After Voldemort recovered from what Severus had attempted to do to him, he came around to the other side of Aurora's bed to show her he was there.
"I'm here as well Aurora. I'm glad to see you awake again." Voldemort lightly brushed her cheek with his hand, a routine gesture for him to make, and yet he always put so much care into it.
At his touch, she fell back asleep, and Voldemort took it as a sign that she was ready to leave here and go back home. He very gently slipped his arms underneath her, one under her neck, the other under her knees, and lifted her into the air so he could carry her out of there.
"Where do you think you are taking her!"
"She's coming back home with me, where she belongs. Now move out of my way Severus. I promised her that I wouldn't harm you, even though you have betrayed me for so long. I will forgive that for her sake, but only if you move and don't give me any trouble about taking her out of here."
Voldemort had begun to show his true nature as his temper and arrogance began to take to the surface. He had gone from the young, teenage boy to the dark, menacing Lord Voldemort that all knew and feared.
Just as he had become his absolute true self, Aurora had awoken again and saw for herself the true from of the man whom she had previously professed her love for. His evil, twisted features shocked Aurora and she couldn't understand where the man she had seen and felt only moments ago had disappeared to and why he had left such an evil man in his wake.
"Severus! Help me! Let me go!" Aurora began to fight, feebly as it was, the man who was holding her. She started to kick, scream, and punch, just so he would let her go.
Voldemort, hurt by her actions, not her actual fighting, slowly set her down on her feet, both so he wouldn't drop and hurt her, and so she wouldn't end up hurting herself.
The moment her feet hit the ground, she ran back over to Severus and hid herself in his arms. Severus scooped her up into his arms and took her to a private room in the Infirmary so she needn't be bothered with his very presence.
Hurt, frustrated, and angry, Voldemort stomped out of the Infirmary with only one thing to say…
"I will have her back, or this school will burn!"
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Aurora spent two weeks sleeping in her private room, completely unaware of the twenty-four hour vigil Severus kept at her bedside. He was only ever ripped away from her side when Poppy sent him away for food, a bath, and some sleep of his own. He was afraid to leave her for too long. Anything could happen to her; she could wake up, disappear, or Voldemort could try to make good on his threat and take her away while she slept.
During the two weeks she was in the hospital, Aurora had a recurring dream that she wouldn't remember until the first night she was out of there. And when she finally woke from her two week "vacation from life", she was sluggish, but awake. Just as she was getting out of the bed to change her clothes, Severus came into the room after another tiresome night of attempted sleep.
He hadn't registered that the woman standing in the room was Aurora, he just realized that there was another person besides him standing in the room.
"Is there any progress in her condition?"
"There has been much improvement in her condition," Aurora's voice was barely above a whisper and harsh from unuse.
The voice that replied was one that he had never heard before, so out of curiosity for whom was taking care of the woman he loved, he looked up to see the face of the woman he had seen in a peaceful slumber while he was in there with her.
"Aurora! You're awake!" Severus ran over to her, jumping over the bed that separated their bodies as if it weren't even there, and embraced her while planting a kiss squarely on her lips, crushing them with his force.
"Yes, I'm awake. But I still don't have all of my energy back, so don't expect much from me."
"I can wait for that, I'm just glad that you've finally woken up. We were all beginning to believe that you would never wake up. Come on, let's go down to our room. I'm tired of being here and I have some things that I need to talk to you about, that I don't want stray ears to hear."
Aurora gave Severus a worried look that he couldn't quite interpret, "Down in the dungeons?"
"Yes, why?"
"It's just, I don't think that I have that kind of energy. The last time that something like this happened to me, my doctors told me that if I expended myself too much too soon after an incident like that, I could end up in a coma or I could even die of power loss."
"What did you do last time that this happened to you?" he asked with a worried look evident in his eyes.
"I was a very young witch trying out too advanced a spell. Mind you, I did perform it correctly, but I had to expend too much energy, and I blacked out for about a week and a half. Mum cancelled my training for a month after that happened and forbade me to use any magic for that time so they could be sure that I wouldn't end up killing myself."
"Fair enough. I had planned on carrying you down there anyways, so get dressed and we'll leave."
Severus stepped out of the room so she could have some privacy while she changed her clothes.
Poppy saw him emerge from the room and feared the worst. "Is everything alright Severus?"
"She's awake. She's getting dressed, and then I'm taking her down to our rooms." He was so tired, but filled with an immense amount of joy, and yet he had a calmness to his movements and voice, that it had scared Poppy.
"Just allow me to examine her first, and then you'll be free to take her out of here."
"Alright."
The examination was very short, just enough to make sure that there were no adverse effects to her body or powers from the sudden drain. When nothing could be found out of the normal, she told Aurora to just take it easy for a couple of weeks, and sent her on her way.
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Once down in the dungeons, Severus headed straight for the four poster bed.
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That night Tom appeared to her in a dream, the same dream that she had had in the Hospital Wing over the two weeks she was there unconscious.
It started off just like it always had, her and Tom were out on a picnic in a meadow, laughing, talking, and having a good time. The sun was shinning, there wasn't a cloud in the sky, and the birds were singing.
As the meal progressed and the conversation began to get more on the side of serious, clouds began to form in the sky and the song the birds sang wasn't as pretty. Tom was constantly trying to turn the conversation towards her coming back to the castle with him, but because she didn't want to hurt him and she wanted things to remain happy between them, she avoided the subject.
Finally, Tom couldn't take it and he began to demand. "You are coming back to the castle with me whether you want to or not. That's where you belong, and where you are most wanted. So stop all of this nonsense and just come back with me."
"I can't Tom. You know that I'm not meant to be with you. You may have taken care of me for so long and I may have fallen in love with you, but you are heel bent on the evil path, and all I want is for there to be goodness throughout the world. I am pure light, and you are pure darkness. We were never meant to be together, something had to have told you that deep down. I love you, but not enough to abandon my beliefs."
Tom very quickly turned from his normal self that Aurora had grown accustomed to seeing during her six years with him, to that evil creature called Voldemort that had tried to take her away from Severus before she had regained her strength. And everything around her went dead, dark, and evil. The sky became an ugly black color from all of the clouds that filled the sky. The pleasant green meadow studded with beautiful flowers of every variety, became a barren waste land. And the birds had left taking there beautiful songs with them.
"I will have you back, or the school that you love so much and the people you claim to care about will burn because of you!"