Hey, thanks everyone for reviewing. I was so afraid that you'd want to decapitate me after the last chapter lol *relieved sigh *. I'll post replies at the bottom of the story because I know you want to get to reading it (lol well or else you wouldn't be here now). I think you'll be pleased to know that I've decided that I've been dragging out saving Sirius for long enough. So this chapter, he'll be out of that Veil. The story's not going to end there though. Anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter. It will contain a fight scene, which I'm not so good at because I've never done those before so please be patient with my amateur-ness. Ok, well read and please review.

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Sirius looked at James, who was standing at the end of the left road. His best friend seemed to understand everything from Sirius's look, so he smiled sadly and met Sirius halfway through the shining road.

"I'm sorry Prongs."

"It's all right Padfoot I understand. It's best this way." They hugged. "Take care of him, all right? We'll wait for you, but take your time."

"Thanks James." Sirius's voice was dripping with emotion.

"If you need anything… I know I'm dead and all but you can count on me for help, Sirius. You know that. Tell Harry I love him for me, will you?" James's voice was breaking too.

"Hey…" Sirius said softly, "I thought you said there was no pain up there." He smiled at James.

"No… But there's love." James said sadly and smiled. "Just as well…"

"Bye James."

"Bye Sirius."

And with one last hug between the two best friends, Sirius began walking back towards the gateway.

Sirius, of course, realized what he was leaving behind. Behind him was his best friend; with James he always felt safe, needed, peaceful, happy… perfectly content. With Harry, he often felt useless… However Sirius wasn't one to dwell on the past. As far as he was concerned, the future could be changed and that was all that mattered. And he was done letting people push him around. Besides, Harry relied on him, he looked up to him as a father, and Sirius had come to think of Harry as his own son. And for a first time in a long while, just a few minutes ago looking at Harry's face, Sirius had realized that he really is needed back. That someone out there misses him. And that gave him new hope, new strength to fight. Never in his life would he abandon Harry again.

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Harry watched numbly as Sirius walked away, towards James. 'This can't be happening. He can't leave now.' He thought, panicking, 'I've come all the way here… I need him there.' He simply refused to believe that Sirius was leaving. He wasn't in denial, he wasn't hoping for a miracle, he just refused to believe it, as if knowing for a fact it wasn't true. He watched his godfather hug his father and talk for just a few minutes about something that obviously brought a lot of sadness to them. And when Harry saw Sirius turn back and walk towards him, he blinked. Then blinked again. Then he pinched his hand, wincing in pain. But Sirius was still walking towards him, smiling and it wasn't a dream.

It took Harry a while to get over the shock and he felt himself glowing with happiness. He ran towards Sirius and hugged him so tightly that his godfather could barely breathe.

"Harry, Harry, whoa, it's ok." Sirius laughed but hugged him back.

"Sirius!" Harry couldn't wipe the huge grin off his face. Then he hit his godfather on his shoulder.

"Ow!" Sirius cried out in protest.

"How dare you disappear in here? What if no one ever came to get you? Don't you think about other people? Everyone was so devastated; you should have seen them! Dumbledore's been blaming himself and I'm obviously blaming myself and---"

"Hey… slow down. Do you think I got myself stuck in here on purpose?" Sirius asked in amazement. "It was never your fault; or Dumbledore's. I was tired of being locked up; no one forced me to come here. And then all I did was get locked up again. Smart, eh?"

Harry shook his head. "Siri---"

"Hey, I'm supposed to be the one lecturing YOU. Isn't it school time right now? Shouldn't you be at Hogwarts? How did you get here anyway?"

"Well yes, I should be in school but my first class isn't until…" He checked his Muggle watch, "two hours from now. And since this spell could only be performed on a specific night once or twice a year, I thought I'd risk missing a few hours of classes. How I got here, remember that entrance from Hogwarts to the Ministry? It's on the Map, and well it's proven very useful." Sirius smiled. "Oh, this Allen Krived told me to say hi to you by the way. He let me in… is he a friend of yours?"

"Allen? I've known him since forever. He's like an uncle to me. He works here?" Harry nodded. "No wonder he let you in. This section is supposed to be restricted… Well let's go, I don't think I can stand this place much longer."

As they walked towards the warm, shining light, Sirius looked back at James who was waving sadly. "Harry… Your Dad told me to tell you that he loves you." Sirius said. Harry turned around, too and waved to his Dad.

"I know. I love him too…" His eyes became watery and Sirius could bet that he saw tears running from James's eyes as they stepped into the light.

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This is where you'd think everything was happily ever after. Sadly, Harry Potter's life was never predictable. Well, unless you predict that the boy can never have more than two minutes of happiness.

Just as Sirius and Harry stepped out of the Veil, they found themselves surrounded by Death Eaters, lead by Bellatrix.

"Aww look who's back." She cooed at her cousin. "Well that won't last long. Get them guys." And suddenly, Death Eaters from every direction spilled onto the two.

Sirius and Harry were taken by surprise but were forced to recover quickly. Curses were shot at them from various directions and it took them another moment to realize that they were broken when they reached close to Sirius and Harry. The Death Eaters had realized this too and soon stopped in confusion.

"You idiots! Spells aren't effective in the radius of the Veil anymore…" Apparently the Ministry had made up some other restriction since Sirius's disappearance.

"Really… well that's interesting." Sirius said in an amused tone, "Hmm now you can't harm us."

"Siri, honey, you're not going to stay in there for too long." Bellatrix said, her voice mockingly sweet. "But wait, actually, you're used to being locked up so maybe this is a problem after all." She pretended to think (it didn't look like she's had enough practice REALLY doing that), "Nah."

Right then, Sirius stepped out from the supposed radius around the Veil, Harry following beside him. "Bring it on." (A/N yes, that sounds very lame but hey… Now comes the fighting scene *cringe * hope it doesn't suck too much.)

Once more, many spells were shot in their direction. But Harry and Sirius were one step ahead of them. Both had whispered 'Ultra-Protego' on themselves after stepping out of the Veil's shield and were now protected by a strong, but temporary shield. 'Crucio' someone yelled and in a few seconds the same person gasped and yelled, twitching on the floor as his own curse reflected onto him. In a matter of a few minutes, the not-so-smart Death Eaters were laying around the floor, their own horrible curses reflected back to them but most were still fighting, trying to destroy the shields. The almost visible magic barrier trembled as counter spells were used on it and it wouldn't be long until it would be useless.

'Petrificus Totalus!' Harry yelled at a Death Eater who was casting another counter spell on his shield. Too late, he realized that casting the spell had made his own shield disappear. With no time to think, Harry started shouting various spells at the wizards and witches around him, hoping that with some miracle he wouldn't get hit with one. See, the biggest problem with Ultra Shield spells is that one can be performed only once in a while.

Sirius shrugged off his shield with Harry too. He wouldn't stay there protected when Harry was fighting for his life. But they had no chance of winning, he knew. They would need a miracle to get out of this. With a few of their enemies down by their own spells and some by Harry and Sirius's, there were still about ten left against the two of them.

"Hey Siri!" Her voice sounded cheery as Bellatrix turned to Sirius. "Leave this one alone, I can deal with him." She ordered the others. "Back so soon are ya?" Sirius glared at her with a look full of loathing. The Death Eaters had backed off him but they were still on Harry and he kept a close look on them, casting a spell once in a while. "Well you know, Master thinks you and the boy there are a problem to us." Sirius shot another look in her direction; he was listening but paying more attention to protecting Harry. "I don't question his judgement… No wait, I do. It's kind of funny… How can YOU be a danger to the strongest Dark Lord ever? All you ever do is sit locked up somewhere anyway."

"You know what else is funny? He gets you to call him Master." Sirius chuckled and said in amusement, "You're like his little lap dog. No, dogs are cute… and they have brains… and hearts. You're like… his rat. Yeah that fits exactly." He smiled at her suddenly angry expression.

"Let's get this over with. Crucio!" She yelled, pointing her wand at Sirius. It happened in a blur; Sirius conjured a quick Shield spell and the Unforgivable reflected on Lestrange who stared at him with her eyes wide open before falling over and struggling in pain. And on a double take, Sirius realized that she never fell on the ground. No, instead she fell back into the curtains of the Veil, to be forever stuck in nothing. She wouldn't be rescued; she COULDN'T be rescued. Only pure, as they say 'good' souls have a chance of being released. Bellatrix was going to be left suffering forever. He felt sorry for her… for all of a second. Yes, yes that's so much, but she was his cousin and he was entitled to at least a second of mourning.

Harry, meanwhile, was still struggling with the leftover Death Eaters. It was about eight to one now and he wasn't so confident anymore. A few spells had managed to hit him, nothing lethal thank God, but he was now slower and his vision was slightly blurred; his glasses had fell off somewhere and there were various cuts across his body from many spells directed at him. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Sirius and Bellatrix beginning to fight but his attention was diverted back to the Death Eaters. He was endlessly saying Protego but his Shield spells seemed to be less and less effective. Now, they merely faded the spell when it got to Harry, and took their time doing that, too, so he was starting to feel side effects from the attempted spells.

Vaguely, Harry heard someone yell 'Ilsonu!' and after another weak attempt to Shield himself, the spell reached him in its almost full strength. Harry's eyelids were getting heavy and he found it difficult to stand without swaying. He was falling asleep.

'No, no I can't sleep.' Harry thought to himself, panicking. 'I have to fight, they'll kill me.' Yet he was finding it harder and harder to resist the spell. Then a thought rushed through his head, 'They'll kill Sirius!' and Harry was suddenly energized. The thought of losing his godfather again brought him strength he'd never had before.

Harry looked around at his enemies, yet they were distracted by something. Following their center of attention just in time, Harry saw Bellatrix yell the Cruciatus curse at Sirius but he was fast and the curse rebounded on Sirius's cousin. In shock, Bellatrix fell over, and she would have been screaming from pain had she not disappeared under the veil, like Sirius had only a few months ago.

Harry was stunned; happy from this sudden revenge and horrified at the whole situation at the same time. The Death Eaters were hesitant for a moment too before they, as one, turned back to Harry. By now, Sirius had appeared by his godson's side. They were still outnumbered by many and both knew there was no way they would win this alone. The Death Eaters knew this too, and they seemed to take pleasure in their victims' hopeless situation, when suddenly…

Wizards and witches came bursting out of the many entrances to the room. They surrounded the Death Eaters and had their wands ready to fire. Surprised, Voldemort's followers turned their attention from Harry and Sirius for a moment and in that moment, the two went as far away from them as possible. The crowd that had emerged into the room disarmed them and one by one, the Death Eaters were dragged out of the room to be imprisoned.

Harry and Sirius were standing in the back of the room, watching the proceedings when Harry noticed Allen wink at them from the other side of the room. He smiled gratefully and Sirius waved at the man.

See, that's another thing you can always predict in Harry's life. He's always in trouble but there are always people who help him out of it just when everything seems hopeless. Yeah, sometimes it feels pretty good to be Harry Potter.

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First and foremost, review replies: Lil Lupin, hee hee well the answer to that was up there and hey you reviewed it almost right after I actually posted the chapter aww thanks; Ice, :) :) nope things are not as they seem; Ali, boogie monster? Lol aah scary! * Grateful that I updated* Thanks for the enthusiasm, it's really encouraging; Padfoot, oh my God, thank you so much for that! Kandice, lol you seem hyper. Party in the Bat Cave with no shoes… hmm sounds kinda fun! Lol; sapphireskies, yes it is pretty off limits but Allen is a good friend of Sirius's and, like every one of Sirius's friends, has a certain disregard for the rules. :) Thanks for liking my story! A.J. sorry, I hope this chapter is more satisfying; Kaitlyn, np for the email, your stories are really good, and thanks for that review; ^.^, aww what a cute name lol, and aah I get those two mixed up ALL THE TIME!! It's annoying. Sorry for any confusion about Harry and James's eye colours. Nicole, mine is in no way better than yours but thank you!! Ooh and thanks for adding me to your favourites list.

Special thank you to bluefairexoxo, who, back in the chapter 3 reviews, suggested the idea of Bellatrix ending up in the Veil. So thanks for that idea, as you can see, I used it here.

All in all, thanks to everyone for reading the story, reviewing it and liking it. I love you guys! *Tear * and I hope you liked this chapter too, despite the pretty crappy fight scene and all. I'm going to be writing about the others' reaction to Sirius's return and the whole Voldemort prophecy thing. Well *takes breath * please review.