Chapter 4: Ch 2-Don't look in his eyes—Part 2
xxX Flashback Xxx
It was a dark alleyway and the moonlight was barely lighting the surroundings. I was there lying on the ground bleeding from a wound on my stomach, with my wand fallen out of my reach and Bellatrix was standing in front of me with a triumphant smile on her face.
"Well, get on with it. I don't have all day" I groaned out while looking at her with pure hate in my eyes.
But instead of moving to kill me, she sauntered toward me with a smirk and waved her wand. Instantly ropes were conjured around me and I was bound like a trussed-up turkey.
"Are you going soft on me, big sister Bella?" I said in a mocking voice, "Because I can assure you I will definitely kill you if I have the chance,"
She slowly knelt up right beside my face before she brought her hand up and then slapped me across the face, hard.
"Believe me, I want to cut open your blood traitor body into a thousand pieces," she said viciously" but unfortunately the Dark Lord needs you alive"
"What does that murdering psychopath want with me"
She slapped me again with the back of her hand, I could feel the blood in my mouth this time.
"Don't disrespect the Dark Lord with your filthy mouth," she snarled before she continued in a normal voice, "He needs the location where the potter's are hiding and as their pet, you definitely have that information,"
"Like hell! As if I would ever give that information to him," I shouted back to her defiantly.
"HA HA HA..." she cackled maniacally for a while before speaking in a baby voice, "Oh The Dark Lord will make baby Sirius speak before midnight,"
"I will never give in to his torture," I growled while gritting my teeth.
"Oh I am not speaking of torture," she said while shaking her head with a smile," I know that you would go insane before you give them up, but you see, the dark lord has ways to make you see things that you could never even imagine, he could make you live a whole life inside your mind without you ever noticing. By the time he is done playing with your mind, you will give that piece of information willingly, feeling as if you're helping the potter by doing so." she finished with a smirk.
For a moment there was genuine fear in my eyes, I was not afraid of death but if James, lily, or little harry died because of me then I could never forgive myself. I closed my eyes for a moment before taking a deep breath.
"There is one thing you didn't take into account," I said in a low voice.
"Oh... and what is that," she said in an indulgent tone.
"Voldemort doesn't know that..." I kept lowering my voice until she had to bend down to listen to me and then I bellowed, "I AM GRIM,"
I transformed into my animagus form instantly and jumped on her. I took a huge bite before I was blasted away with a bang. I turned around in the air so that I would land on my legs and took off running without wasting a single moment. Spells and curses came flying off from behind me, and two came awfully close to clipping me before I ran out of the alley. I didn't stop running until I was out of the Anti-Apparition line. I turned back into my human form and then while looking toward the furiously chasing Bellatrix, I apparated out.
xxX Flashback Xxx
"... I had nightmares for two days after that, of little harry, James, and Lily getting tortured by Voldemort, because of me. I realized it was not safe for me to be their secret keeper any longer. So the next day I went to Godric's Hollow to convince them to change their secret keeper from me to Peter as nobody would suspect him. He was not even in the order so he would be the perfect hidden piece while I would be the decoy," I took a deep breath before continuing in a dead tone while still staring at the wall blankly, "I may not have betrayed them but I may as well have served them on a silver platter to Voldemort by making them trust peter,"
It was quiet for a few moments with only the sound of wind beating against the window echoing inside the room. Dumbledore sighed after a while and asked in a tired voice.
"Why did you never try to break out?"
"The guilt of being the reason behind James and lily's death was eating away at me, I thought Azkaban was the only place where I could atone for that. And a few years down the line, if I even had the thought of breaking out, the dementors would come along and show me the memory of my friend's dead bodies and that would suck the motivation right out of me," I said in a tired voice.
"Why break out now?"
"I saw the traitor in a newspaper that fudge gave me," I bit out with venom, "he was masquerading as weasely's pet rat. I couldn't let him stay close to harry without doing anything, I had already failed his father, I couldn't fail him too. That was an emotion that the dementors couldn't suck out. I snuck out of the prison that night to kill the rat...," I said before turning my eyes toward the ceiling and laughing at myself in ridicule, "I couldn't even do that right, that traitor got away from me again,"
Dumbledore sat there for a few moments staring at nothing while rubbing his hands along the length of his beard before he abruptly stood up and walked toward the window.
"While I believe in your words, Sirius. I don't think that my words would be enough to dissuade Fudge from his desire to settle this matter quietly and quickly," Dumbledore said while looking out the window and counting something under his breath.
"Can harry or his friends not give a testimony to fudge,"
"I don't think a child's word would matter much against the words of a professor and we don't have enough time for me to persuade Severus from his decision."
"I am getting kissed because of Snivellus. Never thought I would say those words" I said self-deprecatingly.
"It's the thirteenth..." Dumbledore mumbled under his breath and abruptly turned away from the window to walk toward the door while speaking, "Now Sirius sit tight and wait. I will see if I can do something about your situation,"
He was almost out of the door before he turned back suddenly, "And one more thing, make sure to sit on the chair so that they can notice you,"
"Who is they?" I called after him but he was already gone.
I waited until I could no longer hear his footsteps before I exhaled in relief. It had been a nerve-racking conversation for me. While it helped that I was mostly speaking the truth it still took a bit of acting on my part. My feelings of guilt and sadness were a bit muted compared to Sirius's memories which were all-consuming.
I stood up, walked toward the chair, and sat on it facing the window. Now I just needed to wait for Harry and Hermione to rescue me, which felt somewhat weird even saying it in my head.
It felt like I was a damsel in distress stuck in her ivory tower while waiting for her hero to come and save her on his flying horse. I shuddered at the image.
A few minutes must have passed before I heard a sharp tap on the window. There they were, on the back of buckbeak flying outside the window with Hermione holding on to Harry for dear life. My jaws involuntary dropped at that sight.
I shook myself out of the stupor and hurriedly walked toward the window. I tried to open it, but it was locked.
"Stand Back!" I heard Hermione shout and immediately stood back from the window. For a moment, I was afraid she would blast the walls like in the movies but fortunately for me, she only unlocked it with the Alohomora charm.
The window sprang open while I looked at them in pretend shock.
"How... "
"Get on there's not much time. They are going to be here—" he was going to say more but I was already on it. I gripped the window on both sides and heaved myself out of it. I flung a single leg on buckbeak's back and pulled myself behind Hermione.
"Ok buckbeak, Up! Up to the tower—Come on!" Harry shouted
The hippogriff gave a mighty sweep of his wing and we were soaring through the air toward the top of the tower. I was only scared for a few seconds before exhilaration took hold of me. I had enough memories of Sirius flying in the air that I was not scared of the heights.
The flying horses landed with a clatter on the battlements, and Harry and Hermione slid off at once.
"Sirius you'd better go quick." Harry panted. "They'll reach Flitwick's office any moment and they'll find out your gone,"
"Harry, Hermione I don't how I could ever thank you enough..." I said while looking at them.
"You can thank us by going, GO! " Harry shouted anxiously.
"Ok ok," I said and handled buckbeak according to Sirius's memories to turn it around. Sirius had taken the Care of Magical Creatures as his optional subject so I had all the necessary information.
"I will write a letter after I've found a place to settle," I said while facing the open sky "I will definitely make it up to you Harry and you too Hermione"
I squeezed buckbeak's side with my heels and buckbeak immediately flapped his mighty wings and took off with a bit of a run-up. A couple of beats later and I was up in the air going into the clouds. When I looked back toward the tower I could make out their little silhouettes going back inside.
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