Clio's writing journal

Author: Clio
Title: The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, Chapter 1: Prologue
Pairing: Pansy/Parvati, Harry/Hermione, Draco/Ginny, Seamus/Dean, Ron/Padma. (Also Sirius/Remus and Percy/Oliver.)
Rating: R
Summary: Three years on, the second war still casts a long shadow. When facing challenges like a compulsive addiction, a baffling mystery, a life changing decision, an impending career shift, or simply moving in with your boyfriend, maybe the best strategy is to lean on your friends, put one foot in front of the other, and let the saving-the-world bit take care of itself.
In this chapter: an intervention is called for.
Warning: Deals with issues of addiction recovery. (skip) Minor character death of primary antagonist.
Length: 3300 words
Notes: Sequel to Eight Ways from Sunday (LJ | DW | AO3) and the interstitial Entr'Acte (LJ | DW | AO3). Title and all cut-tag text from the Garbage song of the same name.
Thank you to ali_wildgoose for reading a rather different earlier draft and telling me I should just write what I want to write, and then helping me put it together, and also to slytherincesss for her enormous help and encouragement.
This story would not exist without Ely's ideas, input, support and encouragement. I wish I'd finished it sooner, but I hope she's someplace where she can read this anyway. Knowing her, she probably is.

1: The End | 2: Lammas | 3: Michaelmas | 4: Hallowmas | 5: Yule | 6: Candlemas | 7: Lady Day | 8: May Day | 9: Midsummer | 10: The Beginning

( can't bear to face the truth, so sick he cannot move )

2: Lammas

Author: Clio
Title: How to Be a Domestic God(dess)
Pairing: Harry Potter: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Hermione isn't the best of cooks, it's true, but she still knows the way to her man's, um, heart. Yeah, heart.
Length: 500 words
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Notes: Title from the Nigella Lawson cookbook. Fulfills the "feeding—erotic" square of my schmoop_bingo card.

( This is some suggestive food you’re serving me )

Author: Clio
Title: Where the Love Light Gleams
Pairing: Harry/Hermione
Rating: PG
Summary: All Harry wanted was to spend their first married Christmas in their new house. But Hermione, as usual, had other ideas.
Length: 1900 words
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Notes: Originally written for a_pumpkin_xmas at Christmas 2007. Part of EWFS-verse, with a brief reference to one event in DH. The title is from the Christmas standard "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Huge thanks to Ely for her beta services, and to all my fellow Pumpkins just for being them, and of course to our Liss for organizing the Christmas festival in the first place!

( It had taken them much longer than Harry had thought it would to find the house. )

Author: Clio
Title: Potter 7
Pairing: Harry Potter: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Hermione wasn't really the sort to have great romantic visions of losing her virginity. Good thing.
Length: 3100 words.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Notes: More EWFS universe, which means pre-OotP canon. But hopefully this story stands alone. Thank you to sisterpandora for hitting me over the head with my commas, and weatherby for early encouragement and the inspiration to include some Quidditch porn. I dunno, I kinda dig the trousers.

( Potter 7. NC-17. )

Author: Clio
Title: Swingers
Pairing: Harry Potter: Draco Malfoy/Ginny Weasley/Harry Potter/Hermione Granger
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Harry, Hermione, Ginny, and Draco have hours of Fun and Games in all possible combinations.
Length: 9700 words
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Notes: Thank you to Nancy, Cassandra Claire, and Aja for beta-ing this fic, to Al and Ruby for reading parts of early drafts and telling me to press on, and to Holly, Tromboneborges and Plumeria for giving me a final push.
Being a two-couple story, "Swingers" owes a debt to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. As such, it contains a certain amount of psychological messing around, only some of which becomes physical.
"Swingers" is dedicated to Aja, without whose tireless support it would never have been completed, much less become what you see here. Thanks, babe, for everything.

( Swingers )

Author: Clio
Title: Eight Ways from Sunday, Chapter 1: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Pairing: Seamus/Dean, Harry/Hermione, Draco/Ginny, Ron/Padma
Rating: R
Summary: It could be standing before you, needing a bit of a push. Or sitting beside you, waiting for you to let go. Perhaps it's sneaking up from behind, hoping you will turn around. But sometimes, love falls from a clear blue sky, and you just have to catch it. How do you decide which is the right path, when you're only sixteen?
This chapter: In which Seamus and Hermione run into each other in London, the summer after fourth year, and secret-telling follows.
Chapter Length: 5000 words.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Notes: Epigraph as attributed. "Miss Pommery 1926" is from The Philadelphia Story (MGM, 1940).
Many thanks to Ray for her beta duties and to Pandora, Femme, and Luna for listening to my endless iteration on this plot and giving me so much encouragement and feedback.
And absolutely thanks to everyone who read and commented on this story in the years since I first posted it, and all of you reading it for the first time.

1: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away | 2: Birthday | 3: Fixing a Hole | 4: Hello, Goodbye | 5: I Wanna Be Your Man | 6: For You Blue | 7: I Want to Tell You | 8: Think For Yourself | 9: Baby's in Black | 10: Do You Want to Know a Secret? | 11: If I Fell | 12: Oh! Darling | 13: I'm Down | 14: All Together Now | 15: The Inner Light

( You've Got to Hide Your Love Away )

Chapter Two: Birthday