Chapter 2
Sirius ran into the burning building, his heart thumping in his chest and tears rushing down his cheeks, his breathing was accelerated and he was bordering on hyperventilating, his stomach was filled with butterflies, however instead of the food kind they felt more like they were trying to eat his stomach, chills and goosebumps covered his skin. When he laid sight on James’ body, his body froze, his breathing stopped and his heart both dropped to his stomach and jumped to his throat, after unparalysing himself he rushed forwards to his best friend, stumbling over his feet and falling infront of the body.
“Nononono please no oh merlin no-“ Sirius muttered to himself, however as he began to sob and fall onto James’ chest, he felt a steady heartbeat, and instantly jumped to his feet, sobbing in relief, “thank Merlin! Oh th-thank Merlin” The man sobbed for half a second more before he scrambled up to check on Lily.
Sirius tripped over a couple of steps and literally fell through the doorway. Sirius saw Lily and instantly pulled the woman to his chest, once again breaking into sobs when he felt Lily’s pulse. Sirius couldn’t think of anything as he gasped for breath, snot dripped down his nose and it took a few minutes for him to stop hyperventilating. What pulled him together was the sound of crying children. When Sirius saw the blood dripping off of his Godson’s head, he ripped his sleeve off, he wrapped it around the boy’s small head, then scooped both Hari and Daisy into his arms like he had done so many times before, Hari had his arms wrapped around his neck and clung to his side, Daisy was tucked into Sirius’ chest nuzzling into the soft fabric. Sirius hushed them quietly and whispered reassurances to the traumatised children. It took Sirius longer than he cared to admit to think to send a message to Remus and St Mungo’s.
“Expecto Patronum; St Mungo’s” Sirius figured he should first send for hospital help considering his two best friends were unconscious and Hari had a serious head injury, “Potter Cottage Godric Hollow. Two unconscious adults with pulse, two conscious children, one with head injury. He-who-shall-not-be-named attack, evidence of fire,”
Sirius then copied that two more times, one to his mate, Remus, and one to the Order of the Pheonix. By the time everyone arrived Sirius had settled into shock, refusing to release the children, even into the care of Healers. Remus was hugging his mate from behind, scenting Sirius in a way of comfort for the both of them.
“I’m sorry sir, but we really need to check them, they inhaled a lot of smoke and Hari seems to have a serious head injury.” The nurse appeared sympathetic, like most healers her eyes were light.
“N-no, they st-stay” Sirius’ hiccuped, his voice sounded far away. “Pr-rongs-sy, Co-tton…” he trailed off, New tears falling.
“I know you can’t see James and Lily due to their care being extremely urgent, but you can stay with the pups, I promise,” Remus’ eyes were golden, his ears pointy with the trauma triggering Moony. He tried desperately to comfort his dear, however as Sirius refused, the healers decided the head injury was now urgent, due to the boy becoming sleepy. The healers called for Security to help forcibly take Hari and Daisy from him.
The Security Wix soundlessly raised his wand disarmed Sirius’a hold, allowing the healers to get the children to examine. It took Remus all of his power, even having to use Moony’s strength, to hold Sirius back as they took them. Nurses were telling him exactly where the kids were but the man was screaming and crying, too broken to even hear anybody. He sobbed about the betrayal of Peter, of the unknown future of his best friends and now his pups being gone from him.his magic was swirling around dangerously, sparking at random causing more destruction.
Deciding the man was in a dangerous state, the healers worked to try and get a sedation potion in him, obviously it needing to be injected, Remus whined at his Mates distress, Moony longed to come out and destroy what had hurt his pack. While Remus tried to comfort both himself and his mate, the Healers took advantage of Sirius being held and injected the distraught
St Mungo’s officially declared the Potter’s in an unawakable coma, and due to Dumbledores influence, admitted both Remus and Sirius to the psychiatric ward, since he was a werewolf and since werewolves were pack beings and had just lost two of their pack mates, St Mungo’s claimed he was ‘At risk of becoming Rogue’. Since they weren’t dead, Dumbledore sealed off the Potters will, saying it would be unethical, he then left the siblings on the doorstep of the Dursley’s. The old man then stated to the public the Potter children were safe with powerful magical wards protecting them.
After three months, the werewolf and animagus were released, they fought for custody, however lost due to their ‘instability’ and ‘chaotic’ household. The duo continued to fight them, they had a new court case every fortnight at least and gathered mountains of evidence, They stated that being bonded with the Potter’s through being in a pack together, the children were pack and pack is family, however since they weren’t blood related that didn’t help. Loosing four members of their pack cost them a lot of their mental stability, in a course of a year they had been admitted to the psychiatric ward eight times. They had been limited to one court session per month and Dumbledore had continuously banned everyone from opening the Potter’s will.