Tralala la la lalala – This is back in Kate's POV. Snape keeps on getting sexier every chapter doesn't he? Yum! – Sorry about the mistake on number 4 Grimmald place. I have no idea where 4 came from.

Kate's POV

every inch of my body ached, throbbed & pounded. I just wanted to be comfortably numb, to rest. I was so tired. I needed to just have a little vacation from life. Arguments with Snape about Harry's dead mom, Long hours at work, and not to mention being tortured by Umbridge, I was ready to check out almost permanently from life.

"Like the rain Kate, this pain will pass away." I heard my mother's voice echo in the distance.

I remembered her telling me that when I was younger. Every time I hurt myself, she would tell me that.

"It's not that simple anymore." I thought to myself.
"Isn't it?"

I tried to open my eyes, but the light was so bright.

"Kate?" I heard Reia's soft voice say.
"Did I get hit by a bus?" I mumbled.
"Yeah, a big pink one." Reia joked.

I opened my eyes slowly.

"Thank-god you're okay. I don't know what I would have done without you. I'm too old now to make a new best friend." Reia smirked as she sat next to me on the bed.
"Yeah, I'm so glad that I didn't have to put you through all that." I replied as I struggled to sit myself up.
"Easy kid, don't push yourself." Reia said as she gently pushed on my shoulder getting me to lie back down in the bed.

I raised my eyebrow and smirked when she called me "kid". My smirk quickly faded when I noticed that Snape wasn't here.

"Snape didn't come?" I asked.

Reia looked towards the door.

"He was just here. Dumbledore's back and he said he needed to see Snape urgently." Reia replied.
"Dumbledore, really? What about Umbridge?" I asked.

My body started to tremble slightly when I spoke her name.

"I have no idea. I've been here with you." Reia said, looking back at me.
"Did Snape say anything?" I asked hopefully.
"He just asked me what happened." Reia replied with a slight sigh.
"How are you feeling Ms. Black?" Madam Pomfry asked as she walked up to Reia and me.
"Oh, you know… I've felt better."I replied.

She flashed a little light in my eye.

"Can you tell me where you are?" She asked me as she moved the light to my other eye.
"I'm hoping I'm still at Hogwarts." I replied as she turned off the light.
"Can you tell me what year it is?" She asked me.
"What's with the weird questions?" I asked.
"I need to check your memory." She replied, frustrated that I was questioning her.
"There's nothing wrong with my memory." I said.
"So stubborn." Madam Pomfry mumbled as she walked away.
"I am so not stubborn." I smirked
"Yes you are." Reia replied.
"No I'm not." I argued.

Reia smirked.

"Yeah not at all stubborn."Reia joked.

The doors to the Hospital wing opened and Dumbledore walked in followed by Snape.

"Ms. Black, How are you feeling?" Dumbledore asked as he approached us.

I looked over at Snape. His gazed was fixed on the floor.

"I'm fine, a little sore." I replied.

I tried to sit up again in the bed, but my arms shook as I tried to push myself up.

"Don't strain yourself, my dear. Rest." Dumbledore said as he sat on the other side of my bed.
"What happened to Umbridge?" I asked Dumbledore.
"Don't worry about that. She won't be bothering you anymore." Dumbledore said with a small smirk.

I noticed something like a sadness that surrounded both of them. Dumbledore filled a cup beside my bedside with a light blue liquid.

"I want you to drink this and rest for a while longer Kate. It will help you sleep and regain strength." Dumbledore informed me.

Reia helped me sit up slightly as Dumbledore brought the cup to my lips. I took a long drink of the cool, light blue liquid. It tasted like Peppermint.

"Is there something wrong?" I asked as my vision blurred.

This stuff worked fast.

"Just rest. I will speak with you when you wake." Dumbledore said quietly.

I tried to focus my eyes on Snape, but everything went black before I could.

There was a beautiful humming in my ear. My body didn't ache anymore. I felt… better.

"Fate is an elegant, cold – hearted whore. She loves salting my wounds. Yes, she enjoys nothing more."

I felt someone grab underneath my arms and pull me up. I was able to hold my own weight surprisingly.

"I bleed confidence from deep within my guts now. I'm the king of this pity party with my jewel encrusted crown."

I opened my eyes. A boy was standing in front of my with a guitar and a wicked smile across his face. I looked beside me and saw that two other guys were holding me up. I was about to speak, but the guy with the guitar held his finger to his lips to silence me. The two guys moved from my side. One sitting behind a drum set and the other picking up a bass guitar.

"I wanna tear apart your room to see if what you say is true. Darling don't you lie, lie to me. I wanna break into your heart to see why you want us apart. Oh, I'm scared to death to find out what you think of me."

Every word struck my heart.

"Fate is an elegant, cold-hearted whore. She loves salting my wounds. Yes, she enjoys nothing more. I bleed confidence from deep within my guts now. I'm the king of this pity party with my jewel encrusted crown."

The singer started to slowly circle me.

"According to you we don't click, that's a blatant lie and you know it. Angel, what are you hiding from me? It there is truly another secret lunch-break, working late lover then I would die, but at least then I'd be free."

He tossed an extra microphone at me and nodded his head.

"Fate is an elegant, cold hearted whore. She loves salting my wounds."

I couldn't speak. My mouth opened but no words came out. Why was I suddenly experiencing stage fright?

"Yes, she enjoys nothing more. I bleed confidence from deep within my guts now. I'm the king of this pity party with my jewel encrusted crown."

Everything suddenly turned silent, and everything and everyone burst into clouds of smoke.

I sat up with my eyes open in the hospital wing bed. Snape stood up from a chair in the corner. It was just the two of us.

"Are you alright?" Snape asked me quietly.
"Yeah, just a weird dream." I mumbled, a little embarrassed I was jerked awake like that.
"Kate, we need to talk." Snape said.

My heart started pounding. Was he going to break up with me right here, right now?

"Can it wait? I'm afraid I'm still a little too weak to handle something else right now." I said as moved my focus to the blanket covering me, to stop myself from bursting into tears.
"Kate…" Snape pushed.
"Please Severus… I can't think about losing you right now." I pleaded as I shut my eyes tightly to stop my tears.

I felt the mattress sink in as Snape sat beside me. I felt his cool hand take my hand and his other hand gently touch my chin. My heart pounded as I slowly looked up and into his dark eyes.

"Kate… there was an incident." Snape said as he gripped my hand tighter.
"An incident?" I asked.

Snape took in a deep breath through his nose and exhaled.

"I'm so sorry Kate, but… Sirius is dead." Snape said.

Everything went quiet. My body numb. Time seemed to freeze.

"Kate, I'm so sorry." I could faintly hear Snape.

This isn't true. No way. Sirius… like in my father Sirius? This just isn't true.

I looked up at Snape. Anger flashed through-out my whole body. Why would he lie to me like this?

"You're lying." I finally managed to say.
"I'm not." Snape replied.

I pulled my hand out of his.

"How could you… even say something like that!" I snapped.
"Kate, I'm not…" he tried to defend.

I pulled the covers off of me and climbed out of bed.

"Kate, please stop." Snape said as he stood in front of me.

I felt myself shaking I was so angry. I pushed past him.

"Kate, you need to rest." Snape said as he grabbed my arm.

I tried to pull out of his grip, but he held onto my tightly.

"I've done enough resting!" I yelled as tears started to swell in my eyes.

It couldn't be true. He had to be lying. Sirius couldn't be dead. He just couldn't.

"I need to hear it from Dumbledore." I said as a brushed my tears away.

Snape loosened his grip on my arm. I walked out of the Hospital Wing, with Snape right behind me. We walked in silence to the Headmaster's office.

I felt like I was on auto pilot, I was moving, but I couldn't control my legs. I didn't know what to say, and I don't think Snape did either. I prayed that this was some sort of joke. We stopped in front of the gargoyle that leads into Dumbledore's office. I leaned against the wall to rest for a moment. My body still ached.

"Are you okay?" Snape asked concerned.
"I'm fine." I said as I pushed myself off the wall.

"Liquorice Wands." Snape mumbled.

The gargoyle jumped aside for us. Snape followed me up the spiral staircase. I didn't knock when I reached his office door. Instead I just walked in. Dumbledore was sitting there, next to Harry.

"Ms. Black…" Dumbledore said.

He didn't seem shocked or surprised to see me.

"Tell me it isn't true." I demanded
"I'm afraid it is." Dumbledore replied softly.

It felt like I hit a brick wall. The room started spinning slightly and it was suddenly becoming harder and harder to breath.

"How?" I asked quietly.
"I thought he was in trouble. I had this vision of him being tortured. I went to save him, but it ended up being a trap for me." Harry said. "Bellatrix… killed him."

I fell to my knees. Harry knelt down in front of me and touched my shoulder.

This happened because of Harry. His stupid vision wasn't accurate and now Sirius is dead because of him. My whole body heated up. I clenched my fists. I glanced up at Harry, and saw his sad eyes. His eyes that were just like his mother's.

Hatred flooded my body. I threw my arm back and my fist hit Harry's jaw.

"He's dead because of you!" I shouted.

I felt Snape grab under my arms and pull me away from Harry, who was hunched over holding his face.

"How could you Harry?" I yelled as Snape pulled me back further away from Harry and Dumbledore.

Harry looked up at me.

"I hate you!" I shouted as Snape pulled me out of the room and down the stairs out of the office.

Snape got me to the bottom of the stairs, and pinned my arms to the stone wall.

"What do you think you're doing?" Snape snapped. "You can't just go around punching people in the face!"
"He killed him!" I shouted at him.
"No, Bellatrix did." Snape reminded me.
"But he was there because of him" I argued.
"That doesn't matter. The bottom line is that Bellatrix was the one who killed him. She was the one who cast the killing curse at him." Snape replied.

I fought to breath as tears started dripping down my cheeks.

"This isn't real." I muttered
"It's real, Kate." Snape replied.
"This isn't happening." I mumbled.

I gripped Snape's arms and looked him in the eyes.

"Please, just tell me I'm dreaming. Tell me none of this is real." I pleaded.
"I'm sorry." Snape replied softly.

I looked away from him.

"Kate…" Snape said as he moved his hands up to my shoulders.
"I need to get out of here." I said.

Snape didn't try and stop me. I was grateful for that. The last thing I wanted to do was make things worse between Snape and I, and I didn't want to have a fight and say something I didn't mean.

I got to the end of the hallway and glanced back at Snape. He stood strong, determined to stay that way for me.

"Kate!" Reia said from down the other hall.

I broke my gaze from Snape and saw Reia with a concerned look on her face.

"I just heard. Kate…" Reia started to say.
"Get me out of here." I mumbled to her as I grabbed onto her arm.

I felt weak… defeated. I thought I had a family again, and it was just snatched away from me. I didn't look back at Snape. I couldn't.

"Like the rain Kate, this pain will pass away."

*** The song in here is "Polygraph, Right Now!" by The Spill Canvas.