the_debt_of_time

the Order continued bickering in the main room instead of putting together a proper plan
to rescue Remus from whatever hell Dumbledore had sent him into, quite obviously
unprepared.
Once again torn between the present and the future, she sat down on the end of a
bed in the small guest room, trying to convince herself that Remus would be all right. He
survived whatever this was because she knew him in the future. However, without the
ability to look into his eyes and see for herself that her best friend was safe and well, she
worried that she had, in fact, changed something in the past, and Remus was now suffering
the consequences of her foolishness. Would he make it out of this alive? Intact?
Unharmed? Would he be able to live and move forward and meet up with a young
Hermione Granger, just to send her back to 1971? Without Remus, Mia realised, her entire
world would crumble. Without Remus, there would be no growing up with James as her
brother, no dog pile snuggling in her bed after nightmares, no laughing with Lily over silly
romance novels, no Mary, no Alice, no Frank...
No Sirius. No Remus.
"Prongs, can you... ?" Sirius began, looking uneasy about leaving her on her own.
He stared at her, swallowing hard and looking helpless.
"Go." James knelt in front of her, taking her hands into his own and offering Sirius
a small smile. "We'll be fine."
The very second that the door closed behind Sirius, Mia burst into tears and fell
forward into her brother's arms. James held onto her tightly, and they both crumpled on
the floor of the small guest bedroom at Tuts Tower.
"Why aren't they out there looking for him?" Mia sobbed, terrified and angry.
"They will be," James promised. "We will be. We'll find Remus, Mia, I promise you."
"What if you don't? What if something horrible has—?"
"Stop," he ordered her, pulling her face into his hands and looking directly into her
eyes. "The Order will do everything we can to find Remus. And I know you don't want to
hear this, but this is what we signed up for. War. Remus is out there fighting it."
"He shouldn't be. None of us should be. I can't lose him, I can't lose any of you.
Jamie, I think it'll kill me," she admitted, tears pouring down her cheeks.
"Don't you let it."