Title: Life For A Creevey (Prologue/?)
Author Name: Faith
Author e-mail: faith_clayton@hotmail.com
Category: Not sure where this belongs. Mild Angst, General, Mild Romance.
Keywords: Colin, family, Dennis, Nelissa, H/H.
Rating: PG-13 for suggestive scenes, mild swear words and scenes that might not be appropriate for young children. Will be upped as necessary.
Spoilers: All four books, but particularly CoS.
Summary: Colin Creevey's home life, and a peek into his thoughts. Is he really that shutterbug worshipful admirer of Harry's that we all perceive him to be?
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. All characters, places, names and facts you do not recognize belongs to me.
Author's Note: This is somewhat of an angsty story. The Colin here is not a happy-go-lucky guy. He's shoulder-high in angst and anguish, (I will try as hard as I can to not to make him a Gary-Stu. Promise!). Do not worry, my fellow romantics-at-heart, the SS Pumpkin Pie will make its welcomed appearance soon!
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PROLOGUE
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"Nelissa Creevey, WILL YOU SHUT THE DAMN WINDOW FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME?!"
"OKAY! DON'T NAG!" shouted Nelissa back, as she slammed the window down.
"DON'T SLAM THE WINDOW!"
Colin Creevey grimaced as he put down his quill and rubbed his ears. The fights between his sister Nelissa and his stepmother Acorna Pharnsen had been worsening since lately. He didn't think they could get worse, but get worse they did.
Since his real mother and father divorced, the atmosphere at the Creevey household had been thickening. Colin wasn't sad to see his mother go; in fact, it was just the opposite. Candace Pascalson-Mathers was what one could call the worst mother on earth. She had no time for either her three children or her husband, Eddie Creevey. Her time was devoted, instead, to her appearance and her outside 'acquaintances', if you could call it that. She wasn't used to being ignored, and she was the vainest woman on the face of the planet.
On the other hand, Eddie Creevey was the best father one could wish for. He was very devoted to his children, and had the sweetest personality. He was very loving and had every quality a child would wish for in a father…
…Except for taste in women.
Eddie had a knack for attracting the worst women, but unfortunately, he didn't realize it. Candace and Acorna were just a fraction of a long string of past lovers, who were all vainglorious and narcissistic. Quintana, Castrana, Narcissa, Gloria…
Acorna Pharnsen came into Eddie's life shortly after Candace left. Eddie's love for Acorna was true, whereas it was not so vice versa.
Nelissa Estena Creevey, Colin's sister of 18 years, instantly disliked Acorna with a passion. She had a knack for determining people's personalities, and Acorna's aura was sour. They were always arguing like a Siamese cat and a Labrador, over the slightest things. Nelissa had yet to find a fulltime job. The one she currently held was as a part-time receptionist at a Magilton Hotel (the wizard version of the Hilton, so Colin was told), but as she had told Colin, she can't wait for the moment when she had secured a fulltime job and moved out of this "hellhole", as she had described the Creevey household.
[FLASHBACK]
It was during the Christmas holidays. Nelissa had opted to stay at home, instead of taking refuge at Hogwarts, as she would usually do. Colin, who was only nine at that time, began to get teary-eyed. "Does that mean you don't like daddy, or me, or Dennis anymore?" He held seven-year-old Dennis, who was also beginning to sob, close to him.
Sixteen-year-old Nelissa gently stroked Colin's auburn hair. "No, Colin, it means that I'm going to move away from here as soon as I can. I'll come and visit you often, and daddy too." She sighed. "I just wish that – that daddy hadn't married that snake lady."
[END FLASHBACK]
There's no use dwelling in the past, Colin admonished himself. What's over is over. Daddy is dead and there's no way to change it. There's no way he would have known that Acorna is a lesbian. Magical heart attacks aren't like Muggle ones. You can't treat them. It is in no way reversible. Sighing, he resumed his letter to his pen friend from Japan, Miyuki Itomoko, trying to block Nelissa and Acorna's argument, Acacia's – Acorna's lesbian partner – thunderous snores, Dennis's chattering to his pet cat, Toodles, and the roaring of unseen Muggle vehicles outside, but again, he was interrupted, this time by an eagle owl. It deposited a yellowish envelope on the oak table, and then fluttered off to perch on the windowpane.
Colin curiously took the envelope. It was addressed to him, in emerald green loopy script. A balloon of excitement suddenly swelled in his heart. He remembered what Nelissa had told him…
[FLASHBACK]
Nelissa had said, "I received a letter from Hogwarts in a yellow envelope. My name and address were written on it with green ink…"
[END FLASHBACK]
Colin tore off the envelope with trembling hands, hardly daring to open his eyes.
When the envelope was gone, Colin could hardly believe his eyes.
"Dear Mr. Creevey,
We are pleased to announce that you have been accepted into Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry…"
Author Name: Faith
Author e-mail: faith_clayton@hotmail.com
Category: Not sure where this belongs. Mild Angst, General, Mild Romance.
Keywords: Colin, family, Dennis, Nelissa, H/H.
Rating: PG-13 for suggestive scenes, mild swear words and scenes that might not be appropriate for young children. Will be upped as necessary.
Spoilers: All four books, but particularly CoS.
Summary: Colin Creevey's home life, and a peek into his thoughts. Is he really that shutterbug worshipful admirer of Harry's that we all perceive him to be?
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. All characters, places, names and facts you do not recognize belongs to me.
Author's Note: This is somewhat of an angsty story. The Colin here is not a happy-go-lucky guy. He's shoulder-high in angst and anguish, (I will try as hard as I can to not to make him a Gary-Stu. Promise!). Do not worry, my fellow romantics-at-heart, the SS Pumpkin Pie will make its welcomed appearance soon!
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PROLOGUE
***
"Nelissa Creevey, WILL YOU SHUT THE DAMN WINDOW FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME?!"
"OKAY! DON'T NAG!" shouted Nelissa back, as she slammed the window down.
"DON'T SLAM THE WINDOW!"
Colin Creevey grimaced as he put down his quill and rubbed his ears. The fights between his sister Nelissa and his stepmother Acorna Pharnsen had been worsening since lately. He didn't think they could get worse, but get worse they did.
Since his real mother and father divorced, the atmosphere at the Creevey household had been thickening. Colin wasn't sad to see his mother go; in fact, it was just the opposite. Candace Pascalson-Mathers was what one could call the worst mother on earth. She had no time for either her three children or her husband, Eddie Creevey. Her time was devoted, instead, to her appearance and her outside 'acquaintances', if you could call it that. She wasn't used to being ignored, and she was the vainest woman on the face of the planet.
On the other hand, Eddie Creevey was the best father one could wish for. He was very devoted to his children, and had the sweetest personality. He was very loving and had every quality a child would wish for in a father…
…Except for taste in women.
Eddie had a knack for attracting the worst women, but unfortunately, he didn't realize it. Candace and Acorna were just a fraction of a long string of past lovers, who were all vainglorious and narcissistic. Quintana, Castrana, Narcissa, Gloria…
Acorna Pharnsen came into Eddie's life shortly after Candace left. Eddie's love for Acorna was true, whereas it was not so vice versa.
Nelissa Estena Creevey, Colin's sister of 18 years, instantly disliked Acorna with a passion. She had a knack for determining people's personalities, and Acorna's aura was sour. They were always arguing like a Siamese cat and a Labrador, over the slightest things. Nelissa had yet to find a fulltime job. The one she currently held was as a part-time receptionist at a Magilton Hotel (the wizard version of the Hilton, so Colin was told), but as she had told Colin, she can't wait for the moment when she had secured a fulltime job and moved out of this "hellhole", as she had described the Creevey household.
[FLASHBACK]
It was during the Christmas holidays. Nelissa had opted to stay at home, instead of taking refuge at Hogwarts, as she would usually do. Colin, who was only nine at that time, began to get teary-eyed. "Does that mean you don't like daddy, or me, or Dennis anymore?" He held seven-year-old Dennis, who was also beginning to sob, close to him.
Sixteen-year-old Nelissa gently stroked Colin's auburn hair. "No, Colin, it means that I'm going to move away from here as soon as I can. I'll come and visit you often, and daddy too." She sighed. "I just wish that – that daddy hadn't married that snake lady."
[END FLASHBACK]
There's no use dwelling in the past, Colin admonished himself. What's over is over. Daddy is dead and there's no way to change it. There's no way he would have known that Acorna is a lesbian. Magical heart attacks aren't like Muggle ones. You can't treat them. It is in no way reversible. Sighing, he resumed his letter to his pen friend from Japan, Miyuki Itomoko, trying to block Nelissa and Acorna's argument, Acacia's – Acorna's lesbian partner – thunderous snores, Dennis's chattering to his pet cat, Toodles, and the roaring of unseen Muggle vehicles outside, but again, he was interrupted, this time by an eagle owl. It deposited a yellowish envelope on the oak table, and then fluttered off to perch on the windowpane.
Colin curiously took the envelope. It was addressed to him, in emerald green loopy script. A balloon of excitement suddenly swelled in his heart. He remembered what Nelissa had told him…
[FLASHBACK]
Nelissa had said, "I received a letter from Hogwarts in a yellow envelope. My name and address were written on it with green ink…"
[END FLASHBACK]
Colin tore off the envelope with trembling hands, hardly daring to open his eyes.
When the envelope was gone, Colin could hardly believe his eyes.
"Dear Mr. Creevey,
We are pleased to announce that you have been accepted into Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry…"