𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝟐 & 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭

𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙚

    BEOMGYU WOKE UP ON SUNDAY MORNING to find the dormitory blazing with winter sunlight. He sat up quickly and looked over at Geri's bed, but it had been blocked from view by the high curtains Sunghoon had changed behind yesterday. He turned to Sunghoon's bed, he was awake with his arm reboned but very stiff.

    "You all right?" Sunghoon muttered timidly.

    Beomgyu gave a small nod.

    They barely spoke, still the thought of Geri's petrified body just a few beds away weighing in their minds.

    Seeing that Sunghoon was awake, Madam Pomfrey came bustling over with a breakfast tray (Beomgyu ducked under the bed) and then began bending and stretching his arm and fingers.

    "All in order," she said as he clumsily fed himself porridge left-handed. "When you've finished eating, you may leave."

    Once she was gone, Beomgyu's head slowly peeked out before he looked at Sunghoon again. "I'm not feeding you," he said when his friend sent him a look.

    Sunghoon dressed as quickly as he could before the two of them split and hurried off to their House Towers. Beomgyu was desperate to tell his friends about Geri, but they weren't there. He left to look for them, then bumped into Sunghoon, just as the latter left the door of the Ravenclaw Tower.  None of their friends were there either.

    Beomgyu, wondering where they could have got to, felt slightly hurt that they weren't interested or waited.

    As the two of them passed the library, Lee Juyeon strolled out of it, looking in far better spirits than last time they'd met.

    "Oh, hello, you two!" he greeted. "Excellent flying yesterday, Sunghoon, really excellent. Heard Ravenclaw has earned fifty points! As long as we continue to break Slytherin's winning streak. But just watch, Beomgyu will lead us to the House Cup in no time!"

    "You haven't seen any of our friends, have you?" asked Beomgyu.

    "No, I haven't," said Juyeon, his smile fading. "I hope those boys are not in another girls' toilet, as well as for you gentlemen."

    The two forced a laugh, watched Juyeon walk out of sight, and then headed straight for Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Neither could see why their friends would be in there again, but after making sure that neither Filch nor any prefects were around, they attempted in opening the door but it was stuck and heard their voices coming from inside.

    "It's us," Sunghoon said, as Beomgyu still held the handle.

    There was a clunk, a splash, and a gasp from within the room and they saw Rio's eye peering through the keyhole; she beamed when she noticed Beomgyu.

    "Where've you been?! Taehyun said you never went to bed! You gave us such a fright," she spouted, quickly yanking him in by the collar.

    "Is it them?" They heard Arlo's voice from the inside. "Tell Beomgyu my tolerance to see him hasn't reached full bar yet so if he could just come back tomo—"

    "No one cares!" Yeonjun's voice drawled before Beomgyu and Sunghoon slid inside.

    "I care, which is why I'm going to tell her to just shut her senses for the rest of the hour," Beomgyu quipped while Sunghoon and Rio were brawling when she curiously gripped and flapped his arm in the air.

"Hey, Lo, are you happy to see me?" said Sunghoon, closing the door behind them. The two were surprised to see a toilet in the middle, as their friends all sat and huddled over it. An old cauldron was perched on the toilet, and a crackling from under the rim told Beomgyu they had lit a fire beneath it. Conjuring up portable, waterproof fires was a speciality of Rio's.