Day 6 - Fic: Team Time: Yours and Our

[rsgamesmods]

Team: Time

Title: Yours and Our

Rating: R

Warnings: implied sex, drug use

Genre: Fluff, Angst, Rampant Sentimentality

Word Count: 6500

Summary: The day before Harry Potter and Teddy Lupin are due to come back from Hogwarts, Remus and Sirius receive a message that forces them to realize what's truly important in their home. Can they bring themselves

Comments

[bookgrrrl2006]

oh, my dear, this was really, really lovely! and the ending was simply superb.

i admit that, despite reading the notes and warnings at first i was a little confused, but that is my own fault for not remembering that you gave very thorough and specific examples of how and why this is au. my bad, but your world was utterly engrossing and it really worked for me.

best of all, you used the prompt exceedingly well. both main characters - well all the characters, really - were heartbreakingly real and sympathetic and felt so glad for them that they were finally able to truly understand the concept of home and what it really means. i have long felt that the song was about more than a physical place, but also the place within and you captured that idea so perfectly. kudos!

[ruinsplume]

You interpreted the prompt beautifully-this fic rendered the texture of this AU’s domesticity so well. Your description of Sirius trying to figure out which items were precious enough to take along (when everything was representative of their homelife together) was very poignant, and your description of their “wobbly” code word, and what it covered, felt so realistic to me. Likewise your descriptions of how it feels to be with the same person for fifteen years-to share a life with them, to stop feeling embarrassed about your physical imperfections with them, to make love with them, to watch them age-were lovely. It brought home to me that, despite the ending (which was so sweet) some of the greatest casualties of war are the everyday comforts we take for granted; that can get lost in all the sturm and drang and drama that is the subject of more plot-oriented stories. I really felt their loss, even as I understood that the real home the have together is the one inside their hearts.

[huldrejenta]

Oh, I love that ending! Such a great way to show us, as you do during the story, how much their home means to them, why it's been so important to them, and the feels that come from having to leave it behind (it's as if the house is a character of its own in the story); but in the end that their true home is where their loved one and their family is. I enjoyed this a lot, and you've done such a great job making this version of events believable and vivid. I do hope that wherever the future will lead Remus and Sirius, that they'll find a new place that means as much to them as the house they have to leave; goodness knows they deserve it. Lovely!

[museinabsentia]

What a remarkable story. I loved every single detail, all of which added up to one incredible work. From the differences in Harry and Teddy's rooms, to the similarities between the (not quite anymore) children and the adults. I loved Remus both despairing of his son, and still stealing his weed. That right there, that's family. This entire thing had just the right feel for heading into the second war, but not quite having met it head on yet. That mix of nostalgia, fear, regret, hope, all tangled up into one mess of uncertainty. Simply wonderful!

[sub_etheric]

I really liked the concept of a home being what you make it running throughout this piece, and the AU aspects worked really well. The image of Remus being slowly coaxed out of his tent and beyond was lovely!