A/N Hello, everyone, I am here with twenty-five more truths about Remus Lupin because I felt like the first installment did not do him justice. I'm actually not sure that I've quite managed it in this one either but I do think it is a little bit better.

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Dedication: to livin and breathin whose review to chapter one motivated this additional installment.

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25 Things Remus Lupin Would Never, Ever Admit To:

1. Remus does not like to open up to people, he'll dispense with more advice than you could ever actually want, but at the first sign of reciprocity he will turn tail and run.

2. Perhaps this is why his original twenty five truths while not lies certainly represented the barebones of his actual feelings.

3. When he said he didn't date much at Hogwarts, it was technically true, because there was only one girl, forever and always.

4. His favorite color is aqua, the pure, crystalline shade of her eyes, which could be frozen like clear, blue ice one moment and glimmering with amusement the next.

5. Being a werewolf, he has an exceptionally high tolerance for alcohol, far beyond that of a normal wizard; for some reason James and Sirius never seemed to grasp this concept and would repeatedly challenge him to drinking contests, which they would never, ever, win.

6. The next day they would wake up horribly hung-over and glare at him, swearing up and down that he had cheated somehow and that they would beat him one day.

7. Remus has never remembered his dreams, except one…but he doesn't like to talk about that.

8.…He will say this however-if he was inclined to believe that divination was anything more than a load of hogwash with as much validity as the average fortune cookie, he would regret not acting on the dream. He thinks things would have been a lot different-maybe, anyway, because Remus Lupin has never claimed to see the future.

9. Sometimes when he's alone he whispers the truths that he could never say aloud, including the fact that he sometimes resented Sirius and James the teeniest bit for being so wrapped up in their own friendship that they seemed to forget him.

10. He hates, hates, hates hospitals, and it's not because of all the time he spent there during his time at Hogwarts.

11.…It's because every time he sets foot in one he sees Dorcas-hair pulled back with a few curls elegantly framing her face, as she absently twirls her wand and scribbles notes in a patient chart.

12. As he watches everyone he cares about die around him, Remus curses his own dependability, fate, and everything else he can think of as he continues to live on day after day.

13. Remus doesn't look it, but he's very strong-a consequence of being a werewolf. As a result James and Sirius took great joy in hustling huge looking guys into competing with Remus for arm wrestling contests, this particular scheme financed many of their more spectacular pranks.

14. Remus was always the peacemaker, which got really tiring, because his friends were very much inclined to shoot the messenger.

15. Remus Lupin is responsible, steadfast, and so dependable you can set your watch by him. But, sometimes he just wants to say fuck it all and quit fighting this useless uphill battle where they seem to lose far more than they ever win, and everyone he cares about becomes just one more casualty to the tides of battle.

16.…but he never does, because he's Remus J. Lupin and he is as reliable as the phases of the moon.

17. Remus is not the type anyone would expect to have hidden liaisons or secret romances, and he's certainly the last person that would ever elope. The truth is though, that his first marriage was not to Nymphadora Tonks.

18.…He and Dorcas got married on Friday, June 13, 1980. Neither of them cared that it was a supposedly unlucky day; after all they both knew that divination was a load of hogwash.

19. Dorcas Meadows dies on October 13, 1981. Part of Remus dies with her.

20. When he meets Tonks part of the reason he is so resistant to any relationship with her is that he knows that he could never give her one hundred percent, and he knows that's not fair.

21. But selfishly he is tired of being alone and he finally gives in.

22. When Tonks starts wearing her hair in blonde curls, he feels like he's been punched in the gut. But he doesn't say anything at all. Remus is good at saying nothing.

23. Don't misunderstand him, he loves Tonks, she's just not Dorcas.

24. Remus never liked to fail, and in the end he can't help but feel that is exactly what he did as his eyes close for the last time and he thinks back to the infant son he is leaving behind.

25. Do you want to know a secret? Too bad. Because Remus isn't telling.

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