"Doesn't matter, anyway. Best part of the entire experience was watching his face when I said it was possible I might have been 'fucking Sirius'."
When Regulus explained, it actually made sense. "Even so, you still notice." Remus shrugged. "I'm not one for making snap judgements. That's why it took me more than a week to act on your advice regarding the training in the first place."
Remus swallowed, but didn't back down from the teasing, despite the odd drop in the pit of his stomach. "I never said I had a problem. I just told you not to tease like that when I'm unsuspecting."
Meeting that light-eyed gaze, Remus was thinking again -- thinking that Regulus had a knack for telling him things he needed to hear. He was also thinking about the many things that sooner could have meant. "I'm working on that part."