The moon and the stars

1. The escape

He hadn't eaten for days. His body was extremely thin, and his face was all pale. He was a breathing skeleton. A black, hooded figure came by. Through the bars, the man looked at it. Bloody thing. He hated those dementors with his whole heart.
They make you see everything in black. The only reason he wasn't gone insane, was the thought of his moony, and the child of his best friend. When James and Lily Potter died, three years ago, he was furious. He knew Peter had betrayed him, so he did the only thing he could think of: he tried to kill Peter.
But Peter blew up the whole street, and escaped. As everyone only saw him, they sentenced him to Azkaban, and Peter was still free. But this was the day, he would break out. He would kill Peter. Maybe he would get sentenced to Azkaban again after that, maybe not, but if he would go, than with the idea that Peter wasn't free either. And that was enough.

The hooded figure came by again. Now, This was the moment. When the dementer would be out of side, he could go. He took a deep breath. The dementor rounded the corner. Quikly he turned himself into a black dog.
The dog was extremely thin. He went through the bars. He only thought of moony. He thought of his amber colored eyes. His scars, and his brown hair. He could walk past the dementors now. He felt the feeling of them, but it didn't matter anymore. It was way to easy to walk out. He simply walked past the dementors, but they didn't saw him. He wasn't scared. They only smelled fear. He didn't had fear. He would be free in a couple of minutes. He started to run.

In two minutes he reached the doors. He took a breath. His last breath in Azkaban.
Then he run out. He smelled the sea air. Huge waves soaked him, but that didn't matter. He was free! He ran to a tunnel, which went under the sea to a safer island. You could get a boat there, and then you just had to sail to the shore. There wasn't much security, because most of the prisoners went insane after a couple of weeks.

When he walked out of the tunnel, he saw an island. He saw a white beach, with a dark sea. The sky was dark, the stars were shining brightly. He smelled the salty sea air. He laughed out loud. He was free! He escaped from the prison were no one could escape from. He yelled: 'I'm free! I'm free!' And he laughed like a lunatic. He stood there for a time. He didn't know how long, could be hours, could be minutes or seconds, he didn't know. After that he walked to the boats. He grabbed the first one, and set off to safe shore.

The boat was being stopped by the sand. He got out of the boat, and pushed the boat back in the water. He was in England. He was stranded on save shore, and now he wanted to hide his steps. If the ministry found a boat of Azkaban, on sea with no one in it, they might think he drowned.
He needed a wand. Or a broom. But how would he get one? He didn't even know where he was, how could he ever go to moony's house? If he could apparate, it was easy, but he needed a wand for that. First he had to look where he was. Maybe he was nearby moony's house. He walked for a bit, until he saw bords to a muggle city: Yorkshire! That was where moony lived! The only problem was that it still was fifteen km from here. He didn't really had a choice. So he started to walk...

He watched the stormy weather through his window with a big cup of hot chocolate. Only a idiot would go out there. He walked back to the couch, and turned the radio on. A man spoke:
"... And that was the weather for today. Then, news from Azkaban, mass murderer Sirius Black has escaped! It isn't known how he did it. The ministry advised people who lived nearby the prison not to go outside, or only when there is no other way. Sirius Black was arrested 3 years ago, for...'

He stared in the distance. He escaped. And for him it was clear where he would go, he would kill him too! Just like he did to James, Lily and Peter. He grabbed his wand. Let him come, he thought, let's see who is gonna kill who. But then his thoughts went to a different direction. The boy, Harry! Sirius wants to kill him, he had to get to the house of Lily's sister, before Sirius would get there. He grabbed his coat, and walked to the door. Then he saw him. A dark figure, soaked wet, with black, wild hair. Sirius Black. He grinned. So Sirius wanted to kill him before that boy, what an honour.

'Moony, are you home?' he heard him say. He dispised him. He sounded like he just came for a coffee, instead of killing him. He realised that Sirius didn't care about who lived and who didn't. He could kill his best friend and his ex-boyfriend without even care. 'Yes, I'm home, come and try to kill me you coward!' he yelled back through the door. He heard laughing. 'Kill you? Why would I?' That idiot thinks I'm stupid, he thought, like I would open the door now and greet him like my best friend. 'For the same reason you killed Peter, and betrayed Lily and James!' The boy on the other side stayed silent.

After a while he talked, his voice trembling. 'Moony... I didn't kill Peter, he isn't dead! And Peter betrayed Lily and James! Not me! Please believe me!' Now it was his turn to laugh. 'I am not stupid Sirius, there were eye witnesses, they saw you blow up the street, and after that Peter was gone! You killed him, how could you?!'
He felt that Sirius was getting mad. Good. Let him be made, let him be mad before he dies. He realised that something in him was screaming to open the door. His old innocence maybe. The other side was also screaming to open the door, but for another reason. His new bitterness probably.

'I didn't kill Peter! I wish I had, that little traitor! But I'll kill him now! He betrayed them to Voldemort!' Remus breathed heavily. Nice way to spend your Saturday, having a conversation with a mass murderer. 'You were the secret keeper!' 'No Remus, I made James change it to Peter, I was afraid Voldemort was after me, everyone with a tiny amount of brains would expect me to be secret keeper!'
Remus froze. It could be true. But there was one thing he wanted to know. 'If that would be true, why not me? Why Peter?'

He froze. This was the question he hoped not to get. He couldn't tell Remus. He couldn't tell that it was because of his "fury little problem".
He had to lie. 'You would be second choice for Voldemort, after he would have tried me, he would come to you. Peter was the last one of the marauders Voldemort would suspect.'
He waited. 'Please moony, I am innocent, I swear!'
'give me your wand.' He sighted. 'They took it in when I came in Azkaban.' 'Empty your pockets.' Sirius took everything out of his pocket. A little stone, some papers and a bracelet with a wolf on it. The door opened a little bit.
Remus was careful enough to not show himself. 'Turn around.' He did as Remus asked. 'Come in with your hands up.' Again he did as Remus said. He walked in, with his hands in the air. He had to trust Remus now. If he wanted, he could get the ministry here this second. He didn't had a choice. He needed a wand to kill Peter.

Then he saw Remus. He looked the same, but at the same time he didn't. There wasn't a sign of a smile on his mouth, and his eyes were darker than he remembered. He also had a lot more scars. 'Moony!' he laughed. 'What do you want?' Remus asked cold. 'Moony?' he asked confused. 'I said, what-do-you-want?' This wasn't going as he planned. He had thought that moony would believe him. Now he stood there, with his hands up and a wand pointed at him.
'I want to talk, I need your help to kill Peter, I came to convince you that I'm innocent, and I came to talk about Harry.' 'I won't tell you where he is.' he frowned his eyebrows. 'Why not?' a cold smile reached Remus' face. 'I am not a traitor.' Sirius sighted. 'When are you gonna believe it: me neither! Peter betrayed them, what can I do to convince you?' Remus pointed with his wand to the coach. 'At first tell me the story, we'll see what comes after that.' He sat down. 'Now, what happened, lets start with the mcKinnons, did you killed Marlene and her family?' 'no I did not, I don't know who did, but my money is on Peter, as they were clearly betrayed.' Remus nodded. 'The Potters, tell me everything about it.'

Sirius looked down. He never had to talk about it to someone before. 'When James and Lily got into hiding, they made me secret keeper. I made them change it to Peter, because I thought that was saver.
It was the day after Halloween, and I just came back from a mission for the order of the Phoenix. I went to their house, and when I came there, the whole house... It was awful. Everything was destroyed. It was early in the morning, so no one was there yet. I was preparing for the worst, and when I came in, I saw James lying on the ground, with his eyes open. I knew what happened, and I broke down. I thought everyone died, but then I heard crying.

A baby. Careful I walked upstairs, and in Harry's room I saw Lily. She had probably tried to protect Harry until the last second, as she was lying before Harry. Harry lived, and had a weird lighting scar on his forehead. I took him in my arms and cried for at least an hour. Then I heard someone coming up the stairs. I took my wand, and placed Harry behind me. The door opened, and Hagrid came in. I lowered my wand, and Hagrid said to me that Dumbledore wanted to bring Harry to his aunt and uncle. I refused, and said that I was his godfather, so that I would take care of him. Hagrid didn't gave in, and told me that Dumbledore had a reason for it.

After a while I gave in. I gave Hagrid my motor bike, and he brought Harry to Dumbledore. That's all I know.' Remus looked down too. 'What happened with Peter?' his voice trembled slightly.

'I knew that Peter was secret keeper, and that he had betrayed James. So I wrote an owl to him, about how terrible it all was. I acted like I didn't know that he had betrayed them. I asked him if he could meet me in Londen, and he showed up. I confronted him, and we both took our wand. He blew up the whole street, killed a bunch of muggles, chopped off his finger, and changed into a rat.'

Remus stayed silent. He looked in the distance, and nodded a couple of times. 'Alright... So, are you certain that Peter is the betrayer?'
Sirius nodded. 'He told me himself, he said that we always treated him like he was useless, and that he wanted revenge, can you believe it? He killed James because we weren't paying enough attention to him!'
Remus nodded again.
'Alright, I believe you.'

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