Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, I have no claims to--hardly anyone in this story, but Isabella IS mine. So, eat that you naked mole rat!
A/N Um, having troubles with this story again! Ack! I just want to kick myself in the butt! Urgh! Anyway...Let's see where this goes... I was on a roll there for a while. Posting left and right! Or up and down, whatever.
And I've noticed on my own...That I think I might be putting off some Isabella/Sirius waves--nope. As far as I'm concerned, no TOO much of that kind of thing will be happening. Probably a little...But I have plans for Isabella big plans...And Sirius--well in the next section of this story, you'll see what I have planned for him...I feel terrible for it, but oh what the heck--I AM the author!
I think our little Lils will be sentenced to Azkaban...Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun DUN! You are going to have to read and see about that. More of you are reading this then are reviewing...I have 'Enhanced Statistics' people!
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Flirting With the Enemy
By Sierra Sitruc
Chapter 18 Running Away
Isabella Patil was not having the best of times. It seemed whenever you had something urgent to tell the Ministry, they were always busy and wouldn't give you an appointment--or any moment of their time.
She and Sirius had been in the Main Office of the Ministry for hours, trying to talk to someone to get some help. Lily, James and Remus were in trouble and they needed to get moving fast! Why wasn't anyone listening to her?
Isabella had been in the 'waiting room' and they were just now letting her in to see Forneli Wilkes who had just apparated in it seemed.
Isabella thanked the secretary and she and Sirius walked in determinedly to Wilkes' office. They knocked on the door marked 'Mr. Wilkes' and heard a "Come in." and they entered to see a very disheveled Wilkes sitting there, busily scribbling on pieces of paper.
"What is it?" He snapped angrily.
"We have some information on the missing Lily Evans, James Potter and Remus Lupin cases," she said hurriedly, and took a seat and Sirius followed suit. It had taken Sirius and Isabella no time at all to decipher what they could of their dreams; Sirius hadn't recognized the desert of their dream as the 'Sands of Death Desert', but Isabella had visited it once with her family. (Her father was an Archaeologist) So now, Sirius was totally updated on what Isabella knew.
Wilkes stared at them intently for a moment, "What do you know?" he asked.
"I know where they are--or at least where they were," Isabella replied, trying to hurry him up. "They're in the 'Sands of Death Desert'." The 'Sands of Death Desert' might sound gruesome--like people die there all the time. It's actually called that because in 1211 3,000 Wizards and Witches died in a week long battle of the light and the dark. Archaeologists of the Wizarding kind, were always digging up artifacts there--magical warring weapons were still abundant there--just buried under thousands of pounds of gritty sand.
"R-really? Aren't there ghosts there?" Isabella got a strange vibe that he was trying to change the subject.
"Yes, but if James and Remus are there--and Lily--we need to get there as soon as possible so we can search the place and find them! They could be dead soon if we don't hurry up!" Sirius shouted, losing his temper.
"Calm down!" Forneli and Isabella snapped at the same time.
"Sorry." Sirius said sheepishly.
"Sirius has a point though, we need to act fast. We'd like to set up a rescue party of Aurors to go and search the place." Isabella explained.
"Well, I don't think we should--you have no proof that they are there." Wilkes said grouchily.
"Yes! We do! We had the exact same dream! That's got to be something--" Sirius interrupted Isabella
"Yeah! Exact same dream! James, Remus, Evans and Voldemort were ALL there! Come on, we need permission from you to check this out!" Sirius growled, his eyes fixed on Wilkes'; demanding permission.
"No, I'm sorry--dreams just aren't the way to base evidence on. If we did that, we'd probably have Aurors going off to all parts of the world every five minutes!" Sirius noticed that Wilkes was starting to sweat.
"Well, whether you like it or not we're going down there!" Isabella roared. "Come on Sirius--."
"Don't you dare." Wilkes hissed, he whipped out his wand and before you could say "Merlin's Bloody Beard!" Isabella Patil and Sirius Black were out cold on the floor by the Expelliarmus spell.
(A/N Hmm...Merlin's BLOODY Beard, is sort of half my own creation...Cool-ish, but at the same time, it sounds completely disgusting. If you don't remember, I said Forneli was a Death Eater a few chapters ago.)
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Lily and Remus had soon figured out that they were going to have to find a stair way that led upwards, or their escape plan wouldn't work out too well. Lily was trying very hard to remember where James' cell was--but it wasn't that easy since all the doors looked the same, AND Death Eaters kept popping up everywhere.
They'd be running down a hallway and suddenly one would appear on the other end and they'd have to turn left or right. It was like a giant maze of hallways. Lily was losing stamina fast, and Remus could probably go on longer then any other human in the world--because, well, Remus wasn't human.
Lily was falling behind and her legs and throat were burning and a pain was shooting up her side. Going up the stairs only made it harder...If she'd had a wand this wouldn't be so hard--she could fight them off--or something.
I can't keep up! I can't do this! Oh God! They're going to kill me--AND Remus! Lily thought desperately. Think! Think! Think! Lily demanded herself.
"Come on Lily! You can do this!" Remus panted at her. "Don't give up! James will kill me if I let them catch you!"
Lily didn't respond to anything, she just concentrated on putting one for in front of the other. Remus was already several yards ahead of her. She felt like she was going to throw up--not that she had anything to throw up.
"Which cell is James'?" Remus yelled back at her.
"I...Don't...Know." Lily coughed out breathlessly.
"Shit." Lily heard him mutter. They turned right and went up a staircase, and Lily chanced a glance backwards...No one was after them.
Lily stopped abruptly and Remus noticed and stopped as well and walked over to her, panting heavily. "Why'd you stop?!"
"No one's behind us." Lily huffed, leaning over holding her legs and breathing deeply. Her lungs demanding oxygen.
"We'll get caught if we stay here in the open...Let's go in there." Remus gestured to a large wooden door with metal plating all over it.
"O...Kay." She said and her wobbly legs managed to walk her over to it.
"We're lucky to have even gotten away from them." Remus said as he pushed open the door, he had hardly opened it before he slammed it shut again. "Um...This room's occupied." He said weakly.
"It is? Who's in there?" Lily asked, finally starting to regain her breath.
"Um...A vampire." Remus said. "And it looked hungry."
"Oh." Lily said stupidly.
"Let's just walk...Was there anything that might let us know which door lead's to James?" Remus asked. "I can't think of anything."
"No...We can just start opening doors..." Lily tried and Remus gave her a look that said 'Are you serious?' "Well, what else CAN we do?"
"I guess your right...But there's probably thousands of doors in this place!"
"More like hundreds." Lily corrected.
"If we can find a fire place I can floo powder out of here! I still have some!" Remus said brightly.
"Great! Okay, try that door up there." They then began opening all the doors they came across and in the process finding: A banshee (didn't notice them) , a mermaid (in a pool of water), a giant (who tried to attack them) and several empty rooms.
"This isn't working!" Lily cried in frustration.
"Obviously." Remus blurted. "It's getting late...The moon, I can feel it pulling me." He added nervousness filling his tone.
"Oh--we can just lock you in one of these rooms if worst comes to worse." Lily said unsurely.
"Right...But what about you? What if your caught or killed or I escape?!"
"Remus, we're just going to have to deal with things as they come at us. If I run into other Death Eaters...I'll try my best to get myself killed."
"Lily!" Remus snapped.
"Okay, I'll just...try and get to James--then maybe him and me together can escape and try and find help to get you...If things get truly bad, I'll just try and get myself out and get Aurors to help." Lily said, "But no matter what, I think we are pretty much trapped here."
"Yeah." Remus agreed sadly. "Where to now?"
"Hmm...Left." Lily said and they began walking in that same direction. "Remus--you trust me right?" Lily asked suddenly.
"Mostly, it seems we are both stuck in the same situation--I don't really like the idea of putting my life at the hands of a suicidal Death Eater, but sometimes a man just has to do things he doesn't want to." Remus said.
"Okay, then--good enough. I trust you as much as I can someone I haven't met." Then she paused, "I'm not suicidal!"
Remus burst out laughing humorlessly. "Yeah right, and I'm not a werewolf."
Lily sniffed and didn't reply.
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"They escaped!?" Lucius Malfoy growled.
"Yeah...That's what we just said." Crabbe said uncertainly.
" You idiots!" Lucius snapped at Crabbe, Goyle and the other Death Eaters in charge of Lily and Remus.
"They won't get away so don't get all in a huff." An unidentified Death Eater sighed, used to Lucius' temper.
"Yes, but we certainly can't have our most important part of the entire Ceremony getting eaten by a fully grown werewolf!"
Apparently, the Death Eaters hadn't thought of that.
"Go setup a search party you Neanderthals!" Lucius ordered. "No...Wait, just go out searching I'll got get a dozen or so more to help."
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Remus and Lily weren't having much luck in escaping--and they kept running into more Death Eaters, they were now sneaking around, looking a lot like burglars from a muggle comedy.
"I swear, the next Death Eater we run into, I'm going to tackle them!" Lily promised.
"I'd like to see that." Remus said lightly.
"I'm serious."
"Right, unless it's a female Death Eater you won't have much luck--there aren't many female Death Eaters you know." Remus said.
"How do YOU know that...Something you not telling me Remus?" Lily asked quirking an eyebrow.
"I read the Daily Prophet, not many females are getting caught--it's just the fact that most are men. I just assumed more Death Eaters were men that women."
"Okay, I believe you---and your right--Only about 30% of the Death Eaters are women. They are much more careful about getting caught too." Lily said.
"Shh! There's another one down there." Remus whispered and Lily and Remus stopped and peered around the corner.
"It's a woman! What luck! I'm going after her!" Lily announced and took off down the hallway. The Death Eater didn't notice Lily's presence until it was too late.
Lily had pounced on the woman taking her down to the ground and then pursued a vicious cat fight. Remus came up and watched amusedly. Lily had the upper hand and was punching the day lights out of the woman.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! You bitch!" Lily screeched as the Death Eater pulled her hair. "Lestrange! Your in for it!" Lily pulled back her arm and then swung fiercely, finally knocking the woman unconscious.
"Okay, now what do we do with her?" Remus asked, smirking.
"I'm taking her Death Eaters robe."
"Ah, that makes sense! Then we can get out of here easier."
"Right."
Lily began stripping the woman of her robes (who thankfully had other clothes underneath) and put them on herself, hiding her face from the world.
"Okay Remus, let's get moving. Now, if anyone sees us, I can just say your my prisoner and 'I' disappeared." Lily explained.
"This is perfect!" Remus said joyfully, "We might just make it out! Thank God you are impulsive."
"I'll take that as a compliment. I think we'd better continue our search for James and then it's off to Azkaban for me!" Lily said enthusiastically.
"You are so weird." Remus mumbled.
"I know, I know...I'll take that as a compliment too."
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~Ahead of Time, After Dark~
Isabella and Sirius awoke to find themselves...In what seemed like a cell room. Stones aligned the room and a lone torch was their only light.
"What happened?" Isabella asked groggily.
"It seems...We ran into a Death Eater Spy in the Ministry." Sirius said angrily.
"I never did trust Wilkes." Isabella grumbled, standing up and yawning.
"I think we're prisoners now."
"Great." Isabella said sarcastically. "How are we going to get out of this one?" Both of them simultaneously checked for their wands, and didn't find them. "You're the Auror, think of what we can do."
"Well, they don't train us in escape plans."
"Why not?"
"Because we aren't supposed to get caught."
"Oh. That makes sense." Isabella said with a nod, running her hands through her blonde hair. "Hey, could this be where Lily or Remus is?"
"We don't even know if Lily OR James is actually captured." Sirius said, "For all we know, the two of them are still off running in the words--or worse! They're off in Jamaica mating like dogs in heat!"
Isabella glared, "This isn't the time for jokes."
"I wasn't joking, I was just stating one of my theories." Sirius said in his defense.
"I wish they'd separated us!" Isabella moaned.
"I guess they put us together because they thought we wouldn't be able to do anything anyway--err, but if you think about it, we could do SOMETHING--."
"Sirius, your perverted! Act your age!" The younger woman snapped.
"Sorry." Sirius said weakly.
"Now, THINK, how are we going to get out of here! We need to help Lily somehow...If I know Lily, and I do, she's probably trying to escape right now."
"Same with James and Remus, they won't stay prisoners for long--if they are."
"If you think about it, the only reason to keep us alive is to use US against Lily and James...Or Remus. So, either Lily isn't caught yet, or she's not cooperating." Isabella said thoughtfully.
"You are correct." A voice said suddenly, and Isabella and Sirius whirled around to face the intruder. "Lily isn't cooperating, and unfortunately for you that could be YOUR demise." The voice sneered.
"Where's Lily!?" Isabella demanded the same time Sirius yelled, "Where's James and Remus!?"
"Calm down, calm down! No need to get your knickers in a twist. To be frank, Remus has already transformed into a werewolf, and your dear friend James--is dead."
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A/N James is Dead? What? Okay, so with that scene you see that Lily is most likely not caught by the time Isabella and Sirius are brought to where Lily, James and Remus are. It's obvious there that they didn't get out in time and that Remus DID transform. James is said to be dead, but you can't ever be sure with me being the author.
We don't know right now where Lily is out and about to. Did she get caught? What happened when Remus transformed?
I will tell you, that Isabella and Sirius are going to be used against Lily--and the whole big thing about the Ceremony should be coming up by at least Chapter 20...I hope. Anyway, PLEASE review...
Oh, one more thing--anyone have a live journal code they could give me?? I really want to get on there...I've been asking everyone and hardly anyone will give me one! I promise, if I get one...I'll update--your choice of story! Pick ONE of my stories and I'll update it. Unless it's finished, then that doesn't count. You get it?? So anyone, and I will FORCE myself to type it! Isn't that a nice deal? And all you have to do is give me a valid code...And, (if this even counts) I'll love you forever if you give it to me!
Let's try getting too....1515 reviews?? That's not TOO much, I'm just getting review greedy...THANK YOU FOR ALL THE REVIEWS! I love you all so much! Thanks!
*~Sierra~*