Chapter 2

Sirius looked into the eyes of a familiar man. Staggering back he saw that it was Arthur Weasley.

"Merlin's Beard you scared me Arthur," Sirius breathed as he fell back against the wall.

"Sirius Black. Come with me. I am taking you back where you belong," Arthur replied.

"Arthur you can't do that," Sirius said staying where he was.

"I must."

"Arthur listen to me, Harry has been entered into the Triwizard tournament by someone who I feel Is not friendly. I need to stay in touch with him and that will not be possible in Azkaban, Arthur."

"Sirius I could lose my job if I let you go! I could use the reward money if you would just come with me."

"No Arthur I will not come with you."

"Stupefy."

Sirius fell to the ground stunned. His eyes looked to the skies. Arthur proceeded to levitate Sirius down the road. Arthur saw Fudge and was about to run after him with Sirius when he saw Dumbledore. He could feel something coming from Dumbledore, something that told him not to run with the Sirius up to the Minister of magic. So Arthur stopped and took Sirius back to the house. Arthur set him down in the grass and then unstunned him. Sirius sat up on the lawn and looked at Arthur.

"You took me back? Why the fucking hell would you take me back?" Sirius asked looking puzzled.

"Well after I stunned you and was carrying you down the street I saw the Minister. But Dumbledore was with him and I got this feeling from Dumbledore that I should bring you back."

"Good thing you listened to the old man. Otherwise you could have had both of us in some serious trouble."

"What is so urgent that you get it to Harry anyway?"

"it is none of your business Arthur."

"If I am going to let you go free with no intentions of ever searching for you again I at least want to know what you are conveying to Harry."

"Very well very well. But you have to promise me Arthur you won't tell anyone. Not even Molly," Sirius said pulling out a folded piece of parchment from his pocket.

Arthur snatched it away. As he unfolded the paper he noticed the hand of the person on the paper. It was James' hand, messily scrawled letter that were hard to read. Arthur thought that it was amazing that James could have passed any standard examination with that kind of handwriting. Arthur now held the small piece of parchment in his hands unfolded. There was a simple message scrawled on it. The note was addressed to Sirius and Arthur gasped as he saw it. The awe on his face quickly turned to anger as he realized what this meant.

"Sirius! How could you keep this from Harry? He needed to know this ages ago. It explains everything more clearly," Arthur stated as he looked at Sirius.

" Sorry I was in prison for most of my life and 86% of Harry's," Sirius replied.

"You could have passed it to someone before you were imprisoned."

"Sorry I don't carry very important information that the Ministry would love to have in my pocket assuming that someone will frame me…" Sirius trailed off looking at the face of Arthur.

"Y-you didn't kill those people?" Arthur asked surprised at the stutter in his voice.

"No Peter Pettigrew did."

"Well then I guess you wouldn't have had this on you. I'm sorry Sirius. Let me take you to a pub and we can get a drink."

"No if I am seen in public then I'll be sent back for sure."

"Then come back to my house I will fix you a cup of tea. Please you do look dreadful Sirius."

"One cup of tea…wait isn't your house well protected?" Sirius asked eyeing Arthur suspiciously.

"Not anymore Sirius. We have proved ourselves capable of watching after the Burrow ourselves."

"Alright then one cup of tea and then I shall be on my way."

Sirius grabbed Arthur's arm to apparate seeing as he didn't have a wand. Soon they were in the yard walking up to the Burrow.

Molly furrowed her brow as she looked at the clock. Surly Arthur should be home by now. He has been gone for hours upon hours. She was starting to feel uneasy. 'What if something has happened to him,' she thought. In response to her stress Molly's knitting needles clacked together faster. Her needles always flew when she was nervous or tired. She then saw someone apparate into the yard. She looked out the window to see not one but two figures walking towards the door. She gasped as they approached. One of them was in jail clothes. Molly ran to the door and then out into the yard.

"Arthur who are you bringing home…." She was stopped in midsentence when she saw her cousin limping toward her. "Sirius? Oh Sirius is that really you?"

"Yes it's me Molly," Sirius confirmed with a flash of his not so brilliant anymore smile.

"Get the hell out of my house!" Molly roared.

"Molly dear he didn't kill anyone," Arthur tried reassuring her.

Molly looked at Arthur surprised.

"And I suppose you are going to fall for his tricks too?" she asked eyeing her husband.

"Molly he isn't tricking us. I believe Sirius and I think that we should have him in for a cup of tea and a warm meal," Arthur replied straightening himself so he was roughly two inches taller than Molly.

"Can I give him verituserum to make sure?" she asked.

"Yes Molly you can give it to me if it will make you feel better," Sirius chimed in.

Mr. and Mrs. Weasley turned to look at him alarmed. They had almost forgotten he was there.

A/N: So what did you think? Please review if you are reading this!