out of inn: letter-sending

[not_the_lion]

It took some doing, but in the end, Valentine's advice (and the inn's insistence that Regulus use the strangest parchment he's ever seen, until he had something workable for the final run) paid off. What he's sending off to Sirius basically says that they need to talk, this is not a joke of any sort, and Peter's willing to mediate if necessary.

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[pjpettigrew]

The answer, when it arrives, is a right mess, all scrawls and scribbles and scratch-outs.

Regulus,

Talk? What do you want to talk about? Did Mother put you up to this? What do you mean, Peter will mediate? Don't tell me you two are actually friends. I always thought that was some sort of joke on your part--one that he was too naive to see through. At least he's an agreeable sort, if you really want a mediator. But I don't know what we need mediation for.

Things are crazy, and almost at a standstill extremely busy for reasons that I can't talk about though really, anyone with a newspaper could figure it out.

James is kind of lost, as I think he was looking forward to a war and heroics over the moon with happiness over Voldemort's death. As are we all, of course. There's a rumor that Dumbledore was murdered by some rare and deadly poison that looks like heart failure. Has anyone checked Snape's whereabouts? I can see him as a poisoner. No, I'm NOT saying this because he's a Slytherin.

Remus is a wreck...you know, scratch that. Why

[not_the_lion]

...Well, at least Regulus won't have to bother with a Howler. (Though some of the cross-outs are probably a bit more entertaining than Sirius intended them to be.)
And while he may not be the world's greatest expert on Hogwarts' secret passages, he's very good at being unobtrusive. So he sends back a note that he can certainly try to get there.
And once they've agreed on a time, he manages it. Sirius, he can't help thinking, has strange tastes in rendezvous points.

[pjpettigrew]

At the appointed time, Sirius is waiting for him near Madam Puddifoot's. In some sort of an effort to blend in better with the populace, he's wearing robes--at least, he's wearing them over his black leather jacket and his blue jeans. (Well, what else was he going to wear while riding his flying motorcycle?)

He looks about anxiously, hoping that Regulus will show up soon.

[not_the_lion]

And before too long, Regulus does show up.
"Well?"
He's got a number of questions, but those are waiting until they're... wherever it is they're going. At least the fact that Sirius showed up at all goes some way toward disproving Peter's theory about their mother trying to keep them from talking.