James yawned and stretched. He felt the warmth of sunlight on his face, yet everything around him was dark. Nothing could have hurt him more than to lose his sight: and Voldemort knew this. The Dark Lord had planned well: James was now incapable of doing anything he used to do, like Quidditch, much less fight Voldemort like he would have liked to.

He lay in his bed, thinking.

Suddenly, he heard the door to the Hospital Wig swing open, and someone run to his bed. "Quite out of breath, huh?" James said.

"James, it's me!" said Peter urgently. "Sirius and Remus- they're gone.!

James sat up unexpectedly, bumping his head hard into Peter's.

"Is Lily gone too?" he asked.

"Evans? Well she wasn't at breakfast or at lunch.."

"SHIT!" yelled James. "Okay, Peter. Get the Headmaster."

"What the-"

"Now!" he exclaimed.

Peter hurried out of the room. James, left by himself, felt a tear slip down his cheek. Two of his best friends, and Lily. He had to do something. He tentatively started out of his bed, feeling his way across the floor. But it was no use, he couldn't get around this way.

Helpless, he fell back on to his bed.

Remus opened one eye. He sat bolt upright. "Lily," he whispered. "LILY!" he shook her.

"What? No-it's not morning y-" she started.

"LILY!"

"Oh, crap. I though it was only a nightmare," she said quietly.

"Well, obviously it isn't. I wonder how long we were unconscious... Where are we?" he asked.

They were sitting in the middle of s peculiar room- too small to be an actual room, yet too big to be a closet.

The door was opened wide.

"Okay, something's messed up here," said Lily. "They're letting us out?"

"Lily, I don't know what's going on, but we really have to be careful," said Remus.

Lily stood up. "I know we have to be careful, but we also have to find out where Sirius is- who knows where he went?"

Remus followed her out of the closet/room. They were in a dark hall with walls covered in portraits. Remus started walking down the hall, holding up his wand and studying the paintings by its light.

"Um, Remus? No offence, but now is not the time for art."

He ignored her, and kept on walking.

"Well, fine, ignore me!" she exclaimed.

He stopped abruptly in front of a painting. A slow smile spread on his face. "Lily! The cure isn't here! I know where it is!"

"What?"

"Look at this painting- now I can't recite the whole riddle to you, but at one moment it says in that in the halls of a friend of Diagon Alley which could mean the halls of this building, lies the truth of the cure under the name of Sea Mermaid. I thought this meant that the cure itself would be here- but it's not! This painting is the recipe!"

"Yes, the name if the painting is Sea Mermaid!" she exclaimed enthusiastically. "But what relation between the mermaid and the cure?"

"I don't know," he answered. He began to take the painting off the wall. " But I have a feeling that as soon as I take this painting off we're going to be attacked, so get ready."

Lily pulled out her wand, and heard Remus mutter a reducing charm on the painting. He had shrunken it to the size of a stamp. He slipped it into her pocket.

"Ready? I hear voices," he whispered.

They flattened themselves against the wall.

Two men passed in front of them. One was tall, walking quickly, and looked a bit angry. The second was short and thin and trying his best to keep up with the other man's angry strides.

"But John," said the short man. "I'm sure they'll still be knocked out! There's no way they could have woken up so quickly after an encounter like that with the dementors! I'm sure that they haven't gone anywhere."

"How could you forget to lock the door?" said the tall man icily. His voice was strong and powerful.

"I-I-It's an inexcusable m-mistake," said the man, shaking.

Suddenly Remus and Lily heard a roar of rage.

"They're-they're gone!" gasped the short man.

"SEARCH FOR THEM! NOW!" screamed the tall man before leaving.

The short man ran off in the opposite direction.

Remus slowly began to edge down the hallway, Lily following him closely. He found a door, which he slowly opened. He entered the room, and pulled Lily in after him. Lily closed the door noiselessly.

"Lumos," she muttered. He wand gave off a nice, warm light. The light fell on a body.

She ran over, turning over the person. "Sirius!" she gasped.

Remus sat down next to her. "Shit," he muttered. "We have to get out of here!"

"He's in bad shape, Remus," whispered Lily. "I'm not sure if it's safe to move him."

Remus transfigured a piece of board that lay near them into a stretcher. He carefully placed it next to him.

"On the count of three," whispered Lily. "One... Two... Three!"

They lifted him up on to the stretcher. Remus used a spell to lift it up in the air, and made it follow him.

"We have to get out of here," he whispered to Lily. "Do you still have the painting?"

"Of course!" she whispered. "But where do you think our brooms are?"

"Each thing in it's own time!"

They headed out of the room into the dark hallway.

"I wonder how he got hurt," whispered Remus.

"Shh!"

They slowly walked down the hall, until they came to a dead end.

"Crap! We're never going to find our way out!" whispered Lily.

They began to walk in the opposite direction. They came to a large door.

Lily put her ear against it. "There's no noise. I think it's safe."

They opened it, and daylight streamed into the dark hallway.

Lily laughed with joy, and stepped out into the street. Remus followed her out, guiding Sirius' stretched through the door.

"Oh, there's where we left our brooms!" she said, pointing to a large bush.

Remus ran over. "Darn it- they're not there!" he shouted.

"We have to get out of here- into a Muggle neighborhood."

"Why?" asked Remus.

"We'll be safer there."

So they quickly walked through the Leaky Cauldron.

"Excuse me, Mr. Lupin sir!" called a house elf.

"Yes?" answered Remus.

"I is Mr. Potter's new house elf. I is been told to give Mr. Lupin sir Mr. Potter's car. You is coming early?" said the house elf.

"What...?" Remus' eyes widened in surprise. "Oh yeah! I was supposed to pick up his car, but that's in a month!"

"Doesn't matter!" said Lily. "Where's the car?"

"Yeah, we'll take it."

They climbed into the car, lying Sirius down on the back seat.

"Talk about coincidences!" exclaimed Lily.

Remus smiled happily.

"We better get home quick- those Death Eaters are probably already after us!" he said.

Lily closed the door. She turned around and looked at Sirius. "I better take care of him. He looks pretty bad."

"You know how to-"

"Yeah, Madame Silvia taught me some First Aid," she interrupted.

She began to take off Sirius' cloak. His shirt was stained with blood.

"Remus!" she called urgently. "We need to get back quickly! He's losing a lot of blood!"

She ripped off a bit of her cloak into a large strip. Then she took Sirius' shirt off and began to examine his wound. There was a big gash on his shoulder. She took of her cloak and envelopped his shoulder. She patted her pocket, making sure that the painting was still there. She then climbed back into the passenger seat.

"That'll do for now, but I'm kinda scared," she said. "We really have got to hurry up."

"Okay," said Remus. "But Lily- keep your wand out. This car is supposed to be protected from curses, but I'm scared that the Death Eaters will be after us soon..."

"You know, we should play some music," said Lily. She pressed on a button, and suddenly the car was rising in the air. "Okay, that's not the radio!" she said, alarmed.

"You're a genius!" called Remus. "I forgot this car could fly! And this one will make us invisible to muggles!" he said pressing another button.

Lily laughed.

After a few hourse they arrived at Hogwarts only to find that the entire school was out in front of the school, cheering as they saw the car approach.

"What a warm welcome!" laughed Remus.

"We did it!" squealed Lily.

Remus landed the car, and they jumped out. Lily ran to her friends, hugging them happily. Sirius, having regained consiousness, was sitting up in the car, and was weakly and tiredly smiling to everyone. Lily ran back to them. "We did it!" she said, her eyes shining.

"I'm exhausted!" exclaimed Remus.

Just then, the crowd parted and James came through. "What's going on?" he called.

"Well, we're back!" shouted Remus.

"You-?" started James, his eyes widening. "You really went all that way, for me?"

"Oh yes we did!" said Lily.

"Tell me everything!" he shouted happily.

And for that moment everything looked like it would be okay...

A/N: That was a quick update! Next chapter soon- Tuesday night at the latest. Thanks to my reviewers! I'd love to thank you personally but I've got finals and exams to study for...