Healing His Heart

Chapter 1

Helena Stephens walked the quiet halls of St Mungo's Hospital, she was working a night shift which involved checking up on patients and filling paper work.

The only sound that filled the silence was the tapping sound of her heeled shoes that resonated off the white washed walls.

It was early July signifying her fourth year of work at St Mungo's, she had come to work at the hospital when she was twenty one years old, four years after graduating from the South American wizarding school, Castelobruxo.

As Helena walked towards the office containing patient files she let her thoughts drift to the events that had lead her to this moment.

Helena had been born in Guatemala. Her mother was a Hispanic witch named Luciana Fernández and Helena's father was an English muggle named Andrew Stephens.

Her parents had met when her mother travelled overseas to Bristol, England to visit her dying great grandmother. Her father had then travelled back to Guatemala with her mother and not long after, Helena was born.

At one year of age, Helena's parents split - they had never married - and Helena was taken back to Bristol with her father. Helena and her father was very close until the tragic day when her father was killed at work.

Andrew Stephens had been a muggle police officer and during a raid was shot dead. Helena attended the funeral and then was taken back to her mother in Guatemala.

Growing up in an English speaking country, Helena was lucky that her mother had also taught her to be fluent in Spanish, which had been her mother's first language as she'd grown up in Granada, Spain.

When Helena was eleven years old she was accepted into Castelobruxo, the South American wizarding school. During her school years, Helena had become adept in Potions and could quite possibly one of the greatest Potioneers in the world.

After graduating from Castelobruxo, Helena had moved to London where she studied to be a nurse and then she had landed a job at St Mungo's. Four years later she still worked in the hospital and really enjoyed it.

Snapping out of her thoughts, Helena pushed open the door to the file room and sat at the desk as she overlooked the files she had brought with her.

After deeming all information in order, she took the files and put them in their respective filing cabinets. When she was filing under the S section, Helena's eyes fell upon a file belonging to Severus Snape.

The name sounded familiar to Helena and she tried to remember where she had heard it.

"That man is running out of time, if we do not find a cure soon then Severus Snape will die," Dr Benson sighed as he spoke to Dr Panz.

Helena gasped, yes she had overheard the doctors talking about the awful condition that Severus Snape was in. Helena couldn't help herself as she pulled Severus's file from the drawer and sat behind the desk to read it.

Snake bite, slit throat, extensive scarring across back and torso, were listed under Severus's name.

Helena examined the different doctors' notes on how the snake's venom had reacted with Severus's blood to form a poison that was slowly killing him. From what the notes said, Severus had no more than a year to live.

Helena's mind shifted into a potioneer's thinking and thought about the different potions that could possibly heal the man.

Helena gasped as she realised what potion could cure Severus, The Draught of the White Rose. It was one of the most difficult and dangerous potions known to potion makers, but given her considerable potion making skills, Helena knew she would be able to make it.

Helena looked at the clock and saw that her shift had ended. She took Severus Snape's file and placed it into her handbag, she planned to visit the Headmistress of Hogwarts the next day to speak with her about Severus.

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