Drabblefic #2: Remus and Greyback, "Introductions"

[gilpins_tales]

Title: Introductions
Genre: General; angst
Ratings & Warnings: PG-13 Mild language and unsavory implications.
Word Count: 1885
Summary: The way it was described, it was a positive paradise for werewolves, one where magic was rarely used or talked about. But has Remus any idea what he’s up against? Set during HBP.
Author's Note: For duck_or_rabbit, who

Comments

[gilpin25]

Profound apologies for the delay in replying to this: I made a note to do so immediately after my holiday, but unfortunately didn't make a note to remember the note. ;)

Am thrilled you enjoyed this as, odd though it sounds, I get a real kick out of writing these two play cat and mouse werewolf and werewolf creator. I find it fascinating to wonder just what psychological toll this whole mission takes on Remus and how much the lines between good and evil get blurred as time goes on. Here, I thought I'd put them back to the very beginning, and have Remus all fired up with how he's going to introduce change to this world - and, hopefully, hint that Greyback has a few plans himself.

Believe me, I love all that because I'm attracted in a perverse way to the werewolf gore.

Glad you liked that as one of the ideas I have is that Remus is quite fastidious (in the way of careful and meticulous) and quite 'gentlemanly' in the books, certainly in PoA, with his tea drinking etc. (Though that's so much a Brit thing, anyway, lol.) While Bill may end up eating bloody rare steaks, I'm imagining Remus to have his almost cremated when he gets to eat one, to reject that side of himself. Which is why I wanted him off balance from the start, both with the people and the world he finds himself in here. Almost back to a basic way of living, where there's nothing he's previously taken for granted he can rely on, and the one thing that he can - Tonks - he's rejected out of hand himself.

I seem to be saying things can only get a lot tougher. Anyway, thank you very much for a great prompt, great review and much appreciated rec. It was a pleasure to write it for you.:D