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Remus barely noticed when James threw his feet in Peter’s lap or Peter hung shamelessly over Sirius’s shoulders when he was hungover, barely cared when they crowded him on the walk to Hogsmeade for warmth, an eight-legged mass of terrible hair and a single overextended scarf.
But right now, Sirius hovering like a shadow ahead of him, Remus noticed. And if he were completely honest with himself, he noticed Sirius every time.
Sirius inhaled like he could draw all of Remus up with it, take him back to the Potters in his lungs, and hugged him.
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02 Jun 2026
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“Right, well I’d say it’s about time to put an end to this nonsense, wouldn’t you?” James nodded sagely. “You’ve obviously still got some things to chat through with him, but he will talk to you about it, Remus. He thinks the world of you, you know that. But the important thing is that you do talk because nothing’s going to get sorted if you just sit cry-wanking in your room.”
The world is excruciating and enthralling in equal measure. The gang try their hardest to navigate it as real, legitimate adults.
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09 May 2026
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The truth is that he’s kept this love on the back burner of his heart for so many years that he’s grown accustomed to the smell and can sometimes almost ignore it completely. He likes to think he’s made peace with the fact that he’ll never know what it tastes like.
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04 Mar 2026
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Classics student Remus has everything figured out; his courses, his career path, his life — until a mysterious transfer student turns his whole world upside down. Remus despises Sirius Black from day one, quickly set out to beat his new academic rival in any way possible. Angry glares over text translations follow angrier words thrown at the other late at night.
All too soon, hate morphs into obsession. And everyone knows what obsession leads to.
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03 Oct 2025
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“Well,” Remus says quietly, “you don’t let people know you."
“And you’re saying you know me?” Sirius drawls, leaning back in his chair. “You’re the only one?”
The half-arsed derision in his tone doesn’t seem to surprise or intimidate Remus. He only smiles, knowing.
It is one thing to love a person; it is quite another to see them as they truly are and to love them all the same. And sometimes, Sirius thinks, he’d rather die than let anybody see beneath the defensive facade of his brave face.
From 1971 to 1978, the Hogwarts years of obsession, betrayal, recklessness, lies, too much drink, insecurity, and all eclipsing sexual frustration. Seven years of Sirius Black’s insufferable god-complex, of Remus Lupin’s most private shames, of secret relationships, awkward hookups, James Potter’s blunt advice, and more yearning than sense. Seven years for Sirius to finally admit to himself that what he wants is not only to be loved, but to be known entirely. And therein lies the difficulty.
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09 Dec 2025