A/N: Hi, how are you all doing? Great…I really don't know what to say in these sooo….I guess I'll just shut-up…by the way…do you guys ever read these?

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"Padfoot, you can't just ignore her," Remus said during charms, almost two weeks after the incident with Holly.

"I can, and I will," Sirius said briskly.

"No you can't," James said.

"And why can't I Prongs?" Sirius argued.

"Because you love her," Remus said simply.

"I do not, we're just friends," Sirius said sharply.

"No Padfoot, you're not just friends. The only reason your not anything more is because you're afraid of love," James cut in.

"I'm not afraid of love," Sirius quipped.

"You are too," Remus said angrily.

"Like you would know," Sirius said icily.

"I do know. You won't even tell your best friend that you love him. Go ahead Padfoot, why don't you tell Prongs what happened while he was in the hospital wing," Remus said flushing. When Sirius didn't reply he continued, "You stood by his bed, day and night, making sure he was okay. You had to be dragged to classes and you were always saying how much you loved him and how he couldn't die. You would never say that to his face," Remus challenged.

James looked uncomfortable, "Come on guys, I don't want to get in the middle of this. Besides, I know that you guys love me, how could you not?" James said joking around, trying to lighten the mood.

"You can't do it, can you," Remus said completely ignoring James.

"I can too!" Sirius said a little loudly.

"I do hope you boys are practicing Ludicis Mortify!" Proffessor Cartige yelled.

"I'm not afraid of love," Sirius whispered, "I mean families love each other, and I do have a family."

"You know gods-cursed well that not a soul in your family loves you," James whispered back, receiving an evil look from Sirius.

The bell rang startling the three boys. Jumping up, they hurriedly headed out into the hallway, passing a group of girls. It just happened to be Miera, Lily, Clohe, and Holly. James nudged Sirius into Holly. Unfortunately, Sirius lost his footing, and flattened Holly, spilling her books all over the place.

"Sorry," Sirius muttered and bent down to help her.

"Don't bother," Holly said coldly, pushing Sirius away.

"That went well," Remus muttered watching Sirius' retreating back.

"They're coming around," James said walking into Transfiguration.

"Coming around?" Remus asked blankly.

"Well, they talked," James replied.

"Sirius, Holly you have to work together!" James yelled angrily.

"It's his fault," Holly said pointing at Sirius.

"You're the one who flung yourself at me," Sirius retorted.

"THAT'S IT!" James yelled, "NO MORE PRACTICE UNTIL THESE TWO CAN GET ALONG! HIT THE SHOWERS!"

"You're in early," Remus remarked to Sirius looking up from his notes.

"That idiot canceled practice so he could go run off with his girlfriend," Sirius remarked glumly, taking a seat by Remus, "Why'd you tell him what I said in the hospital wing?"

"You need to see what's in front of your face Padsie," Remus said.

"I see perfectly-"

"This isn't the time for a stupid joke, Padfoot," Remus said sharply, "You've got to go after Holly and tell her the truth, that you love her."

"How'd you know I said those things in the first place?" Sirius asked, avoiding Remus' last remark.

"Full moon, remember?" Remus pointed to the portrait hole, "Here's your chance."

Sirius gulped, Holly had just entered the room. 'Moony's right, its now or never,' he thought. He gathered his courage and walked over to Holly. She surprisingly let him drag her down to the lake.

"What?" Holly asked finally.

"Holly, I-uh-Well, I don't really know how to say this, but, you see, the thing is," Sirius took a deep breath and looked straight into Holly's eyes, "The thing is that I lied. I do like you, and I should have told you a long time ago."

"No Sirius, you were right, we'll never be more than friends, " she said meeting his eyes. They had the same look in them they had when she'd kissed him, "It was all a stupid bet to see if you'd fall for it. I'm not really interested in going out with now, or ever," She turned away.

Sirius stood in shock. He felt like he was falling through an icy sheet that stopped his life. He had no clue why, but he felt like with those words, he was drowning to his death.

"Padfoot, PADFOOT!" James said shaking Sirius out of his shock, "Are you alright?"

Sirius looked down to see that he was soaked and very cold. He peered into faces that looked strangely familiar, but he couldn't quite place them. He couldn't remember anything, including why he was all wet.

"What happened? Who are you?" Sirius asked to faces.

"W-who am I? It's me, Prongs, don't you remember Padfoot?" James asked shakily as Miera ran to get help.

"Prongs? Nope, can't say that I do," Sirius said shivering.

Suddenly Sirius was magicked onto a strecher by Proffessor Dumbledore, and whisked inside. James ran trough the doors and up to the hospital wing. When he arrived he saw Dumbledore, Madame Pompfrey, Remus, and Miera standing around the stecher where Sirius lay. Why Remus was there James had no clue, but he was glad he was there.

"Potter, what happened?" Madame Pompfrey asked.

"I just saw him fall into the lake and someone walking back up to the castle, and when I woke him up, he was like this," James said.

"Did you see who was walking back up to the castle?" Dumbledore asked.

"I-I think it was Holly Short, Sir," James said unwillingly.

"Holly Short?" Dumbledore was lost in thought, "Interesting…"

"What is interesting, Sir?" Remus asked confused.

"Never mind, if you could, Miss Shick, bring Holly Short to my office immediately," Dumbledore walked out the door, "Poppie, there is no need to inform the Blacks unless I give the word, understand?" and with a brisk nod he was off.

"Potter, Lupin, you may talk to him while I prepare to examine his conditions," Madame Pompfrey said heading into her office.

"Hey Padfoot, how are you doing?" James asked Sirius.

"Padfoot? Is that my name? People around here are strange I tell you. That old man with the beard, he one dude off his rocker. And you said you're name was Prongs, awfully odd name if you ask me. What's your name," he said pointing to Remus, "Looney?"

"Er-actually it's Moony," Remus said laughing with James.

"Why are you laughing? I'm serious!" Sirius said confused.

"Right you are!" James exclaimed, Remus and him cracking up.

"Boys? What are you laughing about?" Madame Pompfrey yelled.

"Why didn't they contact his parents?" James said when he had quieted down.

"I don't know, I mean I know they hate him, but I would at least think Dumbledore would inform them. Dumbledore seemed to think it was interesting that Holly did it though wasn't he," Remus replied.

"I was kinda interested in that too," James said, "They were fighting, but she wouldn't try to kill him, would she?"

"I don't think so, but I guess anything's possible," Remus said.

"Hey, how did you know to come here?" James asked suddenly.

"I was coming back from detention and I ran into Holly. She seemed to be kind of confused, and I knew Sirius just talked to her, so I knew something was up. I was going to go outside to see if Sirius was still out there, but then I ran into Miera, and she said he was hurt, so I waited here for you guys," Remus explained.

"You had dention?" James asked.

"Yes, remember when you and Sirius laid a trip wire that was attached to dung bombs, so that the next person who walked by would set it off, and it would look like they did it? Well, I happened to run into it," Remus said as James nodded.

"Yeah, sorry about that," James said sheepishly.

The curtain swung open and Proffessor Dumbledore and Madame Pompfrey walked in. Slowly, Holly came in after them. James and Remus tensed.

"James, Remus, I think that it is best if you know the whole story," Dumbledore said gravely. "Miss Short has been possessed by dark wizards, I'm assuming Sirius' parents. She was to kill Sirius because the dark wizards have a new leader, who thought Sirius would be dangerous to them later during his years of power, if they come. Fortunately, James, you saw Sirius fall into the lake and were able to save him."

"Why didn't she just kill him with a curse, instead of trying to drown him?" James asked.

"Holly had been possessed with what is called a Caracher Curse. So, once Sirius did or said a certain thing, it would go into effect. For instance, somehow they knew that Sirius liked Holly, so they set the curse to go off when he admitted it to her. The curse would them kill him by what seemed to be a natural cause," Dumbledore explained.

"I see, then it would look like Sirius just died by drowning instead of a curse. But how did they know that Sirius liked Holly, I mean he didn't even admit it to us, even though we already knew," Remus said.

"This summer, I sent Sirius a letter, and in that letter was something about Holly. I was just teasing him, but his stupid,ugly, fat, son of a-" James paused, catching Dumbledore's eye, "Er-well, anyway, his little brother read it."

"Alright, well, I think it would be best if we kept Sirius here for a few days, but the memory potion will take at in the least two weeks. Until then, I suggest that you two keep a close eye on him, and don't tell anyone what happened," Dumbledore warned them.

James, Remus, and Holly were silent as they headed back to the common room. They found Miera, asleep, in an arm by the fire. It was past two in the morning. James shook Miera awake.

"What happened?" Miera demanded when she woke up.

James and Remus explained what happened while Holly was oddly quiet.

"It's not your fault, Holly," Miera said as James and Remus agreed.

"What if they do it again? And what about Sirius, he'll hate me for the rest of my life," Holly said with tears in her eyes.

"I don't think that they're going to be trying it again anytime soon, Dumbledore will make sure of that. And as for Sirius, he loves you too much to hate you," James said comfortingly.

"What are you guys still doing up?" Lily said coming down the staircase with Clohe.

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