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[ remus' movement is enough for james to freeze - thinking maybe, just maybe - before he affirms it. he has the picture. his eyes follow remus all the way to the bookshelf, and then all the way back, his chest tightening just a little at the idea of it. it's the future, sure, and maybe he shouldn't be looking at all, but he's taken over by an overwhelming need to see that he can't help it.

so when remus holds out the picture to him, james takes it, giving him a quick smile for thanks before he even looks down. and that's when he sees it, an image that is so real even if he's never lived it, playing out in front of him like it could have been his memory. or will be his memory. james isn't sure if time stops or he just stops breathing because there's a span of something there where james is pretty sure he doesn't exist outside of that picture. of seeing lily, stunning lily, and then there's him and he's there and then there's harry. so small, so vulnerable, looking up at what james knows is him even if he feels a sudden, painful, sense of jealousy at the figure in his spot.

and then, after what feels like an eternity, he lets himself exhale- a single word hanging somewhere in there. ]

Merlin.