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His hand finds my chin; two fingers cradle it gently. As if he kneels at a pew, head bent, heart laid open.
“Look at me."
He does not drag my face upward. He leaves me the choice.
And what I find there is a home I forgot I ever lived in - the curtains, the wallpaper: yellow with dancing flowers flecked across its belly, a garden with a swing, a sink filled with a life halved. I find the key I lost long ago, to a door I spent years searching for. A door the exact colour of his eyes.
When I open it… it sounds like his laugh.
POMEGRANATE is a LONG fic charting Sirius Black and Remus Lupin's lives from 1979-1988. It is not a Slow Burn in the conventional sense, but the structure means you'll have the ending before you have the middle, and the middle before you have the beginning. It's not told out of order to be clever. It's told out of order because that's the only way it can be remembered.
Diversion from canon in that Remus grows up in Glasgow, with his parents both alive, and he and Sirius meet properly as adults, not at Hogwarts. There's a reason for that too. Otherwise, it’s canon-compliant, with a few deliberate swerves.