I solemnly swear that I am up to no good | Professor Remus Lupin

Chapter 17 | Madam Pomfrey

Right before I could hit the ground a spell stooped my fall. I couldn't fully see what was going on and my whole body was in aching pain. My eyes flickered open, but everything was blurry. I fell down the few centimeters that were left towards the ground and groaned in pain. I heard people running and screaming, they came closer.

"Oh my god, Maeve" i heard George's voice.

"Are your alright?" Fred said. They were kneeling next to me. I wanted to move and answer them, but every breath I took and every slight movement I made just made the pain worse. A few other worried voices appeared around me, Grace, Flitwick and some of my teammates.

"Get away!" I heard Remus scream. He was running towards us. He pushed his way through the students standing around me and picked me up. I felt his strong arms around my leg and my back, the movement he caused brought me more pain but I felt safe and comfortable in his arms. "I will bring her to the hospital wing" he stated and carried me away from the field. My sight was still blurry but I wanted to open my eyes to look at him. The pain got worse and worse, I groaned in pain and he tried to calm me down. His voice sounded extremely worried. When I tried to lift my head everything went black and my strength left my body.

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I woke up in a bed. The first thing that I thought of was that I missed his arms around me. I slowly opened my eyes and blinked so they could focus. I looked into familiar and beautiful blue and grey eyes. Remus smiled at me and stroke a piece of hair that was over my eyes out of my face. I tried to return the smile, but even this movement hurts.

"Thank you, Remus" I whispered, even though this hurted like hell. His smile widened and he placed his hand onto my hand that was still formed as a fist.

"What happened?" I heard Madam Pomfrey from the other side of the room. Remus quickly moved away from me and took his hand away.

"Another student" he started with anger dripping from his voice "flew into her and pushed her from her broom during the quidditch match-" He got interrupted by Fred, George, Luna and Grace storming loudly into the room.

"Maeve! Is she okay?" They asked worriedly. Remus didn't knew what to answer. "She is awake and she will survive"

Madam Pomfrey walked towards the bed I was laying in and told me she would take a look to see what she was work with. I lifted up the quidditch sweater to show her the side that I got hit in. I lifted it up to my breast.

"Alright, it's worse than I expected" she stated. I looked at the others and they seemed to be shocked too. So I turned my head so I could take a look myself. Shit, this really looked any other than good. The whole side was colored in a mix of red, blue and the skin where it hit me was a dark shade of purple.

"Well at least it was worth it" I just said. All of them looked at me with confusion. And I opened my hand and showed them the golden snitch that I had in my hand for all this time and smiled at them. Grace and Luna got excited and started celebrating since this meant that we had won the match. Fred and George looked surprised and smiled proudly. I turned towards Remus and he just stared at me, then he smiled widely and looked proud. His expression made my heart melt and looking at his smile made me forget all the pain.

"We will tell everyone" Grace celebrated and i nodded at her. She ran away with Luna by her side after i assured her that i was alright. It was hard to take my eyes off of Remus, who was still sitting next to my bed with a smile planted on his face.

Madam Pomfrey prepared some potions next to us and the twins couldn't stop talking about the fact that i still had catched the snitch, regardless of what happened.

"Wait...who hit me?" I asked, hadn't seen the someone or what had hit me, I just felt the pain.

"Malfoy" the twins answered.

"He will regret this" I said and clenched my jaw in anger.

"Don't worry. We will take care of him" the twins stated and winked at me.

"Miss, I need to lift your shirt up further..." Madam Pomfrey told me and I looked at the twins and Remus so they would turn around.

"Why is she looking at us like that, Fred?"

"I don't know, George"

"There's nothing we haven't seen in class already..."

"Right, Professor?" They asked Remus and started laughing. Madam Pomfrey looked at them confused, but focused on me again. I shot them a glare and looked at Remus. He was already turned around and I smiled to myself. The twins grudgingly finally turned around too. Madam Pomfrey looked at all the skin that had turned blue or red. She told me that it got up towards my face. She gave me a mirror and I saw that even the a part of the skin on my neck had turned blue. Malfoy really hit me hard. Pomfrey told me that the blue parts would probably get away in a few days, but the place were he had hit me with the broom, would probably take a longer time to recover. She said that probably some of my organs had some damage from the hit.

She told the others to leave the room and that there was no need to worry. She gave me something that would make me fall asleep and she took a closer look at my injuries and checked on some inner parts, that possible got damaged. So I laid back and closed my eyes and waited for the potion to bring me to sleep...