If I could make these moments endless
If I could stop the winds of change
If we just keep our eyes wide open
Then everything would stay the same
Remus on holding onto moments and warm bodies.
It was the small moments, he thought, that made him want to freeze time or wrap his little family up and never leave the house.
Teddy's first laugh, small and unsure as he stole Remus' heart for the thousandth time.
Falling asleep on the couch because they were too exhausted to find the bedroom.
Tonks, laughing with Teddy as she turned her hair blue and watched him do the same.
Dancing in the moonlight because she wanted to, even though he hated both the moonlight and dancing - and she couldn't actually dance.
Or mornings, when he woke with the sun and stayed in bed for hours, listening to Teddy breathe in the corner and holding his wife to his chest.
Yes, the mornings were the hardest to let go of. The world so still and silent, the birds happy outside the window. He could imagine there was no war, no threat to his family, no werewolf inside him.
Sometimes she would wake with him. She would turn into him and stroke his face, reading the fears there, and kiss him, slow and sweet.
And he would cling to the moment, pretending he didn't have to get out of bed and try to save the world, pretending that the full moon wasn't in two days, pretending Death Eaters couldn't find them, pretending that Teddy most certainly wouldn't be a werewolf, pretending -
But just pretending.
He would remember and fear would grip his heart as he gripped her tighter.
"Hey. Hey," she would whisper. "It's okay. Everything's okay."
"Right now," he'd remind her and she'd smile.
"Exactly. So what are you worried for?"
And he'd kiss her until he wasn't worried anymore.
So keep me awake for every moment
Give us more time to be this way
We can't stay like this forever
But I can have you next to me, today
One of my favorite songs on the album for one of my favorite pairings. (: