the_debt_of_time

"That was an accident!" Remus defended, standing up and putting both hands in
front of himself as if pleading with Sirius for mercy.
He looked a bit ridiculous. Sirius knew that Remus could best him in a fight if he
had to; hell, he still stood inches above the rest of them—but Remus likely wished to avoid
the carnage that usually followed these arguments when they inevitably occurred about
once a year.
Asking four growing boys to room together for seven years without at least one or
two fights was like asking a group of teenagers to all live in a private tower and
not eventually have sex with each other. Sirius and Remus were clearly proof that both
scenarios were just unavoidable.
"I was looking for the map!" Remus asserted when everyone focused on him instead
of one another. "If you just kept it where it's supposed to be―"
"I would keep it in Prongs's trunk, but it looks like rats live in it," Sirius explained,
still miffed about the spilt cologne.
"Hey!" Peter shouted.
The other three boys all turned on him and yelled, "Shut up, Wormtail!"
"Well, don't bring me into this," Peter pouted, gesturing to them with a flick of his
hand. "I didn't bloody well do anything."
"You didn't do anything?" Remus scoffed incredulously, crossing his arms. "I saw
you sneaking drinks out of Padfoot's private firewhisky stash all last year."
"You did what?!" Sirius's temper reached its peak. It was one thing to steal his
cigarettes, but to drink his firewhisky? His precious, beautiful firewhisky that took every
effort to acquire, considering the trunks were often checked randomly by Filch. He was
not of age yet to even purchase it; he had always been able to steal from his parents' vast
collection, but since moving in with the Potters, his stash had been running out quickly.
Sirius glanced at Peter, and both Remus and James looked mildly smug that they
had officially put an end to the argument, especially since it had started because they had
been outed stealing his cigarettes.
"You rotten little.. ." Sirius growled as he stalked toward Peter.
"SIRIUS AND REMUS HAD SEX WITH MIA!" Peter blurted out, covering his
face defensively as Sirius came closer.