Thick Smoke

Teenagers

It was a few days later, at midnight when Eliza took Furvus and glowered at Willy on the way to the door. That old bird almost got her in trouble because he gave Snape the letter addressed to Sirius.

She was furious afterwards and kept throwing mean looks at the owl but he seemed quite proud of what he did.

Once she got outside, she got on her broom and flew into the dark night, hiding behind the clouds so that no muggle could see her. Earlier that week, she got a letter with the exact coordinates to a house, which she found out was a former hospital in the late 1800's that was rumored to be haunted. Newsham Park Hospital is one of the most terrifyingly haunted and oppressive locations, she read.

She arrived in Liverpool around an hour and a half later and landed right in front of the hospital. No one was around and from what she noticed people were too scared to wander the vicinity.

Eliza sneaked in through the window falling in the process on her face, scratching her neck slightly.

Walking down the corridor, she couldn't help but feel a bit scared. The doors were only slightly opened, enough for whoever was there to get the impression something was hiding in the shadows, waiting for the most opportune moment to jump and kill the innocent. Of course, that was only because human perception was thinking about the worst case scenario and would always imagine something diabolic where it wasn't. But Eliza was human and she was fairly young so she couldn't help the chill crawling up her back.

The wood cracked under her feet, though it seemed like the hospital was taken care of and remodeled, but she was alright; not horrified yet. The problem appeared when she stopped and the door on her right opened widely, uncovering who was behind it.

Something grabbed her wrist and she immediately screamed, "Aguamenti!"

A jet of water hit the perpetrator in the face yet she didn't even have a wand in her hand. He was wet from head to toe and Furvus crawled up his leg, plunging his fangs into his thigh. The perpetrator fell back and narrowed his eyes at the girl.

"Is that what they teach you at Hogwarts these days?" He grumbled before his eyes moved on the small black fur clinging on his thigh. Being a dog in some way, he couldn't help but glare at the cat and shrug him off his leg. "What is that?" He glowered at the hissing cat.

"Furvus," She responded, reaching out and helping him once she realized who she just attacked. "You didn't have to be so sneaky and scare me, dad."

Sirius had a few comments up his sleeve but when she called him dad everything in his mind vanished.

"How is Mooney? Howling at the full moon once a month?" Sirius asked after they entered a random room on the second floor.

"Sometimes twice. The weather has been very wicked lately so it has been harder on him and his moods. But everything else is fine." She responded like it wasn't a big deal.

It took them a while to get comfortable with each other but when that passed, Sirius started to tell Eliza more about his time at Hogwarts.

"Why does Snape hate Harry so much?" She suddenly asked, making Sirius laugh loudly.

"Snivelly hated James because of reasons that don't really matter." He started, remembering just how many fights he subjectively begun because of Snape (and maybe because of James too, but mainly because of Snape).

"Then why does he hate me?"

Sirius grinned as he scratched his head, "There was a misunderstanding and I almost killed him during a prank. Of course, I didn't realize just how bad it could turn out to be or else I wouldn't have done it."