Mini fest reveals: two fics from me (H/D)

[birdsofshore]

I am excited to share these two fics from the mini_fest since reveals went up today.There were some great fics and pieces of art there, so please go and have a look if you didn't follow the fest at the time.

My first fic for mini_fest was:

Title: After Hours at the Ministry of Magic
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Prompt: #124 - Co-workers trapped / stuck alone together on Christmas Eve. Griping leads to something better. Dear fantasyfiend09 I loved your wonderful prompt and hope you don't mind that I took a few liberties with it. 
Word Count: 11,500
Rating: NC-17
Notes: Thank you to who_la_hoop, marianna_merlo, and most of all omi_ohmy for the astonishing amounts of help you cheerfully gave me with this. I was flailing around in the dark, ladies, and you turned the lights on.
Summary: It isn't precisely how Harry planned to spend Christmas Eve: trapped in a lift with his ex-boyfriend, somewhere between the third and the fourth floors of the Ministry of Magic.

I adored the prompt about Harry and Draco being stuck at work together, but when I sat down to write the story, instead of the fluffy, amusing little tale I had imagined, something altogether more flangsty and awkward poured out. I was horrified, and tried to wrestle it back into fluffy submission, but when my betas saw it, they told me to get rid of all the jokey, light stuff I had thrown in, and... well, eventually, this emerged. People have been very encouraging about it, which is wonderfully kind, but I will be honest: it was such a torment to me I would have been happy to delete the fucker at some points :D

My other fic for mini_fest was the second story I ever wrote. By contrast, this one just whooshed out of me in a great joyous splurge. I wish trying to write was always like this. It felt as if this unrepentant, spoilt, shamelessly egotistical, vain and self-deluding Draco lodged in my head and wouldn't leave, during the hours I was writing it. He was a bloody delight to be inhabited by. This is far and away my favourite thing I have written, so I hope you like it too, if you try it.

I wrote it a few months ago and had it saved carefully to bring out at Christmas. Mini_fest seemed like a perfect place to share it. Thank you, kitty_fic for modding a great fest that was exactly as stress-free as advertised!

Title: The Twelve Days of Draco
Pairing: Harry / Draco
Word Count: ~3000
Rating: R for language and innuendo, although nothing explicit
Notes: Thank you very much indeed to omi_ohmy, both for the lovely cheerleading, and the comma (which I don't know if I actually put in!!)
Summary: Draco really deserves a better class of mystery admirer. Who on earth would be smitten enough to keep sending him all these ridiculous presents? And will he ever remember who he was kissing at Blaise's party?

E.T.A. the spacing seems to have gone all shonky on this entry and I don't know how to fix it. :o( Any ideas?

Comments

[snowgall]

Check it:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/4625571

Let me know if there's anything that needs fixing :)

(Note: it should be unrevealed right now, but appear for you because you are a "co-author". When you approve it, I will "reveal" it and remove myself as co-author. I can also remove it from the "collection" as well. Whatever you want)

[birdsofshore]

Ah, thank you so much! That's very kind indeed. I'm in London today and a busy day with the fam tomorrow, so please excuse me if I don't get a chance to look at it straight away. I really appreciate you thinking of it.

[birdsofshore]

So sorry it took me so long! I've fiddled with it now and added a few tags and an A/N. I'd be happy for it to be 'revealed' now. And really appreciate you sorting the upload for me. I still feel rather awkward about it, especially when i started to reread and groaned at some of the clunkiness, but I also looked at the comments and people were very encouraging. So, let's try it. I don't expect many people will even see it :D

This was a very thoughtful thing to do; thank you again.

[snowgall]

No problem at all! I'm glad that I was able to do this for you, and that you had a chance to edit it to your liking first. I just now "unrevealed" it and removed myself as co-author, so it should all be yours now :)

Let me know if you'd like me to upload any others. I'm thinking like a collection of your drabbles from the 2013 Slythindor100 contest, or "Living Deep", which are other favorites of mine. But really, I'd be happy to do it again if you'd like, and whichever fics you want.

[birdsofshore]

I don't honestly know what of mine is on AO3 and what isn't! I'm not averse to sticking more things on there in principle. I'm not sure if those drabbles are worth preserving, though - although I do like 'Living Deep.'

[snowgall]

You will probably not be surprised to learn that I *do* know exactly which of your fics are on AO3 and which are not :) I'm a huge nerd with a database, and I'm not afraid to use it!

I'll send you an email with more info. Probably makes more sense than using the comment section here :)