There in the drawer beside his bed were seven large phials of untouched Wolfsbane
Potion that she brewed for him the week prior. She counted them twice and frowned. He
should have taken one last night, she thought as she felt her heartbeat in her temples.
"Mia?" Sirius called from the door, and she turned to see him standing, looking at
her with anxiety written on his face. "Where'd he go?"
"Undercover. Dumbledore's sent him to infiltrate other werewolf packs." She sank
onto Remus's bed, putting her head in her hands. "He left his Wolfsbane Potion," she
informed Sirius just as James and Lily followed him into the room.
"I'm sure he'll be okay," Lily said with a frown as she sat beside her. "Dumbledore
knows what he's doing."
Mia scoffed.
August 24th, 1978Mia sat in her office—a small room down the hall from the Department of Magical
Law Enforcement. She had been led there on her first day by an elderly wizard who acted
as though escorting her into the file room was a large sacrifice on his part.
Essentially, she had no real boss to report to as she worked directly for all of the
department heads and the Wizengamot and, therefore, had little personal interaction with
anyone unless they were there to drop off paperwork for her to organise.
The small room contained a tiny desk in the corner and three large filing cabinets
with Undetectable Extension Charms on them so that they could contain the centuries and
centuries of laws, edicts, and regulations passed by the Wizarding government. The witch
who had the job before her left the place in complete disarray, so when Mia took the
position, she spent her first week cleaning the office and organising the mess of files left
behind. It was a much-needed distraction for her since she had been spending every waking
moment worrying about Remus.
The full moon had been a week earlier, and without Moony there to take care of,
Mia and Sirius were uncomfortable—as though the moon were affecting them as well.
They tried to distract themselves with games, firewhisky, and even sex, but by the time the