Disclamer: I do not own anything of Harry Potter, it belongs all to the great Joanne K Rowling.
I am just writing for the fun of it and to give Megan a chance to get a glimpse of this enchanting magical world.
The two men stared silently at the young lady and she stared right back with her blue eyes, narrowed in confusion. The taller of the men sighed and gave the questioning a last chance. "What is your name?" his annoyance was slightly audible, but what should he do? He asked the very same question and some others for the past thirty minutes without getting as much as a hint to that woman s identity. And just like he had thought her answer remained the same. "I told you, that I will not tell you anything, as long as you don t explain to me how I got here. And I mean the truth." His partner shook his head, stood and went up to the tall one. "It s futile. We ll stay here until next week, if we go on like this. I ll look for someone from above, trying to figure something out. You watch her." And with that said he went out of the room, leaving the other two behind.
The tall one waited until the door closed before he turned back to the women, a scowl firmly on his face. As he spoke again his voice was sharp and threatening. "I'm going to say this only once, so listen! I ve better things to do than to babysit a runaway and it will take a hell of lot paperwork if we have to use veritaserum to get our answers. I don t like paperwork. In fact, I absolutely hate it." He made a pointed pause before he smiled sweetly at her. "You see, if you choose to cooperate, we will get by just fine." Letting said things sink in, he turned to the window, waiting for her to speak up. It was when he heard the chair scrap onto the floor that he turned back to the women, only to start cursing when hot coffee splattered in his eyes.
When the young one saw that she managed to distract him, she rushed to the unlocked door and skipped into the corridor, almost running into an elder lady with a pile of files in her hands. She turned around two corners until she stopped realizing that she would never make it out of this building. Not when there was someone hot on her heels. It would be best to hide somewhere, but all of these doors seemed to lead into another office. She continued to look for a spare room or something similar, as she read a name on a door, which seemed familiar. She was sure she had heard it before and somehow in her memory this name stood in connection with the words help and safe. When she heard footsteps in the corridor, her inner debating stopped and she grabbed the door handle. Closing the door behind her she sighed in relief and leaned against it.
"Excuse me?"
Startled she turned to her left, where a young man sat on a desk observing her with a crocked grin. He had a little longer black hair and amused brown eyes, which suggested he was waiting for an answer. It took her a minute to find her composure and something to return. "Are you Sirius Black?" His chin lifted a little and he looked her up and down before he nodded. "The one and only. Can I help you?" Oh god she hoped he could and even more that he would before that threatening guy out there joined their conversation. "Yes please. Hide me?" Sirius Black stared at her for a moment, before he chuckled. "Did James sent you to get me in trouble? I swear if I do something against the rules again Moody will have my head." He shook said head and just wanted to question her, when she spoke again. "Please believe me! I don t know a James or a Moody. If you really are Sirius Black, then your brother told my mother to go to you when-" She stopped when he suddenly stood, every humor in his eyes gone. He looked deadly serious and the thought that maybe rushing in here had been a mistake crossed her mind.
"My brother? Who the hell are you?" His hand grasped firmly around his wand as he stepped forward. Intimidated she stepped back, contemplating if she should give him a false name or her right one. His gaze said clearly 'No nonsense!' so she went for the latter. "My Name is Megan" A knock on the door interrupted her again. Without thinking about it she ran to an empty desk on her right. She looked at him pleading to not reveal her and hid under the desk, just when the door opened.
"Black. What are you doing?" Megan held her breath, when she recognized the tall ones voice. It seemed rather harshly and she caught herself hoping that both men didn't get along just fine. "Nott, considering that it s you who barged into my office I return that question." There was a short pause, before Nott finally answered. "I'm searching for someone. Did you see a young woman, dark brown hair, blue eyes?" Please don't.
For a moment Sirius narrowed his eyes, seemingly deep in thought, before he made up his mind. "Well, you'd have to be a little more specific . I know loads of women and a not small amount of them has blue eyes and brown hair. But maybe you should work on your manners, before I recommend you to one of them or she will probably run as well." He really couldn't stand that bastard and even if he did not know what was going on here, that girl had looked frightened. Sirius smirk faltered for a moment when Nott began searching the room for something out of the ordinary. "I never said she'd run." He stated suspiciously. Damn "Oh, I suggested as much, you seem a little out of breath and if I'm not mistaken than that's coffee on your shirt. Looks like lunch gone bad." The suspiciousness was replaced by anger and Sirius knew he was on safe ground again. With a lifted eyebrow he challenged the wizard before him.
"What's going on here?" When James Potter entered the office the growing tension between the other two wizards eased a little. Without waiting for an answer he stepped around Nott and headed to his desk in the right corner of the office, dumping a bundle of files. He was just about to fling himself in his chair, when he met a pair of frightened blue eyes staring back at him. Nott's voice snapped him out of his stupor, just to baffle him further. "I'm looking for a suspect who fled from interrogation. A young women with brown hair and blue eyes, does that ring a bell?" James gaze flickered to Sirius, who slightly shook his head.
"No." It was out of his mouth before James could really think about the consequences of lying. Damn this stupid Padfoot, he always found a way to get him in of James inner struggle, Nott shrugged his shoulders stepped out of their office and closed the door behind him.
It was quiet for a moment and James looked at the girl sitting under his desk, before he glared at his friend. "You better have a damn good explanation for this!"
"I hope so." Sirius said in a light tone and rubbed his neck, waiting for the storm that was sure to come. He wasn't disappointed. "I hope so? You mean you don't know?" Sirius winced at the angry voice of his friend. Searching for a logical reasoning, he couldn't come up with anything else than Megan's frightened eyes. He knew that this point wouldn't stand against her mentioning his brother and pissing of Nott. So, what to do if you can't win an argument? Right, dodge it!
He locked the door with his wand and stepped towards the cause of their trouble. "Megan, come out."
She hesitated a moment before she gave up her safe place, standing now mere feet away from the man with glasses. That must be James Potter, the other nametag on the door. He looked at her like she was a dangerous thread and the man who claimed to be Sirius Black seemed to be all business again too. She glanced uncertain to the door, but there was no chance she would make it first and that Nott guy was still out there anyway. If she could not get out of this situation, than it would be better to make it as short as possible. She knew the questions and was pretty sure, that these two men would want to know just the same things the other two had asked before. She would tell them as much as she could, if that meant she could go home afterwards.
"I m sorry that I barged in here just like this, but that guy really scared me. You already know my name and I'm seventeen if that is of importance. I swear I don't know how I'd got here! I already told this to these other two men, but they didn't believe me. I'm not lying, honestly. I can only remember finding something aureate on the floor. Wanting to have a better look I grabbed it and the next thing I know is standing in front of this huge hourglass." Not knowing anything else to say Megan stopped at that point. She was closely observing the reactions of the new pair of interrogators in front of her. What to do if they reacted just like the other two? She didn't have another cup of coffee and that stick in Sirius Blacks hand made her kind of nervous.
"Well, first thing that comes to mind would be a portkey..." Sirius mused skeptically, but like him James wasn't convinced of that theory. A port key, right into the ministry and seemingly unregistered? "Sounds to me like there are only two possibilities." While he had spoken the first part to his friend, James directed the next words directly to the young woman. "Either, you were very unfortunate being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or this might be a trap. Reconsidering the little we know about you..." He let the sentence end there and Megan knew that her hope of finding a way out of this mess had come to early.
"I don't know what to answer to that. I don't even know what you're talking about! Why would I have anything to do with a trap? And for whom?" taking in the amount of confusion that came of in waves of the brunette, James wavered in his thoughts but non the less he took out his wand, holding it lightly in his right hand. Torn between the seriousness of his friend and the girls fearsome expression Sirius tried his luck again by questioning back. "How would we know? Maybe to have a good looking auror for yourself?" While his intention was to get information and also to lighten the mood a bit, his statement just seemed to confuse the girl even more.
"What is an auror?"
So this is the first part of a story that has been in my mind for a really long time.
As you have noticed amongst others there are James and Sirius in this story and even though you don't know it yet, this is going to be sort of a timetravel story. I really loved the Harry Potter books and altough there have been parts that made me sad while reading them, we all know JKR did a really great job with the original Story and I wouldn't change thing. (not that I could ^^)
Still... sometimes there is this nagging voice asking "what if" and here is what I came up with.
I already have a good idea where this will be going, but my mind works faster than my writing skills, so as a warning I might need a bit longer to upload new chapters. Besides I'm not sure if you noticed, but english isn't my motherlanguage. I still hope there aren't too many errors, but if you see anything, tell me and I will be glad to change it. I tried writing it in german first, but somehow it just didn't come out right.
Well if you have any corrections, ideas or if you just like what you read feel free to leave a comment. It would certainly make me happy ;)
And I hopefully see you in the next chapter!
