Chapter 10: Reflections

Remus used a glamour to look like he did when we were together.

"I thought you might listen to be better if I looked like the man you fell in love with."

he says quietly. I feel tears come to my eyes. I stop them though. This is no time for tears.

I look down though.

"You will always look like the man I fell in love with Remus, because I fell in love with you

before I left for the past...hell before I even knew you."

I say.

He looks at me funny.

"What do you mean?"

He asks as he steps a little closer to me.

"I have known you my whole life. I have read about you and your relationship with Harry since I

was a child. I knew that you were one of my favorite characters the moment you saved Harry on

the train in his third year."

I tell him.

He smiles remembering that moment from so long ago.

"I got the honor of getting to know you as a real person. I also got to have the honor of loving you."

I tell him. He has tears coming from his eyes now.

"Don't cry Remus. We both knew that falling in love with each other was only going to lead into disaster in the end. You've moved on. I'm happy for you."

I say bracing for the tears that are about to spill over at any second. Remus takes my hand. He

leans his forehead against mine and whispers,

"I never moved on Blair. I loved you from the moment I set eyes on you, and I will love you until the day I die."

There go the tears. We stay like that for a moment. I sigh and wipe away his tears and my own.

"That's not fair to Tonks, Remus. She deserves your undying love."

I tell him. He just laughs.

"The only reason I'm with her is because you told me that is where I should end up. I had no other ideas. I just needed to show you that I was okay so that you would go and find a new, happy life after we destroyed your other one."

He says. I decide not to bring up my parents and friends back home.

I clear my throat.

"Well, I guess this is good-bye."

I say holding out my hand. He looks startled.

"What? What do you mean?"

He asks me looking concerned.

"Well, Teddy and I are going into that tournament in a week, and if one of us is going to make it out of there, its going to be Teddy. I'll have to use all my remaining energy into watching over him. We both know that if the dragons don't get me the mere-people will."

I tell him. His face drains of all color. He grabs my shoulders and gives them a shake.

"Blair, you mustn't give up in there."

He says. I look down to the ground. There is nothing that he is going to say that will ever change my mind about saving Teddy. I guess he realizes that because he takes my chin and makes me stare into his brilliant eyes. I sigh.

"Remus, your son is the closest thing I have to you here. He's yours, and I plan to keep him alive for you. If someone is trying to bring Voldemort back using your son, I will risk it all for him to reach eighteen."

I tell him. I look deep in his thoughts and see bits of the vision that oracle saw. Teddy is supposed to die on his eighteenth birthday. We are both seventeen now, and by the third task, Teddy will be dead, and the Dark Lord will be resurrected.

"Blair." A distant voice called me back to reality. I pull him into a hug. He smells like warm puppy and pine needles.

He smells like home.

"Don't worry Remy, I'll give up everything to keep Teddy alive, because it's what I do. I guess no matter where I am or what I do, I have to risk my life."

I whisper. I hear him choke out a sob. I rub his back, trying to comfort him. He backs away to look at me. Not even trying to hide the tears.

"You don't know what it's like, you have you whole world ripped away from you in mere seconds." He says. The wind is blowing heavily now.

I look him in the eyes and say, " I felt the same way the day I told you to move on."

I tell him. He wipes the tears and shakes his head.

"Why did you do it?" He asks me. I'm confused.

"Do what?" I ask.

"Why did you tell me to move on? We had it made. We were brought back together for a reason. You died Blair, and I thought I lost you forever. Then you show up in my world again, just to tell me that it's time we moved on? I love you and I know indefinitely that you still love me. Don't you?"

He asked me. I pinch the bridge of my nose.

This struck me hard. He still loves me! I'm about to answer when a familiar voice yells out the door and comes towards us.

"Piper? Piper?"

Yells the voice of Teddy Lupin. I groan. Remus smiles at me.

"What's wrong Miss Wolfe?"

He asks me.

" Nothing Mr. Lupin."

I retort, my voice dripping in sarcasm. I see Teddy coming towards us. He see's me with his father and immediately thinks of a billion different reasons as to why that is. I smirk and Remus knows what I'm doing right away.

'You haven't told him about you then?' thought Remus. I just shake my head no.

"Dad, what are you doing here?" He asks his father. Remus hugs his son.

"Your mother and I came to watch you in the tournament." He says.

"What are you doing out here with Piper?"

He asks him.

"Just chatting about your complete disregard for everything I say and your stupidity." I say. Remus did his best not to burst out laughing. Teddy blushes.

"Piper, I was wondering if I could talk to you about that."

He asks. His father looks reluctant to leave his son alone outside but I just roll my eyes at him.

"Go on inside Remus, I if I can promise you anything it's this, your son is safe with me."