Disclaimer- JK Rowling owns Harry Potter, I am not JK Rowling therefore I do not own Harry Potter…..yet….
Mad eye Moody was having a relatively ordinary day. There had been no mass murders or 'gas' explosions as the muggles call them. In fact the Mad Eye was enjoying his quiet day until those ruddy Marauder's came barging in shouting their mouths off about Sirius Black. Again.
"So you're trying to tell me that by some miracle a Death Eater turned good, gave Sirius this so called magical mirror and then was killed by other Death Eaters?" Moody eyed the men in front of him sceptically.
"Yes exactly, and we just spoke to Sirius in the mirror so he's definitely alive!" James exclaimed as if this was obvious.
Mad Eye only raised his eyebrows on disbelief.
They were all in the Head Aurors office, having yet another argument about Sirius, Mad eye was adamant that he was dead, whilst James and Remus were still insisting that he was in fact alive and had been the entire time.
"Oh come on you know it makes sense! Look we can even show you Sirius if we have to!" Remus sounded annoyed.
Moody shook is head at the now desperate marauders in front of him. He looked at them slightly sympathetically. "Even if it is true, which I'm not saying it is we still have no idea where he is."
James opened his mouth to argue that Sirius could tell him, but the older Auror cut across him "He probably doesn't even know himself James. Voldemort doesn't make a habit of showing important order members where he keeps his prisoners." He reasoned.
"For god's sake you are just refusing to see what's right in front of you!" James screeched turning around and storming out of the spacious office.
Remus rolled his eyes at his friend's short temper and turned back to Moody. "What if we can find out where he is and show you that he's alive then will you help?"
Moody opened his mouth to argue once again, but just as he had to James the young werewolf cut across him. "Evan if he's not there, there's got to be other valuable people you can rescue I'm just asking you to give us a chance to prove you wrong." Man that kid was stubborn.
Mad eye sighed and ran a hand through his greying hair. "Fine if you can find out where he is and show me this 'magical mirror' then I will try and pull together the resources to get him out! OK?" the Auror gave in. Remus could win an argument and he knew it.
The former Gryffindor smirked, nodded his thanks to the older man and turned on his hell copying his friends' earlier exit at a much slower pace.
Moody sat down with a second sigh. "Those goddamn Marauders." He growled to himself.
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Remus ran down the corridor hoping to find his best friend who had gone AWOL. "Bloody idiot" and "What does he think he's doing?" Was only some of the abuse he got hurled at him as he hurtled down the corridors in the ministry up ending unfortunate workers who just happened to be in the corridors at the time.
"James!" He shouted as he spotted his best friends give away mop of messy black hair.
Suddenly the black haired came to a grinding halt giving his friend chance to catch up with him.
Remus caught up with him panting and red in the face. "Jesus Christ, I really need to work out," He panted hands on his knees.
James wasn't listening to his friend though. In fact the minute he was level with the werewolf he began his unnecessary rant. "I cannot believe Moody fails again to see what's right in front of his bloody eyes! He's determined Sirius is dead when we can give clear evidence that he's not only he refuses to see it! He really-"Remus put his hand up to stop his incoherent babbling.
"We have one week to find out where he is and show him Sirius then he'll go in and get him." The werewolf told the distressed Potter heir.
James' eyebrows shot up into hairline as he spluttered out, "H-how did you do t-that?"
Remus gave an arrogant smirk that Sirius would have been proud of and said calmly, "Well not shouting and storming out gave me the upper hand," He laughed at his friend again before signalling for him to follow. "Come on then, let's go and talk to Sirius."
James rolled his eyes at his calm, collected friend before following behind him.
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Remus ran a hand through his already greying hair. "-and you're sure that you don't remember anything from the journey? Nothing at all?" He was desperate now.
Sirius snorted, "It's quite hard to take in the scenery, if you're out cold Moony!" He sighed exasperated by his friends constant questioning about the same things.
"Sorry just had to clarify," Moony muttered under his breath.
Padfoot and Prongs shared an eye roll at their best friend. "Any windows in there Paddy?" Was James' slightly more logical question.
"One, but you'd have to be Hagrid if you wanted to look through it," All three friends sighed. How were they going to work this one out?
"Perhaps you could jump and grab onto the ledge to look out of it?" Remus suggested.
"Yeah that might work, give me a sec I'll try it out." There was a short scuffle while the dog animagus dropped the mirror in order to try out this little master plan.
After a few second there was a bang and the sound of their best friend muttering profanities under his breath.
James and Remus winced at the noises coming from the other half of the mirror. "You alright mate?" The Potter asked carefully.
"Yeah," There was a sharp intake of breath before he continued. "Not sure I did my leg much good though," He let out a shaky laugh to try and mask the pain in his voice.
"You sure Padfoot?" James asked again.
"Yes I'm fine just leave it OK?" The disowned Black heir snapped at his almost brother.
The three were silent for a moment, before Remus' cough pierced through the awkwardness. "So did you see anything useful?" He asked.
"No looks like I'm screwed doesn't it?" Was Sirius nonchalant answer.
No one said anything; there was nothing to say about Sirius' resignation of his life.
James sighed.
So that's it chapter 10! It's unlikely that I am going to post again now before I go on holiday, so there will be NO UPDATES FOR 3 WEEKS! Well you were warned, my laptop decided it liked spaces so it put one between every line towards the end, sorry guys!
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