____________<br/><br/>They were hardly a week into the new year before professor Mulligan had insisted that his students give a presentation of the work they had made over the break; Remus, who hadn’t made major progress in that particular aspect, had instead spent the last few days of warning playing catch up.<br/>Having just finished his proposed line of argument, Remus took a moment to look over the graphs he had roughly drawn onto the chalkboard as he spoke - graphs that hadn’t existed a week ago.<br/>“Yeah,” he reaffirmed, eyes returning onto Mulligan and Sirius, both sitting at the desk.<br/>Though Remus was tentatively getting used to the duality of Sirius as both room mate and supervisor, this third facet was still so new to them that it made Remus’ stomach flip just looking at him; there was a dizzying vulnerability in Sirius knowing precisely what Remus had spent his break on.<br/>“I'm pretty confident in the direction this is taking.”