Title: Through the Veil
Characters/Pairing: Sirius Black
Word Count: 100
Prompt: Sirius's thoughts as he falls through the veil.

A nearly faded memory breaks through as I fall.

"Keep your eyes open, Sirius. Keep your head up and your feet on the ground."

"It's Hogwarts, Father, not a bloody dancing school."

I'd have smiled, if I could, remembering his sudden frown. But the subsequent smack to the head wasn't funny, nor was the fall that followed.

That fall was like this one: unexpected, breathless, aided by the weight of a tightly coiled anger deep within.

And, like this fall, there was the fear that I'd done something wrong, accompanied by the conviction that I'd done only right all along.