Harry hadn't been asleep for more than an hour when a strange feeling coursed through him for some unknown reason and his eyes snapped open he lay there feeling something heavy settle on his back.
He bottled up wide awake and alert in the darkness his eyes darted back and forth in the darkness he had expecting to see a pair of eyes shining from the dark but he saw nothing and sighed.
He was fixing to lay back down when a dark shadow moved in his peripheral and his heart went into over drive and he held his breathe as the shadow slinked into the middle of the room.
Harry held his breathe and slowly stretched to his right hand towards his nightstand, at that moment he was thinking god that the beds that they were given were all four poster with canopies that let you close the curtains around the bed.
The dark shadow stopped as did harry who's eyes never left the figure for a moment watching the shadow's head turn back and forth hesitating as if trying to figure something out.
Harry's fingers curled around the candelabra that sat on almost every nightstand in the boys room, he clenched his teeth and bit his lip as he pulled himself soundlessly into a crouch.
He gripped the candelabra tightly and without a word he watched as the shadow seemed to tip toe towards his bed almost cautiously.
Harry hidden by the curtains when the figure moved again he was at least a foot from the bed trying to peer in.
And, all Harry could think was that if it was Lucius Malfoy skulking about he would bash the man's brains in and claim a momentary lapse in sanity.
But, if it 1wasn't Malfoy he was still going to beat the intruders brain in he was pretty sure that it wasn't a student if they were suppose to be in the Gryffindor they wouldn't be sneaking.
With a predator like grin sliding on his face harry wordlessly sprung from his crouch and hurled himself onto the intruder he had aimed a little high and hit the intruder's right shoulders dead on and slammed the candelabra into the other one.
The intruder was decidedly male when he gave a yell and but Harry instead of bouncing back when flinging himself into the man's shoulder he grabbed on and started to yell bringing the candelabra down again and again.
The man yelled again "Stop! Stop! Goddammit!"
Harry didn't stop.
"Fuck!" the man yelled and managed to sling Harry to the ground and off him.
Harry fell to the ground on his right side and hissed with pain the candelabra still in his hand his long hair tangled and splayed around him.
Suddenly, lights filled the room with a snap of the man's fingers " What the bloody fuck are you doing?!"
Harry swung around and his eyes landed on Sirius bleeding from a small cut at his hair line and a look of fury in his eyes.
All of the pent up fear left his body and he sighed and collapsed on his back breathing hard his weapon still in his hand.
"Better question is why the hell are you skulking in the dark like some kind of pervert" Harry snarled from his position on the floor.
"Well that doesn't mean you try to brain someone with a freaking candle holder!'
Harry snorted "Please I barely left a mark"
Sirius growled and jabbed a defiant finger at the small cut bleeding down his face in a faint trickle.
Harry managed to shrug while on his back " I hardly call that a braining"
In a way Harry was glad it was Sirius he rather it be anyone that Lucius Malfoy he doubted he could contain his temper in front of the man who had trapped him in a corner.
"No tried to trap me in a corner he hasn't won that battle at all" he sneered in his thoughts.
Sirius whipped out his wand and silently closed the wound and slipped it back into his pockets and fixed Harry with a black stare probably still seething from earlier.
Harry ignored it and gracefully climbed to his feet and through the candelabra on his bed and crossed his arms "Now what exactly are you doing here?"
That's when Sirius eyes darkened and without a word he pulled one of the corner chairs from its original spot and seated himself.
"We need to talk and we need to talk now to much has happened for us not too"
Harry said nothing as he sized his godfather up and the cold look on the young boys face unnerved Sirius but he kept his feature blank and continued to hold Harry's eyes in his determined gaze.
Harry let the silence between the grow as his mind raced and finally he a tiring weight fell on his shoulders in one way or the other he knew that something like this was coming and he needed to go ahead and get it out of the way he needed more the an hours sleep to fully function and he knew that when he did face everyone tomorrow he need be on top of his game.
Finally, he sighed "Fine let's get this over with what exactly are you wanting to talk about?"
He placed himself at the each of the bed facing Sirius and a relieved expression graced his face he was almost sure that Harry was going to through a fit and try to throw him out the room.
"I want to talk about a number of things but the first thing on my mind is what is this?" he waved his hands flippantly up and down at Harry.
Harry raised his eyebrows " Excuse me?"
"Your attitude the way you blow up since you got back you have been cold and physically aggressive with the students"
Harry's heart dropped the only student he had actually been forceful with is Percy and the earlier episode with the prefect had set him on edge.
He didn't think the older boy would have been to keen to let anyone know that he got manhandled by the same person twice.
So harry rapidly concluded and hoped like hell Sirius was talking about the first incident that spread around the school like wildfire the morning it had happened.
"Percy deserved everything he got even his own family agreed that I had done the right thing and as for my attitude is perfectly fine"
"You know it isn't"
The cold look turn absolutely icy and he gave an ironic turning up of his lips "Your right I'm not like I'm not the boy you once knew" he got up from his place on the bed and his eyes never leaving Sirius stopped in front of the many windows that looked out over the grounds.
"I kept my mouth shout and let Dumbledore and everyone run this little drama that is my life while I sat in the corner being left in the dark for the monster that stole everything from me to finish the job"
"But Harry everything we did was to keep you safe you must know that!"
"Yes, yet, at the same time you left me wide open without anyway to protect myself in the end I lived my days in fear and much more"
His mind flashing back to all the times he had been almost beaten to near death by his uncle during those time Voldemort seemed as harmless as a church mouse.
Sirius could not believe what he was hearing he had no idea how his godson felt he thought the young boy would be better off if he wasn't put in the line of fire.
"Harry" he said shaking his head "Voldemort is too powerful for you to take on by yourself isn't that why you've been teaching yourself wandless magic"
Harry sneered "And on that not my magic is non of your business"
"Quit being such a brat harry that magic of yours almost killed a man today!"
Harry jumped up from the edge of the bed " So what if it did Lucius Malfoy is nothing but a snake and you can't tell me you weren't ready to rip his throat out after what he pulled so safe me that lecture"
The coldness and anger shining in Harry's eyes curdled Sirius's stomach and his on temper seemed to flare he was just so confused and he had no idea why the young boy he had come to love like a son was acting this way.
"What Malfoy did today was a dick move and something we will fix together, but killing a man is a serious offense and weighs on the soul more than you could ever know!"
Harry couldn't help himself and started to laugh "I doubt that highly besides me and you won't be doing anything I will handle Malfoy myself and that will be the end of it"
Sirius jumped up and growled " Tell me straight Harry what just is your problem with me"
Harry closed he eyes and sighed he knew deep down that it wasn't really Sirius fault that he was feeling this way.
He knew that it was him being difficult and needing someone to blame for the way he suffered these past years and he just couldn't bring himself to open his eyes and let the truth fall from his lips.
"Besides what good would the truth do" he thought nonchalantly a coldness creeping its way up his spine.
He turned around and pinned Sirius with a flat emotionless gaze that left the older man stunned " My problem is no matter how many times I drop a hint you still come skulking about me like the mutt you are, frankly, your nothing more but a burden that I have no interest in carrying"
His words struck Sirius so hard that he swayed on his feet and almost collapsed but he didn't his breathing was rapid and hard.
It took him a couple of seconds but he recovered himself "Is that so?"
Harry said nothing after what he confessed what else could he possibly say.
Sirius sniffed and straightened "Fine as of today this mutt will no longer bother you" and he stalked out the rooms head held high.
He never turned back or he would have seen his former godson doubled over tears falling like rain on the carpet below swallowing them up like they never existed.