Five Letter Word

by Beater with a Brain

Doing the Sunday crossword, Remus finds himself thinking about his friend Sirius Black, oneshot, poem, no pairing

Five Letter Word

The Sunday crossword

He loved the Sunday crossword

We used to do it together

Now I must do it alone

I read the next clue

Twenty-three across

A five letter word

For "serious"

My first thought is "Black"

Then I think

There are many five letter words

That people would call Sirius

The press would call him fiend

felon

demon

devil

Satan

wrong

His friends would call him loyal

proud

sweet

messy

picky

idiot

But I know they do not mean "Sirius"

They mean "serious"

I grab my thesaurus

And look up the word from the clue

I find the one they want

"stoic"

But another word catches my eye

A five letter word for serious

"grave"