What Is Love! No, Seriously. [Sirius]

Well that… wasn't the direction he expected this conversation to go. He paused, and then settled down beside Gossy. He wasn't sure he was qualified to have this conversation. He'd made enough of a mess of his relationships as it was. But she had asked, and he would do his best to answer her honestly. He wondered what had prompted the thought. Was there someone she was interested in? "Honestly? I didn't want to love Isa. In fact, I hated her at first. I thought she was smug, arrogant, and foolish. Turns out she was brave, tenacious, and honourable instead." He gave a wry chuckle. 


"I knew I loved her when I realised she was in danger. I was so afraid I was going to lose her, and with that came the realisation of what she had come to mean to me. It was the same with your mother." He swallowed a lump and pushed on. He knew he needed to be able to talk about her to them. "It was in the middle of a thunderstorm. She was huddled in the bushes, having tried to make her way to me before the fear won out. Seeing her like that… I was a different wolf back then, less protective. She woke something inside of me. I made the Armada for her." He blinked, focusing back on Gossy again. "But that's not the only kind of love. There are others, too. Slower ones. Sometimes they start with a friendship, and build into something more. Is there someone you have your eyes on, Goss?