Rec: Long, Amazing Harry/Draco Fic
Aug. 14th, 2011 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleI've been devouring Harry/Draco fic at a steady rate for the past couple of days. I usually say I like first time stories, but I don't think that's it. I've read a lot of things that end when they get together, but leave me thinking, "But how does it work now?" (Generally speaking, I'm too practical for typical romance. Have you heard "Remind Me" by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood? I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be terribly romantic, but every time I hear the lyric, "you missed your flight/but that meant we had one more night," all I can think is, "That's so irresponsible!") I think what I really like are not necessarily getting together stories so much as learning to be together stories. This is why I love stories with non-sexual intimacy before they're actually together and stories where they're sleeping together before they fall in love.
This weekend, I read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
saras_girl's Reparations, a getting together story, and its sequel, Foundations, which is the next step of them being together. (Argh! I read them at an archive with horribly ugly formatting I had to turn off and only now do I find that they're also on LJ, which is where those links go.) They were so good I don't really need to read any more Harry/Draco fic. (Although, let's be honest: I probably will.) Harry is in training to be a Healer when he gets assigned to the Chemical Dependency rotation. Chem Dep is officially under the purview of Healer Redrow, but Stage Two - the post-detox rehab part of it - is entirely run by Draco. Harry and Draco learn to get along, then find they're attracted to each other, figure out that they can be together, and then move on with twining their lives together. Each story has a plot, and the plots felt real and interesting and not as if they were there only because the author thought she had to have a plot other than people falling in love. She also does an incredible job with the sex scenes. There are a lot of them in the second story, but I didn't get bored with them. Like the plots, they fit naturally into the story and never seemed shoehorned in for the sake of smut. The only warning I have for you about reading these stories is that they are very long, so if you, like me, don't have the self-control to walk away and come back to it later, you may want to wait to read them until you have a large chunk of time to devote to them.
This weekend, I read
saras_girl's Reparations, a getting together story, and its sequel, Foundations, which is the next step of them being together. (Argh! I read them at an archive with horribly ugly formatting I had to turn off and only now do I find that they're also on LJ, which is where those links go.) They were so good I don't really need to read any more Harry/Draco fic. (Although, let's be honest: I probably will.) Harry is in training to be a Healer when he gets assigned to the Chemical Dependency rotation. Chem Dep is officially under the purview of Healer Redrow, but Stage Two - the post-detox rehab part of it - is entirely run by Draco. Harry and Draco learn to get along, then find they're attracted to each other, figure out that they can be together, and then move on with twining their lives together. Each story has a plot, and the plots felt real and interesting and not as if they were there only because the author thought she had to have a plot other than people falling in love. She also does an incredible job with the sex scenes. There are a lot of them in the second story, but I didn't get bored with them. Like the plots, they fit naturally into the story and never seemed shoehorned in for the sake of smut. The only warning I have for you about reading these stories is that they are very long, so if you, like me, don't have the self-control to walk away and come back to it later, you may want to wait to read them until you have a large chunk of time to devote to them.
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