Chapter Title: A Thump In My Chest
Author Name: fuzzyalligator
Chapter Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,045
Warnings: Death, swearing…I think
Disclaimer: Not mine, unfortunately. They be J.K.'s -sigh- Classes have started. Bother…

A/N: I didn't think that I'd actually get such a big response for this story. I siriusly thought one or two people would comment and three or four people would alert this. But this is awesome guys! Thanks ^^

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Sirius stared at him in shock. He looked behind him thinking he was talking to someone else. He found no one and looked back at the crying man. "Who are you talking to?" he said quietly, thinking Remus was talking to himself.

Remus quickly stood up and glared at Sirius. "I'm talking to you." He enunciated the last word with a poke to the other man's chest. "You've been following me for hours! And I want to know why!" Sirius watched as the man yelled at him, still not believing he was shouting at him. He backed away but Remus followed. "What is your problem?"

Sirius' back hit the wall. The doctor stopped a few feet in front of him, "Well? Aren't you going to say anything?"

"Y-you can see me?" he asked bewildered.

"Of course I can!" Remus said as he threw his hands in the air and walked away.

Sirius was struck speechless. He didn't know how to react to this.

When Remus reached the other wall, he turned around. He started to walk towards Sirius, "Just leave me alone. I'm having a bad day, in case you failed to notice." As he walked past Sirius he gave him a look that definitely said 'Leave-me-alone'. Sirius watched as the once so friendly and peaceful doctor stormed up the stairs and through the door.

He stood there for a minute just thinking about what just occurred. That had never happened to him before, the only time anyone ever saw him was just before he took them to heaven. Did that mean he was a spirit already?

'He can't be,' the angel thought to himself. 'If he was, people wouldn't see him.' He looked around the stairwell just to make sure there wasn't a body lying around. When he found the surrounding area empty he decided to talk to him again. 'Maybe we'll find out how he can see me.'

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Instead of thinking of him, Sirius decided to walk around the hospital to find Remus. He wanted to see if he was visible to anyone else. Along the way he waved his hand in-front of people's faces, stood in their way, and even tried to talk to some of them. None of them even flinched in the slightest. He gave up when the tenth person didn't acknowledge the weird person getting in their way.

He walked down the hallways just wandering around, thinking. How could Remus see him? There wasn't any logical explanation. He was so deep in thought he almost missed the very man he was thinking of.

Remus was sitting in a child's room talking to her. Sirius stood just outside the door hoping the doctor wouldn't see him.

"How are you feeling today, Luna?"

The blonde girl smiled at him. "Much better Dr. Lupin. My mum is coming to visit today." Her voice was a little hoarse, he could barely hear her.

"Did she tell you about the ice cream?" Remus asked with a smile.

The blonde girl perked up, "Ice cream?"

Remus laughed. To Sirius it was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. And he had lived for many years. He looked around the corner and saw something even better than his laugh: his smile. Sirius felt a weird sensation in his chest. He hid behind the wall and felt where his heart would be. He felt a slight thump.

He quickly straightened up. 'What was that?' He touched his chest again and felt nothing. 'Must have been my imagination…'

He looked back into the room. Remus had pulled out a book and was showing it to her. Sirius could see the cover. He smirked, "'Little Women'? How cute."

Suddenly, Remus looked up and right at him. Sirius hid behind the wall quickly.

He heard Remus say "Can you hang on a second, sweety?" He then heard a chair scratch against the floor and knew what was coming. Remus walked out the door and roughly pulled him into a nearby bathroom. "I thought I lost you!"

Sirius looked at his arm, 'How is he doing that?', and tore it away. He looked around the room, "Actually, you didn't lose me. You just left me there." Remus rolled his eyes and headed to the door. As his hand reached for the handle, Sirius called out to him, "You want the truth? You want to know why I'm following you?"

Remus slowly turned around. "That would be nice." He folded his arms and waited.

Sirius sighed and thought about what he was about to do. There were no rules against telling a human. There were no rules because this never came up. He tried to come up with a way to not scare the hell out of him. When he finally figured one out he turned back and saw that Remus was missing. Sirius slapped his forehead and headed to the door.

He walked right through it and looked around for the man. "This is getting ridiculous!" He headed back to Luna's room but only found the little girl. "Where is he?" He left the room and turned right into the very man he was looking for. "What the-?"

Remus moved around him and toward Luna. "Can we finish the chapter later? I have someone I need to talk to right away." Sirius watched as Remus placed a fake smile on, probably trying to not frighten the little girl. Luna nodded and returned to her book. Remus walked back out and headed down the hallway. A few seconds later, Sirius chased after him.

The two remained silent until they got to Remus' office. The doctor closed the door and Sirius heard it lock. He sighed as he sat onto the desk. "Is there a reason why you did that?"

Remus looked right at him, "Yes. It's so you can't escape." He walked over to the desk and picked up the phone. Sirius watched as he called security saying there was a 'strange man' wandering around.

"Yes. Thank you." Remus hung up and sat in his chair.

Sirius had gotten off the desk when Remus had started to describe him. He had walked over to the mirror and was tempted to look in. 'Like that'll do any good…' That's another thing he missed, his reflection.

"What are you doing?" asked the irate doctor.

Sirius continued to look at the mirror, even though it was futile. "Missing myself…" He turned to Remus, "That sounded weird…"

Remus was about to say something but was interrupted by a knock on the door. He quickly got up and opened it. In walked a man a little older than Remus with brown hair. "Hello there, Remus."

"Evening, Frank. Can you please remove this man from the vicinity?" He pointed directly at Sirius, who had taken a seat on the couch that was placed there for visitors.

Frank looked right at him and saw nothing. "Where?" He looked around the entire room, finding nothing.

'Just like he should' thought Sirius trying to suppress a sigh.

Remus looked between the two of them. "Him!"

Frank looked right back at the couch. "I think you need more sleep, Remus. When did you finally get home last night?"

Remus glared at Sirius, "What did you do to him?"

Sirius shrugged his shoulders, "He can't see me."

"Why not?"

"I'm an angel."

Frank watched the doctor with fascination. "Seriously mate, you should go to bed." He patted his shoulder. The security guard walked out the door while shaking his head.

"Excuse me?" Remus asked while still staring.

Sirius stood up and walked over to the stunned man. "I said 'I'm and angel.' Are you deaf?"

"Angels aren't real…" he said sounding slightly unsure. He started to back away and towards the phone again.

Sirius rolled his eyes and moved so he could get there first. He placed his hand on top so Remus couldn't call anyone. "Hear me out. Okay?" Remus nodded his head and sat in his chair when Sirius pointed to it. "Earlier you asked me why I was following you. Well, I was trying to figure out how to explain this to you without you freaking out."

Remus slowly nodded, "Right…"

Sirius took his seat back on the couch and hung his head. "I know you're not going to believe this. Actually, I don't really believe this." He looked up and tried to smile. "You see, I was really shocked when you started to yell at me. No one can see angels. Ex-"

"Then why can I?" interrupted Remus sitting up straighter.

"I was getting to that," Sirius said getting irritated. "I was going to say, except you. In all my years no one has ever seen my in their body. As soon as someone dies they can see an angel. You're just lucky I guess…" He sat back in the couch and watched the man's reaction.

Remus stared at him for a few minutes. "How do I know you're not just playing a trick on me?"

Sirius rolled his eyes again, "Frank couldn't see me, now could he?"

"Maybe you and him are in cahoots together," reasoned Remus.

Sirius sighed. "You really think Frank would let a complete stranger pull a trick on you?"

Remus started to say something but someone knocked on the door. Both turned and saw Severus walk in with a thick folder. The two doctors talked about a patient, but Remus kept shooting glances at Sirius. Finally, Severus had enough.

"What do you keep looking at!" he shouted.

Remus looked at him a little shocked. "Does this room have anything…bizarre in it?" he asked as he motioned around the area. Severus followed his hands and rolled his eyes.

"You need to go home," he said. He tapped his temple, "You're starting to lose it up there." Remus shooed the hand away and ushered him out the door.

When he walked back to the desk he gave Sirius another look. "Just because neither of them saw you, doesn't mean you're an angel." He sat down," I know! You could be a ghost!"

He looked so happy Sirius didn't want to ruin it. "Technically, I could be considered a ghost. I guess…But isn't a ghost just the spirit? You can't touch them. And, as you proved earlier, you can touch me." He held up the arm Remus was tugging on earlier to make an emphasis.

Remus cradled his head in his hand "Fine. Then I'll go with the 'you're playing a joke on me' theory."

Sirius pulled out the scroll. "Here's proof." He tossed the paper onto the desk so the man could read them himself. Remus cautiously picked it up and scanned the words. After a few minutes Sirius asked him what he thought about that.

He kept his eyes on the scroll as he answered. "You have information on here I didn't even know…" He set it down and looked at Sirius, "This means that you're either a stalker or paid someone to watch me." Sirius stood up and took the scroll away from him. "Unless you have any other proof of being an 'angel', I'll have to ask you to leave." He stood up and gathered his belongings. "Hopefully you'll go bother someone else," he said mostly to himself.

When he had everything together, he gestured to the door. Sirius walked right past him and into the eerily empty hallway. "How do you get home?" asked Sirius as he looked around, already forming a plan to prove it to him.

Remus looked at him funny, "Didn't it say in your rolled up paper?" Sirius shook his head as he continued to keep an eye out for anyone. "I walk to the train station. After that I cut through the park near my home. Why do you ask?"

"And how long does this normally take?" he asked ignoring the question.

Remus started to back away, "About an hour…Which means I should be going right about now." He turned and hurried away from Sirius.

He was about halfway down the still empty hall when the angel caught up to him. "Let me have one more chance to prove I'm right. Okay?" Without waiting for an answer, Sirius took Remus' arm and shimmered them away.

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A/N2: How was it? Was it alright? Did it make sense? Should I stop asking question? ^^ I'll update when I get 10 reviews. Huggles to all!