But not gone back to say. Remus, listen to me, would you. If there can be alternate timelines--if our decision to change things with, with Harry, with all of it--to stop James from dying-- well, what the hell stops this from being some alternate bloody timeline?
[It helps, to hear Remus so convinced of this. It helps to hear anyone so convinced, because at his worst, Sirius can come to doubt their eventual escape--because it seems so untrue, because they've been here for so long without any end in sight.
There's a moment of silence, and then he laughs, grimly.]
[Perhaps he can. But if they both convince one another of the truth of it--if they can each bolster the other--then perhaps it will come true. Perhaps it will be all right.
So he sucks in a breath, a little shaky--though he tries to disguise that.]
[And he does, he can convince himself of that. He can use what Remus has said and it will be enough. There's a brief silence, and then he breathes out, heavily.]
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i mean what if this is it remus
what if we dont go back at all
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That's not going to happen!
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But if it does.
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--but there's a panicked little knot in the pit of his stomach that refuses to consider even briefly what Sirius is saying.]
Because I refuse to let it. I'm not going to-- we're not living here. None of us. All right? We're going to damn well find a way off here.
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There's a moment of silence, and then he laughs, grimly.]
Swear?
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[He says that too firmly, too sharply-- and perhaps Sirius can see through that, but perhaps he can't.]
I won't let that happen. Nor will Lily-- o you.
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So he sucks in a breath, a little shaky--though he tries to disguise that.]
All right.
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[And he does, he can convince himself of that. He can use what Remus has said and it will be enough. There's a brief silence, and then he breathes out, heavily.]
Thanks.