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When Remus Opens the Door and Smiles
When Remus opens the door and smiles, he's all greying hair and hunched shoulders, and the wrinkles around his eyes are new and not from smiling.
Sirius's been imagining this: himself knocking on this door, and Remus opening, and smiling, and saying "Hello, Padfoot," as if it's been a week and not a life. He's been imagining stepping over the threshold and feeling warmth seep through his skin again, and filling all the empty places.
When Remus opens the door and smiles, Sirius knows it's been too long and too wrong, and he feels like crying. Instead, he smiles back.