The Fortress Within

I just want to take this space to thank everyone who made this journey
with me


I just want to take
this space to thank everyone who made this journey with me. 
I know it’s been a long and difficult one. 
I appreciate all of your reviews and support.


 


I also want to thank
Fleable, Bett and and Lady Snape for their artwork. 
I can’t even describe how much “seeing” what I had written meant to
me.


 


The last word of
thanks goes to Jeannie (cosmoballerina) for being the world’s most supportive
beta.  She has some great stories
out there, so please check them out: http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=249713


 


I have had many
questions as to where certain poems and songs came from, so I’m including a
list of them at the bottom with the titles and author’s names.


 


Finally, a lot of
you were upset with my choice of name for little Treasure. 
To be quite honest, I’m not stuck on the name myself. 
But, it had meaning to Sev and meaning to the story. 
S Sev Sev named her himself, and we all know Daddy’s usually aren’t
too good at making decisions like this on their own, I’m sure Hermione can
excuse his lack of good judgment.  LOL


 


Oh, and one more
thing, this one a shameless plug for my business. 
I feel I must comment on the lingerie Hermione wore in chapter sixteen
and both Sev and Hermione’s attire in chapter twenty-nine. 
These realreal gowns and if anyone is interested in having one of their
very own, please email me.  You can
earn them for free.


 


Thanks again for
everyone’s input.


 


**hugs**


Ida


 



 


From Chapter
one:


 


Die
Another Day (Music from the Motion Picture)-----
David Arnold (Composer), Madonna (Performer)


 


Pour
Some Sugar on Me (Hysteria)----Def Leppard


 


From
Chapter three:


 


So
In Love With You (Texas-The Greatest Hits)----Texas


 


Put
Your Arms Around Me (Texas-The Greatest Hits)---Texas


 


From Chapter
nine:


 


Sleep dwell upon thy eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! -----(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 
Scene 2)----William Shakespeare


 


 


 


From Chapter
10:


 


Because
She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her


 


If
questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?


 


Then
seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.   ----------
Christopher Brennan (1870-1932)


 


From Chapter
fifteen:


 


She
Comes Not


 


She comes not when
Noon is on the roses--


   Too
bright is Day.


She comes not to the
Soul till it reposes


   From
work and play.


 


But when Night is on
the hills, and the great Voices


   Roll
in from Sea,


By starlight and
candle-light and dreamlight


 p;&np; She
comes to me.  --------------Herbert
Trench (1865-1923)


 


 


From Chapter
twentysix:


 


Dream
Fairy


 


A
little fairy comes at night,
Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown,
With silver spots upon her wings,
And from the moon she flutters down.

She has a little silver wand,
And when a good child goes to bed,
She waves her hand from right to left,
And makes a circle round its head.

And then it dreams of pleasant things,
Of fountains filled with fairy fish,
And trees that bear delicious fruit,
And bow their branches at a wish.  ------
Flemish   
Written By: Thomas Hood (1799-1845)