Deception

Angel Heather Evans

Summary: It is an Azkaban story...but everything in it is AU! James is sentenced to life inprisonment inside Azkaban for a murder he didn't do. Who will help him escape? What is Voldemort's greatest weakness? Who will be defeated once and for all?

Prologue: Azkaban

The man was sitting down on the cold stone floor. His messy black hair grew until it reached the middle of his back. His hazel eyes were dark as he remembered how he was thrown into Azkaban by his 'friends'...

Flashback

"Do you, James Robert Potter, swear to tell the truth, the whole

truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God?" the Minister asked.

The sixteen soon to be seventeen year old man nodded. "I do."

he said loudly and clearly.

"You may precede, Lawyer Peters," the Minister said darkly.

The tall, black man with violet eyes smirked. From his robes, he pulled out a small bottle of black colored liquid and poured three drops on his tongue.

"What is your name?"

"James Robert Potter."

"When were you born?"

"October 31, 1969."

"Where were you born?"

"Godric's Hollow."

"Did you kill your grandmother, grandfather and your brother's betrothed Callisto Peetson?"

James felt as though someone else was in his head and he couldn't speak...

"Yes, I did it."

End Flashback

So he sits here now, alone. His family had betrayed him a long time ago and now...his friends...No friends...he hoped Sirius and Remus would believe him...he hoped to God that they did. He hoped that his girlfriend, Lily, had believed in him...he hoped she did...

Closing his eyes, he whispered, "Good night, let the Dementors kill me..."

Godric's Hollow

A young man was sitting down on the porch swing of the house, in deep thought.

Sirius Black stared at the darkening sky outside and giving a small, angry growl. His best friend/brother was somewhere he shouldn't be at all.

When he told Lily of what happened, she fainted in the shock but as she regained consciousness, she told them that James Potter is no more a murderer than she is and she never killed anyone.

He looked at Remus who was sitting next to him, deep in thought.

The only people who believed James were him, Remus, Lily and Snape.

Sirius found Remus in his cottage by the woods the night before a Full Moon and told him what he knew and what evidence was collected.

To their horror, the evidence was all circumstantial and James had a way of getting around that and had been out the night of the murders.

Sirius asked Snape after finding him living in a muggle neighborhood called 'Spinners End' in a little house. Sirius had potions he needed examined.

More accurately, the potion that was used on James during his trial.

Snape had worked his hardest on trying to figure out what the potion was and when he discovered it, he was disgusted.

The potion was that of a mind trance and muggle truth serum. Combined together, the person can only answer questions regarding their name, birth and place along with family but anything else will be a lie. The person who created it, was Logan Potter-James' father. The name of the potion was called 'Veritas Deceptio'.

Sirius was horrified. The potion made him lie. There was only one thing left to do, and he was going to do it.

He was going to break an innocent man out of Azkaban for good and hide with him.

"Tomorrow night..." he whispered to Remus who figured out what he would do. "Tomorrow night, Prongs will ride again..."

"For now, we need to make sure no one tries to stop us," Remus told him in a soft voice. "Lily needs to know what we are planning. Remember what happened those two times we left her alone?"

Both men shivered at the thought. She tried her hardest to kill herself. The first time, she had a pistol pointed to her temple and was about to pull the trigger when Sirius grabbed it from her and dumped the cartridges out onto the ground.

The second time, she nearly poisoned herself with a poison found in the kitchen when Snape grabbed it and told her that it was a diluted potion with Phoenix Tears.

She broke down crying her heart out. Sirius felt her pain and sympathized with her.

No one in the Wizarding World would hire a muggle born witch who had a relationship with the Wizarding World's betrayer. Hell, not even the muggles would hire her and on top of that, her whole family beat her.

Sirius then stood up and walked into the kitchen where Lily was found making something. It disturbed him a whole lot.

Instead of a cheerful, young, sweet and kind hearted girl he knew she turned into a older, soft spoken, broken and betrayed woman.

She turned and gave a small, a weak smile that didn't reach her eyes. None of them ever did anymore...not since the 'Incident'.

"I made tea," she said, her voice was laced with sobs. Sirius walked towards her and hugged her. He let her cry on his shoulder as he patted her back.

"Shh, Lils, he'll be fine...he's tough," he whispered gently into her ear. She looked up and nodded. "But tomorrow night...we're having a guest with us."

"Is it Severus or someone totally different?" she asked. He smirked that infamous Marauder Smirk.

"Severus and James."

Her eyes widened. "Jay?" she choked. He nodded.

"Me and Moony are breaking him out of Azkaban."

End Prologue-

Veritas Deceptio: Latin-Truthful Deception