the_debt_of_time

"Nonsense, Moony. This is your birthday party, and therefore, you think it's a
brilliant idea. I promise. Now, each shot glass will have enough Veritaserum to answer one
question, so each round you have to drink another shot."
"You realise we're both prefects, right?" Lily pursed her lips, looking at Remus, who
only shrugged his shoulders in defeat.
Sirius grinned and held up his glass. "I'll go first. I dare everyone to take off their
shirts!"
"So we're just easing into this then?" Remus asked sarcastically.
"How is that fair?" Mia huffed, crossing her arms over her chest defensively. "We've
already seen all you boys without your shirts on!"
Sirius smirked, raising a brow challengingly. "Then take the Veritaserum, kitten."
Mia hesitated. She knew this was a dangerous game. She knew too much and had
too many secrets that she could never divulge. A part of her imagined that in the worst
case scenario, she could easily stun them all and ask Professor Dumbledore to Obliviate
their memories. She reasoned, however, that nothing too life-altering would come out of
this game, since Sirius's intent was, apparently, just to see the girls topless.
"Fine," she agreed, pouring herself a shot of the laced firewhisky.
"I'll take the drink," Lily decided, reaching for the bottle after Mia, followed swiftly
behind by Mary, Alice, Remus, Peter, and even Frank. By the time all the drinks were
poured, Sirius and James already had their shirts off, both grinning.
Mia scoffed at Sirius. "You completed your own dare?"
"Something tells me it's going to get hot in here. Everyone drink!" Sirius ordered.
One by one, they downed their shots. Mia, Remus, Peter, and Mary were used to
the feel of firewhisky. Lily, Alice, and Frank, however, all started coughing as the liquid
burned a path down their throats.
"Answer truthfully," Sirius insisted as if they had a choice. "Why didn't you accept
the dare?"
"That's your first question?" James gawked at him, wide-eyed. "You can ask
them anything, and you want to know why they didn't take the stupid dare?"
Sirius shrugged as he rolled his shirt up tightly, tapped it with his wand and
transfigured it into a headband he then used to hold his hair back from his face. "I'm