New HP fic: "A Rally Toward Exalted Moments," Harry/Charlie

Shocking, I know! Yes, it's another HP story. Two in two months, I think. This was written for the inaugural fest at weasley_fest. Thanks for star54kar for modding it and to kath_ballantyne for providing art and a banner! :)



Title: A Rally Toward Exalted Moments
Rating NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Charlie
Summary: Sometimes a person needs to get outside of their usual geography — both physical and emotional — to be able to see the possibility of new lands of the heart.
Warnings/Alerts: PWP; EWE; set three years after the defeat of Voldemort.
Word Count: 5,500
Disclaimer: I love playing in JKR's sandbox. These aren't my characters, but I'm grateful she created them initially.
Author's/Artist's notes: Title slightly modified from a quotation by Rainer Maria Rilke. Written for the incomparable iamshadow, who provided a bevy of pairings and a delightfully wide playing field of kinks and preferences for me to work with; this focuses on the first-time aspect of Harry and Charlie getting together post-war. I do hope that you enjoy. Tremendous depths of gratitude to my beta, Callum James; thank you for gently leading me to enhanced clarification and away from anything purple prose-ish.

( A Rally Toward Exalted Moments )

Few more Portland pics and moaning about airfares

Today I had another IKEA adventure with my downstairs neighbor. We also stopped by the DMV so I could get a booklet to read and study before I contemplate trying to take the written test to get an Oregon driver's license. I'm glad he was with me; he went inside and got forms and the book, thank goodness, because there was nowhere to park! He said there were probably 150 people there. I think I'll wait until I'm on my regular shift so I can go in mid-day on a Thursday.

We went to Ikea and I ended up buying a bedframe, slats, sheets, and a new, much thicker mattress. I assembled the bed this afternoon and I'm just thrilled. It's so comfortable. WOW. A month after I've moved, and at last I'm no longer sleeping on a thin mattress. This will doubtless do tremendous things for my mental health as doubtless I'll sleep better and quit being so achey all the time!

( so I took pictures! )

In craptastic news, I'm doing research into air fares to get to London and back for the conference in October, also seeing veloona and callumjames. Callum, you will be around in mid-October, right??! I'd love to get over to Ireland for a few days as well, but figure I can finagle those logistics closer to time. I'm appalled at the air fares, and can't even think of the spending money since the £ is double the US dollar. Ouch. But $920 from Baltimore to London and back?? WTF?! I'm used to spending $1500 to get to Australia, but I've never spent more than $600 from the east coast to the U.K. Anybody have any suggestions?

Hope you're having a good weekend. I'm off to do some beta'ing. I'd also love to see some pictures/videos of any Olympics diving, but I'm so out of the loop and I don't think that any has happened yet. ♥