Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters you recognise in this fictional story belonging to Joanne Kathleen Rowling, Warner Bros., and whoever else…Bloomsbury and Scholastic. Some characters are based on childhood friends, I made them into this fiction therefore I own them. I also own the plot. And the dates… coz they're terribly wrong. I also don't own the pretty song… *looks down* ('Israel's Son'- Silverchair)

Over pain, I fear you
You'll then start to hear you
Over an hour, I get to
This time I'm for real
My pain cannot hear you
You will be dead when I'm through

Chapter VI- [Unearth]

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Lily gave them a small smile, "I see…now, to the explaining, what I have here" She held up the folder, "Are Sarah's tests results, I'll try my best to answer all questions, the doctor is running late, he had an emergency I'm afraid, but I'll do my best to fill in for him"

"Thankyou…" Sarah's mother spoke in a shaky voice

Lily could only try not to break down.

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She really didn't want to do this… But she had to.

The Potters, Sirius and Remus looked at her expectantly. It took Lily all her might to fight the tears prickling at the back of her eyes as she opened the folder, She looked up at her silent audience and said, "Now, for starters…please tell me what you already know."

Lily's request was met with silence. She looked around, everyone looked so sad, she tried not to burst out crying then and there. She tried again, this time; gentler, "Your… co-operation would help me explain her condition so I can get to the major issues we will have to face. By a simple summary of what you know, I can get to the matter at hand. I know it's hard but please, try."

Lara looked at the young nurse before her, there was something…familiar about her, had she met this nurse before? No. Her eyes were hiding something, some kind of emotion. Lara was very good at analysing people, it was her way of finding out whether she could trust them or not. There was more to this nurse than what met her eyes.

Lara looked at her husband, John who was beside her. He gave her hand a squeeze and began to speak.

"Yes, all right. Where to start? We were told she was weak because of the following factors; malnourishment , malnutrition, fatigue and stress, that's all that's been really clarified at this moment…" Sarah's father said in a shaky voice.

Lily gave him a small weak and forced smile, "Thank you Mr Potter. She is indeed weak for those reasons, but there is the factor of why is in this condition which I will discuss with later."

James interrupted her, "Please." Lily looked up at him, "Nurse, just get to the point. want to know what exactly is wrong with my cousin."

"Yes, of course" Lily had dreaded that, she opened the folder once again and started to read through the report.

Sarah-Faye E. Potter…

She shut the folder.

Oh my god! She could die, couldn't she? oh god… I can't do this at all. Who am I fooling?

Her suppressed tears almost came back with wave of voracity. She could hear her breathing became faster… catching.

Oh no! This is no time for an anxiety attack Lily! Hold yourself together! HOLD! Lily rubbed her temples, Calm down…

Even the strongest cover up charm couldn't hide the emotional pain and struggle Lily was going through right now, She let out the smallest sob-

"Nurse?" She heard a voice say.

The door burst open, "Ever so sorry I am late!" an average sort looking man came through the door, "I had an emergency! I'm Dr. Pulm."

Lily's head shot up at the abrupt entrance, she noticed the doctor had small yellow eyes…

Merlin! I love you Ernie! Lily hastily wiped a small tear that came from her eye, she hoped none of the Potters had seen it.

She stood up quickly and Ernie gave her a worried glance, " I'm sorry that you, Sylvia… had to fill in for me," He beamed at her.

His accentuated tone he used on her name set her back with realisation of her surroundings. Then he turned to the Potter's, "She's had to fill in for me at such short notice, You may leave now nurse, I'll take over from here."

Without a second glance, she sped out of the office and into the staff toilets. She splashed her red and hot face with water, in attempts to calm her crying. 

Finally, she took to one of the cubicles and continued to cry softly. She couldn't help but think how unprofessional she was.

~*~*~

James looked taken aback at the strange nurse who had just let out a sob, "Nurse?" he started.

The door burst open, a small bald man came in, "Ever so sorry I am late!" the man said.

James exchanged looks with Sirius and Remus while man who had introduced himself as Dr. Pulm dismissed the nurse. Then he spoke in a different tone, "My dear Potters, I came right after I heard…"

James saw his uncle stand up and firmly shake the man's hand  saying, "Hello Ernest…"

Lara stood up too and kissed him on the cheek, "Thank you…"

When Dr. Pulm's appearance changed, James recognised him as a family friend, Ernest Banks. A highly important man in the ministry.

James' uncle John introduced Mr. Banks to them, "Everyone, this is Ernest banks. He's a colleague of mine; he also works for the ministry. Some of you might not know him, but James I believe you have met him. Ernest here also went to Hogwarts."

James nodded and stood to shake his hand, "Nice to see you again Mr Banks."

"Nice to finally met you again, young James. Last time we met, you had just started Hogwarts! now I'm very sorry for startling you all like that with my transformation, Dr. Pulm won't be back for quite some time, so I believe I will inform you about Miss Potter's condition and… I'm also here for ministry negotiations-"

John looked stressed, "Can't those matters wait Ernest? My little girl is in there sick and-"

"Oh I know that John, but these ministry matters include Miss Potter. I'll ask that you, Lara and James to stay behind with me to discuss this?"

Lara nodded, James looked curiously at Ernest but nodded too.

"All right then. Miss Potter is now in a stable condition, she will be taken to a general private room later today. Her blood pressure levels have risen form their all time low; a good thing, she has been responding well to the nutrition shots, a fast recovery is what we are hoping for, The Annual Ministry ball is in a few days to come,"

Lara looked uncertain, "We weren't considering that she would recover so soon…"

"Oh, but she must, her attendance is a part of the programme"

"What? How?" Sirius asked.

James furrowed his eyes brows, but then he realised, maybe this had something to do with what Sarah wanted to tell him before, it was a possibility. He looked at Ernest for the answer to Sirius' question.

Ernest looked a bit uncomfortable, "Yes, well, that is the matter of the discussion afterwards."

James decided to say something, "I've noticed that Sarah had been acting a bit weird… I mean, as of lately."

Ernest nodded, "Yes, indeed,"

Lara Potter wiped her newly arisen tears, "Ernest why is she so ill? What happened to my baby?"

"Well, you know about results-" Ernest started to say but James stood up. He couldn't help feeling reallyguilty for not watching out for her.

Ernest looked at him as he stood up but James just said, "Sorry, I'm just going to get some fresh air," With that he walked out of the room, after an exchanged worried glance, Remus and Sirius followed.

"James!" Sirius exclaimed. After he got out of the office he looked quickly left and right, James was sitting with his head in hands shaking his head, in the hall way.

Sirius silently sat next to him so Remus sat on James' other side.

They were quiet for a few moments until James' voice could be heard from his hands, "I could have stopped this, I could have taken the damn time to listen to her problems so she wouldn't be in here in the first place!" James choked out fiercely.

"James, you couldn't have known she'd starve herself like she did"

James lifted his face from his hands, "I know that Sirius! But I could have cared enough to listen!"

"It's not that you didn't care enough, heavens knows you care about Sarah a lot," Remus added sternly, "Don't you remember all the fights you got into with her and Lily over Snape… because you thought he had ulterior motives behind their friendship? that maybe he was using them against us? That he'd hurt them? You really thought that Snape would hurt them! Hurt her!"

"Yeah, I remember that. But I remember worrying over our own arses because of their friendship too." James rebuked bitterly, "If only I could have come over and seen what was wrong with her! If only I could have visited her more often! After Lily, she's never been the same. I should have seen the signs, after all, it's just been the marking of our fifth year without her."

"If only this, if only that…James, face it, it's not your fault. Sometimes things happen and some things like this happen, you can't stop them and you can't turn back time! Things happen for a reason James, This happened for a reason."

"Like what Sirius?" James started bitterly, "to bring us more pain?"

"Maybe James… maybe. But everything will turn out the way it's supposed to, no other way. Now, you can sit there, regretting and dwelling in the past, or you can be there for your family, and be there for her as you have always been…

"You can be there for her when she wakes up and starts acting like a brat again." Sirius said with so much more confidence then he really had, but he had to be there for his best friend, no matter what…

Remus looked at Sirius with a new light and respect, "Couldn't have said it better myself." He muttered.

James wiped his tiresome eyes, "I guess you're right."

Sirius patted him on the back, "Nah mate, you know I'm right"

Behind James' back Remus mouthed to Sirius 'Don't push it'; Sirius sniffed.

Remus sat back and leaned against the wall, he has considering whether or not to tell James about the letter about Sarah's parents. He knew it could be vital information but doubted it, considering it was years ago. So he said, "Hey guys, did you know that the girls knew?"

James looked at Remus in slight confusion, "Knew what?"

"They knew about me being -- a werewolf, they knew even before you guys did…"

"And they didn't tell us…"

 "Does that mean that they know about, the rest of us?" asked Sirius with sudden realisation.

Remus smiled a bit, "I'm actually glad they didn't tell me, I don't think they know about you…"

"How did you know they knew Remus?" James questioned.

Remus looked away for a second, uh oh…

But then the office door opened and James saw the majority of his family come out. He stood up as he saw Lara come out and motion him to come inside, James glanced back at Remus and Sirius; they gave him a supporting expressions.

James walked into the office and sat down in a chair next to Lara, She offered him a smile, which he returned.

Ernest was there sitting behind the desk with his hands folded on the desk, "Ok, I believe, due to recent… international events, things have happened. I do believe it will effect you all, recently; before Sarah had unfortunately fallen into such a condition, I had a private meeting with her and the Minister-"

"Pardon me Ernest, but the Minister of Magic?" John questioned with great curiosity.

Ernest nodded, "The very same one John, we discussed issues about Sarah's new responsibilities and current or future status on our international Magical board and society."

What? James thought, international? "Mr Banks, are you sure? I've known Sarah all my life, since when has she been on the international Magical board and society? Since when was she interested? She was never one to like too many responsibilities anyway…"

"Yes, indeed James but over recent events in the country of China-"

"Ernest?" Lara interrupted faintly, "I'm not quite sure I'm clear with this…"

"Of course not, Lara. Let me explain to you without any interruptions, but first let me inform you that in Sarah's seventh year at Hogwarts, I believe she hadn't told you but she wrote a letter to the ministry, about her biological parents. We could not object to her request as she was of age and we could not inform you for she had requested confidentiality…"

James felt his body go numb as he heard Ernest tell him about China, Sarah's biological parents, the meeting concerning her biological uncle and the ball ceremony that was no longer happening…

*~~*~~*

Peter shakily watched as Zabulus raised his hands, a green mist surrounded him and Adele's body dropped to the ground. The mist floated over to him, Peter tried to step away but Death Eaters from behind held him in place, quivering, The green mist transformed into a transparent torso of a man. And the mist spoke, "Pettigrew, your master has chosen his soul…that's where you come in…you will experience your soul being taken from you in full realisation, but it will not be like a Dementor's Kiss…it'll be worse, more pain…"

Peter closed his eyes as the Death Eater tied his hands up on the pole and his feet to the bottom, yeah… now he wished he had never gone to the darkside, now he wished that he never plotted against his friends, that he never killed Adele, that he never buried Calista alive—yes, it was him who killed off both of his friends, but it was what he was told to do…He had to kill them or he would die and both of them suffered so much…so much. But Peter knew he was going to suffer more.

Zabulus' dark and demonic voice sent shivers down his spine, "Pettigrew, I hope you like…fear"

Peter was bewildered at his words.

Zabulus grinned inwardly, even this was illegal for the devil himself to be dealing with Voldemort, Voldemort thought he was so good, so powerful, so evil. But he was dumb; no.1 rule for evilness; don't make deals with their superior, wait until they make deals with you. Voldemort thought that after this spell, he was going to get immortality, No way in hell was he going to get immortality from Zabulus though…he'd have to work not make a deal. Anyway… no one except the devil himself can do the soul erecting spell, but Voldemort did not know that…Zabulus laughed to himself; the results were going to be simply…evil.

*~~**~~*

Ernie walked out of the office with a quite solemn face, He wasn't sure whether he should have told them or not, but someone had to, and Sarah could not. He walked to the staff cafeteria and saw one of his best Extreme Aurors sitting with a single cold coffee, looking very miserable.

He sat down beside her and said, "I'm sorry," His words were met by silence and a small sniffle, he tried again, "You did good Lily- I mean Sylvia,"

He got a snort, "Yeah right Ernie,"

"Yes, exactly…it is right, you were strong and brave, I know a lot couldn't handle what you just went through, let alone half."

"The Potters, Remus and Sirius… they saw me cry, I know it, at least one of them did"

"They did, but I told them you had problems of your own, which you do, it's the truth,"

"But they don't realise that I have the same problems as them, I knew I couldn't pull it off…"

"I don't think anyone could've pulled that off, telling your best friends family about their condition is too much for anyone…"

"Yes… I mean I feel their pain except-"

"Except you had to hide it…"

"Yes,"

"I'm sorry you had to go through that on your first day…"

Lily finally looked up at him, even though he still wasn't in form of the real Ernie, she saw the sincerity in his eyes. "Me too, Ernie…" She said with a shaky voice at first, "but thankyou for being there to save me."

Ernie just smiled and put an arm around her in a fatherly way.

Little did both know, that watching them behind the door, was Remus Lupin…

*~~*~~*

He saw a sleeping Sirius at the white plastic stuck-to-the-wall seats and stopped to wonder how James was doing, James Potter; one of his best friends… Remus hoped he wouldn't do anything …drastic.

He was always the person to get carried away with emotions at times… he should've came out of the office by now, Remus thought as he looked at the glazed over timber door of the office he was in, at that moment the door swung aside and 'the doctor' came out but none of the three Potters followed.

Remus was confused; that nurse was all too familiar…he knew her from somewhere, it was like he had sensed her presence once before, her aura was too clouded over to tell, but he knew something was peculiar about her, when in the office, he had sworn to have felt a struggle of emotions but what kind? He saw she looked a bit down when coming in, and when she let out a sob, he was sure that not all the Potters saw but he certainly did, that; he left a sleeping Sirius and went to the staff cafeteria, maybe he'd remember something if he talked to her or something…

He had a bizarre gut feeling about something; he didn't know about this young woman, he turned the first corner then realised that he didn't really know where she was, she could be anywhere! This hospital is huge but then his logical normal self came him, surely the staff cafeteria would be his best shot.

Remus walked over the two big blue doors that said 'STAFF AREA RESTRICTED' opening the doors casually and keeping his cool, he passed the cupboards quietly and slipped on a white coat and surgeons mask. He didn't even notice how odd it would seem.

He scanned the room and saw the nurse looking miserable, Mr. Banks was walking towards her… Remus rushed behind the corner watching on with wonder.

Nurse Newberry looked dejected, her coffee was no longer steaming and there was a pile of tissues beside the hospital mug, Remus saw Mr. Banks say something to her, she sniffled and he said some more soft words and then she looked up at him with new tears. All of this was quite strange for Remus but he kept watching them.

All ideas of attempting to talk to her flew out his mind and buzzing questions zoomed in. What really shocked him was when Mr. Banks put his arm around her. What the hell…He thought as he backed off and leant against the wall, he looked back and saw him leading her out through the big blue doors, Remus ducked out of sight, ripping the coat and mask off. Once they were out, Remus rushed after them.

Remus silently followed them down the very bottom floor and out the door where Mr. Banks led her to an awaiting limousine, he saw Sylvia turn away, about to turn back into the hospital but Remus saw Mr. Banks say something to her again , this time she nodded and got into the limousine.

As Mr. Banks started back, Remus ran to the stairs and hid until he knew the coast was clear…

He stayed at that spot for a while thinking of what he had saw and heard…

Mr. Banks had known the nurse personally, therefore as known as Mr. Banks was in the magical world, the nurse was most probably not muggle.

Her strange behaviour, did she know them? Remus felt like he knew her, her Aura was familiar and his instincts were never wrong…

Now, Mr Banks dealt with highly important things, top-secret ministry confidential things… Aurors, unspeakables…and Extreme Aurors, the best of the best… James said they were stuck-up, arrogant and thought they were all that…

Nurse Newberry seemed very distressed after talking with the Potters.

What was wrong with her?

Unless… "Stop it, Remus… don't jump to conclusions!" he reprimanded himself.

She did call Mr. Banks 'Ernie'…she must of known him quite personally for that kind of informality…

So… she wasn't a muggle, so what the hell was she doing there?

She knew Sirius and his name… how?

The nurse obviouslty wasn't who he thought she was, and Mr. Banks was on her side. Mr. Banks had interrupted her when she had Sarah's file, and the nurse had seemed like she was actually effected-

Remus had thought that she had probably just had a bad day or week. Maybe the nurse had actually been effected by Sarah's condition.

In the cafeteria; Mr. Banks had said something along the lines of telling her best friends family…their condition…

The nurse's name was Sylvia… right? But Mr. Banks called her Lily and then… he corrected himself; Lily was her real name. Why would a wise old man like Mr. Banks slip up so easily? Perhaps it was because of the safer muggle environment- no… but that was not what mattered. Lily was her real name!

Oh!

No… it couldn't be though…

But if she was who he thought she might be…

Oh.

Oh shit

-Fin-

I hadn't really made all those little slip ups that eventually led Remus to discovering Lily, when I wrote this I was that bad at writing, plot holes included. Honestly, I disgust myself.

By the bloody way, I smell death… can you? the air just reeks of it. I think it's coming from next chapter, or something. *laughs evilly*