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Forever and Always	By : cls2256 Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > Het - Male/Female Views: 6832 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Mia sobbed for what seemed like an eternity. Sirius tried to make her breakfast, but she refused to eat it. Along with the full vial of Wolfsbane potion, Remus’ wand sat on the bedside table.
“Sirius, he’s unarmed. What if something happens to him?” she had said through her sobs.
After a few hours, Mia had gotten a shower and cleaned up, and decided to write to Penelope. She and Sirius were going to search the forest around the cottage for him tonight, and Mia needed her to cover for her at work. There would be no way she could focus on selling wine and cheese when Remus was missing.
Penelope,
Sirius certainly enjoyed your company last night, thanks for coming. Remus and I had a fight this morning and he disapparated from the cottage. It’s a full moon, and he didn’t drink his potion or take his wand. We are going to search the forest for him once the moon hits, but I need to stay here for when he gets back. Please, cover for me at work. I will owe you big time.
Mia
Mia rolled up the parchment and tied it to Lionel’s leg, sending him out the window. She prayed to herself that they would find Remus ok, and that once the full moon passed he would be back to himself.
Mia and Sirius ran through the forest as the shaggy black dog and white wolf for most of the night with no sight of Remus. They returned back to the cottage, Mia in tears again after she transformed back into herself. She feared the worst, and felt so guilty. She had never meant for it to look like she was flirting with Sirius, she wasn’t interested in Sirius like that. Sure, he was a very handsome and charismatic wizard, but Remus was the one she loved. She had been smitten with Remus since the moment she laid eyes on him, and he was the only one she wanted. She thought he wanted her there with him at the cottage; he had never given her the impression otherwise until that morning.
It was the two longest days of Mia’s life before she heard the door open to the cottage. Mia had maybe gotten 5 hours of sleep total in the few days that Remus had been missing, and had only eaten a few crackers here and there because Sirius practically force fed them to her. She and Sirius walked into the living room to see Remus standing before them, his robes nearly ripped to shreds, cuts all over his arms and he was limping, his left leg appearing to be broken. Mia began to cry at the sight of him, overwhelmed by relief that he was alive, but still angry at him for leaving the few days before.
“Mia, I am so sorry…” Remus began, his eyes looking sorrowful.
He knew he messed up, and regret was written all over his face. Mia walked up to him and backhanded him hard across the face. She then wrapped her arms around him, sobbing into his chest. He wrapped one arm around her, and the other came up to rub his cheek that stung from her slap. His eyes looked up to Sirius, giving him an apologetic look. Sirius nodded his head, and spoke.
“Mia, Remus is injured, let’s sit him down and take a look” Sirius said calmly.
Mia broke her embrace, wiping her tears furiously as Sirius helped Remus onto the couch. She hated showing her feelings, and the relief that Remus was back was overcame with the feeling of anger for him leaving in the first place.
“These scratches from you?” Sirius asked, looking at the state of his arms.
Remus nodded weakly, wincing as Sirius poked a particularly deep gash.
“There’s silver and dittany powder under the sink, Mia, if you could…”
Sirius turned his head to look at Mia, who already had the jar of powder and a glass of water in her hand. She handed the glass to Remus, and began powdering his gashes silently, stray tears still slipping down her cheek. She focused her energy on tending to his injuries, not looking up at him. She pointed her wand at his leg, “Episky!” she said, and his leg made a snapping noise, returning to its normal appearance.
Remus yelped as his leg snapped back together, Mia’s demeanor unchanging at his discomfort. She handed him a sleeping draught and a pain potion.
“Drink these, you need rest.” She said, still not looking at him.
“Mia…” he began to speak, but she cut him off.
“Drink, Remus” she said evenly, walking the silver and dittany powder back to the kitchen sink.
Sirius gave him a nod, and he sighed heavily. He knew she was upset and trying to pry at this point would be useless. He downed the pain potion and sleeping draught, and fell asleep 30 seconds later. Mia walked back to the bedroom, grabbing a few pillows and a blanket.
“Are you ok?” Sirius asked softly, as she walked back into the living room.
“Yeah” she replied shortly, propping the pillows behind Remus and covering him with a blanket.
She turned to Sirius. “I’ll be back in a couple hours”. Mia took a few steps in to the middle of the room, and with a soft crack, she was gone.
Mia appeared in the living room of her and Penelope’s flat, which was sparkling clean as if Penelope had hired a team of house elves to scrub the place down. It felt sterile, foreign, not the same as she had left it before.
“Mia?” Penelope called from her bathroom, just getting out of the shower.
Mia made her way into Penelope’s bedroom, sitting on her bed.
“Yeah, I’m here” she said evenly.
Penelope walked out of the bathroom in her robe and hair wrapped up in a towel. She hurried over to Mia and hugged her tightly.
“Is everything ok? Did you find Remus?” she asked, hopping up on the bed to sit with her.
“Yeah, he came back this morning; He’s asleep now.” Mia replied evenly.
She relayed the events of the last couple days to Penelope, feeling numb to the emotional roller coaster she had experienced.
“Mia, I’m so sorry…” Penelope didn’t know what to say, she was at a loss for how to handle the situation.
“It’s ok Penny, it’s not your fault. I might be coming back home though, since he seemed very unhappy to have me there.” Mia said scornfully.
“I don’t think that’s it, I think his emotions were high and he said things he didn’t mean.” Penelope said, her typical cool as a cucumber tone was soothing to Mia today. “You know I’m going to tell you to talk to him when he wakes up.”
Mia rolled her eyes and chuckled. “Yeah, but you are always right about that.”
“I am? WOW can we please record this moment so we can refer to it next time?” Penelope joked, Mia hitting her with a pillow playfully.
“You need to call both your mum and dad. Susan called three times and John called twice. I can’t cover for you forever” Penelope laughed.
Mia sighed, she wasn’t in the mood to talk to either parent, but she knew she would have to call to avoid them showing up and seeing most of her closet and things missing.
Mia spent over an hour talking with both John and Susan. John wanted Mia to come and spend a weekend on base at the end of the summer with him, and wanted to plan something on the calendar. She agreed to spend her birthday weekend with him, as he hadn’t been able to celebrate a birthday with her on time since she was 7, and they planned a dinner date in the next week in London. Mia was fielding questions from Susan as to what she’s been up to, work, and her plans for the next couple weeks. Mia had a very hard time coming up with reasons as to why she hadn’t called her mum, but she seemed to have come up with a story decent enough to settle her. She looked at the clock and saw she’d been gone from the cottage for 3 ½ hours, and knew she was going to have to return soon. Her hunger came back full-fledged, so she made her and Penelope sandwiches for lunch.
“When are you planning on returning to work?” Penelope asked between bites.
“I’m not sure, can I owl you tonight? Either that or tell you in person if I have to come back home.” Mia picked at the crust of her sandwich, her stomach beginning to do flip flops.
“Sure. But remember I’m covering to mum too, it’s going to get harder and harder to keep our mums from talking.” Penelope said.
Mia nodded, “I need to get back.”
She got up and walked to the middle of the living room, preparing to apparate.
“Thanks Penny” Mia smiled, and disapparated.
Mia appeared in the living room of the cottage, Sirius asleep in the chair next to the couch, Remus still sleeping where she had left him the few hours before. She did her best to remain quiet, not wanting to wake the men. She spent an hour taking care of some laundry and packing her suitcase, in case she needed to make a haste exit. Once she was finished, she went outside to sit by the lake, taking a few copies of Witch Weekly with her.
Remus woke up and groaned from the ache in his leg. There was another pain potion next to the couch for him to take when he woke, and he greedily downed it. Within 15 seconds the pain in his leg diminished to a dull ache, and he was able to stand. His scratches had sealed up already thanks to the silver and dittany powder, leaving fresh pink scars to match the older whiter scars around them. He stumbled off the bathroom quietly, trying not to wake Sirius. He got into the shower and let the hot water run over him, shame from his actions returning to him as he remembered the things he said to Sirius and Mia.
He wasn’t sure why he had gotten so angry, he knew Mia and Sirius would never betray him like that, but the mix of alcohol and his heightened aggression made him think the worst in both of them, projecting his own insecurities on them. Sirius had always been quite the flirt, but after he slept with Remus’ crush, unbeknownst to Sirius that Remus liked her, their friendship was nearly strained for good. James and Peter knew how much Remus liked Julia Butterworth, but Sirius hadn’t known that when he was bragging to his friends one morning about the ‘hot blonde hufflepuff’ he shagged in 2nd floor girls’ bathroom. Sirius felt terrible, and promised Remus it would never happen again. Sirius was fiercely loyal, and always intended on making good on his promise. He was worried Mia would never forgive him this time for what he said. He liked having her in the cottage; he had no idea why he spouted off making it seem like he didn’t want her there. Now that he knew what life was like to have her back, he couldn’t imagine losing her.
After he showered, Remus walked into the bedroom to change into fresh robes. He saw Mia’s suitcase on the bed, packed up as if she was getting ready to leave. He felt a pang of remorse again; he didn’t want her to leave. He changed quickly and walked out of the bedroom to look for her, nowhere to be seen in the cottage. He poked his head outside, and spotted her sitting on the bank of the lake, reading a magazine. Remus looked back at Sirius, who was still sound asleep, snoring away in the chair. He exited the cottage, and walked towards her.
“May I sit with you?” he asked softly when he reached her.
She shrugged, not looking up from her copy of Witch Weekly.
He plopped down next to her, silent for a moment, unsure of where to begin.
She broke the silence for him “so where were you?” she asked flatly, eyes still fixed on the pages of the magazine.
“I went to the Leaky Cauldron and drank for most of the day, but then when the sun set I retreated in the woods on the outskirts of town, realizing I forgot my potion. There was no one around thankfully, but I ended up scratching myself pretty good. Not sure how I broke my leg though, I think I tripped and landed on it wrong.” Remus explained.
“What took you so long to get back?” she asked.
“I was too weak to apparate, and I realized I didn’t have my wand so I couldn’t fix my leg. I rested in the woods until I could get back to the cottage without splinching myself”.
Mia took a deep breath and set her magazine down, finally looking at him. His eyes looked tired, his face weary from an exhausting few days.
“Do you realize how worried we were about you?” she asked, scarily calm.
Remus broke her gaze and looked down.
“I’m so sorry, Mia, you have no idea” he said softly.
She scoffed at him, feeling the tears begin to sting the corners of her eyes, but she stifled down the urge to cry.
“I’ll get my things and return to London tonight. I didn’t realize I was such an intruder here anyway.” She said evenly, forcing her voice to remain calm.
“No, please, don’t go. I didn’t mean what I said, I don’t know why I said that.” He pleaded.
Her expression softened slightly, but she still fought down the lump in her throat that was trying to escape with the tears.
“Part of you has to feel that way if it came out.” Mia said, beginning to pick her fingernails.
“I don’t though; I don’t know what came over me. My moods can get worse if I haven’t taken my potion. I let a slight bit of jealousy overwhelm me” he said, hunching his shoulders.
“I would never sleep with Sirius. I know we seem extra friendly, but I swear to you all we are is friends.”
“I know.” He whispered
“And how dare you say that I led Andrew on; you might as well have told me I am a whore” Mia hissed, her anger all of a sudden rushing back to her.
“NO, no, Mia I don’t think that of you, you’re right, what I said was completely out of line.” Remus started backpedaling, knowing he was never going to redeem himself for that comment. He truly hadn’t meant it; he said it in the heat of the moment to be vindictive, his aggression taking over his better judgement.
Remus was expecting Mia to begin yelling at him, but she sat in silence, her chin quivering as she fought back the sting in her eyes.
“Mia, I said some very terrible things, because I was jealous and hurting and I wanted to cause you and Sirius hurt too. It wasn’t right, and I am deeply ashamed of the way I behaved. I don’t know why I even entertained the idea that the two of you were going behind my back in the first place. I guess I just forget sometimes that someone can love me despite what I am.”
“And you will do well to remember it!” She hissed, unable to fight the few tears that escaped her eyes at this point. “I love you Remus. I don’t know why that is so hard for you to understand.”
She finally broke down into sobs, and he pulled her into his lap and cradled her.
“I love you, forever and always” she choked through her sobs.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry” he whispered, holding her and nuzzling her forehead with his cheek.
A few stray tears of his own slid down his face. He hated being the one who hurt her again, and he vowed to himself he would be a better man, and never cause her this much pain again.
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