the_debt_of_time

There were moments that Lily reminded Mia of Ginny Weasley, but the innocence
of Lily Evans was what set the two gingers apart. Ginny was the very definition of depraved
and shameless, and Mia remembered politely asking Ginny and Harry to throw up Silencing
Charms the first night after the final battle. She had not wanted to begrudge Harry whatever
prize Ginny had been willing to offer for defeating the darkest wizard of all time, but the
whole castle had not needed to listen to it!
On the other hand, Lily was as sweet and pure as freshly fallen snow. It was no
wonder that she would end up with James, who had not so much as glanced at another girl
since Lily had first slapped him all those years ago.
"I can't tell you everything—it's not my place to say—but Sirius moved in with us,
and he and I... well." She frowned, wondering if she already said too much, but Lily did
not react in the slightest which told Mia that her friend already knew something. "He's
been having nightmares."
"Like yours?" Lily asked.
Mia paled at the words. "How do you know about those?"
"What? That you put up Silencing Spells, starting our first year?" Lily rolled her eyes
in offence as though her very intelligence had been called into question. "Mary and Alice
may be oblivious, but my bed is right next to yours. While I'm glad not to be kept awake
by snoring, it's a little weird when I can't even hear my roommate breathing. I check on
you from time to time. It's always quiet of course, but I can tell something's wrong. You
calm down pretty quickly when someone just holds your hand."
Mia felt a warm affection for her friend. "I didn't know... I―"
"Don't worry about it. Back to Sirius."
Mia nodded, grateful that Lily had not let her linger on the topic of her own
nightmares. "Well, I went in to check on him, and he woke up, quite startled actually." She
frowned as she remembered the look of fear and anger on his face. "We talked a bit about
us, and how we're pretty much constantly drawn to one another."
"Constantly?" Lily grinned, and Mia raised a brow. Maybe Lily was more like Ginny
than she originally thought. "So, this has happened before?"
"What? No." She briefly thought of the fifth-floor corridor after Remus's birthday
party. "I mean, not exactly."
"You slept with him before?" Lily stared, astounded.