Accepting the Truth - Chapter 8

"Lily whoever it is, get them in and get them to reverse it." Remus pleaded.
Lily sat there, contemplating.
"Severus." Lily said.
Expecting a harsher reaction, Remus' face was calm.
"He needs to brew a potion. It'll take a day or two but it should fix it."
"Why does he need to brew it. You're better than he is at potions." Remus said, voice still unnervingly calm.
"It's not exactly in a textbook."
"What are you giving him! What is even wrong with him?" Remus fumed, half mad and half on the verge of tears.
"I'll go and get an antidote sorted." Lily murmured, and leaving Remus sitting by Sirius, she exited the hospital wing.

She did not go to find Severus however. Instead she sought out James. She found him in the near empty common room, still trying to get some of the mascara off his eyes.
"James. You need to distract Remus."
"What? Why?"
"I need to reverse what's been done to him. Just talk to him, he needs someone who will understand."
"I guess. Tell him to come here then, I need to get this off me."
Leaving him to carefully aim his wand at his eyes, Lily returned to the Hospital Wing.

"Remus. It's getting sorted, I want you to go to the common room, go and lie down."
"I'm not leaving him." Remus retorted, his voice wavering with emotion.
"Don't make me drug you again."
"So you put me to sleep."
"Yes I did and I will do it again unless you go and get some rest yourself."
"I don't want too."
"Remus Lupin, you will go, not soon, Now, and get some rest. I'll stay with him."
"You don't deserve to be with him."
"What?"
"You're involved. I know it. How else could you know."
"Remus, I'll explain all. But it's a full moon tomorrow, you need some rest. Now Go."
The tone of Lily's voice was one of which Remus knew ,even in his state of distress and confusion, that he shouldn't argue with her. Sighing, he rose. He wanted to squeeze Sirius' hand, but knew better with so many around. He then proceeded to leave the Hospital Wing.

Lily waited until he had gone, and until the Matron had disappeared, before drawing a vial of potion from her pocket. Raising her wand, she extracted the fluid from the bottle. It hung, beautiful and rose coloured in the air and the sunset light before, standing back, she swung her wand downwards. The liquid splashed Sirius in the face and he inhaled deeply and with a gasp collapsed back into sleep.

Colour began retracting from his skin, leaving it a normal colour. It would take a day, but he would be okay, she hoped. Her potions had never failed her before.

She hated having to lie to Remus. She drew her flask from another pocket and drank deeply. The lies were all for the greater good.

She only wanted to see true love again, since her parent's had announced their separation.

She still felt hollow, all these months later. While they had failed in their marriage, she had developed a new understanding of what love was, and how it should never remain unreciprocated. Hence the lies were worth it.

"Remus?" James asked questioningly as he entered the dormitory.
Remus was sat on Sirius' bed. Holding his wand, he was cultivating a sun-like light floating in the air. He didn't look up at James.
"Lily was involved" was all he could say.
James sat opposite him. "Yes, she is. To an extent. But trust me, she has her reasons, and none of them bad."
Remus shot a look up at him, angry. "He's lying poisoned in the Hospital Wing because of her. Because of how you feel towards her are you that blind?!"
"That wasn't her. Trust me."
"So it was you?" He retaliated, angry.
"Dude, calm down. No one is out to hurt you or him, and it would never be me or Lily. The only one inflicting hurt here is you and you're accusations."
A moment of silence.
"I'm sorry James."
"Get some sleep Mooney, you'll need it for tomorrow."
Remus stood and walked up to his bed. " I don't know why you aren't angry, he's your friend too."
Clearly Remus still believed he didn't know. "He's in safe hands, and he'll be back in no time. Plus its not as bad as the time he fell out of the astronomy tower and nearly died on the scene."
"I remember he didn't jump then" Remus said closing his curtains.
"Yeah well don't you jump then, to conclusions." James said, laughing, before bidding Remus goodnight and returning to the Common Room.

A splash in his face. The dark that was now Sirius' mind began to illuminate slowly.
Still one thought remained in his mind. Remus.

Sorry for the slow update and pretty bad chapter. I've written the next one and trust me it's much better. Thatll be out soon. But I hope you enjoyed (somewhat) and please fav/follow/review.

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