Title:The Still of the Night Author: siryn99 Notes: JK Rowling and Scholastic own them, not me. Written for Musesfool, so the first line belongs to her, 176 words.
	In the silence of the dormitory, every sound is magnified. Every one of Peter's snores and James' snuffles sounds as if they are sleeping right next to him. Oddly only Sirius, who can never be quiet or still when he's awake, is silent. He sleeps deep and hard, without the nightmares that plague Remus, drenching him in a cold sweat and gasping for air behind the red velvet hangings. It's nights like that Remus misses now, misses the way he could crawl into bed with Sirius after a bad dream and wrap himself around his body, warm and solid under his hands. Remus would lie there, letting the steady rise and fall of Sirius' breathing lull him back to sleep, the monsters kept at bay for one more night. But since the spring, he can't do that. Now Sirius is part of the nightmares, and when he wakes up with the coppery taste of blood in his mouth, he buries himself in the quilt and waits for the thin morning light to chase away the nightmares instead.
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