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Trouble

Sirius finally unclenched his fists barely resisting the urge to slam them through a wall... or Jason's face. Both are about the same anyway being mostly hollow, although Sirius would bet anything to say the wall had a higher IQ.

His attention was finally drawn back to Remus who just disappeared into his room. Sirius followed after the blonde still slightly shaking in rage. He stomped inside and practically slammed the door behind him.

"What the hell did he say to you?!" Sirius demanded.

Remus, who had managed to get into a pair of pants, stood stunned at his friend's outbreak, "What do you mean?"

"He whispered something to you while he was practically harassing you! I want to know what it was!"

The werewolf, still surprised at the seething appearance of Sirius, just shrugged, "It was nothing."

"The bloody hell it was!" Sirius stormed over in front of Remus, "I want to know what he said!"

Remus started to get aggravated by Sirius's demanding tone, "Who are you, my father? If you didn't realize, Sirius, I'm an adult! I don't need to tell you everything just because you bark out orders! What has gotten into you?!"

"Into me?! How about into you?!"

"Me?!" Remus questioned, "What are you on about, Sirius?!"

"Yeah, you! Jason was all over you out there and you didn't lift a finger to try and stop him! You just allowed him to keep touching you when I was standing right in the doorway!" Sirius shouted.

Remus couldn't believe his ears, "One, I had no idea you were watching us! Two, what I do is none of your concern! And, three, just because we've been friends for over twenty-five years, doesn't mean you own me! I am not yours to control!!"

Sirius stopped midway with what he was about to say. That sentence hit him like a ton of bricks. He really was acting like a jealous boyfriend. For God's sake, he was yelling at Remus because of something Jason had done! But that phrase 'I am not yours'... that seemed to hurt worse than ten Cruciatus Curses at once. It ripped away his heart and burned into his soul.

All at once, his rage drained away, "I... I'm sorry, Moony." He sat down on the edge of the bed and put his face in his hands, "I don't know what came over me."

Remus's anger disappeared just as quick. He sat down next to Sirius and draped an arm over his shoulder, "Sirius, what's wrong? You haven't been acting the same lately. You're beginning to worry me."

Sirius could feel his companion's bare arm burn his skin through his shirt. He scooted over just out of reach, "Don't."

Remus looked hurt and confused all at once, "But Sir..."

"Just don't, Remus," Sirius stood and walked out of the room.

He wasn't able to close the door fast enough not to hear Remus murmur, "I don't understand."

Sirius leaned against the wall in a slump. He hadn't meant to hurt Remus; that was the last thing in the world he wanted to do. He was just too afraid to talk to Remus about what had been going on lately. If the conversation even edged toward that cliff he might give way and jump, but there was no way he wanted to jeopardize his lifelong friendship.

He slumped back into his room and quietly shut the door. Sirius walked over to his bed, turned around, and fell onto his back. His gaze was taken over by the vision of the Abraxan horses munching a few blades of grass. Eyes were one thing; his thoughts were in a completely different place. He kept thinking about the look Jason had in his eyes when he was practically groping his best friend. It was eerily predatorily. Nothing in short of making Sirius want to bash his head in again, but something was really off about it. The more he thought about it, the more pissed he became.

Sirius couldn't stand it anymore. He stood up and stormed out into the hallway making about as much noise as a hippogriff on a rampage going down the stairs. He was so occupied with finding Jason that he didn't even notice Remus following him down the stairs.

"Randall!" Sirius bellowed out from the living room.

Jason came walking in very smoothly; too calmly as well since he was having Sirius glare at him with almost as much hatred at Pettigrew had seen during his trials.

Remus stood back in the hallway finally too sick and tired of dealing with Sirius's mood swings to do anything. Neither had seen him yet, or giving any clue they had, and maybe he would finally understand why Sirius was acting so strange.

"Somebody doesn't look happy," Jason chortled.

Sirius breathed anger from his nose, "Stay away from Remus."

Jason didn't even blink, "He is a guest in my house. I cannot simply ignore him because you threaten me."

"Oh no," Sirius drawled, "I haven't even begun to threaten you yet."

"Right... like you could actually do anything. Like it or not," Jason gave a smirk, "Remmy is my friend."

"Don't call him that," Sirius was biting down on his cheek.

"What? Have I entered a touchy subject?" Jason finally caught sight of Remus peering into the room, "Fine, if I have wrongfully done something against your better judgment, I am sorry, Sirius."

Sirius blinked, too confused to say anything at the moment.

Jason walked past an uptight Sirius when the animagus saw Remus, too, 'Why that son of a bitch.'

Remus was also a bit surprised by the sudden ending of the argument, but it left his mind when Jason came up to him.

"Would you like to go for a ride with me on my wave runner? It seats two and I think Sirius needs some time to cool off."

Rems looked over at Sirius questioningly while asking, "What's a wave runner?"

"It is sort of like a small boat without sides," Jason answered, "It will be fun; please say you'll come with me?"

"Sure, why not," Remus shrugged thinking Sirius could use a little time alone.

"Great!" Jason smiled, "Go get some swim trunks on and I'll be up in a second."

Sirius watched Remus go up the stairs then turned back to Jason. Jason only gave a wicked grin before following the blonde.

Sirius stormed out of the house and sat into a reclined chair that overlooked the lake. The sun's rays on his face only calmed him a little until Jason came out with Remus behind him. Remus whispered something to Jay making him nod and go on ahead.

"Sirius?"

The man in question only grunted.

"Are you ok?"

Sirius didn't answer.

Remus sighed, opened his mouth to say something, and then closed it again. He just nodded sadly at his friend and continued down to the dock.

Sirius didn't take his eyes off the werewolf until they were both on one of the two wave runners—Jason in front—and Remus hanging onto the jackass's waist; much to Sirius's displeasure. They took off slowly and then began to speed up out of the animagus' sight.

The raven haired man shifted in his chair uncomfortably. His eyes began to droop as the warm sun hit his entire body making him sleepy in the early morning. Before he knew it, he gave his mind over to the darkness.

Sirius woke with a sudden start. Sweat lined his forehead as he looked around into the fading light of the sun. How long had he slept?! A knot formed at the bottom of his stomach. Something was definitely wrong.

He urged his eyes to search farther when they scanned over the dock. The wave runner Remus and Jason had taken was still gone. It was getting dark; they should have been back by now!

Sirius ran down to the dock and looked out onto the lake, nothing. His brain barely caught up as he flung himself on the other wave runner before realizing he had no idea what the hell he was doing! His fingers began hitting buttons.

Sirius began getting aggravated and slammed his fists down, "Start dammit!"

The engine roared to life much to Sirius's surprise. He took a minute and untied the rope that held him to the dock. He floated a little before pushing a lever on the right handle. It gave a loud sound before almost knocking Sirius off the seat. He had found the gas.

Sirius whipped out into the open as fast as he dared to go. His heart was racing and his whole body trembled, but with no reason other than his bad feeling. A few minutes into racing around, having no idea where he was going, he saw a dot too small to be any boat. He prayed to any god that heard him to let that be them.

He raced out onto the lake and the closer Sirius got to them, the worse his bad feeling became. As he got closer, Sirius saw Jason clutching Remus in front of him, but there was a problem... Remus didn't look awake.

Sirius finally sidled up to them and had his thought confirmed. Remus wasn't awake, and there was a bit of bruising around his face.

"What happened?!" Sirius shouted half in a panic, "Is Remus ok?!"

"He'll be fine if we can get him to my hospital. I was teaching Remus how to drive when the acceleration got stuck and flipped us over on a wave."

"Let's go!" Sirius whirled around and the two drove as fast as they could with the sun going down, Sirius not really knowing how to drive, and Jason still grabbing onto Remus so he wouldn't fall off.

They both docked in a hurry barely throwing a rope over the wave runners before speeding up to Jason's car. Sirius climbed into the back and Jason handed the unconscious Remus to the animagus. Jay ran to the driver's side and popped his wand into the ignition using a spell to start the car, too much in a hurry to go inside and grab his keys, and skidded out onto the road.

It was about three minutes in the car when Sirius realized something, "Why don't we apparate to your hospital? Would that not be faster?"

"I don't want to risk anymore injuries to Remus by magically transporting him. It is too dangerous," Jason seemed to tense when he answered.

Sirius didn't understand the logic in Jason's answer, but he was no Healer. Instead, he gathered Remus tightly in his arms and held him close.

The ride took less than ten minutes, but it felt like years to Sirius. The car finally stopped in front of an old broken-down building. The two scrambled out of the car, Sirius carrying Remus, and stopped before a door. Jason waved his wand over it and opened the newly formed entrance. Inside was completely different than the outside, but it wasn't like St. Mungo's hospital. There was a certain feeling he didn't like at all in here.

He brushed it off, "Remus comes first."

Jason led them into an empty waiting room, "I'll take Remus to an examining room. I have another Healer here who specializes in these kinds of injuries."

Reluctantly, Sirius handed his friend over to someone he practically hated, did hate, but it was for Remus's sake. He watched the two disappear behind double doors.

Sirius sat in one of the chairs by the wall. Something was still nagging at his gut telling him this was wrong, but what? It seemed like a normal hospital with the chairs, the white walls, clean floor, antiseptic smell, and irritable reception behind the desk... but... the waiting room was... empty. There weren't any people around besides the nurse. It wasn't that late and even the smallest hospitals had a few patients around with magic injuries, and this was a populated wizard town.

The hair on the back of Sirius's neck stood on end but he forced himself to relax.

Five minutes hadn't even passed when Sirius heard a loud yell for help coming from the hall that sounded exactly like Remus.