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Let My Love Open the Door
[by victoria p.]

Rating: G

Summary: Remus is waiting.

Date: December 24, 2004

When these open doors were open-ended
And I read about the afterlife
But I never really lived
~Saturday by Fall Out Boy

Remus leaves the front and back doors open these days, and the windows are flung wide even when the weather turns cold.

He wants light and air and movement. He wants to believe that life is going on, and he's a part of it. When the windows are closed and the doors shut, he feels the same stifling, creeping dread that infused number twelve, Grimmauld Place, and he can't breathe. There are spells and charms to keep intruders out as surely as any flimsy bits of wood and glass, so he never worries about the danger Tonks insists he must be in. She really has spent too much time with Moody, he thinks.

The only time he closes everything up completely is during the full moon. Even with the Wolfsbane Potion, being locked up makes him anxious. In the morning, as soon as he is able, he opens the house up again, and is able to relax.

Molly knits him jumpers and Hermione swears by polar fleece, but he has always had a high tolerance for the cold, barely even feels it anymore.

He reads and takes walks and listens to the radio, but mostly he's just waiting. For what, he doesn't know. In the months since Voldemort's defeat, he has felt it buzzing in his veins, pricking at his skin, like electricity hovering in the summer air before a storm.

He is sitting down to read the newspaper one morning when he hears footsteps in the front hall.

"Damn, Moony, this place is freezing."

He looks up to see Sirius standing in the doorway, shivering.

"Well, shut the door behind you, then," he says, folding up the paper. "I'll make you a cup of tea."

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