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The betrayal:

They silently made their way to the Griffindor Tower, while approaching it they could sense the people in the common room. Griffin wasn't feeling very well at the moment, all his family, including all his brothers and sister, were there. He could easily sense their presence, looking at his friends he saw that Hermione was playing with her phoenix necklace shooting nervous glances to the approaching portrait of the fat lady. Harry remained impasible, he was walking in the front, his hands were in his pockets and he was looking cautiously around. Finally he stopped in front the ported and looked behind him.

"Are the two of you alright?" He was concerned, sure he was going to see Sirius again, and that would be very hard on itself, but he couldn't start to imagine how his friends were feeling, they had known their parents all their life and the bond between them was stronger that the one he shared with his Godfather no matter how much he had learned to love him.

"Yeah, please, lets get this over with." Hermione nodded and Harry looked at them one last time before turning back to the entrance. The fat lady was looking at them with big eyes, it looked like she had recognised them, Harry didn't waste his time in finding out.

"Muggle." The portrait slid aside to show the entrance to the common room.

When he stepped inside, all the heads snapped up to look at him. He stepped aside to allow his friends enter the room. Griffin shut the door behind him and turned to look at everyone. The tension was thick in the room, no one made a move or said anything, after several minutes of staring Phoenix began to move.

"I'm going to take a shower." And she disappeared to the girls dorms. Griffin and Dragon looked at each other and decided that it was better if they went upstairs too.

Sirius was shaking, he knew it but at the moment he didn't care. His godson had finally arrived, but it was worse than he had expected. He had grown up, not only physically, in his eyes he had seen the look of a tired much older man and it had scared him senseless. That and the fact that he had barely looked at him had reduced him to a state of hopelessness. Finally he couldn't bear it anymore and he stormed out of the room just when Harry came back downstairs. Dragon watched his godfather storm out of the room, he frowned, he had never seen Sirius looking so sad and pale. He saw Lupin making his way out of the room to look for his friend, but in a second decided it was better if he went himself.

"Wait Lupin." Everyone looked startled, they hadn't noticed him standing at the stairs. "I'll go after him, tell Ron and Hermione I'll see them later." Without another word he went out of the room in search of his godfather.

It didn't take long for him to find Sirius, he was siting in a classroom looking out the window, a lonely tear was rolling down his check. It broke Harry's heart to see him so defeated and he could feel all the anger go away. He didn't look up when Harry closed the door and made his way to his godfather's side. When he was standing besides him, Sirius talked.

"Please Moony, go away." Harry smiled a little, he obviously wasn't thinking very straight at the moment or he would have noticed he wasn't his werewolf friend.

"First, my nickname's not Moony, it's Dragon." Sirius had snapped his head up and was looking straight at him, a faint blush covering his checks. "And second, I think you and me need to have a long, nice chat." He sat down in a chair and looked at Sirius who seemed to be transfixed with the mere vision of him. Patiently, he waited for Sirius to recover his composure. After ten minutes the man finally took place in another chair in front of him, Dragon noticed his hands were shaking a little, he had never seen his godfather that nervous about anything, he normally had lots of self- confidence.

He could have said something to help Sirius, but he knew deep down that it had to be the other man who took the first step if they wanted to work things out. Sirius was battling with himself, why was he so nervous, his godson was giving him what he wanted, a chance to talk to him, he needed to get the words out, even if he was deathly afraid about what Harry would say. With a deep breath he started to talk, his voice was very soft, and he wondered if Harry even heard him.

"Harry, I know I have no right to be talking to you after having turned on you the way I did, I know I should have trusted you, or at least tried to find out if it was the truth. Saying I never believed it was you is stupid, you know I did and I know I did, as much as I hate to admit it. My only defence is that I have been in this situation before, with Peter, I also trusted him blindly and he betrayed us. I know to you it doesn't matter, I let you down more than anyone could have and I'm sorry." Dragon noticed the tears in Sirius's eyes when his godfather looked away. Of course he understood what his godfather was saying, after losing his best friend to that little rat it was natural for him to act so.

"I understand." He looked up. "I really do, but why compare me with Peter and not with yourself? Things are never the way they look, you should know it better than anyone." Sirius looked down again, his godson was right, and he had been blaming himself for not trying to see what had happened.

"I... I didn't dare." Harry's eyebrows shot up, that wasn't the answer he had expected from his godfather. A little of his anger returned.

"Why not?" His voice now had a sharp edge, and Sirius flinched.

"First I was to hurt, the thought of you killing all those people and betraying us brought up what had happened with Peter, after some of it faded away I didn't want to know why you had done it, I didn't want to have anything to do with you anymore. I couldn't, it would have destroyed me to try and think about it. For months I just functioned because Remus made me, if it had been for me I would have just sat down somewhere and slowly faded away." Now Sirius was openly crying, with his head in his hands, and his words were barely understandable. Harry didn't really need to, he could see to well how Sirius's life had been destroyed once more. He looked sadly at him, he felt it was all his fault. He stood up and went to the window to collect his thoughts and let his godfather regain his composure. When the sobbing stopped he talked.

"I'm very sorry Sirius." Sirius looked up sharply at his godson's back. "If it hadn't been for me, you wouldn't have gone through all this, you don't deserve to be going through all this." Dragon leaned his head on the window. Sirius stalked to Harry and sharply turned him around.

"Stop right now saying all those nonsense, have you gone insane? I was the one who turned on you, if I hadn't done it I wouldn't have gone through all this. It's my own fault, mine and Voldemorts."

"But..."

"No buts Harry, you know I'm right." He grabbed Harry into a strong embrace, he could feel his godson's body tense under his, but he refused to let go of him. Harry was startled when Sirius embraced him, all the love and comfort that radiated from the other man was overwhelming, after a few moments he relaxed and leaned his head on his godfather's chest for he was still a head taller than he was. This was what he had missed the most, the fatherly embrace that only Sirius could give him. With closed eyes he listened to Sirius's breathing and heartbeat, it calmed him down more than anything else ever could. Sirius was looking in wonder at his godson's face, he looked so peaceful in his embrace. He still couldn't believe that Harry found it in his heart to forgive him, or at least try to do it.

"Harry?" Without looking up Harry replied.

"Yes Sirius?"

"Is,... is everything alright now?" His voice was quite. He looked again at his godson who still hadn't moved from his embrace and seemed to be pondering the question.

"No, not all, but give it time." Sirius nodded and wrapped his arms tighter around Harry. They stood there for a long time, finally Harry stepped back and Sirius let him go. Looking up at his godfather Dragon smiled a little.

"Come, lets go back to the common room, Lupin will be worried." Sirius nodded and the two of them made their way back to the Griffindor tower.

To be continued...

Author's notes: Wasn't that sweet? Thanks for all reviews.