ALBUS'S PHONE RANG AND HE RACED TO PICK IT UP. It had been a slow day at work so he was surprised to get a call, which he hoped was from someone interesting.
"This is Potter," he said.
"Potter, you on the fourth floor?" the other voice said through the phone. Albus placed the voice to a Jessica Albir who worked on the ground floor.
"Yeah," he answered.
"Great, I'm sending a patient your way," said Jessica "It's a hot blonde man in his late fifties. Some one had a bit of fun with the bleeding curse. He's unconscious and not many know the counter curse. The son found him with his wife."
"All right, send him up," Albus said, hanging up the phone. As a part of his aunt's program while she was the Minister of Magic, Hermione had introduced phones to the wizarding society. Since then, big institutions like The Ministry of Magic and St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries had used them for efficiency. Everyone who worked in such places were given a phone and they had to return it when they no longer worked there.
A couple of nurses brought a body covered in blood and bandages up to Albus. Albus stared in shock as he saw and recognized the body. Draco Malfoy was lying on a bed right in front of him and Scorpius and Rose had found him like that.
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Scorpius, Rose and Lena waited just outside of the room waiting for Albus to tell them some news on how Draco was doing. Albus gestured for them to enter inside. He locked the door behind him and used the muffliato charm.
"What happened?" Albus asked.
"We just found dad like that," said Scorpius "Rose and I were making breakfast. I went to his room to call him for breakfast and I found him on the floor. Someone had used the bleeding curse. I didn't know the counter curse so I just wrapped him in bandages to prevent him from bleeding out."
"It looked like he was part of a struggle," Rose added "The whole room was a mess."
"Why is he not up yet?" asked Lena "He should be up if you used the counter curse right."
"I didn't use the counter curse," said Albus "He wasn't hit by the sectumsempra curse. If you look at the cuts they are very deep and they are all over his chest and limbs. The bleeding curse leaves only one cut. This was done by a knife or some other sharp object. I've given him essence of dittany and blood replenishing potion and re-did the bandages. He lost a lot of blood and he hit his head pretty hard. He'll wake up soon." Albus looked around to see if anyone unwanted as listening in.
"There's something else," said Albus "I found this in his hand." Albus handed a piece of parchment to Rose and Scorpius.
44,2,777,777,999/7,666,8,8,33,777 -6
3,777,2,222,666/6,2,555,333,666,999 -4
8,33,3,3,999/555,88,7,444,66 -3
555,444,2,6/555,88,7,444,66 -3
555,999,3,444,4/555,88,7,444,66 -3
333,555,33,88,777/3,33,555,2,22,666,88,777 -2
6,88,66,3,88,66,4,88,7777/333,555,33,8,222,44,33,777 -1
777,88,22,33,88,7777/44,2,4,777,444,3 -1
22,444,555,555/9,33,2,777,555,33,999 -1
222,2,555,33,22/777,88,66,222,666,777,66 -3
2,555,33,99,2,66,3,33,777/777,33,444,3 -5
7,2,444,4,33/333,555,33,8,222,44,33,777 -3
2,66,4,33,555,2/6,88,555,555,444,66,7777 -4
9,444,555,22,88,777/222,666,555,33,6,2,66 -1
4,444,66,66,999/7,666,8,8,33,777 -6
6,2,777,888,444,66/55,33,66,66,33,3,999 -4
9,444,66,444,333,777,33,3/6,33,3,444,66,2 -1
222,33,555,444,2/44,444,4,4,444,66,7777 -3
55,2,8,33,777,444,66,2/66,666,8,8 -2
7777,2,777,2,44/2,555,888,2,777,2,3,666 -1
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888,444,7777,88,2,555/888,33,777,444,333,444,222,2,8,444,666,66/444,7777/66,33,33,3,33,3/333,666,777/777,33,9,2,222,3
333,666,777,33,444,4,66/44,666,7,33
It was similar to the one they had found when Albus was attacked. Rose pulled out that one and compared them together.
"It's the same font," she said "But the numbers are different." There was some rustling sounds from Draco's bed. They all turned around to see that Draco was moving his rapidly from side to side, mumbling something in his sleep.
"No... stop it... Astoria.. no, don't leave," me mumbled. He then, opened his eyes and jerked into an upright position.
"Scorpy, where am I?" he asked. Albus pulled a chair and sat next to Draco, examining his eyes with his wand.
"You're in St. Mungo's Mr. Malfoy," Albus informed him "You were attacked."
"It's Draco for you, Albus," said Draco, rubbing his head with is fingers.
"How are you doing?" Scorpius asked.
"I'm fine, just have a bit of a headache," said Draco.
"That's not what I meant," said Scorpius "You were mumbling something in your sleep. Something about mum."
"It's fine, Scorpy," said Draco with a sad smile.
"I don't mean to be insensitive but maybe it's time to move on. She has been... gone for a long time," said Scorpius, quietly. Albus expected Draco to be mad but Draco just smiled.
"I don't want to," he said "Once Astoria said and I quote 'If I die, there will be no I want you to move on and find love with some one else. If I die you're coming into the coffin with me.' I feel like I should at least respect a part of that, even if she said that as a joke. Besides, I'm never going to find someone who'll love me the way she does." Scorpius gave his dad a sad smile and hugged him.
"Can I have some parchment, Albus? I need to tell Granger that I'm not coming to work today," Draco asked. Albus nodded and gave Draco a quill and a piece of parchment.
"It's Granger-Weasley," said Rose "Also, you can call mum and let her know."
"I know it's Granger-Weasley but Granger seems more natural to me," explained Draco "Also, I never really quite got the hang of phones. I always get them confused. And now the numbers are also letters now, so I prefer to stick to owl."
Draco's words had sparked an idea in Lena's mind.
Another nurse knocked on the door and Albus opened it, removing the muffliato charm.
"Is your patient all better?" she asked.
"Yeah," Albus said "Can you walk, Mr. M- Draco?" It was a little uncomfortable for Albus to call his best friend's father by his name. Draco got out of bed and slowly walked towards the door.
"Excellent!" Albus exclaimed "Just take some wiggenweld potion if you feel too weak and change the bandage once a day." Draco nodded and left the room. Lena closed the door and waited till no on was in earshot.
"I know how to crack the code," she said.
A/N: So my Wattpad is glitching. There is just some extra space between paragraphs and sentences and no matter how hard I try they just come back and so just deal with it I guess. Also, I've been up for about 25 hours (25 hours and 16 minutes to be exact) so I thought about publishing a chapter so yay!! Please check my grammar and spelling.
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