Remus (![]() ![]() @ 2012-11-20 11:39:00 |
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Current mood: | curious |
Peter & Remus
WHO: Peter Pettigrew & Remus Lupin
WHAT: Reunion time. Dun dun.
WHERE: Peter’s cottage
RATING: PG
None of Remus’ recent memories regarding Peter Pettigrew were pleasant, but he said he’d meet the nineteen year old anyway. He didn’t tell James or Sirius because he didn’t expect them to understand why he needed to see Peter. Heck, he couldn’t explain to himself why he was heading up Peter’s porch steps. He had such a nice meeting with his son and other loved ones so why he was spoiling it now? Peter clearly couldn’t explain his actions since he complained that no one remained calm enough to tell him about his future. Like Remus could tell Peter why he woke up one day and decided to betray his closest friends? Except…except…
Except maybe it wasn’t that sudden. How many times had Remus felt like a hanger-on? He knew it was worse for Peter. Remus couldn’t excuse the man’s actions, but maybe there were things inside that eventually broke Peter. Perhaps Remus was making an excuse, but he didn’t want to spend this life avoiding the hard stuff. He wanted to deal with it and move on. Not to mention he felt sorry for Peter when he wrote him under the wards. Remus was nearly forty while Peter was little more than a boy. How could Remus, as a fully grown father, rub salt into a boy’s wound?
He couldn’t.
That didn’t mean he looked forward to the reunion as he stood in front of Peter’s closed door. He knocked lightly. “Peter? It is Remus.” He exhaled his breath into the cool air and stuck his hands into his pockets as he waited.