The White Forest

Sirius stood in front of the Forbidden Forest, wondering what he was doing here; was he doing the right thing or had he completely lost his mind. He stepped forward hoping for some sign that he was doing the right thing.

It suddenly became very windy he could hardly stay on his feet as he felt himself being pulled along by it, and everything turning white before his eyes as though it was snowing hard all of a sudden. He fell to the ground of all fours pulling his cloak around him because it was so cold, and then looked up slowly at the forest in front of him.

He had to take a double take, it wasn't the Forbidden Forest anymore; but any forest, it was so beautiful but it felt sad as well to be looking upon it.

Sirius stood up slowly, and walked into the forest with his cloak pulled up around him. He looked around him as he walked along the path before him, which he could just make out from the stones showing through the snow covered ground. It was thick with trees which were unlike anything he had ever seen before, they were all still green, well strange shades of green, even though it was the middle of winter and they were all covered in snow and strange shapes.

The wind rustled the leaves and he was sure that he could hear her voice faintly on the winds calling to him; he stopped dead in his tracks.

"I'm completely losing it." Sirius told himself aloud.

There was an odd glowing shape coming from just up ahead of him, giving off a soft purplish colour; it was so pretty Sirius found himself walking to it without even realising what he was doing.

'Don't turn away

Don't give into the pain'

Sirius suddenly tripped over a twig, and fall onto the soft ground; when he looked back up the light was gone. But he remembered the voice, and wondered if he wasn't supposed to follow the light.

"What am I supposed to do?" Sirius shouted.

And then on the wind she seemed to answer his question.

'I'll miss the winter

A world of fragile things

Look for me in the white forest

Hiding in a hallow tree (Come find me)'

Sirius looked around wildly as if hoping to see her, he didn't understand; he was here so where was she, how was he supposed to find her? Then he suddenly remembered something, she never did like the winter's well part from crawling up with him in front of a nice warm fire; because she wasn't so good with the cold, it always made her ill.

He slowly got up off the cold wet ground and carried on going he had in the first place before he had seen the light, he still had know idea where he was going; only that he was heading into the forest that could hold anything, hopefully it held his love.

He had been walking for, well he didn't know how long he had been walking for he just knew it was an awful long time; and he was started to feel as though he was walking around in circles because everything looked the same to him by now.

Sirius stopped suddenly when he heard something move, it sounded like paws softly crunches on the snow covered ground. It wasn't near, but it reminded him of something so he carried on walking hoping that it was a good sign that he was close; that he was finally on the right path.

***

Harry was walking down the corridor with Ron, heading for Lupin's classroom because they were going to meet Sirius and him there and then they were going into Hogsmende for a while; with one of their old passageways.

They had got to the top of the corridor when they ran into none other then Snape, he was looking very pleased with himself; even when he saw them walking towards him. They both look at him oddly as he walked past them without even a look or a glare, now they knew something was up. As soon as he was gone round the corner they quickly ran the rest of the way to Lupin's classroom.

"Well, everyone seems to be running into my class today; aren't I popular." Remus said smiling at the two new comers. "What can I do for you?"

"Snape, we just saw him; he was acting dead odd." Ron answered.

"He was cheerful happy, something's up; it has to be." Harry told him.

Remus just looked at the two of them, and then suddenly remembered Sirius' strange behaviour which he still hadn't worked out and hadn't seen him since at lunch; they couldn't be related could they?

"Well I know it maybe strange that Professor Snape maybe happy; but it does happen from time to time." Remus told them, trying not to think that the two things were really related.

"Really? And why do we have to call him Professor in front of you?" Harry asked.

"Fine, only times like this; but normally you have too call him Professor." Remus told them. "But to him being happy, of course he can be. I can't really remember one time right now; but I'm sure that there are."

***

Sirius was feeling more and more lost with every minute that past, he looked around for any sign that he was on the right path or even if he was doing the right thing by being out here in the first. But every time that he thought about that, he knew he was doing the right thing; if there was even the smallest chance at all that he could get her, then he would do what ever it would take for her.

He walked on a little farer and then heard it again, as though there was an animal walking near by; it was closer then last time he had heard it.

"She wouldn't hurt me, she wouldn't hurt me." Sirius repeated to himself. "Perhaps scare me half to death, but wouldn't hurt me."

He carried on walking listening for any sounds near by, but he could only hear his own feet and the sound of his heart that seemed to be beating a lot louder then it normally did; or maybe it was just because it was so quiet in here. He decided on the last one, it was too quiet; he didn't know which he would prefer it being quiet or being able to hear every animal and everything in there.

"Come on Nis, where are you?" Sirius whispered into the silence.

As though someone had answered his question, he spun round when he heard something jump and land on the ground near by; but he still couldn't see anything. He walked over in the direction where he had heard the noise, he still hadn't pulled out his wand; but it would be in his hand in seconds if he needed it to be.

He walked through a dense part of tree's, and into a clearing which only had one tree in the centre; with the most beautiful white tiger he had ever seen before sat beside of it.

Sirius walked slowly over to it. "You look just like my friend, unless you are her; then...I don't know..."

The white tiger looked up at him, making him stop in his tracks; she growled softly then got up. She jumped at the tree, the seemingly small hole which grew ever so slightly as the white tiger was socked inside of the tree.

"Oh my god." Sirius whispered. "Please don't say I have to follow."

There was no answer, but he didn't really need an answer because he knew what he had to do. He slowly started forward, still completely unsure that he really wanted to get any closer to the tree encase the same thing happened to him.

Sirius was only a couple of feet away from the tree now, he didn't have a clue what he was doing as he stepped forward and felt the pull of the tree; wanting to pull him forward into it like the tiger before.

He felt himself being pulled forward as he tried to step back out of reach but he couldn't, he felt warm arms around him as if telling him it was all going to be ok; so he just gave in and let himself be taken inside the tree.

Sirius closed his eyes as he was pulled inside and felt as though he was spinning around, faster and faster; and then felt someone touch his shoulder softly and he fell to the ground. But the ground wasn't cold; it was soft but not cold; as though he was sat upon grass instead of snow.

He felt someone sit down beside of him, and softly brush the tears from his cheek; and then kiss him softly. They moved around so that they were sat in front of him, and wrapped their arms around him and rested their head upon his shoulder; while he rested his softly on top.

"It's alright now." She told him softly. "Thank you."

***

Harry and Ron had left Lupin's classroom and told him that they would meet him again in a bit; they just had something to do first. They walked down the corridor quickly trying not to bump into anyone as they went all the way down stairs to the dungeon's, hoping that he would still be out.

They both stopped in front of his office, and knocked on the door; they waited a couple of minutes before they pushed the door open slowly after there was no answer.

"This isn't right Harry, he always locks his office." Ron said as he followed Harry inside.

"We'll have a quick look round for anything odd, and then we're gone." Harry told him as he walked over to his desk.

"Odd, Harry look around everything is odd in here; it's Snape's office." Ron said, as he looked at a shelf full of jars with things inside of them that he never wanted to know the names of.

Harry walked round to the other side of his desk, there were a lot of strange things on it; but one thing stood out from the rest. It was a photograph, and he knew who it was straight away as he picked it up.

"What the hell is Snape doing with this?" Harry asked, and then noticed an old book which had been in front of it; he opened it the pages started to flip through themselves.

Harry stumbled backwards as Ron turned round and stared at the book in horror.

"We should get out of here now." Ron told him.

"Yeah right, but we'll have to take this to show Lupin." Harry said as he carefully stepped forward and was about to close the book when he noticed something. He didn't have a clue what the writing said, but knew that it wasn't good; because there was a picture of a caldron and smoke or mist. He picked up the book and they both headed for the door.

They hadn't gone two steps when Snape turned round the corner, he looked at them both and then saw what Harry had hold of.

"And do you think you've been doing in my office?" Snape asked calmly not taking his eyes off of the book.

"No...nothing..." Ron answered.

"What are you up too?" Harry asked him.

"Nothing that concerns you, now give me my book back." Snape told him.

"No." Harry said firmly.

Snape glared at him, but they both stood there ground; until Snape lunged for the book making Harry stumble backwards and drop the book. The pages started to flip through on their own, as they all sat there on the floor.

"Why the hell don't you just leave them alone, let them be together!" Harry yelled at him.

"No!" Severus shouted grabbing hold of Harry and putting his hand over his mouth.

But it was to late, a bright blinding light shot out of the pages growing and growing until finally it engulfed them and then the whole school and its grounds; no one else saw the light but it engulfed the whole world until it came rushing back to the book disappearing before them, and then it closed and everything went black.

(A/N; well that was different I bet you weren't expecting that, hoped you enjoyed it though.)