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Authors Notes: I'M REALLY SORRY ABOUT THE MIX UP WITH THE CHAPTER POSTING. THE NEXT ONE IS GOING TO BE A LOT LONGER, BUT IT WON'T COME OUT FOR AT LEAST A WEEK. I have three tests next week. Review. Bye.

~ "I like you...when the world is mine your death shall be quick and painless."

~ family guy ~

It was October 3rd and the first quidditch game of the season between Gryfindor and Slytherin was set for the next day. Which was why the Gryfindor team was outside practicing on the pitch at 10:42 at night in one of the worst storms that Hogwarts had seen in quite a while. They had been going non stop for over three hours, it appeared as if Harry was more of a task master than even Oliver Wood. The whole team was running sluggishly, Rinoa especially had been acting strange. She had been abnormally quiet over the last week and had reverted back to the state she had occupied during the beginning of her stay at Grimmauld Place. She never spoke unless spoken to specifically, and even then there wasn't a good chance for her to answer you. She looked exhausted as well, there were blue circles under her eyes and she was much paler than normal. Sirius was especially worried about her, but she refused to talk about it to any one. Harry and Hermione had tried to speak to her on several occasion with nothing but the same results, so everyone went on with their lives and let her stew in whatever it was that was bothering her.

"C'mon Harry, we've been here more than three hours. It's time to go in or we won't be able to even play tomorrow!" yelled Ginny Weasley over the sounds of pouring rain and howling winds. Everyone was soaking wet and every time a bolt of lightning flashed the whole team started and the play was ruined.

"Just one more play and then you can go in, I promise!" yelled back Harry.

As everyone rose high in the air no one noticed just how dangerously Rinoa was swaying on her broom stick. Ginny passed the quaffle to Collin who swerved a bludger and passed it back to Ginny, who noticed to late that Rinoa was not there to catch her pass. It happened so quickly that no one really had time to react. Rinoa fell from her broom from thirty feet in the air and hit the ground with a resounding 'CRACK' on her left side. Harry was the first one to reach her and as he knelt down next her he could tell that the damage was severe.

"Seamus, run ahead and tell Madame Pomphrey what happened!" shouted Harry.

As Semeus ran into the school Harry levitated Rinoa onto a stretcher that Ginny had conjured up. Hermione, who had come to watch the last half of the practice for moral support, was muttering simple healing charms to stop some of the bleeding from Rinoa's left side as they ran into the school.

The Hospital wing...

"Madame Pomphrey!" screamed Harry when they burst through the infirmary doors. Apparently the Medi-Witch was not expecting quite as much damage as she saw because her eyes widened and her face paled.

"Potter! Use my floo and get Professor Snape from his office I'm going to need his help!" she yelled as she moved Rinoa's unconscious form to a bed. "Tell him to bring as many healing potions as he can carry!"

Three minutes later Severus Snape and Harry Potter stumbled through the fire place. Severus took one look at the condition Rinoa was in and began barking orders.

"Weasley, go inform the headmaster and your head of house! Use the floo!" he said as he helped Madame Pomphrey analyze the extent of Rinoa's injuries.

"Granger, go up to the Head Girl's rooms and get her a change of clothes. These are soaked, she's going to catch Pneumonia on top of everything else!" yelled Snape.

"The rest of you get out of here and go back to your common room immediately!" The rest of the quidditch team grumbled as they left to go to their dormitory and tell every one in their house what had happened.

Hermione hesitated for a moment before she gathered up the courage to address Snape. "Sir, I don't know her password." Severus seemed to hesitate with his answer, it was almost like he didn't want to say anything. When Madame Pomphrey ran to the supply cabinet to get a certain potion Severus looked around and seemed uncertain of something, he quickly steeled his expression and started to lightly slap Rinoa awake.

"Ms. Edwards," he asked between slaps. When this produced no response he became a bit more frantic.

"Noa!" he shouted. "Noa wake up! You have to wake up!" Rinoa's blood caked eye lids started to flutter open and she tried to say something, but he cut her off. "Noa, listen to me. Did you change your password?" Her eyes were staring at him in a very unfocused manner and it didn't look as if she was even listening to what he was saying. "Noa, can you hear me?" She tried to speak again but all she could manage to get out was a scratchy 'sev'. "shhhh, Noa, I need to know if you changed your password yet. Can you shake your head?" She managed to shake her head that 'no' she had not yet changed her password.

"Ms. Granger, her password is Memento Mori. Now Go!"

Harry and Ginny stayed behind even though Snape had ordered the entire team out, but no one commented on it. They were much to busy trying to save Rinoa, whose very bloodied and prone form was shaking from either cold or shock.

"She has three broken ribs, and one of then is dangerously close to puncturing her lung. Her left shoulder is dislocated, she has a severe concussion, and her left leg is broken in four places," said Madame Pomphrey finally when they had finished the analysis. "I've given her all of the pain potions and charms I can with out her falling asleep, if she falls asleep she's going to slip into a comma from the concussion. The poor thing is going to be in a lot of pain," said the Medi-Witch sadly.

"What do we have left to do Poppy?" asked Severus quietly as he stared at Rinoa's bloodied face. The skin on the left side of her face had been scraped very badly and was oozing blood down the side of her face. Her bright blue eyes were unfocused and bloodshot and the scar she had received on her lip in July stood out drastically on her very pale skin and lips.

"I have to set all of her bones, and it's going to be a painful job because she can't have anything else to dull it. You're going to have to hold her down Severus, this is going to hurt a lot," she said dejectedly. "Just make sure she stays awake no matter what, we need to get this done quickly before she looses anymore blood."

"Alright."

At this point Hermione had returned with an overnight bag for Rinoa and was standing next to Harry and Ginny watching the two adults help their friend. Poppy Pomphrey was standing a foot or so away from the bed preparing to cast the bone setting charm on Rinoa's leg and ribs, and Severus Snape had a hold on Rinoa's right hand and was softly speaking to her. It was a position that the three had never really seen him take before, he seemed to actually care about this girl. The look of concern on his face was authentic and if the students had not been so distracted by the situation it's self they would have found it odd to see Snape like that.

"Noa, look at my eyes," he whispered. It seemed to take all of the girl's strength to even stay awake at the moment, but she managed to brace herself for the impending pain she knew she would receive. Her eyes met the very dark depths of Severus Snape and didn't leave. "Don't look away whatever you do. Just focus on my eyes and squeeze my hand. You have to stay awake Noa, it's imperative that you stay conscious."

"Leave it to you to use big words at a time like this," Rinoa managed to wheeze out between raged breaths.

"I'm going to set her ribs first, it will improve her breathing," said Poppy.

"I'm ready," said Rinoa quietly, never taking her bright blue eyes off of Snape's deep black ones.

Poppy really didn't seem to want to do this but she muttered the bone setting charm and three cracks were heard coming from her rib cage along with a fourth coming from Snape's hand.

"Alright, now for the leg," said Poppy, noticing the look of extreme pain etched on Rinoa's face and the look of total concern on Snape's.

Four cracks were heard from Rinoa's left leg along with a very pitiful whimper from Rinoa herself. Hermione decided that this was to much and turned away when the bones started to remold them selves.

"Severus, can you sit behind her and brace her while I relocate her arm? This one is going to be the worse of the three," said Poppy. In response Severus moved Rinoa forward a little and gently placed himself behind her. By now Rinoa was gasping for breath and trying not to cry out from the sheer shock of everything, but she seemed to calm considerably when Severus moved behind her and placed a hand at her waist and the other in her right hand.

Poppy said the charm to relocate Rinoa's shoulder and a very ear piercing scream was emitted as the arm was forced back into it's socket. Severus was whispering things in her ear to comfort her and wiping the stray blood soaked hair that found it's way to her forehead. At that moment Albus Dumbledore came in followed by Minerva, Sirius, and Ron. Albus and Minerva went to speak with Poppy concerning her condition, while Sirius immediately went to Rinoa's side with Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny. Hermione and Ron had instinctively reached for each other's hands and the rest of the group had a very knowing smile at the fact.

"How is she?" asked Harry to Snape.

"She'll be alright. She won't be able to walk properly for a few days and her arm will be sore, but she'll live."

"Thank you, Severus," said Sirius quietly, but genuinely.

Poppy ushered all but Severus out of the Hospital Wing so that they could work on her minor wounds and cleaning her up before the night was over. Rinoa had to stay in the hospital wing over night but was assured that she could return to class on Monday. The game was postponed for a later day and Slytherin massacred Hufflepuff instead on Sunday. Snape stayed with Rinoa in the infirmary all night and kept her awake until the next day when she was finally allowed to sleep, and in the Gryfindor common room people were starting to get suspicious about something.

Authors Notes:

Borg ~ I'm sorry that you feel that way. However, I feel that I must contradict you in saying that I am an American mongrel. Yes, I am an American, but I don't feel that anyone on this Earth should be classified as a mongrel. I respect that you don't like my story, but really I'm not writing it for you. In the future if you have a problem with my story I don't mind you telling me so, but please refrain from putting it on 22 times. One will suffice. Thank you for your criticism.

Moodyboy66 ~ Thank you.

Rocky235 ~ Thank you for the criticism. I went over them again recently and found a few more, but I am still waiting for my wonderful proof reader to get the time to help me out.

Aalikane ~ Thank you sooooo much for all of your reviews. I really enjoy hearing from you. This was supposed to be a nice long chapter, but my sister didn't know what to do. It's ok I still love her. The next one will be a lot longer. I mean A LOT.

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SlytherinGurl176 ~ Hahahahaha. I'm not telling...yet. But, you are very observant. Bwahahahahaha.

Samyjoc ~ yeah I know it went a little faster than I meant for it to, but the next few chaps. Will slow down a lot. Sorry if it confused you.

Athenakitty ~ ummmmm I don't know if there will be more info. On the orphanage or not, it depends. She's not hurt that bad anymore, poppy fixed her. Yey for poppy.

Babyjayy ~ Thank you. It'll be about a week or so. I'm in college, it's hard. Why did I have to pick a major that required so much reading!?! Ahhhhh, history!!!!

Borg ~ you can think that if you want. I will not argue this subject with you. If you don't like the story then don't read it, but please don't use this page to insult people that you don't even know. Once again, thank you for your criticism.

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