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Warning?: Before you read any farther please know I have not checked it thoroughly like I normally don't! So I can assure you until I go through it and/or re-do the story as I plan to do with its finished the grammar and maybe spelling won't be the best.
Chapter/Part: 16Halloween came and along with it Harry had a nightmare every night for the week. By the end Harry was tired and so was Severus. But the lessons were coming along great. Harry was excelling and having fun learning everything and anything he could.
Severus was very happy with Harry's progress. He was an intelligent boy. There was only one Saturday they had worked on lessons and that was for Harry's punishment for going outside with out telling someone. They had fun times too. Such as when Harry was being silly with water and so they had an experiment with water.
But now was not a time to think of how wonderful things were. It was Tuesday November twenty-fourth. Severus was up half the night working on a potion for his grandfather and was tired. He wished for nothing more than to go crawl into bed and forget lessons. But as it was only Tuesday he could not. If was ten to nine and Harry hadn't shown up to breakfast. Severus usually made sure he ate every meal and a decent amount. There had been times Harry tried not to eat by 'playing' with his food. But today he wasn't in the mood to make himself eat let alone Harry.
But by the time lessons started Harry still hadn't shown up. There was only a few times Harry wasn't up before him but he always made it to lessons. By nine-thirty Severus patients were running out. He stalked to Harry's bedroom and walked in with out knocking. He was all the more upset when Harry was still sleeping. He was so tired he wasn't thinking.
"Harry, get up now!" Severus growled.
"Hum. Why?"
"Harry James Potter!"
"Uncle Sev...is that you? Will you please lower your voice my head hurts."
"Harry I'm not playing its ten o'clock. Get up!"
"Uncle Vernon please go way." Uncle Vernon? Where did he get that?
"Harry. Open your eyes and look at me now please." Okay this is beyond weird. Maybe I just need sleep...
"No, hurts"
"What hurts?"
"Okay Harry, I'll be right back." Ok I need an excito potion because I can't think. After he had finished the vile he felt like he got 10 hours sleep.
"Okay Harry, I'm back. Now will you please open your eyes for me?"
"Uncle Severus?"
"Yes who else?"
"I don't know."
"Open your eyes."
"Dun wanna." Harry said fiercely.
"Come on you need to. For me." Harry slowly started to open his eyes. "That's it, now look at me."
"What time is it? Is it breakfast because I'm not hungry." Harry said intensely.
"No it's well past. Did you have a nightmare last night?" Harry had been confused before after one although the charm didn't alert him.
"No-o."
"Then why are you in bed? Did you stay up all night?" The charm would have told him if Harry was up.
"No"
"Okay Harry, I'm getting tired of this game."
"Hum. Can't I go back to sleep now?"
"Harry!" Severus growled out. "No you may not sleep! Come on tell me what's wrong with you."
"I don't know. I don't feel good." Harry said getting ready to go back to sleep.
"No Harry. Sit up!"
"hmm" Severus stood up and picked Harry up without his blanket effectively waking him. "Uncle Severus!"
"Calm down this instant. If you aren't feeling well and you obviously aren't if you won't get up, then you need to be somewhere where I can monitor you."
"But I wanna stay in my bed."
"I don't care. Stop squirming!"
So Severus carried Harry to the room next to his. It was a lavender room although it was intended to be for sick child of the manor. Purple was suppose to sooth which is the reason for the color. The bed was in the middle of the room, and then there was a potion cabinet in one corner and other medical things in another with a counter connecting them. And there was a bathroom off to the side.
After he laid Harry, who had since stopped moving and was about to fall asleep, on the bed he started moving about the room gathering things. As a potion master he was suppose to have a second degree in healing but with his death eater days he had just figured he would go all the way and get his medi-wizardry degree. The reason he worked with potion instead of healing; although he was very good at it was he simply liked potions more and didn't have the bedside manners.
"Ok Harry I need you to wake up now." Harry had fallen asleep after being set down.
"Hmm"
"Open your eyes Harry and tell me where you feel pain?"
"Pain?"
"Harry! You said you hurt earlier and if your this tired something is wrong. I know you've been working hard but you shouldn't still be sleeping at this time of day."
Harry had a look of confusion on his face. He had been sick a few times but no one cared and usually he could sleep after his chores. "My head hurts with my eyes." Harry finally said quietly.
"Your head? What else?"
"My body?"
"Okay Harry this band that I'm putting around neck is a thermometer... It measures your temperature."
"Oh and why do I need it? It's not like I have one."
"So you think. And Do not...Do Not remove it! Now let's see headache huh? Well for the moment I'll give you a pain reliever and we'll see how you are later. If you're not better I'll have to give you a scan. Drink this and then you will eat some food."
"eww I don't want that potion again!"
"I don't care. Here's some food, eat up."
"Why do I always have to eat? I'm not hungry all the time!"
"Eat!"
"Gosh, hold you unicorns."
"I think not! No I want you to eat at least a fourth preferably half. I need to go get something I will be back in a but."
"Yes sir."
Severus went back to Harry's room to get a few books from the book-shelve. If Harry ended up staying later than just the day he would put the T.V. in the room so they could watch movies. After he had the books he picked up Harry's pillow so he could have it instead of the one on the bed. When he had the stuff secured in his arms he headed to his room. He wanted to grab a few things from there. Then he proceeded back to Harry's room. It took him about ten minutes to do all that. Harry had fallen back asleep and didn't even eat the fourth of the food he was asked too. He didn't want to wake him but Harry needed to eat. Needless to say once he was up he finished his food after little prodding done from Severus, he fell back to sleep.
Severus sat down in a chair near the counter and started to fill a report out for Harry. Everyone who was in the room on the bed had to have a report filled out. What could they say Dumbledore's were weird. The room in a draw under the counter even had sheets with questions/statements to fill out. Once he finished writing what he had so far he went and sat on the chair by Harry and started to read. After half an hour he called a house-elf to get him some lunch. At two he called another house-elf to get Harry some soup. Once it was brought up he woke Harry to eat.
"I just ate. I'm not hungry." Harry complained.
"Harry, you did not just eat that was a few hours ago and it is time for you to eat again. Do you want to be in here longer?"
"No!"
"I didn't think so. You have to eat to help your body."
"Ok. What kind of soup is it?"
"Chicken Noodle and the broth it is light." Severus said as Harry started to eat it. (would it be eat or drink?)
"Thank you. This isn't so bad."
"Of course not!"
After Harry finished Severus read him a book. Harry fell asleep soon after. Severus started to read in his book, but after awhile he realized that he was too tired. He booked marked his page and called Coco.
"What can Coco do for you sir?"
"Coco I'm going to take a nap in my room. But I want to be woken up no later than seven please. Thank you."
"Yes sir. Coco will wake you or have Sprinkle do it. Night sir."
After Coco left Severus cast a spell on Harry incase Harry woke before seven that he would wake up, an alarm system of sorts. No sooner had his head hit his pillow did he fall asleep.
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You guys sure like beat me up or something. Well at least it hasn't been to months right? (Close I know!) I just haven't been in the mood to write and trust me you wouldn't have wanted to seen my work. As it is I force myself sometimes and it's still terrible! (yay yay I know no excuses!)
Oh and really what do you do with soup, drink or eat? Anyone know? Does anyone care even?
I will try and get the next one out sooner as I know that isn't a cliffy but its not really the best place to leave off either. It is 1:13am and I'm going to bed so...
Thank you to everyone who reviewed. (I will 'try' and get names out next chappie I usually write late at night so I'm usually tired sorry!)
8/6/04