Bah! Sorry it's been so long, I was away longer than I thought I would be! I hope this chapter was well worth the wait!
Sirius' heart hammered at a rapid pace as he stood there frozen in fear, shaking his head, no it couldn't be. Not James and Lily, they'd just been safe with him! His mind raced as his heart panicked to keep up, "please…please be ok," he whimpered as he stood still frozen to the spot.
"James Potter was brutally assaulted while trying to keep his wife Lily from being harmed, he's now at St. Mungo's were his parents are now recovering from-"
"How is Lily!" Sirius' voice was frantic as he shook from head to toe, the color drained from his face as he stood there. "Lily was said to be ok, badly shaken up. Though she's rather pregnant it might not be a good outcome for the child."
Like that Sirius' knees buckled underneath him as he crumbled to the floor, the loud thudding noise startled Lari as she began to bark and nudge her master until he groaned back into consciousness. The world around him started to blur together as he shook his head to clear the fuzziness, "W-what…James!" He scrambled to his feet and quick as he could apparated out and landed rather roughly back inside of St. Mungo's.
He gave a loud hiss as he clutched his arm, looking down at his now bleeding arm he groaned. "Fuck my life," he whispered, he'd been splinched all because he hadn't been paying any attention. A healer rushed up to him and dragged him off, "No you don't understand I'm fine!" He tried to tell her as he pushed away, "Where is James and Lily Potter?"
But the healer pretended not to hear him as she shuffled him into a room and forced him to lie down. "Easy now, this won't hurt…much." she gave him a weak smile as she muttered a spell. Sirius howled in pain as the magic quickly began to seal his arm back together. It hadn't been a bad splinching but it was bad enough his whole arm and shirt sleeve were covered in crimson. "Shh calm down, you tore a major artery, easy now."
A male healer popped inside of the room as Sirius began to struggle, "what happened?" He asked holding Sirius' good arm down as he wiggled underneath the first healer's wand. "Splinched, got here in a rush said something about the Potter's."
The man nodded, Sirius slowly began to wind down and eventually his cries turned into soft whimpers, "When he's all fixed up send him to the waiting room, Potter was his friend in school. Sirius can you hear me?"
Sirius looked at the male healer and squinted as he glared through the pain, "Harvey?" Sirius looked at him. "That you?"
"Yes you stupid idiot, calm down." Sirius jerked hard as the wound slowly began to heal over, "you won't help a damn thing if you move, just make it worse. James is stable calm down, he'll be alright."
"What about Lily," Sirius growled through gritted teeth, "She's pregnant." Harvey's face fell, "Well…in the panic she started to go into labor." Sirius' grey eyes widen as he tried to tug away, "Shhh. Don't upset him Stewart!"
"Sorry Meg, she'll be fine, first time mothers do it quite a lot. They'll get her under sedatives and it'll be ok. Now relax."
Sirius laid there starring up at the white ceiling, he hated this hospital, hated how blank and empty it was. His heart hammered in his chest as he sat there, his racing heart probably helped none to the splinching and how much blood he had lost. His mind was foggy from it and his body weak. "Just lay here," Meg whispered as she reached for a wet rag to wipe the sweat from his face before cleaning off his arm. "Let your body recover, the second your ok I'll take you to see one of your friends, ok?" Sirius nodded, his body was too numb.
As she good up Sirius felt his eyes close, no this wasn't normal he should be fine. He went to struggle, "easy, it's just a simple sleeping spell. You'll sleep till your ok."
"I don't want to sleep, remove your spell." Sirius slurred it was becoming very hard to keep his eyes open. "Calm down," he heard Harvey whispered somewhere to his right. "Just let it take over and let your body relax two hours tops. James will be healed and all better by then, you'll see." Sirius was quickly losing the fight with his eye lids as the slowly closed, and he became still.
When Sirius woke up he slowly pulled away from sleep but once he realized he was in a starch white room he jolted to life. Eyes wide as his heart hammered in his chest. "Calm down Padfoot," Sirius looked to his left to see Peter sitting there holding the prophet. "Wormtail!" Sirius shouted as he leaped out of bed, "W-what happened! How's James a-and Lily! Oh fuck where is Remus?"
Peter folded the prophet and looked at him rasing and eyebrow "Sirius, calm down. James is fine, he's asleep recovering. Lily came to a close call almost lost the baby, but she and the baby are fine. And as for Remus I took him to your flat, Dumbledore sent me a letter this morning telling me where to find him. What the bloody hell was he doin out there?"
"Good their fine- wait where was he?"
Peter blinked, "You don't keep tabs on your wolf boyfriend?" Peter chuckled before flinching under Sirius' angry gaze. "He was out in Cambridge, laying out in one of them big fields they have out there. Lucky no one saw him didn't have an ounce of clothes or his wand. I thought he took Wolfsbane."
Sirius sat down, fury rushed through him. How had Remus been so stupid! Why was he out that far anyway? Wasn't he only in a local London pack? "He does…Dumbledore wrote him to go to a meeting, apparently he forgot." It was a lie, Remus never forgot. "Can we see James and Lily?"
"I saw Lily this morning, she looked horrible. In with Jane and Harold, took a turn for the worst you know…not good for two sick elderly wizards to hear their son almost got killed and their daug-"
Peter's sentence was cut short as he heard the door violently be jerked open nearly tearing it off of the hinges as Sirius was sprinting down the hall. "Well…so much for that." Peter grumbled as he got up and slowly walked behind Sirius.
It took Sirius thirty seconds to get all the way from his room to the Potter's room. And to him it was thirty seconds too long. Leaning heavily against the doorframe, gripping it for dear life Sirius panted as he tried his hardest to catch his breath as he reached their door. His face was white from lack of air and panic that was rushing through him. "Sirius?" Lily's shrill call pierced his ears before she was in his arms sobbing. Still panting he wrapped his arms tightly around her, "Shhh, shhh Lils I'm here shhh," Sirius felt tears sting his eyes and he held her tightly against him.
She finally looked up at him and pressed kisses against his cheeks before tightening her grip on him, "I was so scared."
"Shhh I'm here, everything is ok." Sirius pulled her into the room and once Peter was beside him he shut the door behind him. He glanced at the two sleeping forms Jane and Harold were now tinged green and Sirius' heart squeezed. That was the rougher stages of Dragon Pox kicking in, Sirius felt his throat tighten as his mind started to reel, 'not you too.'
He sat in a chair and pulled the delicate flower into his lap and rocked her. Peter was sitting at the table in the room and quietly read the Daily Prophet, once Lily had been rocked to sleep, Peter looked up at him. "There was a wolf hunt last night," Peter whispered. "All over just…random werewolf attacks."
"Remus didn't attack anyone," Sirius growled. "I never said he did, I was just saying…Rem's about to be in a world of hurt, Ministry is going to crack down on them badly after last night."
"How many?"
"Forty cases so far, all over Britain. It's bad for wolves, it's normally only three or four during one moon…but it was over ten times that…I think we've got a uprising on our hands." Peter opened the paper to the page and held it out to him. "My hands a little bit full Pete, your gonna have to read it to me or something." Sirius grumbled as he rested his head on top of Lily's.
Peter rolled his eyes as he cleared his throat, "The ministry is in an uproar, last night the same night as the attack on the Potter residence. There was an unleashing of werewolves; the plans seemed to have been timed at the right moment. With the raise on werewolf attacks within moments of the Potter attack, those Auror's who had not already been injured in the fight against the death eater attack that quickly filled the small community where the Potter's had lived. Soon had to dwindle down to fight of werewolves.
Some of which either were killed on the spot or now are locked away in a cell."
"See I told you Moony didn't do anything!" Sirius glared at him, Peter gave him a look, "continue."
"St. Mungo's was not properly prepared for such a flow of now turned wizards. Even a few of the attacked were muggles, whose families now are confused as ever as they are entered into the realm of magic. And the ministry has no idea what to do with the, weither to erase the family member from their memories or however else to handle it." Peter sighed, "I think they should just erase their memories…it'd be best."
Sirius stared at Peter, "W-what are you talking about! That'd be like if you all the sudden lost your magic, and the law said you couldn't see magic anymore! Your parents and all of us would have to forget you." Peter sighed, "It'd be easier still then having to explain it to them all right?"
Sirius rolled his eyes, "keep reading."
"As of now, people are still being found though most of them dead, there is a doubt any turned human before last night did not partake in this brutal assault."
"Except Remus Lupin."
Peter folded the paper and sighed, "it doesn't say that Sirius, but I'm sure your right." Peter jerked back as Harold sneezed loudly in his sleep sending sparks nearly across the room, "bloody hell!" Sirius chuckled, "Serves you right."
The next few hours were spent in silence, Peter left soon after lunch as his shift at his job had called him in. Today had been Sirius and James' day off so at least Sirius was lucky in that sense. And once Lily was awake and stable Sirius left to head home and check on Remus.
Slipping into the flat he found Remus sitting at the kitchen table head in his hands, "What are you doing up?" Sirius asked as he stepped inside, Remus raised his head; dark bags were under his eyes as he looked at his lover. "How is James? And Lily?"
"Both are fine Rem, James will pull through and Lily and the baby are safe…though it's taken a turn for Jane and Harold." Remus raised an eyebrow, "They're worse…but I'm sure they'll be fine." Remus gave no fuss as Sirius linked arms underneath him. "Let's get you in bed werewolf, time for a nap."
"I read the paper," Remus whispered. Sirius stopped midst ride to look down at him, "…what if I turned someone they'll hunt me down-"
"You didn't turn anyone. It's fine Remus, now come on bed."
"What if I did! They'll lock me up or- or they'll put a bull-"
"Remus John Lupin, you did NOT bite anyone. Ok, you were not a part of that…hunt. So just, come on let's go to bed."
