Hello everyone,

this is the last post of the Winter Exchange with the reveals. I hope that you all enjoyed your gifts and we would love to see you next year! All the authors will be filled in on the posts over the next few days.


A Gift For darkhairedgirl : Impossible Love, (Ginny/Astoria, PG) by nereycamille
A Gift For leontinabowie : Sedated and Compliant, (Lucius/Harry, R) by digthewriter
A Gift For nereycamille: Epiphany, (Hermione/Fleur, G) by kiertorata
A Gift for ashes0909: Her Secret santa, (Hermione/Bill, PG13), by articcat621
A Gift For fangqueen: no anxiety, no agitation, (Blaise/Draco, G), by ideare
A Gift For digthewriter: Safe, (Sirius/Harry, M15), shiftylinguini
A Gift For articcat621: Love Never Fails, (Sirius/Hermione, PG13), by sirmioneforever
A Gift For the Comm: Baby It's Cold Outside, (Katie/Marcus, PG13), by rosevalleynb
A Gift For Flipflop_diva, On the Balcony, (Pansy/Daphne, PG), by leontinabowie
A Gift For shiftylinguini: Just My Luck, (Teddy/Scorpius, PG13), by fangqueen
A Gift For sirmioneforever: Our Solemn Hour, (Bellatrix/Rodolphus, PG13), by flyingharmony
A Gift For flyingharmony: It's Hard to Dance with the Devil on Your Back, (Lucius/Narcissa, PG13), by ashes0909
A Gift For kietorata: A Christmas Truth, (Ginny/Pansy, R), flipflop_diva
A Gift For ideare: Fancy Seeing You Here, (Ron/Blaise, PG13), by fangqueen

Author: darkhairedgirl
Recipeint: rosevalleynb
Title: see it all through a telescope
Summary: We don’t always pick the ones we love, or the ones who love us. Alicia and Terence, through the years.
Characters/Pairing(s): Alicia Spinnet/Terence Higgs
Rating: M15
Word Count: 6166
Warning(s): Swearing, alcohol, allusions to canon violence.
Disclaimer: None of this is mine: anybody with a name you recognize belongs to Our Lady of the Horcrux Hunt, J.K. Rowling. Story title and inspiration comes from the song “Gotta Have You” by The Weepies.
A/N: Written for rosevalleynb. I hope you like it! :o)


( see it all through a telescope )

Author: flipflop_diva
Recipient: kiertorata
Title: A Christmas Truth
Pairing: Pansy Parkinson/Ginny Weasley
Rating: R
Word Count: 1,582
Summary: This was their first Christmas together. It was supposed to be wonderful and magical, but instead Ginny has never been this nervous in her life.
Author's Notes: Thanks to A for all the encouragement in writing a different pairing than normal. Thanks to the mods for hosting this fest and for being ever so patient with me. And thanks to kiertorata for all the awesome prompts — I tried to combine a few of them together. I hope you enjoy this! Happy new year!

( A Christmas Truth )

Author: flyingharmony
Recipient: sirmioneforever
Title: Our Solemn Hour
Pairing: Bellatrix/Rodolphus
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1610
Warnings: Memories of Azkaban, slight hints of insanity?
Summary: They meet in the shadows, becoming one with the night.
Author's Notes: Dear sirmioneforever, I really hope that you like this! It’s been a while since I last wrote Bellatrix and Rodolphus, but I have always wanted to go back to this very beloved pairing, and was so excited to see that you requested them! I hope that I did your prompt justice – it was a great pleasure writing for you. Thank you so much also to the mods for taking over and hosting this amazing exchange!

( Our Solemn Hour )

Author:leontinabowie
Recipient: flipflop_diva
Title: On the Balcony
Pairing: Pansy/Daphne
Rating: PG
Word Count: 640
Summary: Pansy reflects on being in love with her best friend
Author's Notes: I hope you enjoy this! I adore this pairing so it was fun to write <3


( On the Balcony )

Author: rosevalleynb
Recipient: rarepair_shorts
Title: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Pairing: Katie Bell/Marcus Flint
Rating: fiction T/PG13
Word Count: 2486 words
Summary: A snowstorm leaves Marcus stranded at Katie’s home. Considering his options, though, he very much preferred the freezing to death one.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to my beta ItsSpanner for keeping me from embarrassing myself. Any leftover mistakes are mine alone.

( Baby, It’s Cold Outside )

Author: shiftylinguini
Recipient: digthewriter
Title: Safe
Pairing: Sirius Black/Harry Potter
Rating:Mature
Word Count: 1,969
Warnings: angst with a happy/hopeful ending, post-war, Sirius!lives (mostly Deathly Hallows compliant, though), Sirius POV, reference to Canon deaths, reference to ghosts, bed-sharing, reference to sexual relations, cross generation relationship, age disparity.
Summary: He’s not James, Sirius tells himself as Harry gets into bed with him on a cold Monday night. He’s not James, but Sirius is not Padfoot anymore either.
Author's Notes:Dearest Dig, I hope you enjoy this, even though it might not be quite what you had wanted, and happy holidays! <3


( Safe )


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Author: articcat621
Recipient: ashes0909
Title: Her Secret Santa
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Bill Weasley
Rating: T
Word Count: 1,173 words
Summary: Hermione is ecstatic when she finds out that she's Bill's Secret Santa.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to my beta, KL. I like to imagine that this takes place during the Christmas season of Hermione's 6th year (Sirius doesn't die AU so Order parties are still at Grimmauld Place). Ashes0909, I do hope you enjoy this Christmas fluff.

( Her Secret Santa )

Author: digthewriter
Recipient: leontinabowie
Title: Sedated and Compliant
Pairing: Lucius/Harry and other pairings.
Rating: R
Word Count: ~600
Summary: Lucius takes the same drug as Harry and they live in a world that pleases them both.
Author's Notes: This is kind of dark, which is of course, what you wanted, but also not sure if I delivered correctly. I hope you enjoy this, leontinabowie, it was a pleasure to write for you. All my thanks to my beta, amorette


( Sedated and Compliant )

Hello everyone!

Your submissions are due by 11:59 GMT tonight. We have had some fabulous stories received so far and are looking forward to posting them.

For those of you who haven't submitted their fics and need an extension please email us as soon as possible so we can work something out. Authors with an extension should know their new due date, but if you're unsure then please email us as well.

Submission headers/guidelines and email address are here.

Happy holidays,

The mods

Hi everyone!

Assignments have been sent out. Please reply to out us know that you have received them. If for any reason you can't see it in your inbox check you junk/spam folder, and if it's not there let us know and we will resend it to you.

Here is a list of participants. I will cross each name off once we've heard from you.

flipflop_diva
digthewriter
darkhairedgirl
sirmioneforever
nereycamille
leontinabowie
shiftylinguini
rosevalleynb
ashes0909
dunderklumpen
kiertorata
ideare
amaranthiumfic
articcat621
fangqueen
flyingharmony

Hello everyone!

It’s that time of year again and we’re hope that you are excited for another round of the Winter Exchange fest.

This year is going to be slightly different as I am posting the signup sheet before the post. This is to allow people time to think of what gift they want to receive/give before signing up. We have also decided to add an extra two weeks writing time to help writers who are extremely busy during this time. Extensions will still be granted but on a case by case basis only.

As you know the Winter Exchange is an anonymous exchange where the mods match up 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:

23rd October November 2016: Sign-ups open
30th October 2016: Sign-ups close
2nd November 2016: Assignments sent out
21 December 2016: Assignments due
24 December 2016: 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.

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. )


If you have any questions either reply to this post, or send us an email at rarepair.shorts.mod[AT]gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

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! I have also made some promo banners for the fest this year if you wanted to help promote the fest at all.



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