wip wednesday 🎁
let's celebrate the end of nanowrimo with a little work-in-progress wednesday! here's a snippet from solstice that i wrote a little while ago now, with some soft fluffy boys in the snow:
‘I should probably head off,’ Scorpius said, raising his wrist to indicate his watch.
‘I know,’ Albus said. He took half a step forwards and bit his lip. ‘But you have snow-’ he stretched out his arm towards Scorpius ‘-in your hair.’
Scorpius stood paralysed as Albus reached up and ever so gently brushed a hand through his hair. The December air was cold and he could feel the heat of Albus’s hand near his skin as he pulled back, the very slightest brush of his finger across the sensitive skin just in front of his ear. Albus let his hand drop down to his side but didn’t step backwards. Even in the dim light Scorpius could see the freckles scattered across his nose, could see the falling snowflakes in the reflection of his eyes.
‘Thanks,’ he managed. His voice was barely more than a strangled squeak.
Albus looked at him for a few seconds, and Scorpius thought he saw the hint of a struggle in his expression - like he was trying to hold something back. ‘Any time,’ he said eventually, his voice low and soft. He still didn’t move backwards.
this is my in-progress monster-length scorbus post-cc fic, which is finally nearing completion and will hopefully be coming to an AO3 near you in 2023!
if you'd like to read more, we can play the wip game: send me a word and i'll share a sentence where it appears! i have over 200k words to select from now :)