kubis

Making Clouds From the Ashes

Written for

warbigbang 2012
Fandom: Generation Kill (HBO), Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Brad (it's his POV), Nate, Ray, Walt, Poke, and a few of other GK characters; from HP series: Ginny Weasley, Minerva McGonagall, and a couple of others, but all of them are secondary at best. As far as pairings go: Brad/Nate, mainly; background Ray/Walt and Poke/Gina; past Brad/Ginny Weasley is mentioned
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 20,312
Warnings: there's sex and swearing; as it is a post-war story, there are mentions of things that could happen to a person after that - nightmares and flashbacks, mostly, but there's also a mention of suicide (no one of the main or even secondary characters, but if it’s something that could be triggering for you: it’s a teenage suicide and one of the characters reacts with anger towards that person)
Summary: Harry Potter AU/fusion. Brad, Nate, Ray, and others, are starting their last year at school a couple months after the Battle of Hogwarts. It's a story about that year, and about figuring out how to move on after the war and how to deal with the rest of their lives coming up fast.

Link to Fic: PART ONE & PART TWO
Links to Craft:

be_cum’s amazing vid is here

lunatics_word’s awesome art is here

Additional Note: I've tried to be as close to HP canon as I could, but I’ve made one change – I’ve moved Fred and George's shop to Hogsmeade. I needed it to be closer, so I could use it in the story.

Disclaimer: my stories in GK fandom are based on the fictionalized characters from the HBO miniseries as portrayed by Stark Sands, Alexander Skarsgård and the rest of the cast. It's fiction, that's all. In no way I want to connect it to and I assume nothing about the people who are behind the story of the book that is behind the series. I mean no disrespect.

This fic was written for

warbigbang challenge, which makes it my third big bang story. :)

I owe many thanks to:

idrilka who agreed to beta this monster for me at the last minute. ♥ Thank you so much and I’m sorry for all the terrible mistakes.

be_cum who was enthusiastic about making a vid for this story and came up with an amazing one. ♥ I know it wasn’t easy, but I love what you’ve done!

lunatics_word who made the awesome art and even heard me out about the colors and stuff. ♥

I also thank

warbigbang mods for running this challenge again this year,

justaotherwitch for initially agreeing to beta my story, and all the people who gave me moral support -

noelia_g,

cala_jane and others. Thank you all!