The Three Abstracts

Catching Feelings

Lucius was walking to the infirmary, he was with his betrothed, Narcissa Black. They head straight to Madam Pomfrey's office.

"Good morning, Professor Slughorn sent us to check up on Severus Snape's condition."

The Mediwitch stood up from her chair and lead them towards Severus' bed. Lily was wiping his forehead when the three arrived.

"What are you doing here?"

Lily glared at Lucius.

"Easy there lioness, we don't bite."

Narcissa looked at the Redhead. She returned her gaze and they had a silent staring competition. Madam Pomfrey cleared her throat.

"He's still in an induced coma. I needed his body to rest so I could fix the other conditions he has. When he arrived here, he had multiple cuts in his hands, knees, and feet, they're likely from the glass. Also, there's a fresh cut in his chest near his heart. . . . "

Lucius examined the mediwitch for a moment, she seems to have a hard time to continue.

"Its most likely self-induced."

Lily gripped tighter. She heard Severus' condition when she brought him to the infirmary with Peter, but hearing it again doesn't lessen the pain of knowing what her friend was going through.

"Anyway, he happens to have old bruises and wounds on his chest, shoulders, back, and legs. He is also anemic which can be due to starvation which I have a hard time believing as the students spend most of their days here in school and Hogwarts rarely let their students starve. The house-elves employed would gladly offer food, so I believe that he chose not to eat making himself weak most of the time."

There was a moment of silence. Madam Pomfrey sighed.

"I have been monitoring his condition for 3days now, he's on the final stages of recovery. I'm expecting he would wake up this afternoon or tomorrow, rest assured I'd be here to look after him, he is quite stubborn."

"Would you inform me if he ever wakes up?"

The Gryffindor looked hopefully to the witch, she smiled.

"Of course dear, now off you go, you'd been here since yesterday. If you're lucky, you might still catch up on breakfast."

Lily motioned to leave but glared at the two Slytherins before finally leaving. Madam Pomfrey also left the two to have some privacy.

"Why would he put himself in such a situation?"

Narcissa almost whispered. Lucius went closer to Severus.

"I've recruited both Avery and Mulciber to the Dark Lord's cause. As soon as he wakes up I would ask where his allegiance lies."

His betrothed regarded him for a minute, they rarely argue. They both love and respect each other so it was worth the risk.

"Lucius, can't you wait for a day or two? At that point, he's barely recovered."

The Prefect stared at his girlfriend for awhile.

"Let's go."

Narcissa smiled, she won that round.

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Sirius was stuffing his mouth with any food he can get his hands on. The past three days were awful for the Marauders. James' mood was off, most of the time he'd be pondering, next he'd be throwing anything he has his hands on. Peter was in constant alert with the other three, mostly Remus, but he thinks one wrong move and all three will lash out at him. Sirius was mostly quiet, he choose not to talk about the matter at hand and pretended that nothing ever happened, though his movements say otherwise and is rather strange or over the top, he was a mess. Remus was covering for the others, reassuring their fellow house members they won't be in the receiving end of any bouts of anger, mostly from James and Sirius. He didn't do anything with Peter's situation as he was still pissed at how the other Marauder reacted in the boy's bathroom. He thinks that if James had finally decided on how he will deal with matters on hand, he needed Peter to change.