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1. RED & NEON by VerminWorship for EltaninTheBright (sincehewas18)

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   01 Oct 2026

   Tags

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   • Sirius Black/Remus Lupin
   • Remus Lupin
   • Sirius Black
   • James Potter
   • Peter Pettigrew
   • Gilderoy Lockhart
   • Lily Evans
   • Emmeline Vance
   • Marlene McKinnon
   • Dorcas Meadowes
   • Minor James Potter/Lily Evans Potter
   • Background Gilderoy Lockhart/Peter Pettigrew - Freeform
   • Alternate Universe - Muggle
   • Alternate Universe - 2000s
   • dirty midwest
   • Light Angst with Happy Ending
   • Coming of Age
   • Yearning
   • Pining
   • (a lot of it)
   • Friends to Lovers
   • more like friends to near-strangers to lovers
   • Second Chance Romance
   • (not entirely unhealthy) situationship
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • Remus lupin is trailer trash
   • Sirius Black comes from a catholic family
   • Latino James Potter
   • Dyslexic Remus Lupin
   • Pop Culture References
   • Roadtrip
   • Shotgun Wedding
   • dirty filthy queer lovemaking
   • Light D/s
   • Elliot Smith as a plot device
   • Remus Lupin is Pathetic
   • Sirius Black is even more pathetic (if you can believe it)

   Summary

   Sirius had always been meant for something bigger than their hometown. Had been destined for grittier, grander, and more exciting, to be somewhere brand new and sprawling with the best food and the coolest people. He'd been born to enter Remus' life and leave it, leaving equal rippling effects each time. Remus had always been okay with that. Or, at least, he'd tried to be.

   (He's still trying to be.)

   Four years ago, Remus Lupin was left behind in his tiny, redneck Midwest town when his only three friends left for college. Their return for one final hoorah in the summer of ‘07 opens up his mind to something other than the fate he'd resigned himself to.

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