the_debt_of_time

rambling downstairs. A part of him wondered if he should send an emergency Patronus to
Remus. Somehow he had a way of talking her down when she got like this. "Whatever it
is, we'll figure it out, yeah?"
"No, no, no.. ." Mia pulled away from him. "I can't. I don't have time. There's not
enough time. I wasted it all, Sirius, I wasted eight years."
Sirius stood up as she rushed out of the room. "Mia! Wasted eight years? Wasted it
doing what?"
"Doing nothing, everything.. ." she muttered, digging her fingers into her curls
and gripping tight as she paced around the room.
"Are you... ?" His hand hovered over his pocket where a small, square bulge sat.
His heart rate picked up dramatically, and he nervously bit the inside of his lip. Fuck, did
she find out? he wondered to himself. Did she know what he was doing and this was her way
of saying no? "Are you saying you wasted time with... with me?"
"Yes!" she snapped. "No! Not like... I should have b-been t-trying to s-s-sa.. ."
Her stutter set something off inside him.
"What're you hiding?" he demanded, and the look of fear on her face at his question
gave him the answer. Whatever it was that she was hiding, it was important. And it was big.
"I can't tell you. If I try I'll just pass out," she said. "I want to, Merlin, I want to tell
you everything."
"Then tell me!" Sirius barked. "Fuck! Are we ever not going to have secrets between
us?"
"Yes! One day you and I will tell each other everything, but that's not for y-y-y―"
"Years?" He blinked rapidly. "Were you going to say years? As in, you're going to
keep secrets from me for fucking years?!"
"No, no, no." Mia rushed forward, wrapping her arms around his waist and clinging
to him tightly. "Sirius, please, you don't understand. I don't have time to explain. I should
have fought harder. I should have tried; I wanted to try but I could only think of H-H-
Har—But now it's up to you. Sirius don't t-trust W-W-W—Shit!"
Sirius was barely paying attention, too caught up in the fact that the love of his life
was not only still keeping secrets, but had apparently planned on doing so for years.