I have a ship request! nearly headless Nick/ filch , halloween fluff

Nick waved his last guests goodbye as they left through the wall. Another deathday party over.

Another year where he didn't make it to the headless hunt.

Another year passed, and nothing much had changed. The rotting food was still on the table, he missed to taste, missed to smell, missed the sensation of solid things.

But he was also grateful that some things never changed.

Smiling, he looked at the door when Argus came in to clean the room.

It was unnecessary, ghosts didn't tend to make rooms dirty. And the elves would spell away the food later. But Argus did it nevertheless.

His friend had turned grey over the years he served this school, and their students how ungrateful they might be. Nick saw Argus worth, he knew him better than anyone else. And he'd lie if he'd say that he didn't hope for him to come back to Nick and their castle once his time under the living was over.

He watched fondly as Argus mopped the room, and afterwards they sat down to talk as they did every year.

Nick knew that if he'd still have a beating heart, it'd beat twice as fast in nights like this. Nights they got to spend together, without having to care about the students or the staff.

Nick's deathday was the day Argus reserved for him only.

hi my lovely! i'm so glad to see you back and active! if you've still got spots open for your rare pairings i'd love to see your take on draco/james...! xoxo

Nobody could have foreseen this. Especially not him. Draco grew up under the assumption that all Potters simply were egoistic, bigheaded pricks.

Harry fucking Potter was a pain in the arse on good days, and Draco refused to think of the bad ones.

So it came as a surprise when he met James.

James was clever and funny. He had a sharp mind and the skills and body of a young god without being a prick about it.

He had come to Draco's apothecary to get ingredients for a potion he was inventing for the Weasley shop. And things had just clicked.

Draco had tried to refuse paying any more attention to him than absolutely necessary, but James had his own mind. And once it was set on something he'd get it.

For some kind of reason the thing he has set his mind on was Draco, and Draco surely wouldn't complain too loudly.

Not when he woke up too early just to have a soft voice tell him to come back to bed. Not when James' skin under his hands burned like fire every time he touched him, or when his hair tickled his nose when they cuddled in bed.

It had taken some time for Draco to get used to this, and it's take even more to have people accept them as they are. But in the end things would be fine.

And until then they had each other.

Charlie/Harry/Draco/Teddy because "Charlie Weasley's Fuck Autobiography" lives rent-free in my brain all of the time.

The heatwave had hit them rather unexpectedly. It had been rainy for weeks, and all of a sudden the outside felt like a dragon constantly breathed fire at him.

Charlie was melting. He only went out to the small shop at the corner to get groceries, but the ten minutes it took him to get there and back was already enough to make him crave moving to Antarctica.

Or a bath in ice cubes.

Maybe both.

The worst thing was that the heat didn't stop at the front door. Not even cooling charms were enough to keep it out.

Dragging himself to the fridge to put the groceries away, Charlie stopped dead in his tracks as soon as he reached the kitchen.

Harry was there, dressed in nothing but boxers, scooping ice cream while leaning against the counter. And he had the nerve to grin as he saw Charlie in all his overheated misery.

Pressing the bag into Harry's hand Charlie decided to go and take a shower, not willing to stay this drenched while the others were running around looking perfectly fine.

Huffing, he stomped up to the bathroom, passing Teddy doing his yoga thing. Charlie wasn't allowed to watch anymore because he had been distracting Teddy one too many times. He'd glady do it again, but he already was too hot and this wouldn't be of any help.

Shaking his head, Charlie opened the bathroom door, and found the shower already occupied. Draco.

Draco had boundaries when it came to his shower routine, and Charlie respected that. He surely wouldn't deal with a grumpy little snake for the rest of the day only because he interrupted his shower.

He was about to close the door behind him, accepting the fact to stay miserable for at least another thirty minutes when Draco suddenly snickered.

"I've been waiting for you. Why don't you join me? I think you deserve a shower after getting groceries and respecting my wish to not be disturbed in here."

Charlie was out of his clothes and in the shower within seconds.

Hey, are triads acceptable for the questionable ships? If so, how about sirius/remus/harry with the two Marauders comforting Harry after a particularly bad day or nightmare? Also, I think it's great you're doing this and can't wait to read what you write for the other prompts you get 😊

They were an odd mix, the three of them. They carried more hurt on their shoulders than a group of three should have to.

Azkaban had fucked him up pretty badly, Sirius knew that. But he also knew that both Harry and Remus had it just as bad, if not worse.

Nightmares were a common thing in their house. At least one of them would wake the others by bolting up in the middle of the night, interrupting the others dreams with a scream or a stifled sob.

Tonight it was Harry. They knew it was coming the second he came back from work. There was a raid gone wrong and they saw the shadows of the war in his eyes. He didn't need to tell them. They instantly knew.

Sirius had left Harry and Remus in their living room to make dinner, knowing that Remus was a lot better with handling those things.

But no matter how good Remus was, the nightmares would still come for Harry.

So when he bolted up that night, his entire body trembling in fear of what he just saw, Sirius was there to help. He pulled Harry back onto the pillows and hugged him close before Remus scooted over to cover Harry's back.

They'd be there for each other, always.

A broken trio that laughed all day until the pain crept in during the silent nights.

Ooohhh Can I be greedy and go for Harry/Teddy/Draco, Harrry/Teddy/Sirius (wicked godfather edition lol), Harry/Draco/Sirius? And there's always my favorites Harry/ Neville/Draco. Also, hardly anyone writes them because rarely does anyone like Severus but Sev/Harry/Draco?

Thank you my love! And, I really don't care which one! Pick any that suit you or none! I just like to show that there are so many lovely pairings out there!

I adore you, darling! 💜 💙 💚 💛 ❤️ 💕 💖

Draco had no idea how this had happened. On one day he was the proud hire of a wealthy family with little to nothing missing in his life. And suddenly he was in a relationship with one of his estranged cousins and Potter with absolutely nothing missing in his life.

Though sometimes he was missing the nerves to deal with their concentrated chaotic dumbass energy.

Today was one of those days.

Harry and Sirius had decided to have an eating contest, and if Draco would have been at home he would have stopped them.

But he wasn't.

When he came home he found the damage already done.

Harry was pouting in the living room while Sirius laid on the floor laughing hysterically and clutching his stomach while looking rather sick.

Obviously, and Draco knew it was true because only his very own two idiots would do stuff like that, Sirius transformed into Padfoot and wolfed down the entire bowl of Spaghetti before Harry could even do as much as blink. And then he also made short process of Harry's bowl.

The result was that Harry now accused Sirius of cheating and Sirius was in severe pain due to consuming two huge bowls of food in seconds.

Asking Sirius if this was really worth it, Draco decided to get himself something to eat while the two of them figured this out on their own.

Yes, hello, I have a "questionable" prompt for you b/c fuck the antis. 😂 How about we have a Snaco potions apprentice situation (obv post-canon)? If not, totally fine, appreciate you all the same! 😘

Draco hated working with Sev.

Actually, no he didn't.

The only thing he hated was keeping his hands on the ingredients, and his eyes on the cauldron.

He had always admired his Potions Master, but once he started studying under Sev's watchful eyes he realised very quickly that the admiration wasn't only that.

He was barely able to focus when he watched Severus precisely cut ingredients, wishing for those careful hands to be on himself. The expression on the man's face when he focused on his potion stole Draco's breath.

Now he knew that this sharp gaze felt even more exciting when Draco was the one getting the attention. But he also knew how soft they were shortly before falling asleep together.

Draco dreaded working with Sev. He'd rather spend the day with him in his apartment and ignore the world outside just for a little longer.

Write literally anything with Harry/Draco/Teddy 😍 I’m almost glad this all happened because I’m finding more positive people to follow like you, and finding out who to unfollow

Harry couldn't believe his luck. Not that he had a lot of it in his life, but right now everything was just perfect.

It was movie night, they had decided to watch some classic horror and were huddled together under a blanket on their huge sofa after a long week of working too much.

That was when realisation hit him. Things were finally how they were supposed to be.

He was stroking Teddy's hair while he laid half on top of Harry, and they both used Draco as pillow. For the simple reason that Draco was the best pillow. And because like that they also hadn't had to see the dirty grin on Draco's face whenever one of them jumped during the movie.

Things were perfect.

Turning his head, he stole a kiss from Teddy before pulling Draco into another one.

This was how things were supposed to be.

Heyy, what's your favourite thing about Drarry?

Okay, so first of all, this question is HARD. And by hard I mean I spent like a week staring at this ask in my inbox and then realised there was no way I was coming up with a good enough answer without the help of @paoak. In fact, I would have been a fool to try. So, after an hour long session of brainstorming in the library like the obsessed fools we are, and in no particular order…here’s an incomplete list of our favourite things about Drarry:

- The fandom. The fact that it’s active, and thriving, and that it’s not just content creators that participate in it; that there’s so many fans out there making fic recs, giving stratosferic amounts of love to the creators, organising fests… 

The fandom as a whole is also incredibly open-minded. Like…we have other fandoms that we can’t bother to be so active in online because of the amount of judgement and pettiness and antis in them, but Drarry? Ship and let ship, YKINMKBYKIO… With some exceptions, this is practically all we’ve seen in this community, and that’s honestly so refreshing.

We also love the way problems are faced in the fandom; how so many people explore themes such as sexuality, race, neurodivergence and politics (to name a few) in such a sensitive way, and how we as a community don’t stay quiet in the face poor fandom etiquette, such as not tagging sensitive content properly, reposting or anon hate. Like dude…we’ve got each others’ backs. How awesome is that?

- Their dynamic. In Paoak’s words and to put it simply, Drarry is, to the core, a snarky pining son of a bitch x an oblivious cinnamon roll willing to roast him every single time.

And like…yeah, there’s so many ships out there that are enemies to lovers, or that have shared trauma, or that have clashing/opposite personalities, or that meet as kids. But I don’t know that many that combine all of the above. And all of these are represented in so many different ways depending on when the fic is set! Drarry bickering innocently as kids, Drarry discovering their sexualities and feeling all the UST as teens, Drarry figuring out their lives as adults… Canon and everything that comes before and after it leaves us with such a wide range of ages to explore that you don’t see in many other ships.

And that’s not even mentionint how complementary they are. They were literally written to be everything the other is not and, in many aspects, to have the things the other wants the most. They’re made to clash against each other; they have every reason to hate each other, but, when it comes down to it, they come back to the other like metal to a magnet. Which gives so much room for us to imagine them coming together post-canon; growing and changing the other for the better, posing a challenge for the other, and driving each other mad. They just need each other, but the best part is—they do in canon. Their dynamic, the intensity between them—it’s all there in the books, if you just dare see it. But because Drarry itself is not canon, there are…quite literally no restrictions. There’s a different Drarry for every one of us depending on the way we interpret it. Canon is a strong foundation—one where we’re all free to build as many castles as we want.

And even though they’re so unstable, even though they’re always at the edge, there’s…balance, between them. Some people see their dynamic in canon as bullying, but from the perspective of yours dearly, who happens to be a victim of bullying…there’s a big difference between the unbalance that bullying entails and the constant back and forth that goes on between Drarry, and that leaves a different one of them coming on top every time. A back and forth that, by the way, only goes on until it really matters: when lives are at stake—that’s when they risk it all to save the other. Without hesitation.

And that’s where it gets the most interesting. Because at first glance, one could say that Draco is bad and that Harry is good. But if you dig a little bit deeper, they’re both scared, clueless, traumatised kids. They’re both flawed. Think of just the Sectumsempra incident, or how Draco can’t bring himself to kill Dumbledore despite everything that’s at stake. It’s nice to read about perfect characters from time to time, but if you want to explore everything there is to see in the gray area of life, fiction, and morality, Drarry is that ship that just takes your hand and walks you through every other path you may want to explore.

Which takes us to the last point:

- The heavy themes. Combine points one and two together—a fandom that is huge, alive, open-minded and sensitive and a ship that is everything but simple—and you’ll end up with a vast amount of fic that explores the most complex themes, often avoided in media and even within other fandoms, without stepping out of their explosive ship dynamic. And all of it often in the context of YA literature; adult, problematic, serious themes, combined with fun, adventure and magic.

And because god forbid that we did any studying instead of coming up with this hell of an answer, we even made our own (again, incomplete) list of themes that we’ve seen, loved, and learnt from in the Drarry fandom: infidelity, PTSD, grief, mental illnesses, self-discovery at all stages of life, sexuality, neurodivergence, disabilities, post-war politics, abuse, self-harm and suicide themes, denial of feelings, the brutality of war, the harshness of realising you’ve been kept from the real world and the discovery of it, unrequited love and a lack of communication even when there’s sex, consent and dubcon, and last but not least, sexual encounters that range from vanilla to BDSM, but that aren’t just smut for the sake of smut; that teach you about boundaries, and kinks, and safe/sane/consensual, and that act as a way for the characters to express emotions they’re trying to hide, and to connect. For their story to evolve; for them to change together.

Heyy, what's your favourite thing about Drarry?

Okay, so first of all, this question is HARD. And by hard I mean I spent like a week staring at this ask in my inbox and then realised there was no way I was coming up with a good enough answer without the help of @paoak. In fact, I would have been a fool to try. So, after an hour long session of brainstorming in the library like the obsessed fools we are, and in no particular order…here’s an incomplete list of our favourite things about Drarry:

- The fandom. The fact that it’s active, and thriving, and that it’s not just content creators that participate in it; that there’s so many fans out there making fic recs, giving stratosferic amounts of love to the creators, organising fests… 

The fandom as a whole is also incredibly open-minded. Like…we have other fandoms that we can’t bother to be so active in online because of the amount of judgement and pettiness and antis in them, but Drarry? Ship and let ship, YKINMKBYKIO… With some exceptions, this is practically all we’ve seen in this community, and that’s honestly so refreshing.

We also love the way problems are faced in the fandom; how so many people explore themes such as sexuality, race, neurodivergence and politics (to name a few) in such a sensitive way, and how we as a community don’t stay quiet in the face poor fandom etiquette, such as not tagging sensitive content properly, reposting or anon hate. Like dude…we’ve got each others’ backs. How awesome is that?

- Their dynamic. In Paoak’s words and to put it simply, Drarry is, to the core, a snarky pining son of a bitch x an oblivious cinnamon roll willing to roast him every single time.

And like…yeah, there’s so many ships out there that are enemies to lovers, or that have shared trauma, or that have clashing/opposite personalities, or that meet as kids. But I don’t know that many that combine all of the above. And all of these are represented in so many different ways depending on when the fic is set! Drarry bickering innocently as kids, Drarry discovering their sexualities and feeling all the UST as teens, Drarry figuring out their lives as adults… Canon and everything that comes before and after it leaves us with such a wide range of ages to explore that you don’t see in many other ships.

And that’s not even mentionint how complementary they are. They were literally written to be everything the other is not and, in many aspects, to have the things the other wants the most. They’re made to clash against each other; they have every reason to hate each other, but, when it comes down to it, they come back to the other like metal to a magnet. Which gives so much room for us to imagine them coming together post-canon; growing and changing the other for the better, posing a challenge for the other, and driving each other mad. They just need each other, but the best part is—they do in canon. Their dynamic, the intensity between them—it’s all there in the books, if you just dare see it. But because Drarry itself is not canon, there are…quite literally no restrictions. There’s a different Drarry for every one of us depending on the way we interpret it. Canon is a strong foundation—one where we’re all free to build as many castles as we want.

And even though they’re so unstable, even though they’re always at the edge, there’s…balance, between them. Some people see their dynamic in canon as bullying, but from the perspective of yours dearly, who happens to be a victim of bullying…there’s a big difference between the unbalance that bullying entails and the constant back and forth that goes on between Drarry, and that leaves a different one of them coming on top every time. A back and forth that, by the way, only goes on until it really matters: when lives are at stake—that’s when they risk it all to save the other. Without hesitation.

And that’s where it gets the most interesting. Because at first glance, one could say that Draco is bad and that Harry is good. But if you dig a little bit deeper, they’re both scared, clueless, traumatised kids. They’re both flawed. Think of just the Sectumsempra incident, or how Draco can’t bring himself to kill Dumbledore despite everything that’s at stake. It’s nice to read about perfect characters from time to time, but if you want to explore everything there is to see in the gray area of life, fiction, and morality, Drarry is that ship that just takes your hand and walks you through every other path you may want to explore.

Which takes us to the last point:

- The heavy themes. Combine points one and two together—a fandom that is huge, alive, open-minded and sensitive and a ship that is everything but simple—and you’ll end up with a vast amount of fic that explores the most complex themes, often avoided in media and even within other fandoms, without stepping out of their explosive ship dynamic. And all of it often in the context of YA literature; adult, problematic, serious themes, combined with fun, adventure and magic.

And because god forbid that we did any studying instead of coming up with this hell of an answer, we even made our own (again, incomplete) list of themes that we’ve seen, loved, and learnt from in the Drarry fandom: infidelity, PTSD, grief, mental illnesses, self-discovery at all stages of life, sexuality, neurodivergence, disabilities, post-war politics, abuse, self-harm and suicide themes, denial of feelings, the brutality of war, the harshness of realising you’ve been kept from the real world and the discovery of it, unrequited love and a lack of communication even when there’s sex, consent and dubcon, and last but not least, sexual encounters that range from vanilla to BDSM, but that aren’t just smut for the sake of smut; that teach you about boundaries, and kinks, and safe/sane/consensual, and that act as a way for the characters to express emotions they’re trying to hide, and to connect. For their story to evolve; for them to change together.