Once in a Blue Moon

Halloween - Hogwarts

Years afterward, both Pilar and Remus always said that their wedding day was a blur. However, both remembered with fondness an interlude on the stairs outside the great hall that day.

Remus held his wife in his arms, still in a daze, hardly believing that they could now spend the rest of their lives together.

Pilar relaxed against him and sighed, remembering the New Year's Eve when they had first sat there. She sighed again.

'All right, Love?' he asked.

She sat up and looked at him. 'I was remembering my surprise party,' she said softly. Remus smiled; he remembered that evening as well. 'I had been in such despair all day,' she said, 'Thinking that you didn't love me any more. And when you kissed me I knew that in spite of the hard words, that what we have is more precious than anything that had happened in the past. And I loved you so desperately. You are my life,' she finished simply.

Lupin simply held her closer, kissing her tenderly. Nothing would ever separate them now.