Everyone, this is VERY inportant! That's why I'm writing in BOLD! okay, listen up. THIS IS CHAPTER FOURTEEN, THE SECOND CHAPTER IN A DOUBLE POST. Okay, enought CAPSLOCK!padfootandme4ever, just listen. If this is the first upate you're reading today, go back, there's another chapter before this one.

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Dear Diary,

This CANNOT be happening. No, I'm not even talking about the Agie-In-The-Hospital thing; I mean the James-Potter-Won't-Leave-My-Head thing. Not in the bad 'He's so annoying' way, either. In the 'Wow, he looks good' kind of way. He's honestly not as bad as I thought he was, though. He's a truly loyal friend; Sirius is a wreck and he couldn't be nicer. I like that in a man. Not that I want James, or anything.

I think.

Lily

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Sirius found it hard to enjoy anything since Adriyana had gone to St. Mungo's. He felt guilty feeling happy when his true love was out cold in the hospital. Albus Dumbledore had forbade him from visiting her again after the first night, saying that she would be back before he knew it, and Adriyana wouldn't want him sitting by her unconscious form all day when he had other things he could be doing.

It had been six days since the accident, and Sirius sat alone at the Gryffindor table eating his breakfast. He had been waking up earlier than the other Marauders so that he cold eat his breakfasts alone.

Sirius looked up from his porridge to see Lily sprinting across the Great Hall up to him. She had a small grin on her face.

"Sirius! Sirus!" she called, and everyone in the Great Hall turned to look. "She's here! Adriyana's been released and she's in the Hospital Wing!"

Porridge forgotten, Sirius ran to the Hospital Wing, Lily on his tail. "She's still out cold, but she's loads better!" she called from behind him.

Sirius reached the Hospital Wing and began walking more quietly to Pomfrey's office. He wanted to get on her good side, and there was nothing like being nice and quiet.

After he and Lily had gotten the okay, he went over to the first of the two beds that were actually occupied. "I don't think this is her," Lily said. The person sleeping on this bed was definitely not Adriyana.

"What was your first hint, Evans? The fact that he's a male, has no bruise on his head, or the sign above him that says Howes, Jeremy?"

Lily mumbled something and went very red, then dashed over to the bed that they now knew was Adriyana's. "Women…" Sirius muttered, as he followed her.

If he thought the sight of Adriyana would cheer him up again, he was sorely mistaken. One look at her pale complexion, limp hair, and heavily bandaged head made him depressed all over again.

Lily saw his face "I'll just...go…now," she said, throwing a glance at the sleeping form of Jeremy Howes as she ran out of the Hospital Wing.

Sirius sat down in the chair next to Adriyana's bed and picked up her hand. He noticed that the fading purple nail polish she wore was the same color as her eyes and smiled weakly.

"Adriyana, wake up soon…you have no idea how much I miss you…your eyes, your laugh, your smile…I want them all back so badly…I want you in my arms again. Please, get better soon," Sirius croaked.

He stroked her bandaged head softly, careful not to put any pressure in fear of hurting her or making the condition worse. He couldn't do anything that would prolong the length of Adriyana's unconsciousness.

"Adriyana…please get better soon…" Sirius repeated. "I-I lo…" He couldn't get the words out, because at that moment he looked at her.

And he could swear he thought he saw her eyelashes flutter.

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"Padfoot, wake up!"

"What is going on, guys?" Sirius asked groggily, rubbing his eyes. he had fallen asleep by the side of Adriyana's bed in the Hospital Wing.

"We came up with a brilliant prank to cheer you up!" Peter said. "We even got Moony in on it!" Remus nodded vigorously.

"Hurry up! They'll all be headed to dinner soon, it'll be perfect!" James said. Sirius got up from his spot by Adriyana's bed and followed the three of them out. When they got to the corridor in front of the Great Hall James pulled the silvery Invisibility Cloak out of his rucksack. All four of them crowded under it with great difficulty; it was getting harder and harder every year to fit all of them under it, because Sirius kept getting taller and Peter kept getting wider. Sirius still had no idea what they were planning.

"Oh! Someone's coming!" James said, and they all looked up expectantly.

"What—" Sirius began.

"Oh, it's a Hufflepuff. Never mind," Peter said.

"What the bloody hell is going on?" Sirius asked.

"Just wait, Padfoot," Remus whispered.

And they did. After two minutes, three Gryffindors, a Ravenclaw, and six Hufflepuffs had walked down the hallway, and nothing had happened. Then they saw a figure moving down the hallway wearing a silver and green scarf.

"Excellent!" James whispered, rubbing his hands together as the Slytherin got closer.

He was just about to walk past a suit of armor when—

WHAM! The armor started moving, and its foot rose up, kicking the Slytherin boy in a place boys don't generally want to be kicked in.

Remus cringed before joining Peter and James, who were laughing hysterically. Sirius just smiled weakly. Why did everything have to remind him of Adriyana? This just reminded him of how she kicked Broderick Thomas, and how the two of them got together. Any other day his sides would be splitting, but he kept thinking about Adriyana, lying unconscious in the Hospital Wing.

"Padfoot, she'd want you to laugh. Come on, this is pranking gold!" James said. He was right, too. The next Slytherin that walked past happened to be one of the Slytherin Quidditch Team's Beaters, and after he got kicked, Sirius started enjoying himself.

Eventually, the attack armor got Snivellus, and he was lying on the ground in pain for a full five minutes. Sirius had a feeling that James had jinxed the statue to kick him harder.

Right now, the hallway was empty, Snape having hobbled off a few minutes ago. Sirius smiled at his fellow Marauders, all four of them had tears of mirth in their eyes. Thank Merlin he had friends like them.

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"That's it, you! Out!" Madam Pomfrey scolded Sirius, as she came up to Adriyana's bed with yet another tray of oddly colored Potions. She sat the tray down on Adriyana's bedside. "You heard me, out! It's three minutes to curfew!"

Sirius stood up wearily and walked back to Gryffindor Tower. It was true what everyone was saying: Adriyana wouldn't want him sitting by her bedside for a good part of the day, his heart leaping every time he thought he saw her finger twitch.

Sirius walked into his dormitory. Remus was reading (big surprise), James was doing homework (No, really…big surprise), and Peter was asleep. Sirius just collapsed onto his bed, lying awake for hours.

He dreamed that Lily was sobbing over James' unconscious body, confessing her secret love for him…Adriyana was there, too, but Slytherins kept throwing chunks of brick wall at her. Professor Chauncey was pointing at him, yelling, "IT'S THE GRIM! THE GRIM!!"

Needless to day, Sirius didn't sleep very well that night.

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"Sirius! Wake up!" a girl's voice called, rousing him from his odd dream.

"Wha--?" Sirius said, still half asleep.

"Sirius! Now!" the voice called again, and something whacked him on the head.

Sirius looked up. All he saw was a mess of red hair. "Lily? Why are you here so early?"

"Sirius, it's ten in the morning. Here, read this," she demanded, thrusting a piece of paper at him.

Once his eyes adjusted to the light, he read the letter:

Dear Miss Evans,

Would you please come to the Hospital Wing as soon as possible? Bring as many of Miss Dumbledore's friends as you can.

Sincerely,

Madam Pomfrey, School Matron

Sirius stared at the letter as Lily cringed.

"What?" he asked her.

"I have to wake up Potter!" she wailed.

Sirius just wanted to get to Adriyana, something was definitely going on--Sirius' heart leaped—she could be awake.

Something disrupted Sirius' thoughts. "WHOA! EVANS?" came James' voice, at a much higher octave than normal. Once James had gotten over his initial shock of having the object of his affections sitting on the edge of his bed, Lily left the room and Sirius and James got dressed. The two of them (Remus and Peter were already awake and off doing whatever) went down to the common room to find Lily, Amber, and Alice already down there.

"Okay, let's go!" Amber said.

"What exactly is going on?" Sirius asked.

"All we know is what was in that note," Alice told him.

The five of them walked the rest of the way to the Hospital Wing in silence. They reached it very quickly, and Madam Pomfrey was standing worriedly at the door.

"Hello, Madam Pomfrey," Lily said.

"Hello. I need you all to come with me," she said. "It's Adriyana."

Sirius' heart skipped a few beats, which is not something you want to happen to you. What was wrong with her? Was she awake? Was he never going to see her again? He shuddered at the thought.

"We think she has--oh, well just come see for yourselves. She's over here, but I must ask you not to react in any way to her, don't touch her, don't say anything to her," Madam Pomfrey said. "Just keep perfectly still."

"She—SHE'S AWAKE?" Sirius half-shouted.

"Well, yes, but--just come over here!" Madam Pomfrey said. "We need you to help us perform another test."

Sirius' heart was pounding a mile a minute with the intense excitement of finally having Adriyana back again. He noticed that the bed she had been in now had its curtains drawn around it.

"I want to warn you…all of you will be very shocked by what she says, assuming my theory is correct…and I just want you to know that this…thing is curable, you may just have to spend more time with her than normal."

Sirius figured that wasn't so bad…whatever Adriyana had, he would do anything to get her through it…to have the old Adriyana back.

They all entered the curtains, and Sirius smiled. There she was, sitting up in bed, reading one of those hospital magazines about your stomach or brain or some other body part you didn't really want to know about. Her eyes stared at the pages, a blank, glazed expression crossing her face. She didn't even look up. It took a lot of Sirius' willpower to restrain himself and stay perfectly silent.

"Adriyana?" Madam Pomfrey asked. Adriyana still stared blankly at the magazine. "That's you, dear," Madam Pomfrey nudged Adriyana's shoulder.

'What was that about?' Sirius thought, but his attention soon became focused on Adriyana, who had turned to look at all of them. She didn't smile or acknowledge them at all; she just looked confused.

"I'm Adriyana?" she said, her voice raspy, possibly from lack of use. Sirius looked at James, confused, and he mirrored the expression.

"Yes, dear. I need you to tell me," Madam Pomfrey said, standing back so that all five of them were in Adriyana's view. "Do you recognize any of these people, or remember seeing them at any time in your life before?"

Adriyana looked all of them up and down, her expression still blank.

"No."

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A/N- Okay, I'm sorry for the two-cliffies-in-a-row deal, but I basically had no plot at all between the two. Now I can move on to the FUN part. Don't worry…your fluffy romance scenes will come VERY soon…especially the Lily/James ones. So, anyway, please review!