( They meet, days later, in a train station.... )

 
( Sirius waits in the kitchen after Remus leaves... )

 
( Somehow they make their way to Sirius’s flat.... )

 
( Summer rain wakes them.... )

 
( It’s warm enough, bizarrely, that they don’t go home, don’t part ways.... )

Remus is only twenty-three, but feels older. At the far end of the field, where the land dips and the trees are shorter, there is a thin trail of smoke rising from an unknown fire. Probably teenagers, camping or causing mischief or both, and Remus isn’t quite sure whether he envies them. He looks down past his denim-covered knee, find ( Read more... )

August 29th, 1982

It’s a cool morning, clear, fresh. The breeze tastes of autumn. The two men move with focused intent, stepping side by side in their mutual purpose, past the neatly trimmed lawns and ordered flowerbeds of Privet Drive. One of the two is clean and pressed, as neat and tidy as the lawns, if a bit…dusty, faded around the edges. ( Read more... )

August 25th, 1982

Sirius has always lived in the moment. He knows Remus wishes he could live like Sirius does, but Sirius has never thought it that admirable. It’s born out of a desire to forget the past and a fear of the future. He doesn’t want to think about what may happen or what has happened, so he thinks about what is happening.

What ( Read more... )

August 24th, 1982

“My mother took me here once,” Remus says. He stands at the tip of Morte Point, the wind whipping his hair back from his face. Were he not dressed in shabby Muggle clothes, he might have the appearance of a sorcerer out of a Pre-Raphaelite painting.

“It’s cold,” Sirius murmurs. He doesn’t quite feel it, having grown used ( Read more... )

August 19th, 1971

Remus spends the last two weeks of summer in a constant state of nervous excitement. His parents look happier than they have in a long time, so proud are they that their son, a werewolf, is going to Hogwarts. He marks off the days on the calendar, half willing time to move faster, half wanting it to slow down, so that he can ( Read more... )