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Someone That Broke Me Up With A Corner Of Their Smile by RainyLanternVision
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Sep 2026
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Set 1967-1972
"His hair, light brown clustered ringlets and waves, glowed under the streetlamps, and Barty could have ran his hands through it all day, watched on a zoetrope that wide awake crescent shaped smile break out on his face when he had tugged it in the club."
Barty Crouch, drunk enough to let go of his shame for a pretty enough boy, meets Evan Rosier at an underground bar. He's sleep deprived and awkward and Barty is the only one he has ever had the courage to accept flirting from - better yet, to flirt with. At only 19 and 18, their rapidly developing relationship is a new experience for both. Even in a world of recent decriminalisation, neither of them know how to love in a way that doesn't hurt.
They can immerse themselves in distractions - drugs, artists, models. They can replace each other. They can lie and drink and smoke. But they can't quit. When they're drunk or angry enough, they'll always find each other again.
(Title from a Rolling Stones lyric)