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• floating. (there’s nothing you can do.) ☆ by rotted_wolf

  Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  26 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Sirius Black/Remus Lupin
  • Sirius Black & James Potter
  • Sirius Black & Remus Lupin & Peter Pettigrew & James Potter
  • Sirius Black
  • James Potter
  • Remus Lupin
  • Albus Dumbledore
  • Inspired by All the Young Dudes - MsKingBean89
  • Songfic
  • Song: Space Oddity (David Bowie)
  • Song: Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie)
  • David Bowie Tribute
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Suicide Attempt
  • Sirius Black Needs a Hug
  • Sirius Black-centric
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Sirius Black Loves Remus Lupin
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • No Beta We Die Like Sirius
  • First Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter)
  • Miscommunication
  • remus thinks sirius is the traitor
  • Maybe - Freeform
  • Sirius Doesn’t Ask
  • Sirius Thinks Remus is the Traitor

  Summary

  Sirius is someone who has always been untethered, and mistakes freedom for weightlessness. He realizes too late that gravity was the thing keeping him down.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,635

  Chapters:

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  Kudos:

  12

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