Summary: When Remus loses his sight, will he finally be able to see what his friends already do? Or will he give in to the hate and depression?
Authors Notes: WE WON WE WON WE WON. Sorry, but we won both of our games yesterday, and one didn't finish until about 8 last night, so I am both hyper and tired. So anyway, what with such little reviews? I only see about 2 new ones. No next chapter until I have 5 reviews for this chapter. Ok, I am being a little mean, but o well. Anyway, on with the story.
Chapter 6I Should Have Known
Remus woke to the sound of an argument. He knew one was Madam Pomfrey, for her voice was one he knew by heart, the other he had never heard before.
"Why can't I go?" the unknown voice asked.
"Look at yourself! You are barley alive! After the beating you tool, from no one you want to mention I might add, you need rest and to stay in bed for at least a week if not two!! So rest or I will shove a sleeping potion down your throat!!"
"I would love to see you try. It didn't work last time now did it?" the unknown girl yelled angrily.
"I remember having to yell 'stupefy', then shove it down your throat, and I will do the same thing now!"
"Then do it. Words ain't nothin' without action. If you say your gonna do somethin' then do it. Otherwise don't do it." The way this girl spoke was different that everybody else in the school, her scent was like she was from----
"Bloody Yanks!!!!!" screamed Pomfrey.
Remus could not help but laugh at the two. The girl was obviously in here every once in a while. Remus could relate.
"Hey kid, whats your name? And do you hate that lady?" the girl asked. Remus didn't know who she was talking to and didn't hear whoever it was respond.
"Who are you talking to?" He asked the American girl.
"You" was the reply he got
"Oh, sorry. My name is Remus and Madam Pomfrey does have her moments" Remus told the girl.
"Moments??? That women should be in an asylum!"
"Whats an asylum?" 'And is it something you belong in?' he added quietly to himself. 'What is this girl talking about? Is she muggle-born, American, or a muggle-born American? She is almost talking a completely different language. This girl is a little weird.'
"I yiyi, an asylum is a place where you throw all the crazy people into a nice padded room, then put you in a stray jacket, it keeps you from hurting yourself and from pretty much moving your arms. Its kinda fun to go running into the walls. I've been in there a couple of times."
'This girl is crazy' Remus thought to himself. "Umm ok. So what are you in here for?"
"I should ask you the same thing, but oh well. I got my ass kicked by some Slytherin wanna-be punks. I never liked them."
"Who does like the Slytherins?"
"No clue." They both sat in silence for a while. Remus had another question on his mind, and decided he would just ask it. "Why did you get beat up?"
The girl did not answer for a long time, then she finally spoke up. "There are a lot of reasons, and you can't even begin to understand them, even if I explained it to you." Although Remus could not see her, she at least sounded troubled. 'That makes two of us'
"Ok then. Look, I am tired, so I am going to get some sleep. Nice to meet you." The girl did not reply, so Remus just drifted off into another blissful sight-seeing sleep, but not before he heard someone say, "Your not alone."
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Remus was awaking slowly, and for the first time in a long while, he saw a light, a blinding light, but still he saw it. Then the light was dimmed by a face, no, not a face, but three.
"That's right Dorothy. It was all a dream." Said . . . James? Yes, that was James' voice
"Hey Rem, welcome back to the land of the living." That was definitely Sirius. Lily was also there, because she was the first to hug him, and he could see them!
"Guys, what happened? I can see you guys now!!" Remus was excited now, he was happy, he could actually see his friends again. 'Maybe I don't need to be depressed all the time. Now, I know that I can't give up hope. And besides, my friends are by my side, and always will be I don't know why I just realized this all of a sudden, but I know now. I am not another trouble for them, because if the tables were turned, I would do the same for them without thinking about it. I can't believe I can see them!! It's about time! It took me being blind to really see them!!' "I missed looking at your guy's ugly faces and Lily's beautiful one." Remus said in a very serious voice, but everyone knew he was joking. "Hey, wheres Peter?" He asked as he noticed his missing friend.
Everyone stopped laughing and looked around the room, as if also just noticing their friends absence. "He was right behind us when we were running up here after Madam Pomfrey told us you were coming around," Sirius was the first to answer.
"Yeah, I wonder what happened to him," James said a little worriedly. "Oh well, he probably could not keep up with us on our way up here and got lost. Knowing him, that probably what happened." They all laughed a little at this.
"The stupid werewolf must die now," came a voice from the doorway. Lucis Malfoy looked absolutely evil at that moment, and no one had the time to read as he raised his wand and calmly said, "Avada Kedavre."
It took a second to realize that he was still alive, and when Remus looked around, he found he was the only one alive, he could not take in everything that had just happened, and passed out from shock.
He awoke seconds later to find that what had happened was all a dream, and to learn that he still lived in a world where blackness was all he could see.
Remus cried himself to sleep that night, if it even was night, he could not tell, and just before he dozed off once more, he murmured, "I should have known it was hopeless." And didn't wake until 9 am the next morning when Madam Pomfrey woke him to an empty room.
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'I can end all of his suffering right now, so why don't I? Because if I did, it would change the things you know, idiot.' The girl who talked to Remus earlier that afternoon, watched him dream, saw him wake, and felt his cries as he drifted off to sleep yet again, quietly thought to herself in her bed late that night, 'I need to go back to my dorm room. But I can't leave him here like this. Yes you can, you should never have even talked to him earlier, who knows what that alone have done to everything! But—STOP, you are arguing with yourself to try and accept the way things have to be, so just stop. Let him dream, let him sleep, and let him live, for the moment. Your mission is the main priority, don't let your personal feelings get in the way.' With those final thoughts, the girl walked off toward her dormitory, but not before kissing Remus softly on the lips and whispering to him, "You will soon get what you have always deserved." Then she was gone.
A silent figure watched all of this from the once again stolen Invisibility Cloak. 'I cannot let this happen. This could change everything. This is like a nightmare. I can't even tell anyone, not even Remus. I just have to do what I have to do, no matter what.' Just before this figure left as well, it also whispered something. It said, "I will protect you, I will give my life if need be. So au revior, for now, mon pere." Then left to have Remus awaken the next morning to an empty room, except Madam Pomfrey, himself, and the darkness that was all that Remus could see, and darkness was now all Remus felt.
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AN: So what up people? Please Please Please review. I don't care if you tell me that this all sucks! I want that little number to go higher. Well gotta go, I need rest for school and softball practice tommorow and why am I telling you all this? O well, I think I am now going crazy too. Yipee