Laini came running back with Madame Pomfrey on her heals. Laini looked as if she was near crying and Madame Pomfrey had all her medical stuff ready.
"He's down this hall... he's down..." Laini stopped as the word 'help' reached her ears. "Madame, someone's yelling help..." Laini announced, putting more speed into her steps as she skidded into the area where Remus looked very alarmed at the fact that Severus and Tally lie motionless on the ground in front of him.
"What happened, Mr. Lupin?" Madame Pomfrey asked, taking over as soon as she noticed that Laini was frozen on the spot.
"Uhhh.... uhh... I don't exactly know. I was just walking over to that staircase to lean against it and when I turned around Tally wasn't moving." Remus looked paler than he had earlier.
"Alright... and Mr. Snape? How'd he get hurt?"
"None of us know... we just heard a scream and then someone yelled a curse and he fell over the railing from up there." Remus said pointing upward.
"This isn't happening..." Laini muttered, finally moving. She placed her scarred hands over her eyes as tears filled them and she slowly sunk to her knees. "The war is supposed to be over... nothing bad is supposed to happen any more..."
"Miss Laini, can you please fetch the other children that were with you both earlier." Madame Pomfrey asked but it was more of a command. Laini nodded, looked at Remus once more afraid she'd come back and he'd be gone next, then she disappeared.
She pushed the Great Hall doors open so forcefully that they opened completely and slammed against the wall. Mr. Filch, who was standing not four feet from the doors full opening range, began yelling at her. She ignored him and walked in, as Lily had said, the room was rearranged for graduates and she found James and Sirius at the far extra table, laughing.
"James, Sirius... we have to go back to the second floor... Madame Pomfrey needs to speak to us... where's Lily? She's defiantly not a Prefect meeting..." Laini said eyes still red and watery.
"No, she went to the bathroom... about..." James paused, calculating the time, "more than 15 minutes,"
"Wow, she really needed to go..." Sirius commented and James and he burst into another round of laughter.
"That long? Are you sure she's okay? You guys get to Madame Pomfrey, I'll check on Lily." Laini said.
"Well maybe she doesn't wanna be bothered." James said.
"And why do we have to go back to Snape?" Sirius snapped, looked appalled that he had to do something on Snape's behalf.
"Because it's not only Severus now... something's wrong with Tally and Madame Pomfrey needs you all there." Laini snapped.
"Tally?! Something's wrong with Tally! Why didn't you say so!?" Sirius practically flew off the bench and dashed from the Great Hall with James following. Laini watched them go, her vision going blurry as she stared around at the students and teachers of Hogwarts. She knew she was about to go do something but she couldn't remember what that was. Her figure wobbled a bit and then Laini collapsed backwards against the bench and fell to the floor.
The entire Great Hall began talking loudly as Professor Dumbledore rushed to Laini's side. She was bleeding from the hairline and her breathing was scarce. Professor McGonagall came up behind him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Is she okay?" She asked her voice full of concern. She knew of all the attacks and all the injured in the hospital that weren't from the war a few days ago and she knew not of what the cause was.
"Yes, either she just collapsed from stress about her friends or she's seriously hosting a lethal virus." Dumbledore said, turning to look at Minerva, unaware of all the staring eyes.
"Virus? Of what sort?" Minerva looked concerned.
"Well... I'm sure only Voldemort's followers [A/N: I didn't exactly picture Dumbledore calling them Death Eaters] will know the answer to that." He replied, "I'd contact Poppy but I believe she's busy tending to Mr. Snape and Miss Riddle."
"Oh... well we should do something about Miss Black, for we have an audience." She smiled and escorted Dumbledore from the Great Hall. Once outside he conjured up a stretcher and placed Laini on it as Lily came running up.
"What's happened, where are Sirius and James?" Lily looked down at Laini's bloody forehead and them up into Dumbledore's blue eyes.
"Sirius and James have gone to talk to Madame Pomfrey... seems Miss Riddle is injured as well." Dumbledore answered to the small girl's concerning question. Lily nodded and disappeared down the hall.