A/N: This is just a short story I wrote when I was in a really depressed mood. Please read and review, thanks.
I own nothing, it all belongs to the wonderful Jo :))
Summary: "The ones who love us never truly leave us" despite those words, she was still gone.
The Ones Who Love Us
"The ones who love us never truly leave us..."
Gone.
Never coming back.
Gone forever.
"Never truly leave us."
Lies.
Those were the words he had heard her speak. It had been Marlene who had first told him that. Her lips that had formed the words, her blue eyes which had sparkled at the romance of the idea.
The irony of that now...
If he hadn't been so weighed down with grief, Sirius might have laughed at it, as he stood by her grave, watching them lower her coffin down, down into the earth.
Beyond his sight.
Beyond his reach.
The pain in his chest was almost too much to endure. It felt as if his heart had been violently ripped in two. There was nothing left, just a empty hole where she'd once been.
Sirius wanted to scream that it wasn't fair, that they never asked for this. He wanted to curse and fall to his knees. He wanted Marlene, to hold her in his arms, to hear her laugh again.
She'd had the most amazing laugh.
He didn't want her to leave him. He didn't want to be alone.
"Mate, come on, they've finished. Let's go home."
James' hand on his shoulder was trying to move him away from her grave. Sirius dug his feet in, refusing to leave.
"Come on, Padfoot." James said urgently. "You'll freeze out here. If you die of hypothermia, Marlene won't thank you for it."
"Sirius?" It was Lily who was speaking to him now.
Sirius looked down at her. Tear tracks were still etched down her face and her eyes were red-rimmed.
"Sirius, we need to go home now. You can come home with us. Help me look after Harry 'kay?"
Sirius opened his mouth but no sound came out.
"Sirius, do you feel that?" Lily asked him, placing a hand over his heart. "I know you loved her, and I know it hurts now but as long as that heart keeps beating, Marlene won't be gone. She'll still be with us in spirit and in memory... Just so long as we're around to remember her."
Sirius stared at her. "How did you...?"
"I knew her." Lily replied. "She was a hopeless romantic. Listen to what she said Sirius, a believe it."
Warmth slowly started to creep through Sirius' body. It wasn't happiness – it still hurt to breath, but the pain was less now.
He wasn't alone. He had James and Lily.
Lily was right. Marlene would live on in his heart.
Finally, he properly understood the meaning of those words.
"The ones who love us never truly leave us. And you can always find them... in here."