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To Catch a Rat	By : cls2256 Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > Het - Male/Female Views: 7101 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to Harry Potter or its characters, not do I make any money from it. This fic is for entertainment purposes only

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DAY 28
“You mean to tell me, Wilson, you have had male and female prisoners sharing cells?!”
“It’s just Black and Murphy that have had to share; she’s being moved in a couple days once we release Dorinda Bartholdy”
“You don’t put men and women in the same cell, Wilson! How thick can you be?!”
Cornelius Fudge’s voice echoed through the entire cell block, shouting angrily as Wilson made excuses for the current cell arrangements.
“Murphy is in on a petty theft charge, whist Black is a murderer— he could’ve killed her with his bare hands— or worse, gotten her pregnant!”
Allie and Sirius heard the commotion and their names mentioned from down the hall of their cell. Allie wrapped her arms around him, burying her face into his chest.
“I think they’re going to move me, I don’t want to go” she said, her soft voice almost inaudible as his chest muffled her.
“We knew this was going to happen here soon” He said soothingly “This arrangement was always temporary— it’s going to be alright”
He held her tightly, listening intently to the arguing voices coming down the hall, getting closer to their cell.
“You should’ve put 3 to a cell before you put a woman with a man— oh, for merlin’s sake, look at them!”
Fudge donned pinstripe robes and his signature lime green bowler hat, looking too crisp and clean to be inside Azkaban prison. He now stood next to Wilson, glowering into Sirius and Allie’s cell with a disgusted look on his face.
“They’re— shit They’re hugging!— goddammit Wilson I better not have to deal with any backlash from this!” Fudge snapped “Get her out of there, now!”
“Murphy, grab your stuff, let’s go!” Wilson barked.
Allie pulled her blanket off the top bunk and folded it slowly. Sirius watched her as she took her time, moving at snail speed.
“Murphy, pick up the pace, let’s go!”
“Remember what you promised me” Allie said softly, pulling her pillow down from her bunk.
“I will” Sirius replied, looking at her with a heavy heart.
He knew all along this moment was coming, but now that it was here, he didn’t want to see her leave. Allie set her blanket and pillow on the bottom bunk, throwing her arms around Sirius and kissing him firmly.
“Oh for the love of…” Fudge muttered.
“MURPHY!” Wilson shouted angrily.
Sirius relished in this final kiss, taking note in the way her lips felt against his, the curves of her body molding against his. He snaked a hand into her wild mane of curls, wishing this moment to never end.
“MURPHY!”
Allie broke the kiss, a tear sliding down her cheek as she gave Sirius a sad smile. She grabbed her pillow and blanket, and stepped towards the cell door.
“Don’t forget me” she called, her sweet voice made Sirius’s stomach flutter.
“Never!” he hollered back.
He watched as Allie was escorted out of sight by Wilson. Fudge lingered back, looking at him with revulsion.
“I better not have to do any incident paperwork that has either of your names on it…” He said, wagging a finger and shaking his head at Sirius. “Goddamn Wilson, putting the opposite sex together…”
Fudge turned on his heels to follow Allie and Wilson to her new cell when Sirius noticed the Daily Prophet sticking out of his robe pocket.
“Excuse me, Sir?” Sirius called to him “Are you finished with your paper?”
“I am— what of it?” Fudge sneered.
“Do you think I could have it?”
He hadn’t seen a newspaper in years, and was curious as to how things looked on the outside.
“Why not” Fudge grumbled as he shoved the newspaper through the bars “have at it”
Sirius took the newspaper and lay on his bunk, feeling uncomfortable with how quiet his cell was. The redhead had really grown on him over the last 28 days; prison wasn’t quite as lonely when she was here. He spent nearly an hour combing through the Daily Prophet, his eyes kept returning to a photograph of a large family in Egypt, waving and smiling back at him. Ministry of Magic Employee Scoops Grand Prize was written in large letters above the photograph. He studied the family— The Weasley’s, he knew of them— he had some Weasley cousins related by marriage, as the Blacks and the Weasley’s were pureblood families. He looked at all the kids, studying their happy, smiling faces until he felt his stomach drop.
Situated on one of the boy’s shoulders, was a pet rat, its whiskers twitching and beady eyes blinking. Sirius heart his heartbeat in his ears, he knew this rat, this rat was unmistakable, for it was the rat that he spent every full moon with for years on the Hogwarts grounds. It was the rat that sold out his best friends— the rat also known as Peter Pettigrew. Lo and behold, the rat photographed just so happened to be missing a toe on its front paw— curious, Sirius thought— the only remaining part of Peter that was found was his finger.
Sirius scanned the article, reading the text a few times over.
Arthur Weasley, Head of the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office at the Ministry of Magic, has won the annual Daily Prophet Grand Prize Galleon Draw.
A delighted Mr Weasley told the Daily Prophet, ‘We will be spending the gold on a summer holiday in Egypt, where our eldest son, Bill, works as a curse breaker for Gringotts Wizarding Bank.’
The Weasley family will be spending a month in Egypt, returning for the start of the new school year at Hogwarts, which five of the Weasley children currently attend.
Sirius sat up and began to pace. The traitor was alive, living comfortably as a rat with a family that probably treated him as a beloved pet. It wasn’t right— that filthy little scoundrel sold out James and Lily, killed all those muggles, and Sirius was rotting in prison for it. His anger rose, rereading the last sentence of the text again.
“Hogwarts” he whispered
Students were allowed a pet at Hogwarts, it would only make sense that the boy would take his beloved rat back to school with him come September the 1^st.
“He’s at Hogwarts!” Sirius hissed “HE’S AT HOGWARTS, HE’S AT HOGWARTS!”
Sirius began trashing his cell, anger flooding through him as he screamed over and over again. “HE’S AT HOGWARTS!”
“BLACK!” Wilson’s short, clipped bark stopped him in his tracks. “Going nuts now that your girlfriend’s gone?”
In his rage, he hadn’t noticed the chill that came with Wilson’s dementor until now, the cloaked figure floating ominously behind the fat guard.
“Is she alright?” Sirius asked,
“She’s fine— here” Wilson held out a lunch tray “food”
Sirius reached his hand out to take it, but hesitated.
If you were thin enough, you could slip through the bars. You could catch that rat and clear your name.
Allie was a goddamn genius, he was sure of it. What a curious coincidence, that she would come up with that idea just a few days before he would learn that Peter Pettigrew was indeed alive— the one person who could corroborate his story and set him free. He waved the tray of food away hastily.
“Nah, I’m not hungry”
“Suit yourself” Wilson sneered, walking away, his boots echoing down the hall.
Warmth came back to the cell as the dementor floated away. Sirius began to pace in his cell again, stroking his chin as he thought.
He’s going to be at Hogwarts, I know where he is going to be.
Sirius smiled, his plan of escape now flooding through his mind. He would starve himself thin, slip through the bars after Wilson left for the day and swim to shore. He could avoid being sighted, as he could live on the streets as a dog until he captured Peter and forced him to confess. Sirius looked out the small window of his cell, out at the rough waters of the North Sea, smiling as Allie’s face came to mind. The shy little ginger that he was so angry he had to share a cell with ended up being a bigger blessing in more ways than one. He was going to get out of this shithole, and he would find her like he promised—maybe do something to help that family of hers.
But first, he was going to catch him a rat.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: I hope you all enjoyed this little fic! I wanted to do a short piece with a slightly different take on Azkaban for a while- I believe in the canon storyline Sirius was in solitary confinement for his duration in prison.
The sequel to this fic is Be Careful What You Wish For.
If ya'll love Remus Lupin as much as Sirius Black, I would love for you all to read my other fic, Forever and Always. It's a Remus x OFC tale, that is much much longer than this one and still a work in progress. I update about twice a week so its never too long between chapters!
Thank you again for reading To Catch a Rat, and for taking the time to leave feedback. It is much appreciated <3
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