"It's just strange, I know Harry expects me to be like I was then." He wanted to live up to the man he'd been - it should be that difficult, right? It was him after all, not someone else. And yet he didn't think he'd ever be that man.
Sirius rolled his eyes and smacked the back of James' head, not as hard as he might have with anyone else, but enough. "You don't have any of those marks back there do you?" He shook his head. "You were brilliant, even when you couldn't breathe and if you'd stop being an idiot you would know no one blames you for what happened this weekend."
"I guess you're right, you got to grow up with that." Sirius was just glad it wasn't something he'd had to deal with, of course he might have had fun dealing with press. Sirius shook his head and rolled his eyes, there was just only so much teasing a man could take and rather than responding he leaned in and fisted a hand in James' shirt tugging him closer and kissed him. Not anywhere near the sort of kiss he'd give to someone he was actually panning on sleeping with but enough to get his attention. "You tell me this is really what you want to do - that you're not just teasing me like we have been since the start of all this and I'll show you just how afraid of you I really am."