"Whaa?" Logan mumbled sleepily as she felt somebody shake her shoulder.
"Kit, you need to wake up." Remus' urgent voice filled the silent room.
"Why?" Whined Logan while burrowing further into her blankets.
"Logan, now!" Remus said more forcefully. "Sirius was in the castle!"
Upon hearing that, Logan shot up in bed, all of her previous grogginess gone. "What?!"
"He tried to break into the Gryffindor tower." Remus explained as Logan ran into the bathroom to change out of her pajamas and into her robes.
"Harry?" Logan asked when she emerged from the bathroom. "Is he alright?"
"He's fine." Remus assured her as the exited Logan's quarters. "Although, the Fat Lady wouldn't let Sirius in, so he slashed her portrait."
•••
"Oh, no," Logan mumbled as they approached the entrance to the Gryffindor common room to see all of the Professors gathered around the destroyed portrait. "Headmaster, was he caught?"
"Miss Evans," Dumbledore turned to Logan, "I can trust that Mr. Lupin filled you in on the situation?"
"Yes," Logan nodded, "please, tell me you captured him."
Dumbledore sighed, "I'm afraid that he got away before we could. All of the children are asleep in the Great Hall if you would like to see your nephew and then help search the castle."
"Of course." Logan nodded. "Remus?"
"Yeah, I'll come."
As Logan and Remus walked to the Great Hall Logan said, "this isn't good, Moony."
"Don't worry, Kit," Remus replied, we'll figure it out. Harry will be okay."
"I want to believe you, but I'm just not sure." When they reached the Great Hall they saw rows upon rows of sleeping bags with children asleep inside of them.
"He's over there." Remus pointed in the direction of a cluster of three sleeping bags. Inside of them were a redhead, a bushy brown haired girl and a messy black haired boy.
They quietly approached the trio and Logan crouched down beside Harry's sleeping bag. She lightly ran her hand over his messy hair, smoothing it down. "He's been looking paler and like he's been getting less sleep lately."
"Can you blame him?" Questioned Remus gently.
"No," Logan stood with a sigh, "I honestly just wish that I could do something more to help than I already am."
"I know." Remus gently ushered her out of the Great Hall and they began to search the various corridors and classrooms.
As they were were checking the DADA room Logan spoke, "if they don't find him in here, I think that maybe tomorrow night we should search the grounds."
"But Logan, the Dementors..." Remus trailed off.
"We both know how to get rid of them." Logan persisted. "C'mon Moony, for Harry."
Remus sighed and shook his head, "how in the world do you always manage to get me to do stupid things?"
"I like to think that it's my super power."
••••
"Okay, so, where do we start?" Remus asked Logan as they exited the castle the next night.
Logan took a deep breath and looked around. "If you were a psychotic mutt-man where would you hide?"
"Uh," Remus tilted his head as they walked, "I don't know, because I'm not one."
"I know that." Logan rolled her eyes. "It's just something, like a Muggle expression, I guess you could say."
"Oh." Remus nodded in understanding. "Well, if I were a psychotic Sirius Black I would go for the forest. And in Animagus form."
"Yeah." Logan agreed. "That way the Dementors couldn't detect me and students or staff couldn't recognize me."
"Exactly." They set off toward the forest.
Once they reached the edge of the forest, the Dementors began moving in on them.
"Bloody things..." Logan murmured before silently doing the 'Expecto Patronum' spell and summoning her lioness Patronus.
When only some of them went away, Remus added his wolf Patronus and between the two, the Dementors finally floated away.
The lioness and wolf returned gracefully to their respective witch/wizard's wands.
"I swear they think I'm Sirius Black." Logan grumbled. "Or maybe that I'm hiding him in my robes!"
"Okay," Remus chuckled at Logan's ranting, "calm down there. You're getting a bit carried away."
"Those bloody things are getting more than a bit carried away." Logan glared at the Dementors that floated around the castle. "Trying to attack me, like I'm some sort of criminal? I don't bloody think so!"
"Alright, c'mon, let's go search." Remus gently took Logan by the arm and led the still grumbling and muttering woman further into the forest.
"Alright," Logan said to Remus, "you go left and I go right?"
"Yeah," Remus nodded, "just remember to look out for the creatures that roam around. Some are dangerous."
"Okay. If you see him send up red sparks with your wand and then I'll come and find you." Logan told the man.
"Alright, the same goes for you."
Logan nodded and then they both set off in different directions.
The further Logan got into the forest, the more creeped out she became. Every sound, whether it be a twig snapping or the wind rustling in the trees, she found herself gripping her wand tighter and tighter.
Eventually Logan came upon a clearing where the trees became scarce and the Black Lake became visible.
"Seriously?" She muttered to herself. "Did I honestly go that far and find nothing."
Another rustling sounded from behind her and she jumped. Groaning quietly, she kicked a rock that was sitting by her foot. "Merlin's beard Logan, you're suck a bloody pansy."
Her heart dropped when she heard a slight barking sound from behind her. It was loud enough to be heard, yet not so loud that it was totally menacing.
Turning around rapidly on her heels, Logan came face to face with a big, scraggly, underweight, black dog. For a few moments she was frozen in shock before she muttered, "You."
"Stupefy!" She called out narrowly missing the dog, that jumped out of the way.
Logan moved her wand rapidly and a continuous stream of red sparks shot out of it.
Once the dog realized that Logan wasn't on his side, he took off running, causing Logan to swear loudly.
She quickly tucked her wand securely into her robes and shifted into 'Kit' and took off in pursuit of the Animagus.
After awhile the dog got away and Logan could no longer see him. She shifted back into a human.
"Damnit!" She screamed into the silence of the forest before sending a stream of sparks once again into the air to notify Remus of where she was.
She unceremoniously dropped onto the ground with a shout of anger and waited for Remus to show up.
"Kit!" She looked up to see Remus out of breath and running toward her. "Are you okay? Did you see him?"
"He was right there." She said with a blank look on her face. "For the first time in twelve years, there he was."
"What happened?" Remus asked while healing the various cuts on her faces from low branches and brush hitting it while she ran after Sirius.
"He was right there, but I don't know," Logan shook her head, "there was just this look in his eyes, like he was almost relieved to see me. It made me hesitate and by the time I had snapped out of it and tried to stun him, he was prepared and made a run for it. I tried chasing him, but I think he ducked into a thicker part of the forest. I lost track of the bastard."
Sighing at his best friends worked up state, Remus said, "Kit, it's alri-"
"No!" Logan exclaimed angrily. "It's not alright, Moony! I can't even keep my nephew safe from my freaking psycho ex-boyfriend!"
"Everything will work out, Kit," Remus sighed and wrapped his arm around Logan, "you'll see."
"I really hope so."
