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Chapter 18:

Lily's alarm clock went off the next morning. Claire woke up the sound and couldn't really sleep. Since last night happened all she could think about was her two friends in the hospital wing. Going through more pain than necessary.

She didn't tell Lily, James or Sirius about last night. She couldn't have sworn she saw someone watching them from the corner but she was still unsure. She got out of bed with lily and went to wake James and Sirius up. To their surprise they were already awake and finding their clothes.

The girls took turns in having showers and got changed in a rush so they could visit Remus and Ella before breakfast and classes.

"Ready?" James asked walking into their room.

"Yes." Lily answered. They grabbed their bags and left Head Quarters.

"I couldn't sleep last night" Claire said on the way.

"Me too" Lily said.

"Me three" Sirius added.

""Me four" James said as they looked at him.

"I feel so sorry for Remus and Ella. They probably had no sleep at all." Lily said. They reached the hospital and walked straight in. They moved over to the bed and found Remus and Ella in the same position they were in, when the group left the night before.

The only difference was they were groaning and their faces had pain written all over it.
"Are you ok?" James asked. Ella couldn't answer but screeched instead.

The girls rushed over and James and Sirius helped Remus back into his own bed. They were both sweating and breathing heavily.

"Did Madam Pomfery give you your potions yet?" Claire asked holding onto Ella's hand.

"Yes" Remus answered.

At that moment madam Pomfery walked in and gave them a sympathetic look.
"Well I see you were able to separate them. Last night they refused to move an inch" she said, checking their temperatures.

"Isn't there something else you can give them?" James asked, as Remus groaned loudly.

"I have given them everything I can. Apparently this potion they were given gets worse as the day go on and very soon there will be nothing I can do to help. It will overcome them with worse pain and they will have to hang in there until the full moon..."

"Until it gets worse" Sirius interrupted shaking his head.

"I'm afraid so" the nurse said. "I will be in a moment" she said when she heard someone enter the wing.

"I can't do this anymore" Ella said puffing. The girls were fanning her and doing everything they could think of but t wasn't working.

"Yes you can Ella. Don't give up. Squeeze our hands if you need to" Claire said. Ella did and they regretted it instantly. She squeezed their hand so hard that they couldn't feel it any longer. Ella squealed half of her clothes were drenched with sweat.

"She is burning up. We need to move her top." Lily said. She and Claire very carefully tugged Ella's top off and soon she was laying in her bra and the hospital pyjama pants. The boys weren't paying attention or being perverts. They were focused on trying to remove Remus' top.

Remus was now lying in only his boxer shorts and was holding the bed sheet very tightly in his hands. The group heard a rip and looked to see him rip the sheets. It seemed to give him some sort of relief.

"Wait in have just the thing" Sirius said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out two stress balls that were filled with beans. He gave one to Remus and Ella and watched them.

They squeezed it and it immediately burst open, balls littered the floor. James and the two girls near Ella's bed just unchanged looks with Sirius.

"Ok, I wasn't expecting that" Sirius said.

"James, Sirius" Remus muttered.

"Yes Moony. We are right here" James said stepping closer to the bed.

"I want you... to find out... who did this... and... kill them" Remus managed to say between ragged breathes.

"No problem. We are already investigating the matter" Sirius said.

"We will find them and they will be dead by lunch time" James said.

"Please don't make me laugh or I might hurl my liver out" Remus said smiling painfully up at them.

"Ok, my bad" James said as he and Sirius took a small step back from Remus. The girls focused their attention back on Ella.

"M...M" Ella said.

"Ella what it is?" Lily asked her fiends worriedly.

"Michelle Springwater" Ella finally said. Lily and Claire's mouths dropped open as they realized what Ella was trying to say.

"Do you think so?" Claire asked.

"Only one way to find out" Lily said. They both walked to the door but were stopped by James and Sirius.

"What are you going to do?" Sirius asked.

"We are going to get some answers" Claire said.

"Don't try and stop us because this will help us eliminate one person if we are wrong" Lily said. The girls left the hospital wing.

"Go with them" Remus groaned. The boys looked at each other before running out of the hospital wing.

The girls walked through most of the castle trying to find Michelle Springwater and finally spotted her outside, walking to Care of Magical Creatures. They approached her and tapped her on the shoulder. She whirled around and glared at them.

"What do you want?" she asked rudely.

"We want some answers" Claire said, putting her hands on her hips.

:"what are you talking about?" Michelle asked raising her eyebrows.

"We know what you did to Ella" Lily said.

"What are you talking about? Did someone hurt her?" Michelle asked grinning widely.

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James and Sirius were running all around trying to find Claire and Lily. They finally spotted. They were talking to Michelle and they could see lily go a shade of red. She didn't look angry, so they ran to her before anything happened.

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"Why are you acting like this? Why can't you just come out and admit to doing it?" Lily questioned furiously.

"You two have seriously gone mad. I didn't do anything to Ella, but if someone did then good for them. She was a bitch anyway. She probably deserved everything she got" Michelle replied.

Claire and Lily were so angry they did the first thing that came to their mind. Claire punched her hard in the face making her nose bleed and Lily pushed her into them lake. They watched as she screamed holding her nose and trying to float at the same time. Her eyeliner was smudged making her look like a water rat.

The blood that was now visible in the water was attracting attention from the Giant Squid as it made its way towards Michelle.
"AAHHHHHHH, Oh My God! Someone help me" Lily and Claire walked away laughing and James and Sirius followed them back. They reached the hospital wing and took their bags before walking to History of Magic.

While they were sitting in class their very boring Professor was talking about Gringotts Bank, Lily, James, Claire and Sirius sat there trying to think of anyone who might have something against Remus and Ella.

James cast a quick spell on his parchment.

J- Hey guys, it's me

Lily and Claire looked at their paper weirdly before looking across the room to James and Sirius. Realizing it must be another one of their inventions they went along with it.

L- Hello

C- Yeah, anyway...

S- Anyone have any ideas as to who has done this?

J- Got nothing. Remus and Ella are kind people. Who would seriously be holding something against them? Whatever it is it has to be big

C- Well we can still ask Michelle's friends if they did it or know anything.

S- Ok just don't get into any trouble

L- That's a bit weird coming from you.

S- Yeah but the last thing we need is a detention tomorrow night. We are going to need all the help we can get.

J- He right for once. Well we better end this conversation before the bell...

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG

J- Rings... let's go.

They all packed up their things and went to their next class for the day. They thought that all their classes went extra long on this very hectic Tuesday, but that was only because of the amount of things on their mind.

Finally it came to dinner time and the group ate as fast as possible before running out of the great Hall and straight to the hospital wing.

Before they reached the door they could hear the sound of screaming and ran the rest of the way. Ella and Remus have gotten worse and now it looks like it is too much for them to handle. Ella was crumpled into a ball on her bed and her spine was sticking out. Her dark hair was tied up into a high ponytail and she was sweating nonstop.

Remus was basically the same but he was stretched out gripping onto whatever he could feel.
The four friends rushed to their bedsides and tried to offer them words of comfort.

"I ... can't do... this anymore" Ella whispered.

"Come on honey, I know you can. Just have some faith." Lily said. She knew if she was in Ella's position right now she would have told her off by now but there was nothing else she could do. They all felt so helpless.

"Lily... it isn't easy... and... we still have tonight and tomorrow" Ella added.

Just then Madam Pomfery walked in but not alone. Beside her were two women dressed in white robes and a red cross on the side.

"These are two healers from St Mungos. They are here to see if they can help. This is Jan and Lara" Madam Pomfery introduced. The ladies greeted everyone and were standing near the bed giving Ella and Remus a once over.

They took out their wands and muttered a few spells.
"Do you feel any different?" James asked. They shook their heads. They thought for a moment.

"Jan, what if we try the spell we were working on the other day?" Lara asked her Healer friend.

"Ok let's try it. We have nothing to lose here" Jan commented.

They both muttered a spell and Ella and Remus relaxed the slightest bit. Lily, Claire, James and Sirius brightened up at this and waited for them to continue.

"Is that it?" Sirius asked in disbelief.

"I am afraid so. This spell is only temporary but it will last a few hours before the effects of the potion come back again." Lara said.

"Well can't you do it a few more times so it stays on longer?" Sirius asked, looking at them. They smiled.

"I am sorry. We can do that. But because they are so young the risk of damaging their body is very high and we could put the internal organs in danger" Jan answered.

"Is there a chance that it won't harm them?" lily asked.

"Well it is a fifteen percent chance that it won't harm them. That is a big difference and we are not willing to take that chance, besides we need parent's permission" Lara explained. The four sunk in their chairs and watched as their friends lay quietly in their bed falling asleep.

"How long does the spell last?" Claire asked.

"Around four hours" Jan told them. "Sorry we can't help more right now. We are currently researching every possible way to get rid of this poison before a full moon but there are not many chances that will happen. We won't give up, that is why we must go"

The two ladies left the teenagers and went to talk to Madam Pomfery before Flooing back to the hospital.

The group felt so helpless. They wanted to talk to their friends now that they were feeling a bit better but they were sleeping. They needed as much rest as possible and with the spell it was allowing them to do that. Unfortunately it would wear off in a few hours and all the pain will come rushing back to them.

They just sat there until around 11:00. Another hour and a half and their friends will be waking again, suffering the pain they didn't deserve. They shortened group walked back to their dorms and went straight to bed, trying not to think about what the nest night will be like.

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Well... there it was.
Please review and help me with ideas for the next chapter...

P.S. Someone help me. I am not very good at describing things and I really don't know how I am going to be able to explain everything that happens during a werewolf transformation.

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