AN: I'm pretty positive Hagrid's accent is horrible in this. Please excuse my lack of skills.

Chapter Fifty

(Present Day)

While the rest of Hogwarts was waking up for the day one Professor, and two students were currently scrambling to Hagrids nearby hut. All they had to do was grab Peter Pettigrew who was currently masquerading as Ron Weasley's rat, Scabbers. If they captured him, Sirius Black would be a free man.

"I think Harry Knows." Remus pointed out as he and Kit jogged behind the boy-that-lived. Actually, Remus didn't think Harry knew, Remus was positive that the boy knew. Each time green eyes would peer back at them, the boy blushed.

"If he didn't know he should be hit with a brick." Kit told him breathlessly as she squeezed his hand lightly. Remus nodded, making a mental note to talk to Harry later, in hopes that the boy wouldn't say anything to his peers.

Although, the situation was that of great importance, Remus couldn't help but feel...utterly happy and giddy...the hazel eyed man should have been in a serious mood, after all one slip up and Sirius would be stuck in hiding even longer. But, Remus felt like a teen again. With Kit's hand in his, her breath ragged from the jogging to keep up with his long strides, following a boy with bushy hair...

He was seventeen years old again in his mind.

"Hold yer horses!" came the sleep laced shout from the half giant inside of the smallish stone hut. Smoke billowed out into the cloudy sky from the chimney, and Kit longed for the warmth inside. After all running through the snow at dawn, really wasn't that heart-warming.

Her stomach twisted and turned as she heard Hagrid move about inside. This was their chance to bring Sirius to justice. Twelve years of life stolen from him...Now was the time to teach that rat Peter a lesson.

The moment the door opened both she and Harry darted inside on search for where-ever Peter was hiding, leaving Remus at the door to explain to a rather bewildered Hagrid what was going on.

"We have to find him!" Harry said urgently as he opened the floral patterned tea kettle on Hagrids wooden and slightly unstable looking table.

"Quiet, if he hears you..." Kit warned, knowing full well how utterly serious the situation was.

Hagrids hut was so very cluttered that Kit was sure it would take them hours to find Peter. Harry still held the map in his hands, but it wasn't much help to pin-point Scabbers location in the heaps of books, weapons, animal pelts, and other clutter...not to mention Fang kept trying to "hug" Kit.

She chewed on her bottom lip, teeth tearing into the delicate pale pink flesh as she pushed books on exotic animals off a shelf. "Any bloody time now." She muttered under her breath, taking a moment to glance over towards the door that Hagrid and Remus were currently standing in. She could only imagine what Remus was telling Hagrid. After all, she and Harry were ransacking the half-giants home...hopefully Hagrid wouldn't get angry in the long run.

Brows furrowed and with a deep breath Kit shut her eyes, blocking out the site of Harry's frantic searching under the sofa. "If I were Peter, where would I be?"

The first thing that flashed into her mind was food...somewhere food would be. That's the thing that stuck out most about Peter, he liked to eat, no matter what. Even know as he knew Sirius was undoubtedly out to get him, Peter would go somewhere with food...

The Kitchen.

It only took Kit a few steps to get to the cluttered kitchen. Now came about the task of finding a place Peter would hide, a place that Hagrid wouldn't get into often. It wasn't that hard to think of a place that the rat could be hiding, the bottom cupboards had been her first choice to look. After all, Hagrid probably didn't like bending all the way down to get into them.

This time, in searching the bottom cupboards (that looked as if they hadn't been cleaned in ages) she was in luck. The third cupboard she went to had a sugar jar, and Kit took a moment to breath deep before pulling it out.

If Peter wasn't in that damned jar she didn't know where he would be. A glance was sparred towards Harry who was just now walking into the kitchen area with a near panicked look, obviously worried that they wouldn't find Peter. His gaze met hers and he opened his mouth to speak, before he could, Kit's hand found her face, finger pressed up to her lips in order for him to understand that it was now silent time.

She didn't just think Peter was in the jar, she was sure of it.

"So this map 'as told ya that Ron's pet is some'ere in my 'ut?"

Remus nodded quickly, it was obvious Hagrid was suspicious, after all...why wouldn't Ron be with them to find Scabbers? Not to mention it was still very early, and it was odd that both teens and the professor would be wondering about looking for someone's pet. Remus tried to grin, but it probably came out more twisted then he had wanted it too. He just wanted all of this to be over, if they got Peter his friend would be a free man and things would start to get better...right?

It took Remus a great deal of time just to explain the concept of the map. He could only watch as Harry and Kit searched the hut, thankfully both of them seemed to be trying not to make a big mess which in the end probably would make Hagrid less angry about them looking about his home.

Each time something crashed in the hut, Remus had jumped and had to answer another round of questions from Hagrid. "Well, why would Ron's pet be 'ere?"

"I'm not entirely sure." Remus started, trying to lean to the side to get a view of the inside of the hut passed Hagrid. As he watched he could see Harry step into the Kitchen, and Remus arched a brow...well that would be the probable place that Peter would hide. "Perhaps Scabbers knows that your friendly to animals..."

"Why would the lil' fella run off anyway?" Hagrid asked, interrupting Remus's speech on how well Hagrid handled animals.

"Well, Hermione as I understand has a cat and now so does Kit. I'm sure that the cat's liked to play 'games' with Scabbers."

Then, as he said that there was a noise that sounded like glass breaking, followed by Kit running out with her arms stretched out in front of her, palms cupped around something -- Peter. Harry followed quickly behind urging "Hurry, we found him." as they passed Remus.

"If they broke something, I'll come down to repair it later." Was said quickly behind him to Hagrid as he followed the teens. He felt bad that there was no apology behind his words, but there were more pressing matters at hand.

Kit took no time in pulling Wormtail out of the jar of sugar. Harry had given a rather loud sigh of relief and Kit held onto the furry traitor as tightly as she could without killing him.

"Dumbledore!" Harry said as he and Kit immediately started off. Past Remus and Hagrid, out into the cold snow covered ground outside. Her heart pounded against her chest and her legs were tired -- she was tired. The cutting, the sleepless night, and the running around was starting to catch up with her; but she pressed on. Keeping up with Harry even as the freezing snow fell into her shoes as they ran.

In her enclosed hands Wormtail was struggling to pry them open. She could feel his face, feel his claws, and worst of all, his teeth. He was biting her...a lot. Thankfully after being hurt so much in her life, Kit was accustom to the pain like that. The biting hurt, but it was either drop Wormtail in pain or hold on and let the truth come out.

They made it to the castle door, Harry pushing it open led them past a couple of students that were just now awaking and heading down to the Great Hall. Kit could feel the slickness of her blood against Wormtail's fur, as he tore into her flesh in hope of getting out of her grasp. Suddenly the image of the shy little boy she once knew left her mind, now it was replaced by the rat she held in her hands. They should of known Peter would do something...after all, the animagus form reflects the person now doesn't it?

As they approached the Gargoyle statue, "Password?!" was yelled out by Harry in question to Remus who was trying to keep up with the two teens in front of him.

"Liquorice Wand." He rasped out in-between deep breaths, trying to gulp in air as they paused a moment from their sprinting. Kit watched the gargoyle turn, and grunted in pain as she was bit again. Harry turned to her in question as they stepped onto the rotating stairs.

"Your bleeding." He pointed out, quietly as his eyes turned to look down at her hands. Blood was slowly dripping out between her fingers and falling to the stairs she stepped onto.

"Peter was always a prat." She told him, as Remus stepped onto the stairs behind them.

"Just a little longer..."

When Harry, Kit, and Remus burst into Dumbledore's office, he needless to say looked oddly shocked at their sudden appearance into his quarters. "There are something's even I don't know, will one of you please fill me in on the situation at hand?"

Remus stepped forward, his wand at the ready just in case Kit's grip slipped from all the blood that he cringed at seeing. "We have something of the utmost importance sir. Sirius Black is innocent."

Dumbledore arched a brow, and tilted his head to the side. Remus just then noticed that the headmaster was still in his night clothes. Had the headmaster been expecting them?

"Innocent you say? Can you prove this?"

Remus nodded quickly, wincing as Kit made a small noise of pain. "Peter Pettigrew was in the last minute, made James and Lily's secret keeper."

"They thought Sirius would be an obvious choice..." Dumbledore mumbled under his breath, brows furrowed.

"Peter was the traitor, and Sirius knew, so he went after him. Only things didn't go the way the witnesses thought." The more Remus explained, the more that Dumbledore knew what was going on. With a few steps forward the headmasters form loomed over Kit, who was the one obviously holding what they wanted to show him. Blood was now dripping quicker from her hands and it looked as if she might drop Peter in another second.

"On the count of three Miss. Potter, open your hands..."

Both Kit and Harry, who stood next to her looked up at Dumbledore in doubt. However, they both had faith in the headmaster. After all, Dumbledore had yet to lead them astray.

"1...2...3!"

Kit's bloodied hands sprung open and Remus had to look away. He didn't want to see his Kittens hands all bit up by someone he used to count as a friend and fallen hero. If he did he might have killed Peter, and then where would that get Sirius?

There was a flash of light and the sound of something heavy hitting the ground. In a matter of seconds Dumbledore had forced Peter out of his rat form and put him into a full body bind. Dumbledore, without even needed to know the details knew that Sirius had cornered Peter on that street, but instead of Sirius killing all those people (Peter included), Peter killed all those people, and transformed himself into rat form before anyone was the wiser.

"Remus, please fetch the Minister, tell him it's about Sirius Black. Harry, please escort Kit to the Hospital Wing. I will let your Professor's know that you will not be attending the day's classes."

With that, as Remus, and the two teens left the room, Dumbledore was left shaking his head at Peter who lay on the floor unable to move. Why didn't he see this coming?

"Are you okay?" Harry asked as they descended down from Dumbledore's office. Kit nodded, looking down to her still bleeding hands. They throbbed and ached, but pain was second to the happiness that she was feeling.

"Sirius is going to be free." Harry smiled, and Kit did too as they made their way towards the hospital wing. No one was in sight, most likely because it was still rather early.

Harry however decided to say something Kit had not been expecting. "So you've been with Professor Lupin for awhile now?"

Sure, she knew he knew the moment he seen her and Remus following after him, but it was odd that he wanted to talk to her about it now. Shouldn't he be talking about how happy he is, and how Sirius was about to join the free world once more? Then again there was still a chance that things could go wrong. Maybe he didn't want to get his hopes up?

"I started dating Remus when I was just starting my third year. We've been together ever since, even now in this time."

"So he was friends with my father and Sirius as well? I know he knew my mother but..."

Kit nodded, and stumbled in her step a bit, after all her hands were bleeding rather heavily at this point. Seriously, could she go a day without bleeding? "We were all really close. I--please don't..."

"Not to worry Kit. I won't tell anyone about you and the Professor."

Madam Pomfrey nearly had a heart attack when she seen the damage that Kit's hands had. A horrible smelling stinging yellow-green goo was rubbed all over the bites only moments after Madam Pomfrey dragged her and forced her down onto one of the hospital beds.

Not only did this solution stop the bleeding, but it also would end up sealing her wounds shut. After the solution was thickly applied to both hands, white gauze was wrapped around each hand. In the end it looked as if Madam Pomfrey might have went a little gauze crazy, because by the time she was done wrapping it around Kit's hands, each hand was covered in at least two inches of gauze.

While Madam Pomfrey was doing this, Harry had been sent to breakfast since he wouldn't stop hovering around Kit as the medi-witch worked.

Kit meanwhile, was left alone to rest in the Hospital Wing when Madam Pomfrey left her after patching her up. Her hands still stung from the solution that the medi-witch put on them, but Kit was slowly drifting off into the land of sleep...that is until someone burst into the doors of the Hospital Wings, causing Kit's heart to nearly spazz out.

She was surprised at who walked into the Hospital Wing and strode over to her, reaching for one of her bandaged hands (rather gently...what a surprise) and bringing it up to his sallow face to examine it. "While your outburst yesterday was unacceptable. Although considering the current situation, perhaps I should have not aggravated you. Do know however, that if something like that happens again I'll make sure you are expelled from Hogwarts for good."

With that, Severus Snape stalked out, just as quickly as he stalked in. Kit sighed, well...at least that was kind of an apology.

AN: Okay, first off sorry it took so long to get this chapter out. Second of all, to those that were confused in the chapter before hand about Orion, your answers will be answered in the next chapter (which is already halfway written, so expect it soon)

Toodles, and thank you for the reviews.