Stopped by gehayi (pg13)

[unperfectwolf.livejournal.com]

Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Mostly Gen, but "James/Lily, Peter/Dorcas. Possibly Remus/Sirius too, if you squint."
Author on LJ: gehayi
Author Website: on skyhawke
Why this must be read: Peter is always the one dimensional loser, the evil rat, the ugly one. No one ever delves into why or how or even cares to. But we should, you know. We should care. We should need to know. We should want to know. Because there had to be a reason. People who were good can't just go bad for no reason, not with out something to push them. That something doesn't even have to be tangible. It just has to be.


As if hearing muffled echoes of distant waves, Peter dimly registered vague murmurs of assent. Mentally, he sighed. The world was going away again, and he would have to leave before it did or his friends would think something was wrong.

And of course, something was. Something was hideously, monstrously wrong. But not-thought and non-emotion weren't wrong. They were just the only things that made the wrongness bearable...for one more day, at least. Always for just one more day.

His friends would never understand that sometimes you had to go crazy to stay sane.

The other three were laughing now, probably about some joke he'd missed. Peter watched them, feeling a million years old. They can laugh, he thought with colourless wonder. They can still laugh.

Stopped

Comments

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Wow. What a gorgeously painful and unusual POV! Thanks for reccing this!

[unperfectwolf.livejournal.com]

Of course. One of my favorites, this one. It was one of the first pieces of Peter Fic that I read and afterwards I was like "And I didn't like reading about him, why?"

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

I find it so interesting that, now that it's been so many years since Harry was the abused boy under the stairs and he's now the rich, popular jock, what's of interest are all the antiheroes and the little people, the people who suffer just as much, but don't have the support or resources he does. Harry's become the establishment.

[unperfectwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes. It's people like Peter, who never really had it bad, but never really had it good who get left somewhere no one remembers and end up like this.

You icon is the greatest, btw.

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Peter Wingfield is yummy...