When Remus pulled him closer Sirius nearly began to cry again, but this time in relief. Everything would be alright now. It had to be.
"I don't know," he whimpered, staying as still as possible so the feeling of something in his abdomen shifting wouldn'y come back. "It hurts. It's, it's never hurt before." Even after the first time, when he'd been warned that he would be sore the next morning. He had been, but it had been a pleasant soreness. This, this felt like someone had shoved glass up his arse that was still slicing him up on the inside.