Chapter 10
Disclaimer: Still don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters. J.K. Rowling does.
For a few moments, the only sound that Sirius could hear was James' heavy breathing. Sirius blinked, and then spoke in a hoarse, rough whisper. "James."
His friend seemed to have heard him, because he looked up at him and smiled. "Siri, you okay?"
Sirius nodded. "Yeah, I'm alright." Then Sirius remembered what kind of danger his friend was in.
"What are you doing here, Prongs? I told you to get somewhere safe, and this isn't exactly a safe place, if you haven't noticed." Sirius told him, stepping towards James. His voice seemed to be returning to a somewhat normal level, he noticed.
James rolled his eyes. "Yeah, and I told you I would, after I got you out of this hell." He glanced at Sirius' Father. "And it looks like I was just barely in time, too."
Sirius sighed. "Yeah, thanks for that by the way. Thought I was in for it for a bit there. But that still doesn't mean that you should have come. You could still be killed, or tortured!"
James glared at Sirius, stepping a bit closer to him. "Yeah, like you haven't been tortured almost killed recently! Are you saying that I should have just left you here and saved myself and the others first?!"
The two were nose to nose. Sirius scowled. "Well, yeah! You guys are more important than I am, and should have been your first priority!"
Sirius was using his taller body to push James across the room as he spoke. "Instead, you come running into danger, risking the hide that I almost got killed trying to save, and come to get me. You could have so easily died!"
Sirius had James against the wall. "What would I have said to your parents? Or the others? How could I have told them that you had been killed by my Father or Mother, because of me!"
James was wide eyed against the wall. He blinked a few times, staring at Sirius in a puzzled kind of way. Then, calmly, quietly, he spoke. "Mum and Dad are downstairs, talking to your Mother. Sirius, I couldn't have left you here, even if my parents hadn't let me come."
James laughed. "When I heard what had happened from you, I told my parents. I told them that if they didn't help me get you out of here, that I would do it myself. Or get someone else to help me since Moony and Wormtail weren't exactly around."
James sighed. "I was just, Sirius, you are not the least important of all of us. We are all equally important. If I had been the one in this kind of situation, you would have done the same thing."
Sirius looked down at his feet. " 'Course I would have. But you would have been as equally as mad as I am."
James chuckled. "Yeah, I guess you're right."
There was a comfortable silence for a few moments. Then, suddenly, the two boys heard yelling, and then spells being thrown around. They looked at each other, and then ran into the hallway. There, they were stopped by Regulus.
"Mother told me to keep you two here." Was all that he said.
James was about to disarm Regulus when, from his right side, he was hit by a spell and doubled over. Sirius looked over to where the spell had come from and saw Kreacher standing there.
Sirius was surrounded, with his friend out, and his Father waking, from what he could tell from the noises he heard from his room. He had jumped from the frying pan and into the fire!
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-WolfGirl1636