LYALL LUPIN WAS DISRUPTED from his afternoon nap by a persistent knock on his front door. A little annoyed, but still a little bit alarmed, he made his way from the comfort of his couch to see who it was. He knew it wasn't his son. Remus normally just showed up by apparation. Lyall made sure he had his wand close at hand just in case it was someone who he didn't wish to see. After the war, he was cautious even though Voldemort was defeated by a mere toddler called Harry Potter.
As the man looked out the small window at the side of the front door he relaxed a little bit, but his curiosity rose instead. A petite woman he didn't recognize stood on the other side of the door. In her arms, she had a small child who didn't look to be older than one year old, judging by the size at all.
With raised eyebrows, the man opened the door for the woman. She looked very tired with sunken in cheeks and rings under her eyes. She looked very pale. She looked worse than his son would after a full moon.
"Can I help you?" Lyall asked the woman. He could see a little bit of disappointment in her eyes as she looked at him. A deep frown was forming on her already worried face.
"I'm sorry to disturb, sir, but do you happen to know a man called Remus Lupin?" The woman asked with a hoarse voice.
"I do know him", the young woman sighed in relief. "He is my son. I'm afraid he's not here right now but I can send for him if it's urgent", he reassured him. "My name is Lyall Lupin", he introduced himself and stretched his hand forward for her to shake. She took his hand in a light grip and shook it, "Daisy Lucas", she said and nodded towards the sleeping child in her other arm. "This is my son Elio", she told him with a fond smile.
Lyall couldn't see much of the child as his face was buried into his mother's neck, snoring softly. He smiled a little as it reminded him of the time when Remus was a young baby, in Hope's arms. Oh, how surprised Lyall would be within a few minutes when he truly understood why the boy in front of him reminded him of his only son.
That was how Elio Lucas Lupin first met his grandfather in the summer of 1983. That would be the day Remus met his son for the first time. That would be the day Daisy asked if he would be willing to raise the boy, because sadly enough, Daisy was sick with a deadly illness that was all too similar to the illness that had taken Lyall's wife all those years ago.
Daisy lived a very lonely life with no living relatives, no close friend that she trusted enough with raising Elio. She did not want to give him up for adoption either since she knew that his biological father was out there somewhere.
Remus had been hesitant in the beginning, not finding himself to be a suitable candidate to be a parent, but Lyall convinced him to take the boy in, offering his support as well, not only for the boy but for Daisy too. The man was extremely happy about being a grandfather and encouraged Remus that he would make a great father.
Once the boy had woken from his nap and looked up at his father, Remus' heart melted in an instance and he knew that he would love this little boy for the rest of his life. How ironic, and yet fitting, that the boy was named after the Greek sun-god. The life Remus had lived so far had only been surrounded by darkness and determined by the cycle of the moon. Now Elio provided some much-needed sunshine in his life.
So Elio grew up in the Lupin household, loved dearly by both his father and grandfather. He grew up knowing that his mother had loved him very much, even though she sadly passed away only a few months after asking Remus to take care of him.
Before Elio, Remus would travel a lot. Stubborn as he was, he never wanted any financial support from his father even though Lyall constantly told him that he would help. But Remus actually moved back in with Lyall when Elio came along so that the boy could grow up in a constant home because remembering his own childhood he hated the stress that came with moving around a lot.
Early on the boy showed signs that he possessed magic, and to Remus relief, he did not inherit his Lycanthropy.
Remus had gone a long time feeling lonely but with the sunshine named Elio, he didn't anymore.