Chapter 54: Injured

Sarah sat by her husband's bedside. She was afraid to leave him. Only two days ago had he saved Catherine from Voldemort, and he had yet to wake up. Faith had healed him, and they were too afraid to go to Saint Mungos. There was talk of corruption. Sarah didn't know what she would do if Remus were to die. ' I just got Catherine back, don't let me lose the man I love,'

Faith chuckled as she glanced over the Daily Prophet. The headline announced "Faith Black spotted in France! Severus Snape spotted in Ireland!"

"I'd like to make a statement," Faith smirked to no one in particular, " that I am apparently in France,"

"Sometimes I think the world is clueless to what is really going on in the world," Sirius muttered. After a minute of silence Sirius looked at the calendar and commented, "Full moon is coming soon. I hope Remus wakes up before then,"

"I just hope he wakes up at all," Faith murmured.

A fourth year Remus Lupin sat up in a hospital bed at Hogwarts. His arms were wrapped in clean white bandages and his face was showing a nasty cut. Last night had been horrible. It was the full moon, and the werewolf decided to rip himself apart rather than the room.

Remus looked longingly at his book that rested by his bedside. He would have loved to read it but it hurt to much to move his arms. He wanted to be outside. Outside with his friends.

But he was stuck in the hospital wing with nothing to do. Gee, what fun. He looked down at his hands and wondered how much longer he'd be in the hospital wing. When he looked up he saw someone he did not expect.

"Hi," Sarah said softly as she looked down at her feet. 'Am I seeing things or is she blushing?' Remus's heart began to beat a bit quicker.

"James told me you had an awful run in with the Whomping Willow," Sarah added shuffling her feet.

"Uhh…yeah," Remus stammered, "It was terrible. Didn't see it until I had bumped right into it,"

"Does it hurt?" she asked taking the seat by his bed.

"A little," he nodded, "Its just horrible that I can't go outside, or even read my book," Sarah picked up the book he was referring to and looked at it's cover. Remus could feel his stomach doing flip-flops.

"The Werewolf Chronicles," she read aloud.

"It's rather good. About a mans life as a werew-"

"I know. I've read it," Sarah interrupted him. She then looked down at the book, blushing again.

"Did you like it?"

"Yes,"

Remus nodded and Sarah just sat there, staring at the book. She looked up finally and offered, "I can read it to you if you'd like…I mean if you don''t want me to that's fine..but I was just wondering…if you wanted to-"

"I'd like that if you'd read it to me," he put in. As he heard the words spill out of his own mouth his heart began to race at three times its normal speed, and his mind was buzzing with the thought of her reading to him. Sarah gave a shy smile and opened the book to where he had left off.

"Getting a job was difficult with my condition. Very few people wanted to hire a man that would be taking quite a lot of sick days…" she began to read aloud. Remus rested his head back against the wall and listened to her read to him. 'Pure bliss' he thought with a smile.

Sarah rested her head on the edge of Remus's bed. She had gotten little sleep since the attack. Catherine slept in a bassinet in the corner and Sarah hoped that if she cried, Remus would awaken from it. Suddenly she felt a light squeeze on her hand. Her eyes flooded open and she forced her head up.

Remus was awake, he looked at her and smiled, "Hi,"

Sarah felt like crying.

(A/N: A short chapter, I know, but I'm working on the chapter about the last fight with Voldemort…its gonna be a big one!)