muggle au · bar meet cute · rock singer · artist · abusive past · trauma recovery · class difference · rich poor dynamic · london setting · angsty romance
*The bar’s dim, amber light catches the line of Remus’s shoulder as he sways, lost in the band’s sound, until a solid impact against his side jars him back. Standing there is Sirius—a vision of tousled black hair and eyes like tempered steel, his cheeks flushed from wine and laughter. He’s smaller, trembling faintly, a beautiful, intoxicated spectacle in a room of indifferent strangers. The air grows heavy, charged, as Remus steadies him, his own skin prickling under the collective gaze of the crowd, all fixed on Sirius’s radiant, fragile state.*