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singlikenoonecanhearyou Captain
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 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:42 pm
Headmistress Lillian Van Nikolai
Then she used the same spell 3 more times. For his other hand and for his feet. He was quiet through the whole thing. And he was still blue. His lips were purple, too. Even if he wasn't in danger of losing limbs now and on the road to recovering, he was still blue. Why!? Lillian hadn't really dealt with frostbite much before. Hmmm...the frostbite must've frozen his nerves and he was essentially shutting down. People have died of the cold, thank goodness he wasn't under there too long. She put more blankets on him and conjured hot soup from the kitchens and gave it to Fionna to feed him, she figured Fionna would want to stay by his side.
"Ohkay...I'm gonna wake him up now..." She said, more to herself than anything.
She slowly shook his shoulders a bit and his eyes fluttered open. He suddenly starting shaking so bad that she had to hold his shoulder down on the bed to keep him from falling off.
...Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it...
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:49 pm
 sιχтнуєαяgяуƒƒιη∂σя
Lucas felt a gentle hand shaking his shoulders and he opened his eyes. It still felt like he was buried by the snow, he was completely numb and the warmth was digging into his skin like knives.
“S-s-s-s-o c-c-c-c-old-d-d...” He said through chattering teeth. “I'v-v-ve al-l-l-w-w-w-w-ay-y-y-ys-s-s-s h-h-h-ha-a-a-t-t-t-e-d-d-d w-w-w-w-w-int-t-t-ter...”
He shuddered and became quite still, just his eyes moving, rolling slowly towards the back of his head. No...no...he willed himself not to pass out, not to look this way in front of Fionna. He saw her as his eyes rolled, wondering if anyone else was here. But he only wondered for a second, his brain felt numb.
“C-can't...feel...any...th...ing...but...cold...” he murmured, starting to shake again. His feet were in horrible pain but he didn't know why, he didn't know he'd lost the toes. He tried to move his hand, his fingers, and they only twitched. But he could move them just a little bit, he could feel blood flowing into them, like his hands were deflated. He sank deeper into the hospital wing bed just muttering, “S-s-so...c-c-c-old...”
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Sparrow Puppy Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:55 pm
   I MIGHT LOSE MY MIND FOR A WHILE
BUT I'LL BE FINE HAVE YOU HEARD THERE'S THIS THING THAT HEALS AND IT'S CALLED TIME ▂▃▃▄▄▄▅▅▅▅▄▄▄▃▃▂
Fionna regained mobility as Lucas awoke and started shivering uncontrollably. Just by putting her hand on him she could feel he was freezing. Fionna suddenly stood up and pulled the blankets up just enough for her to squirm in not wanting Lucas to be exposed to the air out of the blankets for long. Fionna had completely forgotten about the Headmistress.
She wrapped her arms around him whispering, "It's alright. I'm here Lucas." Fionna ran her hands up and down his arms as one would do when they are cold trying to heat him up. "Next time screw the Christmas shoppers." She told him never wanting him to be alone on the full moon ever again. She had been worried about him all night and she hadn't been able to sleep. She sat in the common room staring out the window thinking how cold he must be until she fell asleep against the glass. "Did you hear what I said before about Christmas coming where we can sit by the fire and sip hot chocolate?" She asked him trying to get his mind off the cold.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:59 pm
Headmistress Lillian Van Nikolai
Lillian bit her knuckles when she saw Lucas like this. All he talked about was the cold. She felt horribly guilty. Had she known it was going to snow like that, she would've let him stay somewhere else. She couldn't do anything about the shrieking shack, it'd get re-built soon anyways. That could be fixed later. For now she looked at Fionna and tears almost welled in her eyes. Next time, screw the Christmas shoopers, indeed.
It was never good to pass out after something like this, so she was glad Fionna was here. She had to for the spells, but not right now.Lucas didn't look so good...His lips were still purple, but his skin looked pale and clammy, not so blue anymore. He was awake, but his eyes were closed and he was taking deep breaths, shuddering like his heart was cold. Lillian went to her office, letting them talk, Fionna warming him under the blankets.
...Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it...
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singlikenoonecanhearyou Captain
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:09 pm
sιχтнуєαяgяуƒƒιη∂σя
Lucas kept his eyes cold and he kept shuddering and shivering. He breathed heavily, it was like a cold fire burning inside his heart.
"A l-l-lit-t-t-le..." He whispered. He'd barely heard her talking above him, then everything had turned red, black, and he was awake again. Now that he was thinking a bit clearly, he knew the Headmaster must've stunned him. But why? What happened? Why would she need him passed out...?
Lucas smiled weakly at Fionna and tried to look strong just so she wouldn't worry. His hands were trembling, but he put them under himself and pushed himself into a sitting position. He couldn't feel much of anything but the horrible cold inside him. It was like the Azkaban cold, but at least depression didn't come along with it. After a while of sitting there, he felt himself starting to regain feeling in his hands and toes again. He wiggled his toes and flexed his fingers, they felt stiff. He looked down at his right hand though, and the small smile vanished. The fingers looked perfect. Too perfect. His other hand was red raw from the cold, just not frostbitten. Well...now that he looked at it, the other one had a very new-looking finger on it. There was no other word for it. It just looked and felt too good to be true, really.
“W-what...what happened to me...” He said, teeth still making a fair amount of chattering. Why did the Headmaster use a stunning spell? Why...
He stared at Fionna now with pain-crazed eyes, purple-blue lips, holding his hand like he was going to rip it off depending on what she said.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:38 pm
I MIGHT LOSE MY MIND FOR A WHILE
BUT I'LL BE FINE HAVE YOU HEARD THERE'S THIS THING THAT HEALS AND IT'S CALLED TIME ▂▃▃▄▄▄▅▅▅▅▄▄▄▃▃▂
Fionna kept her arms around Lucas trying to keep him warm. She wanted him to continue laying down until he was burning up but he sat up before she could say anything. "Oh well I hope you didn't hear me say what I got you for Christmas. That would spoil everything!" She said teasingly knowing full well she never said anything specific about the gifts.
Fionna noticed Lucas looking at his hands and his face seemed to change. She noticed the ones he had lost looked different than the others and he was probably noticing this as well. Fionna bit her lip trying to decide how to say this. What would be best? Fionna wrapped her arms around Lucas tighter and buried her head in his chest managing to mumble out, "The headmaster had to regrow them." She meant them as in the fingers and toes he had lost not able to speak the entire travesty out loud.
Fionna was just glad he hadn't lost them for good and that the headmistress was able to grow them back at all but Fionna was surprised that Lucas could move them without them hurting. She supposed it was only the cold and that he might be sore with them for a few days might not even be able to walk for a bit because of the toes.
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Sparrow Puppy Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:53 pm
sιχтнуєαяgяуƒƒιη∂σя
Lucas cringed at her words.
"Grow them back?" He said hoarsely. His face couldn't turn pale because it was already tinged with blue, but it would have. He was completely numb, so he supposed that was why they weren't too painful yet. Right now, it was just like his hands and feet had fallen asleep and they were tingling as warmth flooded him. He couldn't feel Fionna's head when it was against his chest or her soft hair tickling his chin.
He let himself sink deeper into the pillows and closed his eyes again. He took deep breaths, his throat dry and frozen. It was a white-hot fire burning inside him every time he moved, a hot painful cold that he couldn't describe. He was grateful he hadn't lost the whole hand, that might not be able to grow back. He was grateful they'd found him, but really..it was a bit shocking and his hands and feet felt a bit twitchy, stinging and biting. He didn't have the will or energy to move.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:28 pm
I MIGHT LOSE MY MIND FOR A WHILE
BUT I'LL BE FINE HAVE YOU HEARD THERE'S THIS THING THAT HEALS AND IT'S CALLED TIME ▂▃▃▄▄▄▅▅▅▅▄▄▄▃▃▂
Fionna could see that Lucas was shocked by the revelation. Really she didn't want to go in much detail right now but she couldn't. "You got a bit of frost bite." She said a bit mumbled. "Can we wait till you're nice and warm to talk about it Lucas?" Fionna didn't really want to recount it right now. All that mattered was that Lucas get warm as soon as possible.
Fionna didn't know if Lucas could fall asleep yet though. If he did, she was worried his circulation would slow down and it might not be enough to warm him up. "Don't fall asleep yet please either. Wait a little longer, can you?" She asked truly worried about him as she tried to warm him up with her own body heat.
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Sparrow Puppy Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:23 pm
sιχтнуєαяgяуƒƒιη∂σя
Lucas nodded and did his best to wake up. He gave a small, dry cough into his fist and sunk back into the bed again. He felt like everything was in slow motion, he wouldn't be surprised if he'd really turned into an ice cube. He glances around the hospital wing, eyes searching for another blanket. He sat up a little straighter, Fionna still cuddled next to him, and took the blanket at the end of the bed and lay it on top of the first one.
He knew that warming up too fast was bad, but right now he didn't care too much. What were the results, anyways? After frostbite, you needed to gradually get back in the warm, or else your fingers and toes would be in danger of seizing up, apparently, but if he seized up a bit, oh well. He was just so cold. He kept his lips shut tight so Fionna wouldn't hear his teeth chattering.
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:33 pm
I MIGHT LOSE MY MIND FOR A WHILE
BUT I'LL BE FINE HAVE YOU HEARD THERE'S THIS THING THAT HEALS AND IT'S CALLED TIME ▂▃▃▄▄▄▅▅▅▅▄▄▄▃▃▂
Even thought Fionna had asked Lucas to stay awake, she felt herself slowly getting sleepy. Her fingers made patterns on Lucas's chest unable to think of anything to say and her movements got slower and slower. A yawn escaped her and she couldn't help but chuckle a bit. "I'm such a hypocrite. Let's just get some sleep alright?" She told Lucas seeming as neither of them probably got much sleep last night. "I'm sure you'll be fine." She added more for herself than him.
With that, Fionna cuddled up with Lucas making sure the blankets covered him and wrapped her arms around him. Fionna wanted to stay awake but without anything to distract her it was pretty hard. Her eyelids slowly blinked close and her breathing slowed. Eventually, she fell asleep next to Lucas still feeling him shivering a bit but that was also slowing as he got warmer.
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Sparrow Puppy Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:50 pm
sιχтнуєαяgяуƒƒιη∂σя
Lucas smiled at her. Her fingers were so so warm on his frostbitten chest. He breathed deeply and kept up a weak smile. When she fell asleep, he kissed her forehead and his lips tingled with warmth, turning a bit lighter purpler.
"Night." He whispered. He closed his eyes, chest heaving a bit. It was so, so cold.
He heard something at the door and suddenly he felt wide awake. He sat up a bit quickly, hoping he didn't wake her up. He sunk back down but kept his eyes on the door. All he could see were a cold pair of icy eyes staring creepily back at him.
"Who's there?" he croaked hoarsely. But he already knew. There was only one pair of icy eyes that he knew, one person who could hide in the shadows so deftly.
"Rhiannon?" He whispered, disbelievingly.
"W-what are you here for?" He felt a shiver go up his spine that had nothing to do with being freezing. He held Fionna a bit tighter to him, keeping her head on his chest.
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:55 pm
 
Rhiannon snuck into the hospital wing late at night, the wee hours of the morning. She'd seen Lucas getting taken into the school without a hand, blood trailed in some places. He wasn't her responsibility anymore, not like he had been on that fateful night. But she needed to be sure he was okay. When she opened the door it was to find him...and Fionna there. She smirked at Fionna's sweet sleeping face. Lucas however, woke up. She immediately made quiet shushing noises and he stopped talking. But he looked a bit confused and was it possible...frightened? Probably because his girlfriend was right nearby, vulnerable, and here was the girl who had tortured her.
“Yeesh, I'm just visiting.” She said, rolling her eyes. Why did he have to be awake? It would've been better if he'd just slept on. “The last time I didn't visit you when you were fatally injured and near death, I regretted it.”
Their eyes met and the understanding passed between them for what she was talking about. The night he got bitten...if she had turned back.
“I figured it might help my karma. And goodness knows I need good karma right now. You tend to need it with a half and cursed life and all. Anyways...”
She looked at Lucas, her eyes boring into his. He couldn't see anything but her pale, ghostly skin in the dark, even her dark eyes seemed to fit in, glinting. The whites of her eyes flashed as she looked at him, though.
“Perhaps it'll pay off for me? Or not. I don't know. But I was just checking to see if you were alive. It would be a pity if I had saved you for nothing 6 years ago. So don't you die and let my hard work go to waste. Got that? I'm not leaving until you promise me you aren't about to do anything stupid and make that hard night be useless, for nothing. It was teh one good thing I ever really did and if you ruin it by dying I'll be pissed.”
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singlikenoonecanhearyou Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:34 pm
sιχтнуєαяgяуƒƒιη∂σя
Lucas winced as she drew closer, honestly expecting her to hit him or be violent. But she wasn't. In fact, Lucas was really surprised by what she DID say. Asking him to be safe? It didn't sound like her. He raised an eyebrow and drew Fionna even closer still, his cold arms wrapped around her warm body and her head still on his chest. She was still asleep, so she wouldn't hear what he was about to say, thank goodness.
"Look, Rhiannon...I'm grateful to you, and it was good what you did all those years ago. But just because you saved my life doesn't mean it's your job to treat me like a child or...or to act as if you own my life and I'm just borrowing it. I'd stay safe on my own, not because you tell me too. It's not like I have a death wish. And I doubt you're going to get any good karma from this, you're the one who's too much in debt."
His voice shook as he said it, as he stood up to her. But now that he knew she hadn't come to hurt him, he felt a bit braver. He almost wished Fionna were awake to see him sticking up to the biggest bully in school, he felt a bit heartened. His voice was still shaking horribly because of the frostbite, teeth chattering, but his face was determined.
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:50 pm
Rhiannon's eyes widened in anger and shock and then she narrowed them to slits. To think that she had been concerned for an ungrateful jerk like this. In one swift movement, she grabbed the scruff of his neck with her fist and drew his face close, Fionna's head just below theirs. She bared her teeth and hissed;
"I told you. I'm not leaving until I hear the promise, 'Rhiannon, I won't make that night useless.'
Do you know how damn hard it was to drag your mangled mess out of there? Your throat was almost ripped out, remember that? Remember how I basically held your head together? How my clothes were used to stop YOUR bleeding? No, I guess you don't remember. I suppose you only remember that pain when your bone was showing, when there was literally no skin on your legs. When you nearly bled to death, when your arms were so bitten that chunks of flesh was missing. How patches of clothes were missing because they'd torn that right off with the skin. Or your friends, one of which was almost bitten in half he was so small? And how some you could literally see the heart in their chest? I saw a head, Lucas. A head with no body attached to it. Did you? Pretty sure you did. Pretty sure that was you screaming when you were the last one they tossed in the clearing.
I let you live because I damn well felt like it. Because I was a pathetic 8 year old child who didn't know enough to know to leave your a** back there. I shoulda visited you so my conscience woulda been clearer and I woulda spent less time worrying about you. So don't you dare tell me it's not my job to treat you like a child because I am the ONLY one who has seen you at your lowest. Now make me that promise."
Her eyes were glinting and cold, steely, unfeeling. HOW. DARE. HE. She saved his butt and this is how he repays her? He would sit there saying that yeah, thanks, but I'm pretending like it didn't happen? No. It DID happen. She would always remember that night, as would he. And he should do very well to at least let her know her work wasn't going to be in vain.
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singlikenoonecanhearyou Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:06 pm
sιχтнуєαяgяуƒƒιη∂σя
Lucas cringed and squinted when she grabbed the scruff of his neck, just moving sent needles of pain all up his body. He listened to her words sizzle in his ear and just kept his arms around Fionna so she wouldn't fall of the bed or slide. He didn't want to wake her up and he didn't want her to see him fighting her off anymore. It had looked a lot better when he was telling her to get lost, but right now she was getting personal. It's true, she had seen him at his lowest. But he didn't want to hear the words she threw at him, he didn't want to remember that.
"Yes...I know...please stop...please..." He muttered under his breath as she kept up the continuous, venomous hiss into his ear. Words he really didn't need to hear right now. Remembering things he had avoided thinking about for years and were now being hurtled full speed at him.
The head? Of course he remembered it. How would he ever forget his best friends throat being torn off and his head completely ripping off his neck. Never...
"Alright." He sighed. "Ohkay...I promise. I won't make your efforts futile and worthless...I'm not about to do some crazy risk that puts my life in danger anyways, alright? But you certainly did that night. If your family found out, I doubt they woulda been happy, BUT ohkay." He added quickly, seeing her eyes flash.
"I'll remember that night. Promise."
She seemed satisfied. She released him anyways, said her 'goodnight' and left. Lucas sank back down into the bed and closed his eyes.
"Like I could ever forget it anyways..."
His dreams were filled with what she'd just said, guilt welling up inside him, fit to burst. Why had he let his friends run in the woods...he should've known better, even if he was young...he just wanted to help, just wanted to save people...they hadn't even brought wands..
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