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They pick up at the very moment Remus's eyes shoot open, a look of absolute shock crossing his face as he dug his heels into the floor.

"911, ambulance, fire, or police?"

"Ambulance, please, fuck-" He swears as Remus tenses again, his face a ghastly shade of purple as he shakes his head furiously.

"What's the nature of your emergency?

And that's all it is anymore- a great big science expirement. 

There's two hypotheses:

1. If you put a happily married couple through tremendous amounts of stress, how long until they begin to resent one another?

2. If you take a person who's been through the worst kind of trauma, plant the idea of having a baby and being able to give them the life you never had, and then make it impossible to conceive said baby, how long will it take for that person to fall apart?

The answer is two years.

The last three days Sirius has barely seen Remus; who insists it has nothing to do with their robot like sex and the fact that most of Sirius's thoughts are spent obsessing and agonizing over something that doesn't even exist.

But Sirius isn't stupid, and can see the writing on the wall.

Remus is getting tired of this.

And he doesn't know what to do- doesn't know how to fix this. Because then he would have to admit that there was a problem, and he didn't want to do that. 

"I don't think that's ever going to happen, by the way."

Regulus, who must have almost been asleep, mumbles something before rolling his head in Sirius's direction.

"Having a baby in the car. That's never going to happen."

He hasn't said it outloud to anyone besides Remus. Not even James, because James burns a little too bright to try to snuff out the light. But Regulus, well Regulus can take it.

"You can't control it when it happens, Sirius," His brother sounds irritated almost, sleep heavy in his voice.

"No, I mean that I'll never have a baby. Like, at all."

And that must have done something, because Regulus sighs and flips back over onto his side with effort so that he's looking directly at Sirius's profile.

"It will. It just... sometimes these things take time-"