don't leave me hanging on the telephone
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even my phone misses your call, by the way by skyeneedstosleep
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 May 2025
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The Remus of today just placed the bowl back in the sink, his hands still shaking, but not longer from physical pain.
Remus forced himself to take seven steps to his left, to the wall with the red landline that he didn’t even have to convince Sirius to install. He unhooks the handset and places the receiver to his ear, only barely managing to press in the numbers engraved into his brain before he sinks down onto the floor in an attempt to give his knees the relief they have been craving.
It rings two times, three times, and four times. Remus forces himself back up using the palm of his hands to set the phone back and end the call, when he finally hears the sweet sound of silence.
“Hello?” says James Potter, husband to his best friend of nine years.
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October 30th, 1981. Remus calls his best friend.
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- Part 1 of don't leave me hanging on the telephone
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On the fourth of May, 1998, the tell-tale ringtone of their telephone rings through the cream shades of their walls.
"Mamma, it's for you." Her daughter informs her, and Mary kisses her head as she grabs the receiver.
"Hello?" Mary says, a smile still on her face.
"Is this Mary Macdonald?" A painfully familiar voice asks her, and the smile threatens to slip. Her daughter is gazing up at her with wide eyes, however, and Mary focuses all of her energy into keeping her expression the same as it was. She can feel her breath quicken, and she is struggling a little bit to get oxygen back into her lungs.
She recognises the voice. She has spent the last seventeen years trying to forget it.
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Mary Macdonald receives a call informing her of the death of Remus Lupin.Series
- Part 2 of don't leave me hanging on the telephone