Four Seasons of You and Me

Summary: Challengefic. 16 different one-shots for the HG/TR-LV pairing. From poetry to romance, songfic to parody, you get it all.

A/N: Yes, I realize I'm going to hurt myself with all these in-progress stories xD But that's the wonder about this one, I can use the one-shots as a stand-alone plotbunny dumping ground and update whenever I feel like it! …and, of course, for the joys of writing. Yeah.

This is also categorized under 'HG/TR' simply because the majority of the one-shots will be for this pairing.

Much thanks to my beta, Sakura Takanouchi.

Oh, and Disclaimer: Anything recognizable as JK Rowling's, I do not own.

Challenge 1) Four Shakespearean-style sonnets. HG/TR. Title tie-in. Enjoy.

Genre: Poetry

Rating: K

Notes: The 'seasons' titles have nothing to do with the actual times of the year. Instead, I mean the subtle changes in their relationship, paralleling the weather of the seasons. I chose these poems to start off the collection because it sets the tone for the rest of the piece; the "seasons" or chapters will show different perspectives and different degrees to the ever-changing relationship between Hermione Granger and Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort.

The Four Seasons of You and Me

Winter

I hated him the moment our eyes met

So perfectly false, he did not fool me.

Natural rivalry, our grim duet

My secrets from him, his open to me.

Antagonism isn't the best way

to stay hidden, I find. "How could you kill?

Take lives like they're nothing, your sick child's play,

it makes my skin crawl." Unanswered, 'the thrill.'

Oh, now I've done it. My cover is blown.

'What makes you so different?' His eyes ask me.

Now above all he won't leave me alone.

'I'm normal, nothing. Stay away from me.'

I pass him a book in class, our hands touch

The time of contact too little, too much?

Spring

I know I've doomed myself, I'm in too deep

When I see him now I only think Tom

Not the killer who once haunted my sleep

Instead strangely his presence makes me calm.

I let myself relax, did I just grin

at something he said? What is wrong with me!

I have to stay strong, I can't let him win.

If I fall for him I'll never be free.

Who am I fooling, it's already here,

I've failed at blocking the kiss from my mind.

The shame, the guilt, the temptation, the fear.

I must go back home, of this I'm consigned.

I can't, there's no way, the chance is so small

'Equal chance of falling in love,' I recall.

Summer

It could almost be like a fairy tale…

There once was a girl, Gryffindor Princess

Her knight Tom, both villain and prince prevail

Battling schoolwork and envy with success.

Both blind to the world, a feat once unknown

As both traded hearts just as blindly shown

He saw the connection useless, alone

Both atop different, unmixable thrones.

Time to awake from this fairytale dream

No magic mirror, glass slippers for her

His hands round her throat, she tries not to scream

He can't understand so his wrath she'll incur.

Once upon a time these two were in love.

Time, indeed! Ignored, yet floating above.

Fall

I told him I loved him; I expected

No reply. Really, what did it matter?

My soul, body, mind, and heart infected

That once pristine magic mirror shattered.

My date's set; Dumbledore's found my way home.

What I once desired I find I dread

I can't leave him, I must. The shards of chrome

stick deeper as I grasp what lies ahead.

No goodbyes, no last kisses, it's better

that way. No remembrances—he can hate

me when I'm gone. Not even a letter—

paper is light but like iron the weight.

I won't block your spells, whichever you send

You won't know it but I'm yours till the end.

A/N: So, anyone like it? Hate it? I personally love writing sonnets; it's the only poetry I think I'm pretty good at, am I wrong? (Oh, no. I'm going to be responding to reviews in iambic pentameter, I just know it xD) And I apologize if these were difficult to read, the spacing kinda got messed up so there's no way to separate the quatrains/couplets.

I really do want this to be a challenge, so I'll take requests if anyone wants me to write anything in particular. Up next in the one-shot café, I'm serving up a Romeo & Juliet inspired romance, a dark songfic, and an adjective-less parody.

Reviews, please? Let me know what you liked and what direction you want me to take this!

Love, Kako