A Masterlist of my fics so far. Chronological order.

( Masterlist )

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 22

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.
A/N 2: This is not the end. There will be an epilogue. When I finish it.

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: "It was fine when it was lying to the enemy, but now you’ve got me lying to my friends – all of us lying to everyone – and I know, I know we’ve got to, but I just can’t stand it."


( Chapter 22 )

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 21

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.
A/N 2: The quotation in the title is from The Night Watch by William Winter

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: “Too late?” he gasps, bending over his stitch, and Ted nods grimly. Remus hears retching, and looks up to see Peter bent over a flowerbed, shoulders shaking; behind him a woman lies staring up at the sky, naked to the waist and covered in blood.


( Chapter 21 )


Prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six
seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen
| fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen |
nineteen | nineteen (a) | twenty | twenty (a) | twenty-one

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 20a

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.
A/N 2: God this is embarrassing. I'm so, so sorry that it's taken this long. But it's all finished now, bar the epilogue, so worry not!

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: It was a complete coincidence, bumping into Rilly at the bus stop in Camden Town, but later on, in his darker moments, Remus saw it as fate


( Chapter 20a )


Prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six
seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen
| fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen |
nineteen | nineteen (a) | twenty | twenty (a)

A quick sketch - a deleted scene from Ruled by the Moon. Remus, Sirius, Ted Tonks, September 1980. 966 words.

( They were in a small café in central London... )

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 20

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.
A/N 2: NEARLY THE END! HURRAH! This is the penultimate chapter, so this will be finished before Deathly Hallows, I promise!

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: “Prongs asked Lily to marry him.”

“He – what?”

“He’s asked her to marry him. And she said yes.”


( Chapter 20 )


Prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six
seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen
| fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen | nineteen |
nineteen (a) | twenty

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 19a

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.
A/N 2: A short interlude.

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: “In a funny sort of way, it was Sirius who took Mr Potter’s death hardest.”


( Chapter 19a )


Prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six
seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen
| fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen | nineteen | nineteen (a)

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 19

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: Hard R
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.
A/N 2: The poem in the title and epigraph is Mariposa by Edna St Vincent Millay.

A/N 3: Wow, it has been a while, hasn't it? I'm so so sorry for the delay, but I've been most horribly blocked, and since I'm at university I just haven't had a second to write. But Chapter 20 is almost finished, and 21 is on its way, and I think then that's it! Nearly finished, chums... So thank you for your patience, and I hope you enjoy.

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: “But – but we were always going to live together. I mean – it’s not like it’s moving too fast or anything, we’ve lived together for seven years. We know that we can put up with each other. And – and I just assumed it. I mean, don’t you want to?”


( Chapter 19 )


Prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six
seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen
| fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen | nineteen

Title: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (3/3)
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Lily/Sirius, Lily/James
Rating: NC-17
Length: 7,650 words

Summary: The real reason Lily Evans keeps turning James Potter down? She's already sleeping with his best friend...

Teaser: “He was fine. Surprisingly good actually. They certainly obey him, although that’s because he’s threatened them with bloody retribution if they don’t do what he says.”

Notes: This is the third part of three; the first part is here, and the second is here. A million and one thanks to the gorgeous sazzlette - not only did she beta this monster of a fic, despite having tons of better stuff to do, she also looked stuff up in the books for me when I was in Cambridge. The title is from the song of the same name by Jerome Kern; the full quotation is When your heart's on fire, smoke gets in your eyes.

( Part III )

Title: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (2/3)
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Lily/Sirius, Lily/James
Rating: NC-17
Length: 4,820 words

Summary: The real reason Lily Evans keeps turning James Potter down? She's already sleeping with his best friend...

Teaser: Lily is naked, Sirius in his boxers (but hopefully not for long), and he is slowly but surely driving her mad...

Notes: This is the second part of three; the first part is here, and the third will be posted tomorrow. A million and one thanks to the gorgeous sazzlette - not only did she beta this monster of a fic, despite having tons of better stuff to do, she also looked stuff up in the books for me when I was in Cambridge. The title is from the song of the same name by Jerome Kern; the full quotation is When your heart's on fire, smoke gets in your eyes.

( Part II )

Title: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1/3)
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Lily/Sirius, Lily/James
Rating: NC-17
Length: 6,420 words

Summary: The real reason Lily Evans keeps turning James Potter down? She's already sleeping with his best friend...

Teaser: It’s breakfast time at Hogwarts on the first day back after the summer holidays, and the Great Hall is already in an uproar.

Notes: This is the first part of three; the second will go up tomorrow and the third the day after. A million and one thanks to the gorgeous sazzlette - not only did she beta this monster of a fic, despite having tons of better stuff to do, she also looked stuff up in the books for me when I was in Cambridge. The title is from the song of the same name by Jerome Kern; the full quotation is When your heart's on fire, smoke gets in your eyes.

( Part I )

This started out as a fic for scarvesnhats, but due to the pressures of work I only finished it today - although I really should have been writing my essay. Funny, sitting in my college library, writing porn... :D

Title: Love You, I Do
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: R
Length: 1,500 words

Summary: Sirius loves Remus. He just doesn't know how to say it.

Warnings: Pretension. Purple prose. Angst. Soppiness. (That is, that's what you'll find if the fic hasn't worked...) Oh, and it's unbeta'd. Constructive criticism welcomed.

Notes: Inspired by this song by Vienna Teng, prompt no 4 in this year's scarvesnhats.

( Prompt )

( Love You, I Do )

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 18

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.
A/N 2: The poem Sirius quotes is Evening, by Ronald Duncan.

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: It was McGonagall who saved them, charging towards them with her wand out, bun askew and face framed with flying wisps of hair.


( Chapter 18 )


Prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six
seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen
| fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen

For scarvesnhats, my favourite ficcish thing in the world. This is almost certainly squiffy canonically, but I didn't bring my books with me to Cambridge so it'll just have to do.

October 1st | Girton Terrace | 542 words | G

( He arrives home in October )

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 17

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: On the morning of his seventeenth birthday, Remus climbed the stairs to McGonagall’s office, where he took the Floo to the public hearth at King’s Cross station.


( Chapter 17 )


Prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six
seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen
| fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen

RULED BY THE MOON
Chapter 16

Title: Ruled by the Moon
Author: Me, nellie_darlin
Disclaimer: Not mine. Jo's.
Pairing/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Genre: Everything! Tis Lupin's Life!
A/N: Many millions of thanks to lyras for the beta-ing, and her endless patience with my vacillating and sometimes shocking writing habits. Feedback is adored.
A/N 2: The title is a Latin phrase meaning "I too am in Arcadia", whose original classical source is unknown, although it has been used as the title of two paintings by Poussin, and most famously, as the title of Book I of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. For more info look here.

A/N 3: I am so so SO sorry this has taken so long to appear, but I was away, and then I was terribly blocked, and really it's just a catalogue of disasters. But here it is now, and Chapter 17 is nearly finished too, so I hope you'll forgive me. In penance I have decided that I will provide a commentary for the previous chapters, so why not comment and ask me for the chapter you're most interested in?

Summary: Being an account of the life of Remus J Lupin, Esquire, from his first day at Hogwarts to his last on this earth. In many chapters. Also starring Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and the various inhabitants of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Teaser: It’s breakfast-time at Hogwarts, the ceiling a vivid, almost painful blue, the summer sun streaming through the windows and bathing the Great Hall in a warm yellow light.


( Chapter 16 )

Prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six
seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen | fourteen | fifteen

July 4th | Gnats | 1,115 words | PG

( Three o'clock on Wednesday the 23rd of June, and Peter Pettigrew is half-way through his Herbology NEWT... )

July 2nd | An Unnatural Juxtaposition | 750 words | PG

Prompt.

( It seems obscene, almost, that the sun should be shining today... )