Sirius met James's eyes. He stared at him for a long moment searching James's face. "Fucking nutter," he muttered. "I wasn't telling you those things for me, James. I was telling you for Harry. Neither one of us were around for Harry when he was a child but I'm telling you here and now. If you want to stay in contact with your son, here in the present that you'll grow up."
He swallowed hard and continued. "Yes, we are alive and oh yes, I certainly know what it is to laugh and most definitely know what it is to enjoy feeling, again. So I am living in the present. Are you?"