Bend & Break.

[r_moony]

ooc: A bit delayed, but this is Remus' reaction to his best friends/brothers being taken by Carrow. Takes place after this; the night before this.

Cut for some language and length.

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[pinkhairedauror]

She's just finished her shift around the castle, taken again now (as well as a part of the watch around Malfoy Manor), so she's up and about when Remus walks back to their rooms. She doesn't catch him quite after he's out of the Room of Requirement, but manages to see his face smoothing out for an instant as she approaches him from a shadow-cast side corridor.

She doesn't understand the face, she can't, but... she can see the way he's walking. Exhausted. And her heart flutters. Was it too soon? But home... wouldn't have been more restful for him...

"Remus?" She calls out to him before he passes on, his eyes fixed ahead.
Seems to her he's concentrating on walking without falling down, actually.
Not very good.

[r_moony]

The name brings him out of that daze he seems to be in. Well, not really a daze; his eyes are still too focused, as if waiting for an attack. He's just...lost in thought.

And exhausted. Because, despite his new found determination, nothing can really aid the body once adrenaline starts to wear off.

"Is everything all right?" he asks her before she does. His voice is quiet, but not sounding drained or empty anymore. It actually surprises him how calm he sounds, because the turmoil inside him hasn't quited down just yet.

[pinkhairedauror]

She blinks a little, at the discrepancy between his voice - which sounds... way too 'ok', and the way he was almost swaying on his feet, and she goes nearer to peer out at him, looking into his eyes.

There is something different, but she can't quite understand what.

"Yeah. Things are... calm at the school right now. Nothing's new. But," she added, "I think you've overexerted. No fainting before students, right? Let's get back... to our rooms." She holds his hand, she knows he was going that way anyway, but now she's near too.

ooc: I got green light from Anna Min for the adoption too. (sorry, the other thread was more appropritate for the ooc, but it's on the comm...)

[r_moony]

For a second he debates on whether or not to hold her hand simply because he can still feel how his hands are shaking a little. And is it just him, or is it freezing?

But he takes her hand nonetheless, because not doing so would make her even more suspicious of the fact that he is not exactly all right.

"It has just been a very long day, is all. I'm fine."

ooc: 's alright. *g* I can't read the entry because it's flocked, but yay!