Does it really need to be said, I do not own the books.

Sirius getting 'arrested':

He was at the Leaky Cauldron when it happened. The front door was blasted open and his wand was flying from his hand before he even had it fully risen to defend himself. They had him in handcuff's and were dragging him to the back alley way to disapparate before he could even finish demanding to know what was going on.

Tom watched the whole thing silently. Black and three other's were a regular around here, but who was he to interfere with the Ministry?

While the rest of the pub settled down and began gossiping at once, Tom's eyes kept ghosting to the door for the rest of the night, waiting for the inevitable visit he knew he would receive.

Indeed he got just that as, late into the night when he had shooed out the drunk's for the night and his resident's that took room upstairs had all gone to bed, a brown haired youth was surprised to come in and see the bar keep still up and cleaning some glasses that were clearly long since done.

"'Ello Tom," he said, making his way cautiously upfront, his eyes scanning the whole room.

"Lupin," Tom nodded in greeting.

"Ah, I have a bit of an odd question," he began, still looking about the dark room as if expecting to find someone passed out in a corner, Tom cut him off before he could keep going though.

"Yeah, Black was here today. Got hauled off by some ministry officials, didn't know what to say about the whole thing."

The man's head jerked back around so hard, Tom was sure he heard something pop. "What, when!?"

"So you didn't know?" he sighed, placing the glass back down and leaning heavily on his side of the wood before telling the man what he had seen.

His green eyes went wider the longer Tom kept talking, before he hurriedly thanked him and ran back outside.

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"James!" Remus yelled, appearing at their house so suddenly he set the baby off.

"Remus!" Lily snapped, as she began patting Harry on the back and giving him the stank eye, "You know better- what's wrong," she cut herself off at the man's appearance.

Remus didn't giver her an answer, but instead ran up the stairs. Lily made to follow but had only gotten halfway up there when both men were back, looking harassed. They made to push right past her, but she stood her ground.

Even with an infant in her arms, she was the picture of fierce as she demanded to know what was going on.

"Sirius has been arrested," Remus hurriedly answered, his eyes already darting towards their front door, "I can't go to the Ministry and defend him, but James-"

"For what?" Lily balked, her arms tightening at once around Harry.

"I've got a good idea," James responded, one of the darkest looks either had ever seen on his face, "and I'm going to kill the lot of them if I'm right." He then kindly placed his hands on Lily's shoulders, gave her a gentle kiss on the cheek, and Lily then stepped aside as the boys dispersed from the house.

They didn't actually slam the door behind them, but the moment they had left Harry began crying again.

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"-we will ask you one more time, Black where were you-" the guy, Sirius had honestly forgotten his name, tried repeating the question. After the first time Sirius had answered, and they had instead repeated the question, clearly not taking his answer as truth, he had simply ignored this question.

There was blood trickling into his eye, he wanted to go back to his house and take a nap, and he hated being at the Ministry for any reason. Being trussed up to a chair was at number one right now. All of this culminated with the stupid questions he was being asked made for a testy retort if he had even bothered to give them one.

Sirius had been so out of it, that it took him a moment longer than it should have for the banging of the door behind him to register. What he did take notice of was his accuser taking to his feet and saying, "-Potter you're not allowed in here!"

"Shove it Crouch," James snapped.

Sirius grinned to himself, oh these boys were in for it now. Despite being chained to a chair, he still tried to crane his neck around and say in a chipper voice, "Bought time you got here, now the party can really start!"

James was standing almost directly in front of him now, and Sirius didn't even need to see his face to know the look of outrage that was there. He was surprised the stupid Wizengamot didn't back right out of the room. James only glanced back briefly to look Sirius in the eye before turning back to the general protests and saying, "I'm here as a witness for Sirius Black, not that you've given him a chance to request one. Since you didn't give him his reasons for arrest as you arrested him, I've a right to enter whenever I please, instead of waiting for the public hearing."

Crouch opened and closed his mouth for a moment before demanding, "How would you know, as you weren't present-"

"I will explain that upon the actual hearing. Now I want to know what Sirius is being accused of." James cut him off and balled up his fists, clearly fighting the impulse to go for his wand and curse them all.

Crouch gave James a very dark look indeed before reading out the charges, "Sirius Black is under questioning for his whereabouts towards the end of this past September."

Sirius couldn't see James face from behind, but he heard the shift in tone as he probed, "In regards to?"

Crouch's scowl actually got heavier, something I hadn't thought possible after I told him what I had might have been up to on that day, and who it involved, and maybe a few colorful details from the woman... my lucid thought process was cut off as he answered, "In regards to an attack on a muggle home near his place of residence."

"What's your evidence then?" James snapped, crossing his arms and planting his feet. I knew that stance, he clearly already knew he'd won this argument.

"That will be told, at the hearing. For now, we were merely establishing if Black would give us any testimony, but given his attitude we will have to hold him in Azkaban, until the trail-"

"I have evidence claiming of his whereabouts all that day," James cut him off, "I would have mentioned it earlier, but I just wanted to see what excuse you guys had cooked up."

Crouch spluttered in disbelief, but James was talking over him, saying, "I've known his whereabouts every day for the past month, because he's been around at my place. Helping me babysit my son."

Barty Crouch scowled and began swelling up and huffing, "You can't honestly tell this court he's been living there with you-"

"Maybe not," James agreed, "but in case you've forgotten we're at war! Even you don't know where me and my family are staying, but this man behind me does. That should tell you something."

Completely sure he had already won this argument, he turned to Sirius, tapped his wand on the chains, and then assisted Sirius to his feet, supporting him as they exited. No one tried to stop them. Remus was bouncing on the heels of his feet outside the courtroom, and quickly took Sirius' other side, despite protests from said man.

Only after they had gotten back home, and Lily was hurriedly going through her drawers to find a potion to help the cut above his eye, did Remus and James try to get the whole story out of him.

He and Peter had met up at the Leaky Cauldron, had ordered a few drinks, and a bit after Peter had left, Sirius had been ambushed by a bunch of Auror's. Sirius couldn't tell them much after that, he'd been knocked on his head during the struggle and hadn't been paying to close attention to what they were saying to him, knowing it was all a load of tosh. They supposed that Sirius had just been accused of the crime for his name.

They tried to get a hold of Peter that night, but for some odd reason he didn't seem to be around.

Yeah this was a long one, but I liked the idea that Sirius was thrown straight into Azkaban without a trial, and that Crouch used the excuse they had given him one back when the man he had 'murdered' defended him. Since I don't actually say it, this takes place about a month before the Halloween Lily and James die, and Peter was setting up Sirius by giving an anonymous note to the Ministry saying Sirius had attacked some Muggles. Side note, I've made it clear in my reading HP series I don't think they went into hiding until about a week before the attack from Voldemort, so they're not in Godric's Hollow yet, not under the Fedilius Charm.