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In completely unsurprising news, Kieren has discovered that Quidditch (like all the other sports he's attempted) is going to go on a list of failures. He winces as he cradles his sprained wrist against his stomach, walking home and wondering exactly how humiliating it's going to be to have to ask Sirius to repair it for him, what with the whole reason he's injured being that he'd been trying to become more magically inclined.

So to speak, at least. Using his left hand to open the door to their place, he works to get his satchel off his shoulder with twice the work it normally takes, inhaling deeply to try and rehearse his words in his head. Unfortunately, he has the feeling that the best way to do this is to be direct and get straight to the point.

"Sirius?" he calls out, grimacing when he tries to hang the satchel in the closet, the injured wrist twisting a little uncomfortably. "You wouldn't happen to have any healing magical potions on you at the moment, would you?"

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Kieren's always been rather sparing with his praise, choosing to provide it only when he feels it well deserved. In truth, Sirius likes it that way if only because it makes garnering Kieren's approval that much more rewarding.

"I'm not shocked," he says before adding a bit of a lie. "I knew it would be good. After all, it's not like it can possibly be that difficult, can it? It's just like making potions." Nevermind the fact that Sirius had always struggled a bit with potion.

He gives Kieren's foot a light nudge beneath the table then, a bit more playful. "Eat up then. Can't let any go to waste."

"I'm not sure I want to think of this as a meat potion," he deadpans, lifting up another spoonful of stew to eat, even if the corners of his lips are curving up in amusement at the thought of a meat potion course that Sirius might've taken.

He pushes right back at Sirius' foot, grinning the whole time. "What, am I meant to eat all of this?" he protests, gesturing to the pot. "I know I'm a bit on the lean side, but this is a bit much at one time."

Now that Kieren's said as much, a meat potion does sound a bit strange, though Sirius does wonder a bit why they'd never been taught cooking of all things at Hogwarts. It's not as though it's an entirely unnecessary thing, Muggle or not. Wizards do still need to eat, after all.

He gives Kieren's foot another nudge of his own, a playful little tussle as he grins wider. "What are we to do with the rest if you don't eat it? Should I go around offering it to any who'll take it?"

"Leftovers," Kieren protests with a laugh, still in disbelief sometimes at how little that wizards get taught of the normal world. "We put it in the fridge and then have it for lunch tomorrow or another dinner when neither of us can be fussed to cook or take away." He nudges right back at Sirius' foot, shaking his head.

"Unless you dream of wandering around the sidewalks shoving day old food at people," is his coy retort.

"Oh," Sirius remarks, his nose wrinkling slightly. He can't imagine the stew will taste nearly so good the next day, can't imagine he'll want to eat it. But Kieren seems hardly disgusted by the idea at all.

"Well, we haven't got many neighbors out here," he remarks because there's really only James and he hardly counts. "We could go offer it to the little woodland creatures though." He's joking for the most part, doesn't mean it seriously, but he still can't quite bend his mind around to the idea of eating day-old food himself. "Won't it be cold and a bit slimy?"

"You reheat it, have you really never have leftovers?" Kieren asks, the statement and the question rushing together because he's a little bit in disbelief, marvelling at the idea that leftovers is not a thing that Sirius has never come into contact with before.

"Sirius, we definitely need to get you trying leftovers," he insists, because that seems ridiculous that it didn't happen. "Maybe I can make lunch tomorrow with the leftovers from this," he suggests.

"Should I have?" he replies, his smile faltering a bit when he notices the sound of clear disbelief in Kieren's tone. "I haven't a clue what my mother did with the food when we were done. I always assumed it was either thrown out or the-- or it was otherwise disposed of," he says, quickly catching himself before mentioning Kreacher, still too aware of the sensitivity in that particular subject. "And it was the same at Hogwarts. I've certainly never attempted to simply heat up food that's already been cooked. That does sound terribly unappetizing. You're certain it's sanitary?"

"It's a bit surprising, but I suppose you lived in a world of magic and probably enough money that you never had to have the same thing twice," he admits, which isn't such a bad thing, it's just strange and new to him. "I promise, they're not bad," he vows, squeezing Sirius' hand from over the table.

"They can even be a bit tasty," he promises, trying to infuse warmth and encouragement into his tone. "It's perfectly sanitary, we'll have some tomorrow and I'll prove it."

It's true, he supposes. Though he hadn't thought on it much back home, he's become overwhelmingly aware of his lack of funds since his arrival in this place. Business at the Lamplight manages to pull in some bit of money and he still gets the mysterious stipend every month even while he and Kieren share the little cottage in the woods, but it's nothing like the money he once had.

"Alright," he says, twisting his wrist just a bit to curl his fingers briefly with Kieren's and returning the squeeze. His lips tug into a wide grin. "I'll trust you then. And, in the meantime, you can continue to lavish praise upon me for cooking a delicious meal and healing your broken wrist."

"I'm definitely going to keep giving you praise for that and, I hate to say it, but I'm probably not going to be a magical broom star anytime soon," Kieren says, heavy sarcasm and amusement in his words because he's still a little in disbelief that anyone actually ever was.

Leaning forward over the table, he presses a kiss to Sirius' cheek. "Thank you, for healing me," he says, and means that with every bit of his heart.

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