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mycupofrum · 8 months

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Remus and Sirius please

Prompt- guilt, unforgivable action

Thanks for the ask, anon! 💜 Here's Sirius and Remus having a difficult conversation. I wasn't sure if you wanted me to describe the situation of the prompt or include the words into the text, so I did the latter since that was the writing prompt I set out to do originally.

Set in the summer between GoF and OotP. (And yes, I completely stopped counting words. This angsty drama takes more than 100 words.) Hope you enjoy!

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With the Order meeting over, they remain in the kitchen, two glasses and a bottle of Scotch between them. Much like a candle that has burned out, their time to avoid an awkward conversation has passed.

"You never tried to contact Harry," Sirius says. It's not a question.

Remus remains silent.

"You must have heard about how he grew up by now," Sirius continues. When Remus finally looks up, he is met by grey eyes cold as steel.

Remus considers his words carefully before speaking. "After James and Lily died, I was a mess, Sirius. I thought Dumbledore knew what he was doing with Harry."

Sirius narrows his eyes. "After everything James did for you, gave you his friendship, his support so freely, you never once thought to seek out his child, see how he was doing? Even from afar?"

Remus swallows, looking at the amber liquid in his glass. "I've told you before. I travelled, changed jobs often. I could never stay in one place for a long time because of what I am. What could I have possibly done for Harry?"

"You could have let him know of your existence. All he's ever needed is to have a safe adult he can trust."

Remus looks away, shaking his head.

"What would have prompted you to take such unforgivable action – or should I say inaction?" Sirius asks sharply. "Harry is all that is left of them. In all these years you could have done something for James and Lily's son – write to him, at the very least."

"I taught him at Hogwarts. I tried to look out for him then."

Sirius sneers. "Yes, that you did. And have you stayed in touch with him after that?"

"You know we're not supposed to tell him anything – Dumbledore's orders."

"How convenient, indeed."

The glass in Remus's hand shakes and he places it on the table. "There was nothing I could have done for him. My own world collapsed! I lost everyone who truly knew me and cared about me in one day," he speaks gruffly.

"So did Harry." Sirius's words cut him mercilessly.

"And whose fault is that?" Remus snaps, having reached his breaking point.

He recognizes his mistake right away. Sirius's cold fury entwines with his magic, causing the air to crackle.

"I'm sorry," Remus says hastily. He downs his whisky, the liquid burning his throat but doing nothing to relieve the guilt gnawing at him.

Miraculously nothing in the kitchen explodes, although the lights flicker vibrantly for a while.

"It's too little too late, Lupin."

Somehow, that cuts him the deepest.

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awetfrog · 2 months

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#my art tag?#de #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #harrykim #patches left out deliberately (((this time)))#dont look at the bike in detail pls #smoking cw

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u3pxx · 3 months

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KIM KITSURAGI - “Is that. My kineema.”

COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - Something in him is about to break, *big time*.

EMPATHY - And it’s not going to be pretty, do something!

- DRAMA [Formidable] - Everything is fine!

- “Sure is.”

DRAMA [Formidable: Failure] - Surely he’s aware that he’s not the *only* person in the world who owns a Kineema?

YOU - “Is it really *yours*? I mean, plenty of people have their own Kineemas, right? Like working men, government offices, uh, firefighters I guess, maybe even animal control people? Exactly! A million different people who could’ve driven it into the uh…”

DRAMA - Pause, my liege! Ixnay on the Ineemakay!

YOU - “It could even be our *mysterious* joyrider!”

KIM KITSURAGI - Your frenzied babbling falls deaf to the lieutenant's ears. Instead, he approaches the broken vehicle, sunken in the ice. He moves with a caution and gentleness you haven’t seen him display before.

INLAND EMPIRE - It must be cold and lonely down there, in the icy water. Maybe he could sense its sorrow, calling to him…

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] - His hands, which are always stiffly placed behind his back, are trembling.

ENDURANCE - This is the shuffle of a tired, tired man.

HALF LIGHT - He’s going to do something drastic because of you. Oh god, terrible! You’re a terrible liar! You can’t look at this, you just can’t!

VOLITION [Formidable: Success] - It's not *you* who drove his kineema into the sea. You have plenty of faults, but this one is decidedly not yours.

KIM KITSURAGI - He kneels down with his head bowed, casting his face in shadow. He plants a hand on the ice to stabilize himself, squinting to get a better view of the motor carriage. “Detective, it says ‘57’ on it.”

YOU - Sweat drips down your brow, and you feel a terrible headache coming. “Maybe our joyrider has an affinity for that number?”

LOGIC - He's not stupid, he knows that it's not that.

KIM KITSURAGI - “57.”

YOU - “What about 57?”, you brace yourself.

KIM KITSURAGI - “Precinct 57.”

YOU - You wince. “Kim, look-”

KIM KITSURAGI - “When I woke up in the Whirling-in-Rags with no memory of what happened during the days before, I've taken note that something of mine has gone missing.” He grits his teeth. "A very. Important. Something."

He runs his hands over his face, messing his already unkempt hair in the process. Regret creeps up on his features. “God. Fuck. They’re going to fire me over this, they’re not going to hear me out.”

EMPATHY - Desperation settles in the lieutenant's tone. Sadly, you find yourself in agreement, even if you don’t want it to be the truth.

YOU - “People are more valuable than machines, Kim.”

KIM KITSURAGI - “Not people like me.” He rasps.

YOU - “…”

KIM KITSURAGI - Before you can say anything more, you fail to notice the lieutenant carefully walking onto the edge of the ice. He looks over the frigid water, a dizzying blue that mirrors and distorts his exhausted face back to him.

YOU - “Kim?”

KIM KITSURAGI - Seconds pass as he looks to be contemplating something. Out of nowhere, he casually takes another step where the ice ends and the sea begins. It happens all too quick for the lieutenant to even voice a call for help— if he even wanted to — his body plunging into the cold water before your eyes.

YOU - “KIM!!!!”

uhhh bonus stuff? sorry i have swap au brainworms pfttt

(im not sure what skills kim has at the moment so rn he only has narration as his inner monologue ok whoops, i would like to keep harry as the guy who thinks in dialogue trees so im still figuring it out pfttt)

also, this was done bc i wanted to expand on these old scribbles of mine, just like an idea, i just think that he'd be having an even worse time wheezes