I don't own Harry Potter. Don't make me cry:(

I woke up on the middle of the night with my entire body burning. It felt like I had a fever, except all over my body. The pain was centered in my lower back, and was slowly radiating outwards in waves.

"Dad," I croaked, but no sooner had I got the word out than my throat started to itch and burn. I began to cough violently, shuddering my body.

"Lily!" My dad jerked awake at the sound of my coughing, a worried look on his face. "Madam Pomfrey? MADAM POMFREY!"

The old witch came hurriedly out upon hearing Dad.

"What is it?" she asked, pulling back the curtains. I caught a glance of myself in the mirror across the hall, and would've gasped had I been able to. I was ghostly white, like a sheet, and my eyes were huge in my head. "Merlin!"

"Madam Pomfrey?" there was a clear note of panic in my Dad's voice now.

"She must've had a bad reaction to the Skelegrow!" Madam Pomfrey turned to a portrait on the opposite wall. "Dilys! Tell St. Mungo's that Harry Potter will be arriving with his daughter in a few moments!" An old man walked out of his portrait as Madam Pomfrey grabbed an empty bottle of Pumpkin Juice from my beside table.

"Portus," Dad muttered, and holding onto my hand I felt the familiar jerk behind my navel, pulling me into nothingness.

Even at two in the morning, St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries was full of commotion. I don't know how they manage to do it, but the Healer's are on full time, round the clock, always.

It was needless to say that they already had a separate room ready for us when we arrived. I was laid down in the bed, my body still burning, and automatically fed some sort of potion.

Try as I might, I was unable to sleep. The pain felt a little better, but that was only for a while. After an hour it started to come back.

"Dad?" I said quietly. He was reading a book in the chair across from me, twiddling his holly and Phoenix Feather wand in his fingers.

"Yes Lilyflower?" hurrying over to my bedside he brushed a strand of hair from my face.

"Did you tell Mum?"

"I'm sorry sweet," he said calmingly. "I forgot. Expecto Patronum!"

A silver stag burst forth from the tip of his wand, awaiting his orders.

"Lily in St. Mungo's, hurry here." The stag galloped out of the window, soaring towards Hogwarts.

It was mere minutes before my mother's horse came full speed through the window.

"On the way."

It was another few moments before Al, James, and Mum burst through the door.

"Lily!" James exclaimed hurrying over to my bed.

Albus, Mum, Dad, and James were peering down at me interestedly, but now that my family was here, I felt the overwhelming desire to sleep. The black started to take over, and before I had a chance to say anything it closed in on me.

~O-O~

Well, to say you had to get worse before you get better is a bit of an understatement. My body burned, and my head pounded, all of my limbs screaming in protest when I tried to move. I was completely delusional, saying things I couldn't hear, screaming and crying. I could tell it scared my family, but they didn't say so.

I got the regular stream of family visitors. Aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, friends, the usual. The room that I was in was covered in flowers, cards, treats and other things.

After a week at St. Mungo's I finally improved. My body stopped burning, and my mind went back to normal. Another three days and everything was perfectly fine.

"Dad?" I said quietly, so as not to wake the sleeping patients around me.

"Yes Lily?" he glanced up from his Prophet, and set down the mug of tea he was drinking.

"Can I go back to Hogwarts yet? It's really boring here," I said, twiddling my thumbs under the blanket.

My Dad chuckled softly. He hadn't left my bedside since I'd been moved to the hospital, but now that my back was mended and the toxic reaction to Skelegrow had completely left my system I had insisted that he go eat something.

"They're going to discharge you tomorrow," he said, running his fingers through my limp red hair. "Now go back to sleep love."

I nodded but before I could go back to sleep a Healer, an old woman, came into the room.

"Lily?" she said softly. "I have something for you." Placing a little scroll on my lap, she smiled gently than turned and left. But before she was out the door she turned once more and addressed my dad. "You must lover her very much, Mr. Potter, to sit with her day and night. You're a good dad. I always knew you would be, since that one time when I saw you here with Gilderoy."

My dad nodded as the woman left the room, and stroked my forehead again. As he slowly drifted to sleep, satisfied that I was all right, I pulled the scroll to me. There were little claw marks on the outside from the familiar owl that I knew had carried it here. Unrolling it, I saw the familiar handwriting and a smile crept across my features for the first time since I had been brought to St. Mungo's.

Lily,

I heard you're doing better, and I can't express my feelings other than saying I'm overly ecstatic. Hurry home love, I have a Christmas surprise for you.

Scor

I smiled, and clutching the letter to my chest, slowly drifted away into dreamland.

~O-O~

"Everything seems to be in order," the same witch from last night was looking over the records from the past two weeks at St. Mungo's. "Well Lily, you can go back to Hogwarts, good as new."

I grinned up at my Dad, who was holding my hand. Mum had sent James and Al back already, and she herself had left shortly after, kissing me lightly and saying that she would see me in a couple days for the holidays. There was only two days left until the holidays, tonight and then tomorrow we went home.

I had declined their offers to just go straight home, saying that I had missed enough classes, and I wanted to wish my friends a happy Christmas. But it wasn't just that, I really did want to see what Scorpius was planning.

"Lily!" the second I stepped into the Great Hall a ball of energy once again knocked me over. Cassie helped pull me to my feet and beamed around the Hall, laughing at everybody's stunned faces.

"Hey Cass," I smiled as she led me over to the Gryffindor table, where Veronica, Jordan, and Sarah were waving energetically.

"Oh Lily! We didn't even get to see you! We thought you were going to die!" Veronica was near hysterical, hugging me and almost crying.

"Veronica chill," I said, hugging her back. "I'm okay."

The Gryffindor common room couch had never felt so comfortable. I sat, reading my books, waiting wile the common room emptied out so I could go see Scor.

Finally everybody had left and I stood up, taking the Invisibility Cloak that I had nicked from James earlier in the evening. Knocking lightly on the door of the Room of Requirement, a smile crept across my face, preparing myself for what was inside.

A/N: Yeah, that chapter sucked. But I needed a filler in chapter before my next. Trust me, this will be a good one. Review! Favorite! Alert! The emails make me happy!