with the pain of the future encounters they would have with Barty Crouch Jr and the
Lestranges was checked off of her list. Now, she was at Gringotts, assigning away her
personal vault to Remus, who would be the only person in the future that would need it.
With James and Lily gone and Sirius in Azkaban, she knew that Remus would have
nothing. Charlus and Dorea had begun depositing money into his personal account long
ago, but when Remus began controlling his own finances, he had caught that James had
continued making monthly deposits, and an argument broke out involving the fragile male
ego much to Mia's grating nerves. Remus had agreed to let Sirius and Mia take care of
things like rent and food, but any other such "charity" was ignored on all accounts. At least
this way, if Mia was declared dead—either by actually dying or perhaps eventually going
back to 1998—Remus would be taken care of. He could not very well deny her dying
request that he not starve penniless for fifteen to twenty years.
As she sat contemplating a way to inform her best friend of her plans, Mia felt a
growing heat against her sternum. She reached into her blouse, ignoring the strange look
that the goblin gave her, and pulled out the charmed Galleon hanging on the end of the
chain—the very same one that James had given her years earlier for Christmas. No one in
the A.D. had used it as a form of communication for years, so Mia began to panic when
she looked down at the coin as it read:
Get home now.- RL
She replied back immediately.
What's wrong?- MP
The reply that came a moment later was clear.
Sirius.- RL
"Remus? Sirius?" Mia shouted as she burst from the fireplace, tossing her bag and
cloak on the floor as she rushed forward to search the flat. When she did not find either