Author's Note: This fic was inspired by the theme song to the television show 'Firefly'.

Serenity

The shouts of the fighting and the cries of the wounded rose into the air, mingling into one cacophony as the Great War raged on. Remus lay on the ground, unmoving but for the ragged rise and fall of his chest. It felt as if a great cinder block rested upon his chest, each breath dragged in was slow and painful. He was dying and he had never felt more alone.

They had taken everything from him. Love was gone, stolen by whispers behind a veil. Home was lost, burned to ashes by hatred and war. Hope was blackened, turned into something unrecognizable. And now they had taken his life. It was slipping through his fingers like sand in an hourglass. Gone. Like smoke in the wind, everything had been spirited away.

Remus opened his eyes and his gaze landed skyward on a single star. Sirius. A fiery glow that fended off the darkness that tried to swallow it up. Remus' lips slowly turned up into a smile, weary but serene, as he realized something. They couldn't take everything from him. They couldn't take the sky.