Sorry for the wait. But chapter 18 is finally here everyone :D. I know that it's short but there will be more later.

Sirius and Remus followed the sound of screams for a few minutes before they finally found what they were looking for.

The site that they were met with made Sirius sick to his stomach. On the ground before them was the one and only boy-who-lived withering in agony from the dark curse. That was being produced by the single deatheater that was standing over him in a menacing way.

Before altering Remus of what he was going to do Sirius burst out of the bushes in unexpected way.

"Expelliarmus!" immediately fell from his lips once his wand was pointed at the unknown deatheater.

Within seconds the enemy was disarmed and when realizing that he was outnumbered the deatheater ran into the thick forest.

" Do you think he was alone?" Remus asked as he walked forward and leaned down to see how much damaged had been done to his cub, who was remaining unconscious.

" Of course he was! didn't you see the way he ran off, the bloody coward, he wouldn't have if he had back up!"

Remus lowered himself to the ground and gently took harry's head in his hands, then proceeded to set it on his lap to keep it elevated.

" Or he could be running to find his deatheater friends and then come back, did you ever think of that Padfoot?" Remus questioned, once again stating the obvious.

Sirius though was to caught up in harry to care about what his friend had said. He went down on one knee and cautiously put a hand on his godsons' face.

"He doesn't look good at all." the ex-convict mumbled slightly to himself and slightly to his companion.

" Come on then, we'd better get him back to the house and firecall Poppy, have her come and look him over."

Without warning the werewolf stood and took harry into his arms bridal style. He made sure to cradle harry's head into his chest to keep him safe.

Sirius's jumped to his feet and immediately took his wand back out. " As much as I want harry to be safe what about that worthless deatheater? Shouldn't someone go after him?"

Sirius really did want harry to be ok, but even more he wanted revenge on that evil wizard that put his pup in this state. And he wanted to make sure that the crazy deatheater really was gone. No one would want a sudden deatheater attack on the Weasley house especially with harry in the condition that he was.

Remus gave him a look that clearly asked if he was crazy.

" Once at the Weasleys will alert some aurors and have them search the area, now can we finally get harry the care that he needs?"

A small "fine" was muttered by Sirius as he grabbed on to Remus arm and the three of them apparated out of the forest and to the house.

In a matter of seconds they were at the Weasleys front door. Before they even attempted to enter the door flew open to a very worried Mrs. Weasley.

" Oh you poor dears! Come on get inside now, the moment Arthur heard that you-know-who's followers were in the forest we apparated straight home. Everyone's been so worried about all of you!"

Sirius stepped aside and allowed Remus to enter first, after all he was carrying precious cargo.

" Molly if it's not to much trouble could you firecall Poppy from Hogwarts and have her come and check out harry. It seems that that deatheater really did a number on him." Remus yelled from over his shoulder. Refereeing the fact that harry was still out cold in his arms.

With a sudden glance at harry dangling from remus's arms the mother of seven looked as if she was about to burst into tears. But then in a moments notice regained her control of herself and nodded, hurrying out of the room to complete her mission.

Remus carried the-boy-who-lived into the Weasleys living room with a very distraught Sirius trailing behind him. Where they found Ron, Hermione, and the twins, all of them were looking very worried and anxious, so much that they didn't even notice Sirius and Remus enter the room.

"Come one everyone! Clear the couch we need some where cozy to set harry down!" Sirius shouted to get their attention, and boy did it work.

The Twins shot up from their seats their eyes wide and scared. And Hermione and Ron promptly hopped off the couch in a record time.

Hermione gasped when she caught site of her best friend still unresponsive in her old professors arms. Ron on the other hand looked absolutely livid, how dare some lousy deatheater do something horrible to his best friend!

The old dada teacher gingerly lowered harry down onto the couch and covered him up with the blanket that was draped over it. The twins were the first of the group to speak up, at the same time of course.

" Is he.."

"going to be.."

"..alright?"

Remus looked up at them with sad eyes." I hope so but for now all we can do is wait until Poppy shows up and looks him over."

"WHICH WILL BE SOONER THAN YOU THINK MR. LUPIN!" Poppy's loud voice screeched throughout the halls altering them all that she had arrived to see her patient.

The med-witch ran into the living room and immediately found where harry was.

" Out of the way Mr. Black I'll need to see the boy to tell you what's wrong." She stated in a motherly like tone.

She was clearly referring to the way that Sirius was crouched down and looming over harry. His hand running through his hair as if he was hoping to get some kind of response out of the boy.

At her words he slowly stood up and joined the others in the crowd but his eyes never left his sick godson.

Madam Promfrey wasted no time in beginning her work. She set out her bag and began to pull out her wand and other things, such as odd unlabeled potions, that she thought she might need.

" Well what are you all still doing here?" the healer questioned as caught sight of everyone still huddled up in a corner of the small living room.

she got up and began to 'shoo' everyone out of the room with her hands. " Out, out, out all of you I will need space to work."

Once the last person had been forced out of the living room, which just happened to be Sirius, she let out a sigh and began her work on the golden boy.

Just by sitting next to him she could tell from her years of experience that things weren't going to turn out ok. But then again most things in this young boys life never really ended up alright.

The boy was much to thin, he even looked as if he hadn't had a bite to eat in months. That and he was much to pale, the skin that wasn't covered up by clothes was a deathly white. And all that white made the large dark circles from sleep deprivation become much more pronounced.

She thoroughly doubted that he had sleep that much this week. She could recall giving him the dreamless potion every night at the beginning of the school year. However no matter how much it helped the boy sleep without a vision from he-who-will-not-be-named that certain potion was very much addictive, therefore forcing her to have to take him off of it by the third week he used it.

With a long sigh she began to lift up harry's shirt to examine him, though she was never prepared for what she saw.

Sirius was spending his time pacing back and forth throughout the Weasleys kitchen.

On the other side of the table sat remus lupin, who instead being anxious was more worried and tired. He had summed it down to the fact that harry couldn't get a break in life. The second he was taken out of an abusive home into a loving one a disaster like this had to happen! All he and Sirius wanted to accomplish was to take harry in and show him all the love they could but that goal was turning out to be harder than either of them had expected.

" What in the world could be taking that woman so long!" Sirius finally yelled in desperation.

Remus looked up at his friend with a stern gaze, "I'm sure that Promfrey has her reasons Sirius, she might as well be covering everything. After all I highly doubt that the Dursleys ever took harry to the doctor."

Sirius immediately got a confused expression on his face.

" it's a muggle type of mid-witch or wizard Sirius." Remus declared in a worn out voice. He didn't feel like explaining muggle things to his best friend at the moment, all he wanted to do was see his cub and make sure he was alright. Moony was practically going crazy inside of him trying to get out and look after his pack, which at the time had fallen to pieces.

Sensing his problem Sirius decided it would be best to tone it down a little. Therefore he stopped his incessant pacing and took a seat across from his friend.

" I'm sorry," he took in a deep breath and continued, " I'm only worried, never really been through something like this before." Sirius finished off with a small laugh. He really didn't feel like it but it turned out to one of those moments that if he didn't laugh he would end up crying. Or killing someone, particularly the people who did this to his godson.

" I thought your parents were as evil and crazy as the Dursleys?"

" And they were, but it's not the same I knew that I would have James's family to fall back on, I got out of the situation by moving in with my best friend. Harry didn't have anyone to save him, everyone wants him to save them."

Remus's opened his mouth as if to say something but Sirius happened to be on a roll and cut off his friend.

" All I can think about is him sitting there in that cupboard by himself hurt and bleeding while I rotted away in some dingy old cell when I was the one who was supposed to be keeping an eye out for him."

Remus's eyes went dark with sadness as Sirius looked down when tears began to collect on the corners of his eyes.

"Sirius.." the old dada teacher reached out his hand to take his friend's hands that was set on the table.

He stopped halfway when a very sad looking madam Promfrey suddenly burst through the kitchen doors. Making both him and sirius turn around rather quickly. She was wiping her face very thoroughly while sniffing up, making remus come to the conclusion that she had just recently been crying.

" Poppy? What's wrong, is something wrong with harry?" Sirius asked in a tight voice. Giving away that he might lose his control at any moment.

She met their eyes with a stony expression. " I do believe that I have some horrible news to tell you… but before I tell you anything, you're going to have to see this for yourselves."

She turned and began to rush out of the room and back into the one that held the young boy-who-lived both remus and sirius following in her wake.