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evandar ([personal profile] evandar) wrote2014-02-16 09:11 pm

Fic - Family - 1/1

Title: Family
Author: Evandar
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: T
Genre: Horror
Warnings: Incest, manipulative relationships, Oedipus complex
Pairings: Harry/Ginny, Harry/Lily Luna, implied one-sided Harry/Lily Potter
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and am making no profit from this story.
Summary: He lies to get what he wants, and the thing he wants the most has always been a family.
Author's Notes: This was written for [livejournal.com profile] hp_darkarts's Bloody Valentine Comment fic challenge, in response to this prompt.



“I love you,” he tells her, and her eyelashes flutter. She flushes and smiles and she’s almost perfect – he smiles back and touches her cheek with delicate fingertips, tracing patterns in her freckles. She’s pretty enough and the long curtain of her red hair is familiar in a way that makes his heart ache, but it’s not really her that he wants despite what he can make her believe. It’s her family; the warmth around her and the love and acceptance. Things he’s never had for himself but that he’s craved ever since he realised that his place is in the cupboard.

“I love you,” he tells her as her belly grows round. It’s easy to spoil her and dote on her with a child on the way because the child will be his and not just a borrowed relative.

“I love you,” he tells her after three children, when her hair is beginning to turn silver and lines are deepening around her eyes. Her smiles and flushes aren’t as pretty as they used to be, not like their daughter’s. Lily is as vibrant as the photos of her namesake and she likes nothing better than to curl in his lap and let him twine braids into her long red hair.

“I love you,” he tells his wife as he poisons her slowly, and “I love you,” he tells his daughter when they lower her mother’s coffin into the ground. He brushes tears from her eyes and traces patterns in the freckles on her pale cheeks; he makes her flush with pleasure and laugh like the pictures of his mother.

“I love you,” he tells her as he steals kisses from her plump lips, and he thinks that his real family is better than any borrowed one.
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[personal profile] writcraft 2014-02-16 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Such a creepy story about the power of obsessive, destructive love. Very nicely done.

Thanks so much for being part of the Valentine's challenge! We will post our masterlist tomorrow.

[identity profile] blithelybonny.livejournal.com 2014-02-17 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
This was excellently creepy. I liked the parallelism of the "I love you" that went through it. Great work!

[identity profile] mab.livejournal.com 2014-02-17 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow... This is very creepy. You did a great job at showing us how far gone Harry is in his quest for "true" family. Thanks for writing it!

[identity profile] deslea.livejournal.com 2014-02-17 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, goodness. I'm in awe of how insidious you managed to make this with only the lightest touch.

[identity profile] sophie-french.livejournal.com 2014-02-17 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
Amazing short story, really well done and powerful! Thank you! :)
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[personal profile] capitu 2014-02-17 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesus, that's so terrible and amazing! I LOVE it.

[identity profile] sabethea.livejournal.com 2014-02-18 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch. So convincing and slightly alarmingly makes me wonder how many relationships really are built around manipulative and not-quite-how-they-seem emotions.