Oliver could care less if he looked stupid running in the hallways to the hospital wing. All he cared about was getting to Katie as fast as possible. She had to be awake. There was no other reason Madame Pomfrey would send for him. He tuned everything out so as he rounded the corner on the fifth floor he faintly heard Roger Davis yell to watch out for the wet floor. The Ravenclaw Quidditch team just finished practicing and it was raining hard outside. Not really hearing what Davis said Oliver flew around the corner only to end up in a tangled heap with three suits of Armor. He gingerly moved a plated arm off his face to see a very stern McGonagall looking down. Sheepishly he grinned at her,
"Professor McGonagall,"
"May I ask, Mr. Wood, what you are doing down there?"
"Feeling like and idiot?"
"Well that much is obvious. Do you need to go to the Hospital wing?"
"Was heading there any way," Oliver said trying to get up and move but felt a sharp pain go through his left arm as he tried to use it to move more of the Armor. McGonagall rolled her eyes at the young boy and with I flick of her wand the suits of armor were back in place. Oliver slowly got up supporting his left arm.
"Will you be able to manage the rest of the way Wood?"
"Yes, Professor I will," McGonagall gave him an irritated smile before she turned down the hallway. Oliver then preceded the rest of the way to the Hospital wing slowly. He felt like an idiot when Madame Pomfrey came rushing towards him. She kept muttering as she took him to the bed next to Katie's bed, something along the lines of, "I don't call for people to come here and expect them to be hurt!" and walked away to get a healing potion for him. Katie, who was indeed awake, was smirking at Oliver. Rubbing his obvious discomfort in she asked, "What happen?" Oliver was as red as he could get so he just hissed through his teeth.
"Had a disagreement with a couple Suits of Armor," If anything he could make a joke out of his predicament, a moment later Madame Pomfrey was back to heal Oliver's arm. Once he was all patched up she pulled a divider over to give Katie and Oliver some privacy. Katie was a little shocked by this action. She looked up at Oliver who was grinning cause Madame Pomfrey walked away muttering still.
"It's funny," she said, getting him to look at her, "It's almost as if she knows we want to be alone! The first thing she said when I woke up was, 'I better contact Mr. Wood,' I thought she'd get McGonagall or Angelina," Katie noticed Oliver was turning red again and caught on.
"She knows doesn't she?"
"Yeah, kind of figured it out. I must admit I gave her ample clues to figure it out though," he immediately headed to her side and gingerly touched her face. Pushing a few locks behind her head he looked over where she was hit. It took all his will power not to get angry in front of her.
"How are you feeling?"
"Like my heads been ripped off. What happen?"
"What happens every time you put a stupid Slytherin on a Quidditch team? Right after Harry caught the snitch Lanky creamed you with his club. He got a weeks worth of detentions for it, 100 points from Slytherin and I have never seen McGonagall or Malfoy yell so much," this little statement made Katie laugh but she winced as she did. Oliver quickly rubbed her arm knowing it wouldn't do any good but thought it show how much he cared. Taking depth breath Katie sighed.
"What day is it? Madame Pomfrey was so intent to get you she neglected to tell me anything,"
"It's Wednesday," Katie shot up strait.
"WHAT!" she yelled then wished she hadn't as her head seared with pain,
"Angelina's party! Oh I hope I'm missing it, they didn't cancel it of me did they?"
"No, it's going strong right now. That's where I came from. I dear say it's not a party without you but Jarvis is trying his hardest to fill in for you," Oliver laughed hard remembering how drunk Jarvis was when he left.
"Oh! How I wish I were there! Please tell Jarvis to come see me before he leaves,"
"I will," they sat there silent for a while, Oliver just grazing his fingers over her face and arms before he finally talked again,
"We have to figure what's going to happen between us. Didn't really get the chance now did we?" Katie shook her head no.
"I know we do but I have a feeling I'm going to be stuck in here for a while. So as for right now it looks like we have a while to be alone but my head hurts too much to say anything," Oliver nodded,
"Yes we'll discuss things later," he got a confused look on his face as Katie just grinned at him,
"Well now that we got a few things settled, kiss me!" Oliver looked at her shocked.
"W-what?"
"I'm awake. Feeling miserable cause I'm hurt and stuck in here and not at the Party. You're here, ALONE with me, looking all sexy. So if you don't kiss me right now I swear…" Oliver got the hint. Carefully leaning in, he pressed his lips down to softly graze her lips. Half an hour later Madame Pomfrey was kicking Oliver out saying Katie needed rest. Giving her one last longing look, he told her he'd see her later and bring the others with him.
Around the time Oliver was leaving the hospital wing, Angelina's birthday party was winding down, but only because McGonagall came in yelling that it was getting out of hand. She even glared at Jarvis for a few seconds before storming out of the portrait hole, nearly running over Wood.
"Honestly Wood, will you please watch where you are going!" Oliver just reddened and stepped inside to a laughing common room. Immediately he went over to Fred and George who were starting to clear any evidence of the firewhiskey Jarvis brought. Jarvis was sitting near by, arm swung over the birthday girl, grinning as Oliver came and sat down opposite him.
"What was that all about Oliver?" Angelina asked, pushing Jarvis arm off her. Oliver rolled his eyes,
"I slipped on some water on the fifth floor and ran into some suits of armor. Of course McGonagall found me first and coming from her mood, you aren't helping her patience neither," Jarvis grinned madly as Oliver gave him a knowing look. However intoxicated the boy was, he seemed aware of what was going on,
"Of course we should be asking you, Wood ol' chap is why you were on the fith floor corridor in the first place and secondly why you were gone for over half an hour?" Oliver's cheeks turned a tad pink and the twins noticed this immediately.
"Yeah, where did you go Ol?" but Oliver didn't get the chance to answer for himself as a second year passed stating the obvious of what he overheard earlier,
"Madame Pomfrey sent for him," the little girl squeaked. Angelina just looked at wood along with the twins and Jarvis knowing smirk. Oliver slouched as far as he could in his chair and mumbled out,
"Katie woke up and I was on top of the list to be informed," Fred and George's puzzled faces turned into smirks while Angelina just shrieked.
"And you didn't tell us this! How come! I am the birthday girl after all!" She had now stood up towering over poor Oliver, glaring at him and making him sink even lower into the cushions. The twins just laughed as Oliver's face turned bright red.
"There has better be a damn good reason why you didn't bring us along," at this Jarvis jumped in,
"Oh there is Angie dear. Tell them Oliver cause I'm quite sure I know what it is," Angelina looked from Jarvis to Wood, madder than before. She hissed,
"Yes tell us Wood!" Oliver shifted uncomfortably in his chair glancing towards the floor. He wanted to wait for Katie so she could tell Angelina herself, but he valued his life. Taking a moment to decided what exactly he should tell and not tell, he decided being a bit vague for the time being would work.
"Before her accident, we, so to speak, patched a few things up as far as are feelings were concerned," he looked up at Angelina hoping she understood he was leaving things out so Katie could tell her, "Madame Pomfrey knows about this and promised me alone time to talk to Katie when she first woke up. While we didn't get things cleared up yet, we do some, oh catching up," with that last comment Jarvis began to cough forcing Wood to give him a glare. He turned back to look at Angelina to see she had calmed down.
"I'm assuming you are leaving out a bit of information because…"
"Katie deserves to tell you that herself. I promise, with the exception of Jarvis who's to curious for his own good, I will hold any further information until you talk to Katie. I told her you'd see her tomorrow," that seemed to work because Angelina smile returned to full force. She gave Oliver a big hug, and headed off to bed, wittingly ignoring the other three boys. Once out of ear shot, Fred rounded on Oliver.
"Why can't you tell us? She'll never know!" Oliver grinned back at them as he started to leave for his rooms, dragging Jarvis behind him,
"Because you two tossers have put me through enough hell that it's only fair you suffer some as well. Goodnight!" with that final word, he and Jarvis were gone. George just grumbled a "damn" and the two went back to cleaning up some of the mess.
A/N thanks to all my reviews. I'll try harded to keep the new chapter coming once a week, but i can't make any promises.
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