Because I am too obsessed with AUs.
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Ten years.
That was all they had together after the war ended. Ten years of relative peace.
Remus wouldn't trade a single moment of the last ten years, but he would have given his own life for the chance to go back and convince her that she didn't need to work. She was young, she was only 35. She was only 35.
When Neville had interrupted his class, he hadn't expected it to be good, but he hadn't expected it to be so bad. He had felt even more unsettled when Minerva arrived and took over the class as Remus followed Neville out into the corridor.
"Neville, what's going on?"
"Dawlish was going to come speak with you himself-"
''Is it Dora? Is she alive?"
"They don't know, Remus." Neville said slowly. "They didn't come back this morning, and Dawlish told us that there was no sign of them at any of the checkpoints. Dawlish did say he'll come speak to your directly, but he's currently trying to get the other Law Enforcement departments to help with the search. Oliver's been called back early from his mission, he'll apparently be going to try to track their movements and find a lead of some kind."
Remus was shocked. He had known Harry, Tonks, Seamus and Dean had been away on a mission together- but they were supposed to be back this morning. He had assumed, when he didn't receive a letter from her, that perhaps she was still at the Ministry.
Two days later, he realised he wasn't mad at her anymore. It had been stupid to be mad before she had left. This was her job. He could blame it on the full moon the night before her departure, but that wasn't an excuse. With her job, and two kids(one that had just turned ten, and one that would be four soon), and his condition- there was tension. It wasn't her fault, or his. It had been a week since she had gone, and three days without any contact with the Ministry. Three days without so much as a sign that they were still alive and safe... and Remus began to think maybe they weren't.
After all, they had been tracking Death Eaters, and Harry was with them. Death Eaters would want revenge, wouldn't they, on The Boy Who Lived?
There had been nearly fifty well known Death Eaters that had escaped the battle- and the Ministry- within the first few hours following Voldemort's defeat. Within a month, nearly half had been captured and the Ministry purged of those that had helped the Death Eaters.
And, even though ten years had passed, nearly twenty Death Eaters were still listed in the Daily Prophet as 'Wanted', and the list was no longer shrinking. And then the Auror department got a lead, some anonymous message that there were Death Eaters planning something against the Ministry. And so she had left, with Harry and Dean and Seamus, promising the Ministry to send word every day.
But three had passed with silence from the group of four. Remus' only comfort was knowing that if Death Eaters did kill them, it wouldn't be kept quiet for long. The Death Eaters would want to brag- for killing both The Boy Who Lived, the Head Auror herself along with two other Heroes of the Hogwarts Battle.