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He shook his head. She did annoy him - but he tried not to show it.
“You have to go there”, he answered, trying to keep eye contact with her. Usually he didn’t find eye contact too important; but it was important when he spoke to Audrey. He didn’t know why, though.

Audrey sighed.
“I know, come on” she said and stood up. She literally couldn’t move her arm. She went out the Great Hall and worked her way to the Hospital Wing. There, she met Madam Pomfrey, and the hospital was, luckily, empty.
“Hello, Miss Swan. Here for some more cream?” Madam Pomfrey asked with a smile and Audrey shook her head.
“I had an accident while playing Quidditch” she said and gesticulated at her right arm. Madam Pomfrey came up to her, touching her shoulder. Audrey flinched and took a step back, it hurt like hell. Madam Pomfrey looked worried.
“You know, I’ll give Mr McFlynn here a note, so your teacher will know where you are. I think you have to stay here at least until lunch, I need to check your shoulder thoroughly” she said and looked at Noel with a smile. Audrey shook her head. She had gotten quite much paler during Madam Pomfreys little speech.
“No, no. I can’t miss class” she lied and took another step back, and bumped into Noel. Crap, why did she have to be paired up with someone right now?

He was taken by surprise when she stood up. Another sip of pumpkin juice was swallowed before he also stood up and followed her to the Hospital Wing. He walked closely behind her and when they met Madam Pomfrey and stopped he walked up next to her. He smiled at Pomfrey; he really liked her. She was sweet (but he had also heard that she could become quiet angry, too). He wrinkled his forehead at Audrey, since when couldn’t she miss class? She didn’t seem like the person that cared too much about attendance. She bumped into him and he reflexively put his hand on her (healthy) shoulder.
“What’s wrong?” he asked in a hushed voice, not wanting Pomfrey to hear.

Madam Pomfrey read the room, and started to prepare a bed and some potions by a desk. Audrey turned to Noel.
“I don’t want to stay here” she whispered and looked in his eyes. She noticed his hand on her shoulder, and she suddenly felt that safe feeling she had had before. Unfortunately, that didn’t help the fear that started to build in her.

He didn’t know what to say - she didn’t have any other options, to be honest.
“I might be able to stay with you for a while”, he said. He didn’t know for how long though - he could blame him coming late to class on his Prefect duties, but he couldn’t come more than fifteen minutes late. Or twenty, if he stretched it. “If that’d help”, he added, suddenly sounding unsure of himself. What if she just thought that he made everything worse?

Audrey really wanted him to stay, and she really appreciated his offer. She felt a lump in her throat, and she looked at the bed Madam Pomfrey had prepared; the white hospital gown lied on it, folded. Audrey stared at it. She started to breathe quickly, and picked up the gown with her left hand.
“I really don’t want to” she said weakly, looking back at Noel. She was pissed that her eyes got blank again; the tears were building up behind her eyes. She didn’t want him to see her cry; she was stronger than that. At least so she thought.

She didn’t formally say that she accepted his offer; but he guesses that she wanted him to stay. He really didn’t understand why she was so against staying there, but he didn’t question her. It was not what she needed at all. She looked back at him and he saw her blank eyes and heard her weak voice. He wondered if she was about to cry; he really didn’t want to. He didn’t know how to deal with crying people, so in an attempt to stop her from doing so, he hugged her. Not like a quick, friendly hug, but more like a warm and comforting one.

Audrey was just about to man up and put on the stupid gown, when Noel embraced her. She enjoyed it, but didn’t answer the hug, mostly because she couldn’t move her right arm. She considered joking about their argument about Noel not wanting William to see them, but decided that now wasn’t the best time.

She pulled the curtains around the bed to change. Not that she was embarrassed; Noel had seen her body before, but Madam Pomfrey didn’t know that. When she was done, she pulled the curtains back again and stared at herself in the reflection of the window. She truly looked like a mental patient. She looked at the bed again, searching it with her gaze. She swallowed hard, and looked back at Noel.
“Promise you will come back” she said quietly, almost inaudiable, before climbing into the bed.

He ended the hug after a while, even though he didn't want to. He was afraid that she was going to feel suffocated or something, so it felt like breaking off the hug was the best thing to do. He looked at the curtains when she changed into the hospital gown. He wondered if he could joke about something to make her feel better; but it would probably just make everything worse, so he didn't.
"I will", he said and nodded, before he turned around and walked up to Madam Pomfrey. She handed him the note and gave him a pat on the shoulder before he left.

The first class of the day was Herbology. He arrived ten minutes late but professor Sprout didn't mind; she trusted him when he said that he was doing Prefect duties. He also handed her the note, and she read it before he let him sit down.

God, being stuck in a bed was really, really boring. Madam Pomfrey gave Audrey something to drink, to make her shoulder heal faster. Audrey sniffed it, and it smelled okay. She drank it, and she could really feel her shoulder getting better. Apparently, she had dislocated it just a few millimetres, and it needed to get back in place. Madam Pomfrey put her right arm in a cloth which she hung around Audreys neck, to keep her from moving it too much. After that, Madam Pomfrey left her to go to her office.

Audrey leaned back in the bed, wondering when Noel would be back. She closed her eyes to rest for a bit, and felt how she drifted off and fell asleep. She started to have the usual nightmares; but with a twist. Her body started to twitch, trying to get away in her dream. Her eyes rolled under her eyelids and she even spoke, but said inaudible things.