the_debt_of_time

"Oh," he mumbled thoughtfully.
"Oh?"
James turned to see Sirius glaring at him with narrowed eyes. "Morning, Pads."
"You dickhead!" Sirius lunged at him, momentarily forgetting where they were as
he smacked his best friend hard in the side of the head. "You almost died, and you wake
up and say 'Oh' like nothing happened?"
"Ow! Arsehole, stop hitting me!" James weakly put his hands up to try and fight
back, hitting Sirius once, right in the mouth.
Unphased by the slap, Sirius put his hands on James's shoulders and just shook him
because he needed to do something, and it was taking every ounce of strength not to
throttle the self-sacrificing wanker.
"What the hell is going on in here!?"
Sirius ignored Mia's shrieks, determined to smack as much sense into James as
humanly possible. He only relented when Remus pulled him off, allowing Mia to run to
the bedside.
"Jamie!" She wrapped her arms tightly around him, sobbing into his neck, seemingly
oblivious to the fact that he continued to try and strike at Sirius from over her shoulder.
"Padfoot! He's still injured!" Remus tried to reason with Sirius, as he continued to
struggle.
"Fuck him! He's an arrogant martyr who needs his arse kicked!" Sirius snarled when
Remus's grip tightened. He allowed his body to relax, but only because he knew from
experience that Remus could easily force him to black out with the right pressure, and
Sirius was not in the mood to be next to James in a hospital bed. When Remus let him go,
Sirius sighed irritably and ran his hands through his hair.
"You're welcome," James said in a snippy tone.
Suddenly, Sirius was being restrained again.
James scoffed. "Bloody hell, you save a mate's life and this is the thanks you get?"
"Sirius is right. You almost died, Jamie!" Mia sniffed, wiping away the tears that had
spilt over onto her cheeks. "What were you thinking?"
Looking away from them all, James shook his head, refusing to make eye contact.
"I was thinking that I couldn't let her kill you. You heard what that bitch said, Pads. She
was going to kill you. I... I couldn't let it happen. I couldn't live without my best friend."