Harry stood in his kitchen frozen, wand pointing down the hall towards the front door. His coffee forgotten and cooling. After what felt like an eternity to Harry began to inch towards the door. He took care to avoid the spots in the hallway floor which creaked under his footsteps pressure. Harry reached the door, and after raising his wand a little more he swung the door open. Harry saw nothing at first which in his mind was just as alarming, he knew he herd something outside before. After looking left and right down the street he notice the bundled robes in front of him laying on his stoop.
Harry backed up, pointed his wand at the robes, and wordless cast a spell that caused a gust of wind to come streaming from him wand blowing the robes away. What Harry saw next no one could of prepared him for. It was non other then his best friend and closest confidant, Hermione Granger. Harry kicked open Hermione's own personal guest room door and carried her limp body over to her bed. Harry laid her down as gently as he could. Once her unconscious body was fully rested on the bed, Harry ran to his office and grabbed every potion he thought would be useful. When he returned he dumped the bottles onto her bed and set out to inspect her injuries. Her left leg was badly swollen, both eyes sockets were a deep shade of purple, her noise was contorted in such a way that lead Harry to conclude it was broken, she was missing a front tooth, her right ear look to be slightly ripped from her own head, and her right arm was out of its socket and what looked to be badly broken in several places. After Harry inspected her wounds and concluded the potions he would need he reached for a potion to help control pain, and administered the proper dosage. He then took several other bottles in his hand reviewed some labels, casting some aside and putting others a top of her abdomen.
The next part Harry knew he wasn't going to like, He grabbed Hermione's arm and straightened it with a sickening cracking sound. Harry then looked at Hermione's nose and as best he could grabbed it and held it straight. He then reached for the first of many potions he was going to give her, skele-gro. After pouring the nasty tasting sludge like liquid down her throat he let go of her fastly healing noise, he knew however to still be cautious of the arm as that would take much longer to fully heal. One by one Harry gave Hermione a full dosage of the rest of the potions he had until they were all gone.
The next item Harry sought to repair was her ear, it was as if it had been ripped partially from her, Harry again drew his wand that night but to heal this time not ready to destroy. He pointed his wand at his best friends ear and began to make circular motions above her, once his incantation was completed the ear looked relatively like it did before aside from the faint scar of where it had partially separated. Harry noted the skele-gro also replaced her missing tooth with a new one, and the other potions had made the swelling of her left leg go down immensely.
By now most of the potions had done there deed and Harry looked at a still unconscious Hermione. Now looking a little better then the condition she arrived in and not being able to do anything further Harry just stood looking at his friend the clock on Hermione's night stand made an audible clicking sound as it signaled it was now 3:45 am. And again on cue, the young baby Teddy cried out in need of a diaper change. It was that "oh so familiar" sound of a baby crying that sent Harry into his own fit of silent tears for the broken friend that lay before him.
After changing Teddy and hastily writing an owl to Neville and Luna Longbottom requesting they come to his house immediately. He returned to Hermiones room and sat on the edge of her bed. Harry looked at his unconscious friend and whispered "Please Hermione, Be okay... Just be okay, theres so much I haven't told you... So much I..."
For the second time that night Harry heard the sound of apparation outside his home. With lightening quick reflexes he drew his wand. Then slowly made his way over to the window. He pulled the curtain to the side only slightly and peered out the window. He realized the two figures whom stood outside were none other then the Longbottoms clad only in sleep attire with wands drawn. Harry raced down the flights of stairs and reached the front door just before they knocked. Swinging it open with shocking speed that caused Neville to jump back a little bit.
"Harry, What on earth's the trouble mate, everything okay?" Neville asked as he put his wand away. Luna then spoke "Hello Harry, lovely gnomes in your front garden I must say" as she to stashed her wand into her nightgown.
"Neville, Luna... Come inside please." Harry urged, moving out of the threshold allowing them to pass inside. Once Harry closed the door he lead them into the dark living room. "just a second, sorry about the late hour" Harry muttered as he waved his wand and the candles in the room burst into flame now giving off a sufficient amount of light. "Please sit." Harry motioned to the sofa as he himself sat in a big plush leather chair. Neville and Luna complied. Neville and Luna just starred at Harry now, waiting. Harry then rambled "Can I get you Tea, Coffee, anything to eat? I know it's late... err... early... and I've woken you in the middle of the night to come all the way over here.." Neville cut Harry off "Harry, what's wrong, is everything okay?"
Harry drew in a deep breath to regain his composure and began to speak "look... I'm sorry about the late hour, but something urgent has come up and needs my devote attention. Would you possibly mind...Could you... I hate to impose but may I ask if you could care for Teddy for a few days... Until things settle down?" Neville looked at Luna and back at Harry again. "Sure mate, we'd love to, but is everything okay? its almost 4 am for merlins sake." "I'm... not sure yet Neville. This is just a precaution till I can get to the bottom of a few things... it shouldn't be more then a few days" Harry said while standing. "Alright then Harry." Neville spoke while taking his newly wed wife's hand. "We'd be glad to" Luna chimed in. "Okay, let me go get him and the things you'll need... He's very regular with the times he wakes up for feeding and other things so I've also written that down... it should help at least." with that Harry left the room quickly returning a few minutes late with the still sleeping Teddy and a bag full of supplies. Harry handed Teddy over to Luna, and gave Neville the bag, and parchment with the written times that Teddy likes his meals and changings. "Well we better get to it then, keep us informed... and don't forget Harry... If you need our help, were always here mate." on that note Neville and Luna, with Harry in tow preceded to the front door. Harry watched as the three of them made it to the middle of the street and for the third and last time that night Harry heard the sounds of apparation. Though this time he was not alarmed but in fact relieved that Teddy was going to be somewhere safe while he figured out what happened to Hermione on this dreaded night. After they had gone the owl he sent them returned, sighing, he apologized to the bird and sent him on one final delivery to the Head of Auror training at the Ministery of Magic saying he was going to miss the next weeks worth of training, and would gladly make it up in the near future.
With that last and final loose end tied, Harry returned to Hermiones room and sat down on a plush arm chair she kept in the corner for reading. Within a few minutes the adrenaline and emotions he experienced tonight left him so quickly he couldn't help but let sleep take him.
