Hey guys, here is the next chapter. Hope you guys like it. Thannk you so much for all your support I know you guys don't care to know Why I haven't updated but you know what I am going to bore you anyway! My Grandmother passed away and it has put a large halt to everything in my life especially this story.
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Chloe wathched as Sirius Squeezed his eyes tightly shut and furrowed his brows before raising a hand to cover his face. She wanted to comfort him to tell him miaricals do happen, but as a healer she knew better. She couldn't give him false hope he had to prepare for the very real possibility that his Godson may just die tonight. In all honesty she should have told him he was crashing, but she couldn't bring herself to do it, she couldn't make that tortured look on his face any worse. She wanted to continue consoling him but immediatly delayed it when she heard him muttering, chloe leaned forward slightly and tried to hear the indistinct mumblings muffled by his hand.
"He told me he was allright...Should have known...bad liar." Chloe caught bits of his jumbled words. "That letter...ridiculus...so many times? How many?"
The confused nurse scrunched her brow together before trying to calm him down. "Sir, I am so very sorry but there isn't very much else I can tell you, however you can check with the group that he arrived with." Chloe suggested thinking maybe he could get more information from them. She smiled sympathetically as he glanced up at her removing his head from his hand before looking towards the area she motioned towards. She watched as a slight bit of relief crossed his face when he saw the group.
"Thank you." He muttered without looking back at her as he headed off towards the small group.
"what was that about?" Came a curious voice behind chloe startling her.
"Dear Merlin!" CHloe jumped spinning quickly in her chair and throwing her hand over her heart. "Jeez Melinda are you trying to give me a heart attack?"
"Calm down, you'll live." The other nurse rolled her eyes and looked back at her. "So what happened? I was with a patient and then next thing I know All hell breaks lose there are alarms going off all over the place back there."
Chloe raised a thin eyebrow at her confused looking collegue . "Are you serious? You don't know?"
"Obviously not Or I wouldn't be asking!" The Short tempered girl threw her hands up in annoyance.
"OK you know what you want to start that attitude crap up again than you can just go find out from someone who likes you more!" Chloe exlaimed quickly growing annoyed after allready having done so much for the ungrateful girl.
"All right all right, chill just tell me whats going on so I can get back to work."Her demeanor became slightly less aggressive at the thought of having to find someone who liked her.
Chloe sighed and gave Melinda a good once over before nodding. "All right, if you must know. We just had a high profile case come in, I mean very high profile, It's Harry Potter." Chloe took a second to look around for eaves droppers while Melinda was temporararily dumbstruck. "The thing is, he's dieing." She continued in a whisper.
"Dieing! The Boy-Who-Lived?" Melinda exclaimed calling the attention of several closer patients.
Chloe quickly looked towards the small group near the back and sighed in relief when none of them looked her way. "You can not do that!" She scolded the other nurse in a harsh whisper. "He is a kid! With people in this waiting room who see him as more than just the Boy-Who-Lived, and they would be awfully bloody upset if they heard you yelling things like that!" Despite how wrong it felt, Chloe couldn't help but be a bit happy about the look of shame that quickly passed over the other girls face.
Melinda looked around quickly before turning her attention back to the red-haired nurse beside her. "RIght. Sorry I just...It was a supprise is all. Do you think he is going to make it?"
Chloe didn't answer right away instead opting to check the chart for more information sighing llightly as she read the new scrawls across the parchment. "Well, they revived him so at least he is alive for now. and honestly that is more than I excpected.
"Right." Melinda looked shocked again her brown eyes opened wide as she combed a hand through her curly brown locks. "It's so wierd to think of the Boy-WHo-Lived needing to be revived. Do we know what has happened yet?"
Chloed sighed again looking back down at the chart. "No. Not really I mean, it is obvious he was beaten by someone, and normally the first people we would look at would be the gaurdians, but he was brought in not to long ago saying that some local kids had beaten him sensless and left him for his relatives to find."
"But sense this is reaccuring shouldn't we still check with the gaurdians?" Melinda inquired, looking towards Chloe with a furrowed brow.
Chloe nodded quickly before recalling something the bushy haired girl had said earlier. "I think we should look into the relatives again. I think they are more involved than we are being told."
"Really?" Melinda's eyes lit up as she realized she could be getting a very juicy piece of gossip. "How so?"
"Oh it's just.." She trailed of trying to remember the fuzzy haired girls name. "Hermione I believe it is, said something that brought them to mind." Seeing the look of confusion and intrigue from her collegue she quickly reminded herself of the fact that the girl sitting beside her wasn't the most trustworthy girl working here, before continuing. "Just something, nothing big really, It could have been nothing."
"Oh Come on Chloe, you have got to give me more than that." The nurse whined when she realized the other girl lwas trying to end the connversation.
Chloe gave the other girl a sharp glare before turning back to the unoorganized charts and began to file them, sorting through keeping out the patients who were still in the hospital. "I really don't know all that much more Melinda, I just saw the kid and he was in pretty bad shape. That is all I can really tell you."
"No, that is all you want to tell me. PLease Chloe, You know you can trust me!" Melinda continued her earlier whine.
Chloe was going to respond when she heard a snort of laughter from behind them, Causing both nurses to turn around and see who had heard them talking.
"Melinda you and trustworthy is like unicorn and evil, they just don't belong in the same sentence without an is not in between." She was another nurse slightly older than Chloe with a medium frame and sharp angled jaw. Her full lips pulled back to show off her pearly white teeth as she laughed. She was very beautiful and rather intimidating to be around so Chloe had never actually spoken to her , apparently she had talked to Melinda though.
"Oh shut up Jackson." Melinda's face screwed up as though she had just gotten a big wiff of dragon dung. "Like you're any better."
"Aww, did I hurt your feelings?" The new nurse asked walking over to them and laying the chart down on th counter before turning to look at the two girls. "No need to use my last name come on you know you can call me Amelia." Her tone was condesending to say the least and the last thing Chloe wanted to do was get into the quickly approaching fight.
"Um. Hey I am going to go talk to Potter's group so... sorry but gotta go." She quickly realized she might as well have just left when she saw the suprised look Amelia gave her obviously not having even recognized her presence earlier. Chloe stayed seated for a moment more thinking the older nurse was going to say omething until she saw her raise a thin eyebrow towards her waiting, Chloe swalloed nevously before quickly standing and walking towards the group in the back.
She quickly began rethinking her descision the closer to the group she got. One of the aurours was gone while the girl aurour (whose hair had changed to a muted brown color) was comforting the heap of a man whom sher had seen walk with so much confidence not even a month before. Chloe glanced around to look for bushy hair finding her several chairs down staring blankly out the window her arms still tucked tightly across took a deep breath before continueing over to them.
Sirius looked up towards the approaching footsteps, hope filled his face when he saw the nurse.
Sirius watched as she gave a tense smile . "Is there any more news?" Heasked before she could open her mouth.
"Um yes actually the Healers were able to revive him, hibody still isn't responding to magic the way we had hoped it would, but the healers are doing everything they can." Chloe told them again rethinking her decision to come over here.
"That's it?" Sirius asked curiosity spreading over his features. "Why isn't the magic working? I don't understand that at all."
The nurse really didn't want to talk about this it was always hard for the families. "Well as I told you earlier you need to prepare yourself for the possibility that he won't make it. You see, when a wizard is dieing all their magic goes to protecting the body and keeping them alive. Unfortunantly it also works as a sort of shield charm while protecting the body from further harm it also repels any magic that may heal to."
"So, he is really dieing..." Sirius' put his head back down in his hands. "Is there any chance he is going to make it?" His mumbled voice barely carying through the gaps in his fingers.
"Well." Chloe thought for a moment and glanced back down at the chart before turning her face back to the group noticing the bushy haired girl was actually listening. "There is always a chance. It's just the condition he is in is very severe." Another glance towards the charts. "Would you like to hear whats ailing him?"
Sirius groaned but nodded anyway.
Chloe gave a sharp nod before reading off the charts. "We couldn't perform a proper diagnostic spell so we didn't get everything, but we know that he has six broken ribs, a fractured skull, broken nose, ruptered spleen punctured lung and severe abdominal bleeding." Chloe swalled hard before looking back up at the faces in front of her. "Those are the major problems, we will find out more when we can get him stabalized."
"Oh is that all." Sirius muttered. Chloe could practically hear his eyes roll from behind his hands.
"Sirius..." Tonks quietly comforted him while rubbing his shoulder before looking up at the nurse. "Sorry, and thank you."
"Don't thank me. I'm just doing my job." The last thing she wanted was thanks for informing them how bad off Harry Potter was. Chloe turned to leave before remembering about the frizzy haired girl and turned back around. "Oh um Hermione was it?" The bushy girls head turned and she looked the nurse over with scrutinizing brown eyes before nodding. "Yes well I was wondering if you knew what happened to him it may give us some clues as to how to help him or what else is wrong with him." The girl didn't move, didn't show any reaction just kept looking at the nurse with narrowed eyes. Chloe tried not to squirm under the penetrating glare, she started to feel as though maybe she should drop it and leave when the girl opened her mouth.
"He was beaten, severly beaten and left for dead. He was bruttally attacked while i watched and couldn't do a thing."
There you have it! The next installment straight from my twisted mind! Hope you enjoy it. I wanted to do more but unfortunantly I was stuck in the nurses section and I couldn't find a good transition place.