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Earlier...

Sirius walked(or limped rather)into the hospital wing. He looked around for Ms. Pomfrey, and sure enough, she came hustling between the beds towards him.

"What now?" she asked crossly, hands on her hips. Sirius knew not to be fooled into thinking that she was annoyed at having him come. She took extreme care over her patients, and would even make them stay a day later than needed usually.

"Uh...I hurt my leg in Defense Against the Dark Arts..." he began hesitantly,"I-"

" Well, let's have a look at it, than." she interupted briskly. She motioned for him to sit down in a chair across from her, while Lily just waited by the door next to them, looking around the room. He sat down in a light, wooden chair that squeaked as he sat on it. She reached for his right leg(It was the closest one)and started to roll up the pants leg to see what was wrong with it, when Sirius's hand flew down to stop it from going any higher(it was around his ankle).

"Not that one!" he said," It's my other leg it-" but she had already rolled it up. She gasped and let the pants leg slide down, unconciously,before she quickly yanked it back up again. His leg was absolutely covered with bruises and cuts of all sizes. His eyes slowly lifted up to hers, nervously, not saying anything. He was now gripping the edge of his chair so tightly that his knuckles were white.

" My dear boy! Whatever happened?" she cried looking astounded, " Is there more than that?" she asked, and without waiting for him to answer she reached down and pulled his other pants leg up, smartly. This leg was bleeding freely and was covered in a large bruise around the knee (although it most definitly wasn't the only bruise)

Lily, who wasn't paying attention to the situation,whipped her fiery red head around atMs. Pomfrey's exclamations. Sirius didn't meet her eyes as he sat ther with his leg resting on Ms. Pomfrey's lap, so she went around next to the nurse, and looked down at his slender legs. " Sirius..." she said softly, eyes flitting to each bruise and cut.

"I guess I got hurt more than I thought..." he said trying to laugh. And apparantly, Ms. Pomfrey bought it because she rolled her eyes andshoved him playfullyonto a bed and immediatly set to the task of healing him.

" Miss Evans, he won't be going anywhere for the rest of the day," she said, looking at her sternly over her glasses," so you can just go back to class now." Lily nodded, still looking at his wounds and not looking at his frozen face.

" K, uh...bye Sirius." she said with a shocked and puzzled expression on her lightly freckled face.

Lily was walking down the hall towards the Room of Requirement, without really knowing where she was going. She was still seeing all of Sirius's cuts and bruises over and over again in her mind. That couldn't have all happened during Defense Against The Dark Arts. she thought, frownind as she walked down a pair of stone steps. She was snapped out of her reverie when the Room of Requirement's door slammed open shaking years of dust from the ancient ceiling,"When did I get here?" she thought. Students were stumbling out of the room screaming and crying( a few of them were being levitated out of the room), Lily noticed that all of them were wet and shivering. Finally,(she had been searching for her friends in the confused and frightened mob)Katie came out of the doorway, holding a bloody nose, and a pinewood wand, which held aloft a bloody figure. Lily frowned and looked closer at the face of the limp person. Her eyes widened as she recognized him,

" James?" she asked increduously at Katie, who gave a muffled answer in reply, "What happened?" she inquired in a frail whisper.

James woke up with a start. All of a sudden a white hot pain lashed through his body, making his breath come out in a slow, rattling hiss. He blinked a couple of times, trying to clear his vision but stopped when he realized that he couldn't see because he was missing his glasses. And his shirt for that matter. So trying to find his glasses, he began to blindly, grope around for them on the bedside table. Which from experience( he had been here many times due to Quidditch) he knew to be on the left side. He froze when his hand touched someone else's. He traveled his hand down slowly to the fingers of the hand, and found, to his relief(and confusion), that his glasses were there. He pulled them slightly, freeing them, and shakily put them on. A new pain shot through his head as a blindingly white light was made visible. He slowly turned his raven head, his neck hurt,to see who had his glasses and almost fell out of the bed in shock. There, sitting on a chair next to him was Lily. A very asleep Lily at that, but still Lily was there right next to him.

" She's been there ever since you came in."whispered a familiar voice on his right side. James whipped his head around, cracking his neck painfully. He winced and reached a hand up and rubbed his sore neck.

" Sirius?" his voice was hoarse and it stung when he spoke. Sirius was there in a white bed next to him looking very bored and very tired.

" What happened to you, Prongs, you were all bloody when they brought you in." he inquired shifting onto his stomach casually. James didn't answer, he was too occupied with the large bandage wrapped around Sirius's muscled torso.

" Nevermind me, when could that have happened?" James asked loudly, forgetting about the sleeping Lily behind him. Sirius quickly pulled up his sheet looking nervous .

"Probably in class..." he said off handedly, avoiding James's frowning eyes.

Lily awoke at the sound of James's shout. But seeing them talking decided not to say anything. James's back was to her and there was an akward silence between the two friends. Lily wondered if they had seen her already, but of course they had, this was James for Pete's sake(no pun intended). And Sirius was here when she came in. She didn't mean to stay here overnight, she must have just fallen asleep here. Afterall, this hadhappened on justher first day of school, it felt like a week to her already. But Sirius, who was facing her, noticed that she was indeed awake.

So, changing the subject in a tone of relief he said," Oh! Lily, your awake!" James snapped his head around making his neck project a large CRACK! Lily would have found it funny, if it wasn't for the look of quiet pain on his face. He rubbed his neck very tenderly.Sirius, however, found it very funny and he looked at Lily and rolled his eyes with an expression that spoke loudly,When will he ever learn?

"Lily?" James looked up in disbelief, through glazed hazel eyes, "What are you doing here?"

" Must have fallen asleep, I guess." she said yawning," I think that I'll go down for breakfast...or lunch, if you don't mind." she said looking down at her watch smiling.

"No we're fine.Go right ahead." said James as he quickly jerked his covers up over his vulnerable chest. Sirius jammed his face into his pillow laughing at his friend. Lily smiled slightly, and walked out of the room.