Cold Hearted

Secrets

Third Person

Elena and Gil did their best to just get Harry back to Evie's place, moving faster at Harry's better moments so they could slow down and take it easy when he'd have a bad shivering spell or get too dizzy to even go any further until it went away. Elena would coach him along, especially through those moments, encouraging him to carry on through the discomfort. Her gentle words did help him a lot, but there was only so much his body was willing to cooperate with.

They worked their way up the path to Evie's place as Harry's dizziness gave him a moment to breathe, allowing him to open his eyes a bit more than before and get his feet underneath him just a bit more. Elena adjusted his arm around her neck and gently rubbed his cold hand with hers as they walked, still holding in her tears as they walked up to Evie's castle which had wooden boards on the ground all around the windows and doors. Harry looked down at Elena and saw her deep worry in her eyes alone, but he looked forward again when he heard the door to the castle open and saw Mal burst out of the front door. She ran with a huge smile on her face right up to Ben who locked eyes with her and got just as excited to see her as she was to see him,

"Ben!"

"Mal! Thank goodness you're alright!"

The two shouted as they ran into each other's arms, Ben scooping Mal up into his arms to spin her around a few times before putting her back onto the ground to just nuzzle his face into her hair with a loving sigh. As for Elena, she didn't even look up as she got Harry around Ben and Mal with Gil's help of course. Evie was next out of the cottage with Uma right behind as Doug walked out too, but Uma came to a screeching halt at the sight of Harry looking so ill,

"What happened?"

She asked with a bit of concern, Evie looked over to Harry and looked concerned too as he stumbled and kept closing his eyes for a few solid seconds before slowly opening them. But Elena and Gil both ignored her, but Elena did look over to Evie and quickly spoke,

"H-Hold the door open for us please"

She kindly but frantically spoke, Evie rushed back to the door with Doug at her side. Evie grabbed one door and Doug got the other to open both doors so Gil, Harry, and Elena could all walk through together to continue to support the shivering pirate,

"What do you need?"

Evie asked Elena as Evie followed her into her main room, specifically to the couch as Elena and Gil pushed Harry just a bit more to get him to her couch before letting him slowly sit down, groaning a bit as he clutched his chest a bit more. Once he was sitting, Elena crouched down and began unlacing his boots with her shaky hands,

"Blankets please, and c-chamomile tea if you have any? Extra hot too"

Elena quickly spoke, as she took little glances up at Evie who had seen her distress the minute she saw her along with Harry's obviously ill self. She saw the desperation in Elena's eyes and the distant look in Harry's, so of course she knew they would need a bit of help. Evie nodded and jumped right into action,

"Will do"

Elena smiled at her a bit as she took Harry's boots off and set them aside, he curled up a bit and closed his eyes as he tried to keep his teeth from chattering. Evie darted out of the living room into the kitchen to get the tea going before darting into one of the hallways to grab some blankets from one of her spare bedrooms. Gil paced back and forth a bit as the stress began to reach him too, especially since Elena had gone mute as she worked with great haste to get Harry into a better place. She gently grabbed his ankles and lifted them up to get his legs onto the couch and gently make him lay down too. She got his legs up before quickly going to one of the armchairs and snatching the pillow off of it for Harry's head. She then quickly walked back over to him and slowed down a bit to gently lift his head with one hand and place the pillow underneath.