"Come on, Harry, you have to eat something!"

Harry shook his head no.

Sirius sighed. Harry had to be the most stubborn boy in the entire universe. It

had been a week since he had woken up, and the only person he had come close to

listening to was Sirius, even then, he hadn't really.

"Harry, please?" Sirius tried again. "They're going to have to feed you through

needles soon if you won't eat."

Harry shook his head again and tried to bury himself deeper into Sirius' chest.

Sirius had finally had enough. "Harry!" he said. "You ARE going to eat this soup

right now or I'll leave!"

Harry immediately jerked back and started to shake. "No," he whimpered. Sirius

knew he had gone too far then.

"I'm sorry, Harry." He whispered, immediately pulling him back into a tight

embrace. "I won't leave, you know I won't. You have to eat though."

"No."

Sirius sighed. "Fine," he murmured, burying his face in Harry's hair. "You can

starve."

Harry just curled up closer to Sirius.

They lay there for a while, enjoying each others company for the first time in

months.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

When Harry woke up the next morning, the first thing he heard other than the

many many machines helping him breathe, were voices.

"We'll do it first thing tomorrow morning then," Dr. McDaniel said.

Sirius just nodded. He was really starting to hate this guy…

"How long will it take?" Remus asked. The full moon was that night and he was

hoping to be back before Harry was done.

"The operation should take a few hours." Dr. McDaniel said.

Operation? What was going on?

"Siri…" he whispered. Sirius was immediately by his side.

"Hey Bud," he whispered. "How you feeling?"

"Horrible."

"Yah, don't worry. You'll feel better soon."

Harry gave him a questioning look and Sirius sighed.

"I know you over heard us talking Harry…"

"Sorry." Harry mumbled, immediately shrinking back into a ball.

"Hey," Sirius whispered, gently cupping Harry's face in his hand and making him

look at him. "It's perfectly alright that you over heard us, ok? You don't have

to be sorry, it's fine."

"But…" Harry froze. He couldn't tell Siri what his uncle had said…

"But what?" Sirius waited for a response, but he didn't get one.

"Harry?"

Still no answer.

Sirius sighed and once again made Harry look at him. "But what?" he asked once

more.

Harry looked down. "one time my uncle caught me eavesdropping and he said that I

was a horrible little freak for eavesdropping…"

"Don't you believe a word he says!" Sirius held Harry tighter. "Harry, listen to

me. All your uncle has ever told you are lies. You're not a freak, Harry. You

never have been, and you never will be. Just forget everything he has ever told

you, alright?"

Harry didn't know what to think. Could Sirius be telling the truth? No, he

couldn't. His uncle was right, he was a freak. He had killed Cedric after all…"

"Harry?" Harry looked up and Sirius immediately caught his eye. He let Harry see

everything he was feeling.

Harry looked away. "But he's right." He whispered.

"What do you mean, Bud?"

"I AM a freak. I killed him, Siri. I killed Cedric…"

"Oh, god, Harry no.!" Sirius held him tight. Harry sighed, this was the one

place he ever felt safe anymore, in Sirius's arms.

"Harry, it wasn't you're fault. You didn't know. There was no way you could have

known! Don't blame yourself."

"But I told him to take the cup with me."

Suddenly Sirius understood exactly where this was coming from. "Harry, you were

just being yourself! Your father would have done the same thing, so would your

mother have… SO would I."

Sirius felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to come face to face with

Remus. "I have to go, Sir. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Ok, be careful, Moony."

Remus smiled. He knew Sirius wanted to be there with him during the full moon,

but Harry needed him more. They had talked about that before.

"Bye Harry." He whispered, bending down next to the small boy and smiled. Harry

still wouldn't let him touch him, only Sirius had been able to get close without

causing Harry to panic. "I'll be back tomorrow, ok?"

Harry gave him a slight nod before burying his face back into Sirius's chest,

but Remus was positive he had seen something in Harry's eyes, possibly

disappointment?

"Nah," Remus told himself. "He doesn't want me here, he just wants Sirius."

He turned and looked back at the two and smiled. They looked so peaceful

together and, if everything went right tomorrow, Harry would be able to go home

in a few weeks.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

A/N: Okay, I know is sucked. See why it took me so long to get out? Hehe. Sorry

about suck a short chapter, but I got a million things going on at school right

now… For some reason my teachers all saved it seems to be the entire grading

periods work for this week… Well, only 8 days of school left! Actually, right

now more like 7… Anyways, me @ school, so C-Ya later!!!

KaceyRat