The Most Sour Apples

Oneshot.

Teddy was sent to the grocery store by his grandmother. Andromeda told him to buy eggs, bread and apples.

He was always the best to pick out the sweetest apples. She would always take sour ones.

He reached the chocolate isle and just couldn't walk past it.

As he was picking up his favorite bar - a Mars bar - he heard someone hum behind him.

"Can it be,"the stranger said softly. "Remus Lupin? No it couldn't," the guy whispered and kept walking.

Teddy nearly dropped his basked and reached for the stranger. "What did you say?" He asked as his voice shook.

"Oh, I, eh. Well, you remind me so much of a person i once knew. I thought you were him for a second but you are way to young." He said.

"But you said a name, say it again." Teddy begged, hoping he had heard the man right.

"Remus Lupin?" He repeated. "Do you know him?" He guy then asked.

Teddy looked away, took a breath and stuck his hand out. "Teddy Lupin." He introduced.

The older man looked surprised, "you mean? Really, are you... his son?" He asked.

Teddy nodded. "I'm Grant," he said and took teddy's hand, "Chapman." He added.

"Me and your dad was in the same group home back in the days. Best of friends us two, but then he went to some boarding school and that was that summer." The guy chuckled weirdly he put a slight emphasis on the friends part.

But he noticed how Teddy's eyes fell a bit every time he mentioned Remus.

"How is he, your father?" Grant asked wary.

"Um.. he died, when i was a baby." Teddy thought about the man he never knew but oh, so wish he could. The man he heard stories about, how he'd fought in the wizarding war. And ho he died for  better future.

Teddy smiled sadly, and Grant put a hand on his shoulder.

"You look just like your father."