Death's Mediator

infirmary visits and memories

Chapter V

Vera held on to her sister's hand as they walked the many stairs leading to the infirmary. Veratrum wondered what would come up on their scans but could not be sure as living in a poor orphanage there wasn't much food for all of the children but Vera always tried to make sure that Cypress ate as much as possible and stayed relatively healthy in that shit hole that they had, had call home for years on end. Vera could feel that Cypress was slightly nervous about this examination and her eyes were skittering around the hall keeping everything and everyone in sight.

Vera squeezed the hand that was in her grasp, and when Cypress shot a look up at her she smiled down at her reassuringly, "it's alright, you'll be fine."

Cypress nodded if her sister said so, then she would believe her. Neither of them noticed the black eyes nor the silver-blue eyes watching them with curiosity. It didn't take them long to reach Madame Pomfrey, the school med-witch who stood just in the entrance as if she was waiting for them.

Vera watched as she raised her left hand and gestured to some beds that had some dividers, "Gentlemen to my left, Ladies to my right. I will explain what I will be doing as we go through the exam to easy any worries that you might have."

Veratrum smiles at her sister softly before leading her off to the right. She remembered some of the fights that had come about when there was very little food in the orphanage and people not wanting her to eat since they were so scared and wanted her gone. So Vera was expected some malnourishment for the both of them but she did wonder if the past injuries would come about even though they had been healed.

"All right, ladies first and then the gentlemen. After each one you may partner up with the next on and go back to your common room but you will not go to your common room alone, am I understood?" Madam Pomfrey's voice booked no argument from any of them. The first year Slytherin all nodded knowing of how dangerous for them even at that time of night.

They all watch as Pomfrey waved her wand in some complex motion that produced a sheet of parchment that shimmered in a silvery blue tint as scrawling appeared apparently with the patients' medical history.

It seemed that it would be Pansy first. From what Vera could see from the list that might have been angled off to the right of her, that it was in fact a very short list of injuries. Nothing that didn't seemed to be expected from a pureblood childhood. A couple bruises from her years as a toddler when she bumped and knocked into things. Once she was finished with Pansy, the first years watched as she set Pansy's history in a folder on her desk that was set out side of her office. Daphne Greengrass was next for the female first years. She was further off and Vera couldn't glimpse but the parchment didn't lengthen so they could only assume that she had a normal and non-alarming childhood just as Pansy had.

And just as before she walked back to her desk and placed the sheet of parchment in another folder for her. Vera nudged Cypress forward trusting the med-witch with her sister.

Cypress resisted the urge to fidget and scoot closer to her sister as Madam Pomfrey said that it would disturb the results with two different magics for the scan. But a quick look helped her calm down and not lose her nerve for the examination.

Cypress could hear as her sister grind her teeth together as the results showed themselves. It was longer than the other two girls but it wasn't as long as it could have been if her sister hadn't of taken care of her like she did.

Pomphrey's lips thinned as she turned around and placed the results in a completely different part of the desk with her folder.

"You will need to stay with me for a few minutes after this dear one." Her voice was light and friendly but the anger and fury blazing in her eyes was plain for anyone to see.