Falling to the Darkness

Chapter 4

There was another furious howl.

"Wh-what???" I said in shock.

"She's in there with Remus!" Sirius said, yelling it.

I couldn't seem to comprehend his words. Angry Remus. Guilty (in Remus' eyes) Lily. I visioned them in my mind, in the Shrieking Shack. Lots of blood came to my mind. I shuddered.

Sirius was watching me. "Well? Aren't you going to do something?" He said in anxiety.

The reality of this situation hit me suddenly, and I nearly fell off my broom from it. Without answering, I raced down with my broom to the Whomping Willow, Sirius following behind me, and touched the knot on the tree before it even had time to react to us.

Racing down the tunnel, I changed into my Animagus form and opened the trapdoor, Remus' howls louder. Banging open the room in which they were in, the picture was almost as I visioned it.

There was blood everywhere, Lily in her Animagus form on top of a dresser, covered in blood, and Remus, howling, growling, and the angriest I'd ever seen him. Looked like he was settling things his way.

I had their attention, Lily seemed to be crying, and Remus was looking at me saying, "Would you like to join? I've got something to say to you too."

Right then, a new kind of fury I had never experienced in my life before, hit me. Remus seemed to see it in his eyes, because he faltered just a bit. But then he recomposed himself, and challenged me. Lily flew to his side, trying to calm him down, but that didn't do much good.

He swiped at her, and a big, new gash formed on her Animagus form, and she was swatted aside by Remus. This only added to my fury. But when I looked into his eyes, I saw hurt. A deep longing hurt.

I faltered a bit, and when I did, fury came into his eyes again, and he attacked. So the battle between him and me began.

I didn't know what I was thinking when I decided to go to the Shrieking Shack to help Remus. I was in the common room doing my homework, when something interesting caught my eye out the window.

There was James, Sirius, and Peter, obviously fighting about something. They did a lot of fighting nowadays, and I couldn't help but feel guilty that they were always caused by me.

They seemed to notice something that I couldn't see, and then Peter pulled off some sort of cloak off of Remus. This obviously shocked me, as I hadn't seen Remus anywhere the second before. I didn't think that they had an Invisibility Cloak, since I was too caught up with the fact that they were all there, and none of them looked happy at all.

And then it hit me. It was the full moon that night, and Remus would need help. I wasn't sure whether Sirius or Peter were going with him, and I was sure that James wasn't going. So then, I decided I would go, just to make sure Remus would be okay.

And now here I am, trapped in a room with Remus in his wolf form. When I decided to come, I didn't think that Remus would have anger towards me, even though it was probably very obvious, I was too caught up with Remus going to the Shrieking Shack alone. Even after all that happened, I still cared for him.

It was about two hours since I got here, and Remus was still as mad as ever. I got quite a few cuts before I decided to just stay near the ceiling, as to not get hurt anymore, while still trying to talk to Remus and calm him down. This was somewhat how the conversation went:

"Why did you come Lily?" He growled harshly.

"I-I just wanted to s-see if you would be alright."

"You don't have to pity me. I'M NOT A CHARITY CASE!!" He roared and attempted to swipe at me, but I was too far up and he couldn't reach me, which made him even angrier.

"I don't pity you Remus, and I know you're not a charity case. I just want to settle things." Here I flew down, and perched on a broken bed's post. I know that was probably the stupidest thing to do, but I wanted to see if he would really attack me, I wanted to know if he would dare.

"What's there to settle?" he growled ferociously. On the verge of attacking me.

"You and me. That's plenty to settle. I never used you, or lied to you Remus. I would never. You were special to me, and Sar is just trying to take that away from me, can't you see? Why did you listen to Sar, when you knew she was trying to get to Remus and take my place? All I did was be your friend, and yet now there's such an animosity from you! I can't believe you believe everything you hear! I thought you were above that, Remus! I thought better of you!" I said, uneasily at first, seeing the glint of malice in his eyes, but grew more confident as I continued.

His eyes softened a bit, and I saw a flash of hurt and confusion, but something seemed to click in his mind because all of a sudden, more rage than I had ever seen from Remus, who used to be the sweetest thing of ever and now was like this.

He charged at me, as I was still on the bed post. "LIAR!!" And all his anger poured out of him channeled to me.

His attack surprised me and before I knew it, he had pinned me and was now, biting, scratching, clawing, everything imaginable. And it hurt like hell. However, I managed to get away and flew to the top of the room again, with my broken wing and injured body. I was crying, if a peregrine falcon can, and inside my heart was breaking.

How could Remus, once my best friend, do something like that? And not believe me? It was too much to bear. I sat upon a dresser that was pretty tall, and he was staring at me, waiting for me to come down, which I wouldn't do again.

We sat staring at each other, and I was trapped, because I obviously couldn't get anywhere with my broken wing, so we just stayed there for what seemed like hours.

After what was a good two hours, in came a stag, otherwise known as James, with a dog, otherwise known as Sirius burst in. I was so surprised I nearly fell off the dresser, but regained myself. There was anger in James eyes like never before and I could sense Remus didn't want to physically hurt his "ex-best friend" but challenged him to a fight anyways.

All the while, Sirius was sitting by James side.

I flew down as best as I could right next to Remus.

"Remus, don't do this. He was your best friend once. Are you going to give that all away because some misunderstanding? Don't do this Remus. We can settle this differently." At that he just clawed me and waved me aside with force, and James got mad, but something happened then but I couldn't comprehend because I was pushed aside and hit the wall where I hit my head and slowly lost consciousness. Before I blacked out, I saw a stag and a wolf fighting ferociously, with a dog in a corner, waiting for it to stop.

"Aren't you going to do something Sirius? Stop them!" I said weakly, though I know he heard me. He looked in my (peregrine falcon) eyes before I blacked out. His eyes showed forgiveness, and I peacefully blacked out.

We fought for hours on end, never stopping, just me and Remus. By around four in the morning, we were both injured horribly and we were both tired.

"Remus, this can't go on." I said exhausted. We were both sitting on opposite ends of the room, since we were finished fighting. I was cut all over my body, because he had claws, and I didn't, but I had hooves so during the fight I would pin him, so I imagined he had many bruises.

"You're right." He sounded as exhausted as I was. The sun was almost up, and Remus was slowly transfiguring back to his normal form, so I did too. Sirius was sleeping in his dog form, and Lily lay on the floor in her peregrine falcon form. She too was badly injured.

"Remus, Lily was telling the truth. She never used us. It was Sar. Please. Let's be friends again Remus. I can't stand this hatred between us."

He looked up and there was a terrible sadness plaguing his eyes. "I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry." He whispered and he choked and sobbed for what remained of the early morning.

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.:.Author's Note.:.

Hello everyone. This is Muffin. Such a cute name dontcha think? Anyways, I wrote this chapter, as in Muffin wrote this chapter, so if you noticed a big difference between Lyra's writing and mine, then well you did. Yeah. Lyra will be writing the next chapter which, if I'm correct, will be the last chapter, but worry not, we may be doing another story together. She won't be writing for awhile as she is very busy with other fanfiction stories, so go check them out! Her username is xcoldhearted.

We both would like to thank our reviewers for their support for our very first story we wrote together. Here goes.

Randomfizzhead: Thanks for your review, we appreciate it! Remus was pretty stubborn, but it was all a big misunderstanding.

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Thank you all a bunch!

Just to clear something up. With the whole Lily-James-and-Remus-can-talk-while-their-animals thing. Yeah, I just put that in for dramatics, because if they couldn't then it would be extremely hard to write this chapter. Just think of it as 'they are communicating in each other's minds' thing. Yeah, that's that. Thanks all for your reviews, we hope to get some more!