Morning After

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Title: Morning After

Word Count: 100
Prompt: PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home

Characters: Remus Lupin, Sirius Black

 Rating: PG

Disclaimer:  Neither the characters nor the words are mine, only their arrangement.

He brushes against Sirius as he sidles past him, through the doorway to the kitchen. 

 

“Sorry,” he says and suddenly that brush is jarring and that sidle evasive and hurtful.

 

“Sorry,” he says, tensing. Sirius turns to watch, and Moony’s transformed himself into a thousand hard lines and jagged, guilty, edges in his sleep. He’s rooting in the cupboard for something and has so many shields up that Sirius wonders at the fact that he can stand at all.

 

It is one of the most terrifying things he has ever witnessed. “What are you doing this Friday night?” he asks.