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Author: CLASSIFIED Prompt: #60 Rating: Explicit Wordcount: 31748 Warnings: N/A Summary:

Professors Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy have worked together at Hogwarts for ten years, and in this time they've managed to become sort-of-not-quite friends. After all, it's been fifteen years since the war and everyone is a bit tired of old rivalries. When Draco goes missing and Headmistress McGonagall asks Harry to go into the Forbidden Forest to find him, Harry doesn't think much of it. Until he both finds more than what he'd bargained for, and not what he'd originally set out to find.

@hdcandyheartsfest The unmade bed.

The look in your eyes when you first open them.

The peek of the first rays of the sun.

The sleepy smile at the dawn of a new light.

The rumpled clothes from a night spent in peace.

The look in your eyes when you realize where you are and who you are and how amazing it is that you get to see a new day.

The brief moment when you contemplate closing your eyes to the world for a few more minutes.

The soft laugh when a loved one snuggles close.

The taste in your mouth of dreams soon forgotten.

The love in your heart, softened over a dark night under the protection of the moon.

Lay down dear one, under the stars,

Lay down dear one, a few more hours.

Close your eyes, and dream of a world,

Close your eyes, and watch wishes unfurl.

Snuggle up close, the warmth beckons,

Snuggle up close, the storm reckons.

Stay here, for a little more time

Dear potential agents,

H/D Cluefest is an anonymous Drarry fest, celebrating the Mystery genre. 

Bring us your case fics and whodunnits and family intrigues. Bring us codes and ciphers, long-lost relatives, hardboiled detectives and elaborate schemes. Mysterious inheritances, spies, something on the tip of your tongue that you can’t quite remember? You’re in the right place. 

Clue Fest is for participants over 18 years old only. If we find out that you are under 18 before the fest posts, you will not be allowed to participate. If we find out after the fest posts, your work will be removed from the collection.

How do you know if your work/idea fits the fest?

We’re open to fic, art, and podfic. 

What kind of works are we looking for? The work should feature a mystery, and the characters’ attempts to solve it should be central to the plot. What kind of mystery? That’s up to you, but to give you an idea of what we’re looking for, it could be about:

a crime

a disappearance

a family secret

a hidden identity

a missing object

a conspiracy

lost memories

If you’re not sure if what you’re planning fits, you can always get in touch with the fest mods. We’re here to help.

Timeline

Prompting: 1 October - 30 October 2021 Claiming: 1 November 2021 - 31 January 2022 Due: 15 February 2022 Posting: 1 March 2022 Reveals: in April 2022

Prompting

Prompts should include a key question to be answered, e.g. “What does Draco know about the recent string of murders?”, “Why is Harry late to the office every Thursday?”, “Who stole the House Cup”, “Harry can’t remember what he did last week, but he knows it has something to do with Draco. What’s that blond git hiding?”

We suggest keeping prompts brief and open-ended.

Prompts won’t have a special request section but will include a space for potential squicks or triggers.

Here’s the Prompting form for the fest.

Self-Prompting

Self-prompting is very welcome.

There will be a section to submit self-prompts in the claiming form.

If your self-prompt doesn’t fit the theme of the fest, you may be asked to clarify or change it altogether.

Claiming

Each prompt can be claimed once for fic and once for art.

Claiming will be done via an Airtable form.

Collaborations are welcome — you can claim as a team/partnership.

Submissions

Fic

The minimum word count is 1000 words. There’s no maximum.

The fics must be stand-alone pieces.

Every fic has to be a stand-alone piece, made exclusively for the fest.

All fics MUST be beta-read. If you don’t have a beta, please email the Clue Fest mods at [email protected].

Artwork

We accept drawings, comics and illustrations. They can be digital or traditional.

We do not allow photo manips, moodboards, banners, or any copyrighted images.

Every art piece has to be a stand-alone, made exclusively for the fest. 

You may include a personal watermark if you’d like, but it’s not required.

Podfic

The fic you chose must be at least 1000 words, there’s no maximum. 

The audio intro must include the title of the fic, the author’s name and any warnings that are major AO3 warnings (rape/non-con, underage, major character death, graphic depiction of violence, and creator chose not to use archive warnings). If you use any potentially triggering sound effects, such as a gunshot or screams, please also state that in the intro. 

You are free to include your name in the audio intro, but we advise against making your podfic anon. 

We’re going to use the honour system when it comes to permissions. If we are contacted by the original author stating that they did not grant permission for a podfic to be made, we will contact you for proof. If it’s not provided, your podfic will be immediately removed from the fest collection.

The mods will listen to your podfic before approving the podfic. This is to ensure all links work and that no big sections of the fics are missing. We’re not going to check if every single word is the exact same as in the fic. 

You’re allowed to create cover art for your podfic but please use images free of copyright.

You can include music in your podfic, provided it’s royalty-free. 

Please email the mods at [email protected] so we can verify the fic fits the fest theme before you start recording unless it’s from the list of last year’s fics. 

Exceptions are last year's entries that are available for podficcing. Here’s the list.

Once you’ve submitted your work to the collection, email the Clueless Mods at [email protected] with the submissions header.

Submission Header

Title: Author/Artist/Podficcer: AO3 name with a link to your page Tumblr: tumblr handle with a link to your tumblr Prompt # or Self-Prompt: Rating: Word Count/Medium/Length: Warnings: Summary: (or a short description of the artwork) Link to the work:

While you’re creating your submission, and until reveals have gone up, please keep your work anonymous. This means not discussing it in public (e.g. Tumblr, Discord) or showing it to anyone, except for a reasonable number of alpha/beta reader(s)/cheerleaders.

There’s no obligation to gift your fic/art to your prompter, but you can if you want to. If you are planning on gifting the fic or art, please stick to the list of squicks/triggers in the prompt.

Drop out and Extension

If you need to drop out for some reason, please let us know as soon as possible. We fully understand that life can get in the way of things. 

Get in touch as soon as you think you might need an extension, and we’ll see what we can do to help you. 

ahhhhh here is what i wrote for @hd-wireless​ 2020! i self-prompted the song ‘teeth’ by lady gaga, which is unbelievably sexy and a little bit dark—just how i like my drarry!

this fic would be nothing (literally—i probably wouldn’t have finished) without @tackytigerfic​ @shealwaysreads​ and @maesterchill​ and their beta work, encouragement, and polite non-acknowledgement of my very dire procrastination issues.

Summary: Harry’s been fighting tooth and nail for any bit of normalcy he can get his hands on. He’s sick of feeling like something’s wrong with him, tired of feeling different. He thinks he’s finally gotten to the root of it, and has settled into a routine that makes him happy. Naturally, that’s when Draco Malfoy walks back into his life and upends it once again. Has Harry bitten off more than he can chew with his former rival?

Tags: bite kink. bruise kink. rough sex. possessive behavior. identity issues. this is a love story.

Excerpt:

Draco’s lips quirk, and Harry can’t look away. “I think I finally understand a little bit of what it’s like to have Potter levels of notoriety; allow me to take this opportunity to wholeheartedly apologize for assuming you were an attention-hound in school.”

That surprises a laugh out of Harry. “Apology accepted, Malfoy—any other regrets you’ve been storing up for just this moment?”

Malfoy’s eyes spark. “I think not,” he says teasingly, lowering his eyelids just a bit. Damn, his eyelashes are long. “You were just as much a prat as I was, when we were boys.”

“Evenly matched, we’ve always been,” Harry says absently, eyes caught on Draco’s fingers as he raises his glass to his lips.