Being His Daughter

Assistance

 "When do you think she'll wake up?" There were several more mutters and my head throbbed painfully. Someone groaned, but when the mutters stopped, I realized it was me. I opened my eyes with difficulty and several blurred figures loomed in front of me. Dementor. I gasped and my eyes popped open as I thrashed to get away from them. But where was Airam? I had to get Airam! "Airam!" I screamed, shoving away. I plopped to the ground and ignored the pain as I tried crawling away from the Dementors who were shouting and advancing on me.

I squeezed my eyes shut as one grabbed my shoulders and screamed loudly. Cold, I was cold. They made me cold.

"Sierra! Sierra! It's okay!"

"Back away from her! Back away!"

A warm hand gripped onto my arm firmly while another placed itself on my face, turning me to face them. I opened my mouth to scream in fear again but I stopped when I registered the warmth of the hand on my cheek. Dementors weren't warm. I stopped thrashing around and opened my eyes slowly again. A Dementor wasn't in front of me, trying to suck out my soul. It was the concerned face of Madam Pomfrey. I stared at her as her lips moved but I couldn't understand what was coming out.

"Sierra, dear, it's alright," I processed after a while. I looked around wide eyed to see a horror-stricken Draco, Jalen, Theodore, Blaise, and Pansy behind her. I looked around where I was at and registered the white walls and beds in my head. The Hospital Wing. My body relaxed and the thought of what I just did made my cheeks burn.

"Come on, dear," Madam Pomfrey said. She lifted me up and set me on the bed I had thrown myself off. She covered me with blankets and grabbed a plate that was beside my bed. It was full of large pieces of chocolate. She held one up to my mouth and I tried to grab it with my numb fingers. It slipped right through and she held it up to my mouth again. I bit into it and my body felt a hundred times better as warmth spread throughout me. She placed the plate in my lap and then I realized she had been talking: "-Professor Lupin said to be sure that you eat these, and it seems to be working." She pressed her hand against my cheek. "You're temperature is going up already. I'm going to go check on Mr. Potter. You keep eating, you hear?" I nodded my head slowly and she walked off.

I looked ahead at the five people I had previously thought were Dementors. They looked afraid to say anything, but then Draco slowly stepped toward me. "Are you okay, love?"

I nodded my head, taking another bite of chocolate. "W-Where's Airam?" I croaked. My voice was so scratchy, it didn't even sound like my own.

"She's alright," Draco said, gesturing to my right. I turned quickly and spotted her lying three beds away, a large plate of chocolate beside her as well. She was still sleeping. "She still has her soul, so do you. Snape found you just in time."

"Snape?" I asked.

The others seemed to be feeling a bit more comfortable as they had shuffled a little closer to me. "Yeah," Jalen said. "We all heard one of you scream and Snape was the first teacher to run to the back of the stands. No one was allowed back there after that of course. Half of the teachers followed him and the other half went down to the pitch because of all the Dementors that were flying above the game. Potter fell off his broom and Dumbledore had to slow his fall. When we heard what happened to you and Airam, we came down here right away."

"Some not so enthusiastically," Pansy added and Jalen shoved her hard.

"That must've been horrible, De," Theodore said, shaking his head. I cocked my head to the side.

"De?" I asked.

"New nickname. Since Draco doesn't like Rid. De is for Dementor-"