Writer: Azure K Mello
Title: A Bond Never Dies
Part: 27?
Words: 335
Warnings: Angst. Non-canon
"What?" asked Sirius slowly.
James could feel his mate's anxiety. With their close proximity the bond was waking up and pulling them mentally back together. He was suddenly aware of how cold Sirius still was and wanted to hit himself for his thoughtlessness. The prison was an unheated block of stone on a windy island and they'd spent two hours on an open aired boat with Sirius dressed in rags. James turned the heater on full blast. He had wanted to keep the story for when they had settled down. But Sirius seemed mentally whole and he thought it best just to start form the beginning. "The night he betrayed us Lily cast a spell, unbeknownst to me, that protected Harry via her motherly love. It killed her, scarred Harry, and left Voldemort near dead. It would have killed him were it not for the presence of a natural mage on the scene. He bled me of my power and healed himself with it. He left Harry and Lily in the rubble but took me with him. He thought I would be useful. He and Peter took me to some underground facility.
"I never saw Voldemort again. I just heard him. He's still around and perfectly healthy, biding his time. Peter was my keeper. They kept me tired, hungry, on edge, and cold. It all would have been fine were it not for Voldemort always being inside my head. They wanted to see me under every stress they could put me under. So he told me all sorts of things. I didn't know up from down. One day he'd say Lil was having Remus' baby, you and I were retiring to Cornwall, and Harry had lots of friends at University. The next he'd say that I'd killed you and Harry was a death eater. I was confused and my magic, unchecked, ate at me as I couldn't find any control within myself."
Sirius shuddered as he thought of what his lover's magic was capable of.