And just like that, the attack's turned on Sirius.
It's at least preferable to James's sadness and Sirius's own roiling guilt so he doesn't put up too much of a fight. Or at least not a genuine one.
"Never noticed it yourself when we were younger, did you?" he says with just a mite of defensiveness. It's more playful than anything though and it's only been very recently that Sirius has let himself recognize his early trailing after James as a hunger for more than friendship. It'd died down in later years, settled into a brotherhood Sirius wouldn't trade for anything in the world, though he'd never breathed a word of it until now. Maybe it'll be enough of a shock to catch James's tongue.
"And, just as you said, it's not as though I need to," he says, glancing toward Kieren this time. "I just smile and they come flocking. Worked on you, didn't it?" It's not true, of course. While he can't say he courted Kieren exactly, there'd been much more to it than a simple smile; Sirius still remembers all too well how Kieren had cut his ego a time or two at the start, after all.
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Date: 2017-01-10 07:38 pm (UTC)It's at least preferable to James's sadness and Sirius's own roiling guilt so he doesn't put up too much of a fight. Or at least not a genuine one.
"Never noticed it yourself when we were younger, did you?" he says with just a mite of defensiveness. It's more playful than anything though and it's only been very recently that Sirius has let himself recognize his early trailing after James as a hunger for more than friendship. It'd died down in later years, settled into a brotherhood Sirius wouldn't trade for anything in the world, though he'd never breathed a word of it until now. Maybe it'll be enough of a shock to catch James's tongue.
"And, just as you said, it's not as though I need to," he says, glancing toward Kieren this time. "I just smile and they come flocking. Worked on you, didn't it?" It's not true, of course. While he can't say he courted Kieren exactly, there'd been much more to it than a simple smile; Sirius still remembers all too well how Kieren had cut his ego a time or two at the start, after all.