OOC: She meant from Tori's to Remus'.

Lily nodded but quickly changed the gesture and began shaking her head as she said, "You don't have any reaso to apologize to me, Teresa. You don't even have to choose any opinion on the subject if you don't want to," she added. Sighing, she said, "I suppose I'm just afraid to be the only person to choose friendship over love. I don't mean to pressure you, but I'm just worried about the reprocussions of my actions. Rest well, Teresa," Lily said before turning to exit the girls' dormitory.

Closing the door behind her, Lily walked down the stairs of the girls' dormitory and into the common room where everyone was still sitting. Half-hoping for someone--anyone, really--to talk to her, she sat down at a table on one end of the common room where she'd left her backpack and pulled out her Transfiguration essay.

"I'm..." began Remus, but he trailed off and did not finish the sentence, his mouth closing slightly. He didn't know what he was. He didn't know what word could describe anger, pain, sadness, disappointment, rage and confusion all at the same time. He didn't know if his brain was working properly. He didn't know anything, except as wrong as it felt he was hating Astoria as much as possible...

"I... I don't know," he answered finally. "I'll have to find out later." Then the bloodcurling scream came, and Remus had vague suspicions it belonged to a so-called sister of his named Astoria. Sure enough, Lily had called her name and had gone running up the stairs. But Remus, who normally would have done the same, had no reaction at all toward the scream. He said coldly, "I bet she's just had a very truthful idea about what it's like dating the real Snape," and then turned to go up to the Boys' Dormitory and walked up the steps to his bed, on which he flopped down.

Sirius watched Remus through blury eyes. He hadn't realized such a strong pain shifting in him until then. Only able to study his friend, he watched as the facial expressions gave way all Remus couldn't say. Numbly, he ran his fingers through his hair and sought off to sitting up straighter, though finding the challenge to be a bit hard.

Watching on, his ears rang with a scream that no doubtly stirred Remus in a way he hadn't seen in awhile. Astorias brother did not tense, nor make a motion to dash back up the stairs of the Girl's Dorms' as did Lily when Astorias scream echoed throughout the Common Room. Only tensing, his head worsening, her merely sat sit, unusually not startled at all. Not even to race up and check on his little sister, knowing better. Remus didn't budge, neither would he.

Nodding softly to Remus' strangled words, he muttered a "good night" and was left to the silence and stillness of the near-empty Common Room. He couldn't possibly move, he thought, cursing himself for the angered fight earlier on. Fingers smoothed over the dried and undried blood smeared upon his face, though he didn't care. It only disgusted him even more. As much as he would've loved to have followed Remus to his dorm, he was lost to blackness and aloneness.

OOC: You guys are a bunch of arrogant jerks. Hope you don't mind this post, Tia.

Lily didn't mind the rug burns on her knees where she'd skidded to a halt on the carpet next to Astoria's bed as she tried to calm the panting girl before her. Eyes wide, Lily wrapped her arms around her friend's shoulders and tried to help her lie back down and get back to sleep but nothing seemed to be working on her. She whispered soothing tones into the other girl's ear but decided that Astoria had been closed off inside.

Jumping to her feet once more, Lily rushed downstairs with only Astoria's health on her mind and found that Remus had already gone upstairs to bed. Forever cursing his name, Lily rushed to the person other than Remus who would be of most help just them; Sirius. She approached Sirius with care, not wanting to upset him any further, and whispered his name.

Clearing her throat, she said his name louder. "Sirius?" she asked, worry in every level of her voice. "Sirius something's seriously wrong with Astoria. I..." she paused, trying not to cry. "I think she needs your help. I'm asking you to put aside your anger toward her and help me, if only for tonight; if only until morning. Then, you can go on being mad at us as long as you want, but only you or Remus could calm her down and... and I'm not sure what to do..."

OOC: What d'you think? Too much?

ooc: nah!

As Teresa heard the scream she ran to Astoria.
'Are you OK?' she asked worried. She put one hand on the girl's shoulder. 'Tori, speak to me, please!'
She was starting to feel highly scared. She was feeling guilty for having been a bit nasty to her. If anything happened to Astoria she would feel like if it was her fault forever. Then she realised that she shouldn't be mad as the younger Lupin just because of the boy she dated. The boys were wrong for being against her! She didn't choose to fall in love with Snivellus. So why be mad at her?

Romana heard a scream. Her head was raised. Her eyes got stuck to the stairs. It had came from the Dorms. And it seemed like a girl's scream. It came from the Girls' dorm.
She got up and walked normally to the dorm. When she opened the door she saw Teresa next to Astoria talking to her. It was the Lupin girl who screamed. For the first time in her life, Romana didn't feel sorry for her.
She walked out of the girls' dorm and stopped moving when she heard Lily speaking to Sirius. Something on her told her that Lily wouldn't make Sirius be on their side.
She walked to the Common Room and sat by the window, where Remus had been a few minutes ago.

Nah, Jada it was brilliant!

Astoria couldn't see anything. Just her gravestone. She couldn't hear anything. Just the fighting which had caused her to die. Of that broken heart. The same thing that was happening now. She couldn't feel anything but pain and for the first time. Terror. She heard the door, and some people talking. Although the voices seemed to be a million miles away.

'Astoria, Astoria!' Teresa kept calling her. Her heart was beating very fast, her mouth was completly dry. She turned to the door.
'SOMEONE CALL MADAM POMFREY!!!' she yelled as loud as she could not leaving her friend. For every second that passed by more fear got in her.
Suddenly she remembered that there was a spell for what was happening but she didn't remember what it was. She closed her eyes, trying to remember it, but nothing came to her mind. She hated when something like this happened. In a situation of life or dead, knowing that there is a spell, incantation, charm, jinx, ... that can save the person's life and not being able to remember what it is.

Romana heard more shouting, this time coming from Teresa's voice. She didn't move. It was surely about Astoria. At that moment, R. Moody didn't care about Lupin. She betrayed her and every Gryffindor, friend and family member. A part of her was saying that she wasn't doing the right thing but she didn't care. Astoria Lupin betrayed them and she was not going to let that happen again. She was going to keep on with her life even if she had to lose the ones who were in Remus's sister side.

ooc: man! I'm feeling so bad for doing this...

Ooc:: But we love you Jessy! I'm touched you came to me. *sniffles* Lol.

Sirius had been lost within a troubled deep sleep. Blood was an issue in this dream and all he could was a sea of pure red. Startled by this, he grunted some, shifting in his chair where he'd been left to whither in his unsanity from previous events he was no longer trying to think about.

This haunted him and he instantly snapped awake at the his name being nearly shouted. Breathing hard with intense burning eyes, he was faced with Lily herself. The paniced girl was near to tears, but he was unsure whether he could feel sorry for her or not.

Only pleading of consoling his sister was all he heard and he barely had the heart or head to move. But as Lily persisted, he realized, that it could be serious. She almost sounded as if this was life or death. All he could think about was what Astoria had done. The betrayal behind their backs.. like backstabbing each of them..

With a heavy sigh, Sirius finally just shook his head and stood. Remus would be off asleep and he wasn't going to attempt to talk to his mate about his sister at a time Remus despised her. Standing, he looked to Lily with careful eyes, and only nodded. "Alright, let's go." Was all he darkly said as he started towards the Girls' Dorms' steps wondering how he'd manage to make it up them. He awaited Lily.

OOC: Ooh, but don't you just love playing a mean character? I know I do.

Lily whipped around to stare blankly at Teresa as she called for Madame Pomfrey as if death were on the line. Falling to her knees, helpless once more, Lily sobbed into her hands, "She's going to die and it's all my fault. I can't help her, I can't save her, and I know that I can't bring her back," she said, her whole mind shutting down until only a small beam of hope was left.

Concentrating on that beam, Lily shook her head to clear those thoughts and stood up slowly, glaring at the entrance to the Gryffindor common room. Without looking back at Sirius, she said, "Go up there now and be with her. I have to go and get Madame Pomfrey. I'm... I'm afraid it may be important that she see what's happening. It... it seems like she's in some kind of pain."

Her voice hardening as she addressed Romana, she continued, "If you're willing to stand by and watched Astoria die just because you don't agree with her taste in men, you go ahead and do that. I refused to let any harm come to her because she is my friend and I couldn't replace her with any other person or thing dear to me."

Feeling as if no other words were necessary, and fully prepared to allow those to be the last words she would ever speak to Romana, Lily walked out of the common room and followed familiar footsteps to the Hospital Wing. She pounded on Madame Pomfrey's door until she was sure the hinges were going to give way, but a face finally appeared through a crack in the door and the look on Lily's face said it all. Running, Lily was sure that Madame Pomfrey was right behind her as she burst back into the common room.

ooc: I don't...

'She's dying?' Romana asked to no-one in particular. Now she was worried. She got up like if she jumped out of the couch and ran to the Girl' Dorm. Her heart was beating fast. She opened the door and walked in fastly. When she reached Astoria her knees got weak and she fell on the floor on her knees. It was true. Astoria seemed to be very weak. She grabbed Astoria's hand.
'Astoria, calm down' she said trembling very badly.

Teresa saw and heard Romana getting in the Dormitorie and trying to talk with Astoria.
'She isn't answering to anyone' she told her. It was all their fault for this. The girl didn't deserve being trated like that over a boy! She made a quick mental note of never, ever being enemy with someone just because of a boy, even if he had greesy hair, dressed the Slytherin uniform, was cold, - Anyway, never judge a girl because of a boy. Nor judge a boy because of a girl.

Becoming oddly confused with managing to even go up to help, Lily had run off to get Madame Pomfrey. Sirius stood alone musing himself, looking up the stairs with a vacant look in his eyes. How was he to manage this? The girls could go up the boys stairs .. but the boys could never get up the girls stairway. What was Lily thinking??

Mustering a look on his face that read, 'yeah right', he took a few steps closer to the girls stairway and looked up at it once more. Astoria was in need and he most likely would be unable to go up and help her as Lily had asked for.

Carefully, he placed a foot afront of him, then slowly moved it on the step. It seemed fine. Nothing yet. One step to go.. how many others, he couldn't possibly count at the moment. He took another step up and was still in the clear. Suddenly he jumped up a few stairs and raced towards the dormitory he knew Astoria was in.

Stopping at the door, still apparently safe, he coughed softly, then entered, hoping the other girls wouldn't throw something at him for being there like what usually would happen. But as he entered he only saw the stiff, shocked, and worried faces of Teresa and Romana, and took a few steps forward to Astoria's bed.

Indeed she seemed a bit pale. How could this happen? A nightmare surely, but she seemed abit awkward. An unusal circumstance for the events to take place, which just couldn't possibly stir her into such a state.. now could it?

Tensing more and more as he walked closer, he nearly watched as his little sister lay stiff and felt his heart puff in a dust of smoke that later would rekindle with hate for the couple that he knew were in love.

Setting aside these thoughts, he knelt down by Astoria's bed and softly said, "Astoria." In as gentle a voice as he could. Staring at her, he placed a hand ontop of hers, taking it and cradling it, as a few fingers smoothed the surface of her skin lightly.

He'd only kneel there until Madame Pomfrey arrived then he'd been in trouble for she'd see him and most likely throw a fit that he was even there. He didn't want to think about that then. He really didn't want to think about. What he really wanted to think about was seeing at least a smile on Astorias face, though knowing it would be virtually impossible now.

Severus was startled from his sleep by a commotion in the hallway. He poked his head out of the room to see Madam Pomfrey taking Astoria to the Hospital Wing. He gasped and grabbed his wand and dressing gown, running down the hall. he ran up to Madam Pomfrey.

'What's wrong with her?" He asked. "What's wrondg with Astoria?!"

Sevewrus heard Astoria mumble her name and took her hand.

"Astoria! What's wrong, love? Tell me what's wrong?" He kissed her hand. His heart was going a mile a minute. He was scared out of his mind. Astoria was ill, and it was his fault.

Astoria's smile stayed on her face as Severus took her hand and kissed it. When he asked what was wrong, tears started to run down the sides of her face. "Dead. Epitaph. Broken." She couldn't say anything else for the shudders and shivers that were cursing through her body. Severus' hand a little hand, but not much.

*Curses self* That is so short >.<