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Masterlist of Works for the 2011 rs_games
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“Honestly, I’d rather stay in,” muttered Remus under his breath as he adjusted the collar of his dress robes.

“But why?” asked Sirius. “It’s a party, Moony, and it’ll be fun! It always has been in the past, right?” He plunked himself down on the edge of the bed and gave his boyfriend what he hoped was his most winning smile.

Remus just sighed. “Yes,” he admitted, “but this time I’m tired. Hell, in the past six weeks I’ve been to Timbuktu and back, taken you shoplifting, signed the Werewolf Registry, ridden the rails in Depression-era America, been homeless in the 1970’s UK, prevented unnecessary dragon slaughter, taught small children, and gotten lost myriad times because YOU couldn’t read a bloody map! I’ve been on more trains, cars, ships, and motorcycles than I can even count!”

He crossed the room to stare at his lover, hands on hips. Remus looked expectantly at Sirius, but to his great consternation got no sympathetic response whatsoever. Instead, Sirius shrugged and began to calmly brush his hair. “And let’s not forget that I’ve been to Hell several times,” added Remus. “And I don’t mean some mere metaphoric hell, but actual fire and brimstone, Dante-inspired Hell!”

Sirius just laughed, and pulled his boyfriend down onto his lap. “I’ll have you know, Moony, that I’ve been all those places, too. In fact, I’ve even crossed the desert in a camel caravansary, captained a pirate ship, and hitch-hiked to your house after escaping from prison.”

Remus affected a pout, a trait Sirius always found convincing. “Point well taken,” he began, “but may I remind you that I’ve died of AIDS at least twice?”

“You only died once, my love,” corrected Sirius, “the other time you lived.”

Remus just grunted. Dead or not dead hardly mattered when you lived your life as a fictional character. He opened his mouth to give a smart-arse retort, but Sirius got there first.

“It matters not,” chuckled Sirius, “because you’re clearly their favorite! Most of them wanted to be on your team after all.” He nuzzled himself into his boyfriend’s neck and began to place gentle, suckling kisses on the hollow of his throat.

“Me?” squeaked Remus. “You’re the sexy one! All long, dark shiny hair and muscular chest and…” He was soon interrupted by a searing kiss.

Breaking the kiss, Sirius looked Remus straight in the face. “Right,” he said, “but they’re always going on about your gorgeous golden/amber eyes, your dry wit, your responsible nature…” Sirius began to unfasten the clasps of Remus’ dress robes, “… and your sexy scars – which I happen to like very much myself…”

“Hem hem!” came a voice from the corner, and both men turned to see four young, dark-haired women clutching laptop computers.

“How the hell did you get in here?” snapped a rather disconcerted Sirius.

The tallest of the four rolled her eyes. “We wrote ourselves in, of course! We’re writers, we can do that, you know.”

“Like that Rowling bint,” spat Remus. “She killed us both without remorse.”

“Well you look just fine now,” said a pretty girl wearing the most marvelous lime green and white flared trousers that Sirius had ever seen. “So let’s get on to the party!” she added.

“Wait a minute,” Sirius said. “Who the hell are you, anyway?”

I’m brighty18, said the bespectacled brunette in the flowing brown, velvet dress. In Remus’ opinion her outfit looked like what Sibyl Trelawny might wear to a Woodstock-inspired fancy dress party, but by the smile on his boyfriend’s face he could tell that Sirius somehow approved of her fashion sense.

“And I am cackling_madly,” said another sweet little brunette. Remus peered more closely. She was wearing a purple cape that he quite approved of but… dear Merlin! Was that a dog and wolf frolicking on her t-shirt?

“Nice shirt, love,” whispered Sirius with a chuckle. cackling_madly just blushed.

“Hi! I’m pica_scribit!” smiled the curly-haired one in the fantastic trousers. Her silvery turtleneck glinted in the candlelight and even Remus had to admit that the burgundy blazer looked rather dashing.

The fourth girl gave a shy wave. Dressed in a red and black corset over short, black skirt, Remus could only guess her look to be something he vaguely recalled as ‘Steampunk.’ “I’m whitestar and I guess I should admit that I ship Snupin,” she said with a grin.

“You what what?” asked Remus.

“I… erm… pair Remus with Severus Snape.”

“Ew!” cried Sirius, miming gagging motions, but Remus just raised an eyebrow and laughed.

“Be that as it may,” said the bespectacled one, let’s get on with it.

Moments later they were at the party, surrounded by hordes of gorgeous fangirls and fanboys. Instantly, Remus felt at home. “You were right, Pads,” he whispered, taking his boyfriend’s hand. “This is going to be fun!”

“Okay, on the count of three, the name of the winning Team is going to appear on the ceiling,” announced brighty18. She brandished a wand and waved it at the ceiling.

“All together now,” cried pica_scribit and the whole room joined in.

One… two… THREE!

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Masterlist of Works for the 2011 rs_games
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Team: Sirius
Title: The Northern Line
Author: ceredwensirius
Rating: R
Warnings: Sirius' fantasies daydreams, a few swear words, and the vulgarities that come with boy culture.
Word Count: ~25,000
Summary: Every morning before work, Sirius dodges his mother's barbs, runs the family business, sorts his brother's blunders, and trades insults with his best friend. He also falls in love.
Notes: Liberties taken with the profession of corporate raider, the London Underground, the area of Angel, Islington; the details about the shops are a mix of fact and pure fiction. This is a non-magical AU set in the year 2014. Muchas, muchas gracias to my beta A. Also, many thanks to the mods for putting on another fantastic R/S Games. You guys are the best.
Prompt: 7

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Team: Remus
Title: Can't Have One Without the Other
Artist: mypretty_art
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary:
Notes: I'd like to thank my team, for being the [sweater]best - Teamus Remus! Another special thanks to V (a.k.a. Kepler's mistress) of no team, the other team's Princess D and JT's old ball'n'chain.
Prompt: 30 - "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." - John Steinbeck



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Team: Remus
Title: Full Circle
Author: dragon_gypsy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character death bad jokes and pirates.
Word Count: 9835
Summary: Remus wonders, a bit belatedly, if he shouldn't make life decisions while drunk – especially if they end up with him being a dubiously labeled 'cabin boy' for Captain Sirius Black on board The Grim. A not-very swashbuckling tale of swashbuckling, dragons, and walking the plank.
Notes: Many thanks to everyone who helped cheer me on with this, my teammates know who they are. Much love to my beta (calling her F seems kind of silly but that's her first initial). Sorry for throwing this at you rather last minute; you're a star for getting it done so quickly!
Prompt: 13 - ("Here Be Dragons" Map)

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Team: Sirius
Title: The Benefits of Being Openminded
Artist: may_g
Rating: R
Warnings: nudity, wounds and scars, kissing, licking
Summary: Many witches and wizards dislike werewolfs, Sirius is one of the rare few who realize what the advantages of being romantically involved with one are. You need proof? He has some photos...
Notes: This would be a lot more silly and nonsensical if it weren't for my teammates who helped me turn my ideas into something decent. This was my first attempt at animation, it was more time consuming then I thought it would be.
Prompt: 25 - "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." - G.K. Chesterton



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