the_debt_of_time

"As long as you remember that; that's what's important. I'm sure once everything
has calmed down, they'll let you go and see―"
"Dad?" Remus stood from his chair, interrupting Lily and leaving Mia's sight.
"I'll be right back," Mia whispered to her father, standing and darting out the door
to watch as Remus made his way down the stretch of hallway, followed closely by Lily, to
where Lyall Lupin stood, speaking with an Auror and a Healer, a large bag in his hands.
Lyall's eyes, too, were red and glassy, and Mia thought that he strangely resembled
her father in the moment, though Charlus still had something left in his sad stare: hope.
"Dad!" Remus called out again loudly as he approached his father, whose empty
stare turned bitter and angry. "What happened? Where's my mum? Where're you going?"
Remus tried to step forward only to be thwarted by the prejudiced Auror from earlier that
day.
Lily rushed to Remus's side, reaching for his hand to pull him back.
The affectionate move was caught in Lyall's stare, and he shook his head in disgust,
looking at the Auror. "That boy is a werewolf," he announced as he pointed at Remus.
"Please keep him away from my wife's... my wife's body."
"What?!" Remus shouted, though it sounded more like a howl.
"Mia! Peter! Sirius!" Lily screamed for them. "Potter!"
Mia was already at Lily's side when the boys barrelled out of Dorea's room behind
her. Once together, they took note of Remus's stance and rushed forward, wands drawn.
"She's dead? My mum's dead?" Remus cried out. He moved to go after his father,
who had stepped into the Floo, but Lily jumped in his way, trying to hold him back from
doing something he would certainly regret.
James and Sirius each took hold of one of Remus's arms, pulling him away from
Lily before she somehow got herself hurt. The Marauders and Mia had been dealing with
Remus and his wolf for years, and Lily was not at all ready for something of this magnitude.
As James and Sirius held Remus back, struggling against the strength of their friend, Mia
stepped in front of her boyfriend, taking his face into her hands and once again shifting
her eyes to amber, hoping Moony would recognise her.
"Remus, Remus, love," she spoke softly, fully aware of the Aurors now surrounding
them. "Look at me."