i watched a movie a couple of days ago and one of the characters mentioned in passing she was writing a book about an artist (a real person, don’t remember who) and the relationship she had with two men.
basically the artist was in love with a gay man (who also happened to be her best friend) who was in love with a heterosexual man so… she married the latter and somehow it became a threesome.
and my rotten brain went: marlene x sirius x remus
and i mean how??? like i don’t mind gay sirius, i fuck with wolfstar a lot actually, but for the life of me i cannot see remus x marlene happening.
and ofc for the purpose of the story marlene having cero romantic feelings towards remus is completely irrelevant. the important part is she forced a situation between the three of them.
so yeah, i been basically trying to figure out how that would work: gay sirius, possibly bi remus and a completely toxic marlene apparently.
i do love a sort of open relationship?? between the three with sirius at the center where marlene and remus manage to fulfill different needs for him and they deeply cared for one another cause they all understand how important the other person is for the one they love.
idk. i’m just rambling. also, how the hell one does call blackinnon + remus or wolfstar + marlene??
I’ve been working on the translation of a fic I wrote back in the summer (my summer, at least). It’s a light read, both in terms of length and plot, cause while I love angsty, yearning and slow burn kinda stories, I did wanted to give them a fairly easy chance for once.
As a warning though, this story does not follow the pair after they (finally) get together.
Summary:
Sirius Black and Marlene McKinnon are just quidditch buddies, both Gryffindor team beaters. Nothing more. Especially since James Potter would never forgive them for disturbing the peace of a team that is just recovering from a breakup between two chasers.
Luckily, there's nothing to worry about, because Sirius and Marlene have never looked at each other that way.
sirius: i kissed her.
james: what?
remus: when?
peter: who?
sirius: about a month ago.
james: how am i just finding out?
remus: did she… kissed you back?
peter: who are we talking about?
remus: marlene.
sirius: yes. no. i don’t know, what does it matter?
remus: your kidding, right? tell me you’re joking.
james: how can you not know that?
peter: mckinnon?
sirius: yes, peter, how many marlene’s have you met? and no, i’m not joking. i mean, i understand how fundamental it is to know if a girl kiss you back or not, but we didn’t have time. i had to leave.
remus: you kissed her and then ran? and you wonder why she isn’t crawling back for more like the rest of them?
sirius: we were in the middle of “the plan”! james was there, he was calling me, that’s why i left.
james: how could i’ve been there when i just found out you kissed marlene?
sirius: you came after it happened.
james: so i interrupted you?
sirius: no. yes. what does it matter? i kissed her and then left. it was a busy day.
james: you don’t say…
remus: you left her cause you had to pulled a stupid prank?
james: hey, don’t take it out on “the plan”, it was brilliant!
sirius: that’s not the point, prongs.
james: right, sorry.
peter: what is the point though?
remus: the point is that sirius is a complete idiot. it amazes me how you managed to fool every girl in the castle into wanting to go out with you.
peter: except the one he wants.
sirius: thanks for that.
james: so what happened afterwards? when you saw her again, i mean.
sirius: nothing.
james: nothing?
remus: you haven’t talked to her since?
sirius: we’ve talked, just… not about that. it all has been normal, as if nothing happened.
james: are you sure you kissed and you didn’t… imagine it?
peter: oh, i’ve been there.
sirius: unlike you, peter, i don’t need to fantasize to get a girl to kiss me.
remus: don’t take it out on peter. it isn’t his fault you kissed her and then ran away.
sirius: i didn’t ran away.
james: this is getting nowhere. what are you gonna do now?
sirius: that’s what i’m asking you lot.
day 6 - music festival (muggle au) - blackinnon - @blackinnonfest
Sirius presented her with a pair of rubber boots.
“What are those?” She asked.
“The perfect footwear for rainy days and skipping puddles.”
“It isn’t raining.”
“But it will be where we are going. Come now, put them on.”
“You’re joking, right? They’re hideous” she protested.
“Shouldn’t you be more concerned with where we are going?”
“If I worried for every little thing you planned for, we would never go anywhere. But must I get there with such ugly little things?”
There was nothing little about the boots. They were tall and yellow and screaming loudly at her to not try them on.
“Fine. You can have mine.” Sirius sighed.
Sirius produced a pair of black ones and Marlene knew all along he bought them in her size right from the beginning.
Later on at night, after driving all the way to the music festival and spending all day dancing and screaming at the top of their lungs for their favorite bands and songs, Marlene and Sirius found their way to their camp site.
They stumbled ungracefully into their tent, laughing loudly, half drunk and half deaf from all the music still banging in their ears.
Marlene lifted her legs up in the air, her black boots covered in mud now.
“Best fucking gift ever”
“What about the festival tickets?”
“Oh yeah, that too” Marlene laughed, slapping Sirius slightly in his chest and propping herself up to kiss him on the lips.
“The songs in the radio are okay,
but my taste in music is your face.”
day 1 - "why are you here" “came to make sure you’re okay” - blackinnon - @blackinnonfest
“What are you doing here, McKinnon?” asked Sirius, sitting on the front porch.
“Making sure you’re alright, I guess” replied Marlene.
“Funny, coming from the girl who just hexed me a few minutes ago” replied Sirius, bitterly.
“You were being a jerk back there.”
Marlene was starting to regret coming after him, there was a reason she had been keeping her distance, after all.
“According to most people I’m always a jerk.”
He was being difficult, Marlene knew. Though probably it was her presence that was making things worse, she couldn’t be sure. A lot had happened lately, not only between the two, but with the war as well.
“I’m not most people, though, am I?” she tried, finally dropping down to sit next to him on the stairs.
Marlene looked up, trying to avoid Sirius’ stare.
It was a clear night and she could almost see the faint outline of the galaxy behind the stars.
“No” he answered, keeping his eyes fixed on her. “You most certainly are not”.