I got a hole in me now

[hdmaster_cid]

Name(s): Hella open, bbs. This is for the healers, the injured from both the Library and whoever has been scraped off the halls in the wake of GW, and those hovering over their bedside.
Location: Hospital Wing
Week: 40
Time: Saturday evening onwards
Rating: PG-13

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Catty and Zuko D'=

[scroll_heir]

Waking was a lot worse than being... Whatever it was that Catty had been. When did I go to sleep? Her head throbbed dully, her face felt stiff and her hair stuck to her face. There was pain. Not as much pain as...

As what?

Her eyes popped open, and the low lights actually hurt them as she winced and let her lids fall shut. Slowly, it all came back to her. Belladonna. Her and Harry...

A jolt of fear ran through her already aching body, chilling her. Why had she been so fucking stupid? And where was she now? Slowly, Catty sat up, wincing and hissing. Looked like the hospital. Crowded and loud, people rushing back and forth. Belladonna, the library exploding... God, had she and Harry actually tried to fight that creature? ... Not so much her. She had been caught, again. It was all her fault

Oh there will be ANYTHING but D'= here~

[hello_zukohere]

Zuko opened his eyes with a groan, cringing at the unexpected light of wherever it was he now found himself. The sudden return of his last memory brought him to haul himself upright, something he instantly regretted as sharp pains coursed through the entirety of his body. With a lurch he fell back, fighting the urge to be sick.

The dark-haired teen closed his eyes once more, willing the pain away while composing his thoughts. To start, the only image he could come up with was … tentacle spiders? What, no… Dark tendrils. Grasping. Twisting. Breaking. Draining. Then came the … but how? Frowning, he delved deeper. There had been a commotion. He was making his way through the hallways… to the Great Hall- no, the library. And then… that bitch of a ghost. Uncle Iroh. Right. He had come across them. Again his eyes fluttered open. “Uncle!” he breathed, but was only welcomed by the sight of another student, or rather, victim.Zuko noticed the girl just in time for her to cover her head. That girl who wrote him in his rather distraught

There will be a lot of that! And this: D<

[scroll_heir]

Catty remained quiet for a few minutes, not particularly wanting to talk, but she moved the corner of the blanket from her face so she could see who it was talking to her. Zuko. Why couldn't he have remained unconscious a few seconds longer? She just wanted to be some strange lump on this bed for a few more hours, at least until somebody came to heal her a little more.

At the mention of the bitch witch, her stomach lurched again. She was still afraid. She squeezed her eyes shut.

Her voice felt raw when she finally decided to talk. "I'm not hiding," she spat defensively.

Catty knew she was lying, but hey, how do you explain that you're hiding from the people who care about you because you don't want them to judge you for being so incapable? For looking as awful as she did?

But Zuko is ALL about compassion </3

[hello_zukohere]

Zuko raised an eyebrow at this. “Could’ve fooled me.”

Perhaps she wasn’t hiding from the Widow herself, but he had a fairly good idea what the reason behind her timidity was. And what a superficial reason it was. Hiding her maimed appearance? Covering what was hardly more than a temporary blemish? And for what? It wasn’t like she was the only one injured in this event.

With a grunt he rolled onto his back once more before letting out an exasperated sigh. “Was that Belladonna’s handiwork? … I see she decided to give you a makeover.”

It may not have been the most tactful of comments, but at this point Zuko was in no mood to work on his sensitivity issues. Particularly in regards to someone lamenting about their looks.

Sakura and Catty~

[battle_in_bloom]

Sakura wasn't exactly sure what had shifted in her after Axel's visit, but something about his attitude had made her...slow down a little. After all, the last thing she wanted to do was have people worry about her.

She didn't know if they would let her in to see Sasuke yet, and to be honest she was a little afraid of asking in case the answer was 'no'. She had other friends in the hospital wing, though (and that thought made her blanch a little at just how many of them she'd seen carried in), one in particular who she really wanted to talk to.

Sakura had memorised the beds that each of them were in, and so it was pretty easy to find Catty.

"Hey," she said lightly, trying and even succeeding a little to hide the tiredness in her voice. It wasn't exhaustion, not yet, but it was getting there. "How're you doing?"

Sakura and Catty~

[scroll_heir]

Catty stared up at the ceiling, lost in her own thoughts. After her conversation, if one could even really call what happened that, she had been drifiting in and out, trying to not move so much. She felt disgusting. She couldn't move to get herself properly cleaned up. She just waited. Waited and thought and passed out every now and then into a dreamless sleep.

When Sakura came by, Catty was awake. She offered a weak smile and sat up. It was a lot easier this time around, with hardly in aching pain. She, however, didn't even attempt to cover up the exhaustion in her voice. "I think this was one of my favorite school functions..." She joked.

Sakura and Catty~

[battle_in_bloom]

Smile were good. It meant she had the energy to at least pretend she was all right, even if she clearly wasn't. "Oh yeah, I can tell you had a ball," she teased back lightly.

Catty was a mess. In fact, that may have been an understatement. There may have been students worse injured than she was, but Catty looked it. Possibly because no one had even cleaned the blood off her properly yet.

She drew her wand from safe-keeping being her ear and thanked god once again that it was her left arm that had gotten messed up, not her wand arm. "Here, let me clean you up a little. You have to feel pretty gross like that."

Sakura and Catty~

[scroll_heir]

Her smile fell. "Have you seen Harry? I... I've been too weak to even get out of bed, really, and I have no idea..." She sighed, shaking her head.

Catty knew that she looked like a mess. And unless you called her crying non-stop for a little as a "clean up", she was still covered in blood. Her blood, to be correct. She stared at Sakura blankly. "I'm trying to pretend I don't look like this. Trying to not be... Insecure about my looks." She said the last bit with muted irritation. Damn Zuko...

She waited a few seconds longer before asking, "What happened in the library after...?" She didn't want to say, After I ran off. Sakura would know what she was talking about.

[notthatharry]

The first thought Harry had, upon waking, was that he felt as if someone had just dropped a building on him.

After he'd had a minute or two to get his sluggish thoughts together into something resembling coherence, he recalled that it had really been the other way around.

Harry debated getting up to look around for a moment, but his body summarily rejected that idea. The fact that he wasn't covered in rubble meant he had probably been found and taken to the infirmary. Or he was dead, and the afterlife's ceiling looked disturbingly like the infirmary's. At this point he wasn't sure he could really prefer one option over the other.

Still, one thought did run through his mind at that moment. He was an idiot. Of course, that thought was soon followed by others, and snapping his eyes open Harry shot up in bed, and promptly fell back as his vision went white with agony. "Hell's fucking bells...Catty

[battle_in_bloom]

It seems Axel's wish for Sakura to take a break that evening wasn't going to bear fruit. She'd been about to check up on Harry anyway, having been in the process of wearing a trail in the ground as she went to and from the beds of her friends (pausing briefly outside Sasuke's before continuing onwards), when he woke up. There was a few moments where she thought things would be just find, before he started flailing around.

"Harry - Harry!" She hurried over to him. "Harry, Catty's fine. She's here in the Hospital Wing, I just talked to her, now lie the hell back down before I make you."

[notthatharry]

Harry's eyes darted over to Sakura, and for a second he moved to reach for a wand that wasn't there, before he realized who she was. It took his pain addled brain a moment to process what she was saying, but when it did he slumped back to the bed almost bonelessly.

"Is she okay? That bitch grabbed her, and I couldn't do anything."

[battle_in_bloom]

If it had been someone else, they might have been shocked at Harry's reaching for his wand, if they'd even recognised it as such. This was Sakura, however, and she was used to paranoid boys jumping when she so much as looked at them, so it didn't phase her.

She breathed a sigh of relief as he actually listened to her and slumped backwards. "She's - well she's hurt, but pretty much everyone who went up against Ghost Widow is. She'll be fine, I promise. She woke up before you did, even."

Jaina, Kirk, ??

[abovetwinsuns]

Jaina scowled as she looked outside of her window, one arm crossed over her stomach while the other one stayed in bandages lying limply on her other side. She hated hospitals, even worse she hated being confined to a hospital bed. She didn't regret going to find the students that Ghost Widow left in her wake, but she didn't want to face the facts that she had been stupid and reckless and was now looking at being yelled at by her Head of House. Or even worse, getting sidelined for the next Quidditch game.

She glared at her arm, the hand across her stomach going to pick lazily at the bindings, "Idiot," she reprimanded at herself.

[chairismine]

The infirmary was kinda crazy. As he crossed the room Jim was almost run over twice by one of the nurses or an older student. They rushed around with bandages, potions, checking the students and shooing away the students who were loitering around. (When they tried to charm him, Jim charmed them into letting him stay~)

It was relieving to see her in one piece. He'd tried not to worry about her too much; after all, Jaina was one of the most capable witches in the school.

"Kind of, yeah," Coming up beside her, Jim gave his housemate a teasing grin, trying to keep his look or voice from showing just how relieved he really was that she was alright. "Anyone else would have made them give you a bed near the door so your charming Quidditch Captain could find you easily and help you escape~"

[abovetwinsuns]

Jaina sighed, rubbing the bridge of her nose with two fingers on her good hand, "You aren't allowed to agree with me," she mumbled dryly, the smallest of smiles on her face.

She shifted turning to face him and trying not to wince. Her back still hurt from that chunk of ceiling that had fallen on her, "Charming Quidditch Captain?" She repeated with an amused tone, "Well, the offer is appreciated, but I don't think I'm going anywhere," she sagged against the pillows, "Both of the new nurses are...intense."

She was quiet for a minute, staring at her arm. She looked back up again, "So, Charming Quidditch Captain, what brings you around here? Get hit in the head?" She asked lightly.

[chairismine]

Since when have I ever stuck to what was allowed? Jim wondered back at her.

"And handsome~" Jim added with a laugh, trying to figure out if that had been a wince of pain that had flashed across her face. "Tell me about it. But I doubt the old psycopath would have been any easier on you."

The truth was, he'd thought Jaina probably would need cheering up. She was hard on herself at the best of times, and after getting injured by Ghost Widow he didn't want to leave her to just sit and beat herself up about it.
But there was no need for Jaina to know that.

"I thought I might get that hot new nurse to give me a check-up; you know, make sure I was a healthy young man," he paused and looked around the bustling room. "Seems like I wasn't the only one~"

Al and Sakura

[al_elricwizard]

Al was not very happy.

He shifted in the hospital bed they'd made him get into. It was obvious that they were in desperate need of space, and he was feeling much better- there were certainly people who were more in need of a bed than he was. He frowned guiltily. He didn't belong here, not at all.

Al sat up, intent on letting someone else have his space. Someone had to keep his brother to stay put, after all.

Re: Al and Sakura

[battle_in_bloom]

Sakura folded her arms and raised an eyebrow. "Going somewhere?" she asked, too tired and worried to be awkward about this meeting.

She was nearing a numbness of more than just her arm that suggested she should probably knock herself out with some Dreamless Sleep soon. After all, she didn't want to collapse like Delita had and bother someone to pick her up. At the same time--

She didn't really want to stop.

Re: Al and Sakura

[al_elricwizard]

He nodded and started getting out of bed. "Yeah. You guys need beds, and I don't really need to be using it when you're so short as it is. Just make sure somebody gets it, okay?"

Al paused, taking in Sakura's appearance. "Are you alright? Maybe you should sit down for a minute."

Re: Al and Sakura

[battle_in_bloom]

Sakura paused for a moment and then rolled her eyes. Stepping forward, she placed her one good hand lightly on a shoulder and very gently pushed him back.

"You leave the bed when one of the nurses say you leave the bed, Al," she sighed. "If they needed it, they'd let you know." Sakura had spent enough time around both the nurses that day to know that, if nothing else, they were incredibly efficient.

She blinked, then waved a hand as if she were waving her worries away. "Me? No, no, I'm fine. It looks worse than it is, the arm's healed and the burns don't hurt. You, on the other hand, broke I don't know how many ribs. You need to stay in bed." Sakura had checked out his file the moment she'd heard he was in the Hospital Wing and not in the Great Hall as she'd hoped. She ignored the fact that she'd had her own rib injuries earlier, and hoped that he wouldn't notice that if her arm was healed, why was it still in a sling?