A/N: sorry it's taken a few days. Thanks for the 3 reviews.
Crimson stained tiles in one of the shower stalls. Red liquid mixed with the water draining out. A hand rested on Remus' shoulder. "I need to show you something." Remus turned on his heel to look into the face of the hand's owner. He was looking at Sirius. "Um…ok?" Remus was nervous. "You have to promise not to tell anyone." Sirius was staring at him. Remus promised without thinking. Sirius inhaled deeply, he pulled up the sleeves of his robes. His arms were covered in scars, bruises, and a fresh mark on one of his wrists. Remus grabbed his arm gently and rubbed his arm. "Were these self inflicted?" Tears were sliding silently down Sirius' face. "That's not all." He pulled his shirt and robes off. Sirius turned around and pulled his hair from his neck. His back bore scars that crossed over each other, few were raw and agitated. "Dear God." Remus traced an older scar while accidentally running over a new one causing Sirius to gasp in sharp pain. James walked into the bathroom and found Remus tracing scars on Sirius' back. "What…who…are you going to be okay?" James wet a washcloth and pressed it against Sirius' back. Sirius shuttered but relaxed. "Does that help?" James asked. "Yeah thanks." Sirius smiled at them. His smile sent shivers down Remus' spine. By dinner James and Sirius were best friends and Remus was extremely close to them both.
Peter was introduced and Sirius went into a defense mode. He gave snappy answers to all of Peter's questions. Sirius eventually blocked out all of Peter's annoying questions. "Why are your eyes yellow?" Sirius grabbed a spoon and looked at his eyes in the back of it. A searing pain shot through his hand. He tried to drop the spoon but it seemed to be melting into his skin. After a few moments his hand started to give off smoke. The spoon was silver and was dissolving into his blood stream. Sirius looked at Remus before bolting out of the hall. Remus got up and followed. By the time they were at the hospital wing the veins in Sirius' hand and forearm were visible.
Madame Ganush went positively nuts. Sirius had to be given an injection to stop the poisonous metal from going further into his body. A number of potions had to be given to him to flush the silver from his body. It caused him to get violently ill but it got the silver out. Madame Ganush forced him to stay in the hospital wing for observation. "Remus," Sirius called as Remus started to leave. "Yeah?" Remus turned around. "Tell James that I have to stay here." Sirius had put up an argument but lost. "M'kay." Remus ran off to the Gryffindor tower.
"Where's Dog-Star?" After Sirius had told James he was named after Sirius, the dog star, James had taken to calling him Dog-Star. "Ganush is forcing him to stay in the hospital wing." Remus answered. "Did you see the smoke coming off his hand?" James was intrigued by what happened. "Are you guys talking about that kid named after the dog star?" A red head asked. "Why did he freak out at dinner?" "He was having some sort of reaction to the metal." Remus answered quickly. "I'm Lily Evans." She held out her hand. "James Potter." James unstuck his jaw to talk to her. "Peter Pettigrew." Peter shook her hand. "Remus Lupin and Dog-Star is Sirius Black." Remus introduced Sirius. "Did you say Black? Aren't all the Black's in Slytherin?" Peter never actually knew Sirius' last name. "I guess he's a rebel."