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Sirius stared into Taryn's eyes. "Taryn, is this some kind of cruel joke?" He asked seriously.
"No, Sirius." Taryn answered, her eyes filling up with tears as she attempted to sit up, and this time succeeded.
"Taryn…." Sirius pulled her onto his lap and held her tightly. "I'm sorry I ever let you out of my sight."
"I… I'm sorry I didn't put up more of a struggle…."
Sirius hugged her more tightly. "I love you Taryn…"
"I know…" Taryn paused. "I love you Sirius."
"I…" Sirius voice trailed off as James, Lily and Remus came running out of the station.
"Oh, Merlin! Sirius, we didn't know where you went." James said, letting go of Lily's hand to let her run off in Taryn's direction.
"We thought the Death Eaters got you." Remus explained.
Lily sat down next to Taryn and looked at her. "Tar', I'm so glad, you're okay…"
At Lily's comment, the sadness in Taryn's eyes greatened, and she shook her head.
"You are basically okay, aren't you?"
"No." Taryn sobbed, turning her head and burying it in Sirius's chest.
So Sirius told Remus, James and Lily about how they gave her poison food, stopping every few moments to comfort Taryn.
Lily blinked. "Well we got to get her to a hospital, then." She said, then looked at Taryn. "Are you strong enough to apparate?"
Taryn nodded slowly. "I think."
"Then we'll meet you at St. Mungo's. James, Remus and I will go first, then you, then Sirius."
"'Kay."
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Taryn fell the second she got to the hospital, being so tired that she wasn't able to hold herself up anymore.
When Sirius apparated there, he saw her and immediately rushed to help. "Tar', are you okay?"
Taryn nodded, standing up slowly. "Get me to a bed, Sirius…"
Sirius grabbed her hand and guided her to the front desk. "My girlfriend's poisoned."
"Go to floor . A healer will be waiting up there."
"'Kay, thanks." The couple hurried off toward the stairs.
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"Is Taryn going to be okay?" Sirius asked the Healer.
The Healer nodded. "For the while. We managed to get most of the poison out of her body, but there's still some more left. It'd be better if she stays here for another week or two before she goes back home."
"And then she'll be alright?"
She bit her lip, and replied after a few moments. "We don't know, exactly. It really depends on how much magic is in the poison. If it's normal muggle poison, she'll be perfectly healthy, but if it's got potions in it, it will be harder to help her, and… Well, if the poison is bad enough, she could die."
"D-die?" Sirius stuttered.
"Only possibly. There's a chance she's going to be fine when she leaves here."
There was an awkward silence, which was broken when Sirius asked, "Well can I go see her? I haven't seen here for two days…"
"She's sleeping right now, but if you'd like, you can go wait. I hear holding somebody's hand can help more than potions or spells of any kind." The Healer advised.
"Thanks." Sirius slowly opened the door to Taryn's room and walked in, closing the door behind him.
Taryn was lying on the bed, over the covers, looking nothing like she usually did, so peaceful, yet so empty. Her dark blonde hair was neater than it had been when he had saved her, so he supposed somebody had brushed it for her.
Sirius walked over to a chair and stared at Taryn, taking in every detail. She was wearing one of those white hospital gowns. Her right hand was lying on her stomach and the other over the white sheets. The only sign of her moving was her chest going up and down with each breath in and out. In fact, her and Sirius' breathing was the only sound in the room.
After what seemed like ages, yet passed by quickly, Taryn slowly opened her eyes and helped herself up to a sitting position with her left hand. She looked over at Sirius, yet didn't say anything as she crossed her legs and continued to stare at him.
"Taryn?" Sirius uttered quietly rather scared that she had changed.
"Go away, Black."
"W-why?"
"Because I got too attached and there's a chance you could die and if I continue to be so close to you, I'd just die if I lost you."
Sirius continued to listen.
"It's possible, Black, well, for a witch it is. If my emotions get too strong, I don't need a wand to do magic. I could get so sad… That I just die."
"But you can control it."
"But if I remain attached to you, I wouldn't want to control it. I'd want to die, want to join you, drop dead, meet you up there in heaven… Or down there in hell. I don't know where you'd do, don't know where I'd go."
"Heaven." Sirius said quietly before standing up and walking to the door. "If you want me to leave, I will. Love ya, Tar'."
He opened the door and walked out.
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Knock! Knock! James and Lily walked in without waiting for Sirius to answer. They both knew that he was feeling horrible inside, and were going to try to get him to stop bottling up all his emotions.
They found his lying on his bed, staring up at the ceiling. "Sirius…" James said, sitting down on his left as Lily sat down on his right.
Lily held Sirius's hand in hers. "It's all going to be okay. You know that right?"
He didn't answer.
"Because as soon as Taryn gets better, she'll come to her senses, realizing that she needs you, how much she loves you." James said.
"When James and I broke up that one time, I was pretty reluctant to go back to him, but then one day I just broke down. I couldn't stand being without him. Taryn will feel the same really soon. I know how much she cares for you."
He didn't answer, but just pulled his hand away from Lily and continued to stare up at the ceiling.
"Sirius, when we joined the Order, we agreed that we'd make sacrifices." James said. "And there's people out there who've sacrificed their lives for the Order, and you are just lying here, all depressed, because your girl friend's a little unwell at the moment, even though you know she'll be better and decide to take back what she-"
Sirius turned to look at James and interrupted him. "Taryn doesn't want to talk to me anymore because she got too close, and now she knows that my life is at risk, and she doesn't want to put her life at risk, because although she knows she could survive through things like being captured by Death Eaters, she also knows she's not that good at controlling her emotions. She knows that if I die and she's still so close to me, she'd kill herself before anybody else would have a chance to stop her." He took a deep breath and continued. "And knowing that that's true, and knowing that I could very possibly be dead within the next few weeks even, I agree with Taryn in the fact that for her safety, we have to break up."
"You know that's a really big decision, right? After all those years?"
Sirius nodded. "But I'm gonna be all right, really. In fact, knowing that she's not going to kill herself, I'm going to be better soon."
"You're really getting mature, Sirius." Lily told him.
"No." Sirius said. "I just really liked Taryn and wanted the best for her."
Lily smiled slightly. "Well that's good… I'll visit Taryn in a few days and see if me and her can still be friends, so then you'll be able to keep up with what's happening in her life without having to see her."
"That's a good idea… Who wants some homemade pudding I made yesterday?"
"Me!" James waved his hand in the air.
"Excellent!"
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"Hey Tar'." Lily said, sitting down on the edge of Taryn's bed.
"Hey Lily. What's up? Are you okay?"
"Yeah, of course. All four of us are pretty much okay. Remus just has a broken neck, which should be fixed as soon as we actually explain everything that happened to us. I reckon Dumbledore will be mad at us for not telling him we were going on a rescue mission."
"Yeah, I guess…."
"So, I hear you and Sirius are…"
"Broken up, yeah. I suppose he told you why."
"Yeah."
"And I meant every word I said."
There was a silence.
"What about you and me?" Lily asked suddenly.
At this, Taryn burst into laughter. "Of course we could still be friends. I have to find out every single detail about Sirius's life somehow, Lil'!"
Lily laughed. "Of course. I don't know why I didn't see that!"
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