[HP] Sickness and Medicine

Ruth hesitated for a moment, wondering if she should knock on the correct lid in his presence.It's a pity that before she could think about the result, the other party had already turned around and disappeared in the dark corridor, and he was stingy even for a moment to ask her for his name.

However, inexplicably, she was not very sorry, as if she knew the answer.So, what is the boy's name?She closed her eyes, then opened them again, showing a pure smile under the cover of night.

Of course she knew who he was.The former Dolores recognized him at breakfast the next day, and then inquired about the name of this classmate at the same level; now Dolores knows it without asking, because she has remembered this name for a whole day. lifetime.

She rolled her eyes and found herself lying in a room with little light, and the air was filled with a slightly damp and decaying smell.Sitting up slowly, she looked at the environment, from the swaying and flowing water patterns outside the window to the strangely shaped collections on the shelf, a gradually clear idea made her heart beat uncontrollably.

Is this Severus' office?

She pressed her chest silently, her breathing was short for a while, her ears buzzed, her whole body was like a fish out of water, and she was about to die suddenly in almost a second.

All his private spaces, whether it is the dormitory where he lived when he was studying, or the office where he works and rests, in Dolores’ eyes, they are no different from the temple in the eyes of believers. Stepping into the range of the cellar, she subconsciously stepped lightly, as if she was afraid of disturbing the gods who were put on the altar in her heart.

There was a door behind Dolores, and a light leaked through the keyhole.She gritted her teeth and hesitated for a long time before tiptoeing down to the door and peering with one eye.

As expected, inside the door was Severus with his back turned to her.He held his swarthy wand casually in his hand, and was guarding the steaming cauldron in front of him.After a while, he relaxed his shoulders and picked up an empty medicine bottle that was two fingers thick.The fire under the cauldron was gradually extinguished, and it was obvious that the potion was finished.

"Oh!" Dolores covered her mouth and backed away.He was about to come out soon, but she hadn't figured out how to face him, especially not long ago, she was talking nonsense and then passed out in front of him because of her greed for a drink.Another wooden door appeared in the field of vision, and she didn't have time to think deeply, so she rushed over.

Outside the door was the cellar corridor, and the wooden door closed silently, isolating her and Severus in the room into two worlds.She took a few steps away and squatted down against the wall, both annoyed and grateful.The violent heartbeat finally calmed down, but the tingling pain in his head became clearer.She touched her forehead and belatedly realized that she had a fever. Chest tightness and shortness of breath were symptoms of a cold.

She smiled bitterly silently, lacking the courage to return to the office to face him, so she could only force herself to go to the school hospital to see a doctor.The cellar wall was bitingly cold to the touch, she pulled out a sweater sleeve to cushion it, and slowly moved towards the stairs.

"Miss Murray—" Severus' voice came from behind her, "Where are you going?"

Dolores's back stiffened, and her heart beat violently again.

She stared back slowly.In front of the door she just left, Severus leaned out most of his body. The dark and cold black robe was illuminated by the pouring orange candlelight in the room, which gave her an illusion of softness and warmth, tempting the cold at this moment. She was sick and turned back.

But she barely resisted the temptation: "Professor, I'm going to the school hospital... I won't trouble you anymore..."

"Come back." Severus replied curtly, "Madam Pomfrey is not at school." Then he disappeared from the door.

So the school hospital is closed during the Christmas holiday?No wonder he would bring her into his office.

Dolores suddenly realized.However, this awakening made her mood complicated.Do you really want to go back?Going back to his living area, facing him, even facing his questioning, but how should she explain all the abnormalities she showed by the Black Lake?With a huge secret in her arms, she couldn't tell the truth, but she didn't want to lie to him either.

While she was hesitating, Severus reappeared and walked up to her directly: "It's okay if you don't want to go back to my office, I actually only have one question."

Dolores bit her lip and took a step back quietly.

"I don't care about your drunken nonsense, but about the wand, you have to give me an explanation." Severus took out his own wand: "Why can you use it past me? I don't think you are a first-year student , can have the strength to snatch it from me."

"I can't..." Dolores admitted.

The prerequisite for the wand to change hands is either the original owner dies, or surrenders to the winner as a trophy.Now that Severus was in the prime of his life, she was unrivaled, and under normal circumstances, any spell she borrowed from his wand would not be very successful, let alone he still held his wand tightly and did not let go.

"It's just a lighting spell." She added in a low voice.

The three levels of lighting spells can be mastered by little wizards in the first to second grades, but it doesn't really mean anything.That is, Severus, the owner of the wand, is more sensitive to the issue of its ownership and use rights.

But she couldn't point out that he was making a fuss out of a molehill, so she vaguely tried to trivialize it: "I don't know..."

"I guess it's the same, it's just an extra question anyway." Her answer seemed to be what Severus expected: "So, stop here." He put away his wand and handed her a medicine bottle: "This is Pepperup Potion, take it, you can go."

Dolores caught it in a daze, and just realized that it was time to say thank you, Severus had turned and left, and the door of the office was also closed, gathering the light and warmth that had leaked out.

The glass medicine bottle is not cold. I don't know if it is because the medicine has just come out of the pot, or because it is contaminated with his body temperature.But no matter which one it was, she cherished it very much, and the loss that was shut out by him was also healed.

She breathed a sigh of relief, strode back to the dormitory, threw herself into the bed, and covered her head with the quilt.In the narrow closed space, listening to her beating heart, she slowly put the medicine bottle on her lips, and kissed again and again.

There is nothing more precious in this world than the care of a loved one.

She held the medicine bottle warmly for a long time, until she became dizzy and nauseated, and could not do without the medicine, then she unscrewed the bottle cap and swallowed it in small mouthfuls.

The potion is naturally bitter. The bitterness of coffee contains at least the natural fruit acid of coffee beans. It is mellow even under careful tasting, but the bitterness of the refreshment is mixed and cloudy, like Bicornhorn, Mandela All the bad taste of ingredients like mandrakeroot melded together.

However, for this small bottle of potion, she drank it like a sparrow pecking water for nearly 10 minutes, so that even the white water in her mouth became sweet and sweet.

After a while, hot air began to come out of her ears, and the smoke was lingering in the closed curtain. Correspondingly, her head no longer ached, her nose was no longer blocked, and she had a short sleep before. He was so energetic.

After tossing and turning on the bed for a while, Dolores couldn't feel sleepy and couldn't help but go out again.There's no curfew during the holidays, and you don't have to worry about being caught by Filch or his cats.She walked out of the common room, looked at the dark corridor, told herself that she was just taking a walk, but before she knew it, she was outside Severus' office again.

She was surprised by her sudden boldness, after all, she was also the person who kept her at arm's length before; but when she thought about it again, she quickly thought about it.Originally, she didn't dare to approach this place, everything is difficult at the beginning, but once there is a first time, it is inevitable to do it again and again.Since entering school, although she hasn't been there, she yearns for it; when someone unexpectedly arrives, she will only be more happy in her heart, and thus yearn for it even more. Finally, she breaks through the hesitation and drives her body.

Probably because most of the candles had been extinguished, Dolores stared at the wooden door for a long time, and found a ray of light leaking from the gap between the door and the floor.She rubbed her eyes to make sure she was right.It turned out that Severus in the room was not asleep either.

Thinking of this, she was suddenly worried and happy, worried that he would sleep late and get up early and not get enough sleep, happy that the two of them seemed to accompany each other through a door.She sat on the floor facing the wooden door, put her chin between her knees, covered her mouth and smiled foolishly, and couldn't help but ponder over and over in her mind what Severus was doing now.

Do you read and write?This is the most likely; brewing potions?This is also very possible; or for some personal affairs, such as taking a bath?Or is it rare to let go of your thoughts and stay in a daze for a while?A wooden door can block the line of sight, but it makes the person in her heart come true in her imagination.

After a long time, until Dolores sat with cold limbs and stiff limbs, the light at the bottom of the door finally went out.She mouthed "good night" silently, stood up against the wall, and walked back the same way with difficulty.Back in the dormitory this time, she washed up and went to bed, and soon fell asleep.And she also had a rare dream of Severus, which made her linger in the dream and lie down until lunchtime the next day.

Maybe it was because she caught a cold later, Dolores had a cold after all, but she didn't dare to ask Severus for help, so she could only endure the discomfort all afternoon and wait for the mail-order medicine at night.

She also dreamed of Severus that night, and was repeatedly questioned by the other party why she bought another bottle when she got his refreshing potion.In the dream, she was also overwhelmed and unable to deal with it. She woke up several times in reality, and almost dared not go back to sleep.

Of course, she is not afraid of him, even if she becomes his student now, she is afraid that she will make a mistake in her errands