A/N: Hello everyone, here's the next update. We'll get to hear more about how Teddy and Nathan are faring.

There will be some meidcal terms in here, it shouldn't be difficult to understand, but if you have any questions please feel free to ask! I don't mind answering them at all.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.


Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment

Thursday April 14th, 2022

7:12 PM

The eyebrows rose on Hayden's forehead, "Meningitis? Isn't that a muggle disease that we were vaccinated for before coming here?"

Victoire, who was busy casting the meningitis detection spell on Teddy, even though at this point she was positive that both he and Nathan had it, said, "Yes."

"But then how-"

Before Hayden could finish his question, Caitlyn and Tasha came storming into the med tent.

"We heard that Teddy and Ayden carried Nathan he-"

"Stay where you are!" Victoire yelled at them harshly. She didn't want to be mean but she needed to be firm with all of them.

Tasha and Caitlyn, who had stopped where they were when they heard Victoire yell at them, looked between Teddy and Nathan's forms on the beds and asked, "What's going on?"

"They have meningitis," Hayden supplied as Victoire left Teddy's bedside and ran to the room's small potions cabinet.

"Didn't we get vaccinated for that muggle disease?" Caitlyn asked.

"Yes."

"Then how do they have it?" Tasha asked, her tone seemed to question if Victoire was certain in her diagnosis.

"There are several types of strains of meningitis: viral, bacterial, and fungal being the three main categories," Victoire explained as she rummaged through the potions cabinet, "We can most likely rule out fungal since it's most common in individuals who are HIV positive. As for vaccinations, there are only some available for certain strains of both the viral and bacterial ones. It's most likely that they're suffering from a strain that you were not vaccinated for."

"Are they ill with a viral or bacterial strain?" Tasha enquired.

Victoire pulled away from the potions cabinet with a few bottles in her hands, "Hopefully it's viral. It's the less serious of the two. However, I'd have to do a more in-depth culture test to be able to see exactly which it is."

"How contagious is it?" Caitlyn queried.

"Less contagious than the flu, thank Merlin, but contagious enough that they most likely caught it from the muggle archeologists they were working with. Or I assume so because they were showing symptoms earlier than they did. To know for sure I'd have to compare culture reports," Victoire said pouring out some brown potion into two glasses. She fed the first one to Nathan and then moved to Teddy's side to give him the second glass.

"Is there a cure?" Tasha asked, her eyes shining with worry.

Victoire stood up and walked back over to Nathan's side to take his temperature again, "The muggle world uses fever reducing medicines and IV fluids to wait out the disease until the body fights it off if it's viral, all of those plus antibiotics if it's bacterial. However, we in the wizarding world have a potion that can fully cure it. Like with any disease the most important thing is to treat it as quickly as possible. I've caught it early, so Nathan should be fine. Mortality rate is only 5-15% in cases such as this with just muggle medicine. That number lowers greatly in the wizarding world."

"Nathan should be fine?" Hayden repeated. He didn't miss how Victoire had only said the one name.

She nodded and bit her lip again, "Teddy's case is a little more difficult."

"Define difficult," Tasha demanded angrily.

Victoire had walked over to a table and summoned some paper and a pen; she was busy writing when she replied, "He can't take the meningitis-curing potion. It contains Dalea versiessilis which Teddy is allergic to."

"How allergic?" Hayden asked, "Like a few hives and some digestion problems allergic?"

"More like throat-closing anaphylaxis allergic," Victoire said.

Caitlyn glanced at Teddy worriedly, "And you can't just give him the potion and then treat the anaphylaxis reaction?"

Victoire shook her head, "Pumping him full of epinephrine, antihistamines, and cortisone wouldn't be the best drug interaction."

She was still writing something down when Hayden asked her how she will treat Teddy.

"I'm probably going to have to use muggle antibiotics or antivirals depending on what type it is, but I won't know which ones to use until I take a culture test and get it analyzed. However, being in a foreign country and from a wizarding population, it's most likely going to be next to impossible to get a culture test analyzed in time, and time is most definitely key with this," Victoire explained.

"So . . .?"

"So right now all I can do is treat the symptoms, in this case the very high fever, and hope that the plan I'm setting up will work," Victoire said finishing whatever she had been engrossed in writing. She ripped the large piece of paper into four smaller pieces and walked over to the three who were now standing a good deal away from Teddy and Nathan.

She pulled out her wand, waved it, and pointed it all three of them in turn. When nothing happened, she let out a sigh of relief, "None of you are contaminated, which is good news, but you'll have to restrict your presence in the med tent to be on the safe side."

"Now," Victoire said slowly handing each other them one of the pieces of paper, "Caitlyn, I need you to inform Sir about Teddy and Nathan having meningitis. Then you need to ask permission to visit the muggle camp and tell them about the diagnosis. I'm assuming that they haven't diagnosed their own ill researchers yet and they need to be transported to a muggle hospital A.S.A.P so that they can get the proper treatment. Hayden, you on the other hand need to apparate out of camp and go into the city. There is a list of potions that I need you to pick up, as well as a letter to send to Kingsley. It needs to get to him right away so you're going to need to find a fireplace to floo through. There's a note within Kingsley's note for my cousin Ally, make sure that it also gets to Kingsley and then they'll handle their job on that end."

She turned to Tasha, "I need you to go to whatever passes for the tent where they do the analysis of the artifacts and see if you can find me the supplies on this list."

Hayden and Caitlyn had left the tent by the time Victoire was saying this and were on their way to perform their jobs. Victoire looked at Tasha calmly, "But first, I need you to do something else."

"What do you need?" Tasha asked hesitantly.

"I need you to take out your wand, copy my wrist movements, and repeat after me, Egritudo Morbo Meningium," Victoire said waving her wand in a swaying motion before flicking the end towards the left.

Tasha copied her movements and words. After a few seconds of silence she frowned, "I think I did it wrong, nothing happened."

Victoire let out the breath she was holding and sighed in relief, "No you did it right. Since nothing happened it means that I'm in the clear from the disease too."

Tasha didn't really know how to respond, so she just nodded and said that she would go get the items on her list now. It didn't take her too long to do so, and when she wandered back into the med tent with the items from the list, Victoire was pulling out a very menacing looking needle out of Nathan's back.

The blonde looked up as Tasha walked in, she nodded in direction to the open door to her office, "Place them on my desk please."

Tasha did as she was asked and then walked over so that she could better see what Victoire was up to.

"What are you doing?"

Victoire placed a cap on the end of the needle that she had taken out of Nathan's spine and placed it down gently on a tray on top of the table beside her, "Spinal taps. It will give me the samples I need to test and see if the meningitis is viral or bacterial."

Tasha watched as Victoire walked over to Teddy's bed and started to prepare him for the same procedure she had just completed on Nathan, "I thought you'd need a culture test analyzed from a muggle lab to be able to tell what type of meningitis it was, and that you didn't think that you'd be able to get it done?"

"That's to determine the exact strain of either the bacterial or viral meningitis. What I'm trying to do right now is just figure out whether they have viral or bacterial in the first place," Victoire told her methodically as she stuck the large needle carefully into Teddy's spine.

"Doesn't that hurt?" Tasha asked.

"Yes, a lot."

"Then couldn't you have done it some magical way?"

"In theory, yes. In practice, analyzing the samples are going to be hard enough since it'll be haphazardly slapped together with the materials we have on hand, so I do not want to take any chances on the samples being messed up in the slightest. This way is more invasive, but less likely to be tainted," Victoire said pulling the needle slowly out and capping the end.

Tasha crossed her arms over her chest, she wasn't trying to be argumentative, she was just honestly curious, "Why does it matter to know if it's viral or bacterial again?"

"Bacterial is more serious. If it ends up being viral Teddy can probably just fight it off with some muggle Tylenol. If it ends ups being bacterial though, it will need to be treated one way or another."

Victoire labelled both needles and picked them up; she walked over to her office, motioning for Tasha to follow her.

"But you said that he can't be given muggle medicine," Tasha commented following behind her.

"He can't. There's no way for me to get my hands on any, and even if I did, I would have no idea of the proper dosage. We also can't take him to a hospital because not only is he pretending to be a different person here at camp, but according to the muggle world he doesn't even exist."

Victoire delivered the words emotionlessly and Tasha was actually rather surprised that she was able to do so.

Victoire looked at Tasha, and pick up one of the items she had collected for her, she held out the flattish plastic petri dish in an outstretched hand, "You took N.E.W.T level potions, yes?"

"Yes," Tasha answered hesitantly.

"And you know how to make a Nourishing potion?"

"Of course, that's a simple second-year one."

Victoire smiled slightly at her confidence, "I need you to scale down the ingredients for that potion to make one that will fit in this container."

Tasha eyed the small container suspiciously but accepted it from Victoire. She separated the items that she had brought that she could use for potion and then looked up at Victoire. The blonde waved her hand and three bottles came out of the potions cabinet and landed in front of Tasha.

"Since it's a simple potion, you should have everything you need to make it, if I remember correctly," Victoire told her.

Once Tasha was busy with her task Victoire went about moving the samples from the needles to two little labeled test tubes that she had transfigured out of a pair of pens. When Tasha called her attention a few minutes later, she had the potion finished and the petri dish was sitting on the desk between them.

"I finished it, but it's very watery in consistency," Tasha said not fully understanding what Victoire was going to do with it.

Victoire nodded thankfully and waved her wand, casting a thickening spell on it. When that was done, she duplicated the petri dish, potion and all. She then cast a few spells on the samples in the test tubes, and used an eyedropper to place a bit of Nathan's sample in one dish, and a bit of Teddy's sample in the other. She labelled the two dishes again and opened up one of the drawers from her desk. Victoire vanished the items in the drawer and placed both dishes in.

Next, she waved her wand in several circuits, finally explaining to Tasha what she was doing, "I'm putting some temperature controlling charms on the drawer as well as a charm that will speed up the growth of the sample. In a few hours, I'll check back and if the cultures have grown, then it is a type of bacterial meningitis. If there is no culture growth, then it is viral meningitis. And let me say, this would be so much easier if I had some sort of microscope at my disposal, as it is, this is the best I can do."

Tasha nodded and followed Victoire out of the office and back into the room where Teddy and Nathan were still lying on their beds asleep.

"Is Hayden getting the meningitis potion for Nathan?" Tasha asked.

Victoire nodded as she went about checking both Nathan and Teddy's temperatures again, "He is. While he's gone I've got the both of them on fever, pain, and nausea controlling potions."

"If Teddy can't have the meningitis potion, and you can't get a hold of muggle medication, then what are you going to give to him if it does turn out to be bacterial meningitis?" Tasha asked, her expression held a lot more worry and fear than her voice was letting on.

Victoire cast a quick disinfecting charm on the thermometer after checking that Teddy's temperature had gone down to a more manageable level as Nathan's had, "That was the second part of what I asked Hayden to do. He's sending a letter to Kingsley and in that letter is a letter for Ally. I've asked her to speak to one of her professors from her potions school and to see if they can come up with an alternative potion to help heal him."

"Is there time to develop a whole new potion?"

"Not really, which is why I've asked them to come up with something as quick as they can," Victoire told her. It was the first time Tasha had noticed how stressed Victoire actually sounded.

"Could they get you access to muggle meningitis medicine from England?" Tasha asked.

"It would still take too much time. Not only would they have to know exactly what strand Teddy's suffering from, but then they'd have to figure out a way to get their hands on it. I think Ally coming up with a potion for Teddy is our only option. Which is why I gave Hayden the instructions I did," Victoire said waving her hand to conjure up a chair. It was the first time she'd sat down since Teddy and Hayden carried Nathan in.


8:37 PM

Hayden and Caitlyn came back from their errands around the same time and met each other just at the front of the tent. Having both completed their errands, and as Hayden's hands were full and Caitlyn's were empty, she held open the entrance to the tent for him to walk through. When they entered, everything seemed the same to them as before, the only difference being that the room was rather dark. There were only a few candles lit around the room, with the office adjacent having much better lighting.

Both Hayden and Caitlyn were confused seeing as the sun had set at least two and a half hours ago. Tasha was sitting in the office where they was more light reading some papers, and Victoire was standing next to Nathan's bedside, softly speaking to him.

"What's with the darkness?" Hayden asked in lieu of a greeting as he stood near the entrance, hands full of potions and bottles.

Victoire looked up and gave him a terse smile, "Nathan woke up a little while ago and was showing signs of photophobia."

"He's afraid of getting his picture taken?" Hayden asked uncomprehendingly.

Victoire's smile was more genuine that time, "It means he has an increased sensitivity to light. I made it darker so that it would not irritate him so much."

"Is this a symptom of meningitis?" Caitlyn asked.

"It is," Victoire agreed, "Were you able to warn the muggles before anyone else fell ill?"

Caitlyn nodded, "I'm not sure how many people were ill when Nathan and Teddy left this evening but there weren't too many people sick while I was there. They were very thankful for the heads up about what the illness was."

"Good," Victoire turned to Hayden, "You've got the potions?"

"Yes," Hayden said looking at the loot in his arms, "Although one of the other potions you asked me to get was harder to obtain."

Victoire nodded, "I expected that, but you did find it?"

"I was afraid if I didn't that you'd maim me," He told her with a grin.

She rolled her eyes and waved her hand, causing all of the bottles in his arms to fly over to her and follow her to her office. Caitlyn and Hayden followed her, keeping a wide berth from the patients, and watched in silence as she uncorked one of the bottles and poured it into a glass.

"Is that the meningitis potion?" Tasha asked Victoire in such a soft tone that Hayden and Caitlyn couldn't help but share a look of disbelief.

"It is."

Tasha put down the papers she was reading and folded her arms onto the top of the desk, "So you just give that to Nathan and he'll be healed?"

"It will still take him some time to recover," Victoire said eyeing the potion closely to make sure that she had the right dosage, "And he'll have to take the potion a few more times over the next few days, but he will definitely be on the mend."

"Will he have to take the other potions he was taking before also?" Tasha questioned interestedly.

Victoire shook her head, "No, the cure has had additives that control fever, pain, nausea, photophobia, and all the other symptoms."

When she was happy with the dosage, Victoire moved to Nathan's bedside and gently woke him up. He wasn't exactly asleep, but neither was he fully lucid. The illness made him lethargic, but the fever-controlling potion kept him cool enough to avoid high-temperature induced delirium, so he was able to understand what was going on around him.

"Nathan, I'm going to help you sit up now, alright?" Victoire asked him softly.

At his nod, she aided him into a semi-upright position, "This is the potion that's going to help you feel better. It doesn't taste good and it will make you feel very tired, but it is perfectly okay for you to sleep. In fact, I'd suggest trying to get as much sleep as possible over the next few days to help your recovery, okay?"

"Okay," Nathan responded in a scratchy voice as Victoire placed the glass up to his lips and instructed him to drink. He gagged a little at the start and wanted to stop halfway through, but with her calm coaxing he ended up drinking it to the last drop.

"I'm . . . tired," Nathan announced after his last swallow.

"Then sleep," Victoire replied helping him lie back down.

She stood up, and before she could walk away from his bedside, Victoire was certain that he had fallen back asleep. From there she travelled to Teddy's side. Hayden followed behind her.

"Is it time to give him more potion to control his fever?" Hayden asked her as she sat down on the side of Teddy's bed.

"No," Victoire responded simply. She reached towards Teddy's face and lightly lifted up one of his eyelids. She frowned at what she saw and shook his shoulder lightly for several minutes until she saw his eyes blink a few times and he gasped. Once he had done so she let him go and stood back up.

"That's not the first time she's done that," Tasha commented coming up behind Hayden.

Hayden, while not one to judge Victoire's abilities as a healer, was very confused as to why she just woke Teddy up only to allow him to go back to sleep, "Why is she doing that?"

Tasha shrugged, but Victoire heard their conversation and answered Hayden's question.

"When Teddy's in REM sleep he will often let go of his morphing, or morph unconsciously. Either way, his appearance can change, and because of the confusion and disorientation that comes with a high fever and the disease in general, it would probably be next to impossible to get him to morph back into his 'Eddy' persona," Victoire explained, sounding tired herself.

Hayden tilted his head, "So you woke him up because he was just in REM sleep?"

"Yes, I've been monitoring his sleep cycles and he was just entering REM sleep," Victoire answered, walking past the two and back into the more brightly lit office portion.

Caitlyn was still waiting there, having heard the conversation easily from her post, "But isn't interrupting a person's sleep bad for them? Won't it make it harder for him to heal?"

Victoire stood near her desk, her shoulders and back were straight with confidence, but her eyes betrayed her frustration, "It might, but I'm more worried about what will happen if Sir walks in here and sees Teddy looking like someone else."

Tasha, who Victoire had her back to, opened her mouth to say something but Hayden hurriedly stopped her.

"She is making a very difficult call, one I'm sure that she has put a lot of thought into, and if Teddy had his sensibilities about him I'm sure that he'd agree with her decision," Hayden whispered to her harshly.

He looked up and assumed, since she was busy looking through the other items he'd brought, that Victoire had not heard his defence of her. Which was good, because he didn't need Victoire to hear how Tasha was doubting a decision that he knew she was most likely still distressing herself over.

"What other potions did you have Hayden pick up?" Caitlyn asked Victoire as she watched her sort through them.

"I had him pick up some preventative potions for meningitis," Victoire explained lining up four different potions bottles that were of similar sizes.

"I thought you reckoned that they had a type of meningitis that you can't get vaccinated for?" Caitlyn responded a little confusedly.

"They do, but there are preventative potions for healthcare workers that last short term, very short term. They're only really helpful if you know for sure that someone has one of the diseases," Victoire said.

"Would they help Teddy if you gave them to him?" Tasha asked.

Victoire opened up one of the bottles and drank half of it, "No, they're strictly preventative. They don't do anything to help once someone has the illness. In fact, giving them to him might even be harmful because I don't know how they would react to the potions he's already on."

"How do you know which potion to take?" Hayden questioned, "There were different ones depending on which strand of meningitis you're trying to prevent."

Victoire grabbed another bottle and drank half of it, making a face at the bitter taste of it, "I don't. I'll know whether it's viral or bacterial in a couple of hours, but after that, I won't know which specific strand."

"Is it a good idea to mix the potions?" Hayden probed in concern as he watched Victoire drink half of the third potion.

"Probably not," Victoire replied before drinking half of the fourth and last preventative potion, "Whoa. Head rush."

Caitlyn looked at her with concern and even Tasha had an expression that said that she cared if Victoire got hurt from the potions, probably because if she did she would not able to help Nathan and Teddy anymore.

"What will happen if those potions interact with each other?"

"Best case scenario I'd say that they'll make me need to pee more than normal. Worst case, the interaction of the drugs will poison my liver and I might get delirious," Victoire mused.

Hayden, Caitlyn, and Tasha all looked a little taken aback.

"Don't worry," Victoire waved them off, "Most likely scenario is that I'll get a headache and a stomach-ache." She placed a hand on her forehead and mouthed the word 'wow' before saying, "Yeah, I can definitely feel the headache coming on."

"Are you sure that was a good idea?" Hayden questioned her as he reached forward to steady her.

"I've had worse ideas," Victoire replied blithely, shaking off Hayden's hand so she could go check on Nathan's temperature.

Before someone else could ask Victoire if she was still in control of her sensibilities, Sir walked slowly into the med tent; he had a cloth pressed up against his mouth and nose and Victoire had to bite her lip so that she wouldn't laugh at how ridiculous he looked.

"How are your patients Victoria?" He asked, his wide eyes trying to take in every part of the room he could.

"It'll take some time but they should be back in perfect health soon," Victoire told him in a bright tone.

"You sound very positive about the outcome," Sir noted.

"I have good reason to be," she replied even though she wasn't at all as confident as she was presenting herself to be.

Sir nodded and went to take a step farther into the room. Victoire saw his intention and took a step in front of where he himself was going to step.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you Sir," Victoire told him, her bright tone belaying the warning of her words, "Meningitis is contagious after all."

"Of course," Sir responded taking a step back towards the exit, "Well if you've got the patients and the possible spread of the disease under control I'll just leave it in your capable hands."

"That sounds good Sir. Have a good evening Sir," Victoire replied with a wave as he left the tent. When he was gone, her smile immediately slipped off her face and she covered her mouth and forced back down the bubble of anxiety that was threatening to come up and burst.


Friday, April 15th, 2022

1:14 AM

"C'mon Teddy," Victoire said quietly as she groggily pulled on his arm to try to wake him up.

She knew that her voice wasn't really loud enough to wake Teddy, as she was trying to be quiet enough not to wake Nathan who needed his sleep as he was healing. However, she still needed to wake Teddy up as he was about to enter REM sleep. She'd spent the majority of that evening -or the evening before as it was officially the next morning- waking Teddy up intermittently so that he wouldn't slip into REM sleep and accidently morph himself, and subsequently give up his entire cover, and perhaps blow all the other aurors' covers also.

Teddy did not wake up, as he was most likely exhausted from her waking him up every few hours and not getting much uninterrupted sleep, but she figured it could also be because she was not speaking loud enough. Victoire was still covered by the preventative medication that she'd taken earlier, so she sat on the bed next to Teddy's prone form and leaned down to whisper in his ear.

"Wake up Sweetheart. You need to wake up," She said running her fingers through his hair even though she knew that it wouldn't exactly help.

He started to squirm a little in his hospital bed so Victoire continued speaking into his ear, "I checked the culture samples in the petri dishes you know. It's definitive now; both you and Nathan have a strain of bacterial meningitis, not viral."

His lashes were starting to flutter so she kissed each eyelid, "Technically it was a 50-50 chance, but I always figured that it would end up being bacterial."

His eyes finally opened, quite blurrily, and after a few seconds, his eyes zoned in on her. She smiled brightly at him and then started to rub his head. His eyes closed again and she sighed, "We just can't catch a break. You know, viral meningitis would have been much easier for you to beat."

Victoire felt her eyes start to water, and she knew it wasn't because she hadn't gone to bed yet, "You are going to beat this though. I didn't survive that sure to be fatal attack by the manticore in my seventh-year just for you to get taken away five years later by a disease that only has a 15% mortality rate at most."

"That's quite the pep talk."

Victoire's head snapped up and she glanced in the direction of the doorway. Standing there in a white t-shirt and red basketball shorts was Hayden. His hair was disheveled and the pillow creases still present on his cheek told Victoire that he had just woken up.

"I'm a little rusty, I haven't given one since my Quidditch captaining days," Victoire said rubbing the back of her hand against her cheeks where her tears had fallen, "How long have you been there?"

"I believe I came in at 'viral meningitis would have been easier to beat'," Hayden said walking towards her.

Victoire stood up and rubbed at her eyes, "It's a fact. Why are you up so early?"

Hayden stuffed his hands into his pockets, "It's a little embarrassing. I woke up with a pain in my neck and all of a sudden, I was convinced that I had the beginnings of meningitis. I was pretty much to the door of the tent before I realized that it was just a crick in my neck and that you had already tested me and said I was clear."

"That is embarrassing," Victoire replied to him before glancing back at Teddy's, now again asleep, form.

Hayden chuckled but then frowned when he realized that there were rather large bags under Victoire's eyes, "Have you slept yet today?"

"No."

Hayden's expression became very concerned, "And how much sleep did you get the night before?"

"Four or five hours."

"Vic! You can't live on that little sleep," Hayden reprimanded her.

"That's another fact," Victoire pointed out as she walked towards him a little unsteadily.

"Why haven't you slept?" Hayden asked.

Victoire crossed her arms over her chest, "I have to keep waking Teddy up every few hours so that he doesn't accidently morph."

"Oh, I forgot about that," Hayden said a little chastised, "But you need your sleep."

"And are you volunteering to take over?" Victoire snapped. She didn't mean to be so harsh but she was very irritable at present.

Hayden folded his arms, "Why not? I've gotten enough sleep for now. Besides, you're the medi-witch and we can't have you being down for the count because you were awake for twenty-eight hours in a row."

Victoire sighed, "That's an exaggeration."

"Not if I left you until you decided to rest. Which would have been when you passed out cold from exhaustion," Hayden said. His face became softer, "I can handle this. Just tell me how often to wake him."

Victoire wrapped her arms tightly around her waist, "I won't be able to sleep anyway."

Hayden placed his hand on her arm, "Are you really that worried about him?"

"That 15% chance of mortality is with treatment," Victoire said hollowly.

"You are treating him though. It's not a cure but you're not just letting him lie there with a temperature of 103.7. And you said it was 15% at most," Hayden told her.

"I still don't like the odds."

"He's a healthy and strong young man, if anyone can beat the odds he can."

Victoire was quiet for a minute before she spoke, "Has Teddy told you that his mother was a metamorphmagus?"

Hayden wasn't entirely sure where she was going but he nodded, "He might have mentioned it."

"Did you know that even with a parent that's a meamorphmagus, with the way genetics works, the chances that he'd be a metamorphmagus also was lower than eight percent? He has a higher chance of dying from this disease than he did of being born a metamorphmagus," Victoire said mechanically.

"That doesn't mean he's going to die," Hayden said gently.

"No, the chances that he'll survive but with brain damage, paralysis, stroke, seizures, or hearing loss are even higher!"

"Why didn't you say something about that before?" Hayden asked, his head starting to spin as he thought about the very scary list of words she'd just thrown at him.

Victoire's eyes were wet again and she felt like she wasn't too far off from passing out on her feet, "Because people don't really have a lot of confidence in healers who start crying when they announce a prognosis."


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"Teddy's gaze followed the movement of her hand and he frowned, "Why aren't you wearing your engagement ring?""

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Manydifferentfandoms: To answer your questions. Yes. Not sure. Eventually.

Hot8Chick: I apologize if you're not liking parts of the story, and I'll consider your opinions, however, I have an idea for this story and it's rather too late to change most of it.

Autumn: Can't say. *Cue evil laughter* ;)

Mebaelle: Hello and welcome to my Wizarding World, I hope you enjoy the ride! Thanks for the offer.

Priyanka Mishra: A lucuma is a fruit that is ancient and native to Peru. I had to google around a bit before I found out about it because I wanted a fruit indigenous to Peru to be the artifact. The exact fruit isn't important to the plot, but you know me, I like things believable. :)

ChrisfromSK: Your opinions are duly noted, also, if I do end up writing about Teddy and Vic's future, I should totally use 'Tedtoire or aka young Mr. and Mrs. Lupin with their annoyingly perfect children' as the title :P.

rosesnlilies: I want to thank you SO much for all of the reviews you've left on TTA and this one, it was so great to hear your thoughts as you read the chapters, since I usually only get reviews after updates it's nice to hear every once and a while how the entire story goes over when it's read from start to finish (or a large chunk of it is anyway). So again, thank you for spending the time to do that :)

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Until next week, DFTBA!