ÿþ<html> <title>synonymous</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-color: #000000; background-image:url(saintsback.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center; background-attachment: fixed} body, td { font-family: verdana; font-size:8pt; color: #ffffff; line-height: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt} A:link { font-family: verdana; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: underline; color: #999999} A:visited { font-family: verdana; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: underline; color: #999999 } A:hover { text-decoration: none; color: "#999999" } --> </style> <a name="top"> <div align="left"> <TABLE width="375" border="0" cellspacing="20" cellpadding="0"> <TR> <div align="center"> <a href="info.html">info</a> + <a href="fics.html">fics</a> + <a href="recs.html">recs</a> + <A href="links.html">links</a> + <a href="contact.html">contact </a> </div> </TD> </TR> <TR> <br> <br> <b>One</b><br> Sirius Black, gen<br><br><br> <i>help no alone please</i><br><br> Millions upon millions of voices swirled around Sirius, some screeching in his ears, some whispering, some sobbing. <i>love wait you why</i> They were frightened, relieved, mournful, shocked, enraged, blissful, confused. Each entered his head, pounding and spinning incessantly. Last words, last thoughts, last scraps of memories - each voice had one word <i>me darling dark</i> to call its own, one only, a mantra both familiar and infinite.<br><br> <i>hurts love</i><br><br> As countless cold grey fingers bore him up, Sirius's head fell to hang limply on his neck, and <i>no</i> a single word escaped his lips.<br><br> <i>Harry.</i> <br><br><br><br><br> <center> <font size="-2"><a href="other.html">back to other fics</a><br> <a href="fics.html">back to fics index</a><br> <a href="home.html"><img src="button.jpg" border=0"></a></font>