There really was a great sense of intimacy in getting to talk about these kinds of things with someone, even if they still had to be subtle in their ways.<br/>It was just a relief to know that someone knew something like this about you, but also that they would have no desire to ever give you away. It wasn’t something that Sirius had had since James, and yet this was all new, knowing that Remus understood in a different way.<br/>“Yeah, very late,” he said with a crooked grin, taking a large sip from his coffee as he tried to become slightly more human, very keen on getting at least a little bit of studying in, his late night to be damned.<br/>“Dragged out a little in the end so I got in later than I planned.”