Chapter 2 Heading Home
Sirius's sat stunned in his seat unable to move or speak. No one was talking so the only sound in the room except for the crackling of the fire.
Sirius's swallowed hard and broke the silence "So let me get this straight" he started "I have to go back cause I am meant to help Harry defeat the Dark Lord"
Lily and James nodded in silence
" But there is still over things you need to accomplish also but that will be a surprise I reckon," said Ernie with a slight smile on his face.
"How come I wasn't told all this before aren't you meant to send me back if I have to achieve something?" questioned Sirius.
"Well yes but when someone falls through the Veil there's no refunds no one considers this kind of stuff they don't think its accident most people who fall though the Veil its there way of committing suicide so no one really pays attention to all that stuff," said Ernie.
"Do you remember anything about Veil when you fell through Sirius?" asked James Sirius thought for a couple seconds trying to picture the Veil in his head.
"Um a dark tunnel, someone screaming in my head calling my name only slight visions of something and then a bright light and then I found out I was dead." said Sirius.
" That's what were trying to say Sirius all of its connected. When we found out about the prophecy we went in deeper to see what went wrong an that's when they found out about nothing happen when you fell through the Veil, no bad memories, no torture. Nothing." said James.
"Please Sirius, Harry needs you more that anything now we –we saw him he- he blames himself for your d-d-death I hated it seeing my little boy blaming himself." Said Lily tears running down her cheeks. Sirius looked away from them to stare at the blue shinning thing again.
As Sirius stared into it he noticed that a face started to appear? Sirius gasped when finally the face took shape. "Harry?" whispered Sirius.
But it wasn't the Harry he remembered; his face was paler then ever, his eyes were red like he had been crying a lot. As Sirius watched Harry began to speak his voice echoing around the room.
"Sirius please forgive me ,I'm so sorry , its my fault , please forgive me…Sirius come back please…please, I need you," said Harry and his face disappeared once more.
Oh no, Harry is blaming himself Sirius thought to himseld putting his head into his hands.
Sirius felt a hand on his shoulder; he looked up to see James staring down on him. James bent down till his eyes were level with Sirius's.
"You all right?" whispered James.
Sirius nodded "Yeah I'm fine," said Sirius with a smile.
Lily leaned down next to James and said "Are you ready to go back Sirius?"
Sirius thought for a couple of minutes, to go back Sirius thought I would have another chance in life, another chance with Harry and to prove my innocence, yes my innocence, a smile crept on Sirius's face at the thought of being set free.
But there was down side about going back. Lily and James, his 2 best friends. After 15 years of not seeing each other and being met up only a month ago and now Sirius was losing his best friend again.
James seem to know what was going though Sirius' mindHe put his hand back on his shoulder. Sirius looked up to face James who was still smiling said "We will always be friends Sirius the best of friends no matter where we are. We promised when we left Hogwarts that we will always be friends no matter what happens and we have and always will."
James leapt forward and got Sirius in a bear hug.
"I will miss you my friend," whispered James
"Not as much as I will miss you," Sirius whispered back.
They both separated both fighting back tears. James gave Sirius a playful punch on the shoulder Sirius gave one back. They smiled at each other.
Sirius looked at Lily who was standing to the side watching the two. Sirius smiled at her, she smiled back and walked forward enveloping Sirius in a hug kissing him on the cheek in the process. They both separated, tears falling down her cheek
"Take care of Harry for us Sirius,"' Lily said whipping away tears from her eyes.
Sirius did bowed at the two of them and said "You have complete trust in me Mr and Mrs Potter to look after your son after all I am the great Sirius Black,"
Lily and James laughed shaking there heads. "I feel sorry for my son, being stuck with you," said James.
Sirius frowned causing James to laugh again "Joke Pafoot joke," said James.
"Ignore James Sirius you will be great with Harry I'm sure... but " Lily said jabbing a finger in Sirius's gut " Remember this I'm always watching so if I see or here that your giving him ideas about pranks or anything else I will be haunting your dreams for the rest of your life," Lily said her green eyes piercing into Sirius's grey ones
"Ok Lily I won't but can't I just give him one-," said Sirius but stopped in the middle of sentence after getting a death stare of Lily "NO! Pranks you here me I don't want a mini version of James," Lily threatened. Sirius nodded sadly as Lily walked away to talk to Ernie Goldstein. James walked forward watching his wife cautiously.
"Listen- "James whispered so that Lily wouldn't here" I will convince her just to let you do one prank, tell Harry about the whoopy pillow prank that we played on those Slytherins in our 5 th year remember that one? " asked James.
Sirius laughed silently "One of the best"
"Yeah Harry should like that one," James said smiling " I wish sometimes that I could of at leased spent more then a year with him watch him grow up you know," said James smiling sadly.
Sirius put both on his hands on his friends shoulder.
Listen Harry looks up to you and misses you as much as you miss him. You should see his face light up when people talk about you and say that Harry looks so much like you,"said Sirius happily..
James looked happier after that
"Look Sirius I know what your thinking that you can't replace me and Lily and I know you can't there will always be a hole there that no one could fill. But me and Lily made you Harry's godfather and that is something that Harry has always needed something like a father and you can provide that for him," said James
"Thanks Prongs," said Sirius
"No problem Padfoot," said James
"James, Sirius its time to go," said Lily who was standing next to the fire with Ernie who was holding a little purple box in his hands.
James and Sirius walked forward till they were standing in front of the fire grate. Lily hugged Sirius again holding him tighter; Sirius hugged her back holding her close. When they separated Lily was crying again as she stepped away from him. James came walked in front of Sirius they hugged again and for the last time till they met again. They separated and Sirius walked over to Ernie.
"Now Sirius this is something like floo powder but different this will transport you to in front of the veil, you say transisto and all you have to do is avoid getting caught oh you might try this-" said Ernie taking out a glass bottle with red liquid in it " this is an invisibility potion it will keep you invisible for 15 minutes and then you will become visible again,"
Ernie gave Sirius the bottle and shook his hand" Good luck Sirius oh and one more thing don't tell anyone about the dead world or about how you are meant to be at the last battle you can tell them about the Veil and all that but not anything else ok," said Ernie
Sirius nodded also taking the purple box from Ernie and walked over to the fire grate.
" Sirius" said James' voice from behind, Sirius turned around to "Tell Moony that we say and for him to keep an eye on you," said James winking at Sirius.
" And also tell Harry that we love him and will always be watching and looking out for him," said Lily
Sirius nodded.
" Yeah tell Harry that I'm proud of him" said James.
"I will Harry and Remus that," said Sirius turning towards the fire; opening the box taking a pinch of purple powder and threw it into the fire.
Sirius gulped and took one last glance at his 2 friends and said "Well I'm off,". Sirius walked into the fire turned around, waved at Lily, James and Ernie, they waved back. Sirius smiled and with one last breath he said clearly "Transisto" and with a flash of light Lily, James and Ernie disappeared.