#follower fic rec fest - Day 13
Recommended by: @yeats-infection‘s top ten, @montpahrnah‘s top ten, @elle-ja-bell‘s top ten, @bearwonder‘s top ten, @joehanzcletus‘s top ten
Author: imochan
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 36,239
Type: Canon Divergent!AU, Raising Harry!AU
Summary: Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. In 1985, Remus Lupin realizes that Sirius Black is innocent. Now, he just has to prove it.
Comments: I don’t think there will ever be anything else that lives up to this intricate and deeply emotional character study of Remus Lupin. It’s honestly so incredibly beautiful that it leaves you speechless. It’s no wonder that so many people included it on their top ten list. It digs its fingers into your heart and refuses to let go. If you read only one fic in this whole fest, let it be this one.
You don’t need to, it says again.
“Why not,” he whispers.
Because I know you, it says.
“You don’t,” he hisses. “You don’t. Because I thought I knew you.”
There is silence. There is the hissing of the waves. There is the pumping of his own monstrous blood in his own monstrous veins and his own monstrous brain expunging thoughts and his own monstrous lungs breathing thick monstrous breaths, and his own monstrous heart still hopelessly in love with horrible monstrous things.
You do, it says.
