J. Rowling owns the characters I just rented them for a little... :)


Lily looked over from the dance floor, to a table off to the side, and saw an expected sight. She looked back towards James, "Can I go force your friend up here?"

James laughed, "You can attempt it like the rest of us, we've never been able to get him to dance."

She smiled and made her way over to the table, "I bet I can make it happen," she muttered. "Remus, why the longer face than normal?"

He looked up at her and sighed, "I'm having trouble being happy, Lily. There are so many things going on right now, and all of them are running through my mind at the least possible times. Like now."

She sat down next to him, "Oh Remus, you need to let go every once in a while. Its a wedding for Merlin's sake! Its your best friend's wedding! Its my wedding! Now forget about all of this-" She waved her hands around at the air, "-and remember how to be happy."

He sighed and looked at her dubiously, finding her suggestion hard to wrap his mind around.

"Remus," she said, batting her eyelashes at him, "will you dance with me?"

"A married woman? What kind of person do you take me to be?"

"A werewolf."

"Well," he started, standing up, "if you insist on cheating on your brand new husband hours after you left the alter. Then I need to be a friend and make sure you don't go too far, by being your partner in this cheatful dance."

He takes her hand and she leads him to the dance floor, where Sirius and James and the other guests are dancing, for one night forgetting the horrors of the world beyond the tent.

"Remus?"

He's taken back to the present by a blob of blond hair.

"Dora," he muttered, and looked up at his glowing wife.

"What are you thinking about?" She asked him, sitting down.

"Weddings, Lily, James, Sirius, the First War. James and Lily's wedding to be specific, it was about a year before..."

"What'd you do at their wedding?"

"Sulked in the corner, that is, until Lily got me off my butt."

"You danced with the bride?"

Remus laughed at her shock, "We were never like that. She was my friend, and there for me at times no one else was. She noticed I wasn't in the spirit and she got me to forgot for a little."

Tonks smiled, "Remus, would you do me the honor of dancing? And...forgetting?"

He smiled down at his wife, and nodded, leading her out to the dance floor. For a little while, maybe he could forget the problems of the world outside the tent flap.