The Sun and Her Moon- Remus Lupin

Time is ticking

3 Months Later:

Aveline threw herself into her work like a mad woman on a mission.

Though per Dumbledore's request, Alastor had stopped sending her on so many dangerous  auror missions, she still somehow found a way to weasel herself into anything she pleased.

"No," Alastor barked as he stormed through the auror department halls with Aveline following him like a yappy little puppy.

"But come on Madeye!" Aveline begged, tripping over her feet as she followed him. "Kingsley and I always go on missions together."

It was true, in the year Aveline had been working at the ministry, there wasn't a singular mission she hadn't gone on with the man.

Aveline Rosier was perhaps the only auror in the entire building who could annoy Madeye Moody and live to tell the tale.

The man merely sighed, looking at her with pity in his eyes.

"Look kid," he said in a hushed voice so no one around could hear, "your one of the best auror's I've seen in awhile. If it was up to me you'd be on every high profile mission. But it's not. You're  too lay low for awhile — Dumbledore's orders, end of story."

He walked away from her leaving in a frustrated huff of pent up energy.

This laying low was killing her. If she wasn't being forced to do paperwork at the department, she was probably with James and Lily on a guard shift that meant spending her afternoons listening to James talk about quidditch and playing peak-a-boo with little Harry.

She had gotten so used to all the fighting and the motion that it was killing her to feel so useless.

Remus had taken off to the North the day after their breakup— on no doubt some dangerous mission for Dumbledore.

Truthfully Aveline stayed up at night worrying about him, debating if it was wrong to try to write him a letter.

Almost everyday, she asked James and Lily if they had heard from him, and the answer was always no.

"Come on Ave."

She was pulled out of her thoughts by Sirius, the black haired boy entering the room in his usual all black attire.

"You're with me today."

Her heart perked at the thought of an actual mission, and she followed Sirius without question out of the building.  

Sirius had been a much needed breathe of fresh air for Aveline since the breakup. He was the only one of her friends that didn't treat her differently.  In fact, Sirius had made it very clear that he wanted no part, in any of the issues going on between Remus and Aveline— something she was forever grateful for.

"Dumbledore wants eyes on knockturn today,"Sirius muttered to her as they began winding down the street.

Truthfully, spy jobs like this weren't the most interesting, but Aveline would take anything to get her mind off the stabbing  feeling in her heart.

Sirius and her made their way to knockturn, finding a distant spot on one the buildings that gave them view of the entire street with a good pair of binoculars.

Their afternoon would most likely be spent doing more waiting than anything.

Aveline watched Sirius began to settle in from beside her, the boy lighting a cigarette in one hand well he held his binoculars in the other.