the_debt_of_time

"Wherever I want... Right. Because I just happen to have an extra house lying
around!" Lily screamed, and the ends of her hair started sparking.
James took the initiative, bypassing Mia to approach his emotionally overwrought
girlfriend.
"I graduate in a few months. What am I supposed to do?" Lily asked Petunia, who
briefly showed a hint of concern but covered it up all too quickly with indifference. "Where
am I supposed to go? You're my sister!"
"How dare you raise your voice to my wife." Vernon stepped forward and glared
down at Lily with disgust. "Don't you know she's just suffered through the deaths of her
beloved parents?"
Mia felt Sirius's arm slip around her waist to hold her back, muttering under his
breath about how she needed to let James handle this.
"They were my parents too, you.. ." Lily began, shaking with rage, "you...
filthy Muggle!"
"Lily." James reached her, pulling the witch into his arms. "Calm down, love."
Vernon glowered at the intimate embrace. "And who is this?"
"James Potter," James answered as he turned and extended a hand to the thick-
chested man, looking like he hoped to help salvage Lily and Petunia's relationship by being
as polite as possible to what was a very large obstacle. "I'm Lily's boyfriend."
"Potter." Vernon snorted at the name and stared at James's hand, making no move
to shake it. "You're one of those aren't you?"
"A good person? Yes; I can see how you'd struggle to know one upon sight," James
snapped, his previous desire to be polite apparently long gone.
Vernon sneered and stepped forward as though he were preparing for a physical
altercation. "Now you listen here, you freakish―"
Mia snarled, and Sirius stuck his cigarette in his mouth, using both free hands to
hoist her over his shoulder. "Mary, get her wand," he muttered to the blond witch, who
followed suit, snatching Mia's wand from her pocket. When Mia struggled in his grip, Sirius
gave her a good swat on the arse, drawing attention.
Petunia looked scandalised, but Lily actually looked amused.
Despite not wanting her brother to get in trouble, Mia had seen the aftermath of
what happened when James went after his own friends in a minor brawl and could only