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        Remus, at first glance, was simply a book.

        You know when you go to a Library - if you've ever set foot in one - and there is a bookshelf in the far back corner, desolate of any people but full of musky, dust riddled paperbacks with white creases trailing up their bindings like wrinkles on your grandmum?  That was were Remus belonged, where he would fit in perfectly.

        Remus, though young, was an old paperback.  His outside was worn and tired looking, his pages frayed and bent, but his story wasn't worn  It wasn't read.  He was never analyzed, studied.  He was only quiet Remus with drained face and dinged eyes.  He was Hackneyed.


        Sirius, at  first glance, was not a book.  

        He was an action movie; successful only when others were watching what he portrayed.  He projected what people wanted to see.  A flashy new epic, starring a young, confident Marauder!  

        He was one all paperbacks loved, looked up to - even yearned to be -, but never knew.  They never wanted to know.  All paperbacks were subconsciously threatened that Sirius would pry into your business, your pages.  They've seen books be ruined by movies, and they didn't want to end up like those.  

        Sirius pushed out so no one could look in.  He was ensconced.  

        Not like that wariness would ever stop him though.

        This movie was entranced with a certain young paperback, for he could see past his tattered cover and he realized what he saw.  Although all words were cautiously embedded in code, Sirius could still see Remus and his hidden potential.  

        Sirius kept Remus with him, made him part of his group of friends.  He pricked and pulled at Remus until his cover uttered a final rip and his pages were translated into an English only Sirius could read.  An English Remus later taught to his other two closest friends, James and Peter.

        Unbeknownst to Sirius, as he focused on ripping off covers and studying code, Remus was also beginning to see past Sirius's movie screen.  He could no longer be distracted by Sirius's bright projection light, he saw past it.  

        He discovered why Sirius always pushed away while Sirius figured out why Remus always covered up.  And during their processes of destructing each others shields, they found just that.  Each other.

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