the_debt_of_time

Remus rolled his eyes. "Point well made. I did not mean to appear ungrateful to
you. Quite the contrary—despite my obviously poor attitude."
"I see you've kept Potter's parchment," Snape noted, looking behind Remus's desk
to the folded Marauder's Map sitting on the shelf beneath a collection of books. "Did you
ever happen to discover what magics it contains?"
Remus sighed in frustration, rubbing his hands down his face. "Are we going to
play this game forever? Where you insult me, and I try to remain polite to you, despite the
fact that you have a habit of being surly and discourteous?"
Snape held a detached expression as he stared down at Remus for several long
moments before answering. "Don't fool yourself, wolf. You're the Defence professor. You'll
be gone by the end of the month."
With that, Snape left the office, slamming the door behind him on the way.
Remus rolled his eyes and turned to the map on his shelf. He retrieved it with a
brief thought on the last time he had opened it a few days ago. After confiscating the map
from Harry, he tried to pay special attention to it when he could. It had not been difficult
to locate Sirius on the parchment, though he seemed to be avoiding the castle in favour of
the Forbidden Forest.
Despite what Harry had told him, Remus had yet to see Peter's name appear on the
map.
The first time Remus had spied Sirius's name, he had wanted to go straight to
Dumbledore but, for some reason, that was in violation of the Unbreakable Vow he had
made to Mia all those many years ago.
Her voice played on a loop inside his head anytime he thought about Sirius.
"Trust Sirius. Always Sirius."
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Remus whispered and watched as the
map unveiled before his eyes.
He automatically located himself first, noting that a small dot labelled Severus
Snape looked to be pacing back and forth down the corridor and around the corner. He
chuckled, assuming that Snape was seething with anger and wondering if he should come
back into the office to yell at him a bit before storming out once again.