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Chapter Ten: Special Circumstances
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The next morning Lily woke to find seven girls huddled around her bed. She smiled and couldn't help but think about how nice it was to have friends who cared about her again. She had just never felt the same with her other friends after they had abandoned her when her dad died and when she was sick.
Hannah gave a squeal, "She's awake!"
"Lily," Kira began but was cut off as Madame Pomfrey came over.
"OUT! ALL OF YOU! I have a patient to tend to, out, out, OUT!"
The girls all reluctantly left, except Kira.
"Madame Pomfrey, I know that you like to have your space when you are taking care of a patient, but Lily is my best friend. She woke up yesterday from being in a coma for six weeks and she needs all her friends to be here for her now. She needs her family, and since her family isn't allowed at Hogwarts because they aren't magical, she gets the next best thing, the family she chose for herself, her friends, me. I don't care what you say because I'm going to stay right here and hold my best friend's hand as you do whatever it is you have to do to her to make her better. And...and...I don't care if...if...if I get expelled! I'm not going to leave!"
Madame Pomfrey looked at Kira then sighed. She turned to Lily, "You have friend's that truly care about you, Miss Evans." She paused while pulling out a vile of deep red potion. "You're going to need to drink this..."
Lily nodded weakly looking at the vile. She tried to swallow but didn't have much luck. Slowly she reached out her thin, exhausted arm and took the goblet of potion from Madame Pomfrey.
It bubbled.
Lily paled but brought the goblet to her lips. She took a sip but immediately realized how much of a mistake that was. Her body wasn't used to eating or drinking and it responded violently to the potion. Before she realized what had happened, Lily was throwing up nutrients she didn't have into a bed pan that Madame Pomfrey had just barely managed to get in front of her.
Lily began to cry. Kira squeezed her hand reassuringly and whispered to her, "Lily, its gunna be okay. You'll pull out of this, you'll be okay. You hear me? You'll be okay." It almost was more of a demand than reassurement.
Lily nodded weakly and choked down her sobs. She looked around desperately and found a pitcher of water. Her eyes grew wide, "W-w-w-wa-wa-
Kira held up her hand and followed Lily's gaze. "You want some water?" Nod. "All right, here let me help you."
Kira poured a glass of water and helped Lily bring it to her mouth. Lily manage to drink three sips before her body once again rejected the addition of a new substance in the manner she was trying to get it. Once again she began vomiting forcefully into the bedpan. She began crying again. This time much harder than before. Kira continued giving her a hand to hold onto and began rubbing her back, but didn't say anything else.
Madame Pomfrey looked bewildered and horrified by what was happening. She injected some of the potion directly into Lily's blood stream-like she had had to do while Lily was in a coma. Then she quickly hurried off.
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"Albus, I just don't know what to do! The poor child can't handle water, how am I supposed to help her recover? She needs St. Mungo's, Albus. She needs someone with better training than I have. She needs to be able to receive the comfort of her mother."
Dumbledore nodded slowly. He thought for a few minutes then said, "Continue doing what you can for her, Poppy. I'll go to St. Mungo's after lunch and bring back a specialized Healer with me to aid you. As for her parents, well, muggles have been brought to Hogwarts before, under special circumstances, and I think this qualifies as such. I will arrange for her parents to be brought here."
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Kira was excused from classes that day.
Right before dinner, James came running in and turned to Kira, "Why don't you go eat. I'll stay here with Lily."
"But James, you need to eat too, I don't mind staying."
Neither of them had noticed that Lily had woken up. She spoke her opinion, anyway, "Why don't you both go, I'm not going anywhere and I'll be okay here by myself for a while."
At this statement, James looked totally horrified. "Stay? Here? Alone? I WON'T HEAR OF SUCH A THING! And to think, I treat you as an equal..."
Kira looked at Lily and the two girls both erupted into a fit of giggles. Lily ignored her wheezing, she could tell it wasn't going to get worse and she wasn't even sure if she had her inhaler with her.
James smiled at the two laughing girls. "Seriously, though, I went down to the kitchens with Remus and Peter and The High Joker and I'm not hungry anymore, so I would take great pleasure in staying with the fair princess while her lovely lady in waiting gets some scrumptious provisions."
The two girls giggled again and Kira said, "Well, I shall leave said fair princess with the most lovely prince and retire to the dinning hall for some said scrumptious provisions."
"But my most wonderful lady in waiting! Whatever are you thinking to leave me, a fair princess, alone with such a prince!"
"Ta!" Kira replied with a smile over her shoulder from the doorway.
"So Sirius is the High Joker, now is he?" Lily asked turning to James.
James looked at her with a scandalized look and said, "Well of course he is? Don't you know the way he acts?"
Lily sighed and her eyes filled with unshed tears.
"Oh, Lily, I didn't....I....I'm sorry. Hey, please don't cry." James grabbed her hand and gave her a dazzling smile.
She smiled faintly back.
They sat in silence for a few minutes. Just as James was about to say something, the door to the infirmary swung open.
"Lily?" asked a woman with dark brown wavy hair. She looked around frightened until she spotted a girl in with curly red hair in a bed with a black haired boy next to her. "LILY!"
Lily looked up and studied the woman for a brief moment before squealing, "Mum! Mum, how...why...but you're a mug...but mum!"
"Oh sweet heart! Are you all right? Your headmaster came to see us and told us that there had been an accident and that you had just woken up and that they thought we should come under special circumstances to the school. I was so worried when I didn't get any letters from you after mid-November. And then you didn't come home for the holidays and we were so upset that you hadn't even told us why!"
"Mum, I'm so sorry! I-"
"Oh, don't worry about it, the important thing is that you're okay now."
Lily's mum engulfed her in a huge hug. Lily made a very quiet whimper due to the amount of energy it took her to give her mum a hug, James was the only person who heard it.
"Lily, maybe I...well you know, I should...I think I need to...I'm...I'm gunna go, okay? I'll see you later, then..."
"Thank you, James," Lily whispered with a smile, a genuine smile that made her eyes twinkle. She looked past James and the sparkle in her eyes immediately died.
James gave her a questioning look, but didn't say anything. Instead he turned around and walked out of the Hospital Wing, and as he left he turned to the man who had just walked in, the man that had caused the fear in Lily's eyes.
The man walked over to Lily and her mother and James turned one last time to them and watched as the man sat down with his arms wrapped around Lily's mum's waist. Just before James walked out, he saw the man lean down and kiss Lily's forehead.
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Chapter Ten: Special Circumstances
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The next morning Lily woke to find seven girls huddled around her bed. She smiled and couldn't help but think about how nice it was to have friends who cared about her again. She had just never felt the same with her other friends after they had abandoned her when her dad died and when she was sick.
Hannah gave a squeal, "She's awake!"
"Lily," Kira began but was cut off as Madame Pomfrey came over.
"OUT! ALL OF YOU! I have a patient to tend to, out, out, OUT!"
The girls all reluctantly left, except Kira.
"Madame Pomfrey, I know that you like to have your space when you are taking care of a patient, but Lily is my best friend. She woke up yesterday from being in a coma for six weeks and she needs all her friends to be here for her now. She needs her family, and since her family isn't allowed at Hogwarts because they aren't magical, she gets the next best thing, the family she chose for herself, her friends, me. I don't care what you say because I'm going to stay right here and hold my best friend's hand as you do whatever it is you have to do to her to make her better. And...and...I don't care if...if...if I get expelled! I'm not going to leave!"
Madame Pomfrey looked at Kira then sighed. She turned to Lily, "You have friend's that truly care about you, Miss Evans." She paused while pulling out a vile of deep red potion. "You're going to need to drink this..."
Lily nodded weakly looking at the vile. She tried to swallow but didn't have much luck. Slowly she reached out her thin, exhausted arm and took the goblet of potion from Madame Pomfrey.
It bubbled.
Lily paled but brought the goblet to her lips. She took a sip but immediately realized how much of a mistake that was. Her body wasn't used to eating or drinking and it responded violently to the potion. Before she realized what had happened, Lily was throwing up nutrients she didn't have into a bed pan that Madame Pomfrey had just barely managed to get in front of her.
Lily began to cry. Kira squeezed her hand reassuringly and whispered to her, "Lily, its gunna be okay. You'll pull out of this, you'll be okay. You hear me? You'll be okay." It almost was more of a demand than reassurement.
Lily nodded weakly and choked down her sobs. She looked around desperately and found a pitcher of water. Her eyes grew wide, "W-w-w-wa-wa-
Kira held up her hand and followed Lily's gaze. "You want some water?" Nod. "All right, here let me help you."
Kira poured a glass of water and helped Lily bring it to her mouth. Lily manage to drink three sips before her body once again rejected the addition of a new substance in the manner she was trying to get it. Once again she began vomiting forcefully into the bedpan. She began crying again. This time much harder than before. Kira continued giving her a hand to hold onto and began rubbing her back, but didn't say anything else.
Madame Pomfrey looked bewildered and horrified by what was happening. She injected some of the potion directly into Lily's blood stream-like she had had to do while Lily was in a coma. Then she quickly hurried off.
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"Albus, I just don't know what to do! The poor child can't handle water, how am I supposed to help her recover? She needs St. Mungo's, Albus. She needs someone with better training than I have. She needs to be able to receive the comfort of her mother."
Dumbledore nodded slowly. He thought for a few minutes then said, "Continue doing what you can for her, Poppy. I'll go to St. Mungo's after lunch and bring back a specialized Healer with me to aid you. As for her parents, well, muggles have been brought to Hogwarts before, under special circumstances, and I think this qualifies as such. I will arrange for her parents to be brought here."
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Kira was excused from classes that day.
Right before dinner, James came running in and turned to Kira, "Why don't you go eat. I'll stay here with Lily."
"But James, you need to eat too, I don't mind staying."
Neither of them had noticed that Lily had woken up. She spoke her opinion, anyway, "Why don't you both go, I'm not going anywhere and I'll be okay here by myself for a while."
At this statement, James looked totally horrified. "Stay? Here? Alone? I WON'T HEAR OF SUCH A THING! And to think, I treat you as an equal..."
Kira looked at Lily and the two girls both erupted into a fit of giggles. Lily ignored her wheezing, she could tell it wasn't going to get worse and she wasn't even sure if she had her inhaler with her.
James smiled at the two laughing girls. "Seriously, though, I went down to the kitchens with Remus and Peter and The High Joker and I'm not hungry anymore, so I would take great pleasure in staying with the fair princess while her lovely lady in waiting gets some scrumptious provisions."
The two girls giggled again and Kira said, "Well, I shall leave said fair princess with the most lovely prince and retire to the dinning hall for some said scrumptious provisions."
"But my most wonderful lady in waiting! Whatever are you thinking to leave me, a fair princess, alone with such a prince!"
"Ta!" Kira replied with a smile over her shoulder from the doorway.
"So Sirius is the High Joker, now is he?" Lily asked turning to James.
James looked at her with a scandalized look and said, "Well of course he is? Don't you know the way he acts?"
Lily sighed and her eyes filled with unshed tears.
"Oh, Lily, I didn't....I....I'm sorry. Hey, please don't cry." James grabbed her hand and gave her a dazzling smile.
She smiled faintly back.
They sat in silence for a few minutes. Just as James was about to say something, the door to the infirmary swung open.
"Lily?" asked a woman with dark brown wavy hair. She looked around frightened until she spotted a girl in with curly red hair in a bed with a black haired boy next to her. "LILY!"
Lily looked up and studied the woman for a brief moment before squealing, "Mum! Mum, how...why...but you're a mug...but mum!"
"Oh sweet heart! Are you all right? Your headmaster came to see us and told us that there had been an accident and that you had just woken up and that they thought we should come under special circumstances to the school. I was so worried when I didn't get any letters from you after mid-November. And then you didn't come home for the holidays and we were so upset that you hadn't even told us why!"
"Mum, I'm so sorry! I-"
"Oh, don't worry about it, the important thing is that you're okay now."
Lily's mum engulfed her in a huge hug. Lily made a very quiet whimper due to the amount of energy it took her to give her mum a hug, James was the only person who heard it.
"Lily, maybe I...well you know, I should...I think I need to...I'm...I'm gunna go, okay? I'll see you later, then..."
"Thank you, James," Lily whispered with a smile, a genuine smile that made her eyes twinkle. She looked past James and the sparkle in her eyes immediately died.
James gave her a questioning look, but didn't say anything. Instead he turned around and walked out of the Hospital Wing, and as he left he turned to the man who had just walked in, the man that had caused the fear in Lily's eyes.
The man walked over to Lily and her mother and James turned one last time to them and watched as the man sat down with his arms wrapped around Lily's mum's waist. Just before James walked out, he saw the man lean down and kiss Lily's forehead.
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