the_debt_of_time

"You're keeping it," Mia insisted, holding a hand up to Lily. "It's a Potter family
heirloom. It should go to your children when you have them." She paused and then added
with a secret smirk, "In a few years."
Lily frowned. "If it's a Potter heirloom then it's more yours than mine."
Mia shrugged. "I'll have plenty of Black heirlooms to rifle through one day."
"Oh?" Alice raised a brow. "Has Sirius proposed then?"
"What?" Mia paled. "No, of course not! I meant because my mother was a Black,
not because... Godric. I think I'd die if Sirius ever gave me anything that belonged
to his mother. Literally die. The woman probably cursed everything she owned to poison
any Muggle-born that touches it. Thankfully, the things my mum left Jamie and me have
been tested by Curse-Breakers."
Lily and Alice shared a look.
Mia glared at them. "What?"
"Nothing, nothing." Alice swirled the wine in her glass innocently. "Just interesting
to note how quickly you changed the conversation from marriage proposals to jewellery."
"Technically, you changed it from jewellery to marriage proposals," Mia said, eyeing
her friend. "I was merely changing it back."
"Do you not want to marry Sirius?" Alice asked.
"I need more wine for this conversation." Mia reached for the bottle. "Actually, I
don't want to have this conversation at all. It's supposed to be a night about Lily. Shouldn't
we be playing games?"
"Fine," Lily stated with determination. "Drinking game, then."
"I'm off the firewhisky," Mia reminded her.
"Remus told us. Wine will have to do," Lily said as she refilled each of their glasses.
"Now, as the bride, I get to pick the game, and I choose 'Never Have I Ever'."
Mia groaned.
"Play it with less attitude, or I'll put Veritaserum in it," Lily threatened.
"This is cliché," Mia declared. "But fine, you're the bride. I'll go first. Never have I
ever forced my friends to play a ridiculous Muggle drinking game in order to manipulate
them into confessing their deepest, darkest secrets."
Lily drank from her glass with a smirk on her face; Alice followed suit even though
it had not been her idea.