InsaneJournal

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."