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Hogwarts: Assignment #9, Potions Task #3 Write about someone taking a Blood-Replenishing Potion
Warnings: NA
Waking Up Safe
When Remus blinked, he registered the weight on his chest. It wasn't labouring his breath or sending him into an anxious wave about his body malfunctioning again. He craned his head and his head spun, but when the world came into focus again he saw a tuft of sky blue hair.
He wanted to raise his hand to touch Teddy's hair, but his arm felt weak. There was something in his arm—an intravenous line pumping a potion into his veins. Judging by the potion's viscocity and brick red colour, Remus thought it might be a Blood-Replenishing Potion. It was hard to think about it for too long.
"Hey," someone said. "Hey, Remus..."
"Dora?" he asked. His voice came out like a croak and he didn't like it. When he turned towards the sound of her voice, he saw her sitting at his bedside. Her hair was its usual shade of pink, the freckles splashed across her nose were all where they should be, and the shape of her lips was as it was when she didn't shift that particular feature of hers.
"You alright?" he asked. Rings surrounded her eyes and she looked pale. She was wearing a slouchy grey sweater with a hole in the elbow that she usually crawled into after long and bad days at work.
She laughed at his question.
"Me?" Dora asked. Her left eyebrow arched. "You're the one who… who just woke up…"
"What?" Remus asked. He looked around him and then registered that he was in a hospital room. He put a hand on Teddy's back.
"What happened?" Remus said. "I don't—wait, Harry went into the forest, and then…"
His memory was fuzzy after that.
"Harry's okay," Dora filled in, seeing him struggle. She pushed his hair out of his face and then choked on a sob as she laughed again. "The potions might be affecting your memory, but Harry's okay. You were hit by a curse during the second half of the battle, and they Healers have been working on building up your blood supply since—you've been out a day. But you're okay now. And Teddy's okay. And I'm… I'm concussed, but I'll be okay."
"We… we won," Remus asked. Teddy's hair was soft under his fingertips.
"We did," Dora said. She leaned forward and kissed him, resting her forehead against his for a second.
"It's..."
His hand drifted to rest on Teddy's back. The baby was sleeping and his little body was rising and falling. He was thankful that Teddy's breathing was so slow and steady and even—it grounded him. Remus felt dizzy. The fight he had spent most of his adult life fighting, the threat that had loomed over most of his life and taken so much from him and threatened everything and everyone he'd known…
"We're okay," Dora repeated. She sat up and wiped at her eyes. She breathed in deeply. "Okay, I… I can fill you in more later. It's a… it's a long story, and I promised I'd tell a Healer when you were awake."
"It's really over this time?" Remus asked before she could stand up and go.
"It is," Dora said. "Harry did it."
Remus moved his fingers back to Teddy's hair.
"We're safe," Remus said. "All of us we're… we're really safe now."
"We are," Dora said. "I should pick up Teddy before they see him on you, though. He's not technically supposed to be here, I sweet-talked his way into St. Mungo's. I told them he was a fighter like his dad, and they'd do better together."
"I don't need a Healer," Remus said—although that was probably wrong. His hand rested on Teddy's back and he became distinctly aware of how comfortable his pillow was. "Come here."
Dora nodded and got up from her chair to crawl into bed with him. Her hand rested on Teddy's back, over his.
And Remus had never been more thankful to be safe.
Stacked with: Hogwarts; Shipping War
Word Count: 656
Shipping Wars
Ship (Team): Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks (Technicolour Moon)
List (Prompt): Spring Big List (Pillow)