Hey everybody! I must thank you very much for reading this far into my fanfic. I realized that until last chapter, I hadn't put any author's notes in and the whole thing was just the fic. ;

But I think it's gone pretty well for all that. I might redo the chapters to add some though, what do you think? Anyway, thankies to my Wolfie sistah for being my Lupin, and love to my puppy sistah for being James even though she's the dog and we have yet to convince Miss Australia to be her Lily.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled fic…

Chapter 4

By the time the boys reached the reached the Willow once more, the sun was just peeking out over the trees. James was huffing loudly, Sirius on his back, and his breath came out in little puffs of steam. Peter disentangled himself from Remus while he flung the Invisibility Cloak over them. Remus allowed Peter to support him once more, and they trudged through the dewy grass up to the castle.

Gideon was still asleep as they crept into the sixth year boy's dormitory. James set Sirius down on his bed as Peter helped Remus to his. James was still panting quietly, and he gave Remus a weak smile.

"You all right there, Moony?" he asked. Remus looked at the floor. No, he was not all right. He had never felt worse. He dimly noticed his chest stinging where Sirius had left bite marks. At least Sirius was able to get some good hits in before he…

James gave him a look he was sure meant to be reassuring, but Remus refused to look up from the floor.

"He's still breathing, that's good…" he muttered, bending over Sirius. " He's got a broken arm, though." He added through clenched teeth.

"I can fix that…and the scratches." But that wasn't the point. That doesn't fix the problem. The spells his mother had taught him to use on himself after a transformation worked on the skin, not the heart or mind. Sirius was sure to be furious with him…

James was peering over Sirius again. He nudged back the shoulder and front of Sirius's robes, revealing several long gashes on his chest that were still bleeding. Remus started to get up, wincing at his own wounds, but James held a hand up.

"Sit down, Moony." He sat.

James worked slowly and quietly for a few minutes, trying to remove the rest of Sirius's robes without making the gashes worse. Over James's shoulder, Remus could see a large bruise had started to form down his entire right arm and shoulder. Remus felt sick to his stomach. I did that to him… There he was, one of the only people in the world who gave a damn about his happiness and he was lying unconscious and bleeding to death because of it…

"Moony." James was calling to him. He looked up. " You didn't bite him."

"What?"

"Do you see any bite marks?" James asked, gesturing to the unconscious Sirius, lying naked on the bed before him. Among all the scratches and bruises, there were no indentions or teeth marks anywhere. Even as Remus felt a wave of relief rush through him he could feel his face getting red. He'd never seen Sirius that …fully before…

"We need you to heal him." James's voice shook him out of his daze. He shook his head.

"Yeah…sure…" Remus's voice was shaking. He slipped his wand out of his pocket and got to work.

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A/N

In case anyone was wondering, Sirius doesn't usually wear a shirt under his school robes. At least, not in my crazy HP world…

As for the dorm situation, I seem to remember mention of a wizard named Gideon Prewett who was supposedly killed by one of Voldy's Death Munchers of Doom. Since they didn't say what house he and his brother were in, and since each house is separated by year with five boys to a dorm, I decided he was the fifth member of the Griffindor sixth year boy's dorm.