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The Brotherhood II

A/N - Thanks for all the title suggestions. I like several of them, and will list them at the bottom, letting a vote take place. Now, those who don't care about my personal life go ahead and skip the rest of this author's note. For the rest of you, I'm just going to say that I'm in a super mood, which is why I'm posting this chapter before I planned. You see, today I took my Driving Test and received my driver's license! Yay! I've been driving for over a year, but now I don't have to drive with my mom in the car. It'll be nice.

~~~ Chapter One ~~~

Ginny looked up at the Eiffel Tower in boredom. She was sitting in a small patch of grass near the tower. Sirius had left her here while he went to find someone who he had arranged to meet. Supposedly, he had met this person in his younger days, but had lost contact due to everything that had happened with Voldemort. Ginny hoped that his friend wasn't a woman, because she didn't think she could handle Sirius flirting with some random person at the moment. She was too depressed to have too deal with that.

Ginny mused on her situation, as she idly tugged on the grass, pulling it out by the roots. They had come to France, seeking the magical government's help with their predicament. Unfortunately, they weren't being too helpful. The only thing they had done was set up an appointment date, three weeks out. Sirius had decided to make the best of the situation and contacted this to meet up with, and hopefully gain a place to stay for a while, so they didn't have to try to get back into Britain again until everything was sorted out.

Which had led to them spending the night in a cheap muggle hotel room that looked as if it hadn't been cleaned in ages. They had checked out early in the morning and had bought a chap breakfast before visiting the Eiffel Tower to kill time while waiting for Sirius' friend to show up.

"Ginny!"

Ginny looked up as she heard Sirius' voice. He was heading across the grass toward her, and behind him was a man with a teenage girl following behind them with a disdainful look. Ginny could tell that she already wouldn't like her. She climbed to her feet and walked toward the oncoming trio.

Once they were close enough, Sirius introduced them. "Ginny, this is Ralph, and his daughter Rachelle. I believed she's about your age."

"I'm seventeen," Rachelle said in a heavy French accent.

"Oh, well. Ginny, here, is fifteen," Sirius said, then glanced at her to confirm it.

"Almost sixteen," Ginny replied, straightening to attempt to make herself look a little taller. Rachelle was at least a head taller than Ginny, and the high heels on her feet didn't help matters any.

Rachelle looked down on her in what was clearly a look of superiority. Ginny sneered back.

Sirius, either not noticing the display or ignoring it, explained further, "I met Ralph with James, Remus, and Peter just after we left Hogwarts. We did some travelling back then, James' idea, of course. It was at his expense as well. James and Ralph hit it off right away, both being quidditch fanatics."

"Indeed," Ralph said, an amused expression coming over his face, presumably at a memory of James..

Sirius also looked amused and Ginny sent him a curious look.

"Ah, look. Here's my wife," Ralph murmured, nodded his head toward a woman walking in their general direction.

The woman greeted them in French, and her husband replied in turn, then turned to Ginny and Sirius, "Ginny, this is Sofia. Sofia, this is Ginny, Sirius' friend. I believe you've already met Sirius."

Sofia studied him for a moment. "Oh yes, of course. I remember you," Sofia said with a slightly amused gaze. Ginny was startled when Sirius blushed bright red.

Frank looked between them before breaking the nearly awkward silence. "So how long will you be here in France?"

Sirius composed himself rapidly. "At least three weeks, probably more," he replied.

"That's a long time to stay in a hotel. Why don't the two of you come stay with us?" Sofia suggested.

Rachelle's expression went sour and she looked ready to protest. Ginny wasn't far from it herself, although she knew that this was what Sirius had been hoping for.

"That'd be great," Sirius accepted.

Ginny sighed. Rachelle was still leering at her unpleasantly, although she wasn't sure what she had done to bring it on. She really didn't feel like hanging around Rachelle much.

"Let's apparate back, then…oh wait, I forgot. Ginny is too young," Rachelle said, her voice obviously patronising.

Ginny glared at her, a bitter retort on the tip of her tongue. Only Sirius' hand on her shoulder stopped her.

"She can side apparate with me," Sirius suggested, glancing at Rachelle.

"Let's find an apparating point then," Frank said, then led the way to a group of nearby buildings. They found an alley hidden from muggle eyes and gathered in it.

Ginny waited while Sirius received the information he needed to be able to apparate to Ralph's home, then watched as the family apparated away. Sirius to turned to her with a sympathetic look. "I know this'll be hard, but we won't spend much time with her at all. We'll just be spending the nights at the house, and going elsewhere during the day," he said.

Ginny frowned. "Why can't we go back to your home again?"

"Because it is a pain to travel internationally, and I don't want to have to come back here in just a few weeks," Sirius answered.

"We have to go back for the meeting in a week anyway," Ginny muttered.

Sirius shook his head. "No, we really don't. We can send a letter reporting our progress, and Dumbledore, or Remus, will send one back informing us of the meeting. It wasn't an obligatory meeting."

Ginny huffed in annoyance, but then reached and took the hand Sirius offered her. She closed her eyes and waited as she felt the feeling of apparation wash over her.

Appearing in the front yard, Ginny took in the house. It wasn't that big, but was nice and secluded, in the woods.

Ralph was waiting for them. "Sirius, you can take the guest bedroom. It's up the stairs and the first door on the left. Ginny, I'm afraid you'll have to share with Rachelle," he told them, pushing open the front door.

Ginny sent Sirius a look. He got the message. She was not happy.

~~~ TB ~~~

Remus and Stan walked up to the gates surrounding the Werewolf Preserve. It was a familiar place for bother of them, but especially for Stan, since he had been living there since he had been turned, twenty years before. Remus had only stayed there for two months just before Harry and Sirius broke out of Azkaban the first time.

Neither of them looked pleased to be back. It was a horrible place to be forced to live, as so many werewolves were.

Walking through the gates and into the semicircle of cabins, Remus knew he was getting a lot of odd looks. He could feel the eyes of the other werewolves on him. It wasn't that he was unfamiliar to them. They all knew him. No, it was probably the newer clothes he was wearing, which Sirius had insisted on buying him. It was rare when a werewolf had new clothes, especially in the Preserve.

"Stan, welcome back," a man stepped forward. Remus knew him as Richard. He was the alpha of the pack, being the strongest of the wolves, and also the oldest. Stan happened to be the second in command, however, which is why Remus thought he was a good ally to have.

Stan removed himself from Remus' side and walked up to the alpha. They murmured to each other in low tones, low enough that even he, as a fellow werewolf, couldn't hear.. Remus shifted awkwardly and glanced around. He recognised many faces, including one female who had tried to proclaim herself as his mate. He had avoided her the last time, but it hadn't been easy. He was glad that he could use the excuse of his engagement with Dora to make her back off when he saw the look of pleasure in her eyes at the sight of him.

Stan loped over to Remus' side again. "Same arrangements as last time," Stan told him. Remus nodded in acceptance. He had barely been accepted into the pack the last time, mostly because he hadn't really needed to be there. Stan had warned him, strictly, that if he disagreed, complained openly, or cause a problem of any king, he would be forced to face Richard. Facing Richard would definitely cause a fight, since Richard already didn't like him. Challenging a pack alpha was going to end in a fight to the death.. If it came to blows between them, Remus already knew that he would lose to the bigger wolf.

Stan and Remus left the company of the rest of the pack and walked over to the cabin belonging to Stan, where he had stayed the last time as well.

"I'll speak to Richard in the morning about your plan," Stan said when the door had closed and they were in privacy. Remus nodded absently, wondering just how much it would take to get Richard to agree to Dumbledore's plot. He had thought, once he had found a home with Sirius, Dora, and Harry, that he wouldn't have to come back here ever again. To be back, locked away like an animal, didn't sit well with Remus. Not to mention that he had to spend all this time away from Dora.

Remus could only keep repeating on thing get through it: "It's all for Harry. You have to do it for Harry."

~~~ TB ~~~

Ginny peered sideways at Rachelle, who was sleeping on her back, her arms folded neatly over her chest, and he hair neatly spread out on the pillow above her. The other girl was asleep, thankfully.

Ginny could hear the sounds of a conversation coming from down the hall, through the open door. She heard Sirius laugh, but then quickly silent. Evidently, he was getting along fine with Ralph and Sofia.

There was just enough light coming from the hallway to illuminate her parchment as she scratched out a letter with a muggle pen. Dora, her father being muggleborn, knew quite a lot about muggle things, and in the time they had spent together, Ginny had picked up on some of those things as well. Plus, Ginny had found that muggle pens were much easier than a quill when she was trying to keep quiet.

The letter being written in the low light was to Harry. Even though she knew that he wouldn't receive it, she still wrote him at least four times a week, telling him everything that was going on. She never sent the letters, just kept them all together in a drawer. At the moment, she wondered if she would ever be able to send him a letter that he might receive and read.

Even if Harry got out of Azkaban, he had been dubbed as having a mental disorder, which meant, in simpler terms, he was insane. She didn't know if he would ever recover, or if he would have to spend the rest of his life in a hospital, taking pills to get rid of his pain.

The thought haunted her. The thought that even if she saw him again, he might not be hers.

Rachelle groaned softly and turned onto her side, facing Ginny now. Ginny froze in her writing, staring at the older girl. As soon as she was sure that she was still asleep, Ginny continued on.

A shadow passed the doorway, and Ginny looked up to see Sirius there, having paused when he saw her awake. Ginny gave him a weak smile, trying to inform him that she was okay, without actually speaking. He only stared at her for a moment, obviously not believing her. He glanced sideways at the sleeping Rachelle, then gave Ginny a meaningful look. He stepped away from the doorway, pulled the door shut, then left.

Ginny sighed at the abrupt lack of light. She capped her pen and dropped it into her bag over the side of the bunk she had been appointed. The half written letter, Ginny folded gently and slipped under her pillow, listening to the small crinkling noise it made as it rubbed up against the soft fabric.

Laying her head down on the pillow, Ginny fell asleep, her thoughts still focused on Harry.

A/N - Okay, the title suggestions, that I liked, are Deliverance (From LAoR), The Fraternity (From Fugacity), The Uprising (From stonekenobi7), The Innocents' Revenge (From stonekenobi7), and A New Hope (From stonekenobi7). I did tweak some of the titles a bit to make them more my style, but all credit goes to the people who suggested them. Vote for which one you like best, and whichever gets the greatest amount of votes, wins.