Love All Looks the Same in the End: Like Carrots

(Chapter one) | Chapter two: Oh!

“Snap! Ah…ah! No, wait!” Luhan cries out, as the card he sets down on the ground before him explodes with a loud snap.

Baekhyun instinctively dodges with a “whoa!” and Jongin, who had made zero progress on his essay since the last explosion, jerks backward in alarm, causing his chair to squeak sharply. He immediately looks ashamed of himself. Irritated, he throws one of his ancient books at Luhan, who narrowly dodges it with an indignant look.
 

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The Dragon Has Landed: Hong Kong, part iv

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PG-13 Warning for sensitive psychological content

June simmers steadily into July. Stuffy mornings become blazing afternoons become humid nights with torturous dependability. To Kris it’s comforting, when every day he has no idea what’s in store. He may wake one day fully expecting to get some light reading done, only to be taken to the city for business. He may wake one day fully expecting to practice new spells, only to be made to wheel barrels of dragon dung down to the garden.

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Love All Looks the Same in the End: Like Carrots

Chapter one: Boys and Girls (feat. Marie-Claire)

Baekhyun would come to learn by his fourth year that witches aren’t all that different from Muggle girls. Magical powers aside, they all seemed to operate with their peers in a mystical and impregnable hive mind. For instance, Baekhyun notices that if one girl mentions she would like to learn more about her moon sign, he could be sure not thirty minutes later to hear other girls comparing notes about their moon signs. It didn’t seem to matter what faction they belonged to, ALL of them seemed to know what to giggle over at any given time.

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The Dragon Has Landed: Hong Kong, part iii

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The Hogwarts Express slowed down as it pulled into the station. Kris looked out the window to scan the horizon. In the distance, he saw the castle perched atop a cliff, looking rather sinister in the dusk. 

Anxiety shred at his insides as the train whistled, but he tried not to let it show in his step as he strode onto the loud bustling platform in his fine new shoes and freshly pressed robes.

“Firs’ years this way!”

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The Dragon Has Landed: Hong Kong, part ii

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Kris wakes right before sunrise, pulled awake into the deep blue of early morning by some bell ringing on the other side of the room. He wants to Confringo it, roll over, and go back to sleep, but his groggy mind just barely functions enough to remind him his father had said they’d start early today.

He heaves himself out of bed.

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The Dragon Has Landed: Hong Kong, part i

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Traveling by vanishing cabinet is something of a mental whiplash. You close the door and when you open it again you’re in a different place. Hardly an instant passes; Kris doesn’t feel anything lurching behind his navel or hear any fireplaces places whizzing past his ears. He doesn’t even need to use any magic of his own. It’s simply a matter of shutting and opening a door in the dark.

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We Float When We Really Just Want to Fall (in Love)

“Hello, I’m Luhan. Ready for some charms?”

Sehun, sitting at a desk in an empty classroom, feels his mouth drop open in shock.

This is why:

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On The Good Ship Lollipop

pg for magical mischief
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“Oh yeah, Yixing’s lolly…” Luhan recalls with a smile, “It’s cute. I’ve had it before, I swear it just heals you inside. Mind-blowing.”

“Well it’s very horny, I’ll give you that.” Baekhyun observes.

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The Dragon Has Landed: London, part ii

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Kris materializes in the fireplace of an establishment with grimy red carpeting. 

“Welcome, Xiao Long,” Kris hears someone say cheerfully. A hand is reaching out for him to take, but Kris refuses, climbing out himself.

When he takes a closer look at his surroundings, Kris recognizes he is in a Chinese restaurant. The man who had greeted him is a bald, porky man wearing an oily apron. Although the man had greeted Kris in Cantonese, the menu options on the wall behind him are in English.

“Is this…Hong Kong?”

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