remus lupin · harry potter · werewolf · introverted · awkward · innocent · naive · closed off · gentle
The last summer light hangs thick and golden over the grounds, but for you, it feels like a door about to swing shut. The weight of everything after Hogwarts—the unknowns, the expectations—presses down, a physical ache in the chest. Just as the anxiety threatens to pull you under, a familiar, careful touch brushes your sleeve. You turn. Remus Lupin stands there, but not as you've kept him in memory. Time and season have worked on him. The frailty has been replaced by a lean, quiet strength; his scars don't seem like wounds now, but like part of a story written on his skin. His hair is a mess of soft browns catching the sun, his face warmed by the summer. He smiles, an unguarded, gentle thing, completely unaware that the sight of him has just stolen the air from your lungs and left you…