[ Her eyes flicker over his face as she takes him in, waiting to see if he will step forward and breach the gap to give her all of his trust. Hermione knows it can't be easy for him, considering, that she is a girl that was once his student and has grown so much since then, but she wants to believe they're friends. She wants to think that they're crossing the boundary between teacher and student and becoming closer than that, a family of sorts in this world, and it warms her to think that it might be the case.
Her hand squeezes his and when he speaks... She can feel her stomach drop, her hands shaking as it settles down, the knowledge of what happened settling around her shoulders as she tries to understand. Remus loved Sirius and she knows what he means, knows the words he can't quiet say, and she can feel, in her chest, the way her own heart breaks. It aches, the knowledge of what is in their future, what is to come, that Remus has Tonks but loses Sirius, that he loses a family as quickly as he gains one.
Moving without thinking, Hermione wraps herself around Remus again, drawing him close, squeezing him, her eyes squeezing shut to fightback her tears. ]
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Her hand squeezes his and when he speaks... She can feel her stomach drop, her hands shaking as it settles down, the knowledge of what happened settling around her shoulders as she tries to understand. Remus loved Sirius and she knows what he means, knows the words he can't quiet say, and she can feel, in her chest, the way her own heart breaks. It aches, the knowledge of what is in their future, what is to come, that Remus has Tonks but loses Sirius, that he loses a family as quickly as he gains one.
Moving without thinking, Hermione wraps herself around Remus again, drawing him close, squeezing him, her eyes squeezing shut to fightback her tears. ]
He loved you too.