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Warning: Yaoi, angst, and well erm other stuff that I don't remember them...

Well here is the next chapter, sorry to everyone who has been waiting so patiently for taking so long with the updating. I dedicate this chapter to one of my dear friends who's birthday it is soon! Love ya'll who have been reviewing so nicely and to my amazing beta reader ilovenaruto2007.

Chapter 14: Hindrance

Harry continued walking as he felt a shiver run down his spine; the temperature had dropped considerably, and he felt that he had walked a few miles by now. His knees felt weak and wobbly and not to mention he was tired, yet it seemed like he had gotten nowhere. Then again the whole place looked the same no matter where he looked.

Harry sighed heavily and just sat down, not caring in what he was sitting in. Another shiver ran through his body, reminding him that he would have to leave this place soon; the rope around his torso was still there so he should be able to follow it back. He squinted through the dim place and noticed a lump in the water. It would have first gone unnoticed; but it was the only anomaly in this monotonous place.

Harry slowly walked towards the lump with caution; he then saw how the lump was shaped more like a body. Harry's excitement grew as he stumbled towards the figure almost falling onto the ground. His breathing was erratic as he looked over the prone body; he slowly reached his shaking had to turn the body on its side so he could get a good look at the person face.

He gasped it was Sirius, but the man looked worse than when he came out of Azkaban. His face was ghastly pale, the sockets of his eyes sunken, and his body shivering from the cold. He may as well have been dead, if it were not for the occasional twitches that came off him, that indicated his life.

"Sirius!" he called, shaking the man. His head lolled around like that of a rag doll, and his breathing was getting faint.

Harry hoisted the body over his shoulder and started following the rope trail with slow laboured stepes, but at the same time he was happy. For once he was happy that he was Harry Potter -the Old Soul- with- great-powers-who-lived.

Remus just stared blankly into the air, he had lost the feeling in his body some time ago; being this close to Sirius made the bond between them stronger, so he could feel the pain coming from the other side in waves so that it made his head spin. Draco was pacing the room, stopping on occasions, throwing glances at the veil as if he was thinking about something, and then resumed his pacing. It was starting to grate on the werewolf's already fried nerves. He wondered if he could possibly knock the blonde out, but then the trip back to school would be difficult...

Remus quickly cast a 'tempos' four hours had passed; four hours of Harry being inside that thing. This was not giving Remus' mind any peace at all.

Harry knew he was getting close to the entrance, the cold was leaving him and he felt full of energy. He adjusted the weight on his shoulder and started quickening his pace; soon he would be out, fresh air, Draco...he sighed inwardly. Yes Draco, oh Merlin what was he going to do about that? How was he going to explain anything to him? Harry sighed again and kept walking; he kept his eyes low as he followed the rope onwards.

"Nearly there..." he said to himself.

"What are you doing Harry Potter?"

Harry turned around only to be met by the little girl again, her thin eyebrows scrunched together in a frown. She slowly stepped closer to him, her small hands reaching out towards him, but Harry stepped out of her reach. Her frown deepened as she regarded the body that was slumped over the young teen's shoulder.

"You can't take him with you Harry Potter."

"Huh?!"

"Your Godfather cannot go back."

"Why not, you said that..." "I said that an Old Soul can return; a Soulmate is bound completely different rules Harry Potter. I can guide you out but not him. "

"But I have to; his mate is waiting on the other side for him! I have made a promise to bring him back!"

"Then you should not make promises you can not keep."

"You don't understand!"

"Then make me understand Harry Potter."

"Look because of me a lot of people suffered, a lot of people died! Yet they all come up to me with smiles and it fucking hurts to watch them like that. I don't want any one else to suffer because of me any more. You wouldn't understand to see what its like to gain something; and then just lose it like that, in a blink of an eye." Harry slowly put Sirius' body onto the ground. "The two people that I see as my parents in a way are being slowly taken away from me, and I refuse to give them up!"

There was silence between them for a long time, the young girl watched Harry with her dull red eyes, once again the feeling as if she was reaching into his soul ran through his mind. "Will you return to your world without your Godfather?" she asked finally.

"No."

"You make it difficult for me Harry Potter."

"Well being a teenager isn't an easy task either." This actually brought a smirk to the girls face.

"Very well Harry Potter your Godfather can leave, but under one condition."

"And that is?"

"Neither you or I can help him find the exit."

"You can't expect him to do that! He is completely disorientated, not to mention drained from staying here! He can't do it on his own!"

"If he and his mate still have a strong connection he will find his way out..."

"You can't be serious."

"I am, and this is the only chance he will get. And be assured Harry Potter that even if he doesn't make it, that I will force you out. After all there is a balance that needs to be established between the forces of good and evil."

He wanted to tell her how cliché her last line sounded, but at the same time she was right. Harry regarded Sirius again, the man had stopped shivering, but his face was still pale and sickly looking. He shook Sirius slowly and called out his name in attempt to wake him, but there was no reaction except for the laboured breathing of his Godfather.

"Sirius wake up already! We are almost out; c'mon don't you want to see Remus again? Please just wake up!"

"Mooney?"Upon hearing the werewolf's name Sirius started stirring, he opened his eyes slowly and tried to focus on the familiar voice.

"Yea Mooney! He is waiting for you, he misses you so much Snuffles, we all miss you. Get up you have to go meet him now."

"He is here?" Sirius asked as he slowly propped himself up. He staggered slightly and tried to get his bearings, but still everything was dark and there was no sign of his werewolf anywhere. "I can't see him..."

"He is waiting for you outside." Harry just hopped that Sirius would notice the

'Outside' where the hell was 'outside'? There wasn't even a feeling of up and down in this place, he would be lucky if the feeling of vertigo would ever return to him. That nagging feeling was back, first it was like a drops leaking from a faucet, but now it was like a like a raging waterfall, thundering onto his mind. But by God did he miss that feeling, almost as if in trance he followed it, his heart beating like crazy against his ribcage, blood flowing through his ears so loudly that it blocked out any other source of sound. And before he knew it the world was too bright...

Remus was standing up, his honey coloured eyes glazed as he stared at the veil, he was moving by instinct, following the faint voices that he could hear. Draco watched the werewolf doing this; he quickly ran and started pulling the man back, but Remus was much stronger then his weak frame made him look. Remus' gaze didn't change; he didn't bat an eyelash at Draco's protest but kept going for the veil as if his life depended on it.

Then the veil seem to bulge, its shape disorienting and moving, both Remus and Draco watched in fascination as they saw a limb stretch out, pale finger reached out aimlessly and then the rest of the body followed and slumped to the ground in a heap. Remus ran towards the unconscious figure and started cradling the person, uttering soft murmurs of reassurance. But Draco was frozen to the spot; he could not see Harry anywhere.

"Did he make it?"

The young girl looked at him; she gave a small nod for an answer. Harry felt relief wash over him, he gave a small laugh and looked at the girl again.

"Now it is your turn to return Harry Potter." Harry nodded and gave her thanks then also went in the same direction as Sirius did.

"Oh and Harry...?" Harry turned around to look at the girl again. "Yea?" he asked.

"Your parents are proud of you, and you should never regret theirs or anyone else's death, it was their own decision to make, and they were happy to make it." She gave a small smile that made Harry's breath hitch. "And they also want me to tell you to hurry up and get together with your Dragon, he is getting impatient."

This made Harry blush crimson, he gaped at the young girl as she disappeared; Harry huffed slightly in embarrassment and went outside.

Draco literally jumped him as he stepped out the blasted thing; the blonde hugged him tightly and at the same time telling him off for doing something so dangerous and stupid. At which all Harry could do was give a weak smile, but it felt good being held like this by the taller teen. Harry let himself get dragged into the tight embrace, milking the contact for all it was worth.

After a few minutes of collecting there strength they made there way back to school; they checked that the room was left the way it was before they came, and made their way through the hidden passage into fresh air.

Now to bring our two love birds together!

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