the_debt_of_time

Sirius leant across the table and smirked at her. "Green is a good look on you,
kitten."
"Maybe I should go sit with the Slytherins then," she snipped at him with narrowed
eyes. "You are incredibly presumptuous. So what's your little plan for getting through all
your fan mail?"
"Peter taste tests all the chocolate. James and Remus keep him in check to make
sure he doesn't end up accidentally betrothed to some strumpet on my behalf."
"You're willing to do this?" Mia stared at Peter, who simply shrugged. She rolled her
eyes. Of course Peter would do this. He had no backbone whatsoever. She was surprised
that his Animagus form was not an earthworm. "Why don't you just throw the chocolate
away?"
"Because it's not all tainted," Sirius answered, with a tone that had an
underlying duh to it.
"Is it really worth all this trouble?"
"It's not for me." Sirius shrugged and turned to look at Remus, who looked slightly
abashed by Mia's sudden stare.
She rolled her eyes so hard she nearly went cross-eyed in the process. "Really?"
"It's a waste to just throw it all out," Remus argued.
"You lot are utterly astonishing. Fine, let's get on with this nonsense." She waved
her hand as if she were giving her express permission for the boys to continue.
The first box was opened by Peter since Sirius refused to even touch it, James was
wounded, and Remus was still ill. The long, red box wrapped in paper with tiny pink hearts
on it was tied with a golden ribbon that reminded Mia a little too much of the crimson box
she had been given by Future Remus for her nineteenth birthday.
Peter opened the top of the present, revealing an assortment of chocolates inside.
"Any sign of evil tampering?" Sirius asked, peeking over James's shoulder as though
he were waiting for the box to explode.
James, in turn, retrieved a card attached and opened it carefully, watching as nearly
a pint of glitter mixed with tiny pink and red paper hearts fell out of the envelope and onto
his lap.
Mia covered her breakfast.