Shadows on the wall

Forming outlines of your face

I reach out to touch you

Through time and through space In my dreams I'm always with you

So let me sleep In my dreams I'm with you

I'll always be with you

I dream that your here with me

Lying by my side

This wont last forever

Let's catch the sands of time

I don't want ever to end

So let me sleep Let me sleep for a while let me dream of your smile

In my dreams I'm with you

Let me sleep for a while let me dream of your smile

I'll always be with you Credits to : Whoever writes S Club songs!!

(NOTE : SHORT CHAPTER BUT ILL UPDATE TOMOROW)

Lana didnt have to open her eyes to know that someone had walked into the room and was now stood at the side of her. She didnt care. It could be Voldemort for all she cared. Sirius didnt love her, and all Lana could think about was that.

She couldnt think rationally - when she really should be going over their conversation more carefully, all she could do was cry. And sleep. Then cry some more.

Before, Lana had been so pre-occupied with Harry and Lupin and the fact that she was now 'awake', that she hadnt really had chance to deal with Sirius' death, and her seeing him twice now, and the second time being the biggest blow, it really hit her hard.

The pillow was tear stained and so was the white quilt. There was dust and blood on the quilt, Lanas hair was stuck to her face, and she was sure she looked a mess. But again, she really didnt care.

She didnt know how long shed been here. A day or two, she figured.

Mildly curious about who it was, Lana was about to pull the sheets back when the person did it for her.

Looking up, Lana was less than impressed.

"And here was me thinking it was going to be Voldemort. And I got something worse." Lana said bitterly to the man with the long beard and half-moon spectacles.

"I think you need to get up." Dumbledore said carefully.

"No." Lana said. "I dont want to. I dont care any more. Just leave me here to rot...Oh wait, youve already done that once."

"Lana...Youve been here 2 days. Your head needs seeing to. And you do care." he said softly, sitting down. "We're at 12 Grimmauld Place. Harry is here. So are the Weasleys."

Lana wiped furiously at the tears on her face. Hed brought her here, of all places. "Not any more I dont." A thought occured to Lana, something Sirius said about Lucius..."You told him." she said, it suddenly dawning on her.

Dumbledore looked down at her calmly.

"Sirius...You told him about Lucius...About what you made me do." her eyes flashed angrily.

"I promised I would not tell him. I did not." Dumbledore said. "Mind that temper of yours, Lana. The Ghost Roads move through time and space, so it is quite likely that Sirius stumbled upon something."

Lana closed her eyes, and pushed herself up into a sitting position. "Leave me alone." she whispered.

"There is someone here who would like to see you."

"I said YOU leave me alone, not anyone else." Lana spat. "Moony...Wheres Lupin? Is he okay?" she asked, suddenly desperate to see him, to know if she had saved him. If he had been in here in the past 2 days, she didnt know. She had mostly slept, exhausted from the Ghost Roads and sleeping to shut off the pain.

Dumbledore smiled slightly, nodded and strode out of the room.

Leaning against the wall, Lana wrapped the sheet around her. She sighed heavily, closing her eyes and biting down on her lip, hoping and praying that Lupin was okay.

Feeling a weight at the the other end of the bed, Lana opened one eye. It was Lupin.

"Dont tell me youre asleep again!" came Lupins slightly raspy voice. Full moon was approaching, and he was tired.

Lana opened both of her eyes and stared at him. Lupin turned to see her looking at him with an uncharacteristic look of seriousness on her face. "How can you joke?" she asked, voice barely above a whisper.

He looked at her - her tear stained face, the dried blood on her forehead, the look of hollowness in her eyes. He felt pained to see his friend - no less, the person he had slept with not a week ago - in this state. "How are you? Really?" Lupin asked, moving to lean against the wall and sit next to her.

Looking at him, his eyes full of concern, Lana saw no point in lying. "Im tired. Of crying." she said, giving him a little half smile, quick as a flash, that said, 'I might look bad now but Ill be fine.'

Lupin knew that, despite the small smile, she wouldnt fully heal from whatever had happened to her. "Where did you get to?" he asked.

Confusion crept over Lanas features. "What do you mean?"

Brow creasing slightly, Lupin said - "Moody, Tonks and Kingsley went to look for you almost straight away. They couldnt find you. It took Dumbledore a good 2 hours to find you, and you were just wandering around, kind of...Vacant."

Feeling even more confused, Lana shrugged. "Ive got no control over my body when I - When Sirius - " Lana shut her eyes, and took a deep breath, steadying herself. "Drags me there."

There was a moment of awkwardness between them.

"How about you? You okay? Didnt do too much damage to you did I?" Lana said slowly, like it was requiring much effort to speak.

"Thanks to you, Im still breathing." he paused, and turned to Lana, whos eyes were shining with tears.

"Im sorry." Lana whispered, then looked away from him. "I should - we should never have. But I shouldnt have said that."

"But it was the truth." Lupin said shortly.

"Thats just it tho," she said, eyes flicking up to look at him, then suddenly becoming fixated with the label on the sheet. "It wasnt the truth."

Now it was Lupins turn to feel confused. "It wasnt? I wasnt just...Convenient?" he asked, wishing that Lana would look at him. "Then what was it? What was...What am I?"

"Thats just it too..." she shrugged, looking up at him, "I dont know. I just - I didnt mean what I said. It - "

Lana made twirling motions at the side of her head. "Im all confused. I dont - " she took a deep breath.

Lupin sighed. He didnt want to discuss this. He wanted to talk about something else. "Promise me something." Lupin said, putting his hand under Lanas chin and making her look at him.

Lana let his hand there for a few seconds, then batted it away gently, holding it in her own hand. "Depends on what it is."

"That you wont use that power again. The healing one, or whatever you did to me...It damaged you. Not only did the pyro go out of control, you got dragged into the Ghost Roads right after youd brought me back from the brink of death, and one is tiring enough, but one right after the other is...You could have been seriously hurt."

Lana shuddered. He was right. She had thought that power was dormant - it hadnt worked on Lily and James - couldnt save them, but it healed Harry.

"Promise me Lana." said Lupin, squeezing her hand.

"I'll try. But if I have to sacrifice myself to save you or Harry or Moody, you know I'll do it." she said, dark brown eyes boring into his light blue ones.

"Fair enough." Lupin agreed.

Lana pulled Lupin to her and hugged him tightly, kissed his cheek.

"I have a lot of questions to ask you, Lana, but this one has been playing on my mind since you woke up. Why do you hate Dumbledore so much?" Lupin asked, and he felt Lana tense up against him, and she shifted her body slightly, so she could look him in the eye.

"Im afraid that you'll hate me if I tell you."

"I could never hate you!" Lupin said, brushing her hair back from her face, and she flinched.

"Oh yes you could...Sirius has just found out, and...Now he hates me."

Lupin couldnt contain his shock. "Sirius doesnt hate you...Dont be ridiculous."

"But he doesnt love me." Lana said quietly, wishing that Lupin wouldnt look at her. "I think...I think maybe the Ghost Roads are getting to him."

As Lupin moved to hug her, Lana backed off. "Dont. I dont deserve your sympathy. I - I'll tell you, but...I - it gets complicated, and you wont like me very much at the end of it..."