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Sirius: Fish heads, fish heads, rolly polly fish heads.
ME: Will you please stop singing that song! I just got it out of my head!
Sirius: I like that song.
ME: This is supposed to be a serious part.
Sirius: They're all Sirius parts. * grins evilly*
Me: Oh shut up.
Sirius: Fish heads, fish heads eat them up. Yum.
ME : STOPITT!!!
Sirius: Fish heads, fish heads * WHAP!* OW! What was that for?
Me: I hate that song.
Sirius: You can't hit me I'm the main character.
ME: I can do what ever I want. I'm the author.
Sirius: So? It's my story.
Me: Yes, but you invaded my head. You involved me. Therefore the story is now mine. Oh the possibilities.
Sirius: Just away from me. What are you doing with that wand?
Me: Come here.
Sirius: NO way.
Me: Come here. It's okay.
Sirius: Uh uh.
Me: Trust me.
Sirius: No.
Me: I'm serious.
Sirius: No, I'm Sirius
James: and I'm James
Remus: and I'm Remus
Peter: and I'm Peter.
Me: Where'd you all come from? * all give me confused looks and I shake my head.* Oui.
James: I don't' like this part.
Sirius: Now that the author is distracted , On with the story. Fish heads, fish heads…
Thing went fine for the rest on the week. I checked on Peter every day. But on Halloween night my world ended.
I had arranged to check on Peter the next day, I slept badly that night.
I can still remember the dream I had.
I was flying over the ocean and I stopped on an island. Towering over me was a huge fortress. It loomed dark and foreboding. Feelings of sorrow and fear swept over me and then I was inside.
I wandered down the halls, trying to ignore the calls and weeping of the prisoners in their cells.
"Help us." They cried. I hurried on. I felt some one watching me. I stopped and turned around.
Peering out at me through the bars of the nearest cell, was a man. Or at least he had once been. He was gaunt with a pale face and long matted hair. Every part of him looked white and dead. Except his eyes.
They were dark and so alive. They stared at me as if he envied me. And pitied me at the same time.
"Who are you?" I managed to ask.
He shook his head. " Does it matter?" His voice was horse like he hadn't used it in a long time.
"Well yeah. What's your name?"
"What's yours and why's a kid like you in a place like this?"
"I don't know. I think I'm dreaming."
" I wish you were."
"My name's Sirius Black." He gave me a confused look and tilted his head to the side, almost like a dog.
" My name is Sirius Black. " It was my turn to be confused.
" But what are you doing here? What did you do?"
"Oh nothing much. Just betrayed my best friends and killed thirteen people." He said as if we were discussing the weather.
"What?" I couldn't believe it. Then he turned serious.
" I am innocent. I didn't do it. Peter did. You have to stop him. You have to save James and Lily. "
"James? Lily? Peter?"
" Sirius, I am you. You have to stop him. Go."
And I awoke in a cold sweat.
I leaped out of bed and pulled on my gray robes.
" Sirius what wrong?" Mari asked sleepily.
"Nothing, go back to sleep. I have to go see Peter." I kissed her and ran out the door.
I arrived at Peter's house and knocked don the door. No one answered. I frowned and knocked harder. Again no answer. I pulled out my wand to undo the lock when I realized the door wasn't locked. Fear crept into my veins. I pushed open the door. I searched the apartment for Peter but there was no sign of him. No sign of a struggle either, and I wasn't sure if that was good or bad. Then the dog in me caught a whiff of something. Something that shouldn't be there. Something that no one should ever have in their home. And I ran.
I rode as fast as I could to Godric' Hollow. But I was too late. What had once been the Potter's house was now smoldering ashes.
James, Lily, Harry. I thought. I have to find them. I ran full out and I tripped over something. And I found them. James was lying a look of terror on his face, his wand still in his hand like he had tried to protect his family. His glasses were knocked to the side and were laying broken on the ground. I picked them up and slipped them into my pocket. I closed his mouth and eyes. There now it looked more like he was sleeping.
"James, I'm sorry. I didn't know. God, please forgive me." I whispered. The I remembered something. The woman had shown us the other's death. I would never know my death. But I understood what I had seen now. And the name , Wormtail whispered with such hatred that it had scared me before escaped my lips.
I found Lily a few feet away. There was not a mark on her, but unlike James, her f ace had a calm expression. She looked peaceful like she was accepting death, then I saw why. Clutched in her stiff arms was Harry. And he was alive.
Harry was alive. I picked him up and he started to cry. That's when I saw the cut on his forehead. It was a strange cut like the shape of a lightning bolt, just like the one over my heart. I cleaned the cut the best I could and quieted Harry. Soon he was asleep. I wished I could sleep, or better yet wake up. From this horrible nightmare my world had become. I started at the rubble and my best friends bodies.
Then I felt a soft tap on my arm. I turned to see Hagrid.
" Sirius, I'm sorry." His eyes were red and his voice croaked when he talked.
I nodded. I wasn't even sure I could talk.
" Hagrid, they're dead. Dead." I held Harry closer as the tears came. Sobs racked my body and Hagrid had to hold me up. " Why," I sobbed. " Why James? Why Lily? Why my friends?"
He waited till my sobbing had lessened. " Sirius, I'm sorry, but I have to take Harry."
"Take Harry why?"
"He's going with his aunt and uncle."
"Petunia? She hates wizards. You can't send him there, they'll kill him." I held Harry tight.
" They won't Dumbledore's orders. He won't let anything happen to him. Not after what he's done?"
"Done?' I whispered.
"Why didn't you know? He's gone."
"Who's gone?"
"You-know-who! Harry drove him off."
"Harry?"
"Yes."
I smiled at the little boy who was now staring at with Lily's eyes. Gone. he was really gone. But not without taking my best friends with him.
" I need to take him Sirius."
"No, let me take him. I'm his godfather."
" I'm sorry. Maybe later when things calm down, you can claim him. But for now he needs to come with me."
I surrendered. I had no more fight left in me. "Alright. Take my bike."
"Are you sure? You love that bike."
"I won't need it anymore."
He didn't question me but took the bike. I gave him Harry. It felt like giving up a part of James. The last part I had. . Tears flooded my eyes as I realized this may be the last time I would ever hold Harry. I don't know what told me that But I knew it. He flew away. And I turned to catching the one who had caused this. Peter.
He wasn't that hard to find. I followed his scent. I cornered him on a crowded muggle street the next day. I think at this time I was already half mad at least. The deaths of my friends by someone I had trusted were almost too much. And the fact that I had suggested it. It was my fault. I had given him a perfect chance and he had taken it. I was a fool. Remus wasn't the spy. He never had been. Peter was.
" Peter ." I growled as I saw him
"Sirius, how are you?"
" You betrayed them Peter you killed them. Why?" I pulled out my wand. He sort of smiled a sick smile that twisted his face up like he was going to cry.
"Lily and James, Sirius! How could you?" Before I could recover he pulled out his wand and blasted the street apart. The next thing I knew I was surrounded by bodies. There was a huge hole in the street and rats were swarming out. In front of me was a pile of robes.
I looked around at all those lying around me, dead and wounded and others were looking at me like I might blow them up. For some reason, I still have no idea why, I began to laugh.
I laughed and laughed. My whole world was gone. In 24 hours, everything I loved was taken from me. I understood why Hagrid hadn't let me take Harry. My plan had worked too well. They thought I did it. They thought this was me. All those who knew I was innocent were dead. No one would believe I hadn't done this. And all I could do was laugh.
I didn't resist when they took me away. Why should I? I had nothing to do, no where to go. I was still laughing when they took me away.
They took me to a room and left me there. I don't know how long I was there. They didn't bother to give me food or water and as I was half mad already , it didn't help that soon I was starving too.
They avoided me. I could hear them going past my cell, but they never stopped. I was there for along time. A week I think. I couldn't think, or even move. I just lay there on my cloak which I used for a bed. Then just as I felt I would die, and I was welcoming death. I heard the creak of the door.
" Good, God, what have they done to him?" a young voice broke through my daze
"What does it matter? He's a murderer. Look just stay with him and bring him out tomorrow when they call." I heard the door shut, and the sound of footsteps retreating.
I felt someone shake me .
" Are you okay?"
I tried to say of course not, My best friends are dead and I didn't do it. But no words came out.
" No food or water. No even you deserve this. Here." He lifted my head up and gave me a drink. It woke me up slightly. I opened my eyes.
" Feel better?" He was young couldn't have been more than seventeen. Only a few years younger than me. He had bright blue eyes and ruffled blond hair. He had a look of naivete about him. Like some one who hasn't yet realized the world we live in is painful. I learned that at the age of thirteen.
I nodded. " Thanks." It came out more as a croak.
"No problem." He offered me a piece of bread and I took it. I ate it so fast I don't think he saw it disappear. He smiled.
" How long have I been here?"
" A week."
A week. James and Lily had been dead for a week. I closed my eyes against the tears that threatened to spill again.
"Please can you tell me something?" I looked at the young auror.
" Sure."
" Why did you turn?"
I smiled and shook my head. " I didn't turn. I am innocent."
"Innocent? But everyone saw you do it."
" What Kill Peter, all those muggles? They didn't see what they thought they saw."
"And the Potters?"
"I as good as killed them." I curled up on my cloak and pulled my knees to my chest. I really didn't want to think about anything right now. But the boy asked more questions and I ended up telling him the whole story. It was the next morning when I had finished.
They came for me then.
" Get up ." The man snarled. I got up. I glanced back at the young auror.
Then he did something I will never forget. He said " I believe you." I had wanted to hear those three little words for so long. Just to know that someone other than me knew the truth. That boy was killed the next year.
Anyway back to the trial. Or really lack of one. They handed me over to the dementors who brought me into the court room. It was filled with people I knew. I saw Addi and Remus, I saw Dumbledore. And all my teachers and friends. They were looking at me with mixed disgust and fear. I caught Dumbledore's eye and he gave me a look of such disappointment I had to turn away. Mari wasn't there. Addi wouldn't look at me and Remus looked at me with not disgust or fear, but really helplessness. Like he was begging for it not to be true. So am I, Remus so am I. I was strapped to a chair in the middle of the room. Crouch was seated as judge. I knew there was no hope.
" We have here one, Sirius Black, accused of treason and murder. How do you plead?"
I couldn't talk, my throat was too tight.
" Defiant eh? I wouldn't be. Your master is dead, He won't be coming to break you out anything."
" The jury has decided to deny the prisoners request for a trial. We have more than enough evidence to convict him twenty times over. There fore Sirius Black I sentence you to life imprisonment in Azkaban for your crimes."
"NO!" I shouted and broke free of my guards and ran toward Remus.
"Remus, please. I didn't do it! I'm innocent! Addi, Believe me! Please! I'm innocent!" Remus turned away form me and Addi wouldn't look at me. I didn't stop shouting till they dragged me out of the room and even then they had to stun me.
I woke up in my cell and I've been here ever since.
So that's it. That's my story. It's not a happy one or really a sad one because most of my life has been pretty good. Up until the whole having your best friends die and getting imprisoned for life for a crime I didn't commit. I just, …
Wait, something's going on outside. The dementors are leaving. It must be the minister's yearly visit.. Has it been a year already? Odd. It went by faster this time. I better hide this.
Does anyone really read these? I don't. Anyway, Sirius and co. don't belong to me. They belong to J.K. Rowling. This depressing plot line also belongs to her. The fish heads song belongs to the dancing fish and my friends Carlie who is obsessed w/ them. One more part to go. Then you'll have to wait until I get the other stories written, which might not be for a while. Hope you like.
Sorry about the long part in the beginning. Like I said, my server is down and I amused myself by having a little chat w/ Sirius.