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Chloe's breaths came in short gasps as she rushed back over to the Nurse's station glaring at her coworker who was happily typing away at another one of her crappy stories; it was a busy day to say the least she had been carting patient after patient back into exam rooms for the last hour and a half, her legs felt like jelly and she was ready to collapse. She wanted nothing more than to take her break already but they were understaffed and people just kept showing up; the waiting room was chalk full of broken limbs, bloody noses, splinched toenails, sprained ankles, discolored appendages and Merlin knows what else.
"Listen Melinda, you get the next patient I have to sit down a second." She called out pulling up one of the old rolling desk chairs.
"Sure thing, I just love pushing overweight couch potatoes around the place this." She replied her voice dripping with sarcasm before spinning around in her own desk chair with a huff and grabbing a chart off the counter.
"OK, you know what, I get that your new here and you aren't used to the rules but, you actually have to work here; you know that thing where you actually get off your butt for once and do something to help." She whispered back at her glancing around to make sure none of the patients overheard them before collapsing into the rolling chair her fiery red curls bouncing on her shoulders.
Melinda turned on her heal narrowing her dark brown eyes at her coworker. "Don't go pulling that on me I have worked in this hellhole for three months now and you know I do work around here unlike you!" She shouted causing several people to look over at them.
Chloe glanced around at the staring people before turning back to Melinda. "Would you keep your voice down?" She growled at the other girl. "I like having a job, and what you mean I don't work? I just spent the last hour and a half pushing your patients back and forth around this hospital because you were too busy!"
"UGH! I don't have time for this!" Melinda scoffed clearly avoiding the accusation. "I actually have to help people!" She called back as she hurried off to the patients.
"Wow, Supreme B much?" Another Nurse commented as she walked behind the station and placed a chart down beside one of the computers before pulling up the chair Melinda had just vacated.
"You're telling me." She muttered glancing over at the slightly older nurse as she pulled her hair back into a messy ponytail. "Hey Janet I can copy that over for you if you want. I have been up doing run around work for a while now and would love the break excuse."
Janet gave Chloe a once over with scrutinizing blue eyes as if she could see the trustworthy on her before smiling and giving a nod. "Sure why not, I like working with patient's more than paperwork anyway." She handed the chart off to Chloe before getting out of her chair and began to head towards the waiting area when she heard a weird thud coming from that direction, Janet looked over at Chloe to see if she had heard it to but as it turned out she didn't need the confirmation.
"Oh my God! What happened to him!" One of the patients cried out as several of them huddled around where the noise had come from.
"I Need a Healer over here!" A much more commanding voice shouted from the center of the group causing Janet and Chloe to spring into action, both of them ran over to the group and pushed there way through the crowd.
"Back up we need to get through!" Janet called to the patients pushing them to the side as they slowly started to disperse. "Dear Merlin." She muttered as her eyes fell upon the broken boy in front of her. "Chloe, message Healer Jackson, get him down her right away."
"Yes mam." She muttered as she turned and pulled out her wand.
"I need you to back away to miss." She called to Tonks as she kneeled down beside Harry and began checking his vitals and muttering to herself.
"How is he?" An older man of about forty asked as he rushed over to the nurse on the ground followed closely by nurse Chloe who was floating a stretcher behind her.
"Pulse rate is 55and decreasing, bp's 100/43 also decreasing airway is clogged by fluids, lungs are also filing with fluids." The words rushed from her mouth as the levitated the boy onto the stretcher, And began to rush him back past the Emergency doors. As they reached the doors Janet turned back and addressed Chloe Stay here notify the family, question the girl he arrived with call some aurors."
"OK. Chloe agreed as she gave a quick nod and watched them disappear through the doors. She turned on her heal back towards the girl he had arrived with. Noting that her face had turned serious and two more people had joined her. One was a man probably late thirties short brown hair brown eyes. The other was a younger girl about twelve to fourteen looking with frizzy brown hair and puffy brown eyes. She stood slightly away from the other two tears streaming down her face and a faraway look in her eyes as she stared after where the boy had disappeared through. Chloe cleared her throat as she walked over towards the group bring all of there attention towards her. It was slightly nerve wracking, they didn't confront her or start asking questions they just waited for her to start speaking. "I'm Chloe a nurse here at St. Mungo's and I need to ask you a few questions." She started introducing herself and then gestured to the chairs so that they could sit they all looked exhausted.
"No thanks, we'll stand." The older girl told her before glancing at her group. "Unless you guys wanna sit." Both of them shook their heads in reply.
"Oh ok. Well um," Chloe was actually nervous, she had dealt with weepy family members annoyed tag a longs, frustrated spouses and even angry grievers but these guys were all business as they waited for her to speak (except for the frizzy haired girl) it was as though they had just completely detached from the situation. "First off I need to know your relation to the victim."
"I'm Tonks this is Eldridge we are aurors we went to his place on a job." The woman said gesturing to herself and the man next to her than she glanced over at the girl again a look of confusion on her face. "I actually don't know who this is she was at the house." She told Chloe with a questioning voice as she continued to look at the girl.
Frizzy hair looked at her group then back towards Chloe and swallowed hard before speaking. "I'm Hermione." She muttered. "His friend, I was there when," another swallow "when he got hurt." She finished off with a sob and covered her mouth with her hand.
"Oh." Chloe whispered before sighing. "You sure you don't wanna sit down?" She asked again giving Hermione a sympathetic look.
"I-I'm Fine." She choked out wrapping her arms around herself.
Chloe just nodded before looking back at the aurors. "Well since you're here I guess I don't need to call any aurors." Chloe gave them a small smile before continuing her questions. "Does he have any family we need to contact?" She noticed that Hermione's face flashed with what appeared to be anger before she looked over to the aurors.
"Um…He has a God father, Sirius Black." Tonks told her before glancing over at Hermione. "I believe he was living with his aunt and uncle."
" Do you know their names so we can contact them to?" Chloe questioned again noticing the anger passing over Frizzy hair's face.
"You don't need their names." Hermione told them her voice surprisingly stronger. "Just get Sirius."
"We have to contact the parental guardians first and if he was living with them then they are who we need to get." Chloe explained to the young girl.
"I'm not an idiot." Hermione told the nurse looking at her in anger. "Notifying them is a great way to get your patient killed though, and you are supposed to 'do no harm'"
The nurse looked at her in surprise as did the two aurors. "You mean they did that to him?" She asked looking back at the doors he disappeared through.
Hermione's face paled she shouldn't have said that it wasn't her place. "It doesn't matter." She muttered looking down.
"Get me two bags of Hemostore quickly!" Doctor Jackson Called to one of the nurses in the brightly lit OR as he pointed his wand at the boy. "Sommeil malin!" He called pointing at the boy a wispy grey engulfed his head before disappearing.
"Here you are." One of the Nurses announced Hanging the potions up on the I.V stand.
"Egritudo Omnes." The doctor called out once again his wand pointed towards the boy's chest. A thin red line sprung from the doctors wand and wrapped itself around the boy and began to move over his body as words appeared in the air. "Broken ribs, punctured lung, ruptured spleen, brain bleed…bloody hell." The doctor muttered as he read the words out of the air.
"Doctor! He's crashing!"
Chloe looked up from her station at the desk, her eyes traveled through the still busy waiting room before they landed on the small group she was looking for. Normally people come in here with such small complaints, of course they had seen some real tragic cases before and this wasn't the worse the hospital had seen; but it was the worst she had seen she may have been here for longer than Melinda, but two and a half years still isn't that long and she was taking courses in being an actual healer for the majority of the day so this whole tragic accidents thing was fairly new to her. Seeing that young girl crying like that, she had looked so lost and hurt. Chloe wasn't used to it. The aurors were filling out paperwork, she didn't know what it was exactly but she figured it had something to do with the boy.
"Where is he?"
Chloe was pulled suddenly out of her thoughts by the loud voice over to her left she looked over towards the voice with a smile. "I'm sorry sir but I need a name." She replied kindly to the panic stricken man.
"Harry Potter, I was told there was an accident of some sort, that I needed to get down here right away, and that, that he was in bad shape." The man had concern etched across his features his curly brown hair hanging messily around his face.
Chloe felt sorry for the man, she knew who he was now, that boy's God father, Sirius, and to say that Harry was in bad shape was an understatement. She gave him a sympathetic smile before looking down at the charts sprawled across the counter her eyes searching for the right one. "Um yes" She stalled as she picked up the chart and flipped it open watching as a new scrawl appeared near the bottom, 'patient crashed, trying to revive now, not responding to magic'. Chloe swallowed before looking up at Sirius. "He is in an operating room, the healer's took them back there as soon as he arrived."
The man sighed heavily and ran a hand through his hair. "DO you know how he is doing? Has the chart been updated?"
"Yes sir, um they are trying their best to keep him alive and heal him but… you have to understand he was really bad off when he came in here. His body is too weak to respond to magic so they are having to go about this the more muggle way."
The nurse watched as fear filled the mans eyes. "To weak…. You mean he is dying and they can't help him as much as they need to."
Chloe looked over at Sirius. "Perhaps, Perhaps you should prepare yourself for the possibility that he may not make it."
I know I'm mean. MWHUAHAHAHAHAHA! I don't know…. Maybe I should kill Harry? Tell me what ya think.