A/N: Hey, it's Ana with the start of a new story. I'd like to start by saying I'm not revealing endgame ships to you; I want you to see them as they develop. Something may, at some point seem like it will be endgame, but I like to jerk people around with their feelings. It's what I do.
Other than that, I'd like you to note that this isn't strictly canon. All truly canon ships will end up together, yes, but I deviate a little as far as age and some of the interaction.
It's amazing how, when something big happens in your life, the world doesn't just end. Things keep going on around you: people go to work, they come home… Maybe they go out, or maybe they spend time with children, or their spouse, or their pet. Someone talks to someone else, or perhaps a silence passes between them. All the while you sit there, wondering how things keep moving when your life has crashed down around you.
For Remus. it didn't crash; not really. It wasn't so sudden as all that. The change had been slow and subtle, not really any flash and bang to it. There had been time spent, a whole plan thought out and put into action. Remus knew that somewhere, somehow, someone had managed to think in their head to make the move that would leave him this away: alone, apart, and angry. He wasn't just angry; he wished that he could be just angry, how much simpler would that be? No, there was so much to feel, and he had to feel it all alone as the whole of the wizarding world celebrated and toasted. A boy alone, parents dead, but a great evil vanquished. Friends lost, and confidants, but the greatest dark wizard that could be thought of has been taken down. Whispers of "he's gone" and "just a boy" reached Remus's ears as he trudged slowly down Diagon Alley. Not just a boy. Men. Women. His best friends. Some dead, some tortured, and one -one who he used to trust more than anything -in Azkaban, labeled a murderer.
In all honesty, Remus didn't know what he had left. He walked through the doors of the leaky cauldron and got a room, his own home deemed not safe enough until the remaining Death Eaters were captured. He took the room under a different name than his own.
They were all gone.
Remus can't help but think about the past. It wasn't so long ago that everything was good and perfect and wonderful. Things had begun to grow dark, sure, but Remus could distinctly remember that time clearly. He could see it in full color when his whole world had gone black and white. Sirius, happy and smiling as he had almost always been. James, from a distance, flirting with the girl that would one day be his wife. Peter -sweet Peter, who just wanted to be as good as his friends. In one night he had managed to lose them all, and the pain of it all washed over him, and he couldn't shut it out.
It didn't feel like it was all that long ago that they were all alive, well, happy, laughing together on the Hogwarts grounds. He wanted the world to stop. To rewind back to a time when life was simpler, to when everything was grand.
But again, why should the world stop for him?
This is just an intro, but I hope you enjoyed it. There's much more content in the next chapter and the chapters to come! R&R