Ok so i lied...sue me...

Yes im updating quiker than i said cos i dont seem to be getting much interest in this so i thought what the hell...can i just say to Marietta Black that you are my top reviewer so far lol and i love you.

Well ok maybe not that extreme but you get my point.:D

and now...on with the show...

All four Marauders burst into the Gryffindor common room brimming with news. Cory with a gleeful grin across his face, Nancy looking grave, and James and Sirius forcing smiles.

"Guess what!" Cory began, hopping up and down on the spot. "I've been made Quidditch commentator!"

"Cool!" James and Sirius exclaimed at the same time, their grins turning genuine. Sirius high fived Cory while James punched him on the arm.

"Well I'm happy for you Cory, and I'm sorry to dampen the mood but three House Elves died over Christmas." Nancy said.

Sirius, James and Cory stopped grinning.

"It's getting bad isn't it?" Cory sighed. "And no one has a clue what to do…"

"We do!" Sirius and James yelled together.

Sirius launched into an explanation of how he discovered the Elf Stone amongst ministry records, including the news about Dobby's illness.

"I'm not going to say I told you so…"

"You should." Cory said to Nancy. "You did tell us so, and you were right."

"Yeah, good on you Wormtail." James grinned at Nancy.

"But now the question is, where do we start looking?"

Everyone looked at Sirius.

"For the Stone!"

"Oh, yeah." James frowned. "I've been thinking about that since you showed me that record, and I came up with a couple of places my Dad has mentioned over the years."

James pulled out a crumpled list from his pocket. Nancy raised her eyebrows at James' organisation but said nothing.

"Ok. The Room of Requirement, the third floor, the restricted section of the library and the headmaster's office."

"Why the third floor?" Asked Cory.

"That was where the teachers kept the Philosophers Stone." Sirius muttered, scanning his eyes over the list. "But it won't be there, they converted it back into a corridor of classrooms while Freya was in first year, she told me ages ago."

"And I doubt it will be in the library, it's far too out in the open." Nancy said. "I'll have a look all the same though."

"This leaves Lupin's office and the Room of Requirement." Sirius clarified to the rest of them. "Ok, Cory and James, you take the Room of Requirement, and I'll get up to Lupin's office. Nancy, can you talk to the elves themselves?"

"Sure, I can do it now."

"Yeah, the sooner the better." Sirius frowned again. "Oh and if any of you bump into any of the ghosts, ask them too."

The four set off to search the castle. Being only the first day after Christmas, the students were free to do as they pleased, as lessons didn't re-start until the following morning. James and Cory managed to get into the Room of Requirement, and spent hours searching in the Room of Hidden things.

Sirius, on his way to Lupin's office, came across the Gryffindor ghost, Nearly Headless Nick who had no idea about the Elf Stone, and, to Sirius' annoyance, Peeves, who locked him in a classroom for half an hour until Nancy came by to let him out.

"Thanks for that." Sirius said, as she joined him on the way to see Lupin.

"No Problem." Nancy grinned.

"How did you get on?"

"It was a disaster." Nancy sighed. "Apparently, few Wizards knew about the actual existence of the Elf stone, with exception to Ministry Officials. When it seemed to have disappeared, it became the subject of myth, like in that book I was reading. The House Elves took great offence, and when I questioned them they practically shoved me out of there head first!"

"Well they obviously don't know where it is either." Sirius said, sighing. They reached the stone gargoyle leading to the Head's office.

"Moony." Sirius told it, and it sprung to life to let him pass.

When Sirius and Nancy returned to the common room, they found a tired looking Jams and Cory sitting by the fire.

"Well?" Sirius asked them.

"Hours we spent in that room." James moaned.

"Nothing." Cory was shaking his head.

"Nothing in Lupin's office either." Nancy said as she and Sirius took their seats.

"We bumped into the Grey Lady though," Cory piped up. "She said she had definitely heard about the Stone at the time it was in the Museum. She had no idea it had been moved to Hogwarts though."

The Marauders sat in silence, each lost in their own thoughts. Will Weasley came striding towards them.

"Sirius, don't forget, practise on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday this week, the next match is only in two weeks."

"Two weeks?" Sirius gaped at Will. "Why so soon?"

"I dunno." Will shrugged. "Catch you later anyway."

"Great, my first commentary." Cory grinned, almost laughing at the look of horror on Sirius' face.

"FORTY-TWENTY TO GRYFFINDOR!"

Cory's voice rang out across the Quidditch pitch. Sirius was circling above the match, looking for the snitch. A Blue blur streaked past him, a Ravenclaw player, followed by a red one.

"Matty Moon in possession of the Quaffle." Cory was dictating. "He passes to Will Weasley, a superb Chaser as we have just witnessed…ah close!"

Sirius glanced at Will who had just dodged both Bludgers.

"He going for the goals again, no ones stopping him, he's going, HE'S SC- …ahh."

Will had missed by inches.

Sirius turned in midair, still sweeping his eyes over the pitch. He glimpsed a shimmer of gold over by the Ravenclaw goal posts, but as he began to dive a bludger grazed so close to his side it knocked him off course.

There was a groan from the Gryffindor side of the crowd, but cheers from the Ravenclaw's for their beater.

"Hang on a sec, Macey for Ravenclaw is going for a goal, but Carl Jordan is ready to block, and OH! THAT WAS EXCELLENT!"

The crowd broke out into a mixture of cheers and yells. One of the Creevy twins had hit a bludger at Macey who dropped the Quaffle and went spinning into the stands.

"So it's Will Weasley, back in Quaffle possession…"

Suddenly, Sirius caught sight of the snitch again, and dived.

"Look at Sirius!" Cory yelled.

The crowd seemed to have held its breath, and the players seemed to have forgotten about the game.

Sirius was diving as fast as he could go; it was going to be a close one he knew. He could sense the Ravenclaw seeker on his tale. As the ground came speeding towards him, he held out his hand, felt his fingers close around the cold metal…

WHAM.

He hadn't pulled up in time.

Sirius lay on the floor, the breath knocked out of him, a dull pain in his head. He was still clutching the snitch.

"SIRIUS POTTER CATCHES THE SNITCH! GRYFFINDOR WIN!"

After the Gryffindor win and a few nights in the Hospital Wing, Sirius and his fellow Marauders continued their search for the House Elf Stone. In between lessons, Quidditch Practise and Homework, they searched the Castle or discussed the places they hadn't yet looked.

As the months dragged on, all four Marauders began to lose hope of ever finding the Stone. Two more Elves of Hogwarts died, and meanwhile Sirius' mind was constantly on Dobby. Harry explained in his letters, however, that while there was no change in his condition, no change was, all in all, a lot better than him worsening.

It was nearing the end of the Easter Holidays when Will Weasley approached Sirius and James in the common room, brandishing two pieces of Parchment.

"Permission slips, He answered, in reply to Sirius' and James' confused looks. "For Hogsmeade. Uncle Fred and Uncle George are going to meet us on Thursday, and Mum, Dad, Harry and Ginny have given you two permission to come too."

"Great!" James exclaimed, setting down his potions essay. "I've never been, have you?" He asked Sirius, as Will left them to it.

"Nope."

The two set of for Hogsmeade with Will on the following Thursday morning, having spent the last two days either working or discussing more possible hideouts for the Stone.

It was in the Three Broomsticks where they meet with Fred and George Weasley, who came brandishing gifts from their Joke shop, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.

Fred, George, Will and James were deep in conversation about various tricks and jokes when Sirius, previously deep in thought, looked up suddenly at the sound of Fred's words.

"Say that again." He told Fred, while the others looked at him.

"I said the Green Stone passage closed up one winter."

"Which passage is this?"

"It leads out of Hogwarts to Hogsmeade, but like I said, it closed up.

"Why do you call it the Green Stone passage?" Sirius asked hurriedly, glancing across at James who had sat up straight.

"Because of the Green Stone hat was embedded into the wall." Finished George. "But why do you want to know…"

"Oh, no reason, just interested." Sirius gabbled, glancing again at James.

"We'd better get back." James said suddenly.

"What?" Will asked him. "We've got ages yet."

"No I mean me and Sirius. We have…loads of work to do."

Sirius nodded, and they said Goodbye before hurrying out the pub, and heading back to Hogwarts.

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