Rosalie's POV

I waited anxiously along with the others, waiting for the Healer to come out, it had been half an hour since we arrived and according to Hermione it could take anywhere up to an hour to receive news. Anything past an hour meant critical or dying. Just then Mrs. Malfoy, who we had only seen very briefly when she came out once to let the two healers into Bella's room came out and walked up to us, everyone stood and Harry wasted no time at all in inquiring after Bella

"Cissia, how is she?" He asked. Mrs. Malfoy took in a breath. "She's out of critical condition, the ruble did the most damage, she has a concussion, her wand arm was shattered, as was her left leg, we've banished the bones in both appendages and they're growing back as we speak, she broke a rib but thankfully it didn't puncture anything.

Externally she had abrasions along the left side of her body and a deep gash along her collarbone, she also has bruising across her hips and torso, given the damage to her core-" here she was cut off by Harry.

"What's wrong with her magical core!?" he nearly shouted. I was confused but all of the magicals looked panicked. And Edward was looking at them wildly. Mrs. Malfoy looked at us sympathetically. "Damage to a magical person's magical core is a serious injury, extensive damage could cause a person's core to implode, making that person a squib,

but the trauma from losing one's magic is often too great for the body to handle thus causing death immediately following the core' implosion." I felt myself begin to panic, I didn't need to look at my family to know they felt the same.

"But you said she's out of critical condition!" Alice yelped.

Mrs. Malfoy nodded. "Indeed, the magic to Isa's core isn't worryingly extensive, in fact, over the next few weeks the damage to her core should fix itself, however during that time she cannot consume any kind of potion, the magical backlash from her's exploding caused aggravated fissures to appear in her core, this was only discovered when we spelled the double dose of skele-grow into her system, the fissures became inflamed and were on the verge of expanding.

Therefore, given the reaction her injury had to the potion, I would suggest she not consume any while her injury is healing" Mrs. Malfoy explained. "But what about her weekly potion?" Hermione asked. Esme and the men in my family looked confused, they weren't aware she was on a potion.

Mrs. Malfoy's eyes briefly shot in Edwards' direction, but she quickly turned to Hermione. "As much as I wish this wasn't the case, if she and her soulmate choose not to go with the obvious solution, then she'll just have to suffer through the effects." She said.

Harry sighed. "When can we go in to see her?" He asked as he scrubbed his hand over his face. "In ten minutes when we move her to a private suite, she'll be in Suite 17 on the top floor, use the VIP lifts, you still have the access card, yes?" Mrs. Malfoy asked. Harry nodded and let her get back to work.

It seemed like no one was going to address the Elephant in the room, and with that thought, my dear sweet idiotic husband opened his mouth. "What does Bella take a potion for and what's it got to do with Edward?" he asked, uncharacteristically serious. Harry sighed and ran his hand through his hair.

"She'll probably kill me for telling you, but it's not like we'll be able to hide the effects of it," Harry said. Carlisle interrupted just then. "If this is a private matter, should we really be discussing it here in the hospital ward waiting room?" He asked.

Harry smiled. And gestured to the grouping of twenty chairs we were sitting in. "each grouping of chairs is protected by a privacy dome, no one can hear what we're saying, and no one would have the balls to try and enter this dome to eavesdrop." He explained. Carlisle nodded and gestured for Harry to continue with his explanation.

"As I was saying. Isa is going through something we call a Bond withdrawal, for you to understand what that means you need to know a few things. Wizards and Witches Have the inherent ability to know when they meet their soulmate, this is because Wizards and Witches are closer to their astral selves than any other sentient magical beings.

Now when a Witch or Wizard meet their soulmate a bonding occurs, this bonding happens in three stages, first touch, first kiss, and first time being physically intimate; ideally these acts would occur within at most three weeks of each other, this is because if you don't, both mates -if both Happen to be Witches or Wizards that is- magic and body will begin to feel restless, it's their magic straining to complete the bond, because naturally the bond should have been completed by then.

The potion Narcissa was speaking of is an absolutely horrid potion invented by some mudblood upstart who wanted to continue to deny her very being and wait until what she deemed a "proper" wedding, regardless of the fact that her magic was literally protesting the wait to the point of pain.

She refused to accept the fact that she was in pain because denying the final stage of bonding went against her very nature, her very soul protested against it, yet she invented a vile potion to silence her soul all because- ahem, my apologies, I digress, this potion goes against everything we believe in.

Isa went on the potion when Edward wouldn't give in to her advances, I very nearly gave her permission back then to tell him about magic." Harry said. He then turned to Edward. "however, she told me that she didn't want to force you to have sex with her by letting you know the pain she would endure if you didn't, she wanted you to want her physically enough to make love to her without her forcing your hand.

So instead she put herself through mental anguish as she used a product that she abhors, in fact, when it first was invented she petitioned to have the potion banned due to the fact that it defies our very nature, the petition is currently under review, and I ask that you not speak of this to anyone, if people knew she herself took the potion, three years of work will all be for naught." Harry explained. Edward looked stricken upon hearing that his mate was putting herself through mental anguish and he was too caught up in other things to notice,

That didn't matter now, what mattered was the conversation he had to have with Bella as soon as her bones grew back. And with that, we made our way to the lifts