Seventh Year

"You're alive! Thank Merlin!" James screamed as Lily came to.

"Where... Where am I?" Lily said dazedly. She sat up and rubbed her pounding head. She squinted at the white room and looked around.

"Is it too bright for you? Here, I'll close the blinds!" James shouted and pulled the blinds across the window nearest to Lily.

"Is that you, James? You're so loud," she responded and he immediately slouched.

"Sorry..." He whispered as he was pushed out of the way by the nurse.

"Give her some space you seven! Move! Shoo!" Madam Pomfrey hissed and pushed the students backward.

"Seven? Who all is here?" Lily asked, blinking in their direction.

"Never mind that. To heal you, I used a mix of potions that will blind you for another ten to twenty minutes. You must relax and keep calm or you won't heal correctly. You broke quite a lot of bones and bruises covered your body when I got you! This potion will heal every single pain you have, but it might take a little longer than most potions. You can have your friends here so long as they keep you calm and they are quiet. If I hear one complaint from another patient, out you go!" Madam Pomfrey said nicely while glaring at them out of the corner of her eyes.

The seven students nodded in agreement and Madam Pomfrey scurried back into her office.

"Who is here? Other than James... I know you're here," Lily said, stopping James before he could talk all about himself.

"Marly, Alice and I are all here to comfort your every need. Get well, hon!" Mary said in a calming voice and held Lily's hand to show her they were there.

"We love you, Lily," Alice whispered with a happy tear. "We're glad you're alive."

"I swear to Merlin, those two will be put in the hospital wing if I see them..." Marlene began but Remus hushed her. He walked a few beds over to reveal the sleeping friends. Marlene started to charge over until Madam Pomfrey opened her door and shushed them.

"What happened to them?" Marlene muttered to Remus so no one could hear and Remus just pointed at James.

"You still look angry when you're blind, Evans. How does that happen?" Sirius joked while placing a hand on her shoulder carefully.

"I see, even in dire need of medication, you still managed to bring a book," Remus said with a laugh. He picked up the book that laid on Lily's stomach and started reading.

"Now can I talk?" James huffed and everyone laughed. "I just want to know what I beat those wankers up for."

Lily gasped and looked over to where she thought was James. He smiled but glared at Oliver all the same.

"Lily, they hurt you really badly! Don't get offended for their injuries..." Marlene added but laughed at her imagination of James beating them up.

"What happened?" Sirius exclaimed finally but everyone hushed him for the height of his voice.

Lily re encountered her attack with "oohs!" and "aahs!" from her crowd of friends.

"I should have beaten them harder..." James said and Marlene chortled.

"What happened after I blacked out?" Lily asked, ignoring her two friends.

"Marly and I came looking for James because we didn't want to start without our team captain and we came across you two. James was holding you while you just laid there in his arms. We knew there must have been something wrong because you would never have let James touch you like that without a bat bogey curse to the face. So I carried you up to the hospital wing, Marlene went to go tell the officials the match was off while grabbing Mary and Alice, and James beat the two gits over there to a pulp." Sirius took a deep breath before he and Marlene burst into a fit of laughter. Lily tried to look serious about it but couldn't help from smiling with a giggle here and there.

"He was so mad, he didn't even think of using his wand that was easily pocketed in his Quidditch bag," Remus commented, looking over the book a little.

Lily looked at all of her friends as her sight had restored perfectly and a tear fell. She laughed at herself because this is the most she had cried in her entire life. Her friends looked back at her with pure happiness and joy. "You guys are the best."

James lost it and pulled her into a teary hug. "We will always be there to help you out!"

Sirius scowled and pulled his friend off of Lily. She just giggled at the two of them as they wrestled with each other. The group of friends then indulged themselves into small conversation about school, Quidditch, and many other things until Professor McGonagall bustled into the room.

"Miss Evans! I'm glad to see you're okay!" She exclaimed with a sudden relief. "Sending them back to Norway, we are."

"Oh, that's not necessary, Professor! I could have gotten away just fine if I had my wand on me. I always do, but today I somehow forgot. I am such an idiot sometimes..."

"No. Miss Evans, if we can't keep our students safe, then we must take action so we can in the future," she said indignantly. Lily shut her mouth because there was no point in arguing with McGonagall when she has made up her mind.

Madam Pomfrey made a squealing noise from the door of her office and hurried over to the crowd of them. "Eight visitors is too many! One of you must leave! You are making it rowdy in here and you are going to wake the others!"

"Calm down, Poppy. I was just leaving. Could you perhaps get both Eldens off their bums and to my office as soon as possible? They must be well and ready to face their responsibilities," she stated angrily to Pomfrey and stormed to the doors with a darted glare towards the two sleeping patients.

Pomfrey walked back to her office and carried her potions over to Perry and Oliver Elden.