the_debt_of_time

"Oh please," she muttered indignantly.
He looked back at Mia and lifted a brow. "I know you're thinking it."
She narrowed her eyes at him and pursed her lips as she thought, Fine, arsehole.
Remus, for some reason, nodded in agreement. Suddenly, Sirius had her wrist
gripped in his hand, and he was dragging her out of the infirmary despite her protests.
"What the hell, Sirius!?" She struggled against him, reaching for her wand but
quickly noting that she had left it behind in the infirmary on James's bedside table. She
thought to use wandless magic to get him to release her, but a lack of sleep and no real
desire to actually hurt Sirius held her back.
The moment they walked through the back door that led out near the greenhouses,
Sirius released her arm and reached into his robes, pulling out a pack of cigarettes and
removing two sticks. He handed one to her in a friendly manner as though he had not just
dragged her screeching through the halls.
Mia huffed at him, arms crossed over her chest for a long moment before she finally
relented and took the fag from him.
Sirius cupped his hands together against the chilly December air and mumbled a
spell, wandlessly lighting a hovering bluebell flame in his hand. He leant in, allowing the
cigarette to light, breathing in several puffs of smoke before holding his hand out to Mia.
She followed his motions, doing the same, save for choking on her first inhale,
which drew a smirk from Sirius. "Jamie's right," she said, hoping to change the subject
before he even brought it up. "You would have died."
"Maybe," he said slowly. "Or maybe you would have saved me the way you
saved him. Either way, I wouldn't have to wake up every morning owing a life debt to my
best friend because he's a prat."
"Life debts aren't so bad." Mia smiled knowingly. "Come in useful when you need
them to."
Sirius turned and glared at her, inhaling deep, and letting the smoke blow out his
nose before flicking the cigarette to the side and stepping close to her, his slate grey eyes
narrowed. "You tried killing the Carrows."
Mia looked away from him. "To be fair, they tried killing you and Jamie first."