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"Hey baby, how are you feeling?" Sirius said, as he walked into the hospital wing during his lunch break two weeks later.

"I'm getting a lot better. Madam Pomfrey said I could leave tonight if I promise to come back and take her potions during lunch everyday. How are you? And how's James?" Rebecca questioned. She wanted to cry every time she looked at Sirius, he looked so depressed. She knew that the Potter's were like his family, and that he ran away from his real one and went to live with them.

"I'm okay, but I'm really worried about James. He spends all his time in Godric Gryffindor's bedroom, except for classes and meals, but even then he just sits there and doesn't say a word. The only person he'll talk to is Lily."
            "Godric Gryffindor's bedroom?" Rebecca questioned.

"Oh, yeah, James' dad told us about it in our third year, so we went exploring and finally found it."

Rebecca cringed at the look of immense pain in Sirius' eyes as he talked about James' dad.

"Anyway," Sirius said, looking for a change of topic, "that's great that you can leave tonight! I'll come and pick you up right after dinner."

"Ok," Rebecca said with a smile. She couldn't wait to leave; she had been stuck in the hospital wing for two weeks, and was getting really sick of it.

"Oh yeah, and we figured out that the reason Malfoy and Snape were acting so weird the night was because they helped kill James' parents, and when we told Wormtail, he went and used the Cruciatus curse on them. It was amazing to see them shrieking in pain like that, but I want to know where he learned how to do it. He can't even do Vanishing spells, how did he perform one of the most complicated curses there is?"

"Sirius! That's illegal! I don't want you guys to hang out with Peter anymore; it takes A LOT of practice to perfect that spell, which means he's had to of done it before, and you can only perform it correctly if you really enjoy seeing people in pain."

"Calm down Becca, I'm sure he's never done it before, maybe he just got lucky. And of course he enjoys seeing Malfoy and Snape in pain, who doesn't?"

"I don't know," Rebecca said skeptically, "you usually need to be really deep into the Dark Arts to perform it…"

"This is Peter were talking about, I know he's not involved in the Dark Arts. The bell's going to ring any second; I have to go to History of Magic, but I'll come back as soon as it's over."

"Ok," Rebecca said glumly, as Sirius gave her a quick kiss and left.

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"How's Rebecca?" Lily whispered, as Sirius slipped into his seat just as the bell rang, signaling the start of class.

"She's getting better. She's leaving the hospital wing tonight." Then, noticing the empty seat next to him, he added, "Where's James?"

"He didn't feel like coming to class. It's just History of Magic, it's not like we really need it anyway."

"Fuck this, I'm going up to Godric Gryffindor's bedroom. I'm his best friend, I should be the one he talks to, not you."

"Sirius, please don't be jealous," Lily pleaded. "Voldemort killed my parents too, so he knows I understand how he feels."

"Lily, James is like my brother and his parents were like my parents. I've lived with them for the past two years and in that time I was happier than I had ever been in my entire life. I know EXACTLY how he feels."

Just then, Professor Binns turned around, and Sirius got up and left the classroom. On his way through the corridors, he saw Snape and Malfoy huddled in a corner, talking in whispers. Hatred rose through Sirius' chest. He hid behind a suit of armor, and whispered "Petrificus Totalus", his wand aimed at Snape. Snape froze in mid-sentence, and fell to the floor in a full body bind. Before Lucius had time to react, Sirius did the same thing to him.

He strolled over to where Malfoy and Sape were lying, motionless. "You're lucky I have some place to be, because I don't have time to torture you. For now, I'll just put you somewhere where nobody will find you; that would be doing the whole school a favor."

He looked around the corridor, and spotted an unused classroom. He dragged Malfoy and Snape into it, and hid them behind the teachers' desk. When he was sure that people passing by the classroom couldn't see them, he left and headed over to Godric Gryffindor's bedroom. He tapped the wall with his wand, mumbled "bravery", and pulled open the large door that had appeared. He walked into the room, and spotted James lying on the bed. He was staring up at the ceiling, and acting as if he hadn't noticed that his best friend had just walked through the door.

Sirius stood there waiting for James to say something. Finally, after a couple of minutes, he spoke. "What do you want?"

"Don't talk to me like that," Sirius snapped. "I want to know why you won't talk to me. Your parents were like my parents too. I've lived in their house for the past two years. Obviously, if anybody is going to understand how you feel, it's me."

"No, you don't understand how I feel, and you never will, because you still have your family."

"James, shut up. You know you and your parents are my family. Blood means absolutely nothing to me. Now stop being such a git, because I'm all you've got left and you're all I've got left."

James stared at the ceiling, lost in thought. After a few minutes, he turned and looked at Sirius.

"You're right, I'm sorry."

"That's ok. I'm always here for you no matter what, don't ever forget that."

"Thanks mate, same here."

"Now come on, we've got twenty minutes till class, and Snape and Malfoy are trapped in an empty classroom, both in full body binds." Sirius said with a grin, "Let's go have some fun."