Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters.... Unless... I am secretly J.K. Rowling.... DUNDUNDUN! XD

Hello everyone! Once again I have started another HP fic despite the fact I have other fics still waiting for an update --" I have update issues, seriously. Well, I was just lying in bed, when this idea struck me!! I dunno why or how but it did. This will most likely end up being a 3-5 chapter story, I just can't spend too much time on it. ;

So, I hope you like this. I know I do. I was kind of sad while writing it, I just love Sirius so much and I'm still sort of depressed over his tragic end in the books. vv sigh Oh man, I think I might cry now... ;; Well, here it goes.... Hope you like it!

AN: The scene I wrote is obviously changed a bit from the original in OotP page 806. I just wanted it to seem a bit more emotional and painful, because this is pretty much how I felt while I read the book for the first time. Also, I'm going to steal a quote from the PoA movie (or at least paraphrase it). I won't say which, but once you see it, you'll know which one it is.... And also, the entire story will be in Remus' point of view.

And one last thing I must mention! This story is dedicated to three special people out there #1- Athena's Wiccan wolf : for making my day everytime her most excellent fic "Embracing the Moon" was updated; #2- My best friend Stacey aka Moony, for always listening to my stories over the phone, telling me if they're good or not, and #3- Annette aka Snivellus or Snapey-Wapey, just for being the Harry Potter freak that you are and listening to my rants for hours at a time...

The Chain That Binds Us All

"SIRIUS!" Harry screamed when Bellatrix's jet of red light made contact, "SIRIUS! SIRIUS!"

I saw it too and took in a breath sharply. His body curved in a graceful arch and for that moment, time stood still. It seemed as if everything stopped , and the room fell deafeningly silent.... except for one thing.... My heart, or maybe it was Sirius', I wasn't really sure, but I heard it beating.

That was all I could hear, ba-dump ringing, ba-dump pounding in my ears. In that one eternal moment all my experiences with Sirius flashed before my eyes: the first time we met on the train, the day he told me he knew about my lycanthropy, the day we graduated from Hogwarts, and... The first time he said, "I love you, Remus." I blinked, and the image of Sirius falling brought me back to my cruel reality.

For a second, I saw his azure eyes gaze into mine. They were beautiful as always, and it always seemed as though you could read his thoughts through those orbs, but this time... I couldn't read them. I guess this was the first time Sirius was actually shocked at the turn of events. All I could do was stare at him, wishing with all my heart that I could run there and make it in time to push him away from the veil, because, I knew what would happen if he fell into it. I didn't even want to think about it.

I blinked again, and saw the dying laughter in his face, and with this expression I knew what he wanted me to do : protect Harry. My arms crossed the boy's body as he struggled to go after his godfather. With all his might he thrashed against my hold, slowly weakening as he broke down into tears and at last fell to his knees mumbling, "Sirius....Sirius....". And then, the man fell through....

I was speechless. "He fell through..." I muttered quietly to myself, "He fell through..."Over and over I repeated this in my head as Bellatrix triumphantly screamed. Gradually the mumbling and screaming turned into the worst headache of my life. Not only did my head hurt, but my heart as well. I closed my eyes and sighed deeply, almost letting tears escape, but then I remembered our current situation.

Words of reassurance and comfort that we'd make it out of here okay were the only things I could say. And every word hurt, like each one was a little knife stabbing at my heart, but it seemed that that was my only skill at this point in time. I was barely able to cast "Finite" on Neville and remove his curse. And that was it, I ushered the kids out of the room, and glanced back at the dais one last time before....

I gasped, covered in a cold sweat, "A dream... The same dream." My hand shot up to my head and pushed my sweat drenched hair back, "That's the 2nd time this week." I rolled to my side and looked at a picture placed beside my bed: Peter, James, Sirius and I in it. How could us four, end up like this so soon? We were supposed to grow old together, play pranks until we were geezers and watch each other's kids grow up and teach them the proper way to throw a dungbomb at a Slytherin while they took over our Marauder positions at Hogwarts.

But this is the way it is: James and Sirius gone, and Peter, off with his "master". I was the last Marauder left, and to be completely honest, I hated it. But I had to keep my unspoken promise to James and Sirius. I'd stay here to keep an eye on Harry, make sure he became a proper man, married a proper girl and the such.

The picture showed the four of us at the prime of our friendship. We were all wearing chain necklaces; Peter, James and Sirius were all wearing silver ones while mine was made of gold. They figured mine had to be gold due to the complications of being a werewolf. Sirius had gotten them for us and I can clearly remember when he handed each of us a small blue box that contained our chain. Each of us gasped like a girl smitten with diamonds when we opened them. James even joked with, "Oo... Shiny!" before we helped each other to put them on.

"Mine's actually white gold..." Sirius whispered to me as he clasped mine closed around my neck, "I had to have one that was slightly similar to yours..." He smiled, "I would've gotten you one too, but yellow gold matches your eyes...." I blushed madly at that comment back in the day, but now I just grinned at the happy memory.

I grabbed at my neck and felt the chain still hanging there, resting on my chest. I remembered the many times that it was Sirius' hand holding the necklace as it sat there. He always held it over my heart and would tell me that, "No matter what happens Remy, it's only flesh, remember that, the real you will always be in there..."

I don't know how I could even doubt him after that. But when the whole Azkaban fiasco happened, if even for a second, I loathed Sirius Black. How could he betray us like that? He broke every pact of trust we had and I even took off the necklace, my most prized possession, and swore to never wear it again or even remember its origin for that matter. The day I ripped it off my neck was probably one of the most painful, and ever since I found out of his innocence, I haven't removed it from my body. Not once...

My fingers ran along the necklace, tracing each link as a 16 year-old Sirius' voice ran through my mind, "These necklaces, my friends, will be the chain that binds us all. Forever we'll be connected, and even if a link breaks, we'll still be strong with what we have left. You may not know it, but this chain existed before we had these around our necks. It's the strongest chain of all.... Friendship."

That was probably one of the most beautiful things I ever heard come out of that man's mouth. It was no wonder he became a dog when they decided to become Animagi for me. "Man's best friend" they always called dogs, and it wasn't close enough to the truth for me.

Sirius could be friends with anyone. It was just amazing how he did it. We were the top of his priority list and would not only act this way, but constantly remind us of it. "I can stand bad things happening to me, but if anything would happen to you guys, especially because of me, I'd die." I think he boasted this at least once a week to us, and probably daily to me. It was odd that I never noticed his maternal sort of protection over me until 5th year, really odd indeed....

to be continued...