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Azkaban isn't a normal prison; there was no parole, no 'getting out for good behavior', no humanity. And worst of all, or so Sirius thought, was that there were no visitors.

Sirius had often wondered what it would be like if someone did come to visit. What would he say? How could he tell them of his innocence? Better yet, who would come?

Despite his popularity at Hogwarts, he really didn't have too many friends. Plenty of acquaintances, plenty of girlfriends, but not too many real friends. Not many of friends he could count on to visit him when he'd been wrongfully accused and sent to prison.

Obviously, James wouldn't be coming. The only time Sirius ever saw James was in his dreams, or sometimes he'd 'see' him when he felt particularly lonely.

Lily was another whom he could never see. All due to his own folly, so he had no one to blame but himself at the lack of their presence.

Peter. Peter had been a friend, at one time. But now he was off somewhere, scampering through the sewers no doubt. Sirius missed him, he missed the little, idiot Peter he had once known. The one who would do anything James told him just to remain in the group. That Peter was the one he would have liked a visit from.

And then of course there was Sirius' last friend. The only one who actually had the ability to visit him, had he been allowed of course, Remus.

But he had betrayed Remus just as much as Peter had betrayed James. It was due to Sirius doubts on Remus' loyalty that they were all in this mess in the first place. Sirius had dropped Remus as soon as suspicions started, he had never stopped to think about whether Remus would ever actually betray them.

Looking back, his convictions had been ridiculous. Which James, of course, saw right away

…

"James," Sirius said authoritatively as he walked into the Potter's living room. "We have to talk."

"Someone seems very serious today." James joked smiling slightly at his own humor.

"I'm not kidding, it's about the war."

James immediately sobered at the mention of war and gestured for Sirius to take a seat on the sofa. Sirius crossed the Potter's small living room, stepping over several small baby toys in the process, to sit next to his mate.

"What is it? Did Dumbledore tell you something?" James asked as soon as Sirius was seated.

"No. I found this out on my own." Sirius said, "You have to promise to hear me out Prongs, I know it sounds a bit ridiculous, but I'm certain."

"You mean this is just some theory you have?" James asked, his eyebrows furrowing in confusion, "I thought you had news on the war?"

"It's about the war, it just isn't necessarily set in stone." Sirius replied, "You know how Dumbledore thinks we have a spy?"

James immediately perked up, "You think you know who it is? Who? How d'you know? Where'd you find out? Wha-"

"I think it's Remus."

Utter and complete silence met his words. James excited exterior faded back into the slightly morbid, suspicious expression that nearly everyone wore in these dark times. "It definitely isn't Remus. What on earth gave you that idea?"

"No, listen," Sirius said, and he leaned closer to James in order to share the information. "It all fits! You know that Dumbledore sent him off with the werewolves, maybe they were able to sway him."

"You're going to blame him because of his lycanthropy!" James demanded, his face contorting in rage, "Of all the people who ought to know better-"

"No!" Sirius exclaimed, no way would he ever be so prejudiced to say that. "It's just that he hasn't had any kind of luck since we got out of school, it makes sense he'd be bitter. And Greyback must have some sort of way to persuade people to his views. Remus is just as perceptible as any other werewolf."

"No, he's not." James said resolutely. "Remus has us to help him with everything, those other werewolves don't. I refuse to believe Remus is a traitor just because Dumbledore makes him spy on the werewolves."

Sirius sighed heavily, he'd been expecting James not to believe that, incredibly viable and well thought out theory, due to his unwavering allegiance to Remus. But that wasn't Sirius only thoughts on the matter.

"Fine, so maybe being with the pack doesn't have anything to do with it. But what about the fact of how distant Remus has become of us?" Sirius said. To that James had no response. "See? You can't deny how he doesn't want to talk to any of us. I've hardly said two words to him in weeks; he always finds some excuse not to get together with us."

"He's said he just needs time alone." James said. He didn't appear to have any of the enlightenment Sirius had felt when he discovered Remus secret. James had, in fact, not even considered Sirius' ideas.

"James, you have to consider-"

"I don't have to consider anything, Sirius!" James spat out angrily, "I'm not going to go around pulling at straws to try and convict my friends of treachery."

"I'm not-" Sirius tried to protest, but James would have none of it.

"Yes you are, Sirius. You're searching for answers that aren't there." James said.

...

That's exactly what Sirius had done. He'd been searching for the needle in the wrong haystack. Had he listened to James he might have moved past Remus and focused on the real traitor.

If he had been smart enough to listen to James he might still have a friend.

AN: This is not at all what I was expecting from this chapter. Of course I'm not really sure what I was expecting… Anyway, I like it, nice and long. And it's a memory chapter, the memories are always fun to write. I'd like to thank harryginny9 and reader, my only two reviewers.

To the unsigned reviewer:

Reader: I'm sorry to hear you're going through writers block, I hope you are able to power through it. I'm glad you liked last chapter. I actually wrote a different version of it ages ago, but I just didn't like it. So I finally decided to give it another go, and wrote chapter ten. As for the other prisoners stories, I don't really know, someday I might delve deeper into them, at the moment they don't even have names, just vague little histories that helped me write last chapter. I did actually go through my files, due to your incessant nagging some of the little stories might actually come out into the light soon. The sequel is a definite possibility, though I'd like to plan it a little better before ever posting it. As always thanks for reviewing!

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