Re: Remus/Sirius
"I'm great at fostering," he said grumpily. "And exploding."
But Remus was right. As he usually was. It never ended well when Sirius spent too much time brooding. He'd end up doing something, or someone, stupid.
"I just..." he tried to shrug, which was hard to do while upside down. "I don't understand any of this. I don't understand why Peter wouldn't come to us when his family was in danger. I don't understand why he betray us. I don't understand how you and I could ever stop trusting each other. I don't understand any of it. I..." he looked away, regret and despair welling up in him. "I don't understand how we're not enough. The four of us. The Marauders. We're supposed to last through anything. Everything. But we don't ." He bit the word off like it physically hurt him. "Peter betrays us. We stop trusting each other. James dies. I'm locked up. You're alone. I don't understand. We're supposed to be enough." The unloved child crept into his voice, desperately just wanting the little piece of family he'd clawed out for himself to stay together.