CHAPTER 14

I sit in my hospital bed, bored out of my mind, i'm aloud to get up and walk but

need to wait for Snape to come back with the muggle invention, crutches? It

would have been better if we just used to wizarding way to heal my leg, but they

did everything they could, apparently I fainted five times while they were

cracking my leg back into place, the magic hadn't worked before.
"Bella,"

Snape walks into the room, head held high and his black hair swaying as he

walks, "here are the 'crutches' you need." He handed me two pole like things

with a platform on the top, "how do I use them?"
"Put your arms on-top of

these things," he points to the platforms, "and swing on them when you

walk."
"Oh, I see." I put them in the proper position and walked while

swinging my leg.
"It hurts my arms, and its not just because of the bruises."

I stood on one leg and handed him the crutches.
"Oh I forgot to use the

cushioning charm." He waved his wand over them and handed them back, they felt

like huge cushiony pillows now, I need to remember this spell.
"Thank-you."

He walked off and I found my friends waiting at the door for me, "Miss Snape!

Will you please sit down! You still have another hour until you can re-take the

potion, you can get up and walk then!" The nurse came over and softly pushed me

back on the bed, Draco, Ginny, Fred and George came over to where I sat.
"Are

you alright?" Fred sat next to me on the bed and put his arm around me while I

listened to Ginny talk, "I was worried sick! You shouldn't have been walking

alone!"
"Oh come on Ginny, you sound like our mother, calm down will you,

she's alive." George came and sat on the other side of me and examined the cast,

"isn't that a muggle invention?" Draco stepped in closer, obviously feeling left

out.
"Yes, they had to use this because our magic didn't work on the

fractures in my leg." I sighed, knowing I would have to explain everything to

them.
"So we saw something quite interesting yesterday," George gestured to

Fred to finish his sentence, "Snape was crying!" Everyone laughed except Ginny

and I, "He's Bella's father, he was scared for her life. What would you

expect?" I smiled at Ginny, "you go get em Ginny!" She giggled and sat in the

chair in-front of me.
"Did you get our presents?" Ginny wanted to change the

subject.
"Yeah, I sent flowers." Fred and Draco said at the same time, this

sent George into hysterical laughter. Draco gave Fred a 'I hate you' look, Fred

repeated the gesture.
"Thanks, but no I didn't get anything." Ginny stared at

me wondering what I was on about, "what do you mean? There right there!" She

pointed behind me and I turned around, there was a huge pile of flowers and

small chocolate boxes, I had assumed they were for the person behind the

separating curtain.
"There for me?.." I was surprised, I didn't really think

people cared.
"Of course there for you." Draco went and grabbed a pile of

flowers and put the on the desk next to the bed, "here, these were the ones I

got for you.." They were blue and red snapping dragons, "how did you know they

were my favorite?"
"You told me once in Herbology last year." I smiled and

cutting everyone out was surprisingly easy, Draco Malfoy had payed attention to

me in Herbology and knew my favorite flower, what were the odds?
"How nice.."

fred suddenly appeared in my twisting sight around Draco. I laughed and hit Fred

on the arm playfully, "are you jealous?" He smirked and kissed my cheek, when

he was finished showing off to Draco I punched him, not playing thais

time.
"What?" I stared at him and then turned to Ginny, we had a

conversation about what I had missed in classes, George and Fred walked off when

we started to talk about Defense Against The Dark Arts and I told them I would

catch up later. Ginny then stayed with me and Draco for a while and left for

study near after, it was just me and Draco..
I started to feel my leg again,

I needed to take more of the potion, but I didn't know where it was, or where

the nurse was. I wanted to scream, but I dug my nails into my forearm to try and

transfer the pain.
"Bella, are you okay?" Draco moved from the chair onto the

bed next to me. The pain in my leg was throbbing on and off again, but about two

minutes later when the pain became permanent I couldn't handle the stinging and

grinding of my bones.
"Draco - My potion! - Now!" I screamed and fell back

onto the bed holding my leg trying to pull of the cast. The nurse ran over and

Draco past her and ran to a small potion table, she looked worried and grabbed

my leg, then held it on the bed while throwing me back on pillows behind

me.
"Mr Malfoy! Grab the potion labeled 'S.D.B,' hurry please!" The nurse was

worrying more by the minute, and Draco ran back to the bed with a large potion

bottle. The nurse closed her eyes, "don't worry, your father is coming right

now," and out of no where Snape had apparated ten feet away.
"Bella!" He ran

to my side, but this time he wasn't covered in tears. Draco looked like he was

going to be sick and he handed me the large bottle so he could cover his mouth.

I started to chug down the thick liquid and my eyes became sleepy. I put the

bottle on the side table, both Snape and Draco grabbed one of my hands. My leg

started going back to the throbbing and I managed to stop screaming although I

could still feel the pain.
"Bella, your arm.." I looked down and found my arm

dripping with blood, my nails were sharper than I thought and had cut through

the skin, a flesh wound. Snape went to grab some 'Dittany' and came back to put

a fe drops on my arm, I was strangling Draco's hand when I felt the slight

stinging on my forearm but before I knew it the cuts were gone and there was

only blood. The nurse took to my arm and bandaged it. I started to

hyperventilate to catch my breath, everything was over, the pain was gone and I

was back to normal.. Except for the injuries.
"We have to double your dosage,

I never knew it was this bad.." The nurse still hadn't returned to her natural

state, she was worrying and bitting her nails so quickly that she had to move to

the next hand.
"Don't panic, we have enough ingredients in the storage closet

at the moment to make more." Snape closed his eyes, trying to calm himself down,

Draco was doing the same thing. but I grabbed both their hands and told them

"its okay.." Saying it to convince myself to calm down too.
After another two

hours I was able to get up and move around on my crutches, it was hard because

of my arm but Draco offered to help me so he came everywhere I did, we were

becoming very good friends. Snape started to take consideration of how nice he

was being and even started to like him, though I wouldn't say that, I would like

to say it wasn't hate. This was probably influenced by the fact that Snape was

friends with Lucius, Draco's father.
Because of my state I had to sleep in

the hospital wing for a few nights so I wouldn't miss any dosages of my

medicine. It was three weeks before I was able to move back into the Gryffindor

tower with the others, even though I was still on crutches and I needed help to

get up the stairs.
I hated the attention I was getting, it was only because

people thought I was going to die that night, it even started a few fights

between Fred and some other kids who told me I was full of crap, crap not being

the word they used. I missed the second competition a month later and it was

bringing down my mood a bit, but I kept thinking that it was only a few weeks

until I was able to walk by myself and get this stupid cast off. Half the year

had past and me and Snape were still on 'friendly talking terms.'
All was

well when you thought about it, sure, I had put up with a lot of pain and

emotional trouble but overall it could have been worse.