The mere suggestion was enough to make Sirius’ face heat up further, even if it had been exactly<span style="font-style: italic">why</span>Sirius had come to talk with Remus, it still felt like too much and like they were both being awfully presumptuous about the intentions of the other person.<br/>Still though, Sirius did what he could to collect himself enough to actually make the request he so wanted to.<br/>“I do,” he ended up bursting out, far removed from the easy and elegant request he had thought that he would be able to make, but he realised that if he wanted to put his cards on the table it was going to have to be like this.<br/>“I mean… if you want to then, yeah, I do,” he stated, looking down at his socked feet and all but begging for the ground to swallow him, so desperate for this conversation to be over with, one way or another.