Temporary Pain Open Closed

_{interacting: @Ruka Burnett-Tân | @Rose Moon
mentioning: @Ileen Knight | @Dealla Prince | @Kazuo Shimada}

Henry would have preferred to leave instead of speaking to someone who he really didn't know and was holding a grudge against him for no reason. The second year boy really did feel like leaving since the hospital wing alone already did make him feel nervous and more anxious than usual not counting the rather tense conversation with Ileen at the current moment which was growing in number fast. Social situations was another thing that caused the boy's anxiety to rise as he hid it away from the others by tapping his right hand on his pant hand or fiddling with the ends of his jacket.

Henry was thankfully when a voice interrupted the chaos, Rose was apparently in the bed right next to the gryffindor boy. Henry must have missed her on accident as he gave her a smile before speaking to both gryffindor's, " gryffindor didn't seem to have done well this stage but hopefully next stage you guys will do brilliantly," a part of him had a feeling he shouldn't have said anything especially since he was a dueler for the slytherin team but a part of him didn't care.

The twelve year old's was finding way how that conversation could get worse or how the situation could escalate. It seemed like his worries would only triple since another girl one familiar with both Ileen and the gryffindor boy joined them. Not long before another boy joined them, the boy Henry thought was speaking Korean or Chinese.... maybe Japanese at first before referring to the two gryffindor's in the beds.

Henry moved a bit closer to Rose's bed and out of the sight of Ileen as with his thoughts swimming around his head, he wasn't sure how much more he could take or if he should just save himself the embarrassment and leave.

Rose seemed to be the only one who noticed the girl on her left [Katrina] wake up. She looked horrible. "Are... are you okay?" she asked her. What was her name? Oh- Katrina. Rose wasn't aware of her last name, but that wasn't something she was going to think too hard about now.

Rose shook her head in embarrassment at Ruka's question. "Nope. We were also absolutely crushed." She was still pathetically propped up against the bed frame. At least her voice didn't sound too weak, just a little gravelly. She cleared her throat in an attempt to make herself sound better. "Henry," she said, holding out her hands meaning she wanted him to come over and hug her. It was a little reminiscent of a little child holding up their hands so that they would be picked up. Yeah. That's how pitiful Rose was- she wanted a hug to ground her, to bring the entire situation into reality. But also, a hug from Henry, one of her good friends, would simply reassure her it was going to be okay. That even though she failed miserably, she would be able to make a comeback. And even if she didn't, that it would be okay. Even though she didn't entirely believe that right now. "Thank you for coming to visit me," she told the Slytherin quietly. "I'm really sorry I'm such a mess right now."

After a few moments of sulking, Katrina looked around. Some of the duels must have still been ongoing since the Wing wasn't terribly crowded. There was a crowd of people though, two beds over. She couldn't quite tell what they were doing though. There were a few side discussions going on, but it took a minute to recognize the boy from the Room of Requirement the day before and a few other Gryffindors on her team that she hadn't really talked to too much.

Katrina noticed her wand on the nightstand. She grabbed it and slipped it into the leather holster in the arm of her robes. She had actually made the holster a while back, and recently sewed it into the robes she was using for dueling. Perhaps at some later point she might put them into more clothes. There was nothing else on the nightstand, nothing else for her. It was a bit sad… but reasonable, since she didn't have a large amount of friends and Bridget was likely watching her friends play, or maybe just her team.

Another wave of self-pity washed over Katrina. It was harder this time to drag herself out of it. It was only seeing one girl from the group of chatting students turning and seeing Katrina to snap her out of it. It was another one of those girls that looked uncannily like Katrina. There were about four now that she had counted and it was starting to get a little hard to keep them all apart. She seemed to be a bit concerned for Katrina, not an expression the Third Year liked to see towards her. She didn't want the pity.

"I-I'm fine. I just... can't believe I lost the duel," Katrina would have said more, but the girl turned away to another person, looking like she was asking for a hug? The boy was... Ruka? That was his name, right? They had met back when Professor Jensen had gave her that rose.

Katrina turned towards the group holding one arm and attempting to hide her headache. It seemed she had nothing to contribute to the conversation yet, but it wouldn't hurt to just listen in. At least it would give her repose from her snarky internal voice.

Interacting with: @Rose Moon
Mentioning: @Henry Knight @Ruka Burnett-Tân

It wasn’t his fault, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The young Slytherin girl intended to protect her new patient and now, she didn’t want to confess that she had been pretending.
So, Ileen gave Henry a wide smile and tilted her head, her dark brown sparkling in a mixture of amusement and combative spirit. Try me. This charade was fun, she might get used to it. “I’m not the new nurse, but I’m doing an internship to improve my healing skills.” It wasn’t even a lie - just not an official internship.
Satisfied, she crossed her arms and turned back to the boy, who was still sitting in bed and let his chocolate frog escape. Damn it, why didn’t she know his name? Having become slightly insecure, she hesitated briefly and frowned. Now what?

But before she really got into trouble, two new arrivals came to her rescue. The first one was a raging Dee. As usual, the young Ravenclaw seemed to ignore all existing interactions and was loudly upset about Zykeal. Zykeal had attacked… Prometheus? Ileen blinked in confusion and wrinkled her nose. Shortly thrown off track she tilted her head and bit her lip. The boy and Dee seemed to know each other but Ileen couldn’t recall that her best friend had mentioned a Prometheus.
But then the other information sank in and made her jaw drop. Disbelief and indignation temporarily struck her with speechlessness and for a few seconds she looked back and forth from the newcomer to the copper-haired boy with her mouth open. Her pulse had accelerated and her eyebrows met steeply above her nose. Zykeal, his teammate did this to him? He had betrayed and attacked him? She clasped her notebook so tightly that her knuckles turned white while hot rage rose inside her. This betrayal of trust, which was unforgivable for Ileen, distracted her so much that she was not even aware that Prometheus called Dee Aphrodite.

When Dee noticed her and turned to her, Ileen shook her head briefly to focus on the current situation. “I-- I’m doing an internship here to work on my healing skills. Do you ever listen to me?” She threw a meaningful glance at her and lifted her notebook. Then she returned the smile of the boy in bed and little dimples appeared on her cheeks. “And thank you, I’m glad I could be of service. Yes. We know each other, she’s my best friend, who apparently never listens to my stories.”

When another young boy joined them, Ileen seemed to be in danger of losing control of the situation. Apart from the fact that she had been standing around stupidly the whole time, she was angry about Zykeal and wanted to know what had happened right now! But not here. Well, she had started the game, she could also just pull it through.
“Whatever he did, this boy needs rest. And fresh air.” She briefly checked if the actual nurse or any house elves were around, before she grabbed the end of the bed and pulled. “Help me Dee, we have to get Prometheus out of here.”
She would probably really help him with that. Rest did not hurt and from her observation what had happened so far, the patients were mostly discharged after a short break. She would never risk a person's health. As said, she probably did him a favor by rescuing him from this madhouse here. She would try to meet his gaze before actually attempting to push his bed to the corridors. If he wouldn’t agree, she would stop.

Mentions | @Ruka Burnett-Tân | @Dealla Prince | @Henry Knight | @Kazuo Shimada