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when marina woke up, she was surrounded by the worried faces of laura, hayden, and amelia.
"what the fuck?" she muttered, sitting up, but an awful pain seeped into her arm, and she quickly flopped back down.
"nice of you to drop in." laura said, cracking a smile. marina didn't smile back.
"what happened?" she asked. amelia put a couple of pillowed under her head, making her sit up so she could see everything.
she was lying on the common room couch, though the common room seemed to be empty.
"charity beat the shit out of you." laura said, causing hayden to smack her shoulder. "what?" laura asked, annoyed. "it's the truth."
"charity punched you. a lot." hayden said, still giving laura a dirty look. "we think you passed out because you were already sick, and charity beating you up didn't help." amelia sighed.
"where is charity?" she asked. "fled once we came running. she begged us not to tell the professors and remus." laura said.
"i don't want you guys to tell anyone." marina said quickly. all her friends looked at her in bewilderment.
"why wouldn't we want to do that?" amelia asked. "it'll make things worse. let's just say i fell down the dormitory stairs and slammed into a wall." she said quickly.
"you definitely look like you slammed into a wall." laura said, choking back her laughter as amelia hit her on the shoulder.
"lovely." marina sighed, finally forcing herself to completely sit up. "what time is it?" she asked.
"noon. we came to you the second we got out of class for lunch." hayden explained. "you guys should go eat." marina said, looking at her friends with worry in her eyes.
"you should too." laura said. marina quickly shook her head. "like you said, i look awful." she muttered. nobody disagreed.
"oh god," she said. hayden sighed, before pulling out a tiny mirror out of her robe and handing it to marina, who quickly inspected her own face.
her left eye was black and blue, she had a busted lip, and her right cheek was forming a bruise. okay. this was bad.
"yeah, nope, not leaving this common room." she said stubbornly, handing the mirror back to hayden.
"you have to eat!" amelia said, looking down on marina disapprovingly. "madam pomfrey said i should stay in the dormitory!" marina argued. technically, she said to not go to classes, but they weren't there for that.
"oh, come on!" laura said. marina thought hard. on one hand, she could eat and calm her rumbling stomach, on the other hand, she could hide in the dormitory and not let anyone see what she looks like.
"fine." she muttered.
☾☾☾☾ on the walk to the great hall, marina kept her head down, while laura, hayden, and amelia walked around her, almost like a shield.
they finally reached the great hall and sat down, marina hiding her face with her hair. everything was going great, and nobody had noticed anything.
then peter came over,
"hello, love." he said, walking over to hayden and kissing her on the cheek. marina shot her head down and stared at her lap.
"marina, are you feeling better?" peter asked. "yeah, i'm good now." marina lied.
"peter! there you are!" james said, rushing over, sirius and remus close behind. "i'm going to die." marina whispered to amelia, who was sitting next to her.
"marina, you alright?" she heard james ask, and she could feel their eyes all on her. "yup, just sick." marina said, her voice cracking.
remus clearly didn't believe this.
he came around the table and placed his hand on the table next to marina, leaning down so his face was practically touching hers.
"are you alright?" he whispered, his breath hot on marina's cheek. "perfectly fine." marina said quickly.
remus gently grabbed marina's chin and tilted her head up towards his, and he gasped at the sight of her.
"who did this to you?"
HEY I'M BACK AND YEAH I DID THE CLASSIC "WHO DID THIS TO YOU" TROPE BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE IT SO MUCH SO IDC.
