Above the Veil - MalfoysChick

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The room was freezing cold, dark, and shadowy. Remus shivered involuntarily at the creepyness. He had come to just check, to make sure. He had told Harry that Sirius was gone... but Remus wasn't quite sure. And he had to be. He had to know whether or not to mourn.

The veil looked slightly ethereal, with a soft glow coming from behind it; the curtain swirled in the unknown breeze that never quite reached Remus's face. He stepped inside the stone arch, nearly touching the veil but not; he was careful not to letthe material brush his skin because then he'd be gone in an instant, too.

Remus looked up to the stone above him. Suddenly, it seemed as though the top of the arch just disappeared, because there was a body falling from the air, landing right before Remus's feet. He jumped back in fright, and looked over to the body. The man must have been dead, for no one could have withstood the fifteen foot fall.. and who knew how far he had fallen before appearing? However, he did. The man stood up slowly, groaning with pain, grasping his lower back and his gut and leaning over.

"You would have thought the big man upstairs could have come up with a better way to return me, huh?" Sirius's voice rasped, filling the chamber around Remus.

Sirius stood up in time to see Remus fall over in a dead faint.

He sighed heavily.

"...Guess not."

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