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[Annie Noton]

Finally. It took the two a good fifteen minutes to successfully get into the school and up to the first floor when normally it took under five. By this time, Annie's left arm was a more noticeable blue, and was swelling. Most of her upper body was a light shade of blue, and she was beginning to have trouble breathing. She looked down at Reta's leg for the millionth time. It looked just as horrible.

"OH MY! WHAT HAVE YOU GI-" Madame Pomphrey began, but was cut off by Annie.

"Madame Pomphrey, please save it." Annie took an unusual tone. "Nag us later, we need...a healing potion for...Centaur poison," she had to pause for breath several times.

Madame Pomphrey frowned, but she obeyed, and ran into the back room for the potion.

Annie helped Reta onto the nearest open bed. "Try not to fall asleep. It'll take...forever to wake up...and it's dangerous..." she sat in the seat right next to Reta's bed, too exhausted to move to another bed. The next thing she knew, she saw Madame Pomphrey hurry out with two bottles of potion. Annie's eyes began to drift lazily, but she forced them open, taking the potion and downing it in one gulp. Almost immediately, she felt a tingling in her chest which then spread to her wounded arm.

"Keep this on that gash," Madame Pomphrey demanded harshly, handing Annie a towel with more of the potion on it to keep on her wound.

[Reta Grace]

Reta smiled briefly as Annie helped her onto a bed, and then sat next to her. She was obviously too exhausted to get into a bed herself. She nodded when she was told not to fall asleep. It was hard, when her eyes felt so heavy.

Madam Pomphrey handed Annie a potion, and a towel with the potion to put on the gash, and then made her way to Reta. She drank the potion, and Madam Pomphrey tsk tsked. "Dear dear. You shouldnt have healed it yourself." Reta sighed, and sat up a little to glance down at her leg. It was an angry red, and there was a blue line making its way up her leg. "Dont look." Pomphrey pushed Retas head back lightly, and then muttered a spell.

Reta cried out as her leg was ripped back open. When she had healed it, it had sealed the poison inside. Reta could feel liquid draining, and then there was a coolness. Her leg no longer tingled, and it was gradually regaining its usual color. Panting, Reta eagerly took the potion offered to her by Pomphrey. "It might scar." she said, shaking her head. "You should have left it to me with this." She scolded.

Reta shook her head. "Wasnt thinking." she said softly. Reta glanced over at Annie. "How are you doing?" she asked, feeling a little better now. Madam Pomphrey frowned, and then helped Annie into a bed. "I want you guys to stay here for a couple hours so I can check up on you." Reta nodded, and she walked away, shaking her head. Thankfully, though, she hadnt asked how they had run into centaurs.

[Annie Noton]

She looked over at Reta with a grin that screamed exhaustion. "I'm doing just fine, but I think my arm might scar too." Pulling up the towel, Annie made a face. It looked horrible, but she knew it was healing up. She heard Madame Pomphrey yelled at her for taking the towel off, so she shoved it back on, wincing from the direct force.

"How's your leg?" she asked Reta, then snickered lightly. "We showed those Centaurs," Annie grinned, speaking loud enough only for Reta to hear.

[Reta Grace]

Reta winced with Annie as she removed the towel. It still looked horrible, and was now dripping some kind of yellow fluid. Probably the poison draining. She snickered as Madam Pomphrey yelled at her to leave it on the mark, and then tried to sit up. She was still dizzy, and Madam Pomphrey was there in an instant, pushing her back down. "I said lay down, dear." she said, stern, but soft and soothing.

"Oh yes, we showed them." Reta snickered again, and then grinned at Annie. They had taken the first round of centaurs, and would have beaten the others if not for the poisonous arrows.

Reta shrugged, and then glanced down at her leg. The place where the arrow had hit was still open and bleeding slightly, but there was a liquid draining, almost the same color as the liquid running from Annies arm. It had to be the poison draining. Her leg had started to swell slightly, and the wound began to start healing itself. Probably something in the potion she had taken.

"Um! Maam!" Reta called out to Pomhprey. She rushed over. "Oh dear dear." she tsk tsked again, and began to wrap a towel soaked in liquid around Retas leg. "If it heals too soon, the poison will be trapped, and thats not good." Reta sighed, and leaned back. The towel felt cool on her leg.

Reta glanced over at Annie. "Im sorry." she said. She had gotten them into the mess, and now they would be stuck with a scar as a reminder of the adventure. "But hey, its something to brag about." she grinned. No one had ever faced the centaurs and lived, and it was certainly something to tell their friends.

"Shh." Madam Pomphrey said. "I want you girls to rest." Reta rolled her eyes, but only for Annie to see, not Pomphrey, and then giggled.

[Annie Noton]

"Don't worry about it. I don't mind scars," she shrugged. "I have plenty for being the clumsy arse I am." Annie chuckled, but shut her mouth and looked the other way when Madame Pomphrey gave her a look for swearing.

Annie rolled her eyes as well, then lay her head back, wondering if their friends would wonder where they were. Thankfully, the Professors and the Headmaster wouldn't find out.

[Reta Grace]

Reta laughed, and then laughed harder when Madam Pomphrey gave Annie a look for swearing. "Watch your mouth, Annie." Reta joked, and then Madam Pomphrey said, "Ill give you a sleeping potion of I have to." Reta tilted her head towards Annie, and crossed her eyes as her. She wondered if Annie could read lips. So she mouthed, "This sucks." And then winced as a fresh bout of pain swept up her leg.

[Annie Noton]

Annie held down a laugh at Reta's eyes, and nodded at her silent comment. She gave her friend a look of sympathy when she noticed her wincing, but then winced herself as she felt pain herself. It was feeling much better than earlier, and at least it wasn't blue anymore, but damn that hurt.

Turning her head back to Reta, she gave her friend a cheeky smile, realizing something that would make her sound incredibly stupid. "I guess our bodies know our house colors. My arm turned blue and your leg turned red." Annie couldn't help but laugh at the irony.

[Reta Grace]

Reta burst out laughing. "OMG! Thats so true." But of course Madam Pomphrey was there, her hands on her hips. "Quiet, girls. You need to rest. One more word and Ill give you a sleeping potion."

Reta sat up. "I think Im good to go though." She moved her leg, and winced, and Madam Pomphrey shook her head. "Give it time dear." she said, and then walked away.

Glancing back at Annie, Reta whispered, "I cant believe that." She shook her head. How ironic.


ooc: omg i didnt even plan it to be like that.. but i didnt even realize it

[Annie Noton]

ooc. I know, I just noticed it. XD

She grinned and laughed as well, but stopped when Madame Pomphrey scolded them again. When Reta tried to get up, Annie rolled her eyes. "Nice, " Annie commented, then lay back and shut her eyes, waiting for Madame Pomphrey to walk off again.

After hearing her steps drift off, she opened her eyes again and looked at Reta, smiling. "I know," she whispered back. "Same poison, different colors. Whodathunk they'd match up with us?" Annie giggled softly.

[Reta Grace]

"Oh hush." Reta commented. She was starting to get tired, either from exhaustion, or from the potions she was given. Closing her eyes, she began to drift, until she heard Annies voice again, and her eyes snapped open.

"What!" she hissed at her, then grinned at her. "Nah. Kidding." Wait, hadnt Annie told her in the first place not to go to sleep. Reta giggled at her comment. "No idea." But then again, they had been hit with different arrows in different places. "Maybe each centaur has its own poison." she suggested, shrugging slightly.

[Annie Noton]

"Maybe," she shrugged as well. "It's a mystery," Annie smiled, then shifted slightly in her cot to get more comfortable. "Well, we may as well sleep. I don't fancy being given another potion."

[James Esthral]

The door of the hospital wing banged open and James stood in the frame. Eyes ablaze, he ignored the protest of Madam Pomfrey and instead hurried over to Reta's bedside.

'What the hell happened to you?' he asked and he hugged Reta, looking at her leg he winced.

James turned to Annie and saw that her arm was hurt as well as Reta's leg.

'Really please these girls need rest! I really don't think-'

James interuppted.

'Reta is my girlfriend. Annie is a good friend of mine. What kind of a person do you think I am for not caring?'

She looked at James then muttered 'You have ten minutes. That's all.' and hurried off.

Relaxing, though only because she had left, James turned back to Reta 'What happend to you?' he asked again.

ooc: Bloody typo!

[Reta Grace]

ooc: idk if it was just a typo, but annie has the arm injury, reta has the leg injury

Reta shrugged. "Yea I guess. Sleep sounds nice about now." Reta closed her eyes and was drifting off when the door to the Wing banged open, and her eyes flew open. There stood James, already next to her.

When he reached out to hug her, she shrank back. She was still pissed at him for the way he acted with Amy at the lake, like they were all buddy-buddy all of a sudden. No matter what Gawain and James did about her, she still didnt trust her, or like her, and it wasnt going to change.

"Erm, well.." Reta waited until Madam Pomphrey had walked away, and then she explained, "Well, we were kind of in the Forest, and we were talking, and before long, we were kinda deep. A centaur approached us, and then next thing I know he attacked." She purposefully left out the part where her comment to him probably caused it. Reta continued, "We fought them off for the most part, but a few arrows got through, and theyre coated in poison." she motioned to her leg. The towel had fallen off slightly, and so she lifted it off. There was a thin mark where the cut had been. It had healed already, but Pomphrey had been right. It scarred.

"If it wasnt for Annie, I wouldnt have walked out of there." Which was true, since she had been barely able to walk. She motioned to Annie. "She was hit in the arm, but I think its better, right, Annie?" she questioned. She was unsure whether or not Annies had fully healed yet or not.

[James Esthral]

Calm overtook James. He took Reta's hand and held it in his, he sighed then looked at her 'It looks as if,' he said slowly 'We've both got scars...' he chuckled lightly 'matching scars.'

His tone became serious all of a sudden.

'I'm sorry about the way I acted the other day. I've just had a lot of stuff going on. And even if Amy still supported You-Know-Who..well she's got no one on her side any more.'

'Gawain will see... sooner... and I never said I'll be matey with her. There are some things you can't forgive.'

He held Reta's hand and then kissed it. Then he turned to Annie.

'I don't know what Id've done if you weren't there to pull her out. Thank You Annie.'

[Reta Grace]

"It looks as if we've both got scars... matching scars."

Reta smiled weakly. Yea, it was true. They both had scars. But matching? Well. His was on his back, hers on her leg. But they had been attained in practically the same manner. They had both been attacked.

''I'm sorry about the way I acted the other day. I've just had a lot of stuff going on. And even if Amy still supported You-Know-Who..well she's got no one on her side any more.''

Reta sighed. "Yea, I know. I'm sorry too. But the thing is, she still supported him. Whether or not she still supports him, or whether shes changed sides, its the fact that she was a supporter. So what if someone else comes along- hopeefully not you know- but what if. Shell run back to the dark side in a heartbeat, and betray us all. I dont trust her James." Reta sighed again, shaking her head softly. They didnt seem to understand where she was coming from, or why she felt the way she did about Amy.

'I don't know what Id've done if you weren't there to pull her out. Thank You Annie.'

This irritated Reta, and she pulled her hand from James' grasp. "Um, excuse me. No one pulled me out of anything. I can take care of myself fine, thanks." She crossed her arms, and turned away from James. "If we hadnt been hit with those stupid arrows, me and Annie would have so had those centaurs. But she didnt pull me out. She just helped me back to the castle." Ok so when she thought about it, it was kind of the same thing, so she softened a bit, but still didnt look at James.