the_debt_of_time

"Oh, I think that's a distinct possibility," Lily answered Mia's question, arms folded
angrily over her chest.
"Why are you three naked?" James questioned warily.
Mia shrugged. "These are technically clothes."
Groaning uncomfortably, James rubbed his palms against his eyes. "Oh Merlin."
"Remus, are you... You're all right?" Lily asked, her green eyes alight with hope,
sparkling like emeralds in the light of the risen sun.
Remus grinned at her. "Never been better, Lils."
"Thank God," she said, breathing a sigh of relief. She rushed forward, hugging him
tightly. "I can't tell you how happy that makes me. We were all so worried."
James focused intently on his bare feet.
Remus frowned as Lily pulled away, tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault. But now you're better, and I suppose seeing you healthy, and
the three of you looking, well, like you do... that explains a lot."
"Explains what exactly?" Sirius asked as Lily returned to James's side, looking
annoyed once again.
"This," she said and tugged on James's shirt, baring his left shoulder, now blemished
with the silvery-pink scar of what looked like a healed bite wound.
Mia's eyes widened at the sight, and she instantly felt her face flush. She and James
avoided eye contact with one another. Somehow, in the worry of figuring out how to save
Remus's life as quickly as possible, Mia and Sirius had forgotten that their original pack
consisted of not three but four members, and, when properly sealed, they were all
connected—not just those present for the actual sealing ritual.
Sirius's smug face was not helping the awkward tension coming off of James and
Mia in the slightest. Nor was his excited declaration of, "Hey! Look, Prongsie! We match!"
as he gestured to his own Pack Mark with delight.