Saturday, 31 March, 00:10 GMT
Phil's knees wobbled as his feet hit the hard stone floor of the foyer in front of the Great Hall. Mr. Malfoy grabbed his shoulder to steady him.
"We just apparated, didn't we," Phil said as he adjusted Drew in his arms.
The older man nodded. "We have to get her up three flights of stairs. Do you need me to carry her the rest of the way?" he asked knowing full well the young man was going to decline. Draco nodded toward the stairs.
Phillip followed the older man up. Midway through the three flights up, he finally noticed the everchanging staircases. If he were more lucid, he would have thought he was going crazy. He stumbled as they arrived at the landing three floors up.
The professional athlete felt as if he had just suffered a concussion; his vision was starting to cloud and his hearing became muffled. He watched the chaos in front of him unfold.
Draco waved the Wizarding medical personnel over. Mediwitch Ginny Potter, mediwizards Gregory Goyle and his son Jacob and the Malfoy sons, Draco and Heath, were at the forefront, wheeling two gurneys towards the new arrivals. The elder mediwizard Goyle pulled the wounded young lady out of the young man's arms and placed her quickly on the gurney. Lead Mediwitch Potter led the medical team away.
"Here, new potion kills in half the time. It's already been 10 minutes since she was shot, Heath," the elder Draco looked at his youngest son who quickly took the gun and spent bullets. The young man ran alongside the medical team who was already heading for an operating room. He would need at least a few minutes to incorporate the new potion. He hoped to Merlin that it would be south of the fifteen minutes that the new Everbleeder potion would need to take the victim's life.
Mediwizard Draco Malfoy, Jr. and his mother, a Muggle doctor in her own right along with the younger Goyle helped to bring Phillip onto the second gurney. The athlete's eyes rolled into the back of his head, finally succumbing to exhaustion.
"We've got this, Dad," Junior said. "Go find out why this happened."
Draco nodded at his family before leaving the Hospital Wing. He took a deep breath before heading down the flights of stairs to head back to his former girlfriend's family estate.