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[meme] Test Drive

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Twenty-one. Well, twenty-two, really.

I did say it's difficult to believe.

You weren't talking to me! You kept running off without a word, gone for weeks or months at a time with absolutely no explanation. How were we to know what you were up to? Peter gravitates toward power, he always has. He has no spine, Remus. It's a wonder his Animagus form wasn't bloody bacteria.

I couldn't! Dumbledore had me meeting with dark creatures, trying to sway them to our side. But I wasn't allowed to tell anyone where I was going, because we had to assure their secrecy was save to get them to agree (even though mostly they refused). Believe me, I wish I could have told you.

So you're saying someone got to Peter, offered to protect him? I can't believe he'd be all right giving up James and Lily to save himself. How could he be okay with that?

Why would that be in secret? Why couldn't you tell us? Did Dumbledore really trust me so little?

Voldemort got to him. James and I... we decided to make Peter the Secret Keeper. It was bloody stupid, but we knew everyone would come after me so we changed tactics. Only Peter was already a Death Eater, he was just waiting for an opportunity and he took it.

It wasn't just you, Sirius. No one else in The Order knew. And it's obvious why Dumbledore chose me for the job.

You didn't know, you couldn't have. Peter, I know he never felt like he was exactly one of us, but he was our friend. We loved him.

I've spent the last year being angry with the wrong person, tearing my heart out about it.

Yes, but-- Sod it. I just wished I'd known is all. Might've prevented some things.

I've spent the last two months despising him, Remus. I'm not sure there's a bone in my body that can even remember how it felt to care for him.

So sure it was me, were you? I see.

Like you suspecting I was a traitor?

Up until a couple of hours ago I was mourning his death, and trying to make myself despise you. I'm not quite as good at forgetting as you are. Or maybe that's down to how I feel about you.

Everyone was sure, Sirius. And I was alone, I thought thanks to you. It was so easy for you to think I would side with the Death Eaters, being what I am, but you seem shocked that I would think that you might be sympathetic to their cause, knowing both your cousin and your younger brother were among Voldemort's ranks? Which, for the record, I never entirely believed until you were accused and committed to Azkaban for Peter's death.

Oh, I haven't forgotten a thing. I just see it all now in a much stronger light. And what are these feelings, Moony? You found it easy enough to lie to me for years; how difficult is it to forget our friendship?

Regulus wasn't, actually. Harry's told me that as well. Not all Blacks are scum, Remus Lupin. Only most of us.

I never lied to you apart from lies of omission, and only one of those was mine to tell. And I could never forget our friendship. I could barely stand the idea that you could be the one who sold Lily and James to the Dark Lord, that you could murder Peter so spectacularly. But that was the story that was told, that’s what the evidence apparently pointed to. I’ve spent the last year trying to convince myself I was wrong about you, that you were like your parents and your cousin, despite everything I knew to be the opposite.

You know they did this to us, Voldemort and his followers. They drove this wedge, made us doubt each other, made everyone so paranoid. And it worked.

Oh, I could have murdered Peter twice as spectacularly. I still would if given the chance.

You're saying you didn't believe it then? Not really.

Didn’t believe what? Sirius, you were my best friend. Everyone was gone, I didn’t…

Please tell me this is real, what you’re telling me now, that I haven’t just got my hopes up enough to be gullible about this.

I can tell you with absolutely no doubt that I didn't betray Lily and James, that if I had the power to magic back in time and never change Secret Keepers, I would. (And still kill Peter for good measure.)

After that... everything I know of Peter staging his death and killing those Muggles, about being locked up and for over a decade, of Regulus not being a Death Eater after all, that's all stuff Harry's told me. I believe him, or at least I want to believe him. That's all I can say.

Thank you, Sirius. I’m sorry for doubting you, now and back then, too. Things had just fallen apart so much, and we weren’t talking, and then James and Lily… I don’t think I’ll get to stay here, but I don’t want to go back there. I don’t.

To be honest, I can't say I entirely blame you. I've always been a prat, why wouldn't you doubt all the evidence. Particularly given my dear family.

Why can't you stay? This place is dull as anything, Moony, but it's a good deal better than prison, probably better than anything Dumbledore still has you out doing. Stay, will you?

I don’t think I get a choice. But I don’t have anything back there. I live in a tumbledown cottage in Muggle Yorkshire and do odd jobs until I get sacked for missing too much work during the full moons. I don’t have you, I don’t have James and Lily, I don’t even have Harry. I want to stay here, with you, and James. And Harry, grown up Harry. I don’t want to go back to being alone.

Perhaps there's some kind of binding spell. Or even a potion. We'll figure something out, we always do.

Well. In light of recent events, I suppose that's not quite true. But there must be something. I can't lose you again.

You’re right, though. We always used to be good at making things follow our rules. Why not this too?

Exactly! We'll find a way. Even if it takes another three years. We've the time now, haven't we?

What happens if I disappear? Do you think I could come back again?

I don't know. I haven't seen it, if I'm honest. There must be a way though; I'll work on it, Moony. Don't you worry.

I'll work on the not worrying bit. You know how I am.

Well, I suppose one must and you worry enough for the lot of us.

That has always been my job too, hasn't it?

To worry? Well, to be fair, you've always been very good at it. Sometimes even with good reason.

One of us had to. It was the only thing that kept you and James from getting expelled.

I can't even argue that, honestly. Though at times, I did wonder if you'd have rather we were.

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