Author's Note: This is all I have to say about this chapter…Muhahahaha!!!

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Fading Fast

Chapter Eight

Who Would Have Known What Pain Could Cause?

Who would have known

That such a simple pain

So much like any ordinary illness

Could cause such horrible things

Why is it always the good ones

Those who do not deserve

The most horrible

Of all tortures in life

Who would have known

That this child would have it

The torture worse than any other

Harry awoke that night, his whole body aching horribly with pain. No matter how hard he tried the pain would not leave his body. What was happening to him? Why had he been feeling this way for so long? Something was wrong with him; he just knew it.

After a few hours into that night, Harry found that he could not control himself. He got out from his bed and began walking out of the common room, not caring that he had high chances of crashing, for he barely had any sight.

He continued walking through around the Common Room until he found the door. He quickly pushed it to the side and walked out, continuing down the hallway. What was he doing? He didn't mean to leave; his body was making him do so.

He eventually found the staircase and took it down, remembering that the seventh step down would disappear when stepped on. At the end of the stairs he continued, walking to where the classrooms were. Harry hoped that none of the teachers were in there. He would look like a fool, walking without control past midnight.

Sirius sat as his desk in his Charms classroom, grading papers. The first years had been learning about the disarming spell in his class, and had been asked to write essays on them. Sirius had never particularly enjoyed learning of this, or reading this when he was a first year and grading the papers were quite boring.

"Brittany, can you pass me the ink bottle please?" Sirius asked his assistant.

"Of course, Mister Black," she said with a yawn.

Sirius and Brittany had both been in the classroom for about three hours now, and the two of them were very tired. It was now past midnight; both of them used to falling asleep at ten. Brittany would shake herself awake every time she began to doze of, while the only thing keeping Sirius awake were the papers he was grading.

"Can't we correct the rest of them tomorrow morning?" Brittany asked.

"Can't," said Sirius, "I have a meeting with Albus before breakfast."

"Oh…" Brittany said softly, yet gloomily.

It was obvious the two of them were desperate for some sleep.

Suddenly a moan was heard from the hallway, causing both Sirius and Brittany to snap awake. Sirius immediately hurried from the classroom; he knew that voice. Once out of the classroom he saw a small figure walking towards him. Sirius squinted in the darkened room to make out who the person was.

"Harry?"

The figure did not make a sound, he continued walking toward him and eventually passed, him showing no sign of having heard Sirius. It was as if he was in a trance.

"Harry, wait!"

Sirius caught up to his godson and placed a hand on his shoulder. The child showed no sign of having heard him. He continued walking foreword.

"Harry! Stop, it's me Sirius!"

Sirius grabbed his godson by the arm and pulled him toward him. The child fought to get away from him, though he was still in his trancelike state.

"It's me Sirius, your godfather. I wont hurt you."

"Sirius, let me see him."

It was Brittany. She made her way over to the two men and pulled Harry from Sirius. She placed her wand to Harry head.

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"Revactrio Spelliarmus."

A small blue light appeared and disappeared almost immediately.

"What did you do?" asked Sirius.

"There was something clouding his mind. I removed it."

Sirius nodded and placed his hands on the sides of Harry's face.

"Harry, can you heard me?"

"S-Sirius?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, it's me."

"What happened?"

"There was something wrong with your head. It made you come all the way downstairs. Come with me, you can stay in my room tonight."

Harry nodded and began to walk foreword, being held up by Brittany and Sirius. He suddenly began to cough.

"Harry?" Sirius asked in worry, and Harry's coughs became hoarse.

He noticed that Harry was in pain. Harry continued to cough uncontrollably into his sleeve.

"What's wrong with him?" Sirius asked Brittany.

Brittany shook her head.

"I don't know."

Sirius suddenly noticed with fear that Harry's sleeve, which he had been coughing into, was covered with blood.

"Harry!"

Harry continued coughing, blood now running down his shirt.

"We have to get him to the Hospital wing!" Brittany started frantically, "This is more than we can handle!"

Sirius nodded. He pulled his handkerchief out of his pocket and placed it over Harry's mouth, it soon becoming completely soaked in the crimson fluid. Sirius picked up his godson and began jogging in the opposite direction, Brittany tagging along.

Once in the Hospital Wing, Sirius began to yell.

"Poppy! Poppy, we need your help!"

Poppy entered the room from her sleeping quarters, an annoyed look on her face.

"What may I ask is-" she was cut off when she saw Harry covered in blood in his godfather's arms, "What happened to him?"

"We don't know. He just started coughing and all this blood started coming out," Sirius said, "There's something wrong with him!"

"Well, obviously! Hand him over to me."

Madame Pomfrey took Harry from Sirius and placed him on one of the beds. She immediately placed a spell on him, which would stop the bleeding for a few hours. She began testing Harry with all sorts of equipment. Sirius and Brittany were handing her things as she barked out what she needed.

After about half an hour of testing, she had everything written down on a piece of parchment. Harry was now lying in the bed, attached to various machines. They reminded Sirius of the last time he had been in here.

Madame Pomfrey approached Sirius and Brittany with her parchment.

"Have you found out what was wrong with him?" Sirius asked.

"Yes. It seems that he had various things wrong with him for a while now: Internal bleeding, blood clots, and some viruses living around his body. There was even a small tumour growing in his chest. It all seems to have been there for a while now, almost a month."

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"But how has it all started? He was fine when he left the Hospital wing the first time."

"He was under the Marsiatus curse."

Both Brittany and Sirius looked at her in confusion.

"What's that?" asked Brittany.

"You are both majoring in Charms and you don't know what that is? It's a spell that only begins to take effect a around a month after it had been placed on the victim. Since Harry was in here for three weeks after the attack, it might have taken effect after he was released. The Death Eaters must have placed the spell on him."

"What exactly does this spell do?" asked Sirius.

"It eats the victim from the inside out."

A gasp came from both Sirius and Brittany.

"Will he be okay?" asked Brittany.

"There is no known cure or counter curse for the spell. Mister Potter will have to fight it himself."

Sirius suddenly stood up.

"Where are you going?"

"To see my godson."

Sirius walked over to Harry's bed and took a seat on his left. He took one of Harry's hands into his, and stroked his hair with the other.

"Harry."

Harry didn't stir.

'I'll just wait until morning,' Sirius thought.

As Sirius expected, Harry awoke the next morning. Sirius had taken off all of his classes that day to stay with his godson.

Sirius smiled as Harry opened his eyes. Harry reached out an arm and grabbed onto Sirius' shoulder.

"Who's there?"

"It's me, Sirius."

"What happened?"

Sirius began to explain what was wrong with him. By the end of it, Harry was in tears.

"I'm dying?"

"No! You're going to fight this and you will be okay!"

"It doesn't sound like something I could fight."

"Yes you can, Harry! You're strong, I know that you can do it."

"I'll try."

Sirius smiled and ruffled Harry's hair. Harry whined and slapped Sirius' hand away, causing Sirius to chuckle.

"I have to go tell Remus what happened. I'll be back real soon, I promise."

"Bye."

Sirius ruffled Harry's hair one more time, causing another whine and left the Hospital wing.

"Hello Sirius," Remus said as he saw Sirius walking down the hallway.

He noticed that Sirius looked slightly worried.

"What's wrong?"

"Bad news."

Sirius began to explain what had happened the night before, Remus going pale as he went on. Sirius looked at his feet as he finished.

"You mean he's been sick the whole time?"

"That's what Madame Pomfrey said."

"I'm gonna kill him!"

Remus began to storm down the hall.

You think this is the end

The end to all his problems

I've got a secret

It is not

They will continue

Author's Note: TWO MORE CHAPTERS!!

blink (underscore) gurl017: Hotmail doesn't allow underscored in the stuff we upload; it's so evil and stupid and bad, and should I go on? I like Chinese food. Don't worry, I won't make out with the truck driver. I was just saying that all those hot guys end up skinny, pale, hair, grey haired, and as truck drivers. With hair armpits and long underarm hair. Lol. It was great talking to you on MSN. I will be talking to you soon.

ChibiYushiYasha: I wanted to make Harry see a little bit, to have that little romance scene with Hermione. Lol. I've never heard Rancid before, and I'm not a fan of Green Day. My friends love it though. I only have one album and it's crap. I'm gonna be asking my friends for more that are better. They said Green Day was great and they like the same music as me, so I'm sure they don't like that one album that I have. It's the one in green and white with a girl on it, holding a gun. It has their sad version of "My Generation" by the Who on it. I love the Who!

HecateDeMort: Ooh! Goddess of the Death! I like it!! My pen name is very simple lol. It means a truffle, lol, mmm food…from Savoy! I have no idea where Savoy is. I'm not Savoyian or whatever the people are. It's just a song that I love. (Sings) But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle! It's by the Beatles, my favourite band along with Queen.

tayk: I'm not a big fan of Harry and Hermione, but I decided to write one anyway. I like to try things that I don't like. Only I would never base a whole story on something that I don't like. Like, it would be hard for me to write a story where Malfoy is close to Sirius and Harry isn't. It makes me feel uncomfortable, so I couldn't do it.

foxyie xox: I'm your beta! I'm your beta! (Repeats twenty six times) Yay! You better send me those chapters soon! I can't wait to correct…IN RED! I don't mind if you call me Angie. There was this guy that I was a really close friend with that used to call me Angie. He lives far away now and I miss him. He was one of my best friends then. Now you're my best friend! Yay!

CatClawz: I'm more of a shipper of Harry and Ginny, then Harry and Hermione. I think Ginny is better for him. I think they will get together. You know how Harry has Lily's eyes and James' everything else? If Ginny and Harry have a boy and he has Ginny's eyes and Harry's everything else, you get James. Harry's everything else (which belonged to James) and Ginny's eyes (which are the colour of James'). JAMES! Why haven't you been on lately? I miss talking to you! We have to continue the dying play!!

Sexy Black: (Comes back as a ghost and possesses Brittany's body) Muhahaha! I am now the evil Brittany! I shall destroy the world and Brittany shall have to take the blame when done! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

lyss33: Yah, I know that nothing much has been happening lately. It's just to make the story longer and add in hints of what might be happening like Harry being sick and Harry and Hermione flirting. A lot should be happening in the next two chapters. (Laughs evilly).

Aqua Mage: I was thinking harder and now there will be two more chapters after this. Hehe, I added one more. My beta, Brittany helped me think up the epilogue. It's not going to be separate; it will be along with this.

hermoine21: With what will be happening in the next two chapter, he wont be able to learn how to be like in Daredevil. But he still has Hermione to help him. Why is your pen name spelt "Hermoine"? Hermoine is cool.

FroBoy: I haven't been to any of those countries. The farthest I've ever been was to Florida, which is sad, seeing that I live in Montreal, Quebec. Everyone is French here! I'm not but I can speak it. Omg! You've been to Autralia!! That's sooo cool!!

Hakkai – Gojyo – Goku – Sanzo: Oh, I've never heard of Saiyuki. Goku and Sanzo sounded like something that would be from Dragonball Z. I like looking up Harry Potter anime fanart on the net. My beta and me always get them for each other.

athenakitty: With the crap that the movies have been, the Harry Potter books seem REALLY messed up. You watch the movie and then the books are completely different and you get lost. When I watch the movies my head starts to hurt because I don't know what the hell is happening.

Sirius Black's # 1 Fan: Remus is my all time favourite character! I have so many pics of him saved on the computer! And Sirius comes second. I spend hours looking up fanart of them and Harry, my third favourite. I'm glad that I'm a girl so that I can enjoy them like I do.