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We Should Have Loved More and Feared Less by maelipstick (NC-17)
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Severus Snape/Remus Lupin
Length: 7,300
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maelipstick
Author Website: If there's a site for her Potterfic, I couldn't find it
Why this must be read:
I'm extremely fond of this fic's dry, droll tone and unsentimental but strangely wistful portrait of its two natural outcasts. No one but Severus and Remus appear in the story. Well, actually, that's not true; Spinner's End is so pungently detailed that it rises up to share the stage and imbue the fic with its own distinctively grotty air. Here, twenty-something Snape is an educated lower-class oddball with shocking manners and a combative mind. He manages to be both pervy and priggish at once. Lupin's an ailing leftover from the war's end, grasping at straws and not exactly keen on Snape's company, but willing to make a last-ditch effort to survive. The fic's essentially a character study; even the smutty bits illuminate the pair's barbed, sardonic yearning for something more from life than this used-up melancholy. Snape's wish is primarily erotic while Lupin's is literally for more life, but the way their desires overlap is a source of both ache and amusement.
Two caveats: the fic was written for a Christmas exchange so you'll notice holiday references scattered about, but they're really not the point. Slightly more distracting are the typos and occasional use of epithets, but roll with them. The fic is more than worth it.
ETA: I wasn't aware the com flocked its NC-17 material. Evidently you need to join![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lupin_snape to get access to the fic.
One last random bit of praise: I adore the title because, yes. Shouldn't we all.
“Severus?”
“What?”
“You seem rather tense.”
“I’m being touched up by a werewolf.”
“It’s nothing you haven’t done before.”
“Actually Lupin, I haven’t done this before.”
Remus was about to sit up and call him a lying Slytherin grease ball before he realised just what Severus was alluding too.
“You mean, you haven’t … you are a virgin, Severus?”
The dark haired wizard rolled his eyes.
“Twenty points to Gryffindor.”
“But we all thought you were a Death Eater!”
“What has that got to do with anything?”
“Well, you know. There was that expose piece in the Evening Prophet which seemed to make out it was nothing but deviance.”
“What on earth are you going on about, Lupin?”
“Last month. It was a three part serial written by some witch called ‘Skitter’ I think.”
“Far be it for me to deprive you of your cherished fantasies, but of the many things I spent the last war doing pushing the boundaries of debauchery to new depths was not one of them.”
Remus continued to look at him incredulously.
“There was a war on Lupin. Self-preservation rather took the edge of all other needs and desires. You should know that, you fought after all. What was it like in the Order of the Phoenix?”
“Actually, we were all shagging like bunny rabbits.”
Snape paused for a moment to digest this particular morsel of information.
“I suggest,” he said, “we get on with this before you ruin the mood with any more unpleasant revelations.”
We Should Have Loved More and Feared Less
Pairing: Severus Snape/Remus Lupin
Length: 7,300
Author on LJ:
maelipstickAuthor Website: If there's a site for her Potterfic, I couldn't find it
Why this must be read:
I'm extremely fond of this fic's dry, droll tone and unsentimental but strangely wistful portrait of its two natural outcasts. No one but Severus and Remus appear in the story. Well, actually, that's not true; Spinner's End is so pungently detailed that it rises up to share the stage and imbue the fic with its own distinctively grotty air. Here, twenty-something Snape is an educated lower-class oddball with shocking manners and a combative mind. He manages to be both pervy and priggish at once. Lupin's an ailing leftover from the war's end, grasping at straws and not exactly keen on Snape's company, but willing to make a last-ditch effort to survive. The fic's essentially a character study; even the smutty bits illuminate the pair's barbed, sardonic yearning for something more from life than this used-up melancholy. Snape's wish is primarily erotic while Lupin's is literally for more life, but the way their desires overlap is a source of both ache and amusement.
Two caveats: the fic was written for a Christmas exchange so you'll notice holiday references scattered about, but they're really not the point. Slightly more distracting are the typos and occasional use of epithets, but roll with them. The fic is more than worth it.
ETA: I wasn't aware the com flocked its NC-17 material. Evidently you need to join
lupin_snape to get access to the fic.One last random bit of praise: I adore the title because, yes. Shouldn't we all.
“Severus?”
“What?”
“You seem rather tense.”
“I’m being touched up by a werewolf.”
“It’s nothing you haven’t done before.”
“Actually Lupin, I haven’t done this before.”
Remus was about to sit up and call him a lying Slytherin grease ball before he realised just what Severus was alluding too.
“You mean, you haven’t … you are a virgin, Severus?”
The dark haired wizard rolled his eyes.
“Twenty points to Gryffindor.”
“But we all thought you were a Death Eater!”
“What has that got to do with anything?”
“Well, you know. There was that expose piece in the Evening Prophet which seemed to make out it was nothing but deviance.”
“What on earth are you going on about, Lupin?”
“Last month. It was a three part serial written by some witch called ‘Skitter’ I think.”
“Far be it for me to deprive you of your cherished fantasies, but of the many things I spent the last war doing pushing the boundaries of debauchery to new depths was not one of them.”
Remus continued to look at him incredulously.
“There was a war on Lupin. Self-preservation rather took the edge of all other needs and desires. You should know that, you fought after all. What was it like in the Order of the Phoenix?”
“Actually, we were all shagging like bunny rabbits.”
Snape paused for a moment to digest this particular morsel of information.
“I suggest,” he said, “we get on with this before you ruin the mood with any more unpleasant revelations.”
We Should Have Loved More and Feared Less
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Le sigh. :(
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If you want to read the fic, you'll need to friend the com. Sorry! I knew the Snarry community had started locking down adult material, but I wasn't aware the Snupin folks were doing the same. :(
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