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#56 Epilepsy

James has my type of epilepsy. This is not me speaking on behalf of everyone else with epilepsy, this is me speaking on behalf of my own experiences. Epilepsy is just an umbrella term, and Merlin...there's a fuck ton going on under that umbrella.

Language ahead that may trigger people with epilepsy, people who have seizures or people who suffer from mental health issues. These are things people have said to me, not things I believe about people. You are worthy of love and respect and epilepsy/your mental health issues do not define who you are. Xx

James opened his eyes, he was in the hospital wing, again. He groaned in pain and tried to sit up but his joints were still sore and based on the random bruising, he could make the pretty accurate assumption, that he'd had another seizure. One of the big ones too he thought, "huh would you look at the size of that" as he ran his fingers along a massive bruise on his thigh.

James looked out the window, it was dark which meant he had most likely had the seizure in his sleep. Sirius and Pete had probably brought him to Madam Pomfrey, she would've been waiting in the hospital tonight anyway for Remus to get back.

James looked around, the other hospital beds had closed curtains but he did see someone standing near the end window, looking out at the stars.

"Hey love"

Regulus smiled, "how are you feeling?"

"Sore, can you kiss it better?"

James heard Regulus scoff, watching as he walked over and kissed the top of James' head. Regulus ran his hand across James' arm and leg, he'd fallen from the bed and hit the floor hard so the bruises were pretty bad. Regulus looked up at James' face, his eyes still had that glazed look to them, that often happened when James was recovering.

"Anything I can do?"

"Use that brilliant brain of yours and those master potion skills to make a cure"

"In your own words James "epilepsy is unique to each person, it would be nearly impossible to cure every epileptic, epilepsy doesn't care about your blood status, gender, race or sexuality" so cut me some slack, I already make potions that ease your pain afterwards" Regulus raised his eyebrows,

James rolled his eyes but grinned at Regulus' accurate memory, "speaking of?"

Regulus got the bottle out of his bag, he had spent months perfecting it and had told Madam Pomfrey what he was using the ingredients for when she caught him in the greenhouse one night. She insisted that James was okay in her care, and Regulus had no doubt about that, Madam Pomfrey performed miracles on the daily, it was more so a way for Regulus not to feel completely useless.

James drank the potion and immediately felt the relief begin to take hold off him as the warm drink heated him up. The actual potion tasted revolting but James would never tell Regulus that, he'd gone through too much effort to make this work.

Regulus sat on the side of the bed for a while longer before looking up at the sky through the window, he would need to leave now before his friends woke up and questioned where he was, or worse Sirius.

"I better get going, Madam Pomfrey left, she said she'd only be gone a moment and that she just needed to go get something but she'll be back soon"

"Alright, I'll catch you after potions?"

Of course, meet me in the library"

James ignored the pain and sat up, kissing Regulus goodbye before hearing faint footsteps, one of the other patients must have woken. Regulus smiled then slipped away into the shadows and out into the corridor, part of him wanted his relationship with James to be public but he didn't mind the secrecy, there was something fun about the sneaking away, whether that was out of James' dorm or between classes.