Remus stretches out and takes the thin, warm chest in his arms and rests his head over the thrumming of Sirius' heart. What did these hands do? He desperately asks himself. What did these hands do before they held him? What did these eyes behold, when he was not here? / Remus and Sirius thrive in Grimmauld Place for a long, dawdling year.

"It's all we've got, she thinks sadly, it's all I have. She wonders why she was so desperate, why she craved the love of a man who desired a man. Stars burn in her eyes and shame spills on her cheeks but she kisses Remus, and loves him feverishly." Five times Tonks falls in love with Remus (as she believes he loves another) and one time he falls in love with her. RLNT, past RLSB.

Every day, Tonks, being her usual inexorable, hope-for-the-best self, every day she tries to smooth out the world but it is crumpled and crinkled, and the part where Remus sits, it is torn. Remus and Tonks, throughout the books.

Sirius is holding him, and he holds him tightly as though if by holding Remus like this, he can meld his cracks and breaks, and save him somehow, but they are broken past the point of repair. There is a secret thrill in them that is buried beneath the guilt and hurt, and inside, they are still the boys they were. Remus and Sirius's past, present, and future.

After Dumbledore's funeral, Remus Lupin and Tonks ponder existence and love. "Tonks was a metaphorical frog, happily hopping down the road, unknowing of what trucks could do to frogs. The thought made Remus feel as if he wasn't allowed to leave footprints."

"Am I mad, Sirius?" Remus Lupin, Sirius and Tonks cling to the fragile threads of their sanity in 12 Grimmauld Place. Remus/Tonks. A darkish, literary piece. "Remus? Oh, he's Kurt Cobain, obviously, Tonks."