((OOC warning - will almost certainly contain swearing and shouting. Caveat emptor.))Remus was busying himself in his office, setting up a second chair in front of his desk, putting out a kettle, cups, a selection of teabags, milk and sugar and spoons. He slammed drawers and jammed books back on their shelves and tossed papers in the rubbish bin
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It was only a few weeks ago that he had followed Moony in through this door, determined to be by Moony's side during the full moon. The two of them had curled up together, as canines and then again as humans, and he had felt content, at least for those several brief hours. Moony had put his arm around him and stroked his hair and accepted him for all that he was.Sirius hadn't realised that that was the last full-moon night they would ever spend together, that their friendship would end only a few short weeks later. He struggled to catch his breath, which was beginning to hitch somewhere between his throat and his chest ( ... )
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All the while, he was aware of Sirius sitting there in the corner of the office, obviously seething. He turned another page of his book.
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Just after he heard the sound of a page being turned, Sirius cast a quick glance over at Remus. If Remus was busy turning a page, he was likely not looking over at Sirius, and Sirius didn't want Remus to know he was looking his way.
The brief glance told him nothing other than that Remus was looking at his book.
Well, Remus wasn't the only one who could make noise. Sirius started tapping his foot, shooting occasional glances at Remus to gauge his reaction.
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Noisily swishing his robes, Sirius pulled out the bottle of Firewhisky and purposely struggled with the cork. Normally, he would have removed it by magic, but that would have been too easy. Remus was driving Sirius to drink, and Sirius would be damned if he didn't make that crystal clear to Remus. After a grand struggle with the bottle, Sirius finally got the cork to pop off. It went flying onto a bookshelf near Sirius, but unfortunately didn't knock anything down.
Sirius sat back, took a swallow of the Firewhisky, and then let out a (fake) contented "Aaaaaahhhh!" to indicate his pleasure with its taste.
Yeah. Laugh at that, Remus.
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Fine. If he couldn't annoy Remus into talking, he would comedy him into laughing out loud. Maybe that would be even better. If Remus found all this funny, well, he had seen nothing yet.
Sirius started to rattle the bottle around in his mouth so that it clinked against his teeth. He'd deep throat the whole fucking thing if he had to.
Take the bait, Remus. Just take it.
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He remembered Sirius goofing off similarly when they were in school - not because he was angry, but just for fun - and felt a painful pang of nostalgia. They couldn't keep fighting like this. There was too much history between them. They would have to patch things up. He had no idea how to go about it, though. He was damned if he would apologize first, and there was clearly no force in hell that would make Sirius admit he'd done anything wrong. It was a dilemma, to be sure.
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Sirius turned his head and looked Remus straight in the eyes. Not taking his eyes off Remus's, not even for a fraction of a second, he tipped his head back and took a large swallow of Firewhisky. Then, still staring directly into Remus's eyes, Sirius reached his other hand into his robes, pulled out his wand, and started to twirl it around. A quick incantation uttered in his mind and blue sparks began to fly out of the tip, creating a sort of pinwheel sparkler effect--not that Sirius could see, of course, as he was still looking into Remus's eyes, waiting for a reaction.
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Then, composing his features, he calmly poured himself a cup of tea. He would have preferred Firewhisky, but that would've meant asking for some, and he wasn't quite ready for that yet.
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...except Sirius didn't quite know what to do with the win. What was the point of this whole exercise again?
Oh yeah, he was trying to get Remus to yell at him, or find a really good excuse to start the yelling himself without being blamed for making the first move later on.
Well, since he had triggered something of a rise out of Remus, he supposed he could try to call Remus on it.
"Something funny, Lupin?" Sirius's tone was even and just a little bit too loud. Still staring at Remus, he continued to twirl the wand around, blue sparks spewing out of the tip.
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