Chapter 1
The cold, autumn wind hitted his feet, as Remus Lupin sat on wooden chair drawing another map. It wasn´t like he was any good at it, nor did he understand it, but it was his job. And even though it was boring and Remus felt like falling asleep at any given minute, he was glad that this map was his last job for tonight. He was a mapmaker, which would have maybe been exciting if he could actually make the maps, not just re-draw the ones that were already made. Even though Remus was bored to death, he understood why was his job the most simple one. Remus was weak, not by his physical form, he could throw a punch to protect himself or even win a fight, the problem was that Remus was always ill. Since he was a litlle kid. He remembered growing up, making his mother worried by not eating enough, constantly complaining abut his head hurting and feeling the suddent waves of tiredness in the middle of the day. His mum was a good person and Remus will forever remember her with love.
"You are still working on that?"Remus heard someone shout at him. It was Frank Longbottom, one of the actually important mapmakers.
"Yes, unfortunatly ,I still am" murmured Remus. "But I will finish it soon"
Remus liked Frank, he was nice and he actually understood Remus. "Saints Remus, You look like a corpse! Go to sleep or atleast take a break, I will finish this for you."
"I don´t need your help Frank" murmured Remus while he continued to draw the map. "Cmon Remus don´t be stubborn!"
Remus eventually gave in and made his way to an old bench, where he usually met Sirius. Sirius Black was his best friend, he always have been. They happend to meet as children due to the fact that they lived close to each other. Sirius was always bold and extroverted, so when he found six year old Remus collecting some random rocks he immiadetely decided to join him. Since then they started to meet up on the meadow that was neir their houses. Sirius would often bring his little brother Regulus to play with them. Everything was okay until Sirius´s parents found out about their meetings. They never liked Remus or his mum (Remus douped that they ever really liked anyone) so they told Sirius to stop being friend with him. But Sirius didn´t listen to them and continued being Remus´s friend, only thing that have really changed was the fact that he would never bring Regulus anymore.
They continued with those secret meetings until one day, few days after his thirteen birthday, Sirius didn´t come to the spot. Remus waited for him for what fell like hours but then he eventually gave up and went home. Nothing happend till the next day evening. Remus was reading his book at the living room, while his mum washed the dishes from dinner. Then suddently they heard agressive knocking on the door. When Remus opened them Sirius standed there all shaken up. As soon as he saw Remus he thrown himself into his arms.
"I couldn´t handle it anymore" Sirius said quitly.
Remus soon understood. Sirius run away from his family that night, which led to him to being disowned. Only time he ever heard from them again was when he found out that his brother runned of to Ketterdam. So Sirius lived with him now, which was great by all means, but it also made Remus relise many things.
They lived happily for half an year. Until Remus´s mother, which got really close to Sirius, got really sick. Unfortunatly this led to her death. So Remus did not only loose his mother at fourteen he also lost his home. Since neither he or Sirius were adults they couln´t stay on their own. So that´s how they ended up here. Sirius was obviously more healthly then Remus so he got different job. He was a tracker. And saits that it was Sirius´s cup of tea. He ,unlike Remus, was really good at his job. Which let to his popularity to grow, while Remus kind of stayed in the corner. Even though Sirius find new friends, flirted with everyone and enjoyed the anttention, he never forgot to have extra time for Remus.
As Remus sat on the bench and thought about the most random things, everything kept getting quiter and calmer. After a while Remus thought Sirius couldn´t make it tonight. As he almost gave up, and listened to Franks advice to go to sleep, he heard steps coming in his way. As he turned around, he saw smilling Sirius walking toward him.
"Hey, sorry I am late, had to do some extra job" said Sirius as he made himself comfortable on the bench next to Remus.
"It´s okay" Remus aswered as he felt sting of quilt for not even finishing his normal job.
They started lightfull conversation about their day. Sirius told him about the thing which was his group trying to find today while Remus told him about the terrible map.
“Do you know that tomorrow there will be a boat shipped to cross the fold?” blurted Sirius out of nowhere. “There is a small chance that they will choose me to go”
“You would wanna go?”
“I mean not necessarily, but aren’t you curious about what’s in there?” No, Remus was, in fact, not curious. The fold was a dark place, scar on a map. It was created years ago by one powerful grisha from the Riddle family. The only family that had grisha with the power of darkness. The myth says that to destroy the fold you need a sunsummoner, which still hasn’t been found.
“Not really” scoffed Remus. “And you shouldn’t be either, that place is creepy!”
“Cmon Moony what even is the chance, they are gonna choose me?” Moony was a nickname that Sirius give him when they were children. Remus wasn’t sure why, they had been watching moon one day and Sirius just called him that. Since that the nickname kinda sticked.
“Hopefully small, I wouldn’t want you leave me here! All alone and miserable!” said Remus dramaticly as he laughed a bit.
“Oh C’mon! You would manage!” scoffed Sirius as he slightly hitted Remus’s arm. “Beside I would come back to you, as always”
Remus just nodded and laughed at that, not knowing what to say. He knew that if they choose Sirius there would be high chance of never seeing him again.
“Well guess we will have to wait till tomorrow morning to find out!” said Sirius. “I am tired, so I am going to sleep now.”
“Okay! Goodnight!”
“Goodnight!” Said Sirius and slowly started to walk away. “Oh and Remus! Be there for the choosing!” shouted Sirius at last.
“Of course!”
With that Remus felt his own tiredness and went to bed.