The Prince's Love

Chapter 17: Supposedly Oblivious to the World

Melissa's POV

I couldn't help but give Sev another chance when he sang that to me. I couldn't believe he would ever do something like that, in front of the entire school as well, and it meant so much to me that he would do all of that for me.

In all honesty, I just wanted him back. He was my everything and I could barely live without him. So what, he had made a mistake. And it was clear that he was going to fix it.

So despite that I had been mad at him before, I let my emotions take over and kissed him. I missed his arms around me, his lips on mine.

So when he cried out in pain and fell to the floor, it felt like my world had torn apart.

I saw through blurred vision a small creature, stabbing Sev with a knife. I couldn't do anything, I just stood there, frozen in fear.

I heard screams, I saw the creature taken off of Sev, but I didn't pay attention to it. I sank down to kneel beside Sev, who was struggling to breathe.

His face was contorted in pain, his eyes shut tight. I tried to move aside the fabric of his clothes to assess the damage, but the moment I touched it, he cried out in pain.

So I settled for holding his hand, with him gripping back tightly. "Stay with me Sev, Madam Pomfrey will be here soon, just concentrate on me," I told him, trying to distract him from the pain.

He started coughing, choking on his blood. I tried to think of some way to help him, but I knew nothing in the way of healing, and I couldn't use our Soulmate Bond while I was pregnant, as I was already using up all my energy carrying twins.

"I-, I love you, Isa," he choked out weakly. I opened my mouth to respond when I suddenly felt a blade whip past my ear.

I looked down and saw the tip of the knife in his head, with Sev not moving, and I screamed. He couldn't die, he couldn't be dead, he couldn't.

I felt someone pull me off of him and drag me away, which just made me scream louder, with tears falling down my face. I couldn't leave him, I needed to be there, I had to know if he was okay.

I kicked, bit, and punched the person carrying me away, but nothing worked. After a few minutes, the person sighed and muttered an incantation, pulling me into a dreamless sleep.

...

When I woke up, I found myself in Minerva's office and saw Minerva and Madam Pomfrey talking quietly to each other. When they saw I was awake, they quickly walked over and sat down across from me.

Once they were seated, I immediately asked, "Is Sev okay?" When I saw the way their faces dropped, I put my head in my hands and started to cry. I couldn't lose him, we had just gotten back together, I couldn't be without him again.

"Melissa, can you please let Madam Pomfrey speak first?" Minerva asked me. I nodded and pulled my hands away to look at them, wiping my tears away for the moment.

"Miss Bennett, I was able to get Severus stable. However, he has a punctured lung that can't be healed magically, and it will take time to heal on its own," she told me. I nodded, but then realized she had skipped over something.

"What about the knife to his head?" I asked her.

She sighed and said, "While the knife didn't go in too far, it did cause his brain to put him into a coma. I don't know how long he will be like that. It could be months. I also don't know if it will leave any brain damage, only he will be able to tell us that when he wakes up."

I felt tears forming in my eyes once again, but I immediately stood up and said, "I want to see him."

They glanced at one another, and then Minerva said, "Melissa, I really don't think that would be a good-"