They found Draco already waiting outside of the hospital wing. "A little bird had told me that he was here," was all Draco would give in answer when they questioned him about how he found out. Lyka stares at him questioningly but Draco shakes his head at her and mouths, "Tell you later."
The group files into the wing and waves happily at Madame Pomfrey when she comes out of her office. She smiles kindly to them and points to a curtained off bed in the back of the wing. "He's right over there, dears." They quickly thank her before heading towards Severus' bed.
"How do you think she knew we were here to see Sevy?" Regulus asks, glancing back towards Pomfrey as she freshens some of the other beds.
"Well from the looks of it, he's the only one here today. And since none of us look ill or injured she probably assumes that we came to visit him." Harry says simply, giving Regulus a pat on the back. They were quickly coming to discover that Regulus Black at eleven years old was a boy of many questions and few prejudices. It always made the trio wonder what exactly had happened to him to make him want to join Voldemort.
"Plus it helps that every meal we've been making a scene by sitting together at a different table each day. Although I just about choked from laughter when we sat with the Gryffindors the other day. They looked like they couldn't decide between hexing us or throwing up." Draco laughs heartily.
Lyka snickers, half wishing that the administration would do away with the rivalry between houses. It's not like it'll do anyone good in the upcoming war. She takes a deep breath to calm herself and clear those particular thoughts. There was no need for Severus to have to deal with her in a bad mood when he himself was in a predicament. She puts on a bright smile as she pulls back Severus' curtain. Inside the curtain, the dark-haired boy is sitting propped up against pillows, his leg magically elevated, and a book in his lap. Lyka feels a little happier seeing that it is the novel that she lent him on the train.
Severus smiles as he looks up and sees Lyka with the rest of their group appearing behind her. "You know...I already knew you were coming. You guys are quite loud."
"Well we would have been here Wednesday if we had known. Hells! I had to find out by interrogating Lily. And I'm sure her friends are now plotting my inevitable doom." Lyka says as she sits on the bed next to Severus' hip. She taps his shoulder gently with a fist when he starts looking sad at the mention of Lily. "But hey, now we're here!"
Draco perches himself on Severus' other side, pressing against him shoulder to shoulder. "So what exactly happened? Heard something about a potions accident and then you falling down some stairs. To which I can believe the stairs, seeing your leg is propped up and you reek of Skelegrow. But you? Having an accident in potions? Unless it was on purpose to get out of one of Slughorn's lectures, then I could see it."
Severus laughs before sobering up, "Unfortunately both are true." This causes everyone to pause and silently wait for him to continue. "I'm quite certain that my potion had been sabotaged. I had realized that I didn't have enough of an ingredient and the potion was stable, so I left it. When I got back, it had changed from a brilliant purple to a swampy green. Then a moment later it just...blew up." Severus glances up and sees all the various looks of concern. "Very little actually got on me. But since even Slughorn couldn't identify what had gone wrong, he sent me to the hospital wing. Then on the way here, I heard someone cast a tripping jinx when I was halfway up a staircase. Causing me to fall down the stairs and break my leg." He looks at Lyka as she's about to ask him a question. "And no I didn't recognize the voice."
"Well in theory it wouldn't be a Slytherin since you guys have that house rule of not harming each other." Luna states from the chair to Severus' left.
Draco snorts, "That's only while in the Slytherin dormitories or whilst in the public eye. Privately, it's free game. Doesn't matter how much house support you have or if your elder brother is still in school. If you piss off the wrong elder Slytherin, it's game over." He finishes with a dramatic sigh and rests his head on Severus' shoulder. This causes the older boy to blush at the physical contact.
"And since you were coming up from the dungeons, it could be plausible that a fellow Slytherin could have cast the jinx. Do you know if you've angered any of the older Slytherins recently, Sevy?" Regulus asks from the end of the bed.
Harry throws in his thoughts, "Doesn't the potions class have a mixture of houses?" Harry looks to Severus in concern, "Was...was James in your class?"
Severus looks down to the book in his lap. His eyes were beginning to well up with tears of humiliation and frustration. 'How is it that they just know?' He thinks to himself, unable to form proper words as sobs start to escape him. 'And why can't I ever just keep proper control of my emotions? If Potter never saw how happy I get when I see Lyka and Harry and the rest of them, they wouldn't target me as much. Bastard's already driven away Lily.'
"I'm going to throttle him." Lyka snarls out into the silence that had fallen when Severus began to sob. She jumps up from the bed and begins to pace, "I'm going to completely and utterly destroy that bastard!"
Luna hops up from her seat, gently places a hand on Lyka's shoulder, causing the other girl to stop her angry pacing. "Lyka. He's still your brother. Even if he is causing harm to another, you shouldn't be thinking such thoughts. It is coming out." Luna's silvery eyes pierce into Lyka's green ones. Luna could see the beastly parts of Lyka's inheritance coming to the surface.
"So?" Lyka snarls again before what Luna said finally processes in the still human portion of her mind. She breathes deeply several times before smiling gently at Luna. "Uuhhh...thanks for pointing that out, Luna." She gives the other blonde girl a hug before calmly sitting back down beside Severus.
Regulus and Severus both stare at Lyka uncertainly. Although Severus had already mentally put together that it must have something to do with Lyka's inheritance. But poor Regulus just couldn't quite grasp it, "Um, Lyka, do you have anger issues?"
Lyka snorts, already back to her usual jovial self. "Yeah. Something like that."
The group talks for hours until it's nearing supper and Madam Pomfrey starts shooing them out the door. Promises to come visit first thing in the morning have the Madam sighing deeply before closing the doors behind them. She bustles back over to Severus to run some diagnostic spells over him. She glances up and smiles motherly at Severus, "I'm glad to see you finally have some proper friends, dear."
Severus smiles back, "Me, too." He opens his book back up as Pomfrey goes to organize her potions. Severus actually found that he was greatly enjoying the exploits of a Siren pirating the high seas.