the_debt_of_time

future. Tonks. His mate. His wife. Mia covered her face. She had slept with Tonks's
husband!
Another thought jolted her. Remus—Future Remus—he knew!
That was how time worked. He said it in his letter. Anything she did had already
been done, which meant that when Future Remus sent her back in time, he
knew exactly what was going to happen. He knew that on Halloween their fifth year, she
would take him into the Room of Requirement and they would make love beneath a full
moon. He had known that she had been his girlfriend, that they had been in love!
Mia suddenly remembered a conversation she overheard between Future Remus
and Tonks the day before they had gone into the Ministry to fetch Sirius from the veil.
"But you know I love you, right?"
"Yes, Remus, you love me. You'll never leave me. I'm your mate; I get it."
Mia silently gasped at the thought: Tonks knew everything.
"You'll be my best friend." Remus kissed her temple, unaware that she was having
a complete internal crisis. "You're mine too, you know. You belong to me. It's like... if I
were an alpha wolf, you'd be my beta."
Mia chuckled, calming down at his words, always happy when he referenced his
wolf without words of self-defamation. "What about Sirius, James, and Peter?"
"They're in the pack too, but you're... I don't know. Is there a word that means
soul mate but doesn't?"
"Ever the poet." Mia beamed up at him. "You're thinking of a kindred spirit."
"Yeah. You're mine. It's like you're my heart, but not... my soul. Does that make
sense?" he asked, looking guilty when she adjusted their bodies so that she could look at
him.
She nodded. Remus was her heart. She could admit that.
"If I meet my mate, she'll understand that. If she doesn't, then she's not really my
mate."
"So you don't feel bad?" Mia asked. "Like, you don't think you should be out there
looking for her?"
"Why?" He raised a brow. "What other person our age starts any relationship
thinking, 'Wow, this is it. I'm going to marry this person, and if it's not meant to be, then
I'm out of here?'"