the_debt_of_time

"If you've noticed, he's not the one losing it!" Sirius snapped. "Tell your mates to
lower their wands. If you can't tell, we've got very little to lose here and have a bit of a
short fuse when it comes to threats to our family!"
"He's a werewolf!" Kingsley's partner shouted, outraged. "Shouldn't have even been
allowed inside the hospital!"
"Mia, get Remus into an empty room and ward the doors like you did last time,"
James instructed her.
She nodded, returning her focus to Remus. "Look in my eyes, love," she continued
to speak as she reached for his tightly clenched fists. "Remus? Moony! Look at me. I'm
here, love; we're all here for you. I need you to come with me, Moony. Follow me."
Like a well-trained unit, the Marauders and Lily formed a barricade. While James,
Lily, and Peter kept wands on the Aurors, Sirius watched as Mia led Remus away into a
private room. Once he felt that they were secure, he spun back on Remus's attackers. The
Aurors, however, had begun turning on one another instead.
"Don't think Moody won't hear about this when we get back to the Ministry,
Shacklebolt."
"I plan on being the one to tell him myself!" Kingsley snapped. "Everyone lower
your wands!"
"Sir?" a nervous Auror asked while the volatile one fumed, pacing back and forth
glaring at the way that Lily's wand followed him. "You're really going to let them go? A
werewolf in a hospital full of innocent people, and a group of children who dared to
threaten Aurors?"
Sirius could hear the derision and indignance in Kingsley's voice when he asked,
"Are we royalty because we wear a badge? They were doing what any of us would have
done for a fellow Auror. We drew against them first, and they came to the defence of their
friend."
"But he's a werewolf!" another Auror shouted.
Sirius kept his wand trained on that one, feeling the magic stir in his chest and tingle
down his arms to the tip of his fingers that rested on the wood in his hand.
"I didn't see fur; did any of you?" Kingsley demanded. "No? Well, maybe I just have
better vision. Perhaps that's why Moody left me in charge. Speaking of which, if something
like this ever happens again, I'll thank you all not to question me!" He offered a brief look