The Will to Live

AU. Sirius Black's hands were trembling as he held the newspaper to his face. His skin drained of the little color it had left as he read the headline. HARRY POTTER, BOY-WHO-LIVED, DIES IN HEROIC STRUGGLE TO SAVE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, it proclaimed. And at that moment, the spark that had stayed alive within him for the past eleven years flickered and went out.