Mary, Remus, Sirius and Peter, holding Lily and James, appeared in the reception of St Mungo's in a tangle of bodies
Mary, Remus, Sirius and Peter, holding Lily and James, appeared in the reception of St Mungo's in a tangle of bodies. Witches and Wizards that were waiting to be examined watched the newcomers curiously. Remus, hurriedly yet gently managed to scoop Lily up into his arms and practically ran to the desk where the receptionist sat.
"She needs to be examined now!" Remus said. The receptionist, seeing the state of Lily, quickly sent a trainee healer to fetch a healer.
"What about that one?" She asked glancing at the still unconscious James.
"We know he's unconscious too, but at the moment she looks quite a bit worse." Remus replied. The receptionist beckoned another trainee forward and after reciting her message she sent him scurrying off.
"I'll arrange beds for both of them, after all that one," she gestured towards James, "has quite a few nasty cuts that may become infected." As she finished speaking two healers came hurrying out of the double doors that led towards all the rooms, they took one look at Lily and James and set to work lifting them both onto stretchers and pushing them through the double doors, Remus started to follow but one of the healers gave him a stern look that clearly said, 'Not now' and Remus walked over to where Sirius, Mary and Peter had sat down.
The next few hours passed in a blur of other healers and patients coming and going through the double doors at the end of the waiting room. It was agonising pain having to wait until a healer came and told them how Lily and James were. For the first hour of waiting, every time a healer came out the double doors Remus' hopes would go up as he thought that this would be the one that would tell them how they were but after two hours of waiting, Remus gave up hoping and just paced the waiting area to pass the time. Peter was constantly fidgeting, Mary looked like she was struggling not to cry, and Sirius was holding Mary in his arms and staring into space with a distant look in his eyes when he suddenly jumped up.
"James' parents! They don't know! Their probably really worried, it's Six O'clock!" He ran off to one of the fireplaces to inform Mr and Mrs Potter.
A few minutes later he returned with James' parents in tow, both looking as worried as the Peter, Remus and Mary.
"What happened? Where is he? How is he going? Can we see him? I want to-" Mrs Potter babbled before breaking down into tears.
"Where is he?" asked Mr Potter, clearly worried and concerned.
"He's with the healers, along with Lily, who's much worse than he is."
"I forgot about Lily, I'm a terrible person!" Mrs Potter said, her sobs were gradually growing more frequent.
"It'll be okay," Mr Potter assured Mrs Potter. A healer came emerged from the double doors and made they're way over to them.
"Hello, Mr and Mrs Potter I presume? And are you his friends?" The healer pulled off her gloves as she shook Mr Potter's hand.
""Yeah," Remus replied. "Can we go and see them?"
"I understand that you want to see Mr Potter and Miss Evans?" The healer asked.
"Yeah, and soon." Sirius spoke up.
"I'm afraid that won't be possible for at least another half an hour if not longer."
"Why?" Mr Potter curiously asked.
"Because although Mr Potter's injuries aren't very intensive, Miss Evans' injuries are in fact quite horrific. A team of highly qualified healers are at this very moment trying to work out what happened and how to help her, therefore Mr Potter, for we have examined him already, is only unconscious due to exhaustion, and we are therefore waiting for him to wake up, which may take a while, depending on how quickly the energy regenerating potions take effect."
"But if he's only unconscious, why can't we see him?" Mrs Potter asked.
"It's because for him to be properly energized he needs to sleep as well, and with a crowd of people that won't be very easy."
"And what about Lily, when will we be able to see her?" Mary asked, clearly very stressed.
"As soon as we figure out or get a vague idea of what has happened to her we will be able to give her the correct medical attention that she requires."
"But how long will that take?" Mary asked exasperatedly.
"Maybe a few minutes, maybe the rest of the day. We can't help her properly until we know what happened. Before I get back, do any of you know what actually happened to Mr Potter and Miss Evans?"
"Sort of, I guess. They were fighting Death Eaters and maybe even You-Know-Who, we weren't actually with them when they were hurt." Sirius offered.
"Death Eaters? How?" The healer asked.
"They invaded the Leaky Cauldron."
"Thank-you, that information may be useful." The healer bid farewell and disappeared back through the double doors and Mr and Mrs Potter, Sirius, Peter, Mary and Remus sat back down to wait, yet none of the noted the pink clad figure that had been taking notes and eavesdropping on the conversation the entire time.