Title: Prime Number, v Challenge: birthday party Word count: 100 Note: this is set in the Motherless Child timeline. It takes place about nine months before New York Minute.
The food was excellent, and Lupin was a quiet, if sometimes unconsciously salacious, conversationalist. All too soon it was time for Severus to return to Hogwarts so he'd get enough sleep to supervise this year's crop of dunderheads in training.
"How much is my share?" he asked as Lupin signaled the waiter.
"Nothing. I just got paid for an article."
"You live in a bedsitter and shop at Oxfam. Don't be absurd." Severus reached for the bill. Lupin snatched it away with surprising speed.
"You can return the favor in March, but tonight I'm paying."