Sirius Black was a man of details...
Sirius Black was a man of details, he liked to pay attention to the smallest bits of information and remember them for the future, for example, he always remembered that his brother hated sprinkles on his cupcakes and that James couldn’t stomach tea without copious amounts of sugar, that Peter could not digest dairy, or that Remus could not go a day without a cup of tea or he would physically combust.
But Sirius was also a man of dates, they were three dates that he would always remember, such as they were inked on his skin:
21st June 1960
1st September 1970
10th March 1979
The first one was the day his brother, Regulus was born. He really didn’t think life had started until he saw his same grey eyes on that baby, and knew he was his person the one he would always care for, he could still barely remember seeing his mother walk in, a pointy look on her face with a bundle of blankets.
He looked once at Regulus and knew he loved him from the start
The second one was the day he met James, Remus and Peter. The day he boarded the train to Scotland, he was sitting by himself looking out the window waving to Reg who was hiding behind Walburga’s dress, with red eyes left from crying as his older brother waved him goodbye. Then a black-hair boy with crooked glasses had sat in front of him and offered a kind smile and said
“Hi, I am James, and this is Peter and you?” he gestured to the blond smaller boy by his side with kind blue eyes.
It took him a moment to answer as he was not used to people smiling as openly as the brown-skinned boy in front of him, he was also confused as his mother had told him that foreign-looking people did not speak English and had no manners, and that was just not the case with the one in front of him.
“I am Sirius Black, nice to meet you,” he said with a small voice
That got a reaction out of the blond boy, who gasped lightly as he spoke
“Black? As in Black Inc.?” he questioned
“Yeah..”
“Cool,” said the black-haired boy. James was it?
Later on, when the train was already on the way, entered the fourth one of their about to be a group of friends. Gasping slightly and without air, a sandy-haired boy with curls and a nasty-looking scar across his face entered their carriage.
“Sorry, is their space here?.. everyone else is already full,” the boy asked, with a slight Welsh accent
“Sure thing! Come in! What’s your name? I am James, this is Peter and Sirius” said James with a grin on his face and making space for the other boy.
“I am Remus,” he said with a smile
And Sirius was a goner after that smile.
The third date, was the day of Remus's 20th Birthday, he was already Moony up until that point and they had thrown him a surprise party, it fell on a Tuesday but who cared? They were just out of mid-term season and Remus was exhausted after spending all his time in the library like the swot he was. Sirius had been begging him to go out but was forbidden to do so, so instead, he concocted the plan with the help of James and Peter, and of course Regulus and Lily. He was on Moony duty which meant he was supposed to keep him out of the flat until at least 6 in the evening when everything would be prepared, he trusted them all but he did not trust Remus to not want to go back before that time so he sacrificed his sanity and had spent all day with him at the library.
“You don’t have to be here with me just because it’s my birthday Pads” Remus sighed with a whisper
“Nonsense, where else could I possibly be Moonshine?” he retorted
“I don’t know out? Like everyone else”
Sirius looked the amber-eyed boy straight in the eye, with a smile as big as the sky
“I 'd rather be with you"
Remus sighed but argued no more. It had been coming for some time, but Sirius realised that his obsession with Remus was not the same one he had with everyone else in his life, sure he liked to nag Reg and spend time with Peter and James, but he could spend hours doing absolutely nothing with Remus.
As previously stated Sirius was a man of details, but moreover Sirius Black was a man of Remus Lupin. As such, that was the day he realised he was in love with his best friend.
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