All eyes darted to the front of the room where Dumbledore entered. “I have called you all here today, you must know it is not to assign missions. As you all know, we have reason to believe there is a spy among us and we will all be taking veritaserum. We will not ask any too personal questions but we will make everyone take it with everyone else present. Just for precautions.”
There’s murmur about the room and Sirius’ eyes dart directly to Remus. They've both already taken it to themselves when a certain argument got too far, so he knows the reason Remus is wringing his hands is not because he's the spy, but most likely because not everyone knows he's a werewolf. Sirius feels a sudden wave of protectiveness over the boy he walks across the room towards him.
“Hey, you alright?” He asks softly. “Yea yea ‘course” Sirius cocks an eyebrow and Remus lets out a puff of air, “Okay no, what if they find out about Moony, or you three. Or us?”
“To hell with them if they treat any of us differently for any of that. They need us more than we need them. Don't stress about it, love.” Sirius puts what he hopes is a comforting hand on his shoulder. Remus merely nods and they both have to pay attention to Moody who is starting to call out names to drink a vial.
Sirius studies everyone in the room barely registering the names being called until James nudges him and ushers him forward. He is told to drink the vial in front of both Albus and Dumbledore and grimaces at the taste. “Okay you can go now.” Moody grunts. Sirius nods and walks back towards Remus, James, Lily, and Peter.
James smirks, “I've got a question for you, would you snog me?” Lily and Remus snort and burst into guffaws when with a complete straight faceSirius replies, “I think I'd rather marry Narcissa like I was supposed to.” James pokes his tongue out and they end up falling into an unsettling silence, probably all studying people in the room like he is doing. Sirius is on complete edge; he doesn't realize how quiet Peter is being and how ill he appears.
ooOoo
“Edgar Bones!” Dumbledore exclaims motioning for him to take a seat in the middle of the room. “I'm going to ask you a couple of questions and you're going to answer them fast, hopefully because this will take a while.”
“Alright Sir” Bones says with his chin raised high looking Dumbledore in the eye.
“What is your name?”
“Edgar Bones”
“What was your last mission?”
“Patrol with Fabian outside Malfoy Manor”
“Right, do you know who the spy is in this room?”
“Of course not”
“Are you the spy?”
“No”
“Very well you're cleared. Sirius Black! You're up.” Sirius takes a deep breath and walks over to the middle of the room. He can't help but be intimated with him feeling so vulnerable and everyone staring down at him.
“What is your full name?”
“Sirius Orion Black, sir.” he grimaces at the mention of his middle name because he feels like it still ties him down to his parents but he feels like Dumbledore altered the question for that reason.
“What was your last mission?”
“Patrolling with James in Hogsmeade” Thinking back to it he smiles because the mission had ended uneventfully and they got absolutely plastered at Hog’s Head.
“Do you know who the spy is in this room?”
“No, sir”
“Are you the spy?”
“Fuck no”
“Thank you Mr. Black you're cleared.” Sirius stands and is too busy looking everyone else in the eye, with his chin raised and chest puffed out, because he proved everyone wrong. He is not his family. He is too busy making a statement that he doesn't see Peter sweating, biting his nail behind James.
“Caradoc Dearborn”
“Dedalus Diggle”
“Elphias Doge”
“Abeforth Dumbledore”
“Benjy Fenwick”
“Arabella Figg”
“Mundungus Fletcher”
“Hagrid”
“Alice Longbottom”
“Frank Longbottom”
“Remus Lupin”
Sirius focuses as Remus walks forward and sits in the middle of everyone. He notices Remus has managed to make his face blank and unreadable, but Sirius isn't fooled when he sees Remus picking at the skin around his nails, he's terrified.
“Okay Mr. Lupin, what is your name?”
“Remus John Lupin.”
“What was your last mission?”
Remus lets out a breath of relief, “There was a raid on Malfoy Manor, I was with Fenwick and Lily.”
“Do you know who the spy is?” “no.”
“Are you the orders spy?”
“No, sir”
“Thank you Mr Lupin.” Remus stands and makes his way towards Sirius already looking much better than he did before. As he sits beside him Sirius squeezes his knee and offers a comforting smile that is returned, and god does he love that smile that goes with his boyfriends kind eyes.
The next name brings them out of their little bubble and they put their attention solely on them.
“Ms. Meadowes, what is your full name”
“Dorcas Meadowes”
“What was your last Mission?”
They look up to meet Dumbledore's eye, “You asked me to go and find out where Voldemort is currently stationed at.”
“Right, okay do you know who the spy is?”
“No, I don't.”
“Thank you, alright Ms. McKinnon!”
Sirius watches one of his best friends walk towards the same chair they've all sat in, throwing a wink over her shoulder at him. “McKinnon, what is your name?
“Marlene McKinnon” he nods, “what was your last mission?”
“I went with Dorcas to find out where Voldemort is.”
“Do you know who the spy is?” “no”
“Are you the spy?” She lifts her chin and Sirius notices she looks Dorcas in the eye. “No”
Sirius can feel all tension leave his shoulder because at least he now knows none of his friends are the traitors, he knows he was able to trust everyone, he feels completely at ease because someone is going to get caught and it won't be any of his friends.
That is until…“Peter Pettigrew” as Sirius watches his friend make his way towards the middle of the room he suddenly sees Peter visibly shaking and looking awfully pale. Sirius cocks his brow and turns to James who looks absolutely oblivious, but when he makes eye contact with Lily and Remus he knows this is odd.
“Mr. Pettigrew, what is your name?
“Peter Pettigrew” he squeaks
“What was your last mission?”
“To come to this meeting” at this confused murmurs go around the room but Dumbledore continues to hush them all. Sirius is inching forward from the nerves.
“Do you know who the spy is?”
“Yes. “
“Peter, are you the spy?”
“Yes, and I'm not sorry.”
Suddenly there are yells and swears going all around him, the look of utter shock and betrayal on his boyfriend and best friends faces. So much emotion, hurt and confusion, that Sirius can't stop the spell from leaving his lips and can only watch as the spell hits Peter and suddenly the boy he used to cry too, is on the ground writhing in pain.