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Sirius Black used to be many things: promising, charming, and—debatable but still—kind of capable of making good decisions. Now he’s twenty-six, broke, emotionally constipated, and hopelessly in love with his best friend. It’s fine. He’s handling it very normally.
Remus Lupin used to be brilliant. He still is, technically. He just also happens to be deeply tired, quietly self-destructive, and very committed to pretending he has everything under control. None of those carefully controlled decisions, however, seem to include Sirius.
They argue, they avoid each other, they say all the wrong things—and occasionally the right ones at the worst possible time. Somewhere between missed potential, bad coping mechanisms, and a friendship that has always been a little too intense, something fragile and dangerous has taken root.