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[Who:] Lily Potter & Remus Lupin (and Nymphadora Tonks later on)
[What:] Reunion, again.
[When:] A short time after Lily seeing Severus.
[Where:] Remus & Tonks' place.


Remus Lupin had always been a friend to her. He was the one face she was glad to see here. If anyone could comfort her right now, it'd be him.

She was walking to his and Tonk's place. She followed the direction he had given her a few moments ago. She was consumed into her own thoughts as she made her way there.

Severus protected her son. But he still held a resentment to James. He did all this for her.

She had a hard time believing this. She had an even harder time with deciding what to do. Maybe her fellow Gryffindor will help her figure out a solution. Something that was more mature then forever ignoring Severus.

She stood outside Remus' door and knocked. She waited for her friend to answer.

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The door opens almost before she's done knocking.

Lupin smiles apologetically, whether she seems surprised or not.

"There are wards around the place… notified me you were coming."

As to why Tonks has warded the grounds so heavily… that can come later. There's so much to sort through; try at least to order it chronologically. Earth before Anatole.

He stands back and holds open the door for her. "Please, come in."

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Lily entered and gave a smile to Remus. "It's good to see you, Remus."

She then hugged Remus tightly, grateful to have her friend here. After having a very stressful reunion with Severus, she was relieved to now spend time with a friendly face.

"Sorry, it's just really good to see you," she apologized. She needed some sense of stability in this place.

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He welcomed her with an infinitely warming smile and hugged her back very tightly.

Perhaps he should have learned by now that hugging pretty girls (who seem to have just arrived back from the dead) can, without wariness, be trouble. But he knows it's her, from photon to particle. And somehow, she's even more Lilyish in person than he'd even remembered. Some people are too complete in themselves to be captured in memory. Even glowing memory.

(Glowing memory… there's one in a box on the mantelpiece on top of a photo album, waiting for her to see it. But first things first.)

He steps back to release her, pausing only to smile more, touch her hair, and pfft away her apology. He keeps one hand warmly on her arm, but opens one hand to indicate the sitting room.

He could say (and such thoughts are easily grabbed out of the air) I can't say how good it is to see you and I never thought I would again and how much I'd always wanted and hoped and I'm so sorry about everything and years but moments

but what he actually says is, "I've got the kettle on."

[bravedoe]

Lily wouldn't be able to express in words how comforting it was to see her old friend here. To see a friend that she didn't have a horribly complicated past with.

Lily smiled at those words. Tea with Remus was the best thing she could do in this new place.

"Do you need any help?" she asked. She'd hate to make Remus prepare the tea all alone.

[lumenrelegandus]

It should come home to him just how long it's been since (she's been alive) he knew her. But this feels surprisingly natural. Even if it had been a long time since they had tea together before that Halloween. Still, easy to go on: e.g. he always had the theory that Lily was most comfortable when making others feel comfortable—happiest when giving care and being helpful—so instead of consigning her to idleness in the sitting room, he leads the way to the kitchen and says, "Care to choose two cups for us? Everything's a bit mismatched."

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Lily went for a cupboard and tried to pick out suitable cups for each of them. She found a green one that matched her eyes and she found a blue one for Remus. "How about these two?" she asked as she held them up.

This felt almost like they were back at Hogwarts; sitting in the common room and enjoying a cup of tea.

[lumenrelegandus]

[ooc: /laughs/ With our current voicemail thread, we seem poised to run two parallel logs with these two… should we handwave the rest of this one? Or do a few fast forwardy tags? Or just carry on with both? ;-) ]

He grins at the sight of them—one from a day of shopping, which turned into treasure-hunting, at the public market with Tonks; one a gift from a patient—and he gestures she should bring them to the coffee table. "Lovely." He follows momentarily with the pot of tea, levitating it into place between them and pouring hers, then his.

He sits a moment before the pot settles down, and takes his mug in both hands. And spends a moment looking at her, thoughts racing.

Finally he gives a rueful laugh. "I hardly know where to begin. There's so much to catch up…"

Whether to ask her to tell him what he already knows, but never from her perspective, and talking about it may be a good thing… but he's not sure he can bear it just now, nor if she'll want to… or to enjoy this infinitely longed-for reunion, whatever the circumstances… or—

(and here a distinct pang of guilt, because it's the opposite route to what he'd taken with Tonks, and it's wrong somehow that he should do better by Lily than he did by Dora, but it's different because Lily had reached the end of her story, Tonks hadn't, he knew that nothing he could tell Lily would change her action regardless, and because the greatest sacrifice of those who die mid-battle is that they can't know its outcome. But it didn't have to be for her.)

—tell her absolutely everything that her sacrifice had sparked.

[bravedoe]

[ooc; Id say hand wave the end of this....they catch up and Lily knows what happens to Sirius, Remus, etc. And if Remus tells her any thing else specific let me know XD]

[lumenrelegandus]

[ooc: agreed! :-) I'll update here if I think of anything… but yeah, let's assume Lily now knows everything Lupin would know through the end of the books! …Except for the Resurrection scene, which he'll share with her in the next log/actiontag sequence…]

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[…thought of something ;-) Lupin will show her the Teddy photo album and the Trio photograph. He'll then give Lily the Photograph, and a picture of her choice from the album, either for keeps or on loan, to display in her place until she has enough else to make it feel like home. He'll know Tonks would agree. (As I too know from plurk. ;-) ) He may tell her the history of the photograph: how Io gave it to him (though he probably won't tell her the full story of himself and Io just yet) and it helped him while he was hospitalized, then Tonks while she was hospitalized (he may or may not tell her about how both instances were after murder attempts/kidnappings by Lestrange) and he's glad it can now enjoy the company of someone not bedridden…]

[bravedoe]

[That would be really awesome for Lily. She already feels extremely out of place because she can never have a decent conversation with Severus. And she thinks Fai hates her. And when she meets Martha, she will probably think she hates her too.]

[lumenrelegandus]

[Poor Lily! Well, do you want to do another log with these two - especially following Severus's confession? Maybe it'll be the pushed-back scene intended from their Voicemail thread - or give the finger to chronology and just call it a condensation ;-) - in which Lupin can give her back her wand as well as showing her the memory of how he got it, which includes a glimpse, for her, of grown-up Harry.]

[bravedoe]

[I'd like to do a quick log of Remus trying to calm Lily down...to fit in with how she makes a sorta truce with Severus. I always imagine Remus being the one to convince Lily to be less judgmental.]

[lumenrelegandus]

[Log for you! Hope you don't mind the liberties… I thought it was only fair if I set this one up since you did the last, and then it poured out. Loop always needs to accomplish three things at once…]