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Tweak says, "It was love to me."

r. lupin (tufty) wrote in silverage,
@ 2011-07-30 13:01:00

Entry tags:

!log, lily evans, remus lupin

time warp
Who: Remus Lupin + Lily Evans
When: Maybe half an hour after this
Where: NYCWC Cafeteria
What: Remus rushes to see if this "Lily Evans" over the boards is just screwing with him.
Rating/status: ~PG/finished.

As Remus stepped off the short set of steps leading up to the antique shop, he turned again and clasped hands with the owner who was just about twelve years his senior. "Thank you for the interview, Mr. Townsend."

"Thank you, too," Townsend said to him with a tight smile. "You'll definitely hear from us again, Mr. Snape."

"All right."

Their hands parted, and before Remus knew it, the moment his potential employer had disappeared, he was walking briskly towards the corner to the closest alley, almost bumping into a woman with her groceries. "Sorry," he breathed to her with half his brain. It was quite unlike him, but he couldn't help him. An hour ago, faced with a bulletin board in the shop, waiting for his name to be called with Gwen Harkness' words in mind, he began wondering how the magical thing worked and decided to try it out, even if it could give his location away to a couple of evil-doers. He reckoned it worked almost the same way as a map he had done during his younger years but...a little less complicated and intelligent, but superb nonetheless. That was when a certain female had introduced herself as Lily Evans.

The Lily Evans?

So many questions took root from there and it was difficult not to think about them during his job interview. Why Evans? Why not Potter? How did she get here? Who did she come with? How about Harry? And then later: is she really his Lily Evans? It was a rather common-sounding name to start with...

But just the same, the possibilities of the combination coming from a lost woman couldn't be endless, could it? He pondered this as he marched deeper into the alley and spun round his heels, images of his room in the Welcome Center flashing in his mind as the ground beneath his feet crumbled away and the sound of a vacuum sucked into his ear.

Crack!

He dumped his faked documents in his bed the moment he recognized his door across of him and he all but bolted out of it. He kept himself in check as he walked down the halls, greeted Millie with a small smile and hurried down to the cafeteria where this Lily Evans told him they'd meet. He didn't know when other stayers of the Center went down for meals and wondered if there would be one too many red-haired females for him to choose from.

But spotting her had been easy enough. The frame of her shoulders, the shape of her head, even from the back, these were sights that were all so familiar to him, it didn't even seem like he'd missed them, not when he was so aware of them. Wondering if he looked well enough, Remus breathed in as he walked closer to her, then clearing his throat, he said to her: "Hullo, New York."

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just_lily
2011-07-30 05:53 am UTC (link)

While she thought she'd recognized the handwriting, she definitely recognized the voice. It might have been a touch deeper than she last recalled, but it was familiar. Almost painfully so. It wasn't James, and it wasn't Sirius, but it was the next best thing.

"You prat," she said as she stood up, turning to face him. "Why didn't you say it was you?" She accused him, almost playfully, before she pushed lightly at his shoulder. She then of course wrapped her arms around him to embrace him, burying her face against his shoulder. "You've no idea," she breathed. "How nice it is to see a familiar face."

Well, no. He likely did have an idea of exactly how that felt, and she drew her head back to look at him, to really study him. "I was starting to think the only person I'd know here was Severus," she said as she lifted a hand to feather back his hair, hardly able to believe that not only was someone she knew here, but that someone was one of her best friends.

She did manage to release him and take a step back away from him, though for the first time since she'd arrived, she felt something like happy. She was sad he was trapped here, of course, like she was sad she was trapped here, but she was pleased to see him all the same. "Oh, love. How are you?" she asked as she sat back down on the bench, tugging at his hand so he'd join her.

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tufty
2011-07-30 06:07 am UTC (link)

Remus couldn't believe it. It really was Lily!

"Lily," he almost said in a gasp as he captured her faster than he imagined in his arms and pulled her close against him, a hand moving to the back of her head when placed her face on his shoulder. "Oh my God, Lily, it really is you!"

Suddenly, the world seemed like a much better place and when they parted and looked at each other, Remus almost couldn't contain his joy. He was smiling -- wider than he had ever smiled since he got lost here, regaining his age and color and he lifted his hands to cup her face perhaps the way James might have. He couldn't help it, he missed her! Her face, her eye that James loved so much, her smile, her skin, her snide remarks and her mood swings during her pregnant days...

She looked different, Remus thought. Her nose was smaller, her belly was smaller, as was her waist, she'd regained her buttocks and she looked...younger. But he was probably just remembering her wrong, he thought. It didn't matter much, he was in bliss. His Lily Evans (James would kill him for this but Remus would permit him to maim him.) was standing in front of him.

The bubble popped, of course, when Remus had heard Severus' name and his brows arched and his lips parted. What? Severus is here?

"I, I'm fine," Remus said to her as he sat with her, keeping the space across the table free while he held onto her hands. How long has it been since those hands mended his wounds? "F, fine as can be as I'd said...hold it, did you just say that Severus is here?" Oh dear.