A/N: Wow you guys thanks so much for not flaming me, I was sure that people
would hate what I did to Harry but I guess not. I started writing this
chapter in my American Musical Theatre class when I should've been taking
notes on the life and career of Richard Rodgers *shrugs shoulders* Oh well,
I can get the notes online but this chapter was just itching to get started
so I gave in. So I hope it doesn't suck too bad and I hope it's up to your
all's standards. But enough of my rambling. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!
Chapter 17
The night wore on for both father and son. About 4am Harry's heart rate picked up, which woke Severus. Then his levels dropped 2% and the boy started to moan and shift around restlessly.
Suddenly Harry let out an earsplitting scream and started to violently thrash about. Severus immediately grabbed Harry's wrist to keep the boy from ripping out his iv needle. Severus put his other hand on Harry's thrashing head and calmly spoke in his ear to try and calm the boy. A nurse came running into the room but seeing that Severus had things under control she backed out quietly, without notice.
Slowly Harry's erratic and frantic heartbeat slowed into a calm and steady one and his breathing calmed and went back up to its original level. Only then did Harry open his eyes. Wide, terrified and tearing emerald locked onto obsidian. Harry, ignoring all the tubes and wires, lept into Severus' arms and started to cry his eyes out.
Severus held tightly onto Harry and stroked the small boy's hair and rubbed small circles on his back and whispering soothing words in his ear. They stayed like that for 15 minutes before Harry had finally stopped sobbing. Not relinquishing his grip on Harry and Harry not making any move to do so either, Severus said
"Want to tell me about this dream of yours?"
Harry slightly nodded and said in a small and terrified voice
"I dreamt about being in this graveyard with another boy and this person walked toward us holding a bundle and he killed the other boy then he took me and tied me up and cut my arm and took some blood and put it in this potion and this person stepped out of the cauldron and all of these people dressed in black came and the man cast this spell on me and it really hurt and then he untied me I had to duel with him and that's all I remember. I was also older in this dream too."
Severus stiffened and knew that Harry had dreamed about the third task again. He went and continued to rub Harry's back and hair and said
"Shhhhh, it's all right. It was only a dream, dreams can't hurt you. Just go back to sleep."
Harry nodded again but tightened his hold on Severus when he tried to lay him back down and shook his head. Severus could easily take a hint and held onto Harry until the boy had dropped off to sleep. Very carefully Severus set Harry back down on the bed, carefuly to make sure none of the tubes and wires got tangled.
The rest of the night passed by uneventfully and Severus woke at 7:30 and Harry was still down for the count. Harry's level had gone up to 96% and his fever was down to 100 degrees. Severus breathed a sigh of relief. At 8am a nurse came in to change the iv bags and make notes on Harry's chart then left.
Around 10 o'clock Harry woke up and tried to take the oxygen mask off and pull his iv needle out but Severus caught Harry's hands and secured them next to the boy's body and said
"Harry, Harry stop, don't do that. Those have to stay on."
Harry kept trying to fight and said
"Why dad, I don't like them. It feels wierd and the needle hurts."
"You have to stay on the mask until your oxygen levels are back up. They're still low and its helping to keep your breathing normal and your body normal. The needle is in your bloodstream to put medications into your body that has to be done at a steady and constant time instead of just taking a potion at certain times and to give you fluids and nutrients since you can't eat solid food right now. Okay?
Harry, knowing that his father was right, stopped fighting and relaxed and said
"Okay Dad, I'm sorry."
"You don't need to apologize Harry just don't fight it anymore. It's helping you and if you let it do its job and you do yours you'll be off it in no time and then we can probably go back to Hogwarts. All right?"
Harry nodded and said
"Dad I'm bored, is there anything to do? Can you read to me or can we color?"
Severus stood up and said
"I'll go ask a nurse or doctor. I'll be right back."
Harry nodded and Severus left the room. He quickly came across a nurse and said
"Harry's awake and is rather bored and is wondering if there are any coloring books he could play with or reading books."
The nurse thought for a moment and said
"In the waiting room there's a big basket full of books. He shouldn't be doing anything active right now so just reading would be best for him. You can take some books back and read to Harry or have Harry read. They're children's story books."
Severus quickly thanked the nurse and went to the waiting room and grabbed a few books that a 7-year-old child might be interested in and walked back to Harry's room. Harry was calmly laying on his side in bed looking out of the window. Hearing his father come back in Harry turned onto his other side slowly towards his father and weakly smiled.
The rest of the day was spent alternating between being read to and taking short naps. By dinnertime Harry's levels had gone up to 97% and his fever had dropped down to 99 degrees.
At 7 o'clock Dumbledore walked into the room to see Severus reading a book and Harry sleeping on his side facing Severus. He walked over to Severus and said,
"How was he today?"
"He woke up for the first time at about 11 o'clock last night. He had a nightmare about the third task later in the night, then when he woke up for good this morning he tried to take off the mask and his iv. But he calmed down and he's spent the day being read to and napping."
Dumbledore nodded and said,
"His levels haven't gone up much since yesterday, I see."
Severus nodded and replied
"Yes, but his temperature is almost completely back to normal. They're thinking that another day should do it and he can be released."
Albus nodded and said
"Remus said he might stop by again tonight. He's got a student serving detention with him and he doesn't know how long it'll take."
Severus nodded and went back to reading his book
At 7:30 Harry woke up and was surprised to see the Headmaster in his room. Harry had always been very shy around most of the staff, Remus, Hagrid and Minerva being the exceptions. He was especially shy around the Headmaster and had yet to actually speak to the man. Harry shyly turned and buried his face in his pillow. The headmaster chuckled and said,
"Glad to see you're doing better Harry."
Harry's response was to look at the Headmaster for a split second and then go back and bury his face in the pillow. Severus cracked a smile at Harry's antics and stood up and whispered in the boy's ear and Harry giggled for a moment and whispered something back into Severus' ear that caused the man to snort.
At eight o'clock Severus kissed Harry's temple and put a pillow underneath Harry's hand that had the iv in it and pulled the blankets up onto the boy's shoulder and put his hand on the crown of Harry's head and squeezed it. Harry looked up at his father and smiled and mumbled,
"Night Dad, love you."
"Night Harry, sleep tight I'll be right here."
Harry nodded, sighed and snuggled down and was asleep in next to no time.
Albus pulled over another chair next to Snape and said
"He doesn't look like he's aged at all today."
"I didn't expect him to to be completely honest it's just because of everything that's going on with his system. His system has to get back to normal for a seven year old before he can age to be eight years old. This'll just delay his getting back to age 15 by a few days tops, provided nothing else happens."
Albus nodded and the two lapsed into silence, again the heart monitor making the only sound in the room. At about 8:45 Dumbledore took his leave to go back to Hogwarts and that he'd be seeing Severus tomorrow either at Hogwarts or back here if Harry was being kept.
Severus nodded and bid the Headmaster good night and settled back into his chair and read his book.
A/N: Thanks for your good comments guys, I really appreciate it I do. oh and to respond to sdhdurrani's review I'm ashmatic myself and have naturally done a ton of research about the condition so that's how I know about all this stuff. But press that little button in the left hand corner and leave me a review and tell me what you think. Oh and in the next chapter Harry will be going back to Hogwarts and aging to 9 years old so he'll be back to his real age in the next couple of chapters. But review and tell me what you think but no flames please!!! TTFN!
Chapter 17
The night wore on for both father and son. About 4am Harry's heart rate picked up, which woke Severus. Then his levels dropped 2% and the boy started to moan and shift around restlessly.
Suddenly Harry let out an earsplitting scream and started to violently thrash about. Severus immediately grabbed Harry's wrist to keep the boy from ripping out his iv needle. Severus put his other hand on Harry's thrashing head and calmly spoke in his ear to try and calm the boy. A nurse came running into the room but seeing that Severus had things under control she backed out quietly, without notice.
Slowly Harry's erratic and frantic heartbeat slowed into a calm and steady one and his breathing calmed and went back up to its original level. Only then did Harry open his eyes. Wide, terrified and tearing emerald locked onto obsidian. Harry, ignoring all the tubes and wires, lept into Severus' arms and started to cry his eyes out.
Severus held tightly onto Harry and stroked the small boy's hair and rubbed small circles on his back and whispering soothing words in his ear. They stayed like that for 15 minutes before Harry had finally stopped sobbing. Not relinquishing his grip on Harry and Harry not making any move to do so either, Severus said
"Want to tell me about this dream of yours?"
Harry slightly nodded and said in a small and terrified voice
"I dreamt about being in this graveyard with another boy and this person walked toward us holding a bundle and he killed the other boy then he took me and tied me up and cut my arm and took some blood and put it in this potion and this person stepped out of the cauldron and all of these people dressed in black came and the man cast this spell on me and it really hurt and then he untied me I had to duel with him and that's all I remember. I was also older in this dream too."
Severus stiffened and knew that Harry had dreamed about the third task again. He went and continued to rub Harry's back and hair and said
"Shhhhh, it's all right. It was only a dream, dreams can't hurt you. Just go back to sleep."
Harry nodded again but tightened his hold on Severus when he tried to lay him back down and shook his head. Severus could easily take a hint and held onto Harry until the boy had dropped off to sleep. Very carefully Severus set Harry back down on the bed, carefuly to make sure none of the tubes and wires got tangled.
The rest of the night passed by uneventfully and Severus woke at 7:30 and Harry was still down for the count. Harry's level had gone up to 96% and his fever was down to 100 degrees. Severus breathed a sigh of relief. At 8am a nurse came in to change the iv bags and make notes on Harry's chart then left.
Around 10 o'clock Harry woke up and tried to take the oxygen mask off and pull his iv needle out but Severus caught Harry's hands and secured them next to the boy's body and said
"Harry, Harry stop, don't do that. Those have to stay on."
Harry kept trying to fight and said
"Why dad, I don't like them. It feels wierd and the needle hurts."
"You have to stay on the mask until your oxygen levels are back up. They're still low and its helping to keep your breathing normal and your body normal. The needle is in your bloodstream to put medications into your body that has to be done at a steady and constant time instead of just taking a potion at certain times and to give you fluids and nutrients since you can't eat solid food right now. Okay?
Harry, knowing that his father was right, stopped fighting and relaxed and said
"Okay Dad, I'm sorry."
"You don't need to apologize Harry just don't fight it anymore. It's helping you and if you let it do its job and you do yours you'll be off it in no time and then we can probably go back to Hogwarts. All right?"
Harry nodded and said
"Dad I'm bored, is there anything to do? Can you read to me or can we color?"
Severus stood up and said
"I'll go ask a nurse or doctor. I'll be right back."
Harry nodded and Severus left the room. He quickly came across a nurse and said
"Harry's awake and is rather bored and is wondering if there are any coloring books he could play with or reading books."
The nurse thought for a moment and said
"In the waiting room there's a big basket full of books. He shouldn't be doing anything active right now so just reading would be best for him. You can take some books back and read to Harry or have Harry read. They're children's story books."
Severus quickly thanked the nurse and went to the waiting room and grabbed a few books that a 7-year-old child might be interested in and walked back to Harry's room. Harry was calmly laying on his side in bed looking out of the window. Hearing his father come back in Harry turned onto his other side slowly towards his father and weakly smiled.
The rest of the day was spent alternating between being read to and taking short naps. By dinnertime Harry's levels had gone up to 97% and his fever had dropped down to 99 degrees.
At 7 o'clock Dumbledore walked into the room to see Severus reading a book and Harry sleeping on his side facing Severus. He walked over to Severus and said,
"How was he today?"
"He woke up for the first time at about 11 o'clock last night. He had a nightmare about the third task later in the night, then when he woke up for good this morning he tried to take off the mask and his iv. But he calmed down and he's spent the day being read to and napping."
Dumbledore nodded and said,
"His levels haven't gone up much since yesterday, I see."
Severus nodded and replied
"Yes, but his temperature is almost completely back to normal. They're thinking that another day should do it and he can be released."
Albus nodded and said
"Remus said he might stop by again tonight. He's got a student serving detention with him and he doesn't know how long it'll take."
Severus nodded and went back to reading his book
At 7:30 Harry woke up and was surprised to see the Headmaster in his room. Harry had always been very shy around most of the staff, Remus, Hagrid and Minerva being the exceptions. He was especially shy around the Headmaster and had yet to actually speak to the man. Harry shyly turned and buried his face in his pillow. The headmaster chuckled and said,
"Glad to see you're doing better Harry."
Harry's response was to look at the Headmaster for a split second and then go back and bury his face in the pillow. Severus cracked a smile at Harry's antics and stood up and whispered in the boy's ear and Harry giggled for a moment and whispered something back into Severus' ear that caused the man to snort.
At eight o'clock Severus kissed Harry's temple and put a pillow underneath Harry's hand that had the iv in it and pulled the blankets up onto the boy's shoulder and put his hand on the crown of Harry's head and squeezed it. Harry looked up at his father and smiled and mumbled,
"Night Dad, love you."
"Night Harry, sleep tight I'll be right here."
Harry nodded, sighed and snuggled down and was asleep in next to no time.
Albus pulled over another chair next to Snape and said
"He doesn't look like he's aged at all today."
"I didn't expect him to to be completely honest it's just because of everything that's going on with his system. His system has to get back to normal for a seven year old before he can age to be eight years old. This'll just delay his getting back to age 15 by a few days tops, provided nothing else happens."
Albus nodded and the two lapsed into silence, again the heart monitor making the only sound in the room. At about 8:45 Dumbledore took his leave to go back to Hogwarts and that he'd be seeing Severus tomorrow either at Hogwarts or back here if Harry was being kept.
Severus nodded and bid the Headmaster good night and settled back into his chair and read his book.
A/N: Thanks for your good comments guys, I really appreciate it I do. oh and to respond to sdhdurrani's review I'm ashmatic myself and have naturally done a ton of research about the condition so that's how I know about all this stuff. But press that little button in the left hand corner and leave me a review and tell me what you think. Oh and in the next chapter Harry will be going back to Hogwarts and aging to 9 years old so he'll be back to his real age in the next couple of chapters. But review and tell me what you think but no flames please!!! TTFN!