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Chapter 27- Hospital and Acceptance

When Lily walked in she was greeted with a room with some beds in it, a clear space in the middle, a small kitchen area, a few chairs and shelves full of medical equipment. Lily dragged James over to one of the beds and put him on it. She walked over to the shelves and took some bandages, a pair of tweezers, and a pot of 'Healer's Cream' over to James' bed.

What I need is some warm water and a cloth so I can clean the blood from his face, she thought; as she did a bowl with water and a cloth in it appeared beside her. Slightly shocked Lily took the cloth out of the bowl and rung it before she took James' glasses off his face and put them on the bedside table. She started to gently wash the blood off his face, more kept seeping out of the wounds and Lily would see the numerous cuts that he'd received from the glass and she could see one or two large shards of glass still embedded in his face. As she dipped the cloth back into the water and rung it again, she pushed back a strand of his hair and felt a hand gently take hold of her wrist. Lily looked down into his slightly unfocused, hazel eyes and smiled slightly.

'Lily?' she asked quietly.

'Yeah… it's me' she answered; James turned his face slightly put Lily put a gentle hand on it.

'Don't move your face, I'm trying to get the glass out and dress the cuts' she told him. James winced as Lily took hold of a large shard of glass with the tweezers and started to try and take it out. He cursed loudly as the glass came free from just under his jaw line; Lily put the glass into a bowl and turned back to James' face that was now spurting blood from the cut she had just removed.

'I think we can leave the glass in there if it's that bloody painful' James said, Lily laughed slightly as the door opened again. Kas walked in, limping slightly, and closed the door behind her; she walked over and sat on a chair next to James' bed.

'What the hell happened to you?' she asked him. Lily took the distraction Kas was causing to try and clean the wound she had just removed the glass from.

'In short I got a glass smashed across my face' James said with a slight grimace as a sharp pain rose from his various cuts.

'Need a hand Tiger?' Kas asked, Lily smiled gratefully at Kas and the two girls started to work on James' face together.

'What happened to you two after I got thrown against the wall? I was a little out of it for a few minutes' Kas asked. Lily explained about Mike continuing to insult her and James punching him round the face and Mike and James' fight. Kas sighed when Lily finished her story and opened the tub of healing cream and started to rub it onto the smaller of James' cuts while Lily kept dressing the larger ones. After about five minutes the door opened again and Diana, Emma and Rose climbed in followed by Peter.

'Where's Remus and Sirius?' James asked Peter.

'They told me to get the girls out and get here; they're just coming now. Remus is having to help Sirius get here. He's in a pretty bad way' Peter told James. James sat up and tried to get out of the bed but Kas and Lily pushed him back down.

'Oh no you don't. You can go find them after I've finished with your face and any other injuries you have and not before' Lily said firmly.

'Are any of you hurt?' Kas asked the other four who had taken seats on the various chairs around the room.

'Rose has got a cut on her arm but apart from that we're all fine' Emma answered for the others. Rose lifted up her sleeve and Kas left Lily to finish tending to James' wounds and started to rub some of the healing cream onto the cut. She had been cut from just above her wrist up to her elbow; as soon as the cream touched the cut it started to heal in front of their eyes, just as it had done with James' cuts. Rose let her sleeve fall back over the cut and Kas took the cream back to Lily when the door opened again.

Remus stepped in part carrying, part supporting, and part dragging Sirius in with him. Peter had been right when he had said Sirius was in a bad way. He could hardly walk and had trouble standing; his face and body were covered in cuts and bruises; he had a black eye and his cheek was slightly swollen, it looked as if three of his fingers on his left hand were dislocated. Remus was not much better than Sirius. Remus had various cuts and bruises over his body and was also sporting a black eye, it looked as if almost all of his fingers on his left hand had been dislocated and his left shoulder looked as if it could be dislocated too.

'What the hell happened to you two?' James asked sitting up and walking over to them, ignoring Lily's protests; he relieved Remus of Sirius as Kas came up.

'We literally had seven kinds of crap beaten out of us' Sirius said quietly, his voice was hoarse. Kas, Lily, and Diana came over. Kas relieved James of Sirius as Lily took James back to his bed and Diana led Remus over to another.

'Kas…' Sirius said hoarsely, she paused and looked at him as she started to help him to a bed. Close up Kas could see the extent of his injuries and knew what had caused it; Mike and his friends wouldn't have started the fight if she had just agreed to go out with Mike. She placed her hand gently on the side of his face.

'I'm sorry…' she said quietly.

'What for?' he asked her; she realised that no on else knew why the fight had started.

'Doesn't matter… let's get you into a bed' she said. Before she could move Sirius had leant down and kissed her; without thinking she returned the kiss and the two of them stood in the middle of the Room of Requirement. Though no one made any comment it was obvious that, some time soon, the two of them would be asked many questions concerning their relationship. Kas got Sirius to sit on a bed before she turned to his left hand.

'This is gonna hurt a bit… on the count of three I'll put them back in' she said quietly. The whole room seemed to have gone quiet; Kas took hold of Sirius' dislocated fingers before starting to count softly.

'One… two…' then there was a sickening crunch as she pushed the fingers back into place. Sirius let out a yell and drew back his hand sharply; Rose had covered her ears as the crunch sounded and looked as if she was going to be sick. Remus was looking paler than usual, and Sirius was now leaning back on the bed cradling his left hand.

'That bloody hurt' he said weakly. Kas looked guiltily down at the ground before she stood up and walked over to Remus.

'This is probably gonna hurt a hell of a lot more' she said quietly.

'One way to boost my confidence' he said with a slight grin. Kas took hold of his fingers; Remus took a deep breath and a few of the others covered their ears quickly before an even louder crunch sounded and Remus yelled in pain.

'Sirius was right that does bloody hurt' he said weakly. While he was distracted Kas took hold of his arm and cracked his shoulder back into place. The scream of pain that erupted from Remus' mouth was loud enough to wake the dead.

'SHIT!' Remus roared; most people fell silent at his outburst.

'OK that must have hurt a hell of a lot if it made Remus swear that loudly' James commented; the death glare he earned from Remus was enough to make him shut up and try and hide behind Lily's back. After another hour Peter, Sirius, Remus and James were all asleep on the beds; Emma and Diana were getting ready to go to sleep and Rose was lying on another bed trying to get to sleep. Lily and Kas stayed up by the fire. Finally everyone else was asleep and the two girls were the only ones awake.

'Kas… why were you and Mike arguing?' Lily asked after a few minutes; Kas kept staring into the fire, she had been thinking about it since the others had started going to sleep and she and Lily had finished healing the others as best they could.

'He asked me out and I refused… it's the second time he's asked me in the past month. That's why we started arguing. If it wasn't for me this never would have happened…' Kas trailed off and sighed, she faced Lily, 'I'm gonna go for a run and when I get back I'm going to put an end to all the trouble with Mike.'

With that she stood up and left before Lily could get another word in.

The next morning Lily woke to find she'd fallen asleep next to the fire; she yawned and stretched before looking around the room. Kas was curled up next to the fire as a wolf and was sleeping peacefully, the only time she gets any peace is when she's asleep Lily thought sadly. She sighed and looked at the others; all of them were still asleep, she walked over to James' bed and checked his injuries were healing ok after last night, luckily almost all of them had completely healed; only one of them was still healing, the cut looked as if it would scar, it was the one that Lily had taken the first shard of glass out of the previous night and the cut ran from under James's ear and followed his jaw line to just past the joint at the back of his jaw. She checked Sirius and Remus and found that all of their injuries were healed, however they still had quite a few bruises and Sirius still sported a black eye. She heard someone stir behind her and looked over to see Kas standing up, back in her human form.

'Hey Kas' she said quietly walking over to her friend, 'You ok? You look tired.'

Kas smiled at her weakly, Lily noticed that her smile didn't quite reach her eyes, 'I'm fine. I just want to get this day over with. Lucky it's the weekend huh?'

Lily nodded but looked at Kas worriedly.

'Kas what exactly are you going to do to solve this whole Mike situation you never said last night?' Lily asked; Kas sighed and looked out of the window at the Forbidden Forest in the distance.

'I'm going to go up to him and agree to go out with him. That way he'll stop pestering me about it and you guys don't have to keep worrying about me so much' she answered; Lily stood in shock for a few minutes.

'YOU'RE GOING TO DO WHAT?' she screeched, successfully waking up the others in the room.

'Where's the fire?' Peter asked stupidly; Kas looked at Lily silently pleading her to keep quiet.

'Nothing… doesn't matter' she said and made to walk out the door, Lily stood in front of her friend.

'Oh no you don't there is no way I'm letting you walk out of this room and go and tell him that. You're staying right here!' Lily said, Kas sighed.

'Lily my mind is made up. Please don't make it harder than it already is' Kas looked Lily straight in the eye and Lily could see her friend was close to tears, 'Do you really think I want to do this?' Kas asked Lily quietly.

Lily sighed and looked down, 'Fine. But I'm coming with you.'

Kas smiled at her friend and the two girls walked out of the room before anyone could ask any questions. They hadn't even got half way down the corridor before Rose caught up to them.

'What's going on?' she asked them, blue eyes filled with worry.

'Kas is going to tell Mike she agrees to go out with him so that he'll stop trying to pick fights with us all the time' Lily said in a monotone. Rose's eyes widened in shock.

'Oh Wolf please don't. It's not worth it we can keep it up' she said, pleading with her friend.

'I already tried Dove her minds made up' Lily told her. Rose sighed.

'Well I better go and tell the others, they're all wondering what's going on' she turned to go back when she paused, 'Oh I'd run if I were you… I think you might have a lot of angry people on your tail if your not careful.'

Kas and Lily smiled slightly then started to run to the Gryffindor Common Room as Rose walked back to the Room of Requirement. Finally they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady.

'Password?' she asked, Lily took one look at her friend and then said quietly.

'Chimaera.'

The portrait swung open and Lily and Kas climbed in; sitting in front of the fire was Mike and his friends. Kas sighed and she and Lily walked over to them. Mike looked over at them as they came over.

'Starsword, Evans' she said, greeting them with a nod of the head; his friends were looking at them too and Lily saw Ben looking her up and down and looked to Kas.

'Look Mike I need to talk to you about last night-' Kas started, but Mike cut her off.

'Look we're really sorry for that, we were all drunk and we shouldn't have done what we did' Lily could see he was lying and she guessed Kas could by the way her friend looked at him.

'Are the others alright?' Ben asked her, Lily looked at him and nodded.

'Look Mike like I said I need to talk to you about it… I know I've told you that we couldn't be together because of complications and everything but well if the offers still on…'

Lily heard the portrait open and several people climb in and knew that the others had made it back, she cursed their timing silently. Mike smiled at Kas.

'You saying you will go out with me?' he asked her, Lily looked at Kas and saw her friend take a deep breath and smile before nodding. Mike's friends clapped and Mike stood up to hug Kas. Ben appeared at her side and Lily looked up at him.

'Hey… err… look sorry about everything last night; I was out of my head and I dunno why I said all that stuff and did what I did. Do you think you could forgive me and perhaps… no it's stupid to ask but… well would you be my girlfriend?'

Lily looked at Kas and saw her watching her, she knew Kas was willing her to say no but Lily wasn't about to let her down when Kas had risked her happiness for them. She smiled at Ben and nodded.

'Sure' she said; before she knew what was happening Ben had leant down and kissed her, she returned the kiss after a few moments and then Kas walked up to her.

'Come on Lils, I think the girls might want a word' she said pointing at the portrait hole where Diana, Emma and Rose were standing. Lily nodded and the two girls said goodbye to Mike and Ben before walking over to their friends and going up to their dormitory to get ready for the day and to meet the reactions of the Marauders. Which they were not looking forward to in the slightest.

A/N: Hello, sorry it took so long to update. Now people are probably wondering why Lily and Kas have agreed to go out with Mike and Ben. Well for a few reasons:

Kas was looking out for her friends and didn't want Mike to keep beating them up and arguing with them all the time.

Lily wanted to make sure Kas was alright and she felt like she owed it to Kas to go out with one of Mike's mates.

Yes I agree with what some of you are probably thinking they are stupid

And the last and most important reason… It's a plot line! Don't argue with me over plot lines or I'll come after you in your sleep and wake you up with ice, cymbals, buckets and a toothpick.

Anyway… hope you like the chapter and bring on all the complaints you want. Again I'm sorry it took so long for me to update but there you go… the muses left me alone for ages and I couldn't think what to write… Anyway all the reactions coming up next chapter and a few heated arguments… not that I'm giving away plot lines or anything…

Ciao for now

xStarswordx