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"Have I ever told you why I was even with my family when you killed them?"
[…] "I hadn’t seen him for fifty years […] I didn’t go of my own volition. He begged me to come."
"He begged you?"
"Ten years" S. continued, "ten years, he said, like an ultimatum, and then, if, at the end of ten years I didn’t want to stay, he would leave with me. He promised that he would leave with me."

you're like this little thing that I could never catch.

And then- then you break into a government building or kill a pureblood and act like you're so important that the world would stop spinning without you and I've come to realise that I think my world would."

"The thought of having you makes me spiral but the thought of losing you-?"

"I think I'd go crazy. […] I'd kill everyone I lay eyes on for you."

"I don't fucking know.
Whatever the hell you want me to be saying. I'm all yours. I can't not be, even though you make me want to pull my teeth out one by one and stick my fist in a pot of molten lava."
"Romantic."
"Some people say I'm a charmer," Sirius schmoozed, and Remus rolled his eyes and felt like he never wanted to leave this moment again.

Sirius crawled his fingers slowly upwards and slid them between Remus'. As if one of them would break if he moved too fast.
The silence hung heavy.
"Can do this now," […] "Not like that one time in the motel."
[…] "Oh, god," he groaned, […] "You were awake for that?"
[…] "I'm a predator. You touch me, I wake up instantly."
"Shut up," Remus muttered, dropping his hand, knowing his face was red. Sirius smiled.

Remus sometimes felt like he knew Sirius better than he knew himself, even though he didn't really know him at all. It was a paradox.

the whole 4am thing!!!

I don’t know how to act with you when I’m not trying to kill you. I don’t know how to act with you when I’m trying not ti fall in love with you.

“I think Sirius underestimates his
own strength,"
"He's repressed it for so long that he forgets it's there until someone wrongs him and he rips their jaw clean off"
Remus' own jaw dropped
"He ripped his jaw off?" he said, disbelieving, and James laughed
"Yeah,"
"[…] Regulus is out of harm, thus, the jaw comes
clean off. I believe he took an arm off
too.”
Remus, hilariously, felt an urge to laugh.

Sirius' face was slack with shock. James was completely unread able - he had tears in his eyes too, but his jaw was locked and his eyes were
blaring in protection, […]
Brothers, not in the blood sense, but every other. James, taking on Sirius' weight. James, being the control when Sirius lost it. James, being the balance when Sirius was falling on one side of the scale.

"Regulus Black," Remus whispered, and
Sirius laughed now, fully, still bitter, the weight of the world behind it.
"My little brother," he said, raising his glass to toast, as if there was anything left in it.
"My achilles heel."