So this is going to take place over the course of one day/night, so hopefully it won't be too long of a story haha

Okay so "the Healer" now has a name because I'm a tool who decided he needed one.


"Sirius, are you absolutely sure?" James asked. "Azkaban is harsh-"

"What he did is harsh." Sirius finished, continuing towards the room.

"Sirius, mate." James said, grabbing Sirius by the shoulder. "He doesn't remember it. He's going to wake up in Azkaban, and never know what he did. Maybe he'll think that means this Voldemort guy won the wars he talks about. The Remus we knew would never have done this. Something in him broke, don't you want to know what?"

Sirius sighed. "It's been 2 years since they were killed. I don't think we'll ever know. It's time he was put in Azkaban."

James nodded. "Go get Healer Munroe. I'll go back to Remus, make up a story that he's being moved to another part of the hospital."

Sirius nodded. "Thank you, James. I don't know what I'd do without you beside me."

James watched Sirius walk away and then continued to the room. He entered slowly, and paused when he saw Remus sitting on the edge of his bed, staring at the wall.

"Remus?" James asked, shutting the door behind him. "Are you alright?"

"She was going to leave me." Remus said, keeping his gaze on the wall.

James could feel his heart pounding faster. Did Remus remember? James sat on one of the chairs cautiously. "Who?" He asked slowly.

"Tonks. She was writing letters to someone, I found them- but she had a habit of not addressing them until she was about to send them. She was writing to someone, and was going to leave me. Move in with whoever they were, but never said she would take the kids.''

"You remember?" James asked.

Remus finally looked at James. "There was no war, Prongs. I killed my wife, and I killed my children."

"Remus, why?" James asked. Remus looked back to the wall.

"It started after Hope was born. She was acting different. She didn't love Hope like she loved Teddy, from what I saw anyway. Dora cried a lot. We weren't- our marriage wasn't good. She was distant, quiet. Barely spoke to me anymore. James, she didn't love me."

"But why did you kill her?"

"I didn't want her to leave."

"But then you fix the problems, you don't kill her!" James said. "And the kids- why did you kill the kids?"

"I'd be arrested, I wouldn't be raising them anyway. If I killed her, I had to kill them all."

James sighed. If Remus remembered, then he'd understand waking up in Azkaban every day- and he deserved to know that's where he was headed.

"Remus, why do you remember now?" James asked, standing and walking towards the bed. "What triggered this?"

"I don't know. I just remembered, when you two were gone- why didn't Sirius come back?"

"Andromeda died." James answered. "He went to talk to a Healer. Remus, you're being moved tonight. To Azkaban."

Remus moved suddenly and James didn't have time to react. Remus pushed James against the wall, his arm pressing down on James' throat. "I can't go to Azkaban. I need to get out of here."

James try to pry Remus' arm off his throat but Remus was stronger than James, and James couldn't even reach his wand. He shoved Remus, who stumbled back a couple steps. James wasn't a violent person(most of the time), but when Remus rushed towards him again, he did what his first instinct told him to- he threw a punch. His fist connected with Remus' jaw, sending the man back a few more steps. When Remus looked at James again, James could see the anger on the man's face. Remus rushed at him again, and James tried to defend himself as his glasses were knocked from his face. He shoved Remus but Remus pulled him down, landing on top of him and wrapping his hands around James' throat.

James tried to push Remus off, but it was no use. He couldn't pry Remus' hands off of his throat either. This was it, this was how James Potter was going to die. The door opened behind the duo and James heard Sirius yell two words within a few seconds but his mind was going blank- and Sirius couldn't have cast that curse, right?

A flash of green and Remus was knocked off of James. James couldn't move for a few seconds and as he slowly sat up, Sirius handed him his glasses. James shoved them on, looking towards Remus.

"Did you- Padfoot, did you kill him?"

Sirius sank to the floor against the wall. "I had to. He was going to kill you. And I couldn't lose the last of my family, Prongs."

"But won't you be arrested?" James asked.

"Probably." Sirius said with a sigh. "But you're alive, so I'll take the punishment. I did what I had to."


Remus woke up with a dull headache, and found himself staring at the ceiling of the Great Hall.

"Remus, you're awake!" A woman said, and his eyes focused as Tonks knelt next to him. "Do you feel alright?"

"You're alive." Remus said quietly, sitting up and looking around. The battle had ceased, and he could see everyone that had died- the Weasleys stood in a small group a few feet away. "You're alive?" He asked Tonks.

Tonks smiled. "Why wouldn't I be?"


So there ya go

last chapter.

didn't go exactly as I wanted but that's okay. Hope you enjoyed!