Epilogue
Remus groaned and rolled out of bed with a sigh. Somewhere in this house, Tali was distressed and upset. Despite her best effort to keep from disturbing him, her mental perturbation was strong enough to wake him from a sound sleep and drive him from bed.
A dash of guilt and he knew she had felt him awaken. He grimaced and pulled on his robe, heading downstairs. Tali was in the kitchen and the floor was damp, actually so were the walls and ceiling.
"I was trying to clean them." She mumbled in answer to his enquiring look.
"Evanesco!" He waved his wand and the water vanished. Tali sighed and stared at her wand in distress. She was finding it difficult to channel her powers through the wand. "Tali, I've told you, just do it without the wand."
"It makes Molly upset." She replied twisting the and through her hands nervously.
"She'll get used to it."
"I made the broom sprout branches when I swept, she was distressed." Tali was radiating a sense of failure, because she was not able to fit in as she would like. Remus kissed her hard and sent her waves of love and reassurance. He was enough of an outcast in this world himself that her eccentricities would not be noticed beside his.
"Molly will learn to deal with having an Elder in the house." He chuckled at her lip, stuck out just slightly in a worried gesture.
"I like her, even though she talks so much." Tali sighed.
"I know you do, I like her too." He assured her, with a small smile. "Come to bed, Tali, it's four in the morning." She nodded and he led her to bed.
"Molly had said the kitchen wasn't as clean as she would have liked it to be." Tali explained as the headed up the stairs.
"I'm sure that she will be pleased with it now, Tali." Remus laughed quietly.
Behind him, the kitchen gleamed and shone, every stone polished to a high gloss. The wooden beams had sprouted branches and the metal fixtures were sun bright. The stones looked like river rocks and the table had been scrubbed until it was three shades lighter. Molly Weasley wouldn't recognize the kitchen.
Remus pulled Tali into the bedroom and tucked her into bed. They curled up together like children and fell asleep.