InsaneJournal

Unfinished Business (Remus/Sirius)
Title: Unfinished Business
Characters/Pairing: unrequited Remus/Sirius
Word Count: 298
Rating: PG
Warnings: angst
Challenge: Day 26
Author's Notes: Not beta-ed.

He floats from girl to girl, each one smiling at him and following him around like he's some sort of god. No matter how much of a prat he acts, they still follow. Yet, no matter how much I try I can't get over the feeling that I will never draw his attention as they do, even though he shares a secret smile with me.

It's also the same smile he gives James and sometimes Peter is the recipient as well, but they don't want him like I've come to want him. Is it silly of me to want him knowing that he'd never return my affections?

Sure, I can have his smile, his laughter and his regard as well as the very fibre of being, the playful magic he shares with me on the brightest full moon nights and I wake curled beside him, his long, lean body pressed against mine for warmth when the night have gone cold but he always rolls away, acts like nothing ever happened and I am torn asunder.

I didn't think anything could hurt like that until I heard the rumours, the evidence of his betrayal. He'd ripped apart my family and I swore I couldn't forgive him. I've hated him for almost as many years as I loved him. And yet, now that I know he has escaped, that he's here now looking for something; can I honestly say that when I am face to face with him, I can let it go? Let him go for good?

I wait, watching the map for a sign of him and notice something else that shouldn't be there. He appears like a black shadow on my soul and I drop the parchment, running out to meet the past that has haunted me.