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Ch 11.
Awakening
My head was swimming; it felt like I was submerged in a cool mist. I realised, somewhere in my sub-conscience that these were my first coherent thoughts for what seemed like days. For the first time in what did seem like days, my eyes willed themselves to open.
My eyelashes fluttered, and I gazed up above me, seeing white. My vision was very blurry, but there seemed to be a light directly above me. I looked around, still lying flat on my back. I seemed to be in a white room that had several contraptions in it.
However, for the first time I noticed what looked like a blonde figure, sitting on a white chair beside my bed. My eyelashes fluttered again, trying to remove the blurriness from my eyes. Also I had quite a headache, which willed my head not to move a lot, this was very frustrating, as I was trying to catch a glimpse at the figure's face, blurry as my vision was.
As my eyelashes fluttered, the figure's head snapped up to look at me, and I heard a low voice.
"Father, she's moving."
I heard footsteps, and could suddenly see a blond figure leaning over me. I was quite sure this was not the same figure as the first. This figure was clad in something lime green, while the first figure wore something that looked like navy, or even black.
"I think she's finally waking up. Go fetch her parents, will you Scorpius?"
Scorpius.
I recognised that name.
"You go fetch them, Father, I'm not leaving her side."
I heard a sigh, and heard footsteps leaning the room. The figure in black was still there though, leaning over me.
"Can you hear me Rose?" the voice said, breaking on nearly every word, "please answer me, I'm sorry."
I think I could distinguish that this was a male, but I did not know whom, as my vision was still blurred. I decided just to stay silent for the moment.
Suddenly, I could hear many loud voices. I could distinguish the voice that belonged to the lime green clad figure, by it's coolness and calm.
"Parents only, for now, please."
I heard what sounded alarmingly close to a growl, and a voice say, "really Albus?"
Albus?
I recognised all these names, but I did not know where from.
I heard several footsteps enter the room.
"How is she?" asked a feminine voice.
"We aren't sure yet," said the cool voice, "she only just woke up, Scorpius notified me."
"We are only down in the cafeteria, yet the boy chooses to stay up here, trying to show us up," said a new voice.
"Play nice, Ronald," the female voice said.
My vision was becoming clearer, and I could start to make out the figures above me. There was a redhead man in a grey jacket, a brunette woman in purple, a blonde male in the lime green, and a teenage blonde boy in black.
The blonde man in the lime green slowly looked towards me, and edged closer.
"Watch it, Malfoy," said the redhead man.
"Honestly, Ronald!" said the brunette woman, as the blonde man had stopped, "go ahead Draco, you're the healer."
Even though the brunette woman was sticking up for the blonde, there was a bit of coldness in her voice as she spoke to him, I noted.
"Rose," said the blonde, "can you hear me?"
I didn't know what to say. I could see everything clearly now. I appeared to be in a sort of hospital ward, in a private room, with little furniture, and quite untastefully decorated.
"Oh for Merlin's sake," exclaimed the blonde boy in black, speaking again, "can you hear me Rose? It's Scorpius, Scorpius Malfoy."
I still didn't know what to say when I heard three more, weakly spoken words; that made every single thing fall into place.
"I love you."
I looked up into his eyes in awe, suddenly understanding. I looked up at all of them, being able to, in that moment, put a name to a face and realise exactly who they all were, and exactly where I was.
I was in St. Mungo's, quite clearly. The last thing I remembered was seeing a flash of light while riding my broomstick, and falling. How in Merlin's name had I fallen off my broomstick? I played Quidditch, for Merlin's sake!
I looked up at all of them again, and spoke my first few words.
"Mum, Dad, Mr Malfoy," I said, looking up at each of them, then lastly to the blonde boy who had suddenly gotten a bit paler, and was looking into the distance, as if distracted
"Scorpius."
He snapped his head back towards me, and looked directly into my eyes.
"Rose?" he said weakly, a tear threatening to escape the corner of his eye, "Oh Rose."
He took my hand and squeezed it so hard it nearly hurt. But I was okay with that, I barely noticed really. Now that everything had come back to me, I was just wondering if he had meant what he had said.
"Scorpius let her go, we need to talk to her," said Draco Malfoy firmly.
"Maybe you should leave," said Dad.
I wanted to protest, but I was too weak. Anyway, Scorpius beat me to it.
"No, I'm not going anywhere," he half-growled.
Dad looked ready to snap back at him, but Mum patted him on the shoulder.
"Let it go, Ron, he's been here this long," she said, and smiled at Scorpius.
I was so confused.
Draco looked ready to ease the tension in the room, so he took to asking confusing medical questions.
"Rose, how do you feel?" he said, looking at me, while casting a few spells that I couldn't see the effect of.
"Confused, tired, confused, and my head hurts, and so does my ribcage," I replied, feeling a sudden sharp pain in my rib cage.
"Hmm, well that's normal, here drink some of this," he said, giving me a potion, which instantaneously cleared my head.
"Would you like to sit up?" he asked.
"Yeah, I think I might."
"Careful of your ribs now."
Mum adjusted my pillows for me and I say up in the bed, again feeling the sharp pain stabbing through my ribs.
As soon as I was up, I wanted to know what happened.
"Why am I here? What happened?"
"Well," Draco began, "to our knowledge, you were flying on your broomstick, and had gotten quite far away from home. A spell from and unknown caster hit you, though we have to believe it may have been linked to the man who committed your Grandfather's death, a gang member, or something. Anyway, this spell hit you, and knocked you off your broom. You fell to the ground, and you were very lucky you seemed to be close to the ground, you only broke a few ribs. Somehow we couldn't repair them magically though, maybe because of the spell damage. So, we suspect you lie there for an hour or so, until Scorpius, here, found you. He was flying in the area and saw something on the ground. He brought you here, and right now you are in Spell Damage at St. Mungo's, but I'm sure you realised that."
I looked at Scor, who smiled weakly at me. I was wondering about the 'him saving me' part, really.
"Okay, well how long have I been asleep?" I asked.
"5 days," Draco replied, "we had to keep you under for a while, we suspected that your head pain was horrible."
"Is it true, did Scorpius really save me?" I asked, half pretending he wasn't here.
"Yes," Mum spoke now, with Dad just glaring at Scorpius.
"Why'd you do it Scor?" I said, looking at him now.
He just stared at me for a second. It was a strange stare, as if he detested me, but was still glad I was awake.
"We'll discuss that later, honey," Mum said, looking at Scorpius out of the corner of her eye.
"Come on Hermione, lets go ring everyone else, and they can come in one by one," Dad said, putting his arm around Mum's waist and standing both of them up, "we'll be back as soon as you know it Rosie."
"Okay Dad," I said, smiling at him.
Mum and Dad walked out into the hallway. Draco was doing a few last minute spells, that again; I had no knowledge of the result.
He finished up and spoke to me again.
"So is everything okay Rose?" he said, seeming anxious, and eyeing Scorpius for a few seconds.
"Yeah Healer, I'm fine," I smiled at him too.
"Please, call me Draco."
I laughed, "Okay Draco, thanks."
He laughed too, and tucked his wand into his robes.
"Scorpius?" Draco said, motioning his hand towards the door.
"I'm staying, Father," Scorpius said, not taking his eyes off me.
"Very well, but if Rose asks you to leave, you leave," he said hardly, to Scorpius, before turning to me, "I'll be back soon to check on you, just press the call button if you need a mediwitch."
With this, he left the room.
Now, it was only myself and Scorpius, the latter still intently staring at me.
Yay Scorpius my darling is back! I did get a bit about this, so here he is again! Only two or three more chapters until the sequel, which I am oh so excited about!
