the_debt_of_time

"Oh, Merlin." Sirius guffawed, holding his side. "I needed that today. Prongs is Head Boy! What
the bloody hell was Dumbledore thinking?"
"I got prefect again," Remus noted as he opened his own letter.
"I'm apparently Lily's prefect replacement." Mia pulled out a familiar-looking badge, remembering
how excited she had been the first time she got it at the beginning of her original fifth year.
"Well, look at you four with matching badges," Sirius cooed at them as though they were babies.
"Want me to take a picture?"
Lily rolled her eyes at Sirius and moved to leave the room, angrily muttering, "I have to owl my
parents."
Sirius called after her, "I'm sure they'll be fine with you sharing quarters with Prongs."
She spun in shock, nearly tripping over her own feet in the process. "What?"
"Lily... the umm.. ." Mia tried to stifle her laughter, but Sirius was not having that problem
in the slightest as he was leaning against the wall to keep himself from falling over. "Head Boy and Head
Girl share a common room. Each with their own bedroom, of course, but it's not in Gryffindor Tower with
the rest of us."
"I have to live with him?"
"Lily, you've been after the Head Girl position for years. You know the dormitory arrangements,"
Remus pointed out with a smirk. "Also, to be fair, you've been living with him for the last two months."
"Yes, but... that's different... it's.. ." Lily stammered.
Sirius grinned. "Not private?"
The prefects began filing out of the meeting, one by one, leaving behind James, Lily,
Remus, Mia, and a sneering Severus Snape. He ignored Lily entirely, putting his entire focus
on his hatred for James.
"It's absurd that after everything you've done over the last six years, Potter, the old
coot made you, of all students, Head Boy."
"Thought it would be you, Snivellus?" Sirius challenged as he poked his head into
the cabin, having waited for his friends only to find them being verbally attacked by a
Slytherin. He made his way in, hovering near Lily protectively. "Right, like anyone would
let you live in the same dorm as Lily after what you called her."
Snape clenched his jaw, his eyes narrowed on the limited space between Sirius and
Lily. "I've apologised for what I said repeatedly. An apology, Black, is something said when