For those of you who started reading my original Beautiful Disaster I completely changed it
Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Harry Potter or its characters/contents.
Mercy from Mercy
Hermione opened her eyes and looked around. She was ah Hogwarts. More specifically she was lying on the floor in a hallway at Hogwarts with a massive headache. She sat up carefully and wished she hadn't. The world started spinning around her. She very carefully and slowly moved herself to the side of the hallway so she could lean against the wall. When her vision stilled she looked around. There was a boy walking down the hallway.
"Harry help me" the boy slowed down and looked around. "Harry, why are we at Hogwarts what's going on?" The boy approached her.
"I'm sorry, my names not Harry are you alright?"
"Oh dear, you look just like him my mistake." She knew there was some connection she should be making but her mind was too fuzzy to make it out. "I feel really confused and dizzy." He knelt down next to her and touched her face.
"Well you look really beat up let's get you to the hospital wing."
"Beat up?"
"Yeah you look like you got into quite a fight." He pulled his hand away from her face and she could see that it was lightly stained in blood. Hermione looked up at the boy and tried to stand. She got to her feet when she felt herself collapse. She felt arms around her and felt herself being lifted into the air. Hermione looked up at the boy and then laid her head on his shoulder. She relaxed as she was carried to the hospital wing.
"James Potter what did you do?" Hermione looked up at the boy as she realized that he was James potter.
"I didn't do anything I found her in the hallway."
"Well place her there on that bed." Madam Pomfrey bustled around getting salves and potions, bringing them over to the bedside table. "Alright off with you Potter."
"Madam Pomfrey I think you need to go get professor Dumbledore." Hermione said quietly.
"And my dear why is that?"
"Because I do not belong here."
"What do you mean you don't belong here my dear?"
"I am from the future, about twenty years into the future." Madam Pomfrey looked at her puzzlingly and walked out of the room. Hermione was about to lay down when she heard two voices. They moved into the hospital wing.
"Mercy can I stay and help you today?"
"Sure ill be welcome for it. I have stack loads of paperwork that needs completed."
"So what did you think of the lesson today in Herbology?"
"Honestly I thought it was dull. I dislike review classes. They help a bit but it was just too simple for my tastes."
"Mercy…" Hermione looked up and realized that the boy was looking at her. The girl, Mercy, looked up and snapped into attention. Grabbed an apron from inside of the office.
"Peter can you conjure me a bowl with water?" The girl asked as she went into the store room. She returned with a cloth. The girl approached Hermione. "Hello My name is Mercy Prewitt I'm just going to help clean you up a little bit." Hermione looked at Mercy skeptically. "Don't worry I'm studying under madam Pomfrey to become a healer." The boy set the bowl of water next to her. "Would you feel better if you lie down or sit up?" Hermione opened her mouth and finally found her voice. Mercy had long carrot red hair that reached nearly down to her waist and looked oddly familiar.
"Sit up I think." Mercy nodded and dipped the cloth into the water. Hermione watched as she brought the cloth to her face and started cleaning her face. Hermione's eyes widened as she saw how red the cloth became after a few moments. "Umm I don't know what happened to me but what… how bad?"
"Oh not as bad as you might think one of your wounds is still open on your face. The rest of what I'm removing is dried blood." The boy, peter, changed the water when Mercy moved from her face to her arms. "Why have I not seen you before?" Mercy questioned.
"I'm new here I guess. Although I cannot remember for the life of me what happened to me." Hermione said. "Umm can I have some water to drink?" The boy conjured up a glass of water.
"Name's Peter Pettigrew." Hermione looked at him for a second and saw nothing but love and warmth in the boy's eyes. Nothing of the evil or coldness that some of her peers had. He had short blonde hair. He was a little overweight but for the most part just reminded her of Neville with his kind personality and willingness to help.
"Hermione." Hermione looked up as Mercy put the cloth in the stained water and stood up.
"There now that you're cleaned up it doesn't look nearly as bad as I thought before." She dug into a drawer by Hermione's bed and produced a mirror. Hermione took it and looked at her face. She had a large gash above her left eye that was still bleeding a little bit. Her left cheek was bruised and scraped up and the cut on her right cheek was no longer producing blood but was still very fresh. She put the mirror down and for the first time looked at her arms. Her right arm towards her shoulder had a gash that looked as it has been caught by a stray curse. Her forearms looked as if they had been scraped with rocks and her left arm had a large bruise right above her wrist. Her baby blue tank top was covered in blood and dirt and her jeans were ripped in places.
Peter took the bowl of water and poured it into the sink after throwing the cloth into the dirty hamper. Mercy left the room and came back into the room with a baby blue pajama tank top and some darker blue pajama shorts. She walked over to Hermione and pulled some curtains between them and Peter.
"Can you stand?" Mercy asked wiping some blood off of Hermione's face. Hermione looked at her skeptically and shook her head. "Well we will just scoot you to the edge of the bed so we can change you out of your dirty clothes." As Hermione carefully put the tank top Mercy got the shorts on. "I would give you pants but first of all it's very still warm being September and two you have a few scrapes and bruises on your legs that I must tend to."
"Where did you get these?" Hermione asked.
"They are my friend Lily's she rarely wears them and you and her are almost the same size. She won't mind."
"Lily?"
"Evens she is one of my roommates." Mercy settled Hermione back onto the bed on top of the blankets and moved the curtain to find Madam Pomfrey there. "Oh hello Madam." Madam Pomfrey looked at Mercy and smiled.
"What have you done with your patient so far?" Mercy looked at Hermione.
"Well there was so much blood I thought her injuries were far worse than they actually were. But I had peter conjure me a bowl of luke warm water and started cleaning off her face and arms. The gash above her eye is the only one still bleeding and it's barely so. Then I changed her out of her dirty clothes so I could attend to her legs. After that I was going to check to see if any spells were affecting her body. Because she is talking and can move her limbs I figured the most important thing was to get her physical injuries cleaned up first. After that if there were no spells I was going to apply the salves and give her a potion so she could rest."
"Very good Miss Prewitt. You said Peter was here?"
"In the office I believe drawing up a report."
"Why don't you get him to help you? And don't give her the potion Dumbledore is on his way and ill make sure she takes it after he leaves."
"Alright, Oh and I gave her some water to drink."
"That's alright. Just water though until you check for spells."
"Yes Madam." Madam Pomfrey disappeared into her office. Mercy looked at Hermione. "Ill be right back." Mercy came back with Peter in tow. They started cleaning up her legs when James walked in.
"Hey James what brings you here?" Peter asked with a smile.
"Just checking up on our little lady here."
"He was the one who found me and brought me in" Hermione clarified. James looked at Hermione.
"You look much better."
"Thank you. My name is Hermione."
"James."
"James could you hand me that blue salve on the table?" Marcy asked still focused on Hermione's leg. James turned around and looked back at Mercy. Hermione looked over and saw his dilemma and laughed. They were all different shades of blue. Mercy looked up and smiled. "The dark blue one then." James grabbed it and handed it to her.
"Well I'm going to go meet Sirius for dinner. You want us to bring you guys anything?"
"No thanks we will go to the kitchens later" Peter responded looking at Hermione and the work they had to do. They finished with the cuts on her legs and continued until they finished with her face. Then they took a lighter salve and placed it on the random bruises on her body. Finally Mercy started checking her over for spells. Mercy looked up at peter who was still putting salve on the bruise above her wrist.
"Peter could you go get madam Pomfrey?" Peter stood and wiped his hand on a towel before knocking on her office door. Madam Pomfrey came out and stood next to them. "She has had a spell placed on her but I don't know what it is. It isn't affecting any of her organs or her being. There is just some of its trace in her though."
"Well I will check in a few hours and see if it is still there. You two go onto dinner. Peter I will see you tomorrow morning." They quickly said their goodbyes and left.
