Severus sat quietly next to the bed that Marna occupied waiting for Madam Pomfrey to return. He had sprinted all the way up to the hosptial wing and practically gave her a heartattack when he burst through the door, she had just gotten up and wasn't even properly dressed or had her morning cup of tea for that matter, when he told her where he found Marna, and she was now running around looking for her extra bottles of pepper up potion and warmer quilts for the 'poor dear girl' in the bed he sat next to. Madam Promfrey had changed her into hospital pajamas, a pale pink one that was a bit too big and had dried her skin hurriedly with her wand, cleaned her shoulder wound and put a bandage on it and forced some pepper up potion down Marna's throat before tucking the blankets up to her chin.

It didn't seem to help too much.

The whole bed was shaking and Marna's lips looked like they were getting bluer. The scratches on his hands were stinging and his own legs were shaking from the run up to the castle and all he could do was sit there and look stupid. He looked at his watch, it was only 7:30, half of the castle wouldn't even wake up for another hour, Severus sighed and sat back. So much for a relaxing Saturday morning.

Madam Pomfrey came back and put three blankets on top of the one Marna already had on her and uncapped a bottle of pepper up potion. " Time for your medicine dear." She said as she lifted Marna's head and tilted the bottle slightly until it was upended. Severus noticed and thought it was odd, but no steam was coming from Marna's ears and that had been her second bottle.

Marna made a whimpering noise after she took the potion, Madam Pomfrey put her hand on Marna's forehead muttering a "poor dear" before her eyebrows came together and she put a finger to her mouth. " Maybe I should try those hot water bottles, they should work."

She turned to Severus. " Do you mind sitting here a bit longer and watching her for me dear?"

Severus shook his head and folded his arms over his chest, the older woman smiled and hurried off to her office. "Be back in a jiff."

He had been sitting there for a few minutes before Marna started shaking her head back and forth,sweat was starting to bead on her forehead though she had to still be freezing, whimpering lightly, her eyes opened a little and she stammered. "Cccccolllld."

Severus sat forward in his chair. " I know Riddle, Madam Pomfrey will be back shortly with some hot water bottles."

He wasn't sure if she had heard him but she rolled over onto her side and curled up into a ball, the shaking seemed to get worse. She made that same pitifully whimper. Her face was anything but the happy one he usually saw in the morning. She looked like she was in pain and he idlely thought of frost bite.

"Um, Riddle does it hurt any where?" He asked.

She seemed to hear him this time because she nodded. Marna let out a shaky breath and opened her eyes a little and she looked over at him, her lips trembled. " Ssssssseverus, mmmmy sssshoulder."

It had been a pretty nasty cut, Severus got up and moved the blankets and her pajammas over and saw that the wound had already bled through the bandage. He put a hand on her skin and she gasped and jerked back her shoulder. "Yyyour ooon fffire."

Severus kept his hand still on her shoulder. " Well, when I found you, you were almost an ice cube."

She let out a shaky breath, almost a laugh, then he let his hand move over her wound and down her arm, the shaking seemed to subside just a little but it was a big improvement. Then he remembered something his mother had told him, about some muggles who had gotten lost in the snow and they couldn't make a fire with a wand, so they had wrapped a blanket around themselves and huddled together for warmth.

He might be a Slytherin but he wasn't completely heartless.

He stood over Marna, then sighed before he gently lifted her shoulders until he could sit on the bed, then he gently turned Marna so that her head rested in the crook in his neck and she was sitting on his lap, then he replaced the blankets. It took a minute but her shaking subsided into small tremors, she sighed and snuggled up closer to him.

Severus wasn't a really touchy feely kind of guy, so it took him a minute to get use to holding someone. She was lighter then he expected, not that she looked all that heavy, and he expected her to smell like the lake, but there was a sweeter scent under that, like brown sugar or vanilla. It wasn't...unpleasant. After about a minute, Severus began rubbing his hand down her back. Before he knew it, Severus was rocking Marna and himself gentle from side to side, his head on top of hers and his hand still moving up and down her back, it mildly shocked him that he was being this gentle with a girl who was just his Potions partner. He chalked it up to him getting up to early and that sad kicked puppy whimpering noise she'd made.

He shifted around until he could get Marna back onto the bed without moving her too much, it wasn't easy but he just got her back onto the bed and covered when Madam Pomfrey came back into the room.

"Found them." She said with a beaming smile.