Rare Pair Shorts

Title: Dance The Turtle Dreamed Of
Pairing: Zacharias Smith/Cedric Diggory
Prompt: "all I ask of you"
Rating: PG-13.
Word Count: ~260.
Summary: "Zach, she’s nine. Nine-year-old girls are like that."
Author's Notes: Until the last installment, this series will look massively AU; explaining things would give them away, but, for the moment, it looks massively AU. This is best read after having read Lorca's "Little Viennese Waltz" and Leonard Cohen's "Take This Waltz" (both here) the previous installments, but you don't have to have done so. Rating is for some brief language.
Link to Prompt Table: Aqui!

( With a huff, Zach pulls his legs up onto his armchair and hides behind his newspaper... )

Title: Your Mouth and The Echoes
Pairing: Zacharias Smith/Cedric Diggory
Prompt: "not listening to a word"
Rating: PG.
Word Count: ~450.
Summary: "Even the noise around them fades into unimportance."
Author's Notes: So, I'm a sucker for titling things, and this entire series is titled Pequeño vals vienés. Why that title, in particular? Well, it's because this series will most likely be written under the influence of Leonard Cohen's "Take This Waltz" and the poem it was based on, Federico Garcia Lorca's "Little Viennese Waltz" (Pequeño vals vienés in the original Spanish). Both of them can be read here. Additionally: until the last installment, this series will look massively AU; explaining things would give them away, but, for the moment, it looks massively AU.
Link to Prompt Table: Aqui!

( Cedric is talking; Zach knows that much... )

Title: Mindless Repetition
Character Pairing: Percy Weasley/Rufus Scrimgeour
Prompt: "facing tomorrow alone"
Rating: G
Word Count: 811
Summary: "He never even considered the idea that work could fail to distract him..."
Author's Notes: Still very much G-rated, unless Percy's list of complaints about his family is particularly offensive.
Link to Prompt Table: Aqui!

( Two broken noses, a snapped pair of glasses, fifteen minutes, and several hasty apologies and admissions of mutual stupidity later... )

Title: Daring Rescue
Character Pairing: Percy Weasley/Rufus Scrimgeour
Prompt: "knight in shining whatever"
Rating: PG
Word Count: 630
Summary: "Never before in his life has Percy been more certain that he wasn’t ever meant to be a Gryffindor..."
Author's Notes: The only real advisory warning here is for a little bit of colorful language.
Link to Prompt Table: Aqui!

( Percy hates the desperation in his voice... )

Title: Injurious
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "obsequious"
Rating: PG
Word Count: 440
Summary: "'So you see, He is alive. And the Longbottoms know how to bring him back...'"
Author's Notes: Here we have part 13 of 13! :D Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!

( Here it is, the darker side of beauty. )

Title: Of Devils and Darwin
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "tar and feathers"
Rating: R
Word Count: 237
Summary: "Still, it’s transfixing what an Unforgivable Curse and a few murmurs of 'Incendio' can do."
Author's Notes: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!

( Green light illuminates the night... )

Title: Crimson
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "ten-fold"
Rating: PG
Word Count: 337
Summary: "The nightmares still haven’t stopped. If anything, they’ve gotten worse. They plague Barty in the waking hours, too..."
Author's Notes: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!

( Now, the two of them are in broom cupboards more often than ever... )

Title: Please
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "nevermore, nevermore"
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 421
Summary: "Thank Merlin someone can save him from what he wants to do."
Author's Notes: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!

( Being that November is peak cold season, the Hospital Wing’s hardly been empty, but Barty has never felt more alone. )

Title: Fantastic Terrors
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "a vision softly creeping"
Rating: R
Word Count: 784
Summary: "He makes Severus watch and that, more than the act of torturing and killing, of utterly destroying a defenseless girl – that control is so exquisite."
Author's Notes: Rating is for language, gore, and mentions of sexual activity. Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!

( All the time, these thoughts attack him, out of nowhere, unforeseen, and they’re worst when he suspects them least. )

Title: Dream Upon Waking
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "au contraire"
Rating: PG
Word Count: 650
Summary: "'It’s not about her sodding blood! It’s about you!'"
Author's Notes: There's still the angst to deal with, as well as minor language, and "Parties" and Tenacity should be read first. I didn't mean to develop a narrative thread between stories, but it happened.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!

( It’s afternoon and warm when he wakes up again... )

Title: Parties
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "stranger in a strange land"
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 881
Summary: "Barty’s not a very social being, and he never really has been."
Author's Notes: The only real issues are mild language, angst, and that I may have done creative math in figuring out Bellatrix and Andromeda's ages.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!

( Worse, though, is the feeling that comes anytime Barty sees Severus with Evans... )