by GodrictheGriffon » Tuesday 14 August 2007 4:33:54am
Alan went about limping after the healers and Madam Pomfrey.Helping administer potions, keep patients quiet, running (as best he could) errands, and, bandaging. He had always enjoyed bandaging the most of all of his first-aid training.
He had been at this for a couple of hours when the first healer, whom Alan learned was named Augustus Pye. A young man rather interested in Muggle healing insisted that he had "done enough and to let me take a look at that leg of yours".
"Good Lord!"he shouted,"and you say that it has been like this for about six hours and you haven't really noticed the pain until about three hours ago and you've been fighting and walking around on it all this time?! No wonder our patients have been flinching every time we come near! That must have scared them even closer to death than some of them already are!"
"Yes, Sir. That's all correct......Did you say 'we'? 'Our patients'?....Roger! Is he okay!?"Alan cried out in a blur of words and sounds.
"Of course I said 'we' and 'our patients'! You've been loads of help to me! To us! I'm not sure how to thank you! But I do think that you have The Healer's Touch and it would be an honor to have you working beside me at St. Mungo's. Once you re-do this last year. I dare-say! What a mess! Would suggesting you be thanks enough? And don't you worry about Roger he's going to be just fine. Now let me exam that leg of yours."
Augustus took Alan's leg and poked and prodded it with his wand. Turning it this way and that. Rubbing an ointment on it here and there. He concluded that it had been mangled by a were-wolf. But when he was in human form. He managed to heal it up okay, explaining all the while how to do it.
"There! That should do it. Now you can deal with the smaller cuts I trust? I would tell you to go take a rest,"Alan's mouth dropped open in prortest."But I know that you wouldn't listen to me if I did. And, frankly, why waste the breath when I still have all this to do?"He waved his arm around the hospital wing and almost knocked over another healer hunched over a bed with the blonde girl from the line in it. Alan's mouth closed and formed itself into a strange smile for the fourth time that night."....So why don't you go off and check on your friend Roger for me and you can go have a nice rare-steak in the Great Hall with Bill Weasley later.....And stay off that leg!"He cried after Alan and a crutch which caught him by surprise under the arm and made him stumble and grab onto a passing medicine cart for support in order to follow the Healer's orders. Grinning for the fifth time that night, made his way across the ward to Roger's bed-side.
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GodrictheGriffon on Sunday 9 December 2007 3:30:42am, edited 2 times in total.