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Fate.

Harry froze in his spot, staring intently into his mother's green eyes. Then, instinct kicked in and he quickly withdrew, pressing himself against the wall next to his bed, trying to get the as far away from his mother as possible. The green eyes that had been watching him gleamed with hurt and his mother let her arm fall on the bed. But even then, he didn't move. For a few, tense moments, they continued to stare at each other. Harry wished that his mother would just leave; he wasn't ready to face her. On her part, Lily was trying to think of something to say, but the blank face at her wasn't helping much. Finally, much to their relief, a voice broke the silence.

"Lily."

Harry and his mother looked towards the door and saw a frowning Sirius standing there. The woman sighed and stood up, knowing Harry's godfather was not happy to see her there in Harry's room. He had become even more overprotective of the young teen and it had taken James and her hours to convince him into allowing them to remain in the house. Without a word, she left the room, feeling that her son's green eyes were following her every move.

Once she was gone, Harry relaxed against the pillows once again. He wasn't sure how he should be feeling, but right now he was relieved; he would not have to face his parents as long as Sirius was willing to keep them away. He watched as his godfather entered the room, a dark frown still etched upon his features. Sirius held out a cup to him and then helped him sit up so he could drink the potion the man had brought him.

After drinking the blue potion, Dragon lay back into the pillows and looked at his godfather. The man was sitting silently at his side and seemed to be lost in thoughts. Harry contemplated if he should try to talk to him, but the growing drowsiness that surrounded him was making it difficult for him to think. Finally giving up to the drowsiness, he sent a small good night to his friends, who were also nearly asleep, and he closed his eyes, allowing the warm darkness to envelope him.

He wasn't sure how long it had been since he fell asleep, when he was awoken by angry shouts coming from downstairs. Groggily opening his eyes, he tried to make out what those voices were arguing about but his headache only seemed to get worse if he tried to focus on the loud sounds. Since he didn't understand what was going on, he reached out to his friends, to see if they knew what had happened.

'Phoenix, Griffin?'

Hermione seemed to still be sleeping, because the only sound that reached him from her was a soft hum. On the other hand, Ron's voice immediately came up.

'Hey, mate, what do you think is happening down there; I was just sleeping so comfortably.'

Harry could clearly hear the annoyance tone in his friend's voice. 'I have no idea, but I feel like my head is going to burst; I hope they will shut up soon.'

They waited for a few minutes, but it didn't seem like the people down there were going to be shutting up anytime soon. Harry blinked slightly when Hermione's sleepy voice rang through their minds. 'Guys, what on earth is going on?'

Before Harry had the chance to reply, Ron's angry voice sounded through their head. 'Ok, that's it; I'm going down there and making them shut up. I'm in enough pain without them adding to it.'

Harry didn't have the chance to answer before he heard Ron close the door to his room and walk down the stairs. A loud bang resounded through the house when Ron flung open the door that lead to the living room and then the Griffin's voice began to rant.

"What the bloody hell is going on here! Unless you've not noticed, Dragon, Phoenix and I are not feeling well! And we were finally getting some rest and then you begin to argue so loud that the whole neighbourhood has probably heard you! Now you have two choices, either you shut the hell up or you leave this house, is that understood?!"

Harry didn't hear the mumbled answer, but he didn't need to. The house was once again silent. Sighing, he closed his eyes again and smiled slightly. Trust Griffin to make things go the way he wanted. He heard Ron climb up the stairs again and enter his room.

'Ok, people, mission accomplished, I think they are going to stay quiet now. Night.'

Hermione's voice floated to them, answering to Ron. 'Night, guys.'

Harry sighed sleepily and curled up between the blankets. 'Night.'

In the living room, the four adults remained in silent shock for a few more minutes. They had been arguing about James and Lily being there, with Sirius furiously refusing to allow them to stay, having seen Harry's reaction to his mother and Remus trying to placate his friend. Lily and James, on the other hand, had tried to tell Sirius that they needed to make amends with Harry, but the black-haired man refused to listen to them. The argument had escalated to the point that everyone was shouting, even Remus, who usually kept his cool, had been forced to raise his voice to restrain Sirius. Finally, the bang of the door had make them shut up and an angry Ron Weasley starting to shout at them.

Once the boy had gone back to his room, Remus had sunk down into his chair and buried his head in his hands.

"Sometimes, we're such idiots."

Sirius sighed and sat down next to his best friend. (A/N: Remus, obviously) Wrapping a gentle arm around the man's shoulders, he spoke softly, "it's ok, Remy, it's not your fault; you were only trying to calm us down. It's our fault things got out of hand."

James nodded from his place next to Lily. "Sirius is right, Remus. Don't blame yourself."

Sirius looked at the two Potters for a moment. "We are going to continue with this argument at another time. Right now I think we should keep the truce and help the kids back to health. When is Madam Pomfrey coming?"

Remus looked up. "Tomorrow morning, first thing; she's still helping out the few Muggles that are still in her care"

Sirius nodded and stood up. "In that case, I suggest we check on the kids and then go get some sleep ourselves. You know Poppy is going to go nuts if we don't get our rest. It was already hard enough to convince her to allow the trio to stay here, no sense in risking her wrath."

The other occupants of the room chuckled, and Remus and Sirius left the living room while James and Lily transfigured the couch and settled in.

Remus checked Ron and Hermione's room, and was pleased to see that both teens were once again sleeping peacefully. After closing the door to Phoenix's room, he went to the room Sirius and him shared. His friend joined him there a few minutes later.

"Harry's sleeping again, what about Ron and Hermione?"

Remus lay down on his bed. "They are sleeping too." After a few minutes of silence, he spoke again. "You really need to work things out with James and Lily, you can't keep getting into fights every time something like this happens."

Sirius didn't answer until he was lying in bed. "I know, Remus, but I can't help it; I don't want them to hurt Harry again."

"I understand that, Padfoot, I don't want it either, but I don't think they are going to do that anytime soon."

Sirius frowned. "How can you be so sure, they have done it before."

Remus turned slightly so he was facing his friend. "I'm sure because I was there when Dumbledore took matters in his own hands and forced them to listen to him."

Sirius looked at his friend for a while. "You never told me what happened."

Remus sighed and turned to face the ceiling. "Well, it was just after the Death Eater attack..."

A/N: Thanks for all reviews. And thanks to Vinnie for her wonderful work as my beta-reader.