the_debt_of_time

care. Remus would not find Tonks for many, many years, and Mia did not want him to be
alone the entire time. Neither did she want to be alone herself.
"I'm not like Sirius. I won't just take a girl to Hogsmeade, snog her, and walk back
up the hill alone."
"So you're saying you want something exclusive with me?" Mia asked softly, her
heart pounding against her chest back to that exciting pleasant rhythm. Remus must have
heard the change because he looked guilty over her reactions.
"You deserve better than me."
Mia narrowed her eyes. "I'm getting really tired of boys saying that."
"I'm not messing about, Mia. We could never... I mean.. ." Remus swallowed
and held her hand tighter, lifting their laced fingers from the side of his bed to her gaze.
"This is it," he said firmly. "It's not fair to you. You deserve someone who can.. ." But
he did not finish his sentence with words, merely raked his gaze over her body, letting his
stare linger on her lips while licking his own.
His stare was enough. She understood his meaning even as he looked her over with
heated eyes that left her feeling warm all the way to the tips of her toes.
"I could never... I could never kiss you."
"That's ridiculous! Of course you could!"
"No, I couldn't!" Remus snapped at her. "Mia, you've seen my boggart; my worst
fear is hurting or infecting you."
"Your worst fear is you attacking me in your werewolf form," Mia argued, annoyed
with him. "If you think I'm thick enough to go snogging your muzzle in the Shrieking
Shack then we have bigger problems than I thought."
She glared at him, ignoring the twitch of his nose when she mentioned his muzzle.
She knew he hated it when she referenced specifics of his lupine alter-ego, but Mia also
knew that he needed to get over it.
"It's not happening in human form either," he vowed.
"Lycanthropy can only be transmitted through a bite wound from a fully
transformed werewolf on the full moon."
She narrowed her eyes, recalling a similar argument between an older Sirius and
Future Remus at Grimmauld Place the night they all found out about Tonks's pregnancy.
Mia sighed irritably realising that if he was still worried in the future about his lycanthropy