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Chapter 11

Lilly's head pounded and her body ached. She felt like she'd just been twisted and pulled by giant hands. Her muscles felt weak, almost as if they wouldn't feel like working for another few days. Her ears were filled with a ringing that she couldn't quite place, yet it was ever changing. Where am I? She thought, her mind grounding back into action. She tried desperately to lift her arm, but it wouldn't move.

The ringing in her ears had become a buzz. After trying to open her eyes with no results, she lay still, listening to the buzz around her, trying to remember what happened. Slowly, the buzzing turned into voices. Light began to filter in through her eyelids. It was a few second before she recognized the voices.

"Are you sure she's going to be ok?" Al's voice sounded angry and desperate.

"Yes Mr. Potter! Now sit down and calm yourself before I kick you out!" Madame Appleton's voice was brisk and rushed.

"Why are you looking after that git?" Fred's voice was angry. "He's the prat that flew in front of her and knocked her off her broom!"

"I said calm down!" Madame Appleton snapped, dangerously. With Fred's words, the entire scene came flooding back to Lilly. She had been flying and then Malfoy flew in front of her but they had both fallen. With all of her effort, Lilly pulled her eyes open.

"Lilly!" Al breathed. His face was pale, a look of worry etched on it. "Are you ok? Can you hear me?" Lilly tried to nod, but found it impossible.

"Yeah," she croaked. She heard Ashton sob to her left, but couldn't turn her head to look. "Ash, don't worry I'm ok." She felt her cousin grab her hand and winced a bit at the touch. "What happened?"

"That idiot Malfoy knocked you off your broom!" Hugo seethed.

"Then he fell on top of you!" Damon added.

"That's not exactly what happened," Rose pointed out.

"Yeah, first he caught you-" Bianca was cut off.

"Then he fell on you!" Alistair said.

"He was knocked off his broomstick," Faylyn said.

"Yeah, by a blunder," Felicity added. Lilly could only see Al and Bianca leaning over her.

"It was really scary!" Ametti's voice came from Lilly's left. "You fell, like, 60 feet! You were falling so fast!"

"But someone slowed you down a bit," Felina said. "If they hadn't..." Her voice trailed off ominously. Lilly didn't want to think about it.

"What happened with the game?" Lilly tried to change the subject.

"Gaylin, the Slytherin seeker, got the snitch," Charity mumbled. "We lost 210-220." Lilly closed her eyes again.

"That's enough!" Madame Appleton's voice filled the room. Everyone out!" Lilly heard people two beds down standing up. With a great effort, Lilly reached out and grabbed Bianca's arm.

"Who else is here?" she asked. Bianca smiled.

"Scorpius, of course!" she giggled. "He fell too, didn't he? Have fun tonight." Bianca wiggled her eyebrow suggestively. Lilly listened as both patients' visitors filed out of the room. Madame Appleton bustled up to Lilly.

"Madame, what happened to me?" Lilly asked.

"You fell, my dear," she answered. She bent down over Lilly adjusting something on her neck, a stabbing pain running down her spine.

"No," Lilly said. "I mean what happened to me. I can't really move my head." Madame Appleton shook her head.

"You broke your neck dear, as well as about half the bones in your body." Lilly felt shocked. "It's a lot harder to fix all those bones at once, particularly the neck. I've had to immobilize it to ensure it heals properly. It'll be fine in the morning dear." Lilly closed her eyes, her head pounding as the rest of her body throbbed in pain.

"OK, I just want to go to sleep anyway," Lilly sighed. The long shadow against the ceiling told her it would soon be dark in the hospital wing.

"Unfortunately, dear, I cannot give you a sleeping draft," Madame Appleton told her. Lilly's eyes flew open. "Sleeping drafts react badly to the potion that is fixing your neck and nerves. I'm very sorry," she added. "Just try and get some sleep." Lilly closed her eyes again and listened as Madam Appleton fussed over Scorpius. It was more than a quarter of an hour before she heard the office door close.

"Still not sleeping?" Scorpius' voice caused Lilly's eyes to fly open immediately. The room was already dark. "Is it that dream again?"

"Not that it's any of your business," Lilly hissed. She felt all of the anger about losing the match and not sleeping and everything explode. "And what the hell were you doing flying in front of me like that? I had no time to stop!"

"I know, I'm sorry," he said. His voice was honest. "I didn't know you were heading that way, I had my back to you."

"Well you should have been paying more attention! That's an illegal move, stopping in front of a seeker like that! I could have died! But I'm sure that wouldn't have bothered you a bit. It would have given Slytherin a better chance at the cup."

"Stop!" Scorpius snapped. "I told you I was sorry! I didn't want you to die, that's why I caught you!"

"Too bad you fell on top of me and nearly killed me!" Lilly's voice dripped with venom.

"I was hit with a blunder!"

"That would have taken my head off!" She pointed out. "Your beaters are idiots! We both would have been dead if it weren't for the person who slowed us down!"

"I know, that's why I did it!" Scorpius' voice echoed slightly in the silence that followed his statement.

"You- you slowed me down?" Lilly asked quietly.

"Of course I did," he said. Lilly was thrown for a moment.

"Well... It was probably just because you were falling too," Lilly snapped, bringing her irritation with him back.

"Why would I have slowed you down too? If I just did it to save myself, wouldn't I have just cast for myself?" His voice was irritated and forceful. Lilly was quiet again. There was a heavy silence in the room for several minutes.

"So, you- you saved me?" she asked, her voice shaking.

"Yes." His voice was barely a whisper.

"But why?"

"You really aren't as brilliant as everyone says you are," he sighed heavily, a touch of irritation snaking back into his words. "I like you, don't I? I thought I'd made that clear over the last couple months." Lilly felt herself blush. "I'm going to go to sleep now. You should do the same." Lilly listened as Scorpius' breathe steadied and grew deep as he fell asleep, her mind racing all the while. If she was truthful with herself, she knew that he'd fancied her the entire year. But he still gave her an uncomfortable feeling.

As she thought, she felt her eye lids droop a bit. Lying in the warm, dark hospital wing made her body heavy. She felt the lack of sleep over the last couple months wash over her body and before she knew it, she was asleep.