A/N - This collection will hold all entries for The Journey Through Hogwarts Challenge and The Becoming a Wizard Challenge. Therefore, it will more than likely contain just about everything you could imagine. Warnings/Pairings will be at the top of each chapter, as always with my collections. I hope you enjoy.

Written For - Journey Through Hogwarts - The Letter.

Character - Sirius Black

Word Count - 175 words.

Free

The guards pass my cell, and I try to keep my face slack, my eyes blank, but they still look at me a little oddly. Perhaps it's paranoia on my part, because they can't know what I am planning. They can't know that I'm going to be fleeing from this place in little over an hour. Still, as their eyes glance over me, I can't help but feel nervous.

I change into a dog as the Dementor's draw closer. As soon as they pass, I'll be home free, or at least, that's what I'm hoping. I hear the screaming of my mother in my head as they move passed my cell door. Blocking it out, I stay frozen until they leave, the echoing in my head lessening until it disappears completely.

Praying to Merlin that this would work, I slip through the bars of my window, take a deep breath and jump.

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Days later, hidden well and very pleased with myself, I wondered what on earth I had been anxious about. I was free.