the_debt_of_time

been loud enough inside the bank to draw unwanted attention, yelling about extra
protections on her vault.
Mia bristled at the news, and with every irritable sigh she let slip out of her mouth,
Dumbledore tossed her an interested look followed by a kind smile that caused her blood
to boil in response. After coming to terms with the future, Mia had decided not to actively
try and change anything, but sitting there and knowing something while everyone
else speculated was driving her spare.
"Sirius," Mia whispered. "Sirius, you're snoring."
He slowly opened his tired grey eyes and looked up gratefully to her. "Thanks, love."
Mia smirked lightly. "Constant vigilance."
He rolled his eyes and tossed a brief glare up at the front of the small living room
at Tuts Tower where the meeting was taking place. A two-legged, two-eyed—but still
paranoid as fuck—Alastor Moody was in an argument with fellow Order member and
Auror, Edgar Bones, over the way a recent Death Eater arrest had gone south due to
evidence being mishandled.
"Man's a right lunatic," Sirius whispered to Mia while looking at Moody.
Within days of the attack at their graduation, Moody hauled Frank, Alice, and Sirius
into the Ministry to begin their training. Frank and Sirius were paired up together to be
trained directly under Moody himself, while Alice was paired with another witch to be
trained by Edgar Bones.
The two elder Aurors clearly had different definitions of what consisted of proper
instruction. Alice and her partner, Elspeth Entwistle, were loaded up with books and
manuals during the first half of the day and sent to physical training during the second half.
Sirius and Frank, on the other hand, were told to study their manuals and texts all day long.
Meanwhile, Moody would interrupt at various points during the day to ambush his trainees
by hexing them in the back, jinxing them while they read, and cursing them every other
time they blinked.
Frank and Sirius had begun sitting back-to-back while revising, taking turns to keep
watch for their boss and mentor. Both were exhausted and paranoid by the end of their
first week. As training progressed, they continued being just as tired, though quite a bit
more skilled and knowledgeable in their chosen careers.