Day 10 - Team Moon - Fic: Watching Stars Collide

[rsgamesmods]

Team: Moon
Title: Watching Stars Collide
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Smoking, quite a bit of swearing, drowning your feelings in tea or hard liquor, as well as the usual warnings for general first war misery, [canonical] character death & unjust imprisonment.
Word Count: 16,919
Summary: Remus and Sirius, a flat in the colder seasons of 1981, and how

Comments

[cevennes]

oh man, these are my two favorite eras, and this fic captures so much of why that is. I love the way things unwind in part I--the ragged pain of it--and then how they coalesce in part II, how they brighten and fuse back together again. There's so much amazing imagery in this, from the bleakness of the first war to the richness of the earth and Remus's house and the sharpness of every feeling; I especially love your Remus, bruised and brittle and growing a bit distant with age ("[...]I just learnt to work around the bits of me that weren't alright, I think." is probably the truest thing ever written about Remus Lupin and I LOVE IT), but learning to thaw again along with Sirius. Seeing them finally say they loved each other was as much a heartbreak as it was a thrill.

I love that you don't shy away from showing how difficult things were for them: how badly they fell apart and how hard it was to put themselves back together after a dozen years; everything feels so raw and real all through. It's evocative and beautiful, and my eyes are still stinging a bit from the ending. What a gorgeous, gorgeous thing you've written.