do you have to live quite so relentlessly in the real world?

Title: The Shy Stars
Pairing: R/S, but with mentions of non-canon others.
Rating: r for sexual activity and drug use.
Summary: This is a story about the love of my life. It's not a very nice one.
Notes & Warnings: First person, lots of angst, no happy ending. Because sometimes you just don't get one, even in a no-Voldemort AU. Title and quote at the end are from carol Ann Duffy poems (Grammar of Light and Oslo respectively). Feels maybe a bit weird because there's so little dialogue, which is usually what I'm most comfortable with. And yes, I am aware that I'm wittering a bit now. Onwards.
Words: ~6300
Disclaimer: JKR's, not mine.

( The Shy Stars )

Every Love and Each Regret (Formerly Untitled Series)
Part 2, Chapter 1.
R
This is set three and a half years after the conclusion of part 1. The boys are living together, but all is not well. This is going to be largely angst from here on in, but brace yourselves and (please!) stick with me, we will come through it ;)
Lyrics from Tom Waits' Please Call Me, Baby


( I wish to God you'd leave me, baby I wish to God you'd stay )

Series: Grown-Up Things
Chapter: Commitment (2/3)
Rating: only for bad language
Summary: Everyone has to grow up sometime. More fluff! Some parental-inspired angst. - Ha, reading back over this before I post, I kind of feel that this is tooth-rotting in the extreme. Uh. Oh well.
Notes: My friends are all having babies and applying for mortgages and getting grown up jobs. This is, naturally, v. unsettling, and I like to spread it around via fic.
Words: About 3000

( Commitment )

>>part3

Every Love and Each Regret
Part 2, Chapter 3
Lyrics from Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer

( he cried out in his anger and his shame: I am leaving, I am leaving )