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[His voice is a bit...odd. It's overly cheerful, quite obviously fake.]

[Filtered to Inmates]

Do you think everything about the Barge is a test? Every last moment? Do you think it purposefully puts the most horrid, rancid, despicable things on board just to screw with you?

[Private to Severus]

Hello, Snivellus. Why is your evil arse skulking about, allowed to draw breath, when so many good people are dead?

Wichita said I would be tested. Better you than the rat. But stay away from me. I don't need one of Voldemort's minions to remind me of what he did to James and Lily and what he tried to do to Harry.

How do you live with yourself?

[Private to Wichita]

You knew Snivellus was on board and you didn't tell me. Thanks. I could have ran right into his ugly face in a corridor and then what?

[Private to Merlin]

I hear you're a wizard. Why didn't you tell me?

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[He looks somewhat thrown by the flippant way Sirius is talking about their deaths. Recovering, he responds furiously:]

What happened to Voldemort, you imbecile.

[Probably not visible on the video, Sirius picks up his wand and twirls it between his fingers.]

He was gone. [Twirl, twirl, twirl.]

[Oh, good. He does have half a functioning brain. It's Snape's turn to recite back what happened as though reading a shopping list.]

He was gone, as you so succinctly put it, because Lily gave her life for her son. Potter - Harry - was protected by the love involved in that sacrifice.

[A beat. He swallows hard and glances away, having a slow look around the room - one which ends again at his hand on the desk. Finally:]

If you save her, everything changes.

[A furrow appears between his brows. There hadn't been time to reason out why Voldemort had failed in killing Harry. He had assumed it had been something about Harry. Something special. He was the child of prophecy, after all. Never in a million years could he have guessed that it was only because Lily had died for him. She had been right there. Within reach of the crib. She had been standing right there, shielding him, when Voldemort entered the room.

He chewed on his lip. Shouldn't Snape want this to change? If Voldemort had been well and truly gone, all because of that sacrifice, shouldn't he want him to bring back James and Lily? Then it was back to war, back to fighting, back to Death Eaters vs. the Order. And Voldemort would be there, as strong as ever. As unstoppable as ever.

He looked away. He had to know. Because this didn't make any sense, and if he was going take a word of this for truth, there was a question he needed answered. Whether Snape would answer it or not was beyond his control. He returned his gaze to the screen.]

Everything changes, and you don't want everything to change. Which begs the question - Why would you want Voldemort to stay dead?

[There are a million answers to that question which would no doubt interest Sirius - and every one of them provided him with ammunition.]

Why, indeed. If you know me as you believe you do - if I am the person you think I am, I would have much to gain. After all, I would want both his return and hers.

And yet the least likely person is telling you not to attempt to change the course of history.

[Flatly:]

I does make one wonder, doesn't it?

Yes, it does. [He looks at Snape for several seconds. No glares, no smug affectations, no smirks. He just looks at him.

There is so much he doesn't know.]

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[For some reason, making Black speechless isn't as much of a triumph as it used to be. It might be the subject matter, but then again.

He doesn't know how much to tell the other man, or whether he wants to tell him anything at all.]

You are correct in one instance: I do know a good deal about that night in Godric's Hollow. I know she was never meant to die. I tried -

[He stops abruptly. No. Sirius doesn't get to know how he tried to save the Potters.]

Lily chose her fate. She sacrificed herself and it saved our world.

[A beat.]

You have a good, long while to decide who and what you are willing to sacrifice: our world or your friend. Weigh not only what you would want, but what Potter would have wanted. Consider that I have been here as both an inmate and warden, and while the whole of it is absolutely none of your bloody business, my deal with the Admiral has nothing to do with Lily Potter.

I suggest you learn all you can before you make a decision you may well regret.

[He swallows and looks away. Still looking off at nothing, he nods, almost absently, his head bobbing.]

[He's not certain he wants to have anything further to do with this conversation, now that he's told Sirius Black to leave Lily dead. Letting go is one thing. This is a little too close to murder for his tastes.

Without another word, he frowns at his old enemy, then reaches over and ends the communication.]

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