Author's note: Don't judge this piece till you've finished it. It came to me on a rainy night when I was watching fireflies.
I don't own Harry Potter or any of his co-characters. I don't even own my brain. I got it as a birthday gift. Its says "Property of Mee Chong". He he it's squishy and white.
At Last
Darkness had covered the grounds. Stars twinkled from behind a thin curtain of fog as if undecided as to whether they should shine happily or to pay their respects and stay dim. Fireflies flitted across the grounds doing a mad sort of dance.
On the roof of the Astronomy tower, he sat watching the night as I watched him. His hair whipping in the wind and quite tears trickled down his checks. I couldn't stand to see him like this. He held so much on his shoulders. But that was then, it was only a memory now.
I could see what he wanted to do. The way his eyes wandered over the grounds but didn't seem to see anything. His sunken eyes filled with tears and collected in the tangled black hair that passed over his face.
How I longed to look into them one more time. I needed to talk to him, remind him why he was needed were he was. That's why I came back down, even if it was only for a short time. My shadowy white spirit moved behind him. God! What I wouldn't give to hug him one more time.
He's seen me! Oh those eyes could make anyone cry. "James?" He called out to me questioningly. "It's me. I had to see you one more time. Talk to you." I reassured him. "You can't do this. Think of everyone you're going to leave."
He sniffed. "No one knows me. Only you and Lily knew me." He whispered wiping the tears off his face. "I have no one James! You left me and now I'm going to fix that. I have no one."
"What about Remus?"
"He doesn't know. He won't believe me."
"Try him. He is a werewolf. He'll believe more than you think."
I can't stand to see him like this anymore. It tares me apart at the heart. I could see the clogs working in his mind. Then it clicked. "I have too James. If not for me, then for you and Lily." And with that Sirius Black jumped on his motor bike and flew of to kill a rat.
Abandoning his dreams, his friends, Harry and life.
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Fifteen years later
I stood waiting at the gate. I had heard he was coming and though I was sad that he had to come to me under such conditions, I couldn't help but thinking "At last!" Lily was there of coarse. He hung onto me lovingly.
I needed it too. I felt like a Lily must have during her pregnancy with Harry. I could have cried or laughed. I was all over the place. Hormones fling. And then he was their. He was no longer the handsome teen I hand known but he was happy.
He saw me and bolted. I left Lily and went to hug him. To look into his eyes one more time. I had decided that if it wasn't for Lily I would have had Sirius. And I'd like to pride myself in saying I think the Gryffindor God would have had me too.
He looked at me and said "James, I'm so sorry. I failed in my roll as Godfather. I left him too. I was so close too. I'll never forgive myself." I lifted his chin. "I've been watching and apart from not noticing that he was severely depressed I thing you couldn't have done anything differently under the conditions."
"Besides we knew when we chose you to be Godfather that there would be rocks like this." Lily added behind him. "I would expect no less from you." With that the three friends were united once more for all eternity. Soon the family would be completely reunited. Yes when Harry left, there'd be sorrow but above there'd be joy.