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

Chapter 18 | Flowers

When I woke up from the potion again the room was pretty dark and only a few candles were lit up. I sighed and tried to lift myself up. The blanket fell down from my chest and i noticed that i was just wearing a white bandage to cover up my breast and my pants. I looked around in the room and saw no one around. I noticed a few flowers on the table at the end of the bed. I slowly managed to sit myself up. The pain from my side went through my whole body again as i moved. I groaned out a "fuck" and breathed out, before I tried to stand up.

When I had lifted myself up and stood again, I didn't even felt my legs properly. I cried out as the pain got worse and i lost control over my body. Suddenly I noticed that someone had walked into the room.

"Oh go-" before he could continue he ran towards me and catched me. I had collapsed but strong arms were holding me and laying me back to bed. In the dimmed light i still was able to see who had came in.

"Professor Lupin?"

"Maeve, what were you doing?" He asked me concerned and worried. "You can't walk around..."

I slowly pointed towards the flowers on the table. "I just wanted to see who they were from..." I answered in a low voice. He sat down on the bed next to mine, so he was sitting in front of me. His hands were still on my shoulders. I looked up to face him. He smiled at me and looked into my eyes. I noticed his eyes flicker down on my body, he sucker in his breath and hesitantly looked back into my eyes. He seemed really nervous now and it was hard for him to focus. I needed to hide the smile that was coming on my lips.

"Actually" he started to break the tension and nervously scratched the back of his head. "I got you flowers too" he stood up and walked towards the door and grabbed them. He must have let them go when he rushed to help me. He slowly walked towards me and handed me them. He seemed so nervous and I smiled at him to comfort him. "Thank you, Remus"

I was really glad that it was so dark now, so he wasn't able to see that I had blushed and was smiling like a bloody idiot. We stayed like this for a while. I was sitting on my bed holding the beautiful and really good smelling flowers that he had got me and he was standing next to my bed. We just smiled at each other and it wasn't in an uncomfortable or awkward way. It was beautiful and the dimmed light flickered through the dark room. He slowly walked towards me. I needed to lift my head really far, since he was so tall and I was just sitting. When he only was about three steps away from me we heard a knock on the door. He stepped back and sighed. Before he walked away he smiled at me one more time.

I looked after him and noticed that I was still smiling like an idiot and was pressing the flowers onto my chest. He opened the door and walked through it, but as soon as he saw the person that waited outside I noticed that he clenched his hands into fist, but he didn't say anything and walked away.

Draco Malfoy hesitantly walked into the room. My smile disappeared and I shoved the blanket up to my head again to hide my body. He slowly walked to my bed.

"Listen, Lovegood" he started with a cold tone. "I am sorry. It wasn't my intention to get you this injured..." his tone had softened. And he actually seemed sorry. This was very unlike him, but I guess he was the type of person who was just me a when people were watching and he wanted to prove himself.

I sighed and thought of things to say now. Maybe the potion from Madam Pomfrey had still a calming impact on me or it was something else...but I didn't wanted to be angry right know. I wasn't really angry at him at all, even though I had reasons to be that.

"I will forgive you, if you give me the book I need." I stated. He seemed confused at first but chuckled.

"A book is an idiotic thing to ask for in return for what happened...but what could I expect from a Ravenclaw" I ignored his comment, since he didn't knew what that book really meant to me.

"So what outrageous book do you need?" He asked me.

"Look for the History of the Family Black. All of them were in Slytherin and they are pretty wealthy and famous so there needs to be a book about them." I told him. He looked confused but swallowed down the comment he was going to make and just nodded before he left again.

Before I got back to sleep i used the Accio charm on a vase to give the beautiful flowers Remus had gotten me some water. As i laid down and looked over at them I smiled to myself as i noticed what kind they were...

Wolfsbane.