A/N: Hope you guys enjoy this one. I'm very excited about it! Please read and Review!
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter but I do own Ruby.
The sun shone bright at hot onto the pyramids of Egypt as a group of workers filed in and out of one of the pyramids. Inside was a woman with pale blond shoulder length hair with one stripe of purple at the front. It was pulled back into a high ponytail. She was busy brushing away some dust from a wall. As she'd clear a portion she'd step back and give it a once over before going to a notebook and writing in it. She'd then repeat the process as a couple people came and went from the tomb doing their own thing. As she cleared another section she heard a loud crack. Her head shot up, thinking the structure was about to break but she saw everything was fine. She shook her head and lifted up the brush again but she was called from the outside.
"Can't you see I'm busy! Tell them I'll get back to them later" she said letting out a huff of air.
"But ma'am, they say their old school friends?" he said as he got closer to her. At the mention of school friends she dropped her brush as her eyes got wide. She then realized what the loud crack was. She composed herself quickly and let out a cough.
"Tell them I'll be right up" she said bending down to pick up her brush. She realized that she was alone in the tomb. She closed her eyes and took a couple shaky breaths as she tried to drown out the screams in her head. She took a couple more before finally deciding to greet her friends.
She came out of the tomb and into the light, the sun temporally blinding her. Once her vision returned she dusted the dirt off of her beige pants. She had on a black tank top. Her boots thudded against the ladder as she climbed up. She made it to the top and looked around. Her eyes fell on two gentleman right away. She let out a sigh as she walked up to them. She gave them a once over before looking around to make sure none of her colleagues were around.
"Remus Lupin and Sirius Black...What do you want?" she said putting her hands on her hips
"He's back Ruby" was all Remus had said. Her eyes got big and her breath hitched in her throat.
"No, he's dead, he died and wasn't supposed to come back!" she said as she started to shake
"We don't know how, yet, but he is back and we need your help" said Sirius
"No, I gave up magic 13 years ago, after...After James and Lily I couldn't take it. I told you guys to never look for me. I have a life now, a normal life. I can't go back to that. Just, forget about it and leave" she said fighting back the tears in her eyes and turning away to go back to the tomb.
"James' son is in the middle of it all" said Remus, which caused her to stop in her tracks. A couple tears streamed down her face. She wiped them away and turned back.
"Why? Why me?" she asked walking back up to them
"You were the best duelist out of the whole Order, we need strong people for this" said Sirus. She threw her head back and let out a frustrated growl
"How is little Harry doing" she said once she had composed herself again.
"He's been better. They held the Tri-wizard tournament this past school year, he was chosen to participate" said Remus. Ruby let out a laugh
"Just like his father and god fathers" she said pointing at them "Why would he do that?" she asked
"He didn't mean too, someone put it in there for him" said Sirius
"Someone? As in another student?" she asked confused
"No, it was Barty Crouch Jr, disguised as Mad Eye" said Sirius. Ruby's eyes grew wider
"The hell?!" she said to the air. Sirius and Remus just nodded.
"Hold on, we've been here for a little over five minutes and you haven't said anything about Sirius not being in Azkaban" said Remus
"Unlike some people I didn't believe that he would betray his friends" she said as she shot a glare at Remus, he just looked down.
"You thought I was innocent? Why didn't you write?" asked Sirius looking hurt
"Like I said, after The Potters and getting torture I was done with it all. The last I saw you was at your trial, I was one of the many that fought against the sentence. After that I put up my wand, went into the muggle world, conjured up some fake transcripts and went to muggle collage and got a degree doing this. I figured no one from my old life would find me all the way out here. Guess I was wrong about that" she said crossing her arms again.
"Yes, you were easy to find, seeing as I kept tabs on you the whole time" said Remus looking at her.
"Of course you did" she let out a sigh. She pulled out a pad and pen and wrote something on it. "Meet me at this address at 8am tomorrow. I'll need the rest of the day to get my affairs in order" she said tearing the piece of paper off and handing it to Remus. "I'll see you tomorrow morning" she said turning and walking off.
"That went better than expected" said Sirius laughing
"Yea, if you say so" Remus said, not smiling. He hated having to pull Ruby back into everything, but they really could use her help. The two walked a ways and went behind one of the pyramids and Disapperated.
Ruby heard the crack as she walked away. She fought all the emotions and memories that had floated to the surface into the back of her head before heading back down to the tomb to finish her work.
"Hey Bill" she said as she walked back into the tomb, a guy working in the corner turned around and looked at her
"Hey, Ruby, what was that about" he said motioning topside
"Oh, Old School buddies, somethings come up actually. I'm gonna need to take a bit off. I trust you can finish this up" she said
"Of course. Whose back?" he asked
"I'm sorry?" she said
"Your friend, he said 'He's back', if you don't mind me asking, who?" he asked
"An old bully, he got into some real big trouble during my last year of school and fled the police. Apparently he's been found and there's a hunt for him. The police want all the people who were the ones that got him almost captured thr first time to come home to protect us" she said, obviously lying.
"Oh, of course. Its the serious?" he said
"You have no idea" she said "I'll be leaving tomorrow morning" she said turning and going back to the wall she was working on, trying very hard to concentrate on the task at hand.
A/N: Yay Chapter 1! Please Leave me some comments?
