A/N Written whilst listening to Hans Zimmer soundtracks, specifically Time from Inception. The man writes beautiful music, and it really helped writing this.
This was always a part that I thought didn't have justice done to it. So here's what I imagine some of it to be like. Anyway. Enjoy.
She hadn't told him.
It seemed so little and insignificant to the others. They tried to stop her running from them, told her to stay in her group. She hadn't told him, though. He needed to know.
There was light everywhere. Rainbows blasted her vision as she struck through the duels around her, running up stairs and through corridors in a desperate attempt to find him. Fragments of the grand walls of the castle fell around her like the grey, sharp raindrops that battered the windows outside, occasionally illuminated by the battle raging outside.
She couldn't remember where she was going, not with all the confusion around her. Any other day, any other time, she would have found him fast enough, remembered where he was meant to be, would be fighting at his side. But today wasn't any other day. It was the most important day of everybody's life, the last hour, the last stand.
And she had no idea where he was.
A stone bust narrowly missed her head as she made her way through the back rooms. A flash of green brushed past her hand, flicking her coat slightly, and she shivered involuntarily. The spell was cold.
She ran past her friends, past her enemies, past children who she barely knew and would probably never meet again. She ran past paintings that would have fascinated her at any other time but today.
She had to find him, make sure he was alright, make sure her son still had a father.
She was navigating her way through the third floor when she finally caught a glimpse of him, furiously casting spells of every hue at anyone he could aim at.
"Remus!" she shouted, pushing her way through the hoards of people, and suddenly all she wanted to do was run into his arms and let him hold her as only he could, let him whisper everything would be ok, everything would be alright, she never had to worry again. Her family, her world, everything she loved and held dear, they all stemmed from him. Her whole life was him. He had to know.
She pushed, shoved, did everything within her power to get to him. He looked at her, shock written in his eyes, and she didn't care.
Her arm reached out towards him as a jet of green light slammed into her back.
She felt herself fall forwards, slowly, landing on his chest. The world darkened. Lights began to dim. Her hands felt weak, her legs were not her own. She felt, just, his arms wrapping around her, and he laid her gently on the floor.
He brushed her hair out of her face as her eyes began to droop uncontrollably. She could feel a single teardrop land on her forehead.
"I just wanted to let you know how much…I love you…"