She took the drink from him and slowly sipped it. His question made her smile though it didn't quite reach her eyes.
"You know how you spend your life wondering what things might have been like for others? What a different time was like? I uh...I guess I always wondered what you all got up to. You were infamous you know? People still talked about all the things you guys did when I went through school and I know I was mischievous but I didn't even come close to my cousin." She sat down in a kitchen chair, one leg crossing over the other.
"It took me a while to realize it was really real. To see James..." she looked up and over at her...what even were they? Eh that didn't matter right now. She looked over at Remus. " I saw you, that guarded cautious expression still there. You were the oldest looking 18 year old ever Remus." She laughed but got a bit choked up and had to stop.
"I wanted so badly to tell you about everything. It practically killed me not to. I should have probably just gone back through the cave but I couldn't. Not when I had the change to spend time with you before...before so much sadness."
And that was it wasn't it? Dora would only know Remus really after every bit of life had been crushed and taken from him. Meeting the younger him had given depth to his sorrow such that she could barely breathe thinking about it.
"I will remember how your trembling hands felt on my hips, your eyes staring into mine and your hesitant lips until the day I die."