"That was what I thought about Peter, too," Remus said quietly. "A man I had known for ten years, a man I trusted with my secret..." ...he trailed off -- because, of course, Lily's argument about Sirius was also valid. What if Sirius was a liar? What if Sirius...had, God and Merlin and everything else high and mighty forbid, been the one who killed the Potters?
Two cups of coffee came soon after, and this time the waiter said nothing as he collected the menu Remus handed to him. He left just as quickly as well.
"I agree," Remus said after a moment, "I could have doubted any of you. But I know you and Sirius, Lily. I know you from three years ago, and I know -- and feel that Sirius is from my time. He could have been...perhaps...just a day or a week or a month into my future. He is exactly how I remember him to be...when I had been displaced."
He shook his head, "But Ginny and Albus..." He looked at Lily, again, he had been staring at the coffee for too long, perhaps trying to find some form of an escape in it but no, no escape. Remus had to get through this conversation and he was determined to do it. "What do I know about them? Nothing. How can I be certain they really are who they say they are? I have no defense against them.
"Perhaps I am just paranoid -- ridiculously -- as you say I am," Remus went on. "...but can you blame me if I am scared? Scared that we live with someone who can..." betray, kill...
"I do not want to lose you, Lily," Remus said instead, abandoning his previous train of thought, breathing, feeling his heart against its cage. "I am fighting to save you, and finding a way to get us out of here to save you...and I do not want to imagine what would happen if...someone," by which he meant possibly Ginny or Albus, "would get ahead of us and kill you in this city.
"And I do not want a fight with you -- not when I know I might lose you very soon." The possibility never left his mind.