Re: ALSO
Lee, I love you and want to have your babies. That was the best comment (the series of them) in the history of comments, and the conflict was indeed internal and always meant to be (we never ever that I recall even considered actually having someone find out), and we totally couldn't be saying that as we were posting because it would have given everything away... and although yes, fluffy from one angle I would agree with you that it is dark, because it is full of lies and misrepresentations and doing "wrong" (by all traditional measurements or definitions of "wrong") knowingly.
Seriously, I realized a long time ago that I like characterizing through sex (I've done it solo, with Cruise, and here with Emi - and I think lots of good fanfic authors do this in fact) and in a way this entire fic was a very extended exploration of both Teddy and Remus's characters through their various sexual encounters, with each other and with others too. It's one of my favorite fics that I've ever written, in fact, because I think Emi and I did what we set out to do and did it really well.