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It’s the summer of 1977 and the crickets have turned silent.
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05 Jul 2026
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James Potter & Remus Lupin POVs
Jegulus/Wolfstar/Marlily/Dorlene
Dreamt of this scene, promptly fell in love with the story.
Initially Completed: 9-23-2022
Edited for clarity: 2024
Bonus Chapter Added & Secret Edits: 2-12-2025Excerpt:
A soft tapping caught Remus’s attention. He glanced up, a smile lighting his lips at the sight of bright green eyes on a curly haired toddler. Harry was three...and a half, if he was asked. He and his father were regulars on Wednesdays, traipsing into the library for the Children’s Story Time every week, without fail. Immediately, Remus was charmed by the pair.“Hello, Harry,” Remus greeted him, reaching for the stickers on the desk. He rifled through the stack for one with a train. Harry liked those best. Finding one, he offered it to the tot. “Are you and your Da-“
“Paddy!” Harry exclaimed, patting the leather jacket on the man holding him.
Suddenly, Remus spotted the rings on the hand wrapped around Harry’s middle. After that mental cartwheel, Remus’s gaze took a long, leisurely journey up the man’s body. Ffyc.
Translations on AO3 are okay, as long as I am linked as author. Do not repost to any other sites.
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12 May 2026
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Rosemary Clarke never planned on finishing high school in Hawkins, Indiana. She definitely didn’t plan on living with her nerdy science-teacher uncle, getting adopted by a bunch of overexcited middle schoolers, or forming an uneasy co-babysitter alliance with Steve Harrington of all people.
But Hawkins is stranger than it looks, and normal keeps slipping through Rose’s fingers. Between Dungeons & Dragons nights, suspicious happenings no one can explain, and one ex–golden boy trying very hard to be better than he was, Rose finds herself building a new life out of grief, bad jokes, and late-night car rides.
There is too much hairspray, cryptic small-town mysteries no one quite wants to name out loud, and two reluctant babysitters who keep ending up on the same side of things. Rose and Steve are determined not to talk about the way they fit together in a crisis… or the quiet, inconvenient feelings that start growing in between monsters, math homework, and middle school dances.
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08 Feb 2026
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Remus Lupin is an expert at keeping secrets (particularly a big, furry one that pops out to say "Hello" on the full moon). He spent most of his childhood alone until last year, when he fell into company that's the best kind of disreputable. Since then, he's traveled in a pack consisting of James, the a-little-too-fearless leader, Sirius, who’s not very serious, and Peter, the loyal tagalong. His life is on a predictable, steady trajectory.
Enter Lydia Potter.
She's quiet, timid, and a bit odd. Unlike James, she keeps to the shadows. Remus can't figure out just what it is, but there’s something strangely familiar about her, like she’s seen the darker side of life, too. The more he encounters her, the more Remus begins to wonder... is there a part of her that's a little like him?
From book exchanges to late-night conversations, it's nice to have a friend... and if you're very lucky, one day, more.
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28 Dec 2025
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“They’re… chaos,” Remus said firmly. “And chaos is—”
“Rock and roll.”
He looked at Sirius sharply, and for once, matched his grin. “Yeah.”
“Maybe that’s my excuse then,” Sirius said. “I cause a bit of chaos now, and maybe one day, it’ll turn into rock and roll.”After losing his mother at age eleven, Remus has spent the better part of the last four years bouncing from school to school or else running around London and pretending as though he wasn't the kind of well-bred boy his father brought him up to be. Now, with his chances all run out, Remus is sent to Hawkings Independent School as a last-ditch effort to clean up his act. There he meets the very people who will set up the rest of his life, and is forced to confront the pieces of himself he'd long thought had been lost.
(genuinely not apologising for the slow-burn in this fic anymore. You've been warned <3)
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25 Dec 2025