the_debt_of_time

cloudy, maybe even raining. He wished it would rain so the world could be washed clean
again.
He inhaled from the lit cigarette in his mouth, blowing the smoke out through his
nose. It hurt like hell the first time he had tried it years ago, but he remembered wanting
to look like a dragon and the habit just stuck.
He heard the door open behind him. The smell of flowers still clung to Lily's clothes
hours after she had abandoned her sister's wedding. Neither said anything as she stood at
his side, glancing over the edge of the roof. Minutes passed in silence until he flicked the
end of one cigarette away only to open his pack for another.
"Are you just going to stand there, or offer a girl a fag?"
He raised a brow and looked at her suspiciously. "You don't smoke, Evans."
"Shut up, Black." She snatched the cigarette he was holding in his fingers and placed
it in her mouth. "We're bonding."
"Oh? I wasn't aware." Sirius pulled another from the pack and returned the box to
the pocket of his robes. He silently and wandlessly cast a floating bluebell flame in the
centre of his hands, lighting his own cigarette and then holding the fire out toward Lily.
"Have at it."
Lily nodded at him triumphantly and leant into his hands, breathing as the end of it
lit up. She immediately began choking.
Sirius smirked at her as she continued coughing. The sight was well worth the lost
cigarette.
She gasped for air. "Oh God! You do this to yourself on purpose?"
"Is there a reason you followed me up here?" Sirius demanded irritably, his vague
amusement fading.
"Mr Potter asked me to look after you," Lily replied, looking down at the cigarette
still in her hand. She looked like she was mentally preparing herself to take another drag
but then decided against it.
"You'd be better off looking after James."
"I left him with Peter. I think you need me more right now."
"Why?" He turned and stared at her incredulously. He did not need her. "We're not
even friends. You're friends with Mia and Remus, you hate James and, by extension, me."