the_debt_of_time

He used the distraction to slip the glass of firewhisky from her hand, setting it down
on the nearby table.
"Soul Bonds are the Wizarding equivalent to soul mates. He's my other half. Not
my opposite, not my better half, just the other missing part of me. Which means we have
far too much in common on a deep level, and, therefore―"
"You clash," Remus said in understanding. "So, what happened?"
"Mad-Eye―"
"Mad-Eye?" Remus asked with a raised brow.
Mia blinked at him, confused. "Moody."
Remus snorted. "Mad-Eye? That's kind of brilliant. Do I want to know how he gets
that delightful moniker?"
"Shh." She pressed her finger against his lips. "Moody asked—or, well, informed me
that I would be teaching Frank, Alice, and Sirius Occlumency." She began anxiously
chewing the side of her cheek, glaring into the darkness as though Moody were standing
there in front of them. "Sirius... didn't do well."
Remus inhaled sharply knowing that there could be quite an array of memories that
Sirius would want to keep from Mia. Marlene McKinnon being at the very top of that list.
"What did you see?"
"Grimmauld Place."
His mouth fell open in shock at the mention of Sirius's childhood home, knowing
immediately what memory she was referring to. "Well, I get why he's angry then." Not
knowing exactly how to proceed with helping his friends, he scratched the back of his neck.
"Still, it had to happen sometime, and if not you, wouldn't it just be someone else digging
through his mind?"
Mia turned and stared at him with wide amber eyes. The colour startled him a bit—
as they almost glowed in the dark thanks to the reflecting lights from Diagon Alley outside
the nearby window—and he wondered when the last time he saw chocolate-brown staring
back at him had been.
"That was basically my argument," she said. "Lot of good it did me. Merlin, I just...
I wish I could teach him Legilimency instead. Let him sift through my memories."
He frowned, recalling his own time doing so in Dumbledore's office, though not by
means of Legilimency. "That's dangerous. Mia, I went with you into a Pensieve, and you