Thank you Tia for being my Beta reader, couldn't do this without you.
Here is a new chapter, It's a bit shorter than what I normally post, but I haven't been well for the last 2 weeks and it felt like a good place to leave it.
But I hope you enjoy it!.
Sirius was sitting in the dark, stuck inside a cage that was just big enough for him. He was in a moving vehicle; he knew that much he just didn't know where he was heading. He presumed it was some animal shelter that was his final destination.
Sirius didn't know how long he had been sitting in the darkness. He had lost any sense of time years ago. He felt a wave of magic wash over him as the vehicle slowed down, that scared him as he didn't want to be captured and sent back to that godawful place again. The vehicle came to stop and after waiting for a while the darkness he sat in was invaded with light that blinded him.
"You weren't lying when you said you had a big dog in the back of the van." A short preppy woman said next to the man who had caught him.
"The thing needs a bath, maybe three. I've never caught such a dirty thing before." Sirius was about to get the flee bath that his friends had always said he needed. Trying to get away at the thought of being bathed, Sirius squished himself into the corner of the cage.
Half an hour later, and on his third bath, the water was starting to run clear instead of brown as he was washed. He was being dried off when there was a lot of rustling and footsteps coming towards the area he was in.
"Mr Scamander, you can't just walk into the back area!" A man in his later years walked in with a grin as another person rushed after him. Sirius knew exactly who this man was.
"My word, I haven't seen a grim in such a long time."
"A grim?"
"The type of dog you have there." The others seemed to step away from him at that information, considering all the folk tales surrounding grim dogs Sirius wasn't surprised. "Now if you don't mind me."
Newt Scamander pulled out his wand from his cloak and waved it around in a pattern that Sirius did not recognise. The people in the room went misty-eyed and some pieces of paper started to float into the air before turning to dust. Sirius was lifted up from the bathing area, he was floating above the ground and all the water seemed to leave his body as his fur puffed up. He saw the other wizard place a case on the floor before it was opened, and he was floating into it. He passed by many other animals before he was placed in a separate area, the spell was cancelled and he landed softly on his paws.
The rest of the week passed smoothly, and they were enjoying their weekend. Harry had one more week before he started up with his classes and they had just finished up setting his timetable. They had worked out that it would be best to do magic one week than regular studies the next week.
Harry was excited to start school again, but Steve and Natasha still hadn't returned from whatever mission they were on, and it was worrying him. His dad told him not to worry, saying they were the two least likely to get themselves hurt.
Harry tried his best to put his worry aside, and have faith in the others, but he had only experienced Clint and Natasha going off on missions, and they weren't gone for long, a week at most. But it was now going on 2 weeks since they had left, and they hadn't heard a word from them.
Harry's fears were put to rest when they returned on Sunday in the afternoon, although the looks on their faces said otherwise. They seemed to be physically fine, but something emotional had happened. He held his tongue on asking what was wrong, because they likely wouldn't tell him, he had asked before on different missions, and they had told him it was classified or sensitive information.
It wasn't until later when Steve had returned from his room, after freshening up that he called Tony into a more secure room to tell him some difficult news.
"What's up Capsicle?" Tony said with a questioning face, as he leaned against the workspace of an unused lab in the tower.
"Tony, I'm not sure how to say this." Steve said standing in front of the door, not having moved since they had walked in.
"Oh, this is something serious then?" At the inclination of Steve's head, Tony became serious. "Then start from the beginning."
"We were following a lead, and it led to something else, and when we followed it further, well it wasn't what we were expecting."
"Steve you can just tell, leave being cryptic to the spies." Tony said crossing his arms across his chest, a concerned look on his face.
"We found a lead on Bucky, while investigating some other leads. Well, rather we found a lead on the Winter Soldier who turned out to be Bucky when we caught a glimpse of his face in some footage."
"What else did you find?" Tony could see Steve was battling to say the last part of whatever they had found.
"The Winter Soldier killed your parents." There was a deafening silence that followed what Steve had just said. Tony went blank. Steve uncomfortably spoke up again. "I saw the video, of it happening. I don't know why there's a video on it, but it's something I saw with Nat." Tony was still silent. "I know Bucky would never do something like this, so I don't know, Tony, I thought Hydra was dead, but it looks like they aren't, and they had… have… still are experimenting on people trying to recreate what your father did, and it looks like Bucky got mixed up in all of this and I just don't know Tony. I just knew I had to tell you."
"Steve, take a breath." Tony had said placing a hand on the other's shoulder. He had stood up when Steve had started rambling, he never did that.
"Tony, your parents didn't die in a car accident, they were murdered."
"I know Steve, I heard you the first time."
"Why aren't you getting angry then?"
"Do you want me to be? Because I can be."
"No, I don't want you to be… I just thought you would be." Tony sighed at Steve.
"While I am utterly shocked and running thousands of things through my head right now as to how it happened. It looks like you need more comforting than me. Your best friend who we thought was dead was said to be alive when we were with Harry, and now it seems like he is a highly trained assassin with super soldier serum, but you don't actually know if it's him, or something else. I'm not okay Steve, but you seem worse off."
"It looks like they brainwashed him Tony, and I don't know where he is or what mental state he is in!" Steve cried out.
"Steve, hey it's okay, remember we have the goblins trying to locate him, and I'm sure they will find him soon, and heal him. So, take a breath, we will figure this out, as a team, don't go rushing into something that we can all solve together."
"Thank you, Tony." Steve gave Tony a genuine smile of gratitude.
"Now come on, the kid has been worrying his arse off about you and Nat, we can discuss what to do later, you need to rest for a bit."
Tony left the room, leaving Steve to gather his thoughts, and joined the rest in the common area, as they seemed to have ordered pizza again and were all lounging about. Clint and Nat had broken out the beers, but he could see Bruce and Harry enjoying their apple juice together. He would definitely be teaching Harry how to party, but not at the ripe age of 13, it had missed him up partying so much at the same age, and that was around college students, not the world's mightiest heroes, or whatever the news had called them.
Sirius wasn't sure how long he sat surrounded by other animals, but he was eventually greeted by the sight of Newt Scamander again. The man tinkered about in a shed for a while before coming out with a bucket in one hand.
"Now what's a grim like you are doing in London? The last I knew was that you were all in a magical preserve in Northern Scandinavia." Sirius tilted his head at that, he honestly had not known that. Newt looked at the dog, he looked deep into the dog's eyes before sliding his wand out its holster and into his hand. "Unless you're not actually a dog." He said before a flash of bright blue light washed over Sirius.
His body was forced from its current shape of a dog and into that of Sirius's own body, the man lay on the ground grunting from the aches in his bones. Newt cast another nonverbal spell that had the man tied up and dangling feet down in the air.
"Now, what's a wanted criminal doing around the streets on London in his animagus form."
"Please…" Sirius spoke with a hoarse voice. "Please… let me explain!" Sirius pleaded knowing this was his only chance.
"Who's to say what you speak is the truth?"
"You can use veritaserum if you want. But please I need someone to know the truth." Newt gave a long look in the younger man's eyes, before sighing and lowering him to the ground and releasing the bindings, but not releasing him from the locked enclosure. The look in the man's eyes was anything but a guilty man's eyes.
"You've got yourself a deal Sirius Black, but you are to stay here until I can question you under veritaserum." Newt said leaving the area and leaving Sirius to be alone again.
Hope you liked the chapter! I was trying to find a way to incorporate Sirius into this story and I am enjoying where it is going!