Title: Every Footstep
Pairing: Previous Remus/Lily, current Lily/James.
Summary: He'll go back to being Remus Lupin - tiptoeing around the girl he used to love.
Notes: Well, this is my first Remus/Lily anything, and my first romantic freeverse... still not romantic, really, but incredibly angsty. *hands over boxes of angst in exchange for fluffiness* Enjoy?
Every romance is a
Romeo&Juliet,
really,
because if you [both]
F
A
L
L
then who is there to
catch you?
.
Every heartbreak is a
one-way-one-stop-train
because
if everything can he
{HEALED}
as easily as it can be
{BROKEN} -
well.
You do the math.
.
Every dance is
choreographed.
That foot there - turn - spin.
They dance in time with the music;
that has been played
a thousand times
before
and nothing is special
if it has been done
BEFORE.
.
Every I'm sorry is
scripted.
Teachers say it in playgrounds,
And the little children
RrEePpEeAaTt
because they don't know any
-better-.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to hurt you.
Maybe we can still be friends.
.
Every thank you is
EMPTY
because if she meant it,
she wouldn't have to say
the {words}
She would be able to tell him
with those pretty
emerald eyes.
Thank you is polite, and practised,
H A R D
And oh-so-empty.
.
Every friendship is a
James&Sirius
in a way.
They burn - burn - burn out.
That's the pattern of things,
the Da Vinci code of life.
Friendships never last forever,
and they're never the
last,
[anyway].
.
Every best friend is a
RemusLupin -
not even that.
He has been rejected -
"NEXT!" -
forgotten -
"We'll call you if we need you."
- used.
But nobody needs Remus Lupin -
he is the friend,
the ex-boyfriend,
the werewolf
who is there to add that little bit of
{!DANGER!}
Maybe one day he'll get a call-back.
.
Every goodbye is a
until-tomorrow
because how can you say goodbye
to one life
and happily live another?
(Happily ever after?)
Have you no memories;
no hopes, no dreams?
Is that other life dead to you
now;
is he DEAD to you?
.
Every break-up is a
Remus&Lily,
because who would choose RemusLupin
over JamesPotter?
Certainly not her
and certainly not him.
They both fell -
not with each other, though that might've been
EASIER
in the long run -
and Lily couldn't catch them both.
.
Every boy is
RemusLupin -
or at least, one shade of him.
Like every boy in love, he has suffered
more than any {little boy} has had to suffer
but shh!
We don't want the girl feeling guilty now.
.
Every footstep is a
tiptoetiptoe
because if he walks {too loudly!}
the silence will be broken,
the truce will be
{L}
O V E R,
and he'll go kcab to being
RemusLupin -
tiptoeing around the girl he used to love.
.
Not every girl is
Lily Evans.