the_debt_of_time

"I do trust you, Mia, but I'm seriously doubting your level of sanity, considering what
I just saw," Sirius muttered quietly and the two fell silent once again.
He held his hand out to her automatically when a portion of the passageway was
partially blocked by old barrel drums with Blishen's Firewhisky labels branded into the
wood—obviously, someone had once used the inlet as a secret storage facility what looked
to have been at least thirty years ago.
"You do know who you threatened, right?" Sirius eventually asked her.
Mia nodded calmly, ducking beneath an exquisite spider web so as not to damage
it. "Bellatrix Lestrange. And I didn't threaten, I promised. She threatened you, my family, and
Remus. That I will not allow. Wait, this is.. ." She blinked and looked around as the secret
passage finally came to an end.
"Just another passage. We've found loads so far. Door right there opens up to a
mirror on the fourth floor. Look, you can't just go around threatening Bellatrix Lestrange.
Merlin, I thought... She had her wand, and the last time... She could have killed you!"
"She didn't. We escaped," Mia whispered, placing a gentle hand on his cheek.
It broke her a little to see him so worried, so angry over something she had done.
She put herself in harm's way in the worst possible situation, but she could not help herself.
She had faced Bellatrix Lestrange, the object of her worst nightmares, and instead of being
afraid of getting tortured again, Mia had only thought of Sirius. Of Bellatrix sending Sirius
through the veil. Of their capture at the manor.
It was all for him.
She noticed that his breath was heavy. He was in good shape and still young, so the
climb had not likely exhausted him, which meant that his adrenaline was still pumping out
of fear. It only made her angrier at Bellatrix.
"I'm all right," she promised him, stroking his jaw with her thumb, always amused
that he already had stubble. Remus did too, but James and Peter complained about their
lack of facial hair, and she had even caught James using a Shaving Charm back at home in
an effort to trick the hair into growing faster.
"I'm sorry I put myself in danger, but we're both fine." She hugged him tightly,
pressing her face into the fabric of his robes. "We're fine. I'm fine. I'm alive."