Sirius POV
Alone
He was all alone
Where was everyone? Where were his friends? Where were his brothers?
Why did he have to be so alone?
Everyone was gone now.
Where was Remus?
Hidden somewhere far away, doing work for the Order.
Did he even know?
Where was Peter?
He was in hiding but he was hiding from the Order.
How could 7 years of friendship change so easily?
Where was James?
James held him together. All the times his parents yelled at him for not "doing the right thing", when he got kicked out, when he finally fell in love, when he finally had his heart broken, when he needed him.
He was there.
But not now.
So where was James?
He couldn't feel anything.
He kept imagining those flashes of green light.
He heard kids laughing like nothing had just happened.
Because what had just happened?
He doesn't know.
He walks up the walkway to the remainder of that house that he loved almost as much as they did.
That house that he helped paint,
that house that sheltered him when he needed sheltering,
that house that was so full of light,
that house held the people who meant so much to him.
But where were they?
He wanted to scream and cry and not do anything.
He wanted to see them.
He needed to see them.
He needed to hug her as tightly as he could in the way that would make her gasp and squeal for air.
How he needed her too.
He wanted to see him, hold him close and protect him.
He was so small but so many wanted him gone.
And they got that.
And they got them too.
And they got him when they got them.
And now they won't let go.
The faint cry makes him come back to reality.
The hard reality.
The faint cry gives him hope
maybe
just
maybe.
He has hope.
Hope.