Chapter 4: St. Mungo's
Sirius opened his eyes to greet the light that flooded in. It took awhile for his dark brown eyes to come into focus.

When his eyes did come into focus, he found the room he was laying in was white. The room was lined with small white beds (which he was lying on), people in lime-green robes scurried in the room checking the patients in the beds, there were shelves full of extra blankets, towels and various instruments. Shining crystal bubbles illuminated the room and there was a portrait of a blonde witch in the corner labeled:

Marygold Smart 'First Muggle-born Healer' 1733-1742

'I must be in St. Mungo's' Sirius thought.

Sirius looked beside him. James and Lily were still asleep (hopefully) on the beds beside him. Sirius tried hard to think what happened last night after they drifted.

'We must have fainted,' Sirius thought reasonably, just as soft thud from across the room.

Dumbledore waltzed into the ward, and apologized to each of the healers for the interruption.

"Sirius," Dumbledore said cheerfully, "I'm so glad you made it out. It's very rare. Very! Only the greatest wizards make it, only the greatest!"

"How did I get here? Where am I?" Sirius asked, still confused.

"You are in floor 7 of the St. Mungo's hospital." Dumbledore explained plainly.

"Floor 7??" exclaimed Sirius.

"Yes, it's the secret ward. Almost nobody knows about. You see, The Daily Profit would be all over you if they found out that Sirius Black, James and Lily Potter were alive and in a wizarding facility," replied Dumbledore

"I still don't understand how we got here!" said Sirius confused.

"Oh, Yes! I brought you here last night, simple as that!"

"But how do you kno-" Sirius began until he was cutoff by the rustling noise from the next two beds.

"I see you two are awake," Dumbledore greeted James and Lily.

After a pleasant yet short reunion, Dumbledore explained what to do next.

"You can't stay here! The word will be out soon that you are alive. Sirius is still in danger of being put back in Azkaban. I have good ties here in St. Mungo's, the head of this department is an old friend, that's why they let you in here, Sirius," Dumbledore said.

"Where do we go?" Lily asked the obvious question.

"Hogwarts of course! You will be safe in the Hogwarts infirmary."

"But what if the Ministry finds out? Fudge will expect that I'm hiding at Hogwarts and come to get me," Sirius explained.

"Don't worry about that. It is all taken care of. First, we need to get you out of this place," Dumbledore said, gliding across the room to the nearest fire place, "These fireplaces are some of the ones not being watched by the Ministry. We will be safe traveling. Come on, out of bed!"

James, Lily and Sirius climbed out of their beds and walked to where Dumbledore stood. They each grabbed a handful of floo-powder, one-by-one, they walked into the fire place and said:

"Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry"