No, Sirius didn't accept the first words out of Remus's mouth. Perhaps Moony actually thought that. But Sirius knew better - not because he was an amazingly better more upstanding person but because he had done that plenty of times, the hurting someone, saying something or doing something that that was really stupid in hindsight. It was amazing what hindsight did. No, but when Sirius made a mess, he saw it, he looked right at it. He didn't wait until someone pieced them back together or something.
"You don't get to make the call," Sirius sighed, shaking his head a little, "to see it or not. You just...apologize and take whatever comes for it." It was strange because he hurt and that emotion was there, but at the same time, it wasn't ... the most judgmental statements Sirius had ever given. It was what he did, what he had to do, each and every time. He'd learned that much by now.
He set down the tool he had been cleaning, for a bit too long. Sirius was exhausted and hurt and didn't know what to say. It wasn't...Remus had admitted what he had done, if a bit without an apology or so far realization it had been wrong...and not just because Sirius was saying s.