Chapter 2 - Explanations
Sirius woke up. Everything was white; he stared knowingly trying to figure out where he was. He opened his eyes wide and took a breathtaking sigh. 'Thank god! I am in the Hospital Wing. Nothing happened. Whew! I was beginning to think something bad happened.' Just as Sirius sat up he noticed five adults around him, four he recognized but looked very different older you could say, and the other one looked so familiar. 'Damn that brown haired could pass for Moony's father.' The four familiar faces were Professor Dumbledore, McGonagall, Flitwick, and Madame Pomfery.All five of the adults looked completely disturbed. Sirius knew he would be in more trouble, he knew he shouldn't say this but couldn't help him self.
"Professor is it me or you guys aged a lot during the summer?" said Sirius hiding his trademark smirk.
"Oh no Albus. What do we do?" asked Minerva.
Dumbledore just smiled. "I am afraid there is nothing we can do Minerva." said Dumbledore as he looked at Minerva.
"Um what can't you do Professor?" asked Sirius.
"Mr. umm Black," said Minerva but couldn't finish as she pulled Sirius into a bone crushing hug.
Sirius whom was dumbfounded by all of this just stared at her. 'Why was McGonagall hugging me? She is one of the strictest twits I've ever met.'
"Ahem. I am sorry Mr. Black but I am afraid to tell you that you are 20 years into the future." replied Minerva.
Sirius started to laugh, his bark of a laugh soon subsided when he looked back at their faces. 'Oh shit. No wonder they look old! Oh no! Damn Lily always being right!'
"Please tell me this is a dream." begged Sirius as he ran his hand down his silk fine hair.
"I am afraid not Padfoot." replied the guy who looked like Moony's father.
'Padfoot? Who is this guy? No! It can't be! Na! Nope! Oh my god it is! MOONY!'
"Moony?" asked Sirius.
"Yes Sirius, I am Moony. You are 20 years in the future, and I am afraid there is no way you can go back." Said Remus looking vaguely disturbed.
"Wha-t?" asked Sirius as he grabbed his hair shaking himself so he can wake up from this horrid dream.
"Its true Mr. Black." squeaked Flitwick.
"No, it can't be. No I refuse to believe this I am just dreaming" yelled Sirius refusing to believe the five adults around his bed.
"Mr. Black if you don't mind would you care to enlighten us and explain what happened when you had the time-turner?" asked Dumbledore, for some reason his shiny blue eyes were twinkling very brightly. It excused his usual twinkle, this must mean Dumbledore was indeed very pleased by all of this, but Sirius chose to ignore this.
"Well you see I was sorry to Evans about yelling at her, then I noticed the time-turner, and asked her if I could see it, she gave it to me, and I started to spin it, then she grabbed the time turner and it flew out of my hand and broke, and I ended here with you fine people" said Sirius sarcastically.
Dumbledore looked at him and smiled, while McGonagall eyed him sternly, and Flitwick was his usual jumpy self, Madame Pomfery was looking at him sympathetically, and Remus was looking rather worried.
"Well that means you can't go back, as you see there are no time-turners left. Due to a very interesting battle in the Department of Mysteries, and I must bid you goodbye, and hope you rest Mr. Black" said Dumbledore and then he added "Oh I forgot would you like to be in Gryffindor, or would you like to be resorted?"
"I would like to be in my house Thanks, but where is my present self?" asked Sirius.
All the adults would fear that this question was coming up. They were unsure of what to even tell him, but Dumbledore suggested before that the truth was the only way.
"Well I am sure Professor Lupin would explain all this to you." said Dumbledore without a smile, and Remus glared at Dumbledore.
The four Professor's left Remus and Sirius alone to talk.
"Well where am I?" asked Sirius.
"Well I'll get to that. Let me start from the beginning." said Remus.
"Ok. I am listening." claimed Sirius.
"Well James and Lily got married, Voldemort was looking for them because of this particular prophecy that concerned their son Harry." said Remus but was cut of by Sirius.
"Wait. James and Lily? They actually got together? This is hilarious. By the way where are they? Where is Peter?" asked Sirius, seriously.
At the sound of Peter's name Remus scowled, he was overwhelmed by those new memories of Peter, and what he did.
"I am getting to that. Listen this is really hard for me. Don't interrupt me, please." Pleaded Remus. Sirius noticed at Remus was really serious so decided not to push him.
"Well after they went into hiding they told Dumbledore that you were their secret keeper. Of course you being you, had to do something different. You told Lily and James to choose Peter as their secret keeper in the last minute. Turns out Peter turned on us, and revealed the whereabouts of Lily and James. Voldemort found James and Lily and killed them mercilessly, but one thing he couldn't do is kill Lily. She performed ancient magic by sacrificing herself for Harry, which created the ultimate protection. Are you with me so far?" asked Remus. Remus was refusing to look at Sirius, because this was all to hard to explain again. He didn't notice the tears leaking from Sirius's eyes.
"Lily and James are dead?" whispered Sirius disbelievingly.
"Yes, but are you with me?" asked Remus.
"Yes, continue. WHAT HAPPENED TO PETER? DID WE KILL HIM?" asked Sirius as he started to yell.
"Let me continue and I'll get to that" said Remus bitterly.
"Okay" said Sirius as he nodded.
"Well, after Voldemort tried to kill Harry and the spell backfired, he disappeared. Meanwhile you went after Peter, without knowing that he wanted you to chase him in the first place. After you tracked down Peter, you and him were dueling in front of a muggle street. You retorted without seeing the consequences. Peter somehow blew up and cut off his finger and killed 13 muggles while he was at it, then it was of course blamed on you because everyone knew you were the secret keeper. Everyone including myself thought you were guilty. You were locked up in Azkaban for 13 years until you managed to escape because you caught sight of Peter's animagus form in the newspaper. You escaped Azkaban by turning into a dog, and swimming north towards Hogwarts. Everyone thought you escaped so you can kill Harry, of course you knew otherwise. The year you escaped Dumbledore asked me to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and of course I am not a person whom can turn down Dumbledore so I took the post. After I took the post I kept my eyes open incase I saw you. You broke into the castle a couple of times just to see you godson, and kill the rat." Said Remus but was cut off once again.
"Godson?" asked Sirius as his thoughts were broken just when he heard the word godson.
"Oh yes. I forgot. You were Harry's godfather." said Remus. "May I continue?" asked Remus.
"Yes I am sorry." replied Sirius sincerely.
"Okay well then after that, you tried to reach me. But I, considering we had a history of friendship let you speak instead of turning you in when I spotted you. You explained to me the whole story about Wormtail. I still refused to believe you, but gave you the benefit of the doubt and looked further into your story. Then I used the old Marauder's map and spotted Peter in it running around the Hogwarts walls. Soon I found out the truth, and reached you, and we formed a plan. We exposed Peter to Harry, and he accepted you as his godfather. That same year I threw in my resignation, and quit the job. Of course we couldn't prove your innocence because Peter at the last minute, escaped. Well It was more my fault he escaped because it was a full moon. I transformed and all hell broke loose." tried to continue Remus but again was cut off my Sirius.
"I am sure it wasn't your fault Moony. You can't do anything about it." said Sirius reassuringly. Sirius noticed the tears on Remus face and Sirius patted him on the back.
"Well after that. Harry and Hermione helped you escape." Said Remus. Then he noticed his confused face. "Oh yes Hermione was one of Harry's best friend, and then there was Ron." Continued Remus, but couldn't at his own mention of Ron's name another tear escaped his eyes. Sirius noticed and frowned.
"Are you okay?" asked Sirius with a hint of concern in his voice.
"Yes Sirius, I haven't repeated the story with no one. Not even myself. Now flashbacking with you is just very hard for me." Said Remus. "Okay back where I was, Harry and Hermione helped you escape. You went into hiding, and then used your family house as the new Order Headquarters. (Guys I deliberately skipped GOF because well, no Sirius, so no) Then instead of moving around you finally settled in the Black house. Then of course you don't like being locked up. You were always moping. Harry and You became more closer during his visits, and you were acting more like a father figure to him. Soon Harry started having visions about one thing that Voldemort wanted. He kept on seeing the Department of Mysteries in his dreams. He used to have these visions or dreams often. Very often. Then he saw one of you. One where Voldemort was torturing you, he thought it was very real, and without listening to anyone went to the Department of Mysteries to save you. Of course you weren't there. It was a fragment of his imagination. You were very well and inside the Black house healing Buckbeck. Buckbeck is your pet hippogriff. Well then after finding out that Harry went to the Department of Mysteries, and is in grave danger. You being his godfather hurried to his safety along with a few order members. When we got there we saw several of Harry's friends were injured, including Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and Neville. You will meet most of them later. Then we got there and started dueling the remaining Death Eaters. You got engaged into a battle with your cousin Bellatrix Lestrange. You two were both dueling intently and she shot a stunning hex at you and you went flying into a veil. The only problem is when someone goes into that veil they never come out. They die. No one who goes into that veil comes out. You died during the end of Harry's fifth year." concluded Remus, his face looking very grave.
"I am dead?" stuttered Sirius.
"Yes you are. Harry was devastated. Soon at the middle of Harry's sixth year we had the big war. We lost many family members. Harry lost of one his most best friends. Ron. Peter killed him. I couldn't save him! I couldn't save him!" cried Remus as he finallt started to break down.
"I am sure its not you Moony." reassured Sirius as he, himself started to cry.
Finally both Marauder's were crying and holding each other.
"Listen Padfoot, form now on I am your teacher you address me as Professor. Not Moony. And secondly, there are people you really are eager to meet you." explained Remus.
"Who?" asked Sirius, although he did have an idea. He wanted to meet his best friend's son as well.
"Harry, and Hermione." replied Remus as he finally smiled.
A/N: Finally this was indeed a long chapter, but come on I had to get things moving! Lol. Let me know what you think and of course just to let you guys know...I will be updating depending on the reviews that I get, I am writing two stories so its hard to update a chapter per day. Both stories depend on reviews! Okay let me know what you think and what I can improve on thanks for reading. - Tana.
