May's fic ([info]arewewinning) wrote,
@ 2008-04-14 02:18:00
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Entry tags:challenge: choco_cherries, fandom: friday night lights, fandom: harry potter, ship (cross): matt/hermione

Into The Ocean (Matt/Hermione) PG
Title: Into The Ocean
Rating: PG
Word Count: 297
Summary: She knows the price of fighting for what you believe in.
Friday Night Lights/Harry Potter
Characters: Matt Saracen, Hermione Granger
A/N: For choco_cherries.

She knows the price of fighting for what you believe in.

He knows the pain of losing the people that matter most to the cause.

It works like this: Don’t ask, don’t tell, but someone’s bound to slip sooner or later (they always do).



Europe comes to him through an internship second year into the underwhelming experience that is college without the football.

(Not one foot on the green, and he fell down a flight of stairs because his shoes weren’t tied and that was all it took, all they needed to send him packing.)

But this is London and for a boy like him so homespun that anyone can guess just by looking at him, it’s everything.

“Hi. I’m Matt.”

She’ll roll her eyes with her friends later and call him the awkward American.

Yet when one of them asks for his number, she lies and says he didn’t supply her with one.



He’s the kind of boy that seeps into someone’s life, one stutter at a time.

And he seeps into hers, like rain through a hole she was sure she patched up long ago.



“You’re too quiet.”

A blush, a shaky hand, and his fingers find hers, lacing round her wrist like wire, “I know.”

He drops a kiss to her forehead, and the apology weighs itself there.

Note: The silences aren’t what bother her. It’s not being able to read him like she did with all the others.

That’s what gets her. That’s why she stays.



First loves are ghosts that linger in the background.

Julie’s smile startles in hers, Ron’s laugh washes into his, but when he asks her if she’s doing anything for the holidays, she already has an excuse ready for mum.



Texas hums with heat and answers.

She’s listening.


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[info]do_not_confess
2008-04-14 10:21 am UTC (link)
Wow. I never would have thought about these two but the way you wrote them - the sparce way of wording leaves all this space for imagination to fill, all this room and air for things to let your mind wander. Beautiful.

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[info]ineffort
2008-04-15 03:34 pm UTC (link)
Ridiculously random I know. :) But thanks so much, Jo! I'm happy it worked for you. &hearts

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[info]ava_leigh_fitz
2008-04-14 10:23 am UTC (link)
Dude.

You? Pwn the universe.

I will be back in a less frat-boy manner later.

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[info]ineffort
2008-04-15 03:39 pm UTC (link)
Dude.

I happen to love frat boy speak. Seeing as I'm always calling you dude lol.

♥

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[info]ava_leigh_fitz
2008-07-13 05:25 pm UTC (link)
I was going to do my standard 'quote you at you because you're awesome' but can't because otherwise I will just paste the entire thing here. I love that they bond over loss, because it has becomes such a huge part of both these characters. Their loss is a defining characteristic. I love that Matt's still awkward and shy and Hermione has yet to be won over, but kind of is a little because he's so damn endearing. That she can't read him, that she can't fully understand him is a lovely facet of their relationship because she's always been the one with the answers and for once, she isn't.

And this: He’s the kind of boy that seeps into someone’s life, one stutter at a time.

And he seeps into hers, like rain through a hole she was sure she patched up long ago. It's just beautiful and May, you own. You really really do.

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[info]penny_lane_42
2008-04-14 02:45 pm UTC (link)
Wow. Most random couple ever, and you make them perfect. Cuz that's what you do, clearly.

I really, really love you for making this work.

Europe comes to him through an internship second year into the underwhelming experience that is college without the football.

(Not one foot on the green, and he fell down a flight of stairs because his shoes weren’t tied and that was all it took, all they needed to send him packing.) Oh! Poor Matt without football! That nearly makes me cry to think he lost it and lost it in that way. Poor boy! *pats his head*

Yet when one of them asks for his number, she lies and says he didn’t supply her with one. Too great.

I love the lines about him seeping into her life. They're so very, very Matt. And the lines about not being able to read him are so very, very Hermione.

First loves are ghosts that linger in the background.

Julie’s smile startles in hers, Ron’s laugh washes into his GAH! You kill me, really.

That was gorgeous, May, really.

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[info]ineffort
2008-04-15 03:44 pm UTC (link)
They really are. The things one thinks up in the wee hours in the morning.

I'm so glad they seem somewhat plausible to you.

*pats with* Sports are such an iffy pursuit. My brother is hell bent on basketball and I'm always harping about having a plan B because seriously you never know.

They're so very, very Matt. And the lines about not being able to read him are so very, very Hermione. Yay! My one fear was that I twisted them out of character. I'm happy you think it sounds like them.

Thanks so much, Lauren! And no dying on me. I won't have it.

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[info]pr_scatterbrain
2008-04-25 01:13 pm UTC (link)
That was utterly beautiful. I can think of nothing else that better describs it than that. Utterly beautiful.

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[info]ineffort
2008-04-27 05:40 am UTC (link)
Aww, thank you!

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