charmed [19]: 'epilogue' (remus lupin x reader)
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19.
“Ron!!! Fred, George! I need a set of hands to carry these dishes out to the dining table!”
The Burrow was especially crowded this Christmas holiday, but that didn’t stop everyone from putting up the biggest tree that could fit in the living room, and decorate it with as many ornaments it could hold up.
“Here Molly, let me.” Y/N walked up behind Mrs Weasley.
She cried out indignantly. “What are you doing up on your feet, no you go sit down! FREEEED!“
A 6-month pregnant Y/N merely chuckled and walked back out of the kitchen.
“Here, darling.” Remus said, pulling out her chair for her and grabbing her hand to help her sit down. “You want this?” He waved the pillow he had grabbed from the couch.
“No, I’m good, thanks love.”
Remus placed a gentle kiss atop her head before going to put back the pillow.
Y/N felt something brush against her feet and let out a little yelp in surprise.
“Everything okay?!” Remus perked up from the other room, constantly on the alert for any small sound of discomfort Y/N may make.
“Sirius!” Y/N chuckled exasperatedly, as she saw a big black dog poke his head out from underneath the table. “Molly’s going to come after your ass for being in dog form where we eat…”
The dog smiled, bearing its teeth as it sat between Y/N’s legs, resting its head atop her belly. It closed his eyes and wagged its tail once he felt a kick underneath his chin.
“Baby recognizes you Siri…”
Y/N felt a hand brush her hair atop her shoulder and a kiss on her newly exposed neck.
“I’m all sweaty from getting up.” Y/N blushed.
“Don’t care.” Remus muttered in her ear.
She chuckled and Remus pulled out the chair beside her to sit down.
“Sirius!” He exclaimed, spotting the dog.
Just then, they heard Molly’s footsteps approach and Sirius flew out from under the table, scuttering towards the steps.
“Whoa!” Harry said, nearly tripping over him as he came down from Ron’s room. Sirius jumped up on his godson, letting him pat his head before walking away and transforming back to human form.
Ron, Harry and Hermione walked in the kitchen and helped Molly transport dishes onto the dining table.
“I’ll keep the spicy stuff away from you, Y/N?” Harry said, pointing to his dish.
“Thanks, Harry.” Y/N nodded. She was in a point in her pregnancy where the slightest bit of spice would keep her up all night with heartburn.
Hermione hurriedly put her dish down and rushed to the empty chair on Y/N’s other side.
“This seat taken, Professor Y/L/N?”
Y/N giggled. “I’m not your teacher anymore, Hermione, you can call me Y/N.”
“Oh, right.” Hermione blushed.
Y/N pulled the seat out and invited her former student to sit. “How have you been, honey? You need to tell me everything about your semester.”
Hermione sat down gratefully and smiled as she took a deep breath, as that was precisely what she was hoping to do.
The table filled up as the rest of the Weasleys joined and they all ate their way slowly through many delicious courses prepared by Molly.
Y/N heaved a big sigh and brought her hand to her stomach. Remus glanced at her and gave her a look.
You wanna go? His eyes said.
Y/N nodded. Remus winked at her reassuringly and set his fork and knife down.
“Excuse us folks, dove here needs a little break.” Remus announced. Y/N smiled gratefully at him.
“I’m sorry, Molly, it was all so delicious, I think I’ve gotten too much of a good thing even—“
“Oh dearest, of course, do you need help getting upstairs?”
“No, no! Please, stay, finish your dinner.” Y/N exclaimed.
Both Molly and Arthur had gotten up to offer help, as well as Sirius and the twins, but the couple shooed them and beckoned them to take back their seats.
“No worries everyone, daddy’s got this all in the bag.” Remus chuckled, helping Y/N up.
Y/N’s eyes widened slightly at how casual Remus was and Sirius coughed into his glass of wine, muttering something similar to “get a room”.
Remus helped Y/N up the stairs and quickly walked to the bed to prop up the pillows in the way she liked.
“Here we are, love.” He said, taking her arm and helping her get on. “There we go.”
He summoned the garbage can from across the room with a wave of his hand. “I’ll leave this close-by, just in case yeah?”
Y/N nodded, breathing deeply as she clutched her chest. “Thanks. I ate too much.”
“That’s alright.” Remus whispered, taking a seat on the bed beside her and pressing the back of his hand on her forehead just to make sure she wasn’t actually sick.
There was a knock on the door, and Harry walked in.
“Er, sorry to interrupt. I brought a cup of ginger tea, if that may help with your nausea.”
Y/N grinned, “Aw, thank you Harry.”
She patted his arm as he set the mug on her bedside table. “Rem, go back down, I’ll be fine here.”
“You sure?” Remus looked at her sincerely.
“Yeah, yeah, c’mon. Go with Harry.”
“Okay…” He said, placing a kiss atop of her head. “Call if you need anything.”
“Yeah, yeah.” She smiled. She waved her wand to summon her book, and to close the door behind them as they exited.
Back downstairs at the dining table, Remus was wolfing down the rest of his plate.
“Blimey, are you eating for two as well, mate?” George jested.
Remus chuckled through a mouthful and said once he swallowed, “No, I just wanna get back to Y/N as quickly as possible.”
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Y/N stirred in her sleep, eyes fluttering open as consciousness took over her. She was crying.
Remus felt her move in his arms and slowly awoke as well, peeking one eye open. Y/N whimpered slightly, pouting.
“My love…” He whispered, reaching over and brushing his thumb over her tears. “Why are you crying?!”
“Just had a dream that we were all together again.”
Remus’ face fell slightly. He pulled her to him and cradled her head. “We all will be. Soon, I promise.”
Y/N sniffled.
“And if that dream is accurate, I’m gonna be nauseous around 6 months. And have acid reflux.”
Remus chuckled.
“It’s not funny!” She said, lifting off him and punching him.
“I know, I know!” Remus said, beckoning her to come back to him. “Your body is going through the most magical thing there is in the world. I cannot believe how amazing you are. It’ll get hard, but I promise you with everything that I am that I will be here for you. You won’t have to lift a finger.”
Y/N smiled into his arm.
“Wanna reread Sirius’ latest?”
Y/N nodded. Remus leaned over the bedside table with a languid stretch.
The letter read;
Dear Remus and Y/N,
How’s little cub doing? And mum and dad of course. ;)
I’m more North now. Weather’s a bitch, but we found the sweetest empty inn to stay in here. Buckbeak’s been happy with it too.
Don’t forget Harry’s birthday is the 31st of this month. I’ve found a pretty lowkey bakery here, I’m gonna try to send him a cake. Poor fellow, it’ll have been weeks he’s stuck with his aunt and uncle. He writes that he’ll be going to the World Cup though with the Weasleys. Lucky fuck.
That’s all that’s new with me. Let me know how you two are doing. I miss you both, my old friends.
Padfoot
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Later on in the day, Remus and Y/N had gotten themselves to work. The plan was initially to bake Harry a cake for his birthday and mail it to him, but the list quickly expanded to an array of sandwiches, pastries and assorted snacks they knew he liked.
“Am I doing this right, love?” Remus said, bent over the stove as he watched over a pot of cream.
“Mhm hmm”, Y/N said, giving her wand a twirl and the heat under the pot lowered itself a notch. “Just don’t burn it.”
Once the cream had come to a boil, Remus took it within his hands, bouncing slightly as the oven mitts he had on were not robust enough to block all the heat.
Y/N snickered from her seat. “You know you’re a wizard right? You can levitate the goddamn bowl.”
“Yes, but then we’d never have an occasion to wear these.” Remus said, lifting both hands and showing the oven mitts that had small embroidered kittens on them.
“Wait, wait, stay like that.” Y/N got up quickly, running to the room and grabbing the camera to snap a picture of him like that. “Lovely.” She smiled to herself as the picture printed upon the magical film.
“Right, so ganache done, muffins are in the basket already, sausage rolls—“
Remus looked over at the table where they had prepared 9 sausage rolls only to find 2 and half missing.
Y/N swallowed and grinned at him innocently. “I think that stray dog from down the street came in… Besides, he will do fine with 6. Half a dozen, it has a good ring to them.” She muttered sheepishly, packaging them all.
“Gimme a kiss.” Remus said, walking over to her.
“Aw,” Y/N simpered as Remus grabbed both her cheeks, lowering his face down onto hers.
“Your breath is full of sausage roll, you cheeky liar!” Remus pulled away in triumph.
“The baby wants them!!!” Y/N pouted, folding her arms over her chest.
Remus chuckled, leaning down to properly plant a kiss on her.
“Rem..?” Y/N mumbled shyly.
“Yes pup?” He said, pressing his ear against her lips.
“The baby wants caramel ice cream too…”
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Dear Harry,
Happy birthday! We hope you have an amazing one, although we know you might not be exactly where you want to be. We’ve read your hungry letters and hope you’ll appreciate what this owl can carry from our kitchen; we’ve tried to make all your favourites.
Sirius tells us you will be going to watch the World Cup with the Weasleys soon! How amazing! Have the best time. I’m quite jealous, if I wasn’t on maternity leave I would have definitely picked up a shift with the Obliviator squad to try to sneak in for free.
We are doing well. Keep writing us and keeping us updated with how you’re doing.
We love you,
Y/N and Remus
Hi Harry, this is Remus as you can probably tell by the handwriting change. Just want to tell you I made 9 sausage rolls but Y/N is the reason you are only getting 6.
I’M PREGNANT! -Y/N
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Remus’ dreams were weird that night. At first, they were of 4 boys aboard what seemed like the Hogwarts Express, absolutely wreaking havoc upon their compartment.
“Padfoot, catch!” James yelled, throwing a handful of jelly beans at Sirius’ face.
“You bastard, throw me ONE at a time!” The long-haired boy bellowed, jumping upon his friend.
“Sit the fuck down!” Remus said through his tears of laughter.
“Right, he’s a Prefect now,” Sirius said, straightening up mockingly. “Here Moons, there’s a flavour you’d like by the way.”
He tossed him a red jelly bean, which Remus ate and winced at the flavour.
“Raw steak!” Sirius howled with laughter, slapping his knee in delight at his own joke.
James patted him on the back, “That’s ROUGH mate, here have a square of this,” and he handed his friend a brick of chocolate.
Suddenly, the scene changed and Remus found himself alone in the compartment. And it was dark, and rainy outside. And extremely cold. He was taller. The case in front of him now had “Professor R. J. Lupin” stamped on it in peeling letters. It was freezing, and he felt himself begin shivering until…
The compartment door burst open and in came Ron, Hermione and Harry.
“Pretty good stash this year!” Ron said happily, splaying out the mass of sweets they had just bought from the trolley.
Harry took a seat beside Lupin and grinned up at him. Hermione sat down across from him and picked up his annotated textbook.
The compartment was warm and now full of yellow light. It shined from the door and Remus got up to close it, when suddenly he found himself walking into his own kitchen.
Y/N turned in her seat, and smiled at him. “Tea?” She said. She poured him a cup with one hand while the other caressed her very protuberating pregnant belly.
Remus looked behind him confusedly. The train was now small and pulling away. He looked back at the kitchen table.
“Thanks love,” he said, and he took a seat.
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Remus woke with a stir and half expected to already be in the kitchen. But no, he was tucked safely in bed, and to his left, was Y/N sound asleep, snoring slightly.
He glanced at her belly under the covers, and it was nowhere as big as it was in the dream. Yet.
Slumping back down on his pillow, he turned to the side and laid a hand on Y/N’s stomach tenderly. And he blissfully fell back asleep.
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