Bag unopened, Remus simply sat watching Sirius have his pastry; Remus had had his own on the way back to the dorms already, and he sat contemplating whether or not he ought to have bought three, the sight striking him somewhere deep in the pit of his stomach.<br/>“I wasn’t planning to, but it seems like I might,” Remus eventually said with a casualty that undermined just how deliberate his decision had been.<br/>The roundtrip to Wales was expensive and was starting to feel more and more pointless as the years went on; having started his doctorate, Remus had been away from home for 6 years, and he wasn’t particularly itching to see his parents.<br/>“Besides, we don’t celebrate Christmas all that much back at mine, so it makes no difference, really.”