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A/N: This chapter is going to be a bit short. Also there may be a lot more dialogue. This chapter may be up for further editing later, but I hope you like it anyway.

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Remus woke up and couldn't remember where he was. He looked down at the end of his bed, and the memories came back in a flash. Sirius was sitting in the chair looking at him. In another chair that appeared to have been conjured. Harry was sitting reading a book on Dark Arts Theory.

"Sirius?" Remus asked in disbelief, "Is that really you?"

"Indeed it is Moony! Are you going to faint again or is it safe to talk now?" Sirius said with a smirk on his face.

"Hey, Remus! How are you feeling?" Harry asked.

"Fine I think."

Remus wasn't sure how he was feeling right now. All he knew was he needed some answers and he needed them soon. He still didn't understand why he was taken by the Death Eaters. Or what Sirius was doing here. He remembered what Harry had told him of his time here.

"So are you a Death Eater now, Sirius?" Remus asked

"Of course not, Remus. What kind of crazy question is that? I'm here because of Harry."

"What do you mean?"

"Tom gave me back Sirius as a kind of reward for becoming neutral, and his pupil." Harry supplied.

"Why do you call You-Know-Who Tom?" Remus asked.

"He asked me to here at the Manor, but in public or in front of the others he is the 'Dark Lord' to me. I'm not a Death Eater either in case you were wondering."

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They sat in Remus' room talking for hours. Remus asked every question he could think of to assure himself that neither of them was there by force.

"Okay, so you both are here under your Vows, but what am I?"

"Right now you are Severus' prisoner. And Remus you might have to stay a prisoner unless you take a vow, or pledge yourself to Tom." Harry told him.

"I'm afraid Harry is right, Remy. You are in the Death Eater stronghold, and no Order member comes in here unless they are bound, a prisoner, or they change allegiances." Sirius agreed.

"Great. So now I get to decide if I want to rot in a cell, bind myself to this Manor, or join the Crazy Maniac who wants to destroy the world? That's not much of a choice."

"Remus, you are looking at this all wrong." Harry said. "If you take the Vow you get to be with Sirius and me. We could be a family. Don't you want that?"

"Would I ever get to leave this Manor?" Remus asked.

"I believe so. Tom has taken me places before in other countries. Of course, we were in disguise. But I got to get out of here."

"And I travel with Harry as well when he leaves here." Sirius said.

"I really need to think about this you guys. Dumbledore might have done some wrong things to Harry. But somehow I just can't be okay with stepping aside and letting a maniac destroy everything that I love. Even if two of the things I love the most are already in his possession."

"You're making a mistake, Remus. I hope you realize that."

With that Harry left the room. He was upset that Remus didn't want to stay with him. So Harry set out to find Severus. Draco was at the Malfoy Manor today, so Harry didn't have anyone to play with.

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"Severus?" Harry called "Are you here?"

Severus sighed as he heard the call echo from the doorway at the top of the stairs. The Dark Lord had been kind enough to set up a very nice lab for him in the cellar. He had a feeling that he already knew what Harry wanted.

"I am here!" He called back to Harry.

He heard Harry's footsteps on the stairs. So he cast a Stasis Charm on his current potion that was simmering and turned around to speak with Harry.

"Can I help you?" Severus asked.

"Remus doesn't want to stay with me." Harry blurted out.

Again Severus sighed internally. He had hoped against all hope that Lupin would somehow come to his senses and want to leave Dumbledore. He could see now that it was a false hope.

"I figured as much." Severus said.

"Why doesn't he want to stay?" Harry asked sadly

"I am afraid, Harry. That Dumbledore has told Lupin so many lies that he no longer has a clear picture of what is happening in our world. He no longer recognizes that there are shades of grey. Where you have been wise beyond your years, and learned such things with little help."

"Severus, I don't think you are on anybody's side anymore." Harry said.

"Indeed Harry. You are correct, that is what made me such an invaluable spy for many years. If you are only on your own side, you can travel easily between the Light and the Dark. It's how I learned to survive."

"Oh."

Was all Harry said to that.

Severus could see that Harry was thinking for the moment so he turned back to his potion. All the while he was wondering how Black was handling the situation upstairs. He had been pleased by the progress he had been able to make with Harry.

Never before had Severus thought it possible that he would ever actually care about Harry's mental well-being. Yet here he was having a sensible conversation with the boy, and helping him to get over some disappointments.

Harry himself didn't have anything further to say. So he curled up in the armchair he had adopted in Severus' lab to finish reading his book.

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Things were not going well for Sirius Black today. He and Remus had gotten into a huge fight after Harry had left the room. It all ended with Remus calling him a traitor, and Sirius storming out to his own room.

He had been trying to get Remus to see that what Dumbledore had told him was a lie, and that he would be safer if he took the Vow and stayed with Harry.

Remus had replied by screaming that Sirius was just an evil traitor that belonged back in Azkaban. From there the whole thing had gone downhill.

Sirius screamed into his pillow and punched his bed. He didn't know what he was going to do about Remus. All he knew, was he was staying with Harry no matter what. At this point Sirius would take the Dark Mark if it meant keeping Harry safe.

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Tom Riddle was chuckling as he looked at all the chaos he was going on in his Manor. From his private study he could survey his grounds and Manor through a modified Penseve he had acquired.

Through some very complicated spell work, it functioned like a Muggle security surveillance system.

He knew that having Harry here would bring all this sooner or later, but he didn't expect to be so entertained by it all.

All he knew now was that he had become attached to the boy. And nobody was going to take him away. He would most certainly kill anyone who tried.

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A/N: Well that's all for today boys and girls. I will try to get another one up soon. But I am in the process of moving so I apologize for the delays.