Melodies of Us
Author: AzureLuna
Summary: The story of our favorite puppies, and their harsh journey through life as expressed in the form of song. Music from Broadway plays and musicals.
Authors Note: My advice to you reading this would be to try and find these songs and listen to them as you're reading. It's not necessary and some are a huge pain to locate, but it makes things in the story both sweeter and sadder. And also, I don't stick to the books past OotP.. Sirius survived the veil in my story, and from then on it's all my own plot.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Otherwise that little epilogue would've been a tad different. Mwhaha, and I DO NOT own any of the songs or the musicals which the songs are from! Credits go to Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Sound of Music, Moulin Rouge, Jekyll and Hyde, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables.
Act VI
'A Little Fall of Rain'
Remus after a rainy full moon, and then forward with the death of Sirius
"Remus! Are you alright!?" Sirius shouted running over to the golden-haired werewolf.
It was right after a very bad and painful full moon, Sirius had detention and couldn't make and Moony had started ripping himself apart in distress. Sirius found Remus collapsed right outside of the Whomping Willow and the rain was pouring, and Remus was bleeding freely.
"I'm fine," Remus said weakly, not convincing Sirius in the least.
"No, no you're not, and it's my fault I should have ditched detention and gotten another, this wouldn't have happened." Sirius sounded so sad, he gathered the small boy up in his arms gently. Remus was a little dizzy, but he looked up at Sirius, smiling past his own pain.
"Don't you fret, M'sieur Sirius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, that's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow." Remus sang softly.
Sirius held Remus held Remus closer to him and sang, "If I could heal your wounds with words of love."
Remus shook his head, "Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me"
"You would live a hundred years
If I could show you how
I won't desert you now…" Sirius trailed off sadly, feeling himself begin to cry.
"The rain can't hurt me now
This rain will wash away what's past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
I'll sleep in your embrace at last." Remus sang and paused getting weaker and weaker from the loss of blood.
"The rain that brings you here
Is Heaven-blessed!
The skies begin to clear
And I'm at rest
A breath away from where you are
I've come home from so far
So don't you fret, M'sieur Sirius" Remus sang softly and collapsed into Sirius' strong arms, Sirius looked down at the unconscious boy and pressed his lips to Remus', he then stood up with Remus in his arms and started walking to the castle as fast as he could.
Years later the roles switched. Sirius had been kidnapped from Grimmauld Place by Voldemort and his Death Eaters to be questioned on Harry's whereabouts. The Order immediately set out to find him, and the search took almost a month. When they found Sirius, he was weak and starving, he was in the middle of the mountains and something had attacked him, a Death Eater no doubt. The rain poured down on all of them.
"Sirius! Oh my god! Are you alright?" Remus ran to the weak and near-crippled man and held him while the other members of the Order kept their distance.
"Remus..? I'm so happy to see you" He managed a weak smile, "I love you,"
"I love you too, just, just hang in there, okay? I'm so sorry that this happened to you." Remus began to cry and Sirius wrapped his arms around Remus and whispered.
"I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now"
That's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close" Sirius drifted off, his grip on Remus loosening.
A healer in the Order walked over to the couple, and examined Sirius while Remus held him. Sirius cried out when the Healer touched his arm, Remus pressed a finger to Sirius' lips and kissed him softly.
"Hush-a-bye, dear Sirius,
You won't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now
I'm here"
Sirius' eyes had slipped closed and the Healer told him that Sirius had been poisoned and his body is too weak to fight it, Remus looked to Sirius and held him, "I'm scared, Remus," Sirius whispered.
"I will stay with you
Till you are sleeping" Remus assured him and Sirius' eyes closed again.
"And rain…" Sirius sang
"And rain…" Remus responded
"Will make the flowers…" Sirius sang, barely breathing. "I love you, Remus" he whispered so soft that his lips had barely moved. Remus held him closer."Will make the flowers…" Remus looked down at his Sirius' chest as it stopped rising, "grow…"
Shacklebolt walked over to Remus and placed a reassuring hand on Remus' shoulder as he sobbed, stating softly, "He is the first to fall, The first of us to fall upon this barricade"