the_debt_of_time

Sirius barked a laugh. "You want to give our kids my name?"
Mia smiled smugly. "Oh, it's our kids now?"
"'Course it's our kids." Sirius sighed and put an arm around her, handing her back
the bottle. "I'm an agreeable sort of man these days, kitten, but you're not
having Remus's pups."
Mia rolled her eyes and took another sip. "As long as it's not a whole litter, I think
I'll be fine with birthing your spawn."
"And they'll be Potters," he insisted.
Mia disagreed. "They'll be Blacks."
"No, it should die with me. The whole bloody House and everything it stands for,"
Sirius growled under his breath.
Mia continued to argue, not knowing why, considering it was unlikely he would
even remember this conversation about their future hypothetical children. "No, you should
rebuild it. Make it a name that's worth something again. Make it a name Mum would be
proud of."
Sirius said nothing, but tipped to the side and crawled into her lap, wrapping his
arms around her waist.
She sighed and ran her fingers through his hair as she had done a thousand times
since they were eleven. She wished that they could stay like this, just like this, forever. No
Death Eaters, no Voldemort, no war, and no Azkaban on the horizon. How did he do it?
How did he survive Azkaban all those years? All those years without this? Without me?
And then a darker thought came over her mind and she fought to hold back her
own tears: How am I going to survive without him?
"They killed my brother, Mia," Sirius whispered, interrupting the silence in the
darkness.
"What happened?" she asked, even though she knew the answer.
"He wanted to leave. Told me so when... when we were fighting." Sirius sat up
and scrubbed his face with his hands. "Fucking little coward jumped into the deep end of
Death Eaters and the second it got to be too much... You can't just walk out. Did he
expect to just get a stupid-looking tattoo and that be the end of it when he got bored?
Death Eater means for life. It means death. Your death. And they... they killed him. They
killed my.. ."