Author's note: Please be aware that I own ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, everything, except my character OC(S) I place here, belongs to the wonderful Lady J.K. Rowling. THIS IS A TRIAL RUN! I would very much like to hear your thoughts. I was originally never going to upload this fiction, however, I know it was something I was looking forward to sharing. This is a Sirius Black/OC, maybe Severus Snape/OC, Fanfiction. So, welcome back, readers! I hope you enjoy this one as much as you have the first 2 Harry Potter stories! :) Do enjoy, this is the Harry Potter Era, so it's going to be a bit. Keep your heads up. Enjoy!

Updated: 12/2021

Chapter 9

Sage had dropped the kids off at the station with Molly and Arthur, she hadn't had the chance to meet them last year when School had ended, but the days leading up to school starting she had enjoyed her time with Molly.

During their time in the Leaky Cauldron, Arthur had spoken with Remus, but she couldn't help but notice Harry and Draco hiding under the stairs as the two men spoke, likely about Sirius Black. She worried about what the two were saying. Harry didn't need to hear that another person was rumored to be after him again. And him being just a young teenager, Harry would likely fall under the conclusion it was true. Her mind was brought back to reality at realizing she couldn't find Remus, "Molly? Have you seen Remus?" she asked looking around the mass of people. Students boarding the train and their bags being loaded on.

"He said he'd be leaving early this morning to head to Hogwarts," Arthur informed her.

Nodding at him, she smiled thankfully. "Right, well at least I know he's alright."

"Will you be returning this year to Hogwarts?" Molly asked.

Nodding with a weak smile, Sage took a forced breath of worry, "Yes, I'm a part of Security and helping Professor McGonagall and Severus in their classes when they need an assistant." She said with an excited smile. She couldn't keep the kids safe if she wasn't near them. And Albus had completely understood that and allowed her on school grounds as a staff member.

Of course, the Ministry was curious, however, with their own problems going on as of the moment with searching for Sirius Black they had cared less about her history and simply accepted and given her Licenses to teach as an Assistant. She had, after all, passed their exams, and the positions were open.

She had waited at the school and searched for Remus, but could not find him. And she worried, it had been the reason she'd gone looking at Albus in hopes he had possibly heard from the man.

"The Dementors attacked the train! This is preposterous! My students are no safer with these creatures around them than they are with Sirius Black skulking about out there!" Albus shouted, raging as he went down the hall, Fudge stalking after him.

"They will remain posted far enough from the school Albus, I promise you, but they will stay! I will have Black back in custody! This is the end of this discussion!" Fudge shouted back to Albus.

Turning a hard glare to the Minister, someone he had once seen as a good friend, Albus huffed. "Cornelius, the only reason I am allowing this is because no one was seriously injured, had Lupin not been on board that train Harry Potter would have been drained of his life!"

Shocked and frightened at this, Sage stormed from her hidden place down the hall and rushed the two men, "What!"

Sighing and closing his eyes as the woman's voice came down the halls towards them, Albus sent a glare to Fudge. "Sage, please-"

"No, what happened to Harry!" The redhead demanded.

"Who are you?" Fudge questioned.

Steeling him with a cold glare, Sage took a controlled breath, "Harry Potter's Guardian, Sage Potter! Now I'm going to involve myself, so let's try this again. What happened?"

"Dementors stormed the Hogwarts train. Sage, Harry is fine, Lupin was with him and the others." Albus sighed, rubbing the headache at his forehead which had begun.

"Safe now or not, he was attacked nonetheless! What exactly are we going to do about this?" she demanded.

"There is nothing we can do, the Dementors are staying far off Hogwarts grounds to search for Sirius Black. Good night, I believe you all have students to see too, be sure to care for that nephew of yours, Mss. Potter." Fudge said as he walked out to his carriage.

Grumbling as she glared after the Minister, Sage huffed. "I'm his cousin," She silently corrected. Not that it mattered.

Sighing, Albus gently touched her arm, "Come, either way, he is right, we have students which need our attention. Lupin is likely already seated." He grumbled and walked towards the great hall. But at finding that she had not moved from her glaring spot after Fudge's vanishing carriage as the front door's closed Albus cleared his throat, "Sage," He called. Nodding at her walking toward him they walked in together. Down the aisles and to the large table for the Professors. He let Flitwick and his Choir entertain them after they sorted the new students into their houses while they all ate, then came Albus's speech, welcoming the new students and the new Professors. Then came his warning regarding the Dementors before sending the students to bed. Sage had congratulated Hagrid, she was proud of him for taking the Positio as a teacher. He was perfect for the subject.

Hogsmeade Trip

As the days moved forward, she found herself quickly cornered by Harry and Draco, both boys holding a piece of parchment in their hands, "Please tell me you haven't gotten a detention already?" she playfully teased.

Lightly laughing along with her, both shook their heads. "No, we forgot to ask you to sign these," Harry said, he was filled with hope that she'd sign them. It had completely slipped his mind, plus two more days for Draco and the others to convince him to just ask her. He felt that with this Wizard out after him she may say no. But as she took the Parchment from them and read the form, she smiled, and walked into Minerva's classroom she'd just left of her and signed the forms. She figured it was the least she could do after the classroom incident he and Draco had gone through with the Bogart and an attempt for Draco to get as far from Dagny as he could.

Draco's half-brother had in fact been sorted into Slytherin. Why? She had no idea. The boy had no Slytherin traits whatsoever.

"If it makes you both feel better, I've never seen Hogsmeade either." She informed them.

This had them confused. If she had attended Hogwarts, surely, she went out to Hogsmeade in her later years.

Seeing their confusion and shock, Sage cleared her throat and felt a bit sheepish, a small blush on her as she went about admitting this, "Never had friends in school." And it wasn't exactly a lie. She never went to school and the only reason she had become friends with the Lestrange siblings was that they felt it was their responsibility to watch out for her as she grew up, after a while, they had grown used to her and eventually saw her as their friend.

Nodding they smiled as she handed their signed papers back to them, "Enjoy,"

"Why don't you come with us?" Harry asked.

Shaking her head softly she shrugged, "You all have fun without a mother hen looking over you 24/7. I'll go later." She offered, "Promise, I already have an adventure I'm taking." She said with a smile and watched them leave.

"You've never been to Hogsmeade?"

His sudden appearance had frightened her. Turning to face the owner of the voice she sighed and smiled, "Remus, you scared me." She said softly. A hand over her pounding heart, she wasn't able to fight back the light laugh as she laughed at herself for being so jumpy. She really had gotten too comfortable in this time.

Smiling at her jumpiness, Remus leaned against the wall, curiously watching her. "Why don't you join me then?" He asked curiously.

A bit stunned at his invite she thought about it. "Why not, I suppose it can't hurt." She said with a soft sigh and a gentle nod.

Smiling as he watched her cross her arms over her chest, an attempt to guard herself. It was a familiar action he saw, he did it, and he knew Sirius had done it, but Sirius had also used his arrogance and he had also been a big playboy. "Why am I getting the feeling that you are not really interested in going to Hogsmeade… With me, that is." He asked. His tone was soft, not that he was accusing her, he was just making a statement.

Laughing a bit nervously, Sage sighed, a sudden chill rolling over her. The sudden coldness had her rubbing her arms to attempt to warm herself, "No, its-it's not like that, Remus. I just. I don't want to ruin someone's future, someone who has the potential to be happy."

He couldn't help it he felt a bit flattered. She thought he had asked as to make it a 'date', "It's not a date, Sage." He gently clarified.

"I know, I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to make it sound like I was thinking it was. Um, I'm just jumpy with my own knowledge. I don't want to mess up someone's future, I mean- great..." She sighed as she stumbled over her words. Feeling a bit uncomfortable with the topic, Sage sighed softly, "I just… I think it's because I feel a sense of 'duty' -"

Feeling a bit offended Remus sighed, holding a hand to her, silencing her before she could finish, "Duty?" He sighed glancing away from her. He was confused more than anything. But slightly offended she wasn't letting him closer than he already was, and at the moment it was more like they were mere acquaintances.

"You didn't let me finish… I use the word 'duty' because I was raised with the knowledge I was coming back in time whether I liked it or not… Remus, the Elders practically beat it into me and the others as they trained us, they constantly separated us, even if they'd 'hold me high up' they always put me down when I'd make the smallest mistake… Don't get me wrong, Remus, I want friends here, I want allies and to eventually have a life, but I have to see this through first. I failed so many times in my time, I must not have tried hard enough. I don't want to fail anyone here, least of all Harry, or Draco. I don't want to fail anyone. I've been a failure my whole life. I've messed everything up, I don't want to mess up this timeline. I don't want to be the cause of you possibly missing the good things I know you still have a chance in having, and I am so frightened that if I get closer to anyone here I could blow everything to Hell." Sighing with humiliation she covered her face with her hands, "I'm sorry. Sev already gave me a pep talk last year, but I keep getting a nagging feeling in my gut I've ruined something the moment I got here."

He couldn't help it, Remus started to lightly laugh at her. For the first time, Remus was looking at her like the person she was. Not only was she kind and sweet, but fierce and skilled, she was also, technically, a student who was learning a time that was unknown to her in her history. She was full of worry and fear, constantly worrying about someone else. Laughing a bit harder at her confused and hurt expression at his laughter, he coughed to clear it from himself and quickly grasped ahold of her upper arms, an attempt to keep her from running off, "I'm sorry, truly, I don't mean to laugh, Snow… Look, you aren't used to being relaxed. You've looked over your shoulder for years in your time. You came back to fix something and now worry about destroying what good came to them in their old past, but you can't make good happen if you stay in the dark. A way of helping make that light is being a part of it when they wish you to be a part of their life and world. We have accepted you… It's time you've accepted us… Now, how about that little adventure?" He'd said it so casually, so sweetly, so wisely.

She knew he was right, then again that had been what everyone had told her. What their notes had told them. The Order was not in books of history. They were names and pictures in old journals and notebooks which were safeguarded in Grimmauld place.

Smiling, Remus rubbed her arms, feeling her shivers from the cold air as he watched her mentally question herself, "Albus taught you how to use your wand in just a few months, Minerva and Snape taught you how our customs are and other things here in our time. But no one, to my knowledge of hearing things second hand, has taught you how to be yourself here, least of all who you are to be related to. Which is James Potter and his son… and the only way you can learn that is if you learn from someone who knew James Potter." He went on with a grin on his face.

Raising an accusing brow to him, she watched him with curiosity as she thought about a few things, "According to Minerva and Sev, James Potter, and the rest of you Marauders bullied Severus Snape." She accused.

Sighing with slight disappointment at that history, Remus nodded with an embarrassing sigh, "Ah, yes, well. I'll get to that later..." He sighed, "Come,"

"Where to?"

Softly laughing at her, Remus took her hand and kissed her knuckles playfully, "Hogsmeade… You're learning to have fun… To have a life really." He poked. And he'd stuck to it.

Remus showed her around Hogsmeade with excitement. They talked, mostly he talked and she asked questions about them when he went to school with the other three boys and Lily. He wasn't surprised they were both exhausted when they'd gotten back to the school and both said goodnight.

Sage sighed with exhaustion, but she was happy. She'd had fun with Remus, and she'd learned a lot of things about the 'Marauders' and Lily Evans. Thinking about everything she'd learned, Sage sighed peacefully as she soaked in the hot water of the bath in the school's bathhouse, staff only, Sage thought of what Severus had told her last year and what Remus had said to her before he'd rushed her off to Hogsmeade. They were both right. She was not in her time, she was in theirs, she was a part of their time now. It was time she had accepted that she was changing every second of every day just like they were because just like them she knew nothing as to what would be around the corner next. Meaning their futures were unknown, even to her. Whatever good or bad happened that her future's time knew was now blank as Teddy Lupin's journal she had.

In her deep concentration, she had failed to notice a few important things. One, being the black dog hiding in the Bath House, his eyes wide with interest and mesmerized as he watched her relax in her bath. Two, the Dementor, and three the effects of the Dementor's presence.

He'd gone to the Bath House after his failed attempt to get into Gryffindor Tower, he had to see Harry, tell him the truth. But his gaze was frozen on the redhead in the bath that he had missed the creature who'd sneaked in, and it was heading straight for the woman.

The Dementor that had gotten into the school building was easing its way towards a tortured soul and the chilling air that was filling the room and corridor.

He hadn't seen the Dementor until it was closing in behind the redhead, and her reaction to the now freezing waters had brought her relaxed state back to reality as she glanced around confused. Until she'd attempted turning to see her surroundings and it had attacked.

Her bright blue eyes widened with fright, her lips separating to gasp and scream, but her scream hadn't come from her until a dark shadow and a snarling bark came from nowhere. Her scream had echoed with terror throughout the school that it had awoken the deep sleeping ghosts.

The shadow that side blinded both Sage and the Dementor, attacking the creature, was thrown back away from it and into her. Both Sage and the dog fell back into the freezing water.

Pain ripped through her arm, chest, and stomach from where the dog's nails had cut into her at being thrown against her body. Clawing back up to the surface Sage gasped for air, panting, gasping, and freezing cries leaving her. She'd been snuck up on and attacked by a Dementor, saved by, what she thought was a dog. Her eyes found the advancing Dementor and she froze with fear. However, the arms which wrapped around her naked body frightened her, even more so when the body the arms belonged to pulled her back under the still freezing water with them, but the act had stopped the creature from advancing any farther after her.

Sirius watched from under the water as the Dementor quickly rushed off for a moment. But it wouldn't be gone long, it had likely hidden. Taking the opportunity, Sirius pulled them both up to the surface to breathe, his hand around her mouth, "Shush, don't be loud. It'll come right back for us." He whispered into her ear, "Look up," He whispered.

Terrified at the man now in the water with her, she looked up and her stomach tightened with dread, The Dementor was floating above them, circling like a wild wolf to its prey up a tree. Waiting.

"Come on," His voice was soft, silky smooth. As he spoke a different sort of chill ran over her body. He'd saved her life. Complying with little complaint, he pulled her from the water, they stepped around a few obstacles in the Bath House. She was a bit shocked, however thankful, he'd wrapped her towel around her naked body, which had been lying a few feet from them over the chair, then slipped through a passageway in the wall. She had no idea this passageway even existed! Walking through the corridors she could hear several shouts of their school's security and other Professors. But it was Albus's shouts that stunned her.

"SAGE?!"

"Albus?"

Turning to her with aggravation, he covered her mouth, "Shush, I will not be captured by these fools and sent back. My Godson is in danger and I will be dead before I leave that Rat here with him any longer than he already has been." Sirius snapped at her. Just because they were in the walls did not mean they couldn't be heard on the other side. Removing his hand from her mouth, he huffed and continued moving through the hidden halls.

Her feet stopped in their fast escape and they both came to a stop. Sirius's hand still firmly holding her own, but she hadn't loosened her hold to his hand either. She couldn't help the shock she felt as she looked at the man who'd saved her. "Sirius Black?" she whispered with shock, slight fright, and what she could only explain as… Excitement? Her breath catching in her chest as he eyed her, "Yes, and I've heard about you also… Sage McGonagall..." He stated.

She was instantly terrified. He knew. 'He knows?! How!'

As if he were reading her thoughts, Sirius grinned. "James never had a cousin, I knew the Potters better than anyone, even Remus. Well, that and I also found my way into Snape's office, he has your file. Such a shame though. He doesn't guard your file like he does Lily's Photo hidden away in his desk. Which, I was still able to get to." He informed her, a proud smirk on his face. But Sirius saw the shimmer of hurt in her blue eyes and he couldn't help but be curious, more so he had a small amount of sympathy for her. "He'll never love you, you know. Severus Snape may see you as a friend, but he'll never love you… Lily was the only one he'd ever love. I'd suggest stopping now before you get hurt." He advised her, his voice was soft and held a hint of care. He found it slightly ironic that the woman Snape loved had fallen in love and married another, but yet there was a beautiful young woman right in front of him and he was careless towards her growing feelings. Sirius couldn't help but feel somewhat jealous. Him, Sirius Black, felt some small amount of jealousy towards Severus Snape.

Her chest tightened a bit painfully at Sirius's words. How had he, of all people, notice. Not even Minerva had noticed, and she was the most observational person Sage knew, besides Albus and Snape. Unless she was just that obvious. But Sirius had called her out, the first person to do so. So, there was no reason to lie about it. "I've already been hurt by someone like Severus, it wouldn't be the first time. But it's not like you'd be any different Sirius Black. I have a general idea as to what your reputation was." She informed him, trying to regain some of her composure, but the memory of Alphard was not exactly helping. He'd rejected her the night of her attack from the werewolf, that was why she'd been out at night. Alone.

Smirking at her words, Sirius almost laughed, "Really, now I'm curious. Care to enlighten me?" He teased.

Weakly grinning at his teasing attempt, Sage rose a brow of interest. "Playboy, womanizer, all 'round prankster." He'd just saved her, and not to mention the Dementor had found its way into the hidden corridor. And they were not paying attention.

"You're forgetting alleged murderer, traitor, and Voldemort enthusiast." He muttered with dry sarcasm.

Her smile fell at his words and Sage felt the desire to smack him, she knew he was none of that, but she had no proof. "Of all the things I've heard, of all the things I've read, those are the few things I do not believe, Sirius Black. You loved James Potter more than your own freedom and life, you love Harry more than your beating heart, there is no way in hell you handed them over to him." She was furious as she said the words. For the last month, everyone had been telling her she was wrong. And she knew Sirius would have died before handing his best friend over to Voldemort.

Very curious of this woman now, Sirius inched closer to her, his face mere inches from her own, and stared deep into her eyes, she was a strange one. "You don't know me, how could you, of all people, believe I never handed them over to him, even though you are right, how can you possibly believe it." Even if she were right, she never knew him, so why would she think he was innocent?

Her eyes never left his, filled with torture, loss, loneliness, and selfless determination to succeed in saving someone he loved. "Because a man who is guilty and suffers in Azkaban as you have would have fessed to all of the crimes he committed and gone mad in the process. The hell and torture they put you through before sending you to Prison, only an innocent man would have kept to his innocence. … And you, Sirius Black, committed no crime."

'Who the hell is this woman?' Sirius asked himself in wonder, but his thinking was cut short by the frost that covered the walls behind them, "It found us…. We have to go," He breathed with fright. He'd have told her to go towards the nearest exit and used himself as a diversion, however that creature had gone after her first before it had even cared about him, and he was an escapee. So, he had to ask. Why would a Dementor ignore the escaped Prisoner who was clearly in its line of sight and gone for a completely innocent woman? She had no criminal history to his knowledge. All she shared with Minerva was her last name. She looked nothing like his teacher. Not that he could compare. But he'd have to think of that later. Rounding a corner, he looked into the empty corridor before dashing from the hidden passageway. "You are safe from that thing, unfortunately, I am not -"

"The Whomping Willow." She quickly said. It was the only place she could think of that may keep him safe from the Dementors and anyone else.

Taken aback by her sudden idea outburst, Sirius stopped them in their fleeing pace. "The Whomping Willow? How will that help me?"

"It'll keep the Dementors away from you for a time, no one goes near that thing. At least I don't think anyone does. Remus hasn't used the Shrieking Shack lately for his transformations -"

"Wait, you know, about Moony?" now he was curious, and worried. She knew about Remus's condition. He was trusting her with his secret? This didn't sound like Remus at all. The man guarded his secret like his own heart.

"Will you shut up. I'm trying to help you!" Sage snapped. She was terrified that thing was just about to peek around the corner at any minute. Or worse, the Professors and Security staff. "Go to the Whomping Willow. I'll meet you there. In an hour… Maybe two..." She corrected herself. Because what she was going to do was going to give him the opportunity to run. "When I scream, you need to run, I don't care how you feel Sirius Black, you run, get to the tree… I will be there before the night is over."

He was baffled. She was helping him? And she didn't even know him! "Why are you doing this?"

There was no more time. The Corridor filled with cold air, their breaths puffed out in front of them, the Dementor had caught up. Shoving Sirius back from her she continued to shove him down the hall, he was still baffled and his brain was not processing the danger of the Dementor. Until she let loose the most terrifying scream ever when the creature came around the corner, "What the hell are you doing -"

SLAP!

"Run," she scolded him.

Taken by shock, Sirius's eyes danced between her and the creature. She was screaming to get the Dementor's attention. She knew it would go for her first. She was creating a diversion for him to get away, but also by her screaming like she was, she was drawing the attention of the others currently searching for her in the first place. Turning on his heels, Sirius Black ran with all the energy he had left with an added push of adrenaline, making it out of the school. But he couldn't get her screams from his mind, least of all when she had screamed bloody murder for Remus and Snape.

Their hearts were in a panic, their stomachs knotting with terror as Sage's screams echoed through the school. She was likely scaring the shit out of everyone. The students were currently in the Great Hall with a few teachers who had stayed to watch over them in case Sirius Black came around or one of the Dementors. But they were supposed to stay outside of the school. They knew that!

Rounding the corner, they froze with shock and fright at not only the state she was in but the fact that it was a Dementor, not Sirius Black.

Sage felt relief for a mere moment when they'd come around the corner, "Remus!" Trying to run towards them she was shocked at being thrown sideways into the hard wall. Hitting the cold floor with a nasty thud and a freezing cold and a viciously strong hand grabbed her shoulder, turning her to face the Dementor. Terror filled her and the hot tears chilled in her eyes, almost freezing along her cheeks as they rolled down her face. "SEV!"

A flash of bright light and several screams of Expecto Patronum filled the halls. The blast of light had the Dementor fleeing with a painful screech.

Rushing to her fallen side, Remus and Severus pulled her into their hold, both looking her over as she shook with terror and almost frozen like death. She was as white as a sheet, whether it was from the chill of the Dementor or her fear they didn't know.

"Dear Merlin, Sage. Wh-what happened? How did you get these wounds!" Minerva shouted with fright at the woman's wounds, she could care less about her state of cover, at least she'd been covered!

"Not now Minerva!" Albus shouted with rage. Not at her, but the Dementors. Slipping his outer robe from his shoulders Albus quickly wrapped his warm robe around a noticeably shivering Sage. "Remus, Severus, get her to Poppy, now!" He snapped. "Minerva, head back to the students, let them all be aware everything is alright now. I want the rest of us on high alert." He snapped as he stalked off. Albus Dumbledore was in a rage. For the first time in years, Minerva hadn't seen him this angry. The Dementor had attacked Sage while she'd been unarmed and off her guard. Nor did it need to be inside the Castle or have permission. Least of all going after one of their own staff members. But all of their thoughts were directed to more terrifying thoughts. "What if this had been a student?"

Lifting Sage into his arms, Remus continued to think about her bleeding wounds. They looked like claws. Severus had his wand drawn, at the ready the entire trip to the hospital wing. "Sage, who attacked you." He questioned softly.

Her heart pounding in her chest as she glanced between Remus and Severus's confused expression. Now he too was noticing the cuts on her were likely not from the Dementor.

"Dementor," She answered weakly. Her stomach knotted at the thought of them concluding that Sirius had still been in the school. And if they figured that out, they'd question her until she accidentally gave up his location. But she knew she couldn't, she wouldn't let them have Sirius. He was innocent. And it appeared that she was the only one aside from Sirius himself who believed that.

Raising their brows curiously at her, the two Professors shared a disbelieving glance. "Dementors don't leave claw marks, Sage. They leave small, nail-like cuts and bruises." Remus informed her. He knew that she knew he didn't believe her. Even Severus didn't believe her.

But she wasn't lying, the Dementor had attacked her. Sirius had only wounded her accidentally because he'd been thrown into her body. But they wouldn't believe her because she knew what they were talking about. The cuts on her arm, stomach, and across her chest under her right collar bone were each in two or three claw-like cuts. The bruises on her upper arm and shoulder, however, were from the Dementor's cold grasp.

"Enough Lupin, she needs medical attention. We can speak to her of this later." Snape scolded. Even if he wanted to know himself what had happened, he knew Sage needed her wounds looked after first. She was not a suspect. She was a victim of this attack.

Sighing as he walked into the Hospital Wing, Remus set Sage onto a cot and walked off to get Poppy. Leaving Snape with the wounded redhead.

Resting into the cot, Sage sighed with relief of being safe from the Dementor.

"Who caused the wounds, Sage." Snape softly questioned. He hadn't taken a seat, he'd remained standing, staring down at the woman trying to relax.

"It doesn't matter Severus, I'm alright." She answered weakly, she sounded and likely looked, exhausted.

"No, you're clearly missing the point, Sage. You have cuts on you which may leave scars." He informed her coldly.

"Light scars possibly, but they wouldn't be the first I've had. I'm fine Severus. Thanks to all of you." 'And Sirius,' but she wasn't going to tell him that.

With the doors bursting open with a frantic woman walking in, Remus trying to keep up on her heels. Poppy stopped next to her bedside and sighed with a shake of her head. "Sage, I swear, if you really weren't Potter's relative, I'd give a good gander to thinking you were his sister. Those boys were in and out of here like nothing. I even had cots for them specifically." She huffed, going on about several of the boy's injuries that she could remember. She was a bit shocked at hearing about the Bludger James had taken for Sirius. All Sage could do was listen to the woman ranting.

Severus and Remus had decided to let the women be while Poppy worked on healing Sage's wounds. But they both had the same thought as they left the Hospital Wing. "Sirius Black," they both said his name in unison sharing a bit of an annoyed expression with one another before they nodded.

Rolling his eyes, Severus started his way back to his personal quarters, "Goodnight, Professor."

"Same to you, Snape." Remus offered in return. Both going their separate ways for the night.

**Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it! I know it probably flew like nothing, I do hope it was still good and kept interested, or at least kept you on your toes a little. Have a wonderful Night/Day!