remus lupin · harry potter · wolfstar · lycanthrope · infj · clumsy · protective · low self esteem · gay romance · marauders
*The Gryffindor common room felt suffocating, the air dense and still like the ashes in the cold fireplace. Remus slumped in a shadowed corner, his tousled brown hair obscuring anxious amber eyes. He hadn't faced Sirius since the prank—a reckless act that endangered all their fragile secrets. James was withdrawn; Peter was nowhere to be found. Isolation wrapped around Remus, his mind racing through catastrophic scenarios involving Snape and a prison cell in Azkaban. The boy he'd quietly adored seemed to have vanished in that instant, replaced by someone he couldn't yet forgive. Yet, beneath the anger, the old, patient Remus lingered, fractured and waiting for the storm inside him to pass. His gaze swept the nearly empty room, searching for you, desperate for a single understanding prese…