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[icarus]

Christmas Lilies
by Icarus



The Weasley family home sparkled with Christmas decorations. Harry, Ron, Fred and Percy sprawled out on the couch, too full (or in Fred's case, tone deaf) to join the rest of the family caroling. A couple last Christmas presents were brought out from under the tree.

"You open yours first, Percy." Harry nodded, handing him a rather heavy, paper-wrapped box.

Percy struggled with the Muggle wrapping paper for several minutes.

"I give up. How does it open?"

"It's taped. You just rip the paper," Harry explained.

"Ah." Percy meticulously tore the paper. "Though I don't see how they can reuse the paper if it's ripped."

"You don't." Harry shrugged, and watched Percy eye the box with a slight puzzled frown.

"Tsk-tsk," Percy shook his head, "wasteful."

Fred snickered. "And to think Dad's missing this..."

Ron craned his neck to see without actually getting up. "What is it?"

A slightly embarrassed smile lit Percy's face as he read: "'A desktop lily pond... soothing sounds for the busy office...' Thank you." His eyes met Harry's briefly, and the smile threatened to break into a grin. "Now open mine."

Harry already had Percy's gift in hand. He flicked the magical wrapping points and then tore the paper off the tiny box. It was the sort of velvet box you got from a jeweler. "Oh no..."

"Now, now, don't jump to conclusions," Percy admonished. But he looked smug.

Inside the box was a pair of silver cufflinks. Set with an embossed image of water lilies. Harry blushed and grinned, and then shook his head. "They're nice."

His eyebrows flicked up at Percy, and they both struggled not to laugh. Percy's ears turned pink with the effort, while Harry beamed.

Fred glanced suspiciously from one to the other. "Since when do you two exchange presents?"

Ron shook his head, though he still refused to move from his comfortable slouch. "All right. That's three years in a row now. What is up with all the water lilies?"

"It's an inside joke, Ron," Percy said smoothly. He set the miniature lily pond gently on the floor.

"Yeah. You, er, had to be there," Harry added. Though he looked rather sheepish as he slipped the box into his pocket.



Finis.

Comments

[mark356.livejournal.com]

Hee! more Harry and Percy with water lillies! I love it!

(P.S: Does this mean you're going to turn SK into an epic? I don't like epics unless they're WIPs, but I wouldn't mind 200 pages of SK!)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Heh. No, just had to write this little drabble as it occured to me.

*grins*
Icarus

[toujours-impur.livejournal.com]

Squee! I heart you.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

<3<3<3

A little Percy/Harry love makes the world go 'round...

Sweet together, aren't they? So gentle.

~Icarus

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Oh sweet jeebus weeping on the cross. This made me HOWL. I love you. I love you. I love you.

*giggles uncontrollably*

What is up with all the water lilies?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the occasional drabble-ghost that has formed in my mind insists on Ron finding out...

~Icarus

[tboy.livejournal.com]

LOL! Love it *g*. Turn his ears pink again someday; it makes for a very happy image.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Isn't it great seeing Percy happy? I just love it.

~Icarus

[nattish.livejournal.com]

That makes me want to dance with joy. Thumbs up.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was tempted to put in a last line... Harry mouthing silently to Percy: 'Later.'

But I dunno. It may be just a 'silver box' memory for them both.

~Icarus

[ntamara.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, absolutely wonderful.

:: ntamara basks happily in the harry/percy love *g* ::

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Basking in the Christmas lights, and the pink ears...

*grins*

~Icarus

[justacat.livejournal.com]

Oh, wonderful, I love it! You capture the characters so well; I can see them in my head. You've certainly lived up my icon ;)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Your icon is awesome. Percy is so... sigh. I have to re-read OotP to write my SSFF fic now, to get a new angle on Severus and Percy.

~Icarus

[anuanu.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. You, er, had to be there," Harry added.

*falls on floor* Ron would have turned a lovely shade of purple and died.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I can just see it, too. The bug-eyes...

"Harry - Perc - my brother? Percy, how can you - since when are -? What the Fuck?!"

New heights of incoherence.

~Icarus

[(Anonymous)]

Pleeeeaaase write more!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the whole Percy/Harry thing. I'm desperate for more! Desperate, I tell you...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen this pairing around much. Well. Let me finish 'Beg Me For It' first. ;) If I think of other drabbles, I'll drop them in LJ.

~Icarus

[(Anonymous)]

oh yes, and can anyone spare a code for me?

my email is acdclego@yahoo.com

i'd be eternally in your debt.
thankee kindly

[toujours-impur.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even though I already OFFERED. TWICE. *scowl*

That's OK though. I like Lily. :D

And d'you know, I posted something almost exactly like this on Rhysenn's LJ and I don't think I ever got a reply. *wibble* Which led to paying for my own account, which I daresay wasn't a bad thing :)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a great follow-up, YES!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

By-the-way, Aman, want to judge a fanfic contest?

~Icarus

question

[lilybbloom.livejournal.com]

question:
Are you a girl or a guy or do you not wish to reply? Hey, that rhymed! I'm a genius... a genius who can't spell?

Also, since I'm new to this thing, do people mind when you add them to your friends list? I mean, if they don't know you or anything. How else are you supposed to make friends ??

Re: question

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I consider it such a compliment that people can't tell from my writing, that I don't shift people's thinking by saying one way or the other. Usually.

:) I was pretty new to this LJ stuff recently. I have a very open policy to friending, since mostly I plug my own stories here (and do a few workshops). People who are more touchy about it like you to have dropped a hello in their comments at least once, so they know who you are. Though if they're a big name fan, they often have too many people spamming them to reply every time.

~Icarus

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

*squees WILDLY*

Still, no pond scum? ;)

[toujours-impur.livejournal.com]

I have visions of KY Jelly with a label written over with the words "Pond Scum."

[haku-kaen.livejournal.com]

This just put a smile on my face that hasn't faded since. The two of them are so sweet together, and it's so great to see someone pair them well (or, you know, at all for that matter. Of course my brain chooses a OTP with no fanbase to speak of).

I love Harry's little scare when he unwraps the box. Especially funny when I realised he's 16 here (right?), which makes me wonder a little what he'd have done if he had jumped to conclusions and answered before opening it.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

This is a follow up to Skinny Dipping, a longer story, which can be found on my site at http://home.earthlink.net/~dinkbird/_wsn/page4.html. Then you'll have the backstory on the water lilies. ;)

It's wonderful to find another Percy author out there, Haku! I loved your Harry/Percy drabbles. Have you considered doing some longer pieces?

~Icarus

[vileseagulls.livejournal.com]

Fuck that's funny. I <3 you. And Percy.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah.. i've been wondering too.. guy or girl... yes, i think it's a great achievement to be able to mask that when writing.. cause some people are so obviously male when writing.. and others are so obviously female... but you, well.. just can't tell with you... hehe.. i like the inside joke..

[guntar.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, I can't stop laughing.

This is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Poor Ron is so clueless. Heehee.

Great work.

[npetrenko.livejournal.com]

Great idea. Very nice.