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If You're Not The One
Chapter Eleven: St. Mungo's
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James and Sirius having finally gotten over the initial shock of the news, they high tailed it to St. Mungo's as fast as they could. Not seeing Remus' parents anywhere they stood in line at the Welcome Witch's desk.
"Next," the welcome witch stated.
"We're here to see Remus Lupin," James said stepping up to her desk.
"Lupin?" she asked starting to go through her records. "Ah yes... first floor, third door on your left, Dai Llewellyn Ward."
The boys thanked the witch, and headed off to see their friend. When they got to the Dai Llewellyn Ward they didn't have far to go when they spotted Mr. Lupin coming out of the hospital room. Sirius picked up his pace, and met Mr. Lupin half way who had spotted them.
"How's he doing?" Sirius asked worried.
"Not so good," Mr. Lupin said sadly, sighing heavily.
"Was it from his transformation?" James asked. Mr. Lupin nodded.
"He's never had one this bad," Remus' father stated, shaking his head slightly. "When I went to get him this morning he was unconscious. There was blood everywhere. The healers say he nearly tore open his arm. He punctured a lung, and damaged the muscles in his neck pretty badly. They were able to heal most of his injuries, though they still have a lot of work to do."
Through all this, Sirius was getting paler and paler. How could he have let this happen? He knew how Remus could get during his transformations when he's angry, hurt or frustrated. This was all his fault. His poor Moony.
"Can we see him?" James asked, breaking Sirius out of his guilt stricken thoughts.
"He's sleeping right now but I'm sure he'd like to have his friends with him," Mr. Lupin said walking them into the room.
Mrs. Lupin was sitting in a chair next to Remus' bed, holding his hand while silent tears streamed down her cheeks. Sirius and James both gasped when they were close enough to get a good look at their friend. There were scratches across his face that were still healing, with a quite prominent one cutting across his eye to his cheek. His neck and left arm were both heavily bandaged, but blood was still visibly seeping through the cloth. The werewolf seemed to have lost a significant amount of weight as well which didn't help the look of him.
Sirius bit the inside of his cheek to keep back the cry that tried to force itself out. He certainly didn't want to fathom what the rest of Remus looked like. He looked bad enough from what they could see.
"Thanks for coming boys," Mrs. Lupin said getting up from her seat, dabbing at her eyes with a handkerchief. "We appreciate it, and I'm sure Remus does too."
Sirius doubted that his presence was welcome. It seemed that Remus had conveniently forgotten to tell his parents of their relationship, and thus their breakup. But then maybe Remus will hear him out when he wakes up, and let him apologize.
Sirius and James sat with Remus for most of the day, only leaving when the healers came to administer healing's to Remus or when his parents wanted to be with him. Mr. And Mrs. Lupin advised them to go home and get some rest when it was well into the night, but both were reluctant to go. After some convincing to Remus' parents and even more convincing to the healers Sirius and James were allowed to spend the night.
"Do you think he'll make it?" James asked when the Lupin's finally retired for the night, promising their unconscious son they'd be back in the morning.
"Of course he is!" Sirius insisted, not wanting to think of any other possibility. "He has to..."
During the night Sirius kept having nightmares about losing Remus in every way his mind could think of, and each time he woke up James had to talk him out of indulging his cravings for alcohol and drugs. Sirius started wondering how James made it possible to wake up when ever he did. Those thoughts vanished quickly as Sirius drifted back asleep.
In the morning Sirius and James were awoken by a medi-witch checking Remus' condition. She just finished taking his temperature when a small groan escaped Remus' lips, and shifted his body a little, making Sirius and James sit up straight in their seats.
"Well its about time you woke up," The medi-witch said, smiling down at Remus who had just opened his eyes.
"Where am I?" he asked his voice hoarse from disuse.
"St. Mungo's, Mr. Lupin. You did quite the number on yourself," she said nodding at his bandaged body as he groaned half in realization to what happened, and half in pain. "Lucky for you you've got good family and friends."
At the mention of his family and friends Remus looked around the room for the first time. Seeing James sitting at one end of his bed with his goofy grin in place Remus couldn't help but smile back. He turned his head to the other side of his bed thinking to see his parents, but was met with a most unwelcome sight.
"What is he doing here?" Remus demanded, his eyes narrowing darkly at Sirius.
"Look Remy, I-" Sirius began before he was abruptly cut off by Remus' shouts.
"GET HIM OUT! OUT!"
Not wanting to worsen the patients state of recovery the medi-witch quickly escorted Sirius from the room before he had any chance to protest. She quickly apologized but informed him that he was not to set foot in that room again without the patients permission. Sirius nodded, and turned to leave as the Healers rushed passed him having been alarmed by Remus' shouts.
"Sirius wait!" James shouted as he came out of Remus' room, and ran to catch up with him.
"Forget it. Go back and stay with Remus," Sirius murmured glumly.
"Remus will be fine without me for a bit," James assured him. "Besides the Healers kicked me out for now."
Sirius forced a smile since that's what James wanted to see, but it didn't faze his friend in the least so he and James went up to the tea room. Sirius sighed heavily, stirring his tea absently as James ate a honeyed scone.
"I don't think he's going to forgive me," Sirius said bluntly, finally deciding to vent his thoughts to James.
"Sure he will mate," James said confidently before taking a sip of tea. "He just needs some time."
"Not ruddy likely."
"He doesn't even know yer clean now mate. He doesn't know you've come back to yer senses finally."
"You think that'll make a difference?" James nodded over a mouthful of scone. "Thanks Prongs. Maybe you're right."
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TBC...
