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During the next week, I kept a very close eye on Reg and the boys he had disappeared with. They often sat down together in the common room, but never for long. Also, they seemed to often meet in the hallways, stopping to whisper to each other, and glancing around nervously.
I didn't only notice the four that I had seen the evening after the Quidditch match – the group varied a bit each time. Sometimes, Avery would join them; once, I saw Mulciber with them. What worried me the most, though, was the one time I actually saw that my brother joined their little group.

I had my chance the next Friday. I turned a corner down in the dungeons, only to jump back behind it and pressing my back against the wall, trying to make no noise whatsoever. Reg, Avery and Macnair were currently whispering together.

"When, then?" I heard Avery asking.

"Tomorrow night."

"The others are coming, too?" Reg whispered.

"Yeah... we'll sneak out right after curfew."

"Place the same as always?"

"Same as always."

"Splendid."

My eyes widened in fear as I heard footsteps coming my way. There was only one possibility: flight forward. I turned the corner, bumping straight into Avery.

"Oi! Watch were you're going!"

"Selene?" Reg appeared next to Avery, frown prominent on his face. "What – were you-"

"Just turning this corner and running into this idiot here – were you in a hurry?"

"No," Avery grumbled. "Just didn't hear you coming."

"You didn't need to hear me, stupid, you just should've seen me – anyways – I'm heading for lunch, are you coming, Reg?"

"I - sure. Yeah."

I tried my best to act totally normal as I walked with him toward the stairs leading up to the Entrance Hall.

"Selene – you were really just arriving that moment?"

I swallowed quickly and raised an eyebrow at him. "Sure I did. What do you think? That I spy on you?"

"I need your help." I sat down opposite to Sirius who was looking up at me from his breakfast.

"Rosier, this is the Gryffindor table."

"Shut up, Potter, I don't have the time for this now!" I looked back to Sirius. "Reg is-"

"Do I look like I care what Reg is doing?"

"He's meeting with a bunch of people – Snape. Macnair. Avery. My brother," I admitted. "And Lestrange, I don't know why he even talks to that guy..."

"And?"

"And, I fear that... you know, this Christmas, Bellatrix and Evan had a little talk-"

"A little talk-"

"He wants to be a Death Eater."

Pettigrew's pale eyes widened in horror as his gaze switched between me and Sirius.

"See," Potter said. "That's why I don't want to associate with that lot."

I ignored him and went on, "I'm afraid that Reg wants to join, too."

Sirius was silent for a while, until he finally said, "And that's supposed to interest me, because-?"

"Because it does! Come now, Sirius, please don't play the dick, I need your help with this!"

He took a sip of his goblet and then asked, "What do you want me to do?"

"I want to find out if I am right. They arranged some meeting tonight... but I don't know where."

"That's not a problem. We'll find them."

Potter shot his friend a warning glance, but Sirius only said, "I'll need your cloak."

"No!"

"Prongs!"

Potter groaned. "Fine. But just because it's you, mate."

"What-?"

"When do they meet?"

"Right after curfew."

Sirius nodded. "I'll get you at ten minutes past curfew in front of your common room."

"You will be seen!"

"Don't worry about that, missy."

"But how-"

"I'll explain later, all right? Now, go, you're attracting attention."

I opened the common room's entrance at the exact time Sirius had told me. Cautiously, because I feared Reg or one of his companions might still be around, I stepped out into the hallway. There was absolutely no one there.

Suddenly, someone grabbed me from behind, pulling me flush against them, and clapping a hand over my mouth as to stifle my scream.

"Calm down, it's me, you're fine..."

He removed his hand and I hissed, "Sirius! What the hell-"

"Silent! Get down under here."

I frowned, turning around, to see he was holding up a cloak that he had draped over himself. "What-"

"Just trust me."

I stepped closer to him and he let the cloak fall down over the two of us.

"Now, move. Careful, you have to watch your feet, it'll look funny-"

"It'll look funny in the whole," I whispered. "The two of us underneath some cloak."

He laughed quietly. "But no one can see us, missy."

"What are you talking about?"

"Just one little moment – in here."

He pushed away a hanging and revealed a secret hallway. My eyes widened as he pushed me inside.

"Good – finally we get rid of this." He pulled at the cloak and tossed it to the ground.

I eyed him as he stood before me, grinning widely. "Explain!"

He sighed. "You're no fun."

"Sirius!"

"It's an invisibility cloak."

"An- but these are so rare! And expensive, how did you get-?"

"It's James' – he inherited it from his father. Who got it from his father and so on."

"And it – it works?"

"Perfectly. Didn't leave us hanging once."

"Amazing," I whispered. "And this is how you managed to do all that stuff..."

"Well, yes – but that's not the only thing."

I narrowed my eyes at him. "What else?"

"Something that'll come in very useful tonight." He pulled out a very old piece of parchment.

"What-?"

"Just wait and see." He seized his wand, tapping lightly on the paper. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

Lines began to spread all over the parchment, forming words and I bent forward to have a better look. Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present THE MARAUDER'S MAP. The words disappeared again, and instead the lines formed the floor plan of a building; hallways, rooms, halls, and then suddenly, tiny dots appeared, each signed with a name. I stared at the map, open-mouthed, as I realized what it was.

"Is that-"

"A map of Hogwarts. Showing every hall, every room, every secret passage, anything – it even shows every inhabitant – see," he pointed at two dots in a very small passage down in the dungeons. "That's us."

I leant forward again and – in fact, he was right. There were two dots, standing closely together. One was titled Sirius Black and the other one was reading Selene Rosier.

"This is – where did you get it?"

"Get it? We created it!"

My eyes found his and I whispered, "Really?"

"Sure! Padfoot – that's me, and Prongs, that's James-"

"Funny nicknames you got."

He froze mid-sentence. "You think so?"

"Yeah – how'd'you get them?"

He hesitated. "It's a long story. Don't have the time for this now. We gotta find my dear brother and his little friends on here..."

He scanned the map, eyes rapidly darting back and forth. When I had only managed to check the first floor, Sirius said, "I found them."

He pointed at a room on the fourth floor. He was right. Seven little dots were shown closely together in what I believed to be an abandoned classroom. One of it clearly read, Regulus Black.

"Great. So, we should hurry, they sure won't take long."

During our walk up to the fourth floor, again concealed underneath the invisibility cloak, my heart beat so heavily that I was sure that I would give us away by that alone. Sirius didn't comment on it, though, he was constantly searching the map for anyone who could possibly come our way. Luckily, we never met anyone on our way. Mere meters before our destination, Sirius suddenly stopped.

"What?" I whispered.

"No matter what happens, don't you go – I don't know – running inside, or revealing us in any other way-"

"I would never!"

"I just don't want to be caught."

He pulled out his wand again, tapping the map once more. "Mischief Managed!"

At once, all the lines disappeared, leaving the paper blank.

"Why are you deleting it?" I whispered.

"If anyone comes by, I don't want them to know what this is."

I nodded and he motioned for the two of us to move closer to the door behind which Reg and his companions were having their meeting. We stopped directly in front of it, pressing against the wooden door.

To my horror, the first voice to speak was my brother's. "Are we complete?"

Someone, I assumed it was Avery answered, "Yeah, we are, just get on with it, Evan!"

"Fine, fine – I have good news. I'll receive the mark this summer. I'm seventeen now, so..."

The other boys erupted in congratulations. There was some weird form of applause as I started shivering. Having Sirius' eyes burning on my face didn't make it any better.

"I can assume that you're gonna recommend us, then?"

"I already said that I have some friends who'd be equally honoured to join-"And?"

"And I was told it would be considered."

"Yeah," I heard Rabastan say. "Bellatrix said about the same when I asked her."

"Right," Evan muttered. "He's gonna want to see action."

"What do you mean?"

I flinched violently as I heard Reg's voice.

"You actually got to do something. Just saying that you hate mudbloods won't do it. You're going to have to prove."

"So," another voice said and Sirius angrily hissed, "Snivellus!"

"What do you propose?"

There was a short silence and then Reg said, "How 'bout that Gryffindor prefect – Evans?"

"No!" both Sirius and I gasped out loud at what we had heard, freezing right after. Had they-

"What was that?"

"Avery," my brother's voice commanded. "You go check if there's someone there."

Footsteps approached us. Sirius flung an arm around my waist, pulling me against him and pushing himself back against the wall, as flat as possible underneath the life-saving cloak. He probably felt me shivering again as he whispered, "Not a sound."

The door opened and Avery stepped outside, looking around. He looked in the opposite direction, then turned and took a step towards us. I held my breath, desperately trying to figure out what we'd do if he actually found us.

Avery frowned. Had he realized that there was something wrong right in front of his nose? Sirius grip on my waist tightened, he obviously feared the same... Avery took another step toward us... and huffed.

"There's no one here," he called to the others and turned to retreat back into the classroom.

The door closed behind him and I sighed in relief, relaxing against Sirius.

"Come on," he whispered into my ear. "Let's go..."

He pulled me after him, around a corner, down some stairs, along another hallway – I hardly paid attention to where we were going. My mind was occupied with other things.

Evan was going to become a Death Eater this summer.

He wanted the others to join.

Reg wanted to be a Death Eater.

They'd try to attack Lily Evans.

"Selene!"

I blinked, confused and looked up to meet Sirius' eyes. "What?"

"Gosh, I thought you'd never answer. Are you okay?"

"Sure, fine... sort of..."

He began pacing up and down in the small corridor he had leaded me to.

"We're going to have to report them," he finally said.

"No!" I said at once and he looked at me incredulously.

"Are you nuts? They're Death Eaters! They're going to attack a girl! Of course we have to report them!"

"Not if – not if – please! This is about Reg... and my brother... if we report them, they're going to get expelled!"

"Yeah! Yeah, right, and they should be!"

I shook my head rapidly. "Please – please, Sirius, I beg you – give me two days – he's not gonna do it. They're not going to do it."

He stared at me for a while, then finally said, "Fine. You got two days."

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