Forgetting (Remus/Ron, R)
Title: Forgetting
Pairing: Remus/Ron
Rating: R
Word Count: 213
Warnings: AU, mentions of character death (not Remus or Ron).
Disclaimer: Not mine. JKR's.
Summary: They both remember. They help each other forget.
Notes: An Advent Drabble for nathaniel_hp, who requested Remus/Ron, "memories".

Remus remembers hair that was never this red, remembers leaning down instead of stretching up for kisses, remembers a lilting laugh quite unlike Ron's throaty chuckle. But those are gone, and now when someone trips coming down the hallway, it's Ron, carrying in tea things and swearing just as vividly as Tonks once did.

Ron remembers hair that was thick instead of fine, remembers leaning down much further for kisses, remembers an enthusiasm quite unlike Remus's steady understanding. But those are gone, and now when someone's paging through a book in front of the fire, it's Remus, shifting and sighing and pushing his reading glasses up on his nose as Hermione never did.

Everything was ordinary again before they found each other, death and loss having become facts upon which one did not dwell except perhaps in solitary times.

But now there are fewer of those painful times, for they both have someone with whom to forget, someone to tangle with in the sheets, and it's in the forgetting that they're both the most alive again, Remus gripping slim hips, Ron tugging at thinning hair, gasping against each other's throats and chests and shoulders. And after—after—they cling to each other, for they each know and trust that the other is alive.