AN: I know it's been forever since I updated, but I had so much going on. Finals are this week at school, but then I'm done and I'll have all summer to write and I plan to so hope for quick updates. Anyway please review. I want to know your feelings, and I would really like a few more reviews than normal. Thanks. Also I have two Ron's in this chapter, the one from Harry's dimension will be referred to as Mutt when I speak about the two of them in the same place.
A New Recruit!
The group of Order members waiting outside the camp, in which Ron was located, began to plan a way to smuggle a message into him. As of now the best idea they had was to let Mutt transform and cross to the barbed wire, and it was the one they decided to use. James wrote a note and Mutt headed toward the fence, staying low to the ground, making his way toward where Ron was working on repairs. He left the note at Ron's feet and slinked into the bushes.
Ron reached for the note as it fluttered down over the fence and he cautiously opened it:
Ron-it is not easy-, he relaxed after that, this is going to sound strange but the dog in front of you is the animagus form if a you from a different dimension who has come to help us overthrow Voldie. Nod if you understand and accept this. (Ron nodded). Good, we need to break the prisoners out of here. He is planning something. Will you help? And is Hermione still alive? -Prongs
Ron nodded to both of the last questions and slipped the note back under the fence to Mutt as two guards began an inspection of the workers.
Later that night Mutt and Sirius apparated back to headquarters to go over the new plans that the discovery of an alive Ron and Hermione. Much to their surprise they found headquarters silent, and they both went to find to their lovers in order to make sure they were all right.
Sirius found Harry sleeping restlessly in their bed; he climbed in next to him and immediately felt Harry settle down. Harry stirred a few moments later, smiling happily when he saw Sirius lying next to him. Sirius leaned over and planted a gentle kiss on Harry's lips and, with Harry's arms wrapped around him; Sirius fell asleep the easiest he had in days.
Ron went looking for Hermione, and was unable to find to find her in their rooms or anywhere else, until he finally looked in the hospital, where he found her sleeping on a spare cot in an almost full ward. Ron wondered what had happened in the three days they were gone, this was the fullest he had ever seen the infirmary.
The next morning the group met in their commons to discuss how the prisoners should be handled. It was decided that each should be questioned, with Sirius, Remus, and Ron being the front men on the job.
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Severus looked up as the door to the cell he was sharing with four others opened and Black and the Wolf stepped in. He knew by the looks on their faces and their simple black clothing that the Death eaters were in for some long and arduous questioning sessions.
Black came and roughly grabbed him, twisting his arms sharply behind his back, while the wolf grabbed the youngest member of the party, 24-year-old Cassiopeia Lestrange. The two prisoners were led out of the room and Severus was taken into an interrogation room, "Hey Sev!"
"Oh dear lord, you are going to torture me aren't you?"
"Of course, you are a Death Eater," Harry whispered conspiratorially back.
"Funny Potter, real funny. Anyway the Dark Lord is getting frustrated and he wants to move his plans forward, except that he's beginning to suspect that there is a spy on the inside. He has set Regulus the task of finding them. Also he put a kill-on-sight order out on you and an order that neither Cuil nor Ria were to be harmed in any way if captured."
"Do you know why?"
"No. Also HE is beginning to get nervous about his big plan, watch for him to speed up the deportations."
Harry sighed and nodded his head, accepting the information from the spy, "Alright, is there anyone who we can turn the suspicions to?"
"Yes, and she is actually in the other interrogation room. She also is a werewolf and doesn't want to be a Death Eater."
"Who is she?" Harry was curious as to who this new player could be.
"Cassiopeia Lestrange. She was given no choice by her parents to even leave the Dark Lord's compound, so she had no other option except to accept the dark mark."
"I'll have Remus and Ria talk to her, we'll have to assign a guard to her until she is cleared as safe, but can you make it look like she was somehow spying?"
"Of course I can, Potter," Severus drawled.
"Perfect, so who would you prefer to beat you up?"
Severus answered with a resigned tone, "Better let Black do it, he tends to make it very believable."
Harry nodded once again and left, sending Sirius in on his way out. Sirius nodded at Severus, "You ready?"
"Go ahead Black."
Sirius's first punch landed in his stomach. The rest rained down, until a lucky one caught his temple and knocked him unconscious. Sirius cringed, not meaning to cause him to pass out. He picked up the limp body and drug him back to the cell, throwing him in, and headed back to the main area, praying that Severus wouldn't kill him for that.
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Cassiopeia Lestrange sat in the dark room the Order members had left her in, for what seemed hours, before the door opened and a man she immediately smelled to be a werewolf walked in. "Please help me," she begged the man.
"Why?"
"I had no choice in getting this mark and I'll tell you everything I know. My parents hate me, I've never killed or tortured anyone, and I just want out. Please!"
"Miss Lestrange…"
"No call me Cassie or Cassiopeia, but not my last name please."
"Fine Cassiopeia, I have to speak with the others before I accept your offer. Someone will be in shortly to speak with you."
The next time someone entered her room it was a young woman around Cassiopeia's age. The way the light fell blocked her face from sight, and the dog that followed her growled in warning when Cassiopeia moved slightly in her chair. The girl immediately shushed the dog with a sharp, "Quiet Padfoot."
The woman sat directly across from her, "So I'm told that you want to come over to our side. Why should we accept a Death Eater?" The last two words were said with a sneer.
"Please, I never wanted to be a Death Eater. I hate it. It makes me completely sick to even think about what I'll be expected to do. I never had choice in getting this mark, I've never even been off Voldemort's compound until I was sent on this mission."
Ria could hear the sincerity in the woman's words, and she decided to offer her a deal. "I believe you, and we will let you join us with a couple of conditions first."
Cassiopeia nodded.
"First you must accept that you will have a guard with you 24 hours a day. Second you will not be allowed on missions for at least six-moths and in the Headquarters you will be a researcher and you will help out where we need you. Lastly we need you to take the fall of being our spy in the Death Eater ranks."
Seeing no other way to get what she wanted, she took the deal and thanked the woman for understanding her predicament. Again she had to watch as the door closed leaving her alone in the room. The same man who had brought her there and first questioned her came back in and whispered to her to follow their lead when back with her comrades.
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Severus awoke cursing Sirius and the headache he gave him. He looked over at Cassiopeia and saw that she looked better than he had ever seen her, and figured out what had happened, they had accepted her plea and he now had a part to play.
"Well, well, well Cassie, looks like you came back from your questioning unharmed. What did you tell them to escape a beating?"
She saw the look in his eyes and knew that he was setting her up for a fall, "Nothing Snape, maybe they just don't hit women."
The rest of the Death Eaters in the cell sat up and listened as the argument raged. She knew she was going to lose against Snape and grew nervous, wondering where the Order members were. Eventually they began to circle her, and fearing for her life she banged on the door. Much to her relief it opened and she was pulled into a strong pair of arms. The man who had rescued her grinned down at her as they walked away from the cells, "Hello, my name is Remus, but most call me Moony. You probably met my other self yesterday. Anyway I'm to be your guard for the next few days."
Cassiopeia blushed when he smiled at her, "Oh, um it's nice to meet you. I'm Cassiopeia Lestrange, but you can call me Cassie."
Moony noticed the reaction her got out of her and smiled, thinking it was nice to have a girl notice him again, "So I guess you want the grand tour?"
"Sure, if you don't mind."
"Not at all, I have nothing to do until dinner in an hour."
Moony showed her all the parts of Headquarters she would have access to and her bedroom, which would only be accessible through his. The only time he saw any confusion on her face was when Ria asked him where Remus was. He promised to explain everything after dinner. As he showed her to her room after dinner Moony was surprised to realize just how much he enjoyed her company, and how relieved he was that the raven-haired young woman had seemed to like him back.
Cassie went to sleep that night happy to know that she escaped from her fate as a Death Eater. Though she was a bit incredulous at the fact that dimension travelers had arrived here, but she was amazed at the feelings of welcome and acceptance that she got from this group. She listened to the sounds of breathing from all around the complex, the noises that no one wanted to keep out, and for the first time felt truly at home.