Accepting the Truth - Chapter 7

"Argh, my head!" Remus moaned, sitting up. Looking around he saw that he was not where he remembered being.

The room was ever so slightly swaying. Remus looked to his bedside table, where two bottles stood, one labelled water and one labelled 'Levanta'. A note was propped up against the two, a scrawl of Lily's ornate handwriting.
'Down the Bottle of Levanta, then the water. Sorry, I spiked the juice!"
She spiked the juice. Remus had recognised the malty taste of a potion, Duerma's Draft he reckoned due his sleepiness and swaying vision. He did as the note said, and in under a minute his vision was clear and he felt perfectly normal. Something else had been in that pumpkin juice, other than the draft. He'd have to ask her later, as it really improved pumpkin juice.

Remus clambered out of his bed, and turning saw some writing on the back of Lily's note.
"Sirius is fine. Give him a few days and the scales will have dissappeared. Don't worry"

Sirius...

"Crap!" Remus thought, remembering the event's of the previous day. Some more than others, the feeling of Sirius' lips against his, his muscled arms pulling Remus closer to him. Remus stopped thinking, before his body really reacted to the thoughts. Still, Sirius was in the hospital wing, and he should be there. With that, he rapidly left the dormitory.

Meanwhile, in the Hospital Wing...

Lily sat by Sirius' bed. Madame Pomfrey was still hurridly fussing over Sirius, taking tests and looking at figures. She muttered to herself while she did this.
"Poisons, could be Comatosome or Tanja root. How they would get roots that grow in Lithuania I do not know. Diseases, could be..."
She clearly had no idea what Sirius was suffering. Lily didn't feel like she could say anything. The spell may be, no it was illegal to use. The only thing they had known had been what was written in Severus' copy of Advanced Potion Making, which he had, rather ashamedly, told Lily about and taught her some of the spells he had made. It's just a shame he hadn't told her of the reversal charm. She could always ask him, but then he would get suspicious. She wasn't supposed to have told anyone or have used any of the spells. Still, Sirius was near catatonic now, and she could deal with the cold shoulder for a while.

In the end, Lily sighed. Holding up the bottle of Bezoar solution freshly stolen from Slughorn's stores.
"Try this Madame Pomfrey."
"I can't child, until I determine what this is, I can't administer a cure, lest it worsen the effects."
Fantastic. It seems that Severus was now her only choice. If he can lie that is.

Exactly Six minutes and 37 seconds later...

Remus burst into the Hospital wing. His sudden arrival and the sound of the door crashing open disturbed the awkward silence in the room and Madame Pomfreys balance, the shock causing her to nearly fall down.

Remus quickly walked to the bed and sat next to Lily. Lily noticed he clearly needed to talk but couldn't with Pomfrey in the room. She had obviously noticed this as well, and left for her office with a grunt, shutting the door behind her.

"Lily, what's wrong with him" Remus asked urgently.
"Pomfrey can't know this, since we can't duel outside class, but it was a hex, or charm cast by one of the Slytherins."
"Call them in then, get them to confess."
"Remus it's not that simple."
"What isn't?"
"Look Remus, I can't explain right now. I will, in time, but know that anything Sirius may have done in his, altered state, was what Sirius wanted to do, but feared before"
Remus blinked, his eyes lighting up slighlty, causing Lily to smile. Remus eye's then darkened suddenly.
"You seem to know an awful lot about what has happened to him"
"Do I? Just a guess"
"Lily this is serious."
"Okay, I might know..."
"Then reverse it." Remus' voice was firm, clearly he was angry.
"I can't." Lily paused, as Remus began to show signs of rage on his face. "I know someone who may be able to. But you are not going to like it..."

Meanwhile in the mind of a catatonic Sirius Black...

Colours. Images. Thoughts. Sentences. Images. All swam before his eyes. Remus. Lily. The fight.

Feelings. Remus' lips against his. Images. Remus' smile.

Remus. Remus. Remus. Remus. Remus.

The thoughts were slowing, as his mind lightened.

Why is Lily an Alcoholic. Is Sirius going crazy? How will he recover. All will be revealed soon.

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