RP: Remus and Regulus Who: Remus Lupin and Regulus Black Where: Grimmauld Place When: Tuesday, 23 November, 2025 - afternoon Summary: There's time now to play the 'domestic gentlemen'.
The others joked about it, but the Library truly was Remus' favourite room in the house. He loved the house; it felt like home in a way he hadn't known even on the small farm where he'd grown up. There was safety there, family. He knew he belonged here and was wanted. Living in fear it would all be taken away from him at any moment was slowly becoming a thing of the past.
But, the Library was his refuge, even in the house. He could get lost in thoughts for hours, his own, those of the people who had put the words on the pages he read. It was comfortable, but functional. More importantly, it held one of his two best memories of being in this house. One belonged to the sitting room where he and Regulus had danced in the sunlight, a memory that had warmed him through more than one long, damp security patrol shift.
The other was of sitting on the sofa with Regulus on their first visit after the redecoration was complete, when home and love were first mentioned between them.
It was on that sofa he sat that afternoon, reading through his father's journals, reacquainting himself with a man he hadn't truly known, having seen the adult through the eyes of a worshipping child. Like Remus, Andrew Lupin had begun keeping journals a young age and Remus had found himself as enthralled with the young man who would become his father as he had anticipated being with the work and research that had prompted him to ask for the journals back from Ted.
In the three weeks since getting the journals, Remus had followed his father through Hogwarts and training at St. Mungo's, a wedding, his own birth, and was reading through accounts of his own antics as a child he had no memory of himself when he sensed he was no longer alone in the room. Looking up, he smiled warmly, eyes confirming the identity he already knew by sound and scent. "Come to remind me there's an entire house outside this room," he asked, teasing, holding out a hand in invitation. "Or to keep me company here for awhile?"