Hey everyone. I'm back with another fabulous AU entry. This story was written for October Writing Club's Liza's Loves, and Dragon Breeding Club on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For Liza's Loves I wrote for prompt 1. Character - Sirius Black. I choose to do a Dystopain AU and land my main character Sirius Black in a world where Harry dies and stays dead during Deathly Hallows. I hope you all enjoy the first chapter of A World (Not Their Own).
Sirius Black looked around himself as the fact that he wasn't in his normal world settled in on him. The windows of the place he had woken up in were boarded up in a manner that let no light or anything else into the room he was in. This in his mind didn't truly bode well with him. No one seemed to be around the room either. Sighing to himself he pulled himself into a standing position the room spinning dizzily around him.
"Easy there," came the familiar voice of one of his best friends. Looking over he found his cousin Andromeda's daughter standing in the doorway. What was the girl's name Nyma. No Nymphadora. Standing slightly behind her a look of pure shock on his face was the owner of the voice for it had come from Remus Lupin.
"Remus," he called cheerfully trying to walk over to the man as the room swung dangerously about the place.
"You might want to sit down, Sirius," came Nympahdora's voice gently as though she was talking to a cornered animal and not a member of her own family. She nodded firmly back at the bed he was desperately trying to walk away from.
"Why do I want to sit down?" he asked concerned. "Is it Harry? Did something bad happen to Harry?" He put his head in his hands. He had only been asleep for a few minutes and it seemed that everything went to hell.
Nymphadora shared a sad look with Remus and it seemed to the disoreinted onlooker that she was on the verge of tears. Remus pulled her into a hug and then whispered something in her ear. Looking back at Sirius she hastily left the room. What happened next shocked Sirius more than anything ever would or could in his life. Remus pulled his wand on Sirius and with a venomous look on his face.
"Who are?" Remus hissed the venom is his eyes reaching his voice in varying levels. "Why are you using this face? Who sent you?"
"Moony," Sirius laughed, "what's all this a..."
"How do you know that name?"
"I was there when we all picked out our nicknames, Moony. That's how I..."
"I guess that traitor, Pettigrew told someone and they drilled the information into your head. You can't be him. You can't be Sirius. Sirius Black was killed two years ago by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange."
Sirius sank back onto the bed. He hadn't been asleep after all. He remembered facing off against Bellatrix in the Department of Mysteries apparently two years ago. But he hadn't been knocked unconscious. Or maybe he had and Moony was just playing with.
"Moony," he tried again, "now this isn't funny. I'm obviously not dead. I'm right here in front of you."
A knock sounded at the door and Remus opened it reveal Hermione Granger. She looked between Remus and Sirius and then whispered something into Remus' ear. Remus's face looked even more shocked than it had before. He looked over his and whispered something to Hermione.
"I'm sure," he heard Hermione tell Remus. "This test is fool proof. It won't lie."
"Thank you, Hermione," Remus said as the younger girl left the room. He turned back to Sirius the shocked look still on his face. "Do you know how you came to be alive again, Padfoot?"
Shaking his head Sirius was getting to be just a little bit concerned. He wanted to see his godson now. Looking up at Remus he could that something was very wrong here.
"Remus," he tried to reason with his friend, "can I talk to Harry?"
Remus shook his head sadly. "I think that will be a tiny bit difficult at the moment, Sirius," Remus told him sadly. "You see there was a reason I asked how you came to be alive again." Remus shuffled his feet nervously. Looking Remus decided to just rip off the band aid. "Harry died trying to defeat Lord Voldemort earlier this month."
Sirius's world felt like it was crumbling in around him once more. He could a scream of pain coming from somewhere and didn't notice until Remus's arms went around him that the scream had come from him. The tears cascaded down his face as Remus sat there and comforted him. How could this be true? How could this be real? What where they going to do?
I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of A World (Not Their Own). I think I actually enjoy writing Dystopian AUs. There so much potential of where this can go.