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Title: Seekers
Part 4: At Loose Ends
Characters: Charlie/Viktor
Prompt: anachronism
Summary: The boys communicate over long distance.
Rated: NC-17 overall, PG-13 in this part
Warnings for this part: language, romance
Word Count: 204 in this part (so short!), appox. 15,000 in finished fic
Disclaimer: These are not my characters, and I make no profit from this.
A/N: Thank you to the fabulous [livejournal.com profile] schemingreader for her amazing beta abilities. All remaining errors are all mine.
This was written for my [livejournal.com profile] 7spells claim, and will be cross-posted over there eventually. Sneak preview for the flist for now...because I just want this done!
Catch up on the Charlie/Viktor lurve here:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3



There was something old-fashioned about their affair, something Charlie would never have expected from an intensely physical, sexual man like Viktor. He wrote Charlie short, crystalline love letters, on old parchment. I do not know how I survive the days without you. I dreamed of you last night. I want to be touching you. His simple English was an aphrodisiac to Charlie. Viktor, you are a fucking romantic, Charlie wrote back from The Burrow, feeling incapable of matching his plain, sincere words. Charlie wanted to communicate with his body, but distance and illness made that too difficult.

Viktor owled a vial of sand he collected when he went back to the beach where they swam together. Charlie sent him a collection of bottle caps representing the lager he was drinking to drown his sorrows. Viktor sent back a piece of fabric clipped from his hospital robe. It smelled like him.

A month later, when he was released from hospital, Viktor’s written proposal to Charlie was formal and traditional. I hope you will honor me by agreeing to share a flat. He had been put on injured reserve indefinitely by the Bulgarian National Team, was at loose ends.

He was coming to England, for Charlie.


Part 5

Date: 10 Jul 2007 06:49 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
That is so incredibly sweet! And it's true -- simple statements of love are often the best.

Date: 10 Jul 2007 07:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] westernredcedar.livejournal.com
Hee! Thanks for reading some of this crazy thing, sweetie. :)
I've always been a big Viktor fan because he seems so macho gruff, but is actually a shy romantic at heart (that's how I read canon about him and Hermione, anyway). Such good traits for angsty romance smut. Yay!

Date: 15 Jul 2007 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kcstories.livejournal.com
That was wonderful. I love your characterization of Viktor especially, and the ending is incredibly sweet. :)

Date: 15 Jul 2007 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] westernredcedar.livejournal.com
Thanks so much! :)
I really appreciate your comments, especially about Viktor, who was so fun to write. I really like him as a character.
(I see you made it the real end later *g*)

Date: 15 Jul 2007 05:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kcstories.livejournal.com
I like Viktor too. He seems sweet underneath the tough exterior; or that's how I 'saw' him in the books.

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Date: 24 Jul 2007 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] westernredcedar.livejournal.com
Charlie has NO CLUE what to do. Love him for that. :)

Date: 12 Mar 2009 11:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretsolitaire.livejournal.com
Bottle caps?? *pets*

Date: 27 May 2011 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hogwartshoney.livejournal.com
OMG, so short..... but packed full of meaning, girrrrrrl.

Bottle caps...... the sand ! (awwwww)

Yes, Viktor, come to England and complicate matters. This should be fun.

MOAR!

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