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3 years ago

“You love him, don’t you?” James says simply.

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3 years ago

Friendship feels so warm and familiar. Remus had forgotten that.

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3 years ago

So Remus nods, and awful tears spring to his eyes. He shudders into James, whose arms wrap protectively around him. And the silence of the aftermath of the Prank is broken with that last destructive secret – that Remus could never stay angry at Sirius even when he should.

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3 years ago

How he couldn’t look at the stars without thinking about Sirius.

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3 years ago

Harry is enamoured by Sirius.

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3 years ago

Remus fell in love with Sirius when he was thirteen years old.

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3 years ago

“Merry Christmas, Moony.” This time, Remus doesn’t flinch at the childhood nickname.

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3 years ago

Sirius watches him, like a wretched ghost of a man. They are betrayer and betrayed, both of them.

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3 years ago

Remus closes his eyes. He starts to talk.

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3 years ago

“Peter Pettigrew, you have been found guilty of aiding and abetting the first-degree murder of James Potter and Lily Potter,”

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3 years ago

Remus tiredly closes his eyes. He is young but his body is exhausted. Each bone is broken and cracked. Each piece of flesh stitched and replaced too many times. Is there any of the old Remus left?

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3 years ago

He wishes she were here for one last sunrise. Just to see the way it would slip through her hair. Or reflect on James’s glasses as they looked down at their son to marvel in the person they had created more beautiful than any watercolour.

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3 years ago

“It seems that it must be very hard to feel sorry for someone else,” Sirius says. His voice is rough, shaky. “...when you’re too busy feeling sorry for yourself.”

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3 years ago

They are changed, forever.

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3 years ago

He remembers the exact words. Sirius had kissed him. They were so fucking young. And Remus had yelled, 'you can’t fucking do that, when you leave... when you... 'And Sirius had kissed him again. Hard. 'You won’t ever be alone Moony, I promise you.'

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3 years ago

James is gone. Lily is gone. Peter is now gone. And the people that Sirius and Remus had been are gone too, the relationship they had marred by too many betrayals. But this one, this family they have created. It’s new and vulnerable and tender and painful.

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3 years ago

Memories wrap between the three of them, embraced and warm and loved. James and Lily are in every breath, in every laugh, in every tear. Sirius smiles.