the_debt_of_time

She nodded, placing a hand on his arm to hopefully help stop him from pacing.
"Yes. I told you, I know you both in the future."
Something in him snapped. "And you couldn't have mentioned until now that I'm
fifteen years older than her?!"
"Thirteen years actually," Mia corrected him.
"Oh, that's bloody well and good! Two years less makes a big difference when my
bloody mate is—!"
"Hey! Are you forgetting that I might at some point have to deal with my own age
complication?" she snapped, referencing her past—or well, future—relationship with a
much older Sirius Black; that is, if she ever got the chance to go back to 1998. "And
nineteen years is a little more of an issue than thirteen, thank you very much, Moony!"
"Don't 'Moony' me, Mia!" Remus growled. "I just found out my mate is a toddler!
She won't even start Hogwarts for six years. I'll be... oh Merlin, I'll be th-th-thirty by the
time she's even.. ." He fell back on the bed, eyes wide and panic-stricken.
Briefly, Mia wondered if she had broken him, but she could see his chest rising and
falling even through the apparent panic attack.
Suddenly, his nostrils flared again, and his pupils dilated once more. All the stress
had vanished, and he looked practically, well, high. "Do...? Did you happen to bake
biscuits?"
Mia rolled her eyes in frustration. "No."
The moment faded rather quickly, and Remus suddenly realised something
important. "She smells like biscuits?! This is the worst day of my life."
"Do you want a Calming Draught?"
"I'm fine." He fell back onto the bed, covering his face with a large pillow. Mia
wondered if he was thinking about smothering himself with it. "I'm just... understandably
bitter, I suppose."
"I'd like to point out that you've always fought me on the fact that you'd ever find
her," Mia said smugly.
"Fair point," he conceded from beneath the pillow.
"I'm still going to lock the door when I leave this room."
He removed the pillow, sitting back up and narrowing his eyes at her. "Do you
honestly think I'd go out there and... what? Assault a child?"