Chapter 102 - 102- innocent’s regrets

Sirius's POV

As a child, Sirius used to love the rain.

The sound of the water drops dripping down.

Running with Regulus out as they played together.

Coming cold and wet from outside into the house with the fireplace heating the house.

Yes, Sirius used to love the rain.

Now though?

Now the rain only triggers one, twelve years long memory for him.

Azkaban, the land of despair and rain, where the only sounds you hear are the screams of the other inmates, if you don't count the voices in your head.

So, even though his plan wasn't in place yet, even though he didn't get the password to the tower, nor did he manage to find out which bed and room did the redheaded boy whose pet he is trying to kill sleep in, Sirius couldn't wait anymore, not with the rain, not with the dementors nearby, not with this night being the night when almost everybody he loved betrayed him twelve years ago.

So, as the castle became quiet, and everyone slept, Sirius sneaked into the castle from the secret entry near the Black Lake, one that he found 15 years ago, the last day he was at this castle, the last day of his seventh year, the last day he ever spoke to Reggie.

Flashback

As Sirius came near the potions class room he saw the one who sent him the note asking for a meeting, his younger brother, Regulus Arcturus Black

"I came, didn't I? What do you want?" Sirius said in contempt he usually only showed when he spoke to snivellus.

"Please Siri, come home, I will convince mother to forgive you." The way his little brother begged made Sirius' heart waiver, yet the mention of his mother made his blood freeze and boiled at the same time.

"Mother? Forgive me? I'm not the one who kicked her son out of the house just because he was chosen into a different house then the one she expected, just because he isn't willing to do as the rest of the family and kill people who were born different then us! No, I am an a.d.u.l.t, I am a Gryffindor, I won't go back on my knees to that bitter old women even if it kills me!"

"What about me? Your brother! Do it for me, please, if you don't come back, if you aren't there to help me, what am I supposed to do?"

Sirius won't admit to anyone, but he would come to regret what he said next for the rest of his life.

"You? My brother? I already have three brothers and not one of them is Slytherin."

As he finished his sentence Regulus already ran crying as Sirius stood in shock, not believing what came out of his mouth, yet turning around to walk back up before hitting the walls of the dungeons in frustration, surprised to see it opening inward.

Walking inside while thinking what should he do with his brother, he comes out in a cave near the Black Lake.

End flashback

He never apologized to Reggie, nor did he tell any of his friends about that secret entry/exit, as he didn't want to think about that day, yet it was one of the memories he remembered the best, as the dementors made sure to play it over and over in his head.

As he came out from the secret passage, he was in the dungeons, walking toward the closest stairs that would lead him toward the Gryffindor tower, yet, as he sneaked around in his dog form, he smelled someone who was kinda familiar yet at the same time not, coming down, frowning, as it was the middle of the night and he didn't couldn't see anyone, he made sure he is hidden behind an armor as he traced the semi-familiar smell to being on his right yet for some strange reason couldn't turn his head.

Forcing himself with all the will power he has, and from the years of resisting the soul sucking demons' aura he had a lot, he turned his head slightly to the right only to see the man who betrayed him the most, the man who didn't even come to his trial to defend him - James Potter.

Yet, just as he was about to jump the man he noticed differences.

He was taller, more muscular yet at the same time leaner, glasses free, and had green eyes whose color he saw only in three people, Lily, Marcus and Harry.

Harry, the thought his godson sent a pang in his heart as he barked trying to look the part of an innocent, cute dog.

"Hello to you too, you adorable thing, who do you belong to?"

As the boy talked to him he took another look on the boy's clothes, noticing the green and silver on them he almost laughed at the karma the world seemed to be filled with, he, the heir to a Pureblood supremest house who pride itself with having only Slytherins and Ravenclaws went to Gryffindor, while the son of James, who pride himself at being in Gryffindor, went to the house he hates the most.

"Well, I can't find your owner right now as it is the middle of the night, how about you sleep in my room for tonight?" The boy he still wasn't sure about his name said as he took his want out and casted a rope charm around his neck.

Figuring that he would have another chance at killing Wormtail and that there are worst ways to spend the night, Sirius thought as he went with the boy inside the Slytherin common room, and as he was going through the door to the boy's room, he noticed the initials on the door were HDP.

'Harry' he thought as a red light hit his back and the world went black