the_debt_of_time

"Jamie?" she began calmly, a storm hiding behind the soft façade she presented.
"Did Sirius threaten to sit out the game if I didn't forgive him?"
Her suspicion was confirmed the moment James's eyes widened.
"Mum's right. You should have been put in Slytherin. Please, Mia, it's an important
game. If we beat Slytherin today, we'll have another chance at the Quidditch Cup!"
She could not believe that Remus had forgiven Sirius so quickly. James, too, had
been swift to accept the apologies, despite the fact that he had been close to cursing his
best friend over the incident.
"Fine!" Mia snapped at James kneeling before her, begging her to forgive Sirius for
the sake of Gryffindor pride. "Send him down and then both of you get to the pitch before
the whole school thinks that the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain skipped out on his own
game."
As though he had been waiting for her answer, Padfoot descended the staircase
from the boys' dorm room and padded over to the couch, resting his large head on her
thigh, looking up into her face with big eyes and letting out a low whine.
"Puppy eyes," she said with a scoff. "Clever. Go win your stupid game. You have
my forgiveness. For now."
Mia followed the boys down to the pitch where she joined Lily, Mary, Alice, Frank,
Peter, and an exhausted-looking Remus in the stands. There was a subtle chill in the air.
The other students did not look like they minded, but she noticed Remus reacting poorly
to it. She waved her wand over his body to cast a Warming Charm.
He let out a sigh of relief and smiled, pulling her in close for a hug. "Thanks, Mia."
She breathed in the scent of him in as though it were oxygen she had been deprived
of for a long while. After the narrow miss where he could have killed Snape, Remus had
been predictably withdrawn, though, thankfully, he had not reverted back to how he was
during their first few years at Hogwarts. He did, however, tell Mia that it would be best,
for now, to abstain from one another physically, at least until he had time to work through
a few issues regarding his lycanthropy and how he was trying to deal with what happened
the last full moon. She had been respectful, of course, especially since, if
they had theoretically fallen back into bed with one another, she was not certain if she
would have done it just to make Sirius angry, and Remus did not deserve to be used like
that.