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Summary: Watch as a fifth marauder emerges from the darkness once more changing history and more for good.

The Stop Watch Keeper

Ch. 1 That One Night

It had been a long and eventful night of October 31, 1981. Sirius was seething with anger and hatred at Peter Pettigrew for betraying his comrades, James and Lily Potter. He was out for blood and vengeance. Sirius charged after Peter out onto a muggle street bellowing, "PETER!" The short rat-like man trembled at the sight of the maddened man and stutters, "Sirius, please…" he was cut off by a stunning spell that narrowly missed his head by an inch, "No Peter, you had your chance!" Another and another Stupefy were fired rapidly at the squat traitor who surprisingly for once managed to dodge them though there would be one unavoidable spell, Avada Kedavra.

Meanwhile, the neighbors who could look out their windows and see the weird light action could only stare in aghast, except one that managed to shake their head free from the show to call the police.

Sirius flung out his wand arm shouting with the fury of a scorned man who's lost everything dear to him, "Avada Kedav-!" As the spell left his chapped dry lips from the October heat time slows down to a crawl before stopping completely. A young woman of African American descent calmly walked out into the middle of the road between the dueling wizards and carefully taps the green spell with a twig from the side of the road.

She lets out a soft huff shaking her head, "Oiy, boys these days…" taking out a stopped pocket watch said woman scowls heavily at it as if it offended her personally. Not wasting too much precious time she pulls from her pocket an extendable bag which she unceremoniously drops on the ground and waves her hand in a very familiar manner, "Accio Luscious Malfoy." Out from the bag came the stupefied angry-faced Malfoy looking the epitome of an aristocrat that had his cream taken away from him.

Setting him up with a simple Wingardium Leviosa, cause there was no way she was going to touch a slimy death eater (some things never change), she next would grab a sizeable branch from a nearby neighbors tree and mutters, "Portus," as a soft blue light envelopes the branch for a moment. Satisfied the woman would stick the branch in her back pocket and sighing begins to construct 'the scene,' which would include one blasted out street, one rat man unconscious on the leftover grass, unfortunately having to go through with killing a few of the surrounding muggles (less witnesses and people to obliviate into remembering something else and such until she was satisfied.

Clapping her hands free of imaginary dust she leans back on her heels to survey her work for a moment. She had cleaned Sirius' wand of any incriminating spells but kept Stupefy as one of the spells using an old pureblood spell that was wandless and left no trace. With Malfoy standing at the other side of the street across from Pettigrew he would now be holding a very incriminating wand that had just casted Avada Kedvara and Bombarda that to anyone else would act and respond as his.

Taking out the branch from earlier the woman yawns exhaustedly and grabs Sirius by the forearm muttering the small pass phrase, "Snivelous," as they were transported to an undisclosed location just as time began again. Screams and moans could be heard as sirens sounded in the distance. Luscious snarls slowly but sure enough gained speed and whipped his head left and right looking for the woman who had momentarily ago stunned him quite well. His bright sapphire eyes looked luminous in the dim moonlight as they glowed with hatred. Seeing Peter unconscious he sniffs and turns to apparate when several aurorers appear surrounding him getting 12 stunners to the chest.


Meanwhile with Sirius and Mystery Woman...

After they landed Sirius would tackle the woman jabbing her painfully in the neck with his wand forcing her to cough and gag for air. "WHO THE BLOODY FUC-" as they had landed more in the small manors hallway painfully lit by candle lights mounted on the walls, he breathes laboriously his grey-blue eyes that held anger and undisguised loathing now turned more curious and...quickly back to rage. "NO, NO, NO! YOU CAN'T BLOODY WELL BE ALIVE! I SAW YOU DIE!" Tears fall from his eyes as the nights events finally wore him down to his breaking point. His head bowed low would touch her neck and one small hand winds its way into his shaggy mess of black hair. With her other she cups his cheek stroking it with her thumb.

"I'm back…" she murmurs hoarsely with wand still digging into her throat. His head lifted as he stutters, "H-how do I know you're the real Kairi? Tell me something only we would know…" she points to his wand and he removes it from her throat but did keep it still at eye level making her laugh softly, "Well at least Moody's teaching have stuck with you,"

"CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" They both roared.

Silence would follow after and both stand slowly keeping their eyes on each other. "Well, one thing I can think of is that in fifth year we did have one hell of a snog until McGonagall caught us in our little cubby hole and we lost house points along with getting detention for indecent behavior, and before you ask more our detention was going to be hanged by our thumbs with Filch but she decided to have mercy on us 'young ones' and just had us clean both bathrooms with brushes the size of quills and we couldn't use magic." She wrinkles her nose at the memory. It hadn't been that bad getting caught but professors always made it seem worse than it was but maybe in their case it had been, they had been caught with clothes extremely ruffled and hand everywhere they shouldn't be. Thankfully Dumbledore hadn't caught them at the same time as well, it would have been horrifying.

Sirius rolls his eyes forgetting for a moment about keeping an eye on her reminiscing as well. He remembered that afternoon well enough as a slight flush crossed his cheeks as he coughed, "So how did you survive then? Last we all saw, you got hit by the killing curse." He cocked his head to the side eager to hear what the bloody fuck had happened since then but then…

"OH GOD WE NEED TO GO GET HARRY!" Sirius drops his wand into his pants pocket and starts to head out to rescue his godson from God knows what until Kairi grabs him around the waist putting heels to the floor hard.

"Damn it Sirius it's late right now and he's safe. Dumbledore took him to the Dursleys and"

"HE DID WHAT?!" He roars his magic lashing out at their surroundings which to one who could See it would appear to be a grey-blue color much like his eyes…

"And he will be safe until tomorrow when we can go retrieve him and keep him safe." She hugs him tighter around his waist burying her face into his back taking in his scent for a moment that just screamed Sirius…with a bit of dog. "Please Sirius, trust me." A moment or two goes by before a quiet strangled, "Ok," echoes in the dark.

She sighs in relief slowly taking one arm away from him and half guides him towards the rooms on the first floor. "Come on, let's get you to bed…"


At the Dursley's…

A similar sigh sounds out at the doorstep of #4 Private Drive as Professor Dumbledore, gently set the basket down along with a carefully written letter of the nights events. Minerva with arms crossed shakes her head sadly with a stern look. "Albus, he shouldn't be left here. He has a perfectly well and alive godfather who can take care of him. Why does he need to be here at all?! I've been watching them all day and I can say with utter disgust that they are the worst sort of muggles for him to be living with."

Albus takes his round spectacles off and polishes them with a clean white cloth contemplating her words for a moment before setting them back on and replies with a firm tone. "That may be true, but there's still his mothers protection that is in place. Have faith Minerva and all will be well."

All was not well though as both apparated away and with Minerva back in her office she would begin to plan how to reach Harry and do her best to either rescue him from the foul place or do her duty and keep him safe at all costs…