Here's chapter four. Disclaimer and warning same as before. This is still in Remus' point of view. I know, I normally switch every other one, but this one had to be in his.
I stayed with Sirius during most of his stay in the hospital wing, leaving only for food and lessons. Two days after Regulus cursed him, Madame Pomfrey deemed him free to leave.
Whatever curse Regulus had used made it so the cuts could no longer be magically healed. Madame Pomfrey had bandaged them the best she could, but every time Sirius bent a certain way, or moved too suddenly, the cuts would reopen themselves. The worst of it was on his chest, while his face and arms caused slight discomfort compared to the others.
Madame Pomfrey scowled as I helped Sirius stand.
"That boy should be severely for what he did. That was some seriously dark magic he used." She said, for the fourth time.
"We've got it covered Madame Pomfrey." I told her calmly.
She glared at me sternly, before her face softened. I knew that I was her favorite student in the hall. She was like a mother to me, always taking care of me after the full moon. She trusted me.
"You two just take care of yourselves. I hate seeing you two in pain for something as silly as this." She said with a gesture at my arm around Sirius' waist helping support him.
I smiled reassuringly at her, before helping Sirius towards the door.
We struggled through the corridors. I kept steering him off to the side to avoid crowds of people. If they bumped into him hard enough, his cuts would reopen and would start bleeding. The bandages were brushing against some of the worst of them.
While we walked, someone ran, rather violently, into Sirius. The person turned quickly to apologize.
It was James.
The apology died in his throat, and he looked torn between saying it and continuing on his way, but then he took a better look at Sirius.
"Bloody hell, what happened to you?"
"Wouldn't you like to know." Sirius spat, before shuffling away down the hall.
I followed him, but not before I saw the look of confusion and something else. Was that hurt? I couldn't tell, and quite frankly I didn't care. James deserved every ounce of hurt he got after what he did to us.
While standing on the moving stair case, very suddenly, I had a sharp burning pain in my back. I didn't know what it was, but I had to grab onto the banister to keep myself from losing my balance. Sirius glanced over as I was gripping tightly on the stairs.
"Are you ok?" He asked, perplexed as to what would have happened.
I nodded hastily, not wanting to worry him. I braced myself, before standing up straight. "Just lost my balance," I answered finally.
He looked at me skeptically, but didn't say anything else.
It took us around forty-five minutes to finally make it to the fat lady portrait on the seventh floor. Our slow pace was caused by both Sirius and me. Whatever had happened to my back still hurt, if not worse now. Giving her the password, we slipped gratefully into the common room. Sirius sat down thankfully into one of the armchairs by the fire. I took a seat, but sat on the edge, trying not to look too out of place doing it. When I tried to sit all the way on the couch, my back seared in pain as it touched it. I didn't want to draw attention to it though. Sirius already have enough on his plate without worrying about me.
Lily saw us enter from the other side of the common room and quickly gathered all her things off the table and came over to sit next to me.
She leaned around me to look at Sirius, whose armchair was closer to my side of the couch.
"Are you ok?" She asked in concern.
Sirius smiled slightly. "Yeah, I'm fine. I've had worse." Lily looked skeptical, but Sirius quickly distracted her. "I hear you punched Regulus."
Lily smiled despite herself. "Yeah, I might have."
Sirius' grin widened. "Brilliant,"
I let out an involuntary groan of pain as I leaned forward and my shirt brushed whatever it was that was on my back. I couldn't tell exactly what it was, but I knew it took up the whole of my back.
Sirius and Lily both turned to me.
"What's up mate? You're starting to look a little pale." Sirius said, gazing at my face in concern.
Lily nodded in agreement.
"Nothing, really. I'm fine." I lied quickly.
Sirius frowned at me. He knew I was lying. He always did.
Lily just shrugged her shoulders. "If you don't want to tell, fine."
I smiled gratefully at her, but I knew Sirius wouldn't drop it that easily. I bet she knew that too, and she knew Sirius would tell her. I frowned at them both. I didn't want to stay any longer in their analyzing glares.
"I'm going to go to bed now. I'm feeling a bit tired actually." I stood up.
"I'll come too. I'll need your help getting up the stairs anyway." Sirius said, making a show of standing up.
I rolled my eyes, but I knew he might actually need help up the stairs. We left Lily with a quick good night, and climbed up to our dormitory. When we made it up, Sirius rounded on me.
"Now spill. What's up?" He asked.
I didn't say anything, but I walked into the bathroom. He followed close behind. I took off my robes, and in the mirror, I could see that there was blood coming through my white shirt.
Sirius wordlessly lifted the hem of my shirt.
"Bloody Hell." He cursed.
Omg cliff hanger! O= What's wrong with Remus' back?! If you review, you'll find out soon!
