Stand a little closer
Hold me tight
A roller coaster
Is an example of my life
Steady me
Be my foundation
Cuz' I can't breathe
In this desolation
My hearts been broken one too many times
Without you I don't think I'll survive
One more break
One more loss
To much at stake
To high of cost
Please protect me
Enfold me in your arms
Don't let me free
Ward off all harm
I've been staring at this ceiling for a whole hour since I woke up. Sirius is still asleep as Padfoot, I groan in annoyance of last night, with my breakdown and all. Why in the world did he have to be right there at my worst! I wanted to hide and never come out, but I'm too weak to get up. So I wait, I wonder who the next person to lecture me will be. Hopefully someone lenient, anyone but Mrs. Weasley, or 'Mione, or even Ron for that matter. I had a dreamless sleep, it was surprising, and I hadn't had a dreamless sleep since the last time I took a potion. I didn't really understand but I was thankful nevertheless.
Today I believe, Professor Dumbledore will show up, probably to answer a few questions that I have. One of the Pros of Dumbledore, he's so smart not even the Hogwarts library can hold a candle to his fountain of knowledge. I've felt stranger since I left the veil with Sirius, it seemed as if we were closer, I felt as If I could read his mind. That day he was mad at me when I said those regretful things to good ole' Remus, I could feel his anger, his righteous anger. It made me even more remorseful on what I said to Remus.
When my thoughts ran to Remus, I cringed; I wondered if he even forgave me. He said he did but, saying isn't everything. To think I was the one to be lectured, and I end up saying those words. Half of me wondered where it came from; the other didn't really want to find out. As I stare at this white ceiling I contemplate all the things that had gone through the whole week. I carefully avoided my dream. It was enough that I started crying afterwards, but crying again was on the very bottom of my "to do" list. With the stunt I pulled I wouldn't be surprised if they tied me to my bed.
I heard a creak at the door; I finally broke my stare from the ceiling to see who was there. I hoped against all odds that it wasn't someone to give me lecture or another check up from Madame Pomfrey. Fortunately, It was Professor Dumbledore, I sighed with relief. Even if he was here to lecture me it would be a whole lot more pleasant than anyone else. Padfoot's ears pricked up as Dumbledore drew closer, and with a 'pop' there was Sirius in Padfoot's place. He smiled warmly at Dumbledore and sat down next to me.
"I am guessing that you are aware that we have some things to discuss." Dumbledore said with his eye twinkling. I shrugged, and looked at Sirius.
"Yes, of course!" Sirius said looking me into the eyes and smiling.
"Well if you do not mind, I would like to know of you're journey Harry. For it seems that you persist in defying the impossible." Dumbledore said merrily with his eyes twinkling more than ever.
I nodded and went through how I started the plan, leaving out Remus of course, some things go without saying. How I got to the Department of Mysteries. When I went through the veil and the obstacles I went through, the life devours and that annoying, talkative git. I told him about seeing my parents and Sirius, and going to the CoA and their verdict. I told him about the special dagger to tear the veil and our journey through the forest. I explained about the blood wolves. I told him of my outburst and what happened to Sirius. I explained our encounter with the death eaters. I told him almost everything, leaving out private stuff, for my mind only.
Dumbledore looked pensive for a moment, he was deep in thought. He looks at Sirius and I, points his wand between us, and mutters "Aperio Iugum". I felt a strange sensation as if I was uncovering something. There were these lights that seemed string-like that hooked to me and Sirius. There were three of them, one was very thin and looked a little flimsy, another was thicker but it did not compare to the third. The third was extremely thick and big, it glowed a red beam that gleamed at our faces.
I looked at Dumbledore with a look of confusion, he smile broadly and muttered "Celo Iugum" and the lights disappeared. I glanced at Sirius and he looked as confused as me, at least I have someone to look stupid with, Sirius was definitely all knowing. Sirius was the first to regain his voice.
"Dumbledore, what happened?" he said cautiously. Dumbledore's eye twinkled so much that he could put an eye out. I would've shielded my eyes but I'd get some curious looks.
"I just merely said a spell that showed the bonds in-between you and Harry. It seems my assumptions are correct." said Dumbledore. I gaped, doing the goldfish effect. How did our bond get so strong? And why did we have three? Yes those were the questions in my mind but they merely came out. "What? H- How? Why?" I said dully. Sirius looked like he was thinking and his eyes lit up.
"I know one of the bonds is the bond of being his godfather obligatory spell put on Harry and me when I was made his Godfather. The others I have no idea about. Would this have anything to do with what happened beyond the veil?" said Sirius with a puzzled look on his face. Drats! When did he get so smart, while leaving me to be a stuttering imbecile!
"Yes, it does Sirius; let me explain these three bonds. The first bond is small, for it is a bond of a friendship. When you have this particularly bond you are able to read emotions of the person better, sense lying better, and can give a certain amount of comfort. Now the Godfather bond is stronger and better. With this bond you can sense the strongest emotion of that person and send a little bit of your own emotions. Kind of like a beginner empath. You can also sense when your godson is in danger, and in some extreme cases a little bit of telepathy. Are you with me so far?" said Dumbledore smiling.
I gaped again while Sirius nodded. They both looked at me and I nodded quickly.
"Well since that's covered, it seems that a bond was created that is extremely strong. When you had you're outburst Harry, your life magic was becoming erratic and confused. It was being sustained by Voldemort's life magic, that's why you were able to pass through the veil again. Right after you had an outburst Sirius grabbed onto you. Since you already had a godfather bond it became confused and let some of your life magic into his body sustaining his life magic, while mixing in yours. When your life magic in his body tried to return to your body it ended circulating both your life magic, causing a very strong bond. With this bond you two can read each other's emotions and send a great degree of your emotions. You will be able to mind speak with each other and will be able to sense when you're hurting or in danger. You would also be able to track each other with this bond." He said smiling.
I was stunned, thankfully Sirius was also. Sirius could read my thoughts and my emotions? Would I ever be able to lie or cover my emotions ever again! I voiced my concerns.
"Is there a way to not let him see my emotion or thoughts?" I said glancing a nervous look at Sirius who gave me a suspicious look. Dumbledore smiled knowingly at me and said, "It seems that you'll have a motivation to learn occlumency with professor Snape now." Sirius started laughing at my horrified face. Frankly I didn't find anything funny.
"Hey, does this work?" Sirius mind spoke to me.
I concentrated and was able to mind speak back.
"Hey yeah it does!" I said. I smiled at Sirius, he smile back mischievously. I didn't like that look. I grimaced, and looked at Dumbledore who had an amused look on his face.
"This would be good when I go back to the Dursleys." I said smiling, I looked at them both, and they both were giving me incredulous looks. I was perplexed, "What? Aren't I going to the Dursleys?" I said furrowing my brows.
"Are you kidding me? Going back to THOSE people." Sirius said with a long line of curse words after people. I looked more confused.
"Harry, due to certain reasons we have decided you won't be living with the Dursleys, You will live with your Godfather." said Dumbledore contentedly.
How was I going to live with Sirius? He's on the run and he doesn't even have full custody. What about that whole blood magic crap?
"How? What certain reasons?" I said baffled.
"Well one, the Dursleys don't care a crap about you, so what's the use of blood magic. Two, Dumbledore wants to get on my good side." Sirius said with a smirk, "Three, the order has to find a way to keep a good eye on you, obviously. Four, Lily would come back to life and blow my head off if I didn't do something. I think that's it, oh yeah there is that reason that I was declared innocent of all charges, and got full custody." He said indifferently.
I was shocked, stunned, happy, shocked again, and left with my mouth wide open.
"You are?" I said clearly astonished. Sirius put an arm around my shoulder.
"They captured the rat that night, we had a trial shortly after, and I got compensation for unjust imprisonment, and got custody of you!" he said eagerly.
I had a mixture of emotions, I was thrilled. I finally got what I always wanted. I was excited because I would never have to go to that hellhole, also known as, the Dursleys. I was hesitant because I didn't know if that's what Sirius wanted.
"That's what you want?" I said tentatively Sirius gave me a searching look, then a look of disbelief. Stupid bond, it's showing all my stupid emotions, using his stupid empathy, stupid magic! He held his hands tighter around my shoulders.
"Of course I do, why else would I get custody? Start worrying about yourself for a change and not me." He said quietly. I just looked at him and smiled sheepishly, with a million thoughts racing through my head, mentally trying to build a barrier, but no avail.
"Well it seems my work here is done, Poppy should be checking you sometime soon, and you'll go to Grimauld's place for a little bit, afterwards. I'm sure you two would prefer to live in the other black estates. I'll come over to set the wards" Dumbledore said while getting up. Sirius nodded I just followed the action surprised there were other black estates.
I hear someone coming in, obviously it was Madame Pomfrey; I swear she must be listening outside the room to know the exact time to come in.
"Hello Poppy I was just leaving!" Dumbledore said before waving farewell and striding out.
"It's about time! I'm going to give you one last checkup. I'm sure against my better reasoning, that Mr. Black wants to take you home." She said smiling then pointing her wand at me looking at my health, "Let's see here, it looks like you got some sleep, you need to eat, and your health is getting better. Get plenty of rest the next couple days, you won't have a lot of energy and watch out for those cuts. I was able to heal some of them but the others need to heal by themselves. Other than that you may leave if you wish. Here some potions to help with the healing" She said giving Sirius the potions;
Sirius shrunk them, put them in his pocket, clapped his hands and stood up. "Great, I guess we'll be leaving now." I stood up, I was a little shaky from my lack of energy but I was able to walk thank Merlin! Going back to the order wasn't really what I wanted to do but anything would be better than this. Sirius and I used a pre-made portkey to get there. When we arrived the house was marginally quiet except for the voices in the kitchen.
When we entered the kitchen, Mrs. Weasley was cooking; Tonks and Remus were talking quietly to each other while drinking coffee, while Mr. Weasley was reading the newspaper with coffee. I'm guessing we got here early, through my bond I could tell Sirius was really happy, if he looked at my emotions he would see I was nervous. I was extremely nervous; there were a lot of people in one room who have the potential of blowing my head off because of my idiotic actions.
Sirius took a chair and made me sit down. "Listen to what they say, smile and take it, and don't let your anger get the better of you. You don't even have the energy for that." He mind spoke sternly, obviously he remembered yesterday quite well. Everybody turned their attention to me after hearing my presence. I gave a glance at Remus who looked calm, he smiled reassuringly. Out of nowhere I was held in a rib-cracking hug.
"We were so worried! We thought you were gone. We thought we lost you!" said Mrs. Weasley, she was crying. She held me at arms length, "and don't you ever do that again!" she said firmly. I was held in another hug, it was Tonks, and I wondered briefly how she got over here without tripping.
"Yeah don't do that or I'll have Mad-eye follow you around." Said Tonks jokingly, but it seemed that she was half-serious. Mr. Weasley was the next to hug me, but he kept quiet just saying he was worried also. It seemed everyone lowered their lecture a bit; I guess this had something to do with Remus. Remus grabbed me into a one-armed hug and looked at Sirius, and then he looked at me.
"Do you already know about Sirius and the trial?" he said, I nodded then he grinned, "Well in that case watch Sirius for me who knows what he'll do." Sirius cuffed Remus in the back of the head.
"If there's anyone who needs watching it's this sly teenager." Sirius said while sitting me back down. Food was put in front of me.
"Here eat as much as you want; you're far to skinny for your age!" Mrs. Weasley said getting back to her normal mothering self. While I was eating I suddenly felt a hard slap at the back of my head. I looked back and saw an angry Hermione.
"Hey!" I said rubbing the back of my head.
"That's for making me think you're dead, I mean of all the stupidest thing you could've done, Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!" I droned her out while looking at Ron for help he shrugged.
"Sorry mate, not going to help you there." he said, I wondered where Ron's sanity was to say that aloud. Hermione turned around and glared.
"Ron! You're supposed to be helping me!" She said loudly.
"I am! I'm nodding with you!" He retorted.
"That's not helping!" she said.
"Yes it is!" he argued.
"Ugh, Ronald!" she said while flopping on a chair next to me, rubbing the bridge of her nose.
"How many times do I have to tell you, don't call me that!" said Ron, while he took the seat by me, glaring at Hermione.
"You weren't helping me you were just standing there, staring at Harry!" she said.
"Well I'm hungry, and Harry's back so there's nothing to worry about." He said as food was placed in front of. Hermione huffed, while glaring at Ron. I was glad the focus was on Ron. I started eating again. The twins entered and welcomed me back, hugging me while whispering not to drink the orange juice. Bill entered, and patted me on the back, while sitting next to Sirius and talking to him about his flying motorcycle. Ginny came in and hugged me tightly and then she blushed while sitting next to Hermione. I was guessing Charlie and Percy weren't here, not that I cared all that much for Percy but Charlie was cool.
Sirius kept on staring at me as if I was about to apparate out of the house; it was getting kind of annoyed. I tried to make it known that I was getting annoyed with our bond, he just smiled while sending a "who cares" feeling back. I rolled my eyes. Find I won't tell him about the orange juice! I could tell this was going to be a long summer, a very, very long summer.
A/n: okay this one is finished. The reason I'm stopping here and making a sequel is because this story was about how he got Sirius out the next story will be about him going through the stage of war and Voldemort and Sirius helping him along the way. This one was kind of slow but I promise next story will have a lot more action obviously. Also if you have time please read my newest one-shot "The Key of the Green Orbs." Thank you for taking the time to read, please review! Thank you!
Aperio Iugum is Latin for reveal bonds and Celo is Latin for conceal.
Yay! I got more reviews!
Thank you ickle princess, my first reviewer! You helped me stay diligent through the story. Lol. I hope you'll read the sequel, I'm sure if you wrote a fic you would do well!
Thanks gryfindor16, I'm glad you saw it as sweet one of the main things I wanted to put through especially with Sirius and Harry bonding.
Thank you Padfootqueen it's nice to see other Sirius fans, I'm in denial of Sirius being dead so GO SIRIUS! Thanks for the enthusiasm.
