Sirius had been prepared to have a longer fight about this, not willing to back down from this. However, seeing Remus deflate like that made Sirius’ heart break and he found himself losing the track of what he had wanted to say.<br/>Instead, he reached out for Remus, but found himself unsure of where he would be allowed to touch him, so he allowed his hand to fall again.<br/>“Moony, I-“ he started but cut himself off. He had no idea what he could possibly say about this, but he knew that he didn’t want him to go. Sure, it was war and he knew that there were many things that they couldn’t just do, yet this seemed beyond excessive and Sirius could absolutely strangle Moody for making Remus go through this.<br/>“I know.”