Lily Potter
"Please Professor! You don't understand, please let me stay with him!" Lily pleaded, tears falling freely. "Please."
"Fine, but you mustn't bother him and if he wakes up, send for a staff member immediately." Professor Longbottom said finally, he still wasn't sure that he had made the right decision as he left Lily with Ian. "I'll send a house elf up with your dinner!" He called as he turned the corner and disappeared from sight. Lily curled up next to Ian on the hospital bed, she lay her head next to his and studied his handsome features. Ian had grown his hair a bit over the summer so that it fell over his eyes in a most pleasing manner, long full black lashes swept onto his cheeks perfectly. High cheek bones with full lips and perfect complexion. Lily remembered seeing pictures that girls had taken of Ian in the past and marvelled that the real thing seemed to be so interested in her. He was the same age as Al and in most of his classes. A loud crack disrupted Lily's quite musing and she sat up to see a small female house elf dressed in a tea towel with the Hogwarts crest on it.
"What would you like for your dinner Miss? Trinny will be your server today." The elf, Trinny, said bowing low to Lily.
"I can have anything?" Lily asked, she was feeling like a shepherds pie right now, not so much the feast that was usually supplied downstairs.
"Anything at all Miss!" Trinny replied with a big smile.
"Could I- I mean may I have a shepherds pie?" Lily asked timidly. Her dad didn't think that house elves were necessary in a house hold so Lily didn't really know how to deal with this one.
"Of course Miss! Anything else?"
"Could you tell Kreacher that Lily Potter says 'hullo'?"
"It would be Trinny's pleasure!" the little house elf squeaked and dissaparated with another loud crack. Lily lay down next to Ian again and watched him. After a little while he stirred and said something softly. Lily sat up and looked down at him in surprise. He mumbled it again, Lily put her head down by his mouth so that she could hear him better.
"Lily..." He breathed and then he opened his eyes suddenly. "Lily!"
"I'm right here, it's ok." Lily calmed him, he looked up at her and took her head in his hands.
"Don't trust him Lily, he did this." Ian whispered and then he dropped back into unconsciousness again.
"Who? Ian! Who did what?" Lily whispered frantically. Ian did not reply, he just lay on the little hospital bed, unconscious once more. A loud crack made Lily jump.
"Mistress! Kreacher has brought Miss Lily Potter her dinner!" An old stooped house elf stood at the foot of the bed.
" Thanks Kreacher." Lily said and she took the shepherds pie from him gratefully.
"My Masters and Mistresses have always been so kind!" Kreacher wailed when Lily thanked him, big tears gushing out of his tennis ball sized eyes.
"Erm, right. Well you can go now Kreacher." Lily said, not wanting to upset the elf any more. Kreacher gave her a rather watery smile and bowed again before dissaparating with a loud crack. Lily ate her dinner with no more interruptions except Madame Pomfrey bustling in and out to check on her patient. Lily told her what Ian had said but the healer was just as confused as she was. After awhile Lily fell asleep curled up against Ian, tears rolling silently down her worried face.