A/n: W00t w00t w00t:D Chapter number two! Starting it the night after I put up chapter one. Sorry, there wasn't any funny in the first chapter ;-; I promise, though, by the end of this chapter, we'll have some good funny :D Either that, or the beginning of the next.

But, I bet you're wondering, where's the love?

C'mon people! This is only chapter two! XD It'll be here... I predict, by chapter four. So yes. Hm... To the fic? Yes, to the fic. Review responses at the end:D

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The Veil

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Remus stumbled down the street, his vision clouded over with fire whiskey and greif. He didn't realize when his surroundings darkended, dispite the cloudless afternoon sky. Didn't realize that he was how halfway through a street that could have been Knocturn Alley's twin. Didn't realize that people were surrounding him, their eyes shining with greed as their fingers flexed. They had seen drunk men stumble down here before. And no one ever saw them leave.

Remus Lupin only came back to reality when he bumped into an old, bent woman. He blinked, his eyes regaining some focus, as he studied her face. It was pitted by scars and bumps and a horrendously large nose. A smile quirked at the corner of his mouth, and the creatures closing in on him heard him mutter something about a Severus.

The hag looked up at him, narrowing her eyes, about to curse him into oblivioun for bumbing into her, before she recognised something on his face. She cackled up at him, griping his sleve in a vice like hold, and glared his pursuers away. She shook a fist at them for good measure, and they dispersed, grumbling, as the hag pulled the werewolf into the building behind her.

As the light changed once again, Luipin looked up and around, blinking. It was quite dark in here, the dank, dirty room lit only by a large wooden box that sat before a cough. The hag dragged the oblivious man to the couch and plopped him down on it, so that he got a good look at the front of the box. It appeared to be an old fashioned muggle television, but, instead of pictures moving across the screen, it was covered by static. He blinked and narrowed his eyes... For a second there, he thought he'd seen someone's face. Shaking his head, he finally turned his attention over ot the hag, who'd sat down in a creaking old rocking chair next to the couch. Rocking back and forth, she surveyed him as well, with her unnerving, unblinking stare, until Remus blushed and turned away.

"So, Remus Lupin, the stars brought you here at last." She said, her voice as rough and creaky as the chair she sat in.

"How'd chu know my name?" Asked the man, scowling, his voice slurred.

"Ah, that won't do!" She said, getting up abruptly and bustling into the other part of the house. He could hear her tinkling something around, but other than that, he had no idea what was coming next. Had he been sober, he probably would've realized that he was deep within a hag's domain, and not many had survived to tell the tale. When she came back, she held an old, dusty goblet in one hand. Handing it to him, he looked up, confused. "Drink up boy, it won't kill you." She urged, sitting back down in her chair.

Shrugging, the werewolf took a large gulp, swallowing it even before he got a taste of the putrid stuff. If it was poison, he didn't care anymore. He felt a fuzzy tingling running down his spine as he coughed at the horrid taste of the drink. He was about to shreik a curse at the hag before his head suddenly cleared, and he felt better than he had in weeks. Relaxing once again, he finally took a good luck at this strangely helpful hag.

She wore a patched, old fashioned, floral printed dress with a black shawl draped across her shoulders. She clutched a cane in her bony, scarred left hand, and surveyed him through pale, grey eyes. The werewolf gulped and stared back at the woman, wondering why she brought him here.

Rocking back and forth in her chair, she surveyed him shrewdly. "Midge, is the name. And your's is Remus Lupin."

Scowling, the man cocked his head to the side in a rather canine fashion. "B-b.. How did you know my name?" Aksed the confused man.

"Because, I've been talking to someone who knows you quite well, Moony." Remus leaned back in suprise, scowling. How did she know his nickname? Did she know that he was also a werewolf? Before he could ask however, she was raising her cane in a menicing fashion. The man cringed slightly, still not sure of himself on his feet. The fire whiskey was strong and this hag's potion had not banished all of its effects.

But, instead of hitting him with her cane, she tapped the muggle teleivision like device. Turning his attention back to its snowy face, he was startled to see a shape start to appear. It looked to be a man, curled up into a fetal position in the corner of a grey room. The edges were still fuzzy and Lupin's heart skipped a beat.

He was stareing into the haunted eyes of Sirius Black.

"Sirius!" Remus yelled, as if he would be heard, and fell to his knees infront of the device. Slowly, carefully, he brought a hand up and traced a finger along Sirius's back. The man on the screen looked up, suprised, as if he accually felt the touch.

Midge laughed, still rocking back and forth. She wasn't suprised at all about how Remus reacted. "So, I see you like my Veil Viewer. I've been talking with that young man since he fell into my veil. I was quite suprised, of course, because no one had entered my little room since those blasted Ministry agents took my veil. But, they didn't know its secrets, and I wouldn't tell them. Neither did they know that they missed a few items."

Remus managed to tear his eyes away from the screen to look at Midge, horrified. The hag laughed again, and continued her tale. "Oh, don't get your shorts in a knot, Moony. As I said, I have been speaking with this young man, who is by far the most interesting individual who has ever had the misfortune to fall into my little room."

The man relaxed slightly, and regained his seat on the couch, albeit a tense one. He leaned forward, arms resting on his knees, as he listened to Midge and watched Sirius on the Veil Viewer. "I d-.. I don't understand." Remus admited, looking over at Midge for a breif second before turning his eyes back to his friend on the screen.

"And I didn't rightly expect you to. So, tell me, Remus Lupin, would you like to get your friend back?" Asked the hag, an eyebrow raised, head cocked to one side.

The man looked at her, dumbstruck. He never considered the possibility that he'd be able to get his friend back. Merely assumed him dead, and the situation beyond all hope. That line of thinking had been his curse his whole life. He looked at things straight on, not beating around the bush, and took things as they came. He'd always been that way, ever since the bite he'd suffered that turned him into a werewolf.

"Yes..." He whispered. "More than anything in the world, I would like to have Sirius back... But why? Why help me?" He asked, confused. There had only been a handfull of people in his entire life that would just help him for no reason, and every one else always shunned him. That made for a very cynical outlook, but Remus tried not to think like that.

Midge laughed, still rocking back and forth in that forever creaking chair of her's. "Because, I'll let you in on a little secret. I had a son, a lifetime ago. He was killed many many years ago, but not before he found out alot about himself. It didn't bother me any that he liked other men, and, with my encouragement, he went off to the muggle world and joined many organizations to promote the acceptance of this love. However, not everyone was as understanding as I. He was killed by a group of muggles, because my son was nerely a squib, couldn't defend himself. So, whenever I get the chance to promote this love, I do. I do it for him." She said, in a very matter of fact voice.

"But how did you know? How did you know I loved him?" Remus asked, incredulously.

Midge raised her eyebrows, remembering how Sirius had told her that the werewolf didn't know he loved him. She smiled, nodding, and, with a hint of mystery, said, "I have my ways. Now, as I said before, those Ministry meddlers missed a few items connected to the veil. That's why they couldn't understand how to get out, because they took the unfinnished version. So to speak, I have another door into the room in which your friend is trapped."

"Then why havn't you let him out yet? Why havn't you gone in to get him out?" He demanded, slamming his fists on his knees. She'd kept him in there! Toying with him!

Midge cackled at the werewolf's anger. "Oh, tut. Its not that easy. The crossing is hard, and I would surely perish. But you, Moony, might just be strong enough. The passage is very peaceful for the first few moments, then, it rips you of body, soul, and mind. If it judges you fit, you regain what you lost, and slip out the other side of the veil. It lasts for only a breath of mortal time, but feels like an eternity while you're in my little room. The first veil was a prototype, of sorts, an unfinnished design. Your Sirius fell into it, but couldn't fall out the other side, because there was no other side." She signed and shook her head, a worried expression on her mangled face.

"Except, to stay in the room long enough to fish out our dear Padfoot, and bring him back out with you, you must give up one of the three of your mind, body and soul. You and Sirius would both have to. So, Moony, which shall it be? Your mind, body, or soul?" Asked Midge, her face shrewd.

Remus looked away from the hag, back to the vision of the haunted Sirius Black. It was a cruel thing to have to deside. He couldn't live without a body, wouldn't love without a soul, and would be insane without a mind. And he had to choose for the both of them. It would be something he'd have to think about for years if he was given the chance, but he wasn't. Time was a factor. It didn't look like Sirius could survive many more hours in that lifeless grey room.

"I have a suggestion, if you'd like to hear it. You may like the outcome." Midge said, eyebrows raised, eyes closed.

Remus lept up, only to stumble and fall at the hag's feet. With a sigh, he sat back, rubbing his forehead and looking up at the cackling hag. Glareing, the man said, "Yes, please." Belatedly, he remembered what powers she possessed, and that this was the only way he could get Sirius back, and added, "Ma'am."

Nodding, Midge said, "That's better. Now, if you choose to give up your mind, you'll both be insane. If you choose to give up your soul, you'll both stop feeling. However, if you choose to give up your body, you do have something to fall back on. Padfoot is an animagus, as I remember, and you, Moony, are a werewolf. If you so choose this option, Sirius will take the form of a dog, and you a wolf, most likely puppies. And then, if you proove yourselves worthy, after a time, the powers that rule this room may choose to give you your bodies back. As this has never happened, I don't really know. Its the only alternitive." Finnishing her rather long speech, the hag leaned back, starting the infernal creaking again, as she rocked back and forth.

Lupin turned, so that he was stareing right at the form of Sirius Black, hunched and huddled in the dark, dank, grey room. Anything could be better than this. "Alright." Standing up a bit slower this time, the man made sure of the ground beneath his feet before turning to look at Midge once more. "Alright, I'll do it. Anything is better than the hell he's living in now, and I'd gladly give up all three, body, mind, and soul, to get him out of there. I can't let him suffer like that."

The woman nodded, and carefully stood up out of her chair. "Yes, alright, come with me." She hobbled towards a door that Remus was sure hadn't been there before, and opened it into a darkened hallway. Gulping, and taking one last look at the man he so loved on the screen, and followed Midge at a trot.

At the end of the darkened hallway was another door, into which Midge had already dissapeared. Upon entering it, the werewolf stepped back, eyes wide. Before him hung the an exact replica of the veil Sirius had fallen into. It seemed like a hundred years ago that his love's laughing, flushed face dissapeared, never to be seen again. 'Not if I can do anything about it,' Thought the man, clenching his fists.

"Alright," Remus jumped, Midge's crackly voice startling him out of his reverie, and stepped over to the bent, old hag. "Drink this potion, and into the veil with you. But, listen, while you're falling through the darkness, there is three seconds of bliss. Then, speak the spell 'Moror', and you shall stay in the grey room. There, Sirius will be waiting for you, you merely have to call out his name. After you have him, and make sure you have him, physicly hold on to him, and speak the spell 'Dimitto', and you shall leave. However, as you will loose your body and gain a new one, the leaving will be harder than the staying. Harder on you, because you havn't had time to rest in the grey room, no matter how bad a rest the grey room promotes. Are you ready?" The man jumped again at this quick question, his heart racing.

Everything was happening so fast! Was he really and truely ready to give up his body? Maybe forever? The image of Sirius's laughing face rose unbidden to his eyes. Blinking away tears, Remus squared his shoulders. "I'm ready."

Midge pressed a tankard of a sweet smelling potion into his hands. "For strength." She said. "And remember, Moror when the pain starts, and Dimitto when you have Sirius." Lupin nodded, gulping down the overly sweet potion. Once he'd drained the tankard, Midge led him over to the veil. Patting his back, she said, "Good luck." And pushed him in before doubt would make him stop.

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A/n: Well, there's chapter two. I know, still no funny or lovey stuff, but its coming next chapter. I was gonna try and put it into the end of this one, but I couldn't. I'mma start on the next chapter right now, though :D

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