Chapter 7: In Which Sirius' Brain Goes Into Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy Mode and Overdrive To-The-Rescue Mode
A/N: Huzzah! It's an update after about a month! (Whistles; fails to mention Les Guerres Des Etoiles hasn't been updated for 3 months.) Anyway, here's the next chapter, like all chapters, Dickens-style: NO PLANNING WHATSOEVER! WOO! What will happen today, I don't even know… Actually, I do know a bit…like the beginning…and a bit of the end…but I don't know how to end it…so it might go on for a while. But that's always good.
Yet Another Note: I just realized I've been spelling Gryffindor as Griffindor and not Gryffindor, which is wrong. Crap. 'Twill be fixed from this point on. Woo-hoo!
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Yay! On with it!
A minute later, Remus burst into the Gryffindor Boys 5th Year dormitory with full force.
"WHERE'S SIRIUS!"
Under the closest bed something rustled, and out popped Peter's shaking head.
"…Remus?"
"O… Sorry, Peter. I didn't mean to scare you," apologized his classmate. "It's just… Where's Sirius?"
"He's been in the library ever since dinner; awfully jittery, he was. Probably nervous about an Arinthmancy quiz or something," Peter explained, referring to the only subject he didn't have with the young man in question. Or something, Remus thought to himself, knowing from taking Arinthmancy with Sirius that the professor did not believe in quizzes and tests in which the students would study once and forget what they studied directly after the test. "If you are to be successful in this class," Professor Kade would drone on to his students, "you must know your subject inside and out. You need not study once on special occasion, is that clear? You must know all possible, because you never know when it will be useful, both for your survival and academic careers!" Remus, getting lost in his inner flashback, shook the thought away and turned to Peter again.
Peter ventured, "Where have you been? I haven't seen you since dinner, Remus, but one moment you were there and the next! Where'd you go?" By this time, he had come out from under the bed, less startled.
Remus cursed to himself. He saw me leave, he thought. Sirius warned me about this.
"Library," Remus blurted out his all-purpose excuse. Then realizing Sirius was also in the library, he revised, "I guess I missed him."
"Good luck with that," Peter smiled, turning away from Remus in favor of his neglected Charms workbook.
And with that, Remus ran back down the stairs.
As Remus stood under the archway entering the library, he sighed and contemplated his partial mistake of taking up his own offer to Sirius. He rubbed the temples of his forehead, a headache beginning. Argh.
Then Sirius bounded up.
Double argh.
"What happened? Where is she? Can I see her?" Sirius whispered to his friend.
Remus' heart leapt into his mouth. O no. What am I supposed to tell him? That he can see his "beloved", but he shouldn't? That I couldn't find her? Even if I lie, he'll know I'm not giving him the truth, so why bother? Triple argh. The werewolf inside him remembered the smell. Remus tried not to puke.
"Well?" Sirius whispered.
Remus sighed. "Sirius…I…"
"You what?"
"Erm… You see, I found her… I found Lily, but-" Remus gasped. He remembered what he saw. There wasn't time to talk. Sirius, however, disregarded his friend's gasp.
"You did? That's wonderful!" He twirled around for show, not caring who was watching him.
"But Sirius, she-"
"Please, Remus, give me time! I have to think of how to talk to her: what to say."
"Sirius-"
"Just one second! I have 3 years to work!"
"But Sirius-"
"Lay off for a second, Re, calm dow-"
"SIRIUS!"
Remus quickly closed his mouth as he heard a chorus of Shhhh!'s from the library patrons. His friend, however, was in shock to see his normally calm and collected comrade screaming at him. He immediately felt guilty for not listening to Remus calling him to attention. "Sorry," he said, looking down at his feet.
Remus smiled. He then remembered Lily. He grabbed Sirius' wrist without explaination and ran down the hall to the Slytherin dormitories.
Sirius, keeping up with his friend's frantic feet, exclaimed, "What the hell! Where are you going!"
"Lily. Trouble. Help. Now," his captor gasped, his feet still carrying him at full speed. At the words "Lily" and "Trouble" Sirius sped past his Remus, dragging him along.
Finally, at the mouth of the hidden common room, Remus administered the code and ran to the ladder, Sirius following him like a stray puppy. In a blur both boys were at the entrance to Lily's dormitory, door still ajar from Remus' escapades earlier. Sirius gasped.
There on the wooden floor lay Lily, surrounded by red. The blood, both dried and fresh, seemed to flow from her now even redder hair across the floorboards, stopping half a meter from Sirius' feet and halfway up the pole of a near four-poster bed, the pungent smell of it all rising and moving around the room and out the door to the common room.
Barely a second went by until the lovelorn boy ran to the girl. Lifting her fragile head, he saw a gaping hole in her head, noting deep scratches and scars in the now translucent flesh of her arms. His mind reeled at the speed of light. He took the pillow case from the four poster bed he was now sitting against, the blood staining his shirt and robes; the case began to be carefully wound around Lily's head. Sirius scanned the room, but found nothing left to help her, even thinking of the most obscure and haphazard methods. He finally tore off his shirt sleeves to wind around Lily's own. He checked her faint pulse and turned to Remus to get Madame Pomfrey.
But Remus was already on his way there.
A/N: FINALLY! That took a while. (Again, whistes and ignores Les Mis/Star Wars crossover delay. Which will be updated. Soon. Okay?) There was a lot of alliteration in this chapter. I smile.
BOOK UPDATE (for anyone who cares): You remember: the novel thingy? Yoip. The introduction is finished and the draft of the first chapter is underway and probably finished by now, being I can never decide when to cut off a chapter. I have some character preliminaries (done in the amazingness of a Dollmaker on the web) which I'll give a link to as soon as I upload them to my site. Savvy? Savvy.
Until next time!
Sirius Orion Black II
