the_debt_of_time

Sirius watched her closely, wondering which Mia he was in the presence of. Her
best friend was missing, presumably in serious danger, and she looked calm, which meant
that she could be quite lethal.
Her chocolate brown eyes remained emotionless until she spotted Peter in the
corner of the room, and Sirius caught it immediately when the shift took place, and her
gaze flashed amber. Instincts, she had called it the first time her fox form had tried to maul
Wormtail in the Shrieking Shack. Considering they all found out later that Peter had once
spied on Mia and Remus having sex, Sirius understood her mistrust of his friend; her
instincts had been right.
While he felt angry and possessive over the idea that anyone else—save Remus—
saw Mia in the throes of passion, he could not help but feel a bit sorry for Wormtail, who,
until recently, never had a girlfriend of his own. It was with this pity alone that Sirius
stepped away from Mia and gestured to Peter.
"Might want to sit on the other end of the room, mate."
Peter looked over Sirius's shoulder and nodded, shifting his way around a few chairs
to take a seat at the end of the row between Edgar Bones and Gideon Prewett.
When Sirius turned back, he found Lily tightly holding onto Mia.
The meeting began, and Lily pulled Mia to the sofa to sit beside her while Sirius
made his way up to the front next to Frank and Moody where the old Auror explained the
situation.
"Most of you already know, but one of our own has gone missing. Lupin was sent
to infiltrate a sub-group of potential allies to You-Know-Who's lot in the hopes that he
could retrieve information for us, see where numbers stand. We lost communication with
him a few days ago. We've already got Aurors on the lookout, and we're doing our best to
track the movements of the group. Unfortunately, it's difficult due to their numbers and
the danger it presents to the rest of us. So we're keeping on top of the situation in the
hopes that Lupin re-establishes contact with us in the meantime."
"What group is this?" Marlene McKinnon asked from the front of the room. While
it had not been clear what part Marlene would play among the Order, Sirius had discovered
that she was infiltrating the upper-class social circles of pureblood debutantes, being
considered quite the catch herself.
"Werewolves," Moody answered.