SIRIUS BLACK AND THE VEIL
Sirius was pissed off, he had been beaten by Bellatrix, his crazy, bat shit crazy cousin, he was knocked through the veil, his last thought was of Harry, seeing his godson scream after him, seeing his old friend Remus holding him back broke Sirius's heart, he tried to get back through the veil and after sometime he did.
Only the chamber which moments before was a centre of a bloody battle was now empty, Sirius frowned "Harry, Remus" he called out, nothing but the echo of his voice, he ran around the veil and saw it was all empty, Sirius looked at the veil, maybe he was dead he thought, but surely this couldn't be the afterlife? Sirius had dreamed morbidly of seeing Lily and James again welcoming him to the afterlife, but this was anticlimactic if this was the afterlife.
Sirius saw a door and went to it, he opened it and found himself near the atrium in the ministry, which was bustling for some reason, weren't the people aware that death eaters were battling the order?
At least he knew now this wasn't the afterlife, he then thought of Harry, how worried his godson must be! Sirius then realised that he was still a wanted man, yet ... no one paid any attention to him, he was the most wanted man after Voldemort himself, then he thought that Harry and Remus must have cleared him!
Now he can live his life again! Have Harry live with him permanently, make him an official heir to the Black fortune, he decided to head to Hogwarts confident that he was now cleared, he walked past a newsstand in the atrium and looked at it, he decided to buy the Daily Prophet just so he could see his name cleared and see if the wizarding community believes that Voldemort was now back.
Sirius went to the newsstand and was wary of the mans reaction to him, but no reaction, no sign of recognition on the mans face at all, Sirius did find this strange, surely this man must know that he was until recently a wanted man!
"Daily prophet please" Sirius said, the man gave him the paper, took the money and carried on with his day, Sirius admonished himself, he should be pleased! He could finally live a normal life after all these years, well relatively normal h thought sadly of James and Lily.
Sirius looked at the Headlines, he stared at it, feeling ice cold, he checked the date as well and it was no misprint, his mouth dropped open The headline said
BURKINA FASO WINS 2006 QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP
"2006" Sirius said out loud, the newspaper man heard him "You what sir?" He asked, Sirius turned around frantically "What year is it? Is it 1996!?" The newspaper man looked at him as if he was mental
"What?" He asked in disbelief "What do you mean what year is it? It's 2006!" He said
Sirius asked another question "Do you know who I am?" He asked, the man shook his head slowly "Sir I think you need to go to St. Mungo's, you don't look well" he said, but Sirius started running.
He was feeling sick, how could he have lost ten years of life? How come that man didn't know who he was? And where was Harry? Was the war still going on after all these years? All these thoughts and questions ran through Sirius's head, he came to the floo.
"Where could I go?" He asked himself out loud, he couldn't go to Hogwarts, if he had been gone for ten years it would cause a shock, and Harry wouldn't be there, if all was well then Harry would have left Hogwarts eight years ago, but Dumbledore could still be there? But then he realised the one place he could go to and that wasn't a nice prospect but at least he could gather his thoughts before he made the trip to Hogwarts
He stepped into the floo, grabbed the ash and said "Twelve, Grimmauld Place" and in a green flash he was back at his dreaded home, he stepped out of it and looked at it.
Gone was the dark and dingy living room, but it was now a home, it had been done up, of course Sirius thought, if people believed he was dead then his will would be enacted and Harry would have inherited the place and he would have done it up, Sirius smiled at the thought of Harry, maybe the war was over and Voldemort really was gone this time, maybe Harry had a family of his own by now? Sirius looked around the room but found it was decorated in much the same way as it was when he was still living there prior to when he ran away when he was sixteen, Slytherin green adorned the place, if Harry had inherited its no way he would have kept it in Slytherin green, Harry would have redone it completely, a horrible thought ran through Sirius's head.
Maybe Bellatrix inherited it? And Harry was ... he couldn't bring himself to think of anything else, he just wanted to lie down.
Just then the door opened, Sirius froze to the spot, a middle aged man walked into the room, he had jet black hair with a streak of grey at the temples, the man looked at Sirius and stared at him in shock
"Sirius! What are you doing here?"
Sirius's mouth dropped open, he had traveled ten years into the future, if that was the case then why was he looking at his brother; Regulus who was supposed to have died some years ago?
Sirius fainted.
A while later Sirius woke up on the sofa, he thought he had a bad dream, that Harry and his friends had ran off to the ministry to face off the death eaters, but as soon as he sat up he looked into the grey eyes of his presumed dead younger brother
"You're dead" Sirius said, "how can you be here? You died years ago when you were eighteen!" He said, Regulus shook his head
"I could say the same about you" he said coldly "you can drop the act Sirius you don't fool me anymore" Regulus got up and went to pour two firewhiskeys "I assume you still like this stuff?" He asked, Sirius nodded slowly, his head hurt
"Regulus, why are you here? I've had a confusing enough day as it is, have I been confounded? What is this? Have I been captured by Voldemort or something and he's trying to drive me insane?" Sirius said all at once, Regulus handed Sirius the glass looking confused.
"What?" He asked "what are you talking about Sirius, I haven't got time for jokes, I need to inform..." but Sirius interrupted him
"No! You need to tell me what's going on! The last thing I remember is I was fighting our dear cousin Bella in the dept of mysteries, trying to save my godsons life, she did some spell which knocked me into the veil, that was in 1996, I come out that veil and now it's not only the year 2006 but my brother who by this point has been dead for twenty seven years is sitting in front of me!" He said, breathing heavily "please Reg, what's going on!? Where's Harry? Why are you here? Who won the war? The order or Voldemort?" He asked, but Regulus only stared at him, not with coldness in his eyes but worry and concern, he took a sip of his fire whiskey and sighed
"Sirius, first of all who on Earth is this Voldemort?" He asked, Sirius looked at his brother with incredulity
"The dark lord! He waged war on our side back in the 1970s and you stupidly joined him and somehow got yourself killed!" He said loudly "stop playing games Reg! I'm being serious what's going on?"
"So am I being serious, who is Voldemort? There's only been one dark lord in the past century and that was Grindleward, and he's locked up in Nurmengard and has been there since 1945"
"No there was another one, years after him, Voldemort, he was a pureblood supremacist, he killed Lily and James and left their son Harry and orphan in October 1981, when he tried to kill baby Harry who somehow survived the Avada Kedavra killing curse, Peter betrayed us all and revealed their location"
"Sirius I have to stop you there" Regulus said now coming over to his brother, kneeling in front of him "I can tell you right now that this is no curse, I am alive, and so are Lily and James"
Sirius looked up at his brother "What?" He said, his voice breaking "don't be cruel Reg, whatever may have happened between us, doesn't warrant this trick"
"I'm not lying Sirius" Regulus said firmly "I did some occulmency on you right now and somehow you're telling the truth, now I should tell you what's really gone on in the years since you disappeared" he finished
"My disappearance?" Sirius said "what do you mean?"
Regulus drained the rest of his firewhiskey "you sure you want to know? Because what I'm about to say will shock you" Regulus asked, Sirius nodded frantically "Yes tell me!"
"Alright" Regulus began "I looked into your mind and saw what you have been through, that veil somehow took you into our side, but let me tell you now, the veil is a mystery to us, but not only are you in an alternate universe but your not our Sirius" he said, Sirius frowned
"Of course I'm Sirius!" He said annoyed, Regulus stopped him "yes you are Sirius, but your not our Sirius, you see our Sirius disappeared ten years ago without a trace, your friends; James, Remus and Peter searched for you for years, I did too, but I had to take care of our mother, she was heartbroken when you ... I mean when our Sirius disappeared"
Sirius scoffed, Peter searching for him? Their mother upset that he was gone? This was laughable!
"It's true" Regulus said as if he had just read Sirius's mind "our mum was devastated ... it killed her in the end, she died six years ago of a broken heart, in the end we all believed you had died, well our Sirius could be dead, you're a different Sirius, only James never gave up, he still thinks that Sirius will come back one day"
Sirius looked saddened, The James in this world was going through what he went through but worse, Sirius knew that James was dead, the James on this side didn't know if his Sirius was dead or not.