remus john (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lonewolfen) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} snapthread, |
Moving quickly was the only option. Remus didn't want to open any of the doors because Merlin only knew what was on the other side of any of them but he knew that there was no other way. There was also no guarantee that any of them would yield any type of result that they wanted but again -- what choice did they have? What if one of them, even the very first one he tried, was their way back to town? It was certainly not impossible, even if it felt bleak.
The little kiss was a comfort, but when Sirius apparated to the other side of the hall he just felt cold. Remus took a shaky breath to try to calm himself, and focus. He needed to pull it together and just do what needed to be done here. He'd seen worse. He'd been in much worse situations than this. But that was usually alone, and in this case having Sirius with him made the danger factor spike because he feared for him too, no matter how capable of a wizard Sirius Black was.
It wasn't often that Remus tended to show off his wandless skills but in this situation he needed to move as fast as possible. So one by one, he looked at a door, focused, and unlocked it. Nothing. Nothing again. Nothing a third time. But after the third time he hesitated because he hadn't heard any other doors. Sirius had stopped. "Padfoot..?" He turned to look down the hall and saw him staring. "What...?" He hurried down the hall. "What is it..?" He turned to look at the door and he immediately saw exactly what REDRUM was. He was the clever one of the group, after all.
"Oh my god," he whispered. He waved his hand and the letters magically flipped themselves around to spell MURDER. "Did you unlock it?"