Sirius helped me the entire way back as I was still wobbly but as we approached the common room I got more and more confident and started to walk a wee bit faster. Sirius said the password as I rushed in limping slightly over to the sofa that I could see Remus' tawny hair over and pretty much fell over the back of the sofa and landed on top of him
"How you doing?" I asked giving him an apologetic smile for landing on him. I looked across to the arm chair than prongs was sitting on and gave him a wink showing that I was not at all apologetic and completely meant to fall over the sofa. It was at that moment I felt a huge weight land on top of me and heard peter go
"Hey Sirius, I see that you brought hunter back with you this time.
"Yu-"
"Would you please get of hunter, Sirius, you're crushing me." Grumbled Remus and gave Sirius a dirty look. Sirius then went into drama queen mode and asked in an over exaggerated upset voice,
"Are you calling me fat Remus John Lupin because I can reliably inform you that hunters heavier than me" which earned him a slap from me and Remus shoving us both off his sofa. Sirius landed on top of me again only this time he was facing me. He looked down at our positing and waggled his eyebrows before leaning down closer to my face and licking me. I heard the guys laughing as I shoved Sirius off me and said to James and Remus as I sat up
"I'm put into the hospital wing for a week and he turns into a dog!? Shame on you two, I thought that your parents raised you better." Before laughing and accepting James hand up. I tilted slightly as I stood up and Sirius caught me. I rolled my eyes at the boys and sat down besides Remus again,
"So any way, dramatics aside, how are you Remus?"
"Alright, I suppose, didn't go well and I'm pretty sure that I ate a toad." I tried not to laugh at this but failed miserably and couldn't stop myself from the giggles escaped me.
"I always miss the good stuff, don't I?!" I said between giggles before I felt two arms rap around my neck from behind and saw red hair fall over my shoulder so I reached back and wrapped my arms around her shoulders and pulled, causing her to land on top of me.
"Hey lily flower, you ok" I said to my lapful of girl as she spluttered and spat out a mouthful of hair. She looked up at me giving a slightly disgruntled look for pulling her into the group, literally.
"Flip me Hun, if I knew you were that strong I wouldn't have done that. Anyway shouldn't I be asking you that, you where the one that was out cold for a week? What were you doing anyway?"
"Uhhhhhh," I looked to the boys for any indication about what to say and they all looked blank, peter even shrugged his shoulder as if the say 'no idea mate, you're on your own', so I completely made up something plausible, "I was attacked some kind of snake and it bit me I guess, I didn't have my wand on me so I couldn't really do much and then I fainted." Well at least it was partially true…
"Uh huh, really? Because Hogwarts; A History says that snakes aren't allowed into the castle, well the and a whole bunch of other creatures that would be stupid to bring in anyway." I just nodded and hoped that she would believe it. She eventually just sighed and raised an eyebrow, going to say something else when Marlene came over, made an excuse about needing to get to the dorms to finish packing before going to bed or something and dragged her away.
"Wait what time is it?" I asked. I hadn't seen any clocks around and I kinda assumed that it was not that late.
"It's nearly midnight, Star. We should all really be getting to bed." Peter replied, smiling at me and I just kinda nodded and then stood wobbling slightly on my left leg but righting myself before Sirius had to catch me,
"Well then I guess we better get upstairs then, especially since I have to pack still." And hobbled my way over and up the stair case to our dorm, there was obviously something dodgy with my left leg but I just left it, just glad to be awake and able to walk after what Severus did to me. Speaking of…
"I guess you guys want to know what actually happened that day." I said as the boys walked in after me. I went over and saw that that the majority of my stuff had been packed already before turning to face them, leaning a little too heavily on my left leg and wobbling slightly, before starting into my story. When I had finished the boys looked ready to murder Snape and I would have let them too if it wasn't for Lily or the fact that I wanted to be the one to do it. I had also packed the rest of my stuff leaving out shorts and a t-shirt to wear the next day and a change of pjs for the night.
"I'm having a shower and putting on clean pjs, if any of you are gone when I'm done there will be blood. I want to see how this pans out and see if he even knows what he's done." And with that I limped into the bathroom and into the gloriously hot shower. It was ruined ever so quickly when there was a knock on the door
"Hunter, there someone here to see you" came peters squeak. I groaned and stepped out, quickly putting on pjs and wrapping my hair up in a towel to take most of the moisture out of the waist length hair. I limped out of the shower to see the Remus and Sirius comforting someone on my bed, and knew who it was by the blond hair.
"Ohhh, Juliebug, what's wrong sweetie?" I said coming up to her, just as she launched herself at me, causing me to lose my balance and fall, taking her with me. She landed on top of me and I was slightly winded but didn't care as she kept crying muttering about how she didn't know where she was going and that she thought that I was dead and that I'm not and it took a lot of shushing on my part before she was calm enough to start to fall asleep. One of the boys then came to pick her up but I pushed them away determined to do it myself. It took me a while and Sirius had to steady me when I was up but I carried her over to my bed, my new limp over exaggerated by the extra weight I was carrying but she was soon curled up against my pillow on the bed.
I sat down beside her and started to run my fingers through her hair, removing tats when I found them when I felt Sirius sit down on one side of me and I felt him doing the same to my hair, eventually pulling it into a braid and putting it over my shoulder. I looked over at him and gave him a small smile and he told me not to worry but to get some sleep, that being out cold for a week was bound to make anyone tired. I looked at the other boys who had watched our strange wee ritual in silence all nodded in agreement, so I sighed and agreed and they all went to their beds peter turning out the lights on the way past. I crawled up next to Julie and curled up around her and tried to fall asleep but failing until I felt someone get in beside me and whisper
"Sleep, I got you" and I was out cold.
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I woke up to being kicked in the leg. I groaned and tried to turn over only to be smushed by Sirius who was on my other side. I looked out the window to see that it was early enough to be up but too early for Sirius and gave him and almighty shove so that he landed on the floor with a yelp, what I didn't plan for was to be dragged of the bed with him. I looked at him and he just looked back at me raising an eyebrow at our position, which was very close to each other. I pulled myself up so that I was straddling his waist and said
"Good morning Padfoot, what are you doing here?"
"Oh, you know," he replied injecting humour and sarcasm into his voice, "not much, hanging about with one of the nicest sweetest people who would never dream of pushing her friend out her bed"
"Well then, you really must introduce us some time. But meanwhile help me up so that I can get dressed and try to find Dumbledore." I rolled off him and he stood up before pulling me up too. I limped into the bathroom and changes throwing my pjs into my trunk when I came out and checked on Julie, making sure that she was out cold, which she was and grabbed my wand shoving it into my shorts and limping out of the room and down the stairs, across the common room and out the portrait door.
I limped on until I got to the great hall where some of the earliest risers would be eating breakfast and Dumbledore would be watching over them. I went over to him trying to hide my limp and was successful enough to hide it in front of the rest of the students but Dumbledore noticed.
"Hey Dumbledore" I said slightly hesitant about what he would say.
"Hunter my dear, I know you haven't been awake this week past so I have taken the chance of arranging for you to stay with James Potter and the rest of his family. Mr and Mrs Potter have agreed to house you and Mr Lupin and Pettigrew have made arrangement to stay as well for the second part of the summer." I let out a breath of relief before saying,
"What about Julie, she seems rather upset and concerned about having nowhere to go."
"Molly and Arthur Weasley have agreed to take her for the summer and any summers after that if there are no better arrangements made." I nodded along knowing the Weasley family and was happy that they would be looking after her. I nodded and said good bye and turned grabbing enough toast from the Gryffindor table to do the four boys, me and Julie for breakfast and make my way back to the dorm room, limping again when I got out of the great hall.