"I don't understand ( Read more... )

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While thinking of the answer to this question, I remembered how it has not been long since I refused to let myself really hope for anything. Hoping for too much was 'dangerous,' after all, and I was tired of getting hurt. I now realize that, back then, I was merely existing rather than really living, but I couldn't help it. Certain...events ( Read more... )

[present (and bendy) time]

The last few minutes of October 31st are clicking by, and even if Remus should feel relieved and relaxed that the dreaded anniversary has finally passed, he doesn't. There's still a pressure against his chest that doesn't seem to want to let go. It has been getting stronger with each day that has been passing so they ( Read more... )

ooc: In the FM/TM 'verse, Remus is back (a year and a half after the events of the Deathly Hallows (but before the epilogue, obv)) and he's living with Sirius, Harry and Teddy in Grimmauld. And, since theirteddy really does use the word a lot, I actually managed to get the response to fit Remus. ;)There were certain holidays that, if there was no one to ( Read more... )

[stray piece of parchment left inside a leatherbound journal]

The day the owl came, I was not sure what to make of it. After all, it was not something that was supposed to happen. I had already forced myself to face that reality, and my parents had as well. Mum had started to teach me what she could so I could have an education; Dad would get me ( Read more... )