[Fic] By a Thread, part 1 of 2

[shimotsuki]

Since reading DH, I've been making myself feel better by working on both a canon-compliant peaceful!afterlife fic and, yes, I admit it, a canon-denial AU fic. I enjoy other people's AU fics just fine, so I don't know why I feel weird about writing one of my own, but ... I do. So I wasn't sure if I would even be willing to post it where, you know, people could actually see it.

But then I noticed a couple of prompts at this month's rt_challenge that make for an irresistible combination: cheat and the end. How can you not want to run off and write a canon-denial fic when you see that?

So here it is:
By a Thread (2437 words | PG/profanity, reference to offstage violence; DH spoilers; AU)
After the Battle of Hogwarts, Remus has a choice to make.
Thanks to my beta, jncar, for excellent ideas and moral support.

Unfortunately, this is part 1 of 2, and part 2 won't be done in time for rt_challenge. But I'm still working full-speed ahead ('course, for me, that's five miles an hour) on this story, and I fully expect to have the second part done in the next week or two.