Ficlet: "Wishing Every Happiness" - Adult

Written for the hobbit_smut Celebration Challenge.

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Wishing Every Happiness
by Serai


He slides his hand up her thigh, white silk pooling around his wrist, exposing the flesh he's only dreamed about. Her eyes glisten as she gasps, and her kiss tastes of southern wine and honeycake. She reaches down bold as brass to take him in hand, all shyness gone in the privacy of their chamber. He groans, strong arms clamping around her, and with a thrust of his thigh between hers he pushes her down onto the bed amidst the rose petals and sugared almonds scattered there for luck. It's hardly a minute before they're both naked.

Thighs parting, flesh hard, mouths feasting. Fingers pulling, stroking. Her legs lift as an eager thrust takes her maidenhead; she cries out with the loss and everything that replaces it. The music of their laughter is both sweet and terribly, terribly bitter. My eyes close to dispel the treacherous vision, but it makes no difference - I can't help hearing the sounds.

Pippin's arm wraps round my shoulder with a loving squeeze. "Cheer up, Merry," he whispers. "It's a wedding. You should be happy."

The joyful couple clasp hands before the assembled crowd, their faces shining, and I sigh.

"I am, Pip. I am."

Locking and unlocking

So I've been doing a chore that I put off for quite a while, and hope to get caught up on soon. Been going through my LJ post by post, doing some locking, unlocking, deleting, etc.

I've decided to unlock all the fic posts and friends-lock everything else. I think I shall also go back and change the fic posts so that they will link to my website whenever the fic is already up there, and leave fics posted here at LJ only if they're not at the site. danachan has done such a lovely job with the site, but I'm not sure if anyone ever goes there or not. I figure this will be a way to direct at least some people to the site. (Hm, maybe a hit counter over there would help give us an idea of what's going on. Dana? Does that sound convenient, or would it be a hassle?) So if anyone ever feels like they want to rec my fics to somebody, I'd appreciate it if you'd give them the site addy: http://salero.crickhollow.net/


While I was looking back through all that stuff, I realized there were a lot of comments that I had meant to reply to and just never did. My bad! *hangs head in shame* What can I say? I'm a procrastinating doofus. So if in the next week or so, you receive a reply to a comment you made so long ago that you can't remember making it, don't blame LJ. It's just me deciding that I really have to reply to that interesting question / kind pat on the back / happy-making squee.

Have a good evening, all!