A/N: Ok, sorry it took me so long to update, but I wrote the chapter out once then it wouldn't save, so I lost it. School starts in a week, so I won't have as much time to write anymore. Hope you like the story so far!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize as JK Rowlings.

"OUCH!" Sirius yelled as Strike bit his leg for what seemed like the millionth time today.

Hagrid laughed, "I reckon he'll warm up to you after a bit. Meanwhile, why don't you build him a little house in the forest."

"I must have been crazy to agree to this," Sirius muttered as he gathered materials to make Strike a home.

They found the perfect place to build the home. There was a big old tree overhanging a small pond, and large boulders surrounded the tree. Strike certainly seemed to like it, he was bashing his head into a rock repeatedly. Sirius decided to build a tree-house for Strike, that way he could hide if there was any danger in the forest.

"There," Sirius said, stepping back to admire his work, "How do you like that?"

"Bravo, Black, bravo," Snape said emerging from the trees, "What do we have here," he continued, picking up Strike.

"Put him down, Snivelly," Sirius sneered.

"I don't think I will, but thanks for the offer. Now then, there has to be something special about this tiger, I doubt you would allow it to live in your supremeness otherwise. I hope it's illegal, I can get you expelled," Snape said examining Strike.

Sirius didn't know what to say, he didn't want to tell Snape about Strike, but he didn't want Snape to hurt him either, "It's just a plain old tiger," Sirius said.

"I suppose that the worst that could happen when I turn it into the ministry, is that they would chop it's head off," Snape smirked.

"Give him back," Sirius said quickly.

"Oh, so, there is something special about this thing here, why else would you be worried?" Snape said laughing, "Is this what you four are always sneaking off at night to go see?" Sirius blinked, "Oh yes, Black, I know about your little excursions into the forest at night, and I'm going to get you expelled for it."

'How does he know?' Sirius thought. What was he going to do, it seemed like either letting Strike be killed, or tell Snape about Moony. He had an idea, "Listen here, Snivelly, I'll make you a little deal. You give me back the tiger and I'll tell you what were up to," Snape handed over Strike, with greed shining in his eyes, "All you have to do, is prod that little knot on the Whomping Willow, then you'll see a secret passageway. Go through that, and you find out everything you could ever want to know," Sirius said casually, "And you have to go on full moon, that's in a month, if you were wondering."

"You lie, Black," Snape seethed.

"How many times have I ever lied to you?" Sirius asked grinning broadly, Snape would never have the guts to do it, "Now then, why don't you be a good boy and run back up to the castle."

Snape looked at Sirius for a moment, then turned and went back through the forest to the castle. Strike growled after him, and Sirius laughed. Everything seemed a lot better now, and he decided to make a visit to the castle himself.

"You have been sitting there for two days, have you?" Sirius asked James, who was sitting by the fire, the last place Sirius had saw him. "Prongs, I didn't mean what I said," Sirius said to James, who was staring adamantly into the fire, "What's wrong with you?" Sirius was worried, the way James was staring into that fire gave him chills.

"Whatever Sirius," James said, not looking up.

Sirius had to find someone who knew what was wrong with James. Luckily, his someone was in the entrance hall.

"Oy, Evans!" Sirius yelled.

Lily turned and walked up to Sirius, "Listen, Sirius, is something wrong with James?"

"I was going to ask you that," Sirius said hurriedly, "I haven't talked to him for two days, we had a row, and I don't know, when I went to the common room just a minute ago, he was staring into the fire with this weird look on his face."

"That's what he was doing yesterday when I was going to do my homework. I was kind of worried about him, so I let him come to the library with me, and he seemed ok, but then I had to leave with Amos, and he had this look in his eyes, it was really scary," Lily said astonished.

"You don't think he's been there since you left with Amos, do you?" Sirius asked confused, "Did you see him last night when you went back to the common room?"

Lily blushed a dark red, "I-erm-I was out pretty late, I don't think, I mean, he would have been sent to bed by then."

"Right," Sirius said rather uncomfortably. If this were a different situation he would have asked Lily how she could stand to look at Diggory that long, but he saved it for another time. "I'll try to find Remus and see if he might know anything. Can you go up and try to talk to James?"

"Yeah, sure," Lily said, already heading up the steps, "I saw Remus and Clohe out by the lake not too long ago."

Sirius found Remus and Clohe easily enough, behind a tree, but he didn't have the nerve to talk to them. They were in what seemed to be a rather passionate moment. Sirius sat behind a tree, and waited for them to finish their snogging. A few minutes passed, Sirius looked at them and hurriedly looked away. He check his watch, he looked back at them.

"Hell's teeth," Sirius swore, banging his head on the tree branch above him, he had to stop this right now. Remus was practically on top of Clohe!

"Sirius!" Remus said, the couple jumped apart guiltily, "What are you doing?"

"What in bloody hell are you doing?" Sirius said sarcastically.

"It's kind of a bad time…" Remus said, Sirius was glad to see that they both were the reddest he'd ever seen them.

"Well, something's wrong with James," Sirius said, smiling slightly as Clohe tried to fix her tousled hair.

"I don't bloody care," Remus said shaking with anger and embarrassment.

"Umm…ok, right," Sirius said, hoping to work this out rationally, "Listen Remus, none of us meant what we said in that row. Come on, you really do care if something's wrong with James, I know you do."

"I do not," Remus said angrily.

"Come off it, Moony, of course you do. We've been best friends since we got here. He needs you, you can't leave him now," Sirius said with a bit of a plead in his voice.

"Remus, maybe you should go," Clohe said.

"NO! I'm not going," Remus said breathing hard, "There probably isn't anything wrong with James, Sirius just doesn't want me to hang out with Clohe because he's jealous of our relationship. Wishes he could be with Holly, but she obviously doesn't like him. Didn't even save a dance for you, poor Sirius, bad luck I guess," Remus said coldly.

It took all the strength Sirius had not to hit Remus, "Shut-up Remus, don't forget, I could end the relationship between you two now."

"You son of a-" Remus clenched his teeth.

"What's he talking about?" Clohe asked confused.

"I don't have time for this," Sirius replied bitterly, "All I have to say, is come with me for the things that we used to have, not what we lost," and with that, Sirius walked away.

"Has he said anything?" Sirius asked Lily when he was back inside the common room.

"Well, no, but I found something," Lily said sadly watching James, "I think you might need to see this."

A/N: Ok, hope you liked it. Sorry about more fighting, but it has to be in there. I'll post as soon as I can! Please Review!!

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