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Don't Lie to Me	By : Veresna Category: Harry Potter > General > General Views: 13611 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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CHAPTER TEN: EVERYONE DESERVES A NIGHT OFF ONCE IN A WHILE
The rest of her night was even more restless and confused than the night before. She gave up staring at the clock by five o’clock and had dragged herself off to the shower. She stood in the streaming water until the water ran cold and still she didn’t feel fully awake.
For breakfast she drank cup after cup of the strongest black tea, which didn’t particularly make her feel awake but left her with a definite shake to her hands. She hoped that Flitwick was only going to lecture to them today. Her hands were shaking so much she might start shooting spells all over the place if she tried to use her wand.
Charms Class actually went off without a hitch, although only because Lewis sat beside her and nudged her awake whenever she started to doze off. Afterwards, he pulled her aside and urged her to go see Madame Pomfrey.
"I’m just having some trouble sleeping that’s all. And when I do get tired enough, I’ll sleep for two days straight and be fine," she protested grumpily.
"Oh, come on, this isn’t normal and you know it!" he replied angrily. "Kathleen told me that Snape made you test some potion and obviously it’s having some horrible side effects for you."
"Kathleen should keep her big mouth shut!" she hissed, trying to push past him.
"Helena!"
She tried to run ahead of him, but felt his strong hand upon her arm, pulling her back.
"Now, look. You either go to Pomfrey and get some help or I go to Flitwick and tell him that’s something screwy is going on!"
***Oh, great. Could people please stop threatening me some time this week? ***
"Or should I just go to Snape?"
***Oh, god, no. He’ll probably end up giving you dreams too! Want to have your nights (and, in your case, probably your ass) filled with Snape for the next week? Or month? Or year? Or until you go crazy and jump off the roof of the Astronomy Tower? ***
Helena looked at him. He was deadly serious.
"Okay, okay, I’ll go see Madam Pomfrey. I usually go at least once a week to help her out anyway."
"Promise."
She sighed and crossed her heart. "Promise." And he looked so concerned that she leaned over and hugged him.
Down the hallway, a pair of unfathomable black eyes watched the scene unfold. The face below them was expressionless, but as he turned to go back down the hallway, he began to hiss angrily at the students.
"No magic in the hallway, Peterson. Ten points from Hufflepuff! And five points off of Ravenclaw-I saw that face Hughes!" The students hurried to hug against the wall as the angry Potions Master swept down the middle of the hallway.
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"Oh, Miss Harrison, I wasn’t expecting you until tomorrow?" Poppy Pomfrey looked up distractedly from her stocking supply log to smile presently at her favorite young aide. The smile dissolved as she took in the deep circles under the girl’s eyes, her drawn features and the slight trembling in her hands. "Or is this a professional visit?"
Before she had a chance to respond, the Mediwitch was already taking her pulse and putting her other hand upon her forehead.
Helena waved her hand dismissively. "I’m fine. I just started off the week with a really bad day and now I’ve had a couple nights with hardly any sleep. Don’t suppose you can prescribe anything?" she asked hopefully.
"Well, a good dose of Dreamless Sleep Potion will certainly help. But, I’m more concerned with what’s causing all of this."
Helena had thought the problem over carefully as she was walking towards the hospital wing. There was no way she could breathe a word about her detention with Snape and its lingering after effects to the good Mediwitch. But she was hoping that a good nights sleep, thanks to a strong dose of the Sleeping Potion would give her the strength to carry on until the end of the week. She had developed a strong suspicion that whatever was happening was going to be resolved by the end of her detention with Snape on Friday.
"Uh, my parents are having some problems and, uh, I guess that’s been bothering me."
The witch in front of her did not look very convinced.
"And, classes are pretty tough this year and trying to get all my things together for the University admission….." her voice trailed off.
Fortunately, Madam Pomfrey seemed to accept this excuse more readily. She smiled in a conspiratorial way and patted Helena's arm affectionately. "Now, don’t you spend too much time looking ahead to that. You just keep doing your best in your classes and I think that you’ll find that some of the things you’re worried about are going to be resolved very shortly."
Helena looked very innocent and quizzical, but Madam Pomfrey shook her head and placed a finger on her lips.
"No, I’ve said too much already."
Helena was sure now that Professor Snape had told her the truth when he said that the teachers would be voting at the next Staff Meeting to support her in her educational quest. Which made it more important than ever that she keep her nose clean.
Madam Pomfrey turned, and pointed her wand at one of the sealed cabinets. The door popped open and she quickly selected a vial out of the hundreds of seemingly identical ones that stood lined up on the shelves.
"There you go dear. And, what classes do you have this afternoon?"
"Care of Magical Creatures. Why?"
"Because you’re not going to be attending it. You are going to go back to your room, take this potion and sleep until tomorrow morning," she announced. She paused and wrote a quick note down upon a sheet of her own monogrammed parchment paper. "I’m sure Hagrid will understand."
***Well, he certainly won’t give me detention for it. Or punish me with night after night of sexual dreams about him. I hope. ***
That set off a series of rather disturbing images in her head that she was afraid even the Dreamless Sleep Potion would not be able to overcome.
Luckily, it seemed that the potion was up to even that formidable task. For one minute she was sitting on the edge of her bed, tipping back her head to pour the potion in her mouth. And the next thing she new both Angelique and Kathleen were shaking her and slapping her face.
"Helena, Helena!" Angelique’s voice was calling her from a long way away.
She opened her eyes and blinked. She thought at first that they had come home from classes and had decided to wake her up for dinner. And then she glanced at the clock. Almost seven thirty. In the morning.
"Are you really awake now?" asked Kathleen.
"Yeah, thanks." She sat up and shook her head and stretched.
Angelique stuck her hand out. Helena looked at it curiously, but shook it nonetheless. "What’s that for?" she asked.
"Well, roomie, for the first time in seven years you slept through your alarm. In fact you also slept through mine. And Kathleen’s!"
"How do you feel?" asked Kathleen.
"Well rested and hungry as a bear!" she declared.
And they set off for the Great Hall.
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