Honey If I'm Not (29.335 words) by @brigid-faye
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin
wizard AU, post first war
A heartbroken Remus Lupin left London in the summer of 1981 and never looked back. A decade later, he's built a life for himself in Burlington, Vermont, surrounded by new friends and finally confident in his job as a counselor. It's a job he loves, even if it does involve regularly conjuring his patronus, and even if that patronus is still taking the shape of a certain canine. He's fine with it. It doesn't have to mean anything.
Until one day his path crosses with Sirius Black's and maybe it does mean something, after all.
AU - The first wizarding war ended with the Longbottoms' deaths rather than the Potters', James and Lily are alive and Sirius stayed out of Azkaban.
If You're Gonna (46.436 words) by BrigidFaye
Series: Part 2 of Honey If I'm Not/If You're Gonna
1981 and all of its losses - the Longbottoms' deaths, Remus Lupin's disappearance - sent Sirius Black spinning, but ten years later, he finally believes he's doing alright. With the help of the Potters, he's emerged on the other side as a philanthropist and general do-gooder. He can even, thanks to therapy, manage a patronus for the first time in his life. Its lupine shape just means he's made peace with that particular bit of heartbreak, right?
But then on a trip to Burlington, VT, Sirius' path crosses with Remus' again, and maybe - just maybe - that patronus means something else.
This is Sirius's POV of "Honey If I'm Not".
These two fics are now new favorites of mine! I absolutely loved Honey If I'm Not, reading about wolfstar reconnecting and falling for each other again, and all the pining and yearning and the hard conversations about their pasts, everything was already so good! And then I read If You're Gonna, which is the same story plus lots of extra added scenes from Sirius's POV and I'M IN LOVE with these fics now! I loved reading the same scenes from both POVs and also adored everything that got added in Sirius's POV, learning more about their pasts, the lunar magic, and just all the scenes with James and Lily and the ending absolutely stole my heart!! Such a wonderful fic series!
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