A/N Hello, people, I've returned at last with an update for you all.
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Dorcas Meadows had gone to bed just two hours earlier tired and exhausted-of course working a double shift at St. Mungo's tended to have that effect on most healers.
Remus had already gone to bed when she got home, he left dinner for her in the fridge, but she was more interested in going to sleep. She made her way through the apartment towards the bedroom and all but threw herself onto the bed.
It felt as if she had been sleeping for no more than the blink of an eye when the noises started.
Dorcas groaned to herself and put her pillow over her face in the hope that if she ignored her unwanted 'visitor' he would go away.
Remus shifted in bed beside her and she could tell that his eyes were open and that he had identified the source of the noise.
"Maybe if we ignore him he'll go away…" Remus whispered hopefully in Dorcas' direction.
"I know you're there and I will not be ignored," Sirius' head announced from the fireplace.
"No we're not." Remus contested.
The figure in the fireplace rolled his eyes.
"Marlene needs help." Sirius explained.
Dorcas removed her pillow from her face just as a loud, 'do not,' echoed from Sirius' end of the floo connection.
Sirius ignored his girlfriend. "She tripped over a chair and broke her wrist."
"Did not." Marlene's voice repeated petulantly.
"Can you just come fix her?" Sirius requested ignoring his girlfriend again.
"I'll be over in a few minutes," Dorcas mumbled.
"Thanks." Sirius replied as his head disappeared from the fireplace.
"Good luck," Remus mumbled before rolling over and slipping rapidly back into the throes of sleep.
Dorcas mumbled an indistinct and vaguely irritated reply as she stumbled out of bed and fumbled for her wand on the bedside table.
"I'll be back," She announced before disappearing through the fireplace. "Where is she?" Dorcas demanded upon arriving in the flat and not immediately spotting Marlene.
"In the kitchen," Sirius replied, leading the way. Marlene was seated on the counter swinging her legs and holding a large cup of coffee in her good hand. She took one look at her best friend's annoyed face and winced.
"Marlene Mackenzie McKinnon," Dorcas exclaimed testily.
"Um, hi?" Marlene inquired.
Dorcas rolled her eyes in reply. "What did you do?"
"Tripped over a chair," Sirius answered with a snicker.
"It was so not my fault," Marlene complained.
"Really, Marly," Dorcas said with a sigh of exasperation as she lightly gripped her friend's arm with a tut of disapproval. "This is definitely broken." She continued placing her wand tip to the injured limb and murmuring a bone-mending charm. "All fixed."
Marlene experimentally flexed the previously injured limb. "All better," she agreed.
"As much fun as I am having here, I'm going to go back to bed." Dorcas proclaimed. "And next time consider turning on a light before you go wandering around in the dark." She continued dryly.
Marlene scowled. Dorcas waved. And Sirius smirked.
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