Disclaimer: Would anyone actually believe me, if I told that I am JKR and that everything is mine? I thought not. The quote you recognise is from PoA.
AN: I know this plotline is one of the most overused on this site. I don't care. I happen to like warming up old things from my point of view. Give it a shot, people.
Never Before
Prologue
It was dark.
It was always dark. The Dementors did not need the light. The prisoners did not deserve it. What would he not have given for a single ray of sunlight, just one more time? What would he not have given to be able to remember what light was like?
How long had it been? How long had he been trapped in here? How long since…?
The memories. Anger burned in his veins like poison as he saw his smile once again. A mocking sneer that was so unlike his shy, friendly grin, which he could no longer remember.
The Dementors drew closer to his cell. They were never far away. He wrapped his arms around his legs, resting his head on his knees. He tried to fight away the images flooding his mind. He knew the effort was useless.
He was there again.
Holding James' cold and lifeless body, howling his grief to the negligent starts. His fault, all his fault…
Facing him again. Maddened by grief and guilt, blinded by rage, ready to blast him apart.
"James and Lily, Sirius! How could you?"
For a fleeting moment he stood frozen by those words. Then he blew up the street and the world exploded in a deafening storm of flying debris and dust and screams. Screams filled his mind as he watched the traitor disappear down a sewer. Dead lay everywhere. His gaze fell upon a severed finger. He broke down.
He was innocent.
Darkness was everywhere. With unseen fingers touching his face, it was so close; it was trying to suffocate him. Or was it just a dream? Was he awake? Was there a difference? His nightmares were his life. His life was his nightmare.
They had thrown him in this hell for the rest of his life. How long would that be? How long had it already been? How long since…?
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AN: Sirius would have wanted you to tell me what you thought of this.