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Commission for @spotthekrey of Clint Barton with Alpine from a fic he is writing :D

(hes standing at bucky’s door😌)

“Remus,” Sirius said, very seriously. “We need to have a discussion.”

Remus froze halfway through buttering his toast, which then flipped off his knife and landed jam-side-down on the table, like a metaphor for his life. “Do we?” he asked, with the wary caution of a man who knew Sirius had once called a ‘discussion’ the time he and James debated whether a hippogriff could wear trousers.

“Yes,” Sirius said, pulling out the chair beside him like he was about to deliver a formal address to the Wizengamot. “It’s about us.”

Remus’s soul left his body. “There is no us,” he said too quickly.

Sirius arched an eyebrow. “Really. Because I have several memories of you gazing at me like I’m the last Chocolate Frog on earth.”

“I was probably just wondering why your shirt’s always unbuttoned,” Remus muttered.

“Lupin, I saw you write ‘Mrs. Black’ in the margins of your Arithmancy notes.”

“I was hexed.”

“Four times?”

“It was a powerful hex.”

Sirius leaned forward, elbow on the table, chin in his hand, looking far too pleased with himself for someone about to emotionally detonate Remus Lupin. “Look, I know you’re trying to ignore it, repress it, push it down so far it emerges somewhere in Australia, but—Moony—we like each other.”

Remus groaned and buried his face in his hands. “Couldn’t you just snog me out of nowhere like a normal person?”

“I could,” Sirius said thoughtfully, “but then you’d combust and flee the country.”

“I might still combust and flee the country,” Remus said, voice muffled.

“Then I’d have to follow you. We'd have to start a new life. We'd open a bookstore. You'd run the front; I'd drink wine and alphabetize things terribly—”

“That actually sounds kind of nice,” Remus admitted, lifting his head.

“I know,” Sirius said smugly. “That’s why we need to discuss it.”

Remus stared at him. “You want to discuss the hypothetical domestic bliss before we’ve even held hands?”

“Well, we could start with that.” Sirius reached across the table, took Remus’s hand gently, and grinned. “See? One step closer to owning a bookstore in exile.”

Remus looked down at their joined hands, a smile tugged the corner of his mouth. “Fine,” he muttered. “We’re discussing. I’m participating. See me participate.”

Sirius beamed. “Good. Because next on the agenda is the snogging schedule.”

Remus groaned again, but he didn’t pull his hand away. Not a chance.

Sharing to give authors extra love and bc searches can be problematic. In order of reading; i.e. not ranked. All are platonic (if there's a ship I was able to read it as platonic lol)

Ava Starr - The Ghost by LeeMorrigan; "Ava Starr used to be a fairly normal child, aside from her parents being scientists on the run, until one day her father's experiment blew up. Then, she was an orphan with uncontrollable powers, before SHIELD turned her into a weapon, Val recruited her, and she ended up in a room with a bunch of people who got named after a losing soccer team."

Let Me Be the Quiet That Holds You by TigerLillies; "Bob's been drowning in the dark again suffocated by memories, voices, and the creeping weight of his own mind. But this time, when the nightmare breaks, he’s not alone. Bucky is there, grounding him with steady hands and quieter truths. What follows is a night of unexpected warmth, quiet understanding, and the kind of connection Bobby didn’t know he needed."