"Ok I will" said Violet and she sat down.

Adrienne had managed to push everything going through her after the loss in the match, the pain, soreness, disappointment, to the back of her mind as she'd herded her team into the locker room after the narrowly avoided detention scenario from flinging of mud at the pitch. She wasn't about to let her team, who had already shown how upset they were, not to mention the fact she was fairly certain at least some of them had gotten hit during the match as well, know how much she just wanted to collapse. Not as captain. But once they had all left the locker room, and she'd finally made her way out, seeing Phoebus waiting for her had broken her facade. And she'd ended up here, although she was fairly certain Healer Ashford couldn't do much about her disappointment. At least she could find out if the pain coursing through the fingers on her right hand meant they'd been broken when Ryder had smashed them, and get them dealt with.

Phoebus was displeased. Displeased and worried that Adrienne had been so...well, just beat up during the match. He knew she was aware of the dangers of Quidditch, and so was he but that didn't MEAN he wouldn't CARE if she got hurt.

Ryder Montgomery...was not Phoebus' favorite person right now. Not at all.


So there he was, sitting with Adrienne, an arm around her shoulders. He leaned his head against hers a little. " So. It was a good game," He said, a bit hesitantly. " I mean...it wasn't like...a shut out. I don't know," He said, sighing. He knew he was making a mess of comforting her, so he just stopped talking and just let her lean against him.

Adrienne couldn't help but sigh a little as Phoebus tried to comfort her. It was working a little, although she was sort of having a hard time concentrating on any one thing at the moment. Especially since she had a feeling if she had been able to, it would have been the loss, and what she imagined was at least both her and Livvy's worry that Willow would find out. And she hoped JD wasn't hiding again, because he'd done well. Things had just gone against them when it came to the snitch. And probably the weather. Or it might be her curiosity about if her fingers really were broken, since all she knew for sure was that they really hurt. Way more than her nose, which was why she was fairly sure that wasn't broken. And she'd seen the Huffie beater with the bloody nose after the match too. Which, since her nose wasn't bleeding, also convinced her her fingers were worse.

Leaning against Phoebus a little more as the thoughts kept going through her head, she just let the fact he was there sort of center her a little. "I know. We did really well with the Quaffle. And the bludgers. And I don't even blame anything on Tibi and Nia. It wasn't their fault either. We just really wanted to win, so the fall is kinda hard right now," she said with another sigh, as she glanced at her hand again. At least they still had the match with Slytherin to try and win.

As Adrienne leaned on Phoebus just tad more, he shifted his arm so she would be more comfortable, listening to her as she spoke about the match. If nothing else, he could listen to her, let her vent if she needed to.

" Yeah you guys did. You were good too. I was both impressed and horrified watching you go crazy out there with the Beaters bat." He joked. " I think Riley might have had a more horrified reaction, just because he knows you'd use it on him in second." He added more to the teasing, just to make it a more light hearted situation.

Oddly, he wasn't that nervous around her now. Not when he knew she was bound to be sort of mopey for a while. " Yeah. It's disappointing when you don't win, I get it. Even if I'm no good at all at Quidditch," he chuckled." You guys have that other match though. " He told her, maintaining some optimism. Truthfully, Quidditch wasn't a big deal either way to Phoebus. But since Adrienne was Captain...he knew it was going to be a bigger deal now than it had been before. " Do your fingers still hurt a lot?" He asked, frowning slightly at her hand again.

Part of Adrienne almost hoped Healer Ashford would come to get her soon, even though she was really comfortable leaned up against Phoebus. She just knew he was worried about her, and the less things wrong with her, the better. And as he shifted his arm around her, she shifted accordingly, settling into her seat. Before he spoke about the match, and a tiny grin crept onto her face. "Riley was scared of me?," she asked, a note of curiosity and amusement in her voice. To be honest, she hadn't even known her brother was watching, but the idea that maybe he was a little more worried about her retaliating against him for his annoyances was highly entertaining. "I'm sorry it even sort of horrified you, though. It's just a game." That she could get really into while she was playing, but that was just one thing she accepted as an advantage. Especially since she was captain.

Her smile faltered a little as he continued talking, reminding her about the less fun aspects of the match she'd just participated in, and she sighed again. Even his joke about how he was horrible in the sport didn't really help an awful lot. "I know. I just wish we were playing for the Cup, not third place. I mean, you can't deny it would have been nice to graduate with both Cups back in Ravenclaw, can you?," she asked, almost rhetorically. Especially as he suddenly frowned down at her fingers as she stared at them, and she shrugged. "Sort of. They're kind of the worst part of everything I'm feeling, pain-wise. But I'm hoping it all gets fixed soon," she said, trying to convince him not to worry so much. Even as she continued to feel the dull ache of her bruises, and her arm from hanging onto her broom the one time, along with the sharper pain from her fingers. She didn't want him to know everything that was wrong with her, or he'd really get protective. And she knew the healer was really good at what she did, after watching her heal Torin after he'd fallen out of the tree.

Marcus was thinking hard as Mina went onto explain what had taken place. And he could think of a couple of reasons why a young girl who was having fun with her friends would just up and leave them in the middle of the activities.

"Okay Mina, you're doing great. Now when you had some punch did it taste funny to you at all? And the voices you heard, did your recognise any of the voices?"



"Thank you Rex" Marcus said as he took the glass of water from him, "Oh and Rex, do you think you can go and get the headmaster for me please? It's rather urgent."

He shifted Mina in his arms so that she was sitting up slightly and he held the glass of water to her lips. "Here you go Mina, take a sip of this."

Brody sighed rested her head against Gold's shoulder. This headache sucked. She managed to squeeze Gold's hand, and she smiled at her. She was glad that Gold had taken her up here, especially becuase she knew Torin would be annoyed that she hadn't when she knew she was ill. "You're gonna tell Tor aren't you?" Because she had a feeling that it would be the obvious thing for Gold to do now.

Mina frowned slightly as she tried to remember more. She really wanted to remember what had happened but she should only remember tiny pieces. It was like everything was a huge puzzle and she was missing over half the pieces to it.

"The punch tasted fine and I remember only drink a little of it. Then walking back with Carter to bring back punch to some of his friends." she thought for a second. She didn't remember making it that far though. Closing her eyes for a second, she tried hard to think again.

She heard a very familiar voice, it was a voice she trusted. The voice belonged to someone she held in high regard, but who was it. It was on the tip of her mind but she couldn't place the voice with a face. Opening her eyes, she tried again to piece together the voices and images.

"I heard a lot of voices. One was crying and that one sounded like a girl. I know her, but I can't remember now." she whimpered. She needed to pull it together and remember. "The other voices, I don't know them. They sounded older and they kind of scared me. They were loud."

Sitting up more, she raised a hand to the glass and took a sip. The water ran down her throat and slightly soothed the roughness she felt. Her throat felt like she had been yelling all night, but she didn't remember enough talking above a normal whispers all night. Taking another drink, she focused on the images in her head.

"Umbella and heckling....." she blinked slightly. "I remember an umbrella and someone heckling at me." She could see it in her head, someone with an umbrella and the sound of heckling. Just as she saw it clearly, it was gone.

For what seemed to be the millionth time this Term, Torin walked into the hospital waiting room. This time, he was carrying a Prefect. And he wasn't really sure how to best get her into a seat, but somehow it was managed.

He just hoped that her being propped like that wasn't making things worse for her.

"She'll be with you really soon, Reese."

Reese opened her eyes for the first time since Torin, Jack, and her left the entrance hall. She tried to place a little smile on her face, but it didn't quite work out. So instead, she just gazed around the hospital wing with a emotionless expression on her face.

She moaned slightly when Torin propped her on one of the chairs, and she tried her best not to take deep breaths. If her stomach was still bleeding, she most definitely didn't need to make it bleed worse by taking in deep breaths, which she knew had happened in the entrance hall even if she didn't look.

Nodding her head slowly at Torin, she continued to stare at the wall that was on the other side of the waiting room. Hopefully the nurse wouldn't take too long to get there. She wanted the bleeding to stop like NOW, then she could go take a shower and get clean clothes on, and then she could go to Lupa and see about getting a new badge.

"Well, I still think the healer needs to see you" Rex told Emalyn. " I do not want to see my friends hurt whether falling down or playing Quidditch" Rex said to Emalyn. " I am sure your nose is broken because I had my nose broken during my football games" Rex explained to Ema.

" I could not find the headmaster" Rex told the professor. " I looked and looked, but I kept missing the headmaster, sorry" Rex told the professor in a sad tone. " will Mina and Emalyn be alright?" Rex asked the professor.

Jack was finally starting to calm down just a bit--now that they were at the Hospital Wing and Reese was all checked in, he knew that they'd be taken care of shortly. Why was she bleeding so much?! Had she been hit by a bad curse or something?

"Reese...do you remember anything about what happened to you?" he asked her, biting his lip almost as if he was scared to hear what she had to say.

Torin looked around the room and suddenly forgot about how he had taken Reese here to see the Nurse.

"Brody? What are you doing here?" he asked as he walked up to where she was with Gold.

God, she did not look well at all.

Somehow, Phoebus knew that mentioning Riley's terror would get Adrienne smiling again. Even if it was for a second, it was worth it. " Yeah, he was. Is? I dont' know. He just...you're scary with a beaters bat, did you not know this?" He asked, teasing her a little again.

" Well," He began, as she informed him it was just a game." I get that. It's just...you know. Intense. Not that I don't think YOU can handle it, because YOU most certainly can. Such a...tough cookie you are, " He said uncertainly.

Recovering from that, he thought about what to say again. " I'm sorry. I know I can't change what happened with what I'm saying, but...I am sorry. For your fingers hurting and everything else." He waited a minute or so to speak again and he had to smile. " However, I think this year I'm going to have something pretty nifty to look back on. You know. Having a girlfriend and all." He said, trying to find the silver lining in all of this.Then he realized she was probably just still sore and displeased." I'm sure Healer Ashford will be out soon and have you healed in no time," He offered, trying for the more normal route of comforting.

Adrienne couldn't help but fall for Phoebus' attempts at cheering her up with Riley's being scared of her. Both because the idea of her brother finally having a reason to respect her was awesome and because it was sweet how Phoebus wanted her to cheer up. "Well, it's not like I can see myself when I'm Beating," she pointed out with another small smile. "I'll just have to take your word on it." And the reactions she sometimes got from the people she played against, not that she usually paid a lot of attention to that during matches.

As he went on to talk about the intensity of Quidditch, a thoughtful expression crossed her face. He did have a point, although the intensity was often the fun part. For her, at least. She could understand why her mother had loved it so much. But at his comment about her, she looked at him again. "That kind of sounds like when I was talking about 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with Dylan on the train beginning of this term. A quote I mentioned to him: 'And though she be but little, she is fierce.'" she let herself laugh a little, even though it was still a little half-hearted given her continued feelings about the match. "I always pretend that's about me."

And then he was apologizing for her disappointment over the match, and her expression turned somber again. "It's not like you had anything to do with it all," she started, "but thank you." She leaned her head on his shoulder, before she heard the next thing he said. At least that was a good part of the term. "Yeah," she said softly. It would have been nicer if they hadn't had to wait til after the holidays for it to really be official, but there wasn't much they could do about that without a time turner. She looked back at her hand as he mentioned Healer Ashford and the hope she'd be out to heal her soon, though. "I know. But there's a lot of other people in here needing help too, so I'm sort of getting used to waiting." At least she had him to sort of snuggle with, because it was helping with at least her psychological issues over the loss. Even if he couldn't help her fingers very well. She had a feeling he'd try if he knew how.

"You did real good Mina, you did very good." Marcus put the glass of water down onto the floor and shifted his weight once again and brought the young girl up into more of a sitting position. "It's okay you don't need to talk about it anymore. Are you feeling any better?"

She certainly looked a lot better than when he had first brought her in, she had a little more colour in her face now. Of course he was no healer, so he would leave the professional opinion to Ellie.

"That's quite alright Rex, I will go find the headmaster after the Healer attends to Mina." Marcus gave the Gryffindor a thankful smile, "Well I hope so Rex but I will have to wait for the Healer's diagnosis on that."

Mina gave a tiny nod. She was feeling the tiniest bit better. Her head was still pounding and the ringing in her ears had become a steady buzzing now. "I just wish I could remember more, I'm sorry," she whispered a little louder. The rawness wasn't as bad now, but with each word, she could still feel the scratchiness in her throat.

Her breathing has gotten less laboured, but it was still difficult for her to breath. Sitting up had helped, but she still winced in pain with every few breaths. Closing her eyes for a second, she let out a tiny breathe and tried to calm herself. Everything would come back to her in good time, she tried to reason with herself.

Kay just looked at her favorite Professor with her mouth open. 'why did everyone keep telling her to leave when her friends were hurt?' She stepped back and got a little mad at Lawson. "Fine! I'll go. I don't want Mina upset. But mark my words Professor I'm going to find out what happened to her." Kay said watching everyone run around the hospital wing. She didn't want her Professor mad, but she wasn't a baby and she didn't want her friends hurt.

Kay watched Rex run to get the Headmaster, but couldn't find him. Why did that not surprise her. Then Rex was running to get water. "Why is it that you can help, but they always run me off?" Kay asked watching Rex. "Well, I hope that both my friends will be alright. Tell the Professor I'm going to go see what I can find out. This has to stop." Kay turned to walk out of the Hospital wing, sence no one ever wanted her here.

Carter poked his head into the waiting room to check on Cadence. He was now boil-free. And luckily only Cadence, Nate, and the healer had seen him like that. In the hospital wing he saw Professor Lawson holding someone in Ravenclaw robes.

MINA!!!

Carter rushed into the room. "What happened to her Professor?" he asked. "Is she going to be alright? I was just with her at the sleepover. How could this have happened?" he asked unable to believe what had happened.

With her eyes still closed, Mina heard the voices of her friends. She could actually reconginze them this time. Why was it hard for her to reconginze the other voices from tonight. The one that was crying was still fresh in her mind, she just wished she could remember who it belonged to. She knew it would be important.

Slowly, she opened her eyes to see it was Carter. She knew that voice anywhere. Trying to give him a mere smile, she winced. Some of her cuts were caked over but other still oozed a bit and some of her movements had irritated them. She must have looked a right mess to her best friend.

"Carter, I'll be fine," she whimpered. There was no need to worry her friends, Healer Ashford would probably get her back on her feet in no time.

Well of course! Ema nodded. "I know, she's goingah to, all ib gud timbe. 'ut danks." she gave Rex a small smile to let him know she was alright and appreciated his concern, even if she wasn't really in a fatal condition (though she was starting to loose quite a bit of blood, but at the time Ema was only worried about her Quidditch robes getting too stained). There were some injuries that were far far worse than her own. "Oh? I bet dat muthsta hurt. How long abo wah dat?" Emalyn tilted her head back and wiped her nose again, clearing her throat.

Blech.

As Reese continued to stare across the room at the wall, she opened her mouth to yawn, but just as soon as there was pressure on her stomach, she quickly closed her mouth and clutched her arms around her body. GAH, why did this have to happen to her?! Every move she tried to make caused some sort of pain to her poor body and the fact she really needed to yawn again didn't help the situation AT ALL.

When she heard Jack's voice, she slowly tilted her head to the side so that she could at least see her boyfriend a little bit better. "No, I...I don't," she answered his question. "The last thing I remember is..." What WAS the last thing she could remember? She pondered for a few moments before adding, "The sleepover. I left - I left the...sleepover, and then I walked back into... the entrance hall. I can't remember anything between... those two times." It was pretty bad she had to stop every few seconds to catch her breath, which goes to show that she just shouldn't talk too much since she had little energy left in her body.

She moved her attention away from Jack to look right back at the wall for a few seconds, then she diverted her attention to Torin who was now near Brody, and then she looked back at Jack. But mostly she was looking at the Head Boy badge on his robes. She raised her right hand, since that was the one that didn't hurt too much to move, and touched the area on her dirty pajama shirt that her Prefect badge would usually be at. The area was ripped like something had been ripped off of her shirt.

"My...badge," she whispered. She had been hoping that in the entrance hall when she first realized her badge was missing that she had just been dreaming that it wasn't there. But now she realized it was officially missing. She had lost her badge, which was bad bad BAD! What would Lupa think? Though, the badge should be the least of her worries since she was bleeding. Resting her head against the wall behind her, she closed her eyes.

This day could NOT get any worse than it was!

"It's okay Mina, you've given me enough information to work on." Marcus said reassuringly as he rested his head against the wall behind him. What the young girl had told him had him thinking quite hard and what she had described he had seen before but not in a long time and certainly not with kids.

He turned his head slightly at the sound of Kay's voice and he frowned slightly as she stomped out of the room. Marcus didn't think his request of giving Mina some breathing room had been unreasonable at all.

Mina gave a small nod and fought to keep her eyes open again. The corners were still blurry and all she wanted was to close them, but if she closed her eyes, she knew the images would come back for sure.

Taking a few more shallow breathes, she held her chest slightly. The pain was lessening but she was still in a lot of pain and having her friends see her like that was a bit upsetting. She did hate to look weak and fragile to those so close to her.