Remus arrived at the large building. The front desk person made eye contact and the color drained from his face.

"I'm looking for access to the penthouse."

The woman looked up at him. "Only invited guests are allowed into the elevators sir."

Remus rolled his eyes internally. "I'll see what I can get for you." He went to grab his phone to text Lily for some help. The woman made a noise and made a quick movement. The doors made a loud sound as they were locked. The glass that the woman was behind fogged up and another bolt sounded at the door to the closed area the front desk.

After a few moments, sirens could be heard getting closer and soon there were two armed police at the door pointing their weapons through the glass. Remus raised his arms to show that he was unarmed. It was about twice a year that Remus had to deal with cops in some way or another. Suspicious man walking around a store staring at the merchandise too long. One time he had found a little girl outside a shop and he had simply entered the store with her to report a missing child. The mother had just so happened to be coming out at the same time and called to have him arrested for attempted kidnapping. Remus had broken down on the street there. There were too many flashback and thoughts in his head. He was uncooperative with the officers because of the panic attack. They had taken it as a sign of guilt and had used two tasers, one on the street and one to the station.

Lily was outraged. Marlene had gone on a rant about mentally ill and social workers. Had yelled that Remus had been unarmed and tazed more than was necessary. Remus did get an official apology from the chief, but that didn't undo the damage. Remus tried to be more aware of what he looked like to others from then on. Hanging back when children were without parents, not browsing a shop too long, or visiting too often. At work he tried to smile, but most customers were more put off by the way only one side of his face would pull up.

Lily kept checking her phone for Remus to call. After about a half hour, she got a call from an unknown number.

"Hello?"

"Lily it's me." Remus voice was resigned, and she could tell he had been crying. "I'm at the police station. If you could just tell the group that I'll be a while. Start the movie and I'll just meet you back at the apartment."

"Remus what happened?" Lily's tone caught everyone's attention.

"I was just trying to get up to the penthouse, but without a guest permission list or pin, she thought I was going to pull a gun to force my way into the elevators."

Lily had grabbed her bag and with her shoes in hand was running for the elevator. "Remus had another run in with the police" she informed the group.

Fabian started to reach for his phone as well and made the call the group was familiar with. Calling the attorney to send to be a mediator with the police. When they saw the Remus had a record, police tended to treat Remus poorly.

"Listen Remus. Don't say anything. You didn't do anything but wait for Kingsley to get there."

Remus went silent and for a moment Lily thought he had hung up. "You were excited. I didn't want to ruin that."

"Lily what's going on?" James had opened the elevator and followed her in. All Lily could think about was Remus.

"I think I'm 30 minutes out. Do you need me on the phone?"

"I'm actually on a time limit."

Lily tried to put all the confidence in her voice "I'm going to be there in no more than 30 minutes ok. You can do this."

The line went dead, and Lily's heart sunk. Reaching the lobby there was an officer taking a statement from someone working at the front desk. Lily put on her shoes and using all of her might chose not to punch the prejudice little girl in the face.

"Are you going to walk?" James asked.

"The train will be just as slow. I think it's only about one mile. I'm going to run most the way. Marlene knows to wait until I have more information and Dorcas will stay to keep her calm. Gideon and Fabian usually are on legal team."

James shook his head and led her to another set of elevators. "How about I drive you there?" If Lily hadn't told herself a hundred times that she wouldn't kiss James today, she would have right there.

As they drove it was nearly silent.

"Would you like to talk? It's still 10 minutes out."

James offer was very sweet, and Lily thought that for his kindness she could offer something in return.

"What would you like to ask?"

James pondered for a moment. "What is your last name?"

In that moment Lily laughed. The tension was so thick, yet this man had turned it to melted butter. "Evans."

James smiled and looked at her from the corner of his eyes. "Are you going to ask what mine is?" Lily found this inquiry odd.

"You and Sirius are brothers, aren't you? That makes you a Black too?"

Now it was James turn to laugh. Lily didn't think the deduction was that absurd though.

"No. Brothers in everything but blood. My last name is Potter."

The minutes felt like hours. Lily couldn't stand the unspoken question in the car. "He didn't do anything. The girl thought he was trying to force his way up the penthouse and had a gun."

James gripped the steering wheel a bit tighter. "Why didn't they let him go when they got there?"

Lily pondered the appropriate amount of information that could be shared. "Remus has a track record for being arrested for things. People see him as suspicious. It's their department policy to take someone down when they have a track record that long. Though none of them are actually things he did, he's listed as charged for some of them. It's been hard to appeal."

Both were relieved when they pulled up to the station. The nice receptionist Lily had spoken with many times at their appeal meeting and when she had come to pick Remus up was there.

"Debbie, Remus is here. Am I able to go back yet?"

Debbie checked over his status and nodded her head. "Room 3." The guest badges were handed out and Lily lead James to the all too familiar room.