You Make Me Live (Remus Lupin x Reader One-Shots)

Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)

(It's up! I've finally finished it! It only took me four days. That's so long, I'm sorry. This part was going to be called "Heat of the Moment" because it is a blatant SPN joke - no deaths though - but I thought that might be false advertising. Basically, Y/n is issued a Time-Turner so that she can carry out her duties at the Ministry and take care of her ailing husband on full moons at the same time. However, she quickly gets more than she bargained for and realizes just what an exhausting responsibility meddling with time can be. Enjoy!)

"Isn't it amazing? I can't believe the Department of Mysteries approved me for it." I held the golden hourglass at eye level, where it could catch the morning sunlight in the bedroom window.

"How in Merlin's name did you convince them to give it to you?" Remus marveled, reaching out to hold the pendant closer and still it as it swung.

"I told them I had someone to take care of and that it was really important. They must think I have a whole pack to look after or something, but I don't care. You are. . . the most important thing." I leaned over to kiss my husband. "And if I happen to give it an extra turn to, say, cover your classes, no one at the Ministry will be any the wiser." I pecked a kiss on the bridge of his nose for good measure.

"Y/n, are you sure?" asked Remus. "It must be dangerous, not to mention you'll be exhausting yourself, all on my behalf -"

"When are you going to finally believe me when I tell you you're worth it? All of it. Everything I can possibly think to do for you, you've already earned it just by being yourself."

Remus smiled at me lazily. He was at a point in his cycle where his energy was draining but every nerve was alight. He had explained it to me years ago, and I was still taking extensive notes of how the process changed as he aged. Becoming an Animagus had been a huge part of that, so that I could not only be with him to help him stay calm but also observe him in his canine state. I wouldn't say his transformations had become any easier over the years - they were still excruciating and the screaming still rang in my ears until my heart ached and tears welled in my eyes, but he seemed to relax into them as he got older. I daresay, though it tore me up inside to think it, that he was now resigned to the process. He settled in against the pillows, it was only at this time of the month that he was truly reluctant to get out of bed in the morning. As Remus wrapped his arm around me, I got the feeling I knew what my first test of the Time-Turner would be.

After an extra hour in bed, I put the chain on the hourglass around our necks and turned it upside-down and back again, in a full rotation. In the blink of an eye, the sun had lowered on the eastern horizon. "Incredible," whispered Remus, reaching for my hand and pressing a kiss to it, "Thank you, this morning has been lovely."

"Agreed. Now, let's make it even lovelier."

"A shower and some breakfast?" he presumed.

"You read my mind."

As we entered the Great Hall, I considered waving to our son, who was seated with his housemates at the Ravenclaw table, but he had asked us to "try not to act like his mum and dad couldn't be away from him for five minutes," and he asked so little of us for a teenager that I chose to respect that. At the breakfast table, I watched Remus positively devouring everything in sight as I picked at my toast and sausages. I had never been much of a breakfast person.

After a long goodbye with Remus in the trophy room, I made for the village so that I could Disapparate. Before I could reach the Entrance Hall, however, Pomona Sprout stopped me.

"Hello, luv. Snogging in a broom cupboard again? You two've been the same since you were in House ties, never change," she snickered, taking me aside before I could object.