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DRAT IT ALL!!

Where IS it?

Fic: Snupin. Snape wants a no-strings affair, Lupin wants a real relationship and turns him down. There is a lot of chess. Lupin starts dating a Gladrags man and Snape gets all jealous and calls the other guy That Daniel Person. Then there is happiness.

I swear it was in my memories...

ETA: Never mind. I found it. I don't know why I'm blocking on McKay's stories so often lately...possibly withdrawal. *grumblegrumblenotimeforLeakygrumble*

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Musings on the friend thing:

I have, in different senses of the term, two best friends. IRL. Let's not even get into the web ones.

One, of course, is my adalanne. The two of us understand each other's sense of humor, and we keep in contact across the country (while she is in school in NY), and we can laugh at each other and celebrate each other's lives, and be easily happy in each other's company. We understand each other instinctively. It never matters how long it's been since we've seen each other, we just pick up where we've left off. We live so far apart now that we aren't up on each other's everyday life, but it isn't important, really.

The other, of course, is my kiwi_cow. We share a life. We live near each other, and see each other at least once a week, and we know each other's rants and wishes by heart. Both of us have a habit of contemplating the things about us that make us ourselves, and having discovered that, we talk about it. We know each other through being there and talking each other through each new discovery, each new aspect to life. The moment we see each other we ask things like "So, what's new with so-and-so?" and "What did you think of insert-movie-name-here?" and "How are you doing with that class?" We know each other well because we're an intimate part of one another's everyday lives.

I was just thinking about this last night, because--well, there's a long complicated story about a boy involved, but both of them responded the way that I needed them to, and this is sheerly because of how well they know me and how they know me.

I'm lucky. I have them both. And I have the understandings of them both, in different ways, and it's very very wonderful.

Okay. I'll shut up now. I'm just...babbling...