A/N: Wow! I didn't expect to get so many reviews for my little first chapter, but it makes me very happy :) I wasn't sure whether to do review responses or not, but I will this chap tell me if you prefer not to have them if it gets in the way of the story. Scroll down to the chapter heading to get on with the story.

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CHAPTER 2- ARRIVAL

"Ennervate, respiro, ennervate!"

Harry heard the spells vaguely as he was pulled to consciousness. The panicked voice was now saying something to him, most of which he could not figure out because he was slipping back into darkness.

"Ennervate!"

Harry heard the spell again, but slightly clearer this time as he was dragged further into consciousness. He wanted to tell the voice to stop it, to go away so he could go to sleep.

"Harry, can you hear me you've got to stay awake. ENNERVATE!"

Harry was pulled even further into consciousness, this time far enough to open his eyes. His eyes took too many seconds to focus on his surroundings. Well, perhaps focus wasn't the right word. His vision was appallingly blurred but he still managed to make out a face through the splotches of colour around him. When he squinted slightly the worried face looked very familiar. The face seemed to realise his trouble and spoke again.

"It's me, it's Remus. Stay awake, please don't sleep again."

"…Remus," Harry managed to choke out, barely audible but Remus heard.

"Yeah, Harry you've got to stay awake, please stay awake for me."

Something inside Harry registered the 'for me' as something worth staying awake for. He didn't see why it should make any difference but it did. Harry opened his eyes further and turned his head slightly towards Remus, concentrating entirely on staying awake.

"That's good, good. We should go to St Mun- no there's no time, I need potions," Remus muttered quickly to himself. Harry noted that the man sounded completely panicked.

"Harry I need to go get some potions from the cabinet I'll be back in just a second, stay awake until I come back."

"No… stay," Harry whispered feebly. The man looked torn but then nodded and sat back down on the side of the what must have been a bed Harry was lying on. Remus still had his wand clutched tightly in his hand.

"Accio pepper-up, accio blood-replenishing potion, accio first aid!" Remus yelled.

Even in his damaged condition, Harry couldn't help but smile slightly at the humorous sight of the three blurry blobs whizzing through the door. Remus saw Harry's smile and smiled himself. He picked up the first of the three items, a bottle, and he gently helped Harry drink the contents by holding it to his mouth.

"That's pepper-up potion. I know you probably don't have the flu but you will do after coming here in the cold and the rain like that. It should help to keep you awake too."

Harry did notice that besides the pain he was feeling warm and dry, and that was before steam started issuing from his ears. Remus must have cast a drying spell on him.

Remus then fed Harry the blood-replenishing potion.

"This'll help you feel a bit better. You should drink another in a couple of hours," Remus said kindly, and then he picked up the third blob, which looked more like a muggle first aid kit up close.

Harry still had to concentrate to stay awake, and to try to ignore the pain coursing through his body.

"This is going to hurt, but I have to clean out your wounds," Remus said, his voice hitching.

As Remus started to wipe at Harry's wounds with some sort of cleaning solution, Harry could only think to agree that yes, it hurt like hell. He couldn't help the gasps of pain, and even through his blurred vision he could see that the stark white bandages that came out of the first aid box all came back red after contact with his skin.

"Harry what happened?"

Harry turned his head slightly away. Even if he had wanted to talk he didn't have the strength. Maybe he should go to sleep after all. His eyes were drifting closed.

"Stay awake!" Remus shouted desperately. "You have a nasty… cut… on your head."

Harry could hear Remus gulp as he talked, and knew it must be much more than just a cut. He could feel the waves of excruciating pain from his head, but no more so than the rest of his body. He opened his eyes again and then noticed that Remus was holding his hand. He squeezed the hand slightly and was rewarded with the blurred sight of Remus' smile. Harry felt at once comforted and gripped the hand as if it were a lifeline, which perhaps it was.

It seemed that Remus was just as unwilling to let go as Harry, as he started putting bandages on Harry one-handedly, fumbling awkwardly with the strips of material.

"Well uh, I've done the best I can," Remus stated as he finished off a particularly tricky bandage on Harry's chest. Harry was suddenly struck with the thought that Remus must have taken his shirt off. The thought made him blush slightly.

"Thanks… Remus," Harry croaked. Remus looked up in surprise, and suddenly their faces were only centimetres apart. Harry could see Remus clearly from this distance- his facial expression was one of slight shock and then he just looked into Harry's eyes. After a moment, Remus looked down, his cheeks slightly pink.

What happened next shocked Harry to no end. He couldn't be sure, but as he felt a tiny drop of wetness on his shoulder he thought that Remus must have been crying.

"Sorry I…" said the man suddenly, stepping away from where Harry lay.  "Harry what happened? No never mind you can tell me… tomorrow. I just- I don't- was it Death Eaters? No, it's not safe here, you have to go back, they'll look for you here-"

Remus was rambling but what he had said caught Harry's attention.

"No!" he yelled hoarsely, sending yet more waves of pain through his body. He winced. "Safe here… stay here. Just don't… don't make me go back."

Then there was silence as the full implications of what Harry had said hit Remus full on.

"No…" the man said, his voice full of despair. "All these years."

He looked up and was quickly beside Harry again, holding his hand.

"You're safe here, I won't let anything happen to you."

For some reason Harry believed those words completely. He smiled as much as he could without hurting too much, and Remus smiled back reassuringly.

Harry lay reflecting on Remus words as the man accio-ed through a couple more potions. They whizzed into the room again and Remus caught them nimbly with his free hand, then picked one of them up for Harry to drink.

"This will help speed up healing a bit," he said, feeding Harry a purple potion, then picked up another potion, a swirly amber colour this time. "After you drink this you should be able to go to sleep."

"Don't wanna go t' sleep anymore," Harry slurred, gripping Remus' hand tighter. Remus smiled dazedly and fed Harry the potion anyway.

"It's probably best that you do now. I'll be here when you wake up."

Harry nodded lethargically. Besides his efforts to stay awake, the blurred room slowly drifted from his vision. The last thing he felt before going to sleep was Remus' hand in his.

A/N: Eeeeeurgh, mushy. So what will happen next? Revieeeeeew please :)