Gah, I want to click through to the next chapter, but I've so got to go to bed, heh. Lovely! They're both so desperate, and so afraid of the effect of their secrets on the other -- and I suspect we don't know the half of those yet, not even Remus's for all that he's the narrator. ;)

I loved the moment of humor where Remus made his joke about "creatures of the night"; I guess that's one direction you're not taking this AU!