So this was pain. This thought flashed through my mind and I grabbed a hold of it. It could free me. It could return me to the only people who mattered anymore. Sirius and Remus. My friends. My brothers.

Escape fresh in my mind, I fought. And fought hard. Something inside of me refused to back down, to give in.

So I fought. I wanted to go back, they needed me and I knew it. A lone voice had reached me, I don't know how long ago anymore. It had broken through the fog in my head and gave me a path.

"NO. NO! NO! Come back, come back! We need you. I need you! We are all going to die! You have to come, have to."

Sirius.

My friend had been surrounded by dementors and had screamed this over, and over again.

And I listened. I battered whatever was holding me back, and broke free.