Here's chapter four.
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A few days later, Sirius was walking down a street when he noticed a large crowd. There was black smoke billowing out from a burning house.
Sirius pushed through the crowd. Someone was crying for help from the burning house. He rushed forward.
"No! Mr. White, you'll be killed in the fire!" someone cried. Sirius kept running, passing Snape.
Inside the building, there was falling debris. He quickly headed towards the voice. In a room on the ground floor, the voice was calling for help from inside a closet which was blocked by debris. Sirius shifted the debris so he could open the door, wincing as it singed his hands. Having left his wand at his house, he had to resort to using his hands.
Upon opening the door, he saw a small child. He picked the child up, raced out of the room and out of the burning house.
When he arrived outside, he set the child down as the crowd cheered.
"Impressive!" someone said. "He did that in less than 5 minutes!"
When Snape heard that sentence, he remembered something. When he knew Sirius Black in school, he had been very quick. Now that he thought about it, Mr. White did look a lot like Black. The entire reason he'd stationed himself in the Muggle police force was to find Sirius Black.
"Has he always been this quick?" Snape asked the person who called Sirius's feat impressive.
"I don't know; this is the first time I've seen him do that kind of thing."
"Excuse me, Mr. White? You make me think of one other, who was this quick. But it's impossible."
"Who? Go on, say what you must," Sirius said.
"He's a prisoner who broke his parole. He's been 10 years on the run. We've just found him and he's been rearrested. He denies it, but that's expected, of course. He comes to court tomorrow. He couldn't run forever, not even Sirius Black!"
Sirius's stomach lurched.
"And--you're positive it really him?"
"Yes. There's no doubt about it," Snape answered. "I must go now, if you'll excuse me..."
Snape left as the fire trucks arrived to put out the fire.
Sirius stared after him.
Snape thought a stranger was him. Sirius didn't know what to do. Was he really going to let an innocent person go to Azkaban in his place? He didn't want that to happen.
Yet if Sirius himself was arrested, what would happen to his employees? And Lily? Lily was quickly fading, although she tried to hide it.
Unless there was some way to admit he was Sirius Black, escape before they could arrest him, and get back to Lily to help her and her daughter Ginny. If he managed that it'd be a miracle.
But there was no other alternative. He turned towards his home to pack-he needed to be prepared for tomorrow.
