All Souls Day by phineas jones (PG)

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Hey there, cats and kittens, it's victoria p. driving the Harry Potter crack van this month. I was on vacay last week, but I'm sure I'll be making it up in the remaining three weeks of August.

So you know, I'm a Remus Lupin fangirl (book, please, not movie) and so most of my recs will be Remus-centric, with a strong Remus/Sirius bias.

To begin.

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
Author on LJ: phineasjones
Author Website: phineasjones
Why this must be read:

This is one of the first stories in this pairing I read, and it remains a favorite. It completely blew me away. Gorgeous, breath-stealing fic, evocative, tight - every word just fits and builds on the one that came before. A gem of the "lie low at Lupin's"/post-GoF reunion subgenre, this story captures the edge of waiting and the sharp joy and ever-present pain of Remus's reunion with Sirius after Goblet of Fire.

Just beautiful.

A quote:

He walks quietly to the ash tree and stands where he stands every morning at this time, left shoulder under the lowest branch, squinting into the light as he looks straight up through the branches. Every morning there are constants; the tree, the ground, his house and the sky remain firmly in place. The setting is the same. But every day something is different. The colors of the sky, the firmness of the earth, the smell on the air, the birds who make nests in the tree and abandon them when the air turns cold and bitter. The leaves that reveal their true colors and then fade and fall to the ground, brown and brittle.

This morning, the tree is completely bare. The last leaves that clung and rustled feebly in the faint breeze of yesterday morning are somewhere under foot, maybe already crushed into a fine brown powder by Remus' feet. The sky is pale blue and bright in his eyes, shot through with veins of bare branches. Remus lets his head fall back against the tree and that's when he first catches the new scent on the air.

All Souls Day by phineasjones