I began this collection by writing for drabble tag in the Next Gen Fanatics Forum. I fell in love with this pairing, and when I had three linked drabbles for it, decided to write a few more and make it a collection. Each drabble was written with one prompt (the title), most of which were given to me by Mad (limegreenrocks) and Jane (sherbetgirl), so this fic is dedicated to them.

All drabbles are in the same timeline, so form part of the same story (which should hopefully be a more or less complete story if you manage to put them all together), but they are not chronological. In fact, I decided to put them in alphabetical order, which appropriately means that the first one is Alphabet.

Enjoy!

Alphabet

His tongue is making patterns on her neck.

She giggles at him, her eyes bright and her breath coming fast, unable to quite believe this is happening.

Lysander Scamander is kissing her. And she knows he's a little bit drunk (so's she, but don't tell anyone, because she's a prefect and she thinks he's too drunk himself to have noticed) but she also knows that he's not drunk enough to be doing this unless he means it. Because they're best friends, and you don't kiss your best friend for no reason unless you're very drunk.

She kissed him, which surprises her, because she doesn't usually do things like that. But Merlin, she's been waiting for him to do it for ages, and he keeps just... not.

Only now he is, but she's really not sure what he's doing... So she asks him.

He pulls away and grins, and the only way she can describe his expression is exhilarated.

"I'm writing the alphabet."

She raises her eyebrows.

"With your tongue?"

"Yup."

"Why?"

"Why not? Don't you like it?"

This is a very good point, so she just grins at him and leans in so that he can resume. A few moments later, though, she pulls away again.

"Lysander..."

"Hmm?"

"You missed out 'S.'"