the_debt_of_time

"Not without worse things happening." Mia sighed, thinking of the next few years
and how awful things were about to get. "Thank you, Lily, for taking care of my family."
She looked into her friend's eyes and momentarily got lost in them. So green, just
like... just like Harry's.
"I'm... Merlin, I'm so tired. I'm going to go to bed."
"I'll walk with you." Lily reached for the firewhisky in the glass cabinet and refilled
the empty cup with it. She levitated the tray behind her as she followed Mia up the stairs,
down the long corridor, and through the double doors at the end into Mia's room.
When they walked through the doors, Mia heard Lily let out a tiny gasp at the sight
in front of them.
Three grown wizards had crawled into Mia's overly large, four-poster bed, each of
them already claimed by sleep.
Lily's focus turned to Mia, who was not surprised at all by the scene as she moved
forward, crawling into the space between James and Remus, knowing that they had
purposely left it available to her.
She leant back against Remus's chest, and his arm instinctively wrapped around her
waist. James's body moved as well, resting his head against her shoulder just as Sirius's mop
of dark black hair adjusted on the bed, eventually resting in her lap. Mia let out a soft sigh
as she placed her hand on top of Sirius's head, letting her fingers loosely run through his
hair.
Lily blinked curiously as she watched the scene, likely realising this was not new or
unusual.
They were all content in the exact space they occupied next to, between, and on top
of one another—almost in the way that animals curled up with one another for warmth,
protection, and comfort.
Mia watched Lily place the silver tea tray on a table next to the bed, retrieving her
wand from her robes and casting a Stasis Charm over it. She walked to the opposite side
of the bed, pulled the black frames delicately from James's face and set them next to the
tea tray before turning to a large chaise lounge chair in the corner where she decided to
sleep.
Mia closed her eyes eventually, letting dreams and memories take her.