Past Tense

by squidgilator

Just a short drabble on lost love. Was supposed to be a RemusSirius fic, but it's hard to tell without the POV. Slash, if you choose to take it that way.

Remus's POV:

We only ever talk in past tense anymore.

"I used to love these."

"You should've been there."

"We used to do that all the time."

"Remember when…?"

And "I loved you."

A three-word phrase.

An awkward cliché.

Sometimes screamed in anger,

Sometimes whispered in disappointment.

Or regret.

Or a plea.

But it always kills me, and all I hear is the past.

And I'm suddenly drowning in half-buried memories, coming back to live again.

The present is my life raft, but it is never thrown.

Because we only ever talk in past tense.

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A-N: This was written as a Remus/Sirius slash, but you can't really tell without the POV. So I'll be putting it on my Fictionpress account too. I'm pretty proud of this piece, but I'm open to Con/Crit. Review please!