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understood. The Blacks felt hate. The Lupins felt fear. Neither properly knew how to love
their sons.
"Mum and Dad, of course," Sirius said, referring to Dorea and Charlus. "Then
casually by you, Prongs, and Wormtail, once by Lily even though she hexed me right after.
Six years with the Potters, and I'm still not used to it. When Mia said it... I don't know
what happened. It... It fucking hurt. Why would it hurt?" he asked, looking up at his
friend, hoping Remus's previous experience with Mia would grant him some sort of insight
into the girl, relationships as a whole, and love in general.
"Because you finally have something good that's just yours," Remus suggested. "She
loved me, but not like she loves you. That part of her is yours and yours alone, and I think
you're scared of losing it."
"I can't fuck this up, Moony," Sirius mumbled desperately. "I don't want to fuck
this up. How do I not fuck this up?"
Remus slowly rose an eyebrow as he eyed him. "You're asking me for advice on
how to date Mia?" He burst into laughter. "Do you have any idea how pissed off she'd be
about that?"
"Don't care; need help."
When the laughter died away, Remus sighed happily, looking like he was enjoying
this brief interlude of time where Sirius Black did not know how to do something that his
ego could not compensate for. Sirius might have thrown something at him for it, but he
wanted answers.
"Don't treat her like any other girl," Remus advised. "If you start buying her flowers
and stuff, she's likely to use them in a potion and then poison you with it. Also, she comes
first." Remus paused and stared directly at Sirius, smirking. "And I mean that in every sense
of the word."
Sirius rolled his eyes. "I don't have a problem in that area, thanks," he retorted
snappishly, though a grin slipped back across his jaw as he remembered the fifth-floor
corridor and the way she had desperately clung to him, fluttering around his cock and
panting out each syllable of his name between breaths.
"I mean it, though," Remus said, interrupting Sirius's brief recollection. "You treat
her like Prongs treats Lily. Just... be less embarrassing about it." They both laughed at