And here it was. A moment of truth. He looked exactly as he had looked several weeks ago when she had gone missing. Of course she had returned to roughly the time from whence she came and so while it had been days and days for her, for the rest of the world it had been mere hours.
Dora and Remus had been going round and round for a long time now. She had lots of emotions about it, some that occasionally got the best of her. They had had their arguments and he had tried on numerous occasions to force her away from him. And yet she had persisted.
Now, looking at him standing there she felt heart break of a different kind. He had lost so much. While she knew this objectively and had lived through his worst nightmares as well, it was different now that she had seen who he had been before and all it had taken from him.
Strangely in that moment when she thought she would be bringing up how much she loved him and how ridiculous he had been, she instead stood, looking around the room. "When I saw them...it was so hard to be around them you know. I'm so sorry Remus, I wish I could have told you but we both know I could not."