“What the hell is so funny ?” Sirius angrily asks the witch in holding. He didn’t want to be here to face her, no in fact he’d rather babysit Harry then be here to interrogate the damn witch.
In the witch in question shrugs, “here I was living peacefully till you buffoons kidnapped me in broad daylight at my own home,”
Sirius scoffs, “You? living peacefully ? Did you wake up on the floor or did the elves poison your morning tea ?
“I’m not the one who trespassed onto someone else territory and broke through the wards”
“The wards were weak,”
“The wards were bounded by blood runes,”
Sirius doesn’t reply, she was right. The wards were a different type of wards that had been casted with blood, a dark ritual. It was how he broke the wards in the after firing countless of spells and realizing basic counter spells weren’t working and it was basically his grandparents estate so of course his ancestors were gonna be crazy mad to do blood wards.
“Why am I really here ? Didn’t think you have in you to kidnap someone from their own home,”
“….”
The witch tilt her head, “ nothing to say, wow the infamous Sirius black has nothing to say”
“Will you just shut your mouth before I silence you myself”
“What’s stopping you ?”
“I need answers,”
“You ?”
“We” Sirius says, he was leaning against the wall from where the witch was at. Sirius knew what she was capable of which was why he was the one on watch.
“ hmm,”
“You're not curious?” Sirius ask,
“ I am, but at some point later on your are all gonna ask away and you need me to answer so why the haste ?”
“You’d have to answer truthfully,”
“I’ll answer what I choose to answer,”
“LYRA”
“Sirius”
“Can you be serious for just a damn moment ?”
“Dear Merlin, I like to politely decline. I’d rather die than to be you for the moment,”
Sirius gritted his teeth in annoyance, the witch, Lyra, after a long time knew how to tick him off. Sirius had thought after how many years he would’ve been a changed person but the way his sister seems to be getting under his skin made him realize other wise,
“ if we didn’t need you, i would hex you right now,”
Lyra smirks, “you can try, but we both know your hex would do no damage,”
Sirius rolls his eyes at that. Before he can respond back, he hears the door open from behind him, he turns to see James sticking his head in,
“Oh good, you both haven’t killed each other yet,”
“Yet sounds about right,” Lyra says back to potter. She was leaning against the wall now. Opposite from Sirius but in front of him.
James gives her a wide grin which earned a scoff from Lyra. Coming into the room where they were holding her hostage. Right behind him was Remus who thrown a soft smile to Sirius and Sirius replied by giving a smile back. The small actions doesn’t go unnoticed by Lyra who was watching the two.
“Black,” James greeted Lyra once he fully entered the room,
“Potter, Lupin” Lyra greet back with disdain evident in her tone,
“I’d say it’s great to see you, but you’d think otherwise,” James says, chuckling a bit.
Lyra doesn’t know how many times she had rolled her eyes, she did it anyways once more.
“We just needed to ask some questions and we were hoping you had some answers” James tells her,
“And you could’ve just owled me ?” Lyra ask,
“You were a hard person to find, and we weren’t sure if you’d be truthful by your words” lupin spoke up,
“Hard is the key word Lupin, should’ve looked for someone else.”
“Oh trust me, your weren’t the first we were trying to look for,” Sirius spoke up in an arrogant tone
“ not surprise,”
“What the hell do you mean by that ?” Sirius ask her, leaning away from the wall he was leaning on,
“ Is that your question?”
“No”
“Yes”
“Pads, please” Lupin softly says, going up to him, “ we need to start before someone notice she’s missing,”
Lyra observed the two and she didn’t like what she was seeing, she knew her brother had preferred the same sex and she didn’t mind. The two obviously go way back seeing how inseparable they were back in school along with Potter and Pettigrew, But Lupin doesn’t match her brother if Lyra was to be honest. Sirius has an obsession and possessive streak, even if he doesn’t realize it himself. Lyra knows that the two would just clash with each other.
Lupin would have his problems with him being a wolf while Sirius would try his utter best to make sure Lupin doesn’t face his problem alone. Which is fine really as a friend, but as a lover continuously trying to make sure one doesn’t go down will drain you without realizing it. Lyra doesn’t see Sirius as someone who’d get drained by mere problems, he wasn’t an emotion first type, no her brother was more of actions first, words seconds and then feelings.
Yeah, Sirius has an obsession and it was with meek slender weak types. Lupin happens to fit in that description but it’s only because he’s available and inlove with her brother. The sad part about it is that her brother loves him to but not as much as he loved another.
“Your right, okay fine but we’re not even sure if she’ll answer truthfully,” Sirius tells them
“She will, but only if it’s you asking them,” Lupin tells him, looking to Lyra who had a raise eyebrow in question,
“ you seems confidence that I will,”
“Fire away pads,” James says, signaling Sirius to start off,
Sirius sighs, not having any other choice, he looks directly at his sister and what should’ve been an Older version of his sister, he sees a younger one. The same one who had grew up with, who had look up to him who in her eyes, can do no wrong.
“Pads,”
Sirius shakes off his thoughts, “ what did you do after graduation,”
Lyra looks confused but answered anyway “ I applied as a trainee healer at St Mungo's hospital.”
“Where did you stay?”
“At grandfather's place, le vauquiedor manor”
“Why there?”
Lyra gave him are you joking look, “you casted everyone out of grimmauld, blocked out every floo and hide the damn place with a fidelius charm,”
“ oh, so that was you trying to get in,”
“I shouldn’t even been trying, that was my home not yours,”
“ yeah well, seeing how it called me back means it’s mine and was always going to mine, your were suppose to be married off by that time,” Sirius retorts,
Lyra took in deep breaths trying not to get angry, “ that was my home, the same home where you ran away from, mind I remind you. You ran away not me,”
“ you-”
“Sirius,” james called him, “ your going off topic,”
“Right, what did you after you finished your trainee internship,”
“I applied at the branch hospital closer to grandfather's place,”
Sirius looked at James and Remus and they both nodded in along with the answers Lyra was giving them, she was telling the truth.
“Where's reggie?”
Lyra narrowed her eyes at Sirius, “ you DON’T get to call him that after outing him during graduation,
“ please that wasn’t even a secret,”
“Mother and father didn’t know until you opened your bloody mouth,”
“Mother adored reggie, ain’t no way she would’ve laid her wand on him,”
“…. Wow, I didn’t think you’d be this stupid but you actually are,” Lyra let out a dry laugh, “how in the world are you still alive if you were this stupid?”
“Black,” James had called out to her, warning her to shut up but Lyra paid him no attention,
“You want to know what happened after you outed him. We left, we left without celebrating like all the other families were, because no matter how much mother had adored Reggie she couldn’t let her favored son be a lay. No absolutely not, not her Regulus. Instead of letting him go out to celebrate with his housemates, she had to get him to be one who orders the lay, the man on top and you insolent idiotic bloody idiot caused him his virtue.”
“So no, you don’t deserve to call him Reggie, you lost that right when you abandoned us for your saint potter and when you betrayed him”
“You’re … your lying” was the only thing Sirius muttered out, speechless as he looked at his sister.
“ I’m not, you wished I was because then you wouldn’t feel guilty would ya ?” Lyra threw him an angry look before looking away.
“Black,” Remus was about to reprimand Lyra but wasn’t able as Sirius bolted out the room without saying anything else,
“Sirius” Remus called out after him, looking back at James. James nods his head to go after him and Remus gives him a grateful half smile,
“You just had to drop that on him,” James turned back to Lyra who shrug
“He deserved it,”
“No, he doesn’t. He’s been through a lot black,” James tells her,
Lyra scoffs, “ and there he is, saint potter. It’s no wonder Sirius opened up to you.”
“Look, we’ve both known your childhood lives haven’t been rainbows and flowers and I'm Sorry for that. I’m sorry that your parents couldn’t be the parents you’d wish they were and that Sirius ran away from you and regulus but I’m not sorry for being there for Sirius when he need someone,”
Lyra looked at James, “ my parents were not at fault with how Sirius chose to act, that’s all Sirius. I don’t know why you're apologizing or do I need your apologies. Sirius is Sirius and you may think you know my brother better than I do, but you don't. Your saint caringness may work with Sirius but it won’t work with me, just if I were you get on with your questions before I choose to not answer at all”
James sighs, this is not turning out how it was suppose to turn out. Sirius was suppose to ask the questions and she tells them what she knows. After that they use her to find Regulus but after the bombshell black dropped, James doesn’t know if Sirius can’t face Lyra after that.
“Where’s Regulus, do you know where he is ?” James ask, not sure if Lyra was gonna answer trufthfully,
“I do,” she truthfully stated, “but I won’t say where he is,”
“You have to,” James tells her,
“Why ?”
“We believe he …” James looked at Lyra straight in the eye, “ he might be in danger, he has something that he shouldn’t have and we need it,”
“Are you talking about the necklace ?”
James has his eyes widened in shock, “ how?”
“Kreacher appeared to me one day in hysterics. Couldn’t say a proper sentence till I ordered him to bring me where regulus was at, I found him almost submerged in the lake”
“ I’m sorry,”
“ the lake was filled of inferi,”
“…..”
“ long story short, the necklaces is gone, it’s been destroyed”
James shook his head, “do you even know what the necklace was ? You couldn’t destroy it that easily, it’s not possible.”
Lyra shakes her head, “ I’m not an idiot potter, I knew what that necklace was. Regulus told me. A simple fiendfyre did the trick after countless tries mind you,”
“ a fiendfyre ? You casted a fiendfyre ?” James ask incredulously, he couldn’t decide if he was impressed or scared.
“ casted right in the cave and well, not sure if the cave survived but don’t really care. Regulus is alive in the end,”
James looked at his mate's sister as if she grew a second head. She was saying it as if it was no big deal. She had really no clue at what she had done,
“I need to let dumbledore know,” he muttered to himself, but was loud enough for Lyra to hear.
“ Does that mean I can go now ?”
“No,”
“Your joking,”
“ I’m not, I’m sorry we made you assume we’d let you go if you told us the truth but we can’t. Destroyed or not, we still need Regulus and his help.”
“Potter, I will throttle you if I wasn’t trapped. Let me go and we can all pretend you idiots didn’t kidnapped me from my own home,”
James took a step back, “ I’m sorry” he tells her and turns his back on her, heading to the door,
“Potter, let me out this instant, Potter ! Sirius you idiot, let me out of here” was the last thing he had heard before shutting the door behind him.