
Warnings: Puns (I won’t lie…there are a lot of them and they’re mostly bad ones that will make you slap your forehead and roll your eyes...consider yourself warned), one small homage to “Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” (can you spot it?), poking fun at cooking and Quidditch and studying for tests and sexual organs…you get the point, I think. Just basic silliness.
Summary: Pansy’s determined to prove she can detective a case as well as any Auror, despite the fact she’s only a secretary in M.L.E. When a serial killer case comes up, she’s determined to solve it…but to do so she’ll be forced to interact with the worst killer (er, lady-killer) of them all: her ex-lover, Cormac McLaggen.
Author's Notes: Timeline is December, 2015. Thank you, Crystal, for running this fest! I have enjoyed participating very much, and greatly appreciate the extension you allowed me to complete the story!!! Evy/slumber, I hope you enjoy your fic! Happy New Year to you!
Translations of foreign words in the fic:( Read more... )


( Cause Célèbre )

Hi everybody! Let's have a Christmas/winter fic exchange!

The Winter Exchange is an anonymous exchange.
Participants submit a request, with prompt ideas such as characters, situations, and themes. The mods match these requests with another participant, who then writes the requested fic. All participants receive a fic based on their request/prompt. The authors are anonymous until all the stories have been posted.

This year's timeline and basic rules:

16 November 2015: Sign-ups open
25 November 2015: Sign-ups close
26 November 2015: Assignments sent out
23 December 2015: Assignments due
25 December 2015: Posting begins

As per the comm rules, only rare pairs (please see this post for excluded pairings) and fics with a rating no higher than R are allowed. Minimum word count is 500, maximum 2500 words.

Interested? Ready to sign up? Check out the information below the cut.

Please read through this post carefully before asking questions. There is a lot of information to sift through, because everything you need to know is in this post. Be sure to read everything!

( Everything you need to know. )

SIGN-UPS WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 25 NOVEMBER.

If you have any questions whatsoever, email us at the mod account or reply to this post. If you need to ask about your specific assignment once you have received it, please email us.

Let the sign ups now begin! Anyone is welcome to join us, whether you've participated here before or not. So please spread the word to all your friends; the more, the merrier! :D