tippest och Unicornhorn [PRS]

Herbology went on for hours (or at least so it felt). Noel just wanted it to end, eager to get back to Audrey. He wondered how she was doing. Was she fine? Or was she an emotional wreck? When professor Sprout dismissed the class Noel was quick on his feet, almost running to the Hospital wing.

When he arrived, just a few minutes later, he noticed that Audrey was still the only one there. He went up to her, starting to see her twitching (just like she had done in the grass, just a couple days earlier). At first he thought about getting Madam Pomfrey; but he didn't think that Audrey would like that, so he skipped it. Instead he placed his hands on both of her shoulders (a bit more gently on the hurt one) and shook her.
"Audrey!" he almost shouted, trying to wake her up.

She was running. Running fast. Her pulse was fast, and she could hear her blood pump through her veins. Suddenly, she was pulled back to the real world, and saw Noel in front of her. She breathed heavily, as if she had just run a marathon.
“Get me out of here, now” she said and looked at him. Her brain was still working out the difference between the real world and the dream world. Audrey panicked for a few seconds, looking down at her arms, and pulling them to her. She sat up higher up in the bed, on her pillow, as if she tried to go through the bed’s headboard and the wall behind her.

He removed his hands from her shoulders, surprised over her heavy breathing. Must have been a truly horrible dream.
"Audrey, you can't leave until Pomfrey says so", he answered her, trying to figure out a way to calm her down but being unable to do so.

Audrey stood up, backing away from the bed. Her bare feet felt the cold stone floor.
“No, I can’t stay here for another second” she said, and looked around. Maybe she could dart past Noel, run out the corridor and take a left, and she would be close to the Room of Requirement. Just as she was about to take a run for it, Madam Pomfrey walked out of her office, talking.
“So, Miss Swan, if you’re careful I think you…” she stopped herself as she saw Audrey standing, and Noel standing by the bed.
“Oh, you’re up!” she said with a smile, “as I was saying, if you’re careful, you can leave the hospital wing now” she said and put three small bottles on the nightstand.
“Painkillers, if you need it” she said before retreating to her office. Audrey looked at the bottles, and picked up her uniform from the chair; her hands were still shaking a bit.

She shocked him when she stood up. He didn't know what to do. Should he push her back into the bed or just let her run away? Thankfully, he didn't have to do anything. Madam Pomfrey came, in good time, to tell her that she could leave.
"What the hell?" it was the only thing he could even think of saying; his entire mind was still in shock due to her reaction. "What was that?"

Audrey was still breathing fast when she changed into her uniform. She ripped off the hospital gown and pulled on her clothes slowly, trying not to move her shoulder that much. She couldn’t tie her tie, so she stuffed it in her bag. She turned to Noel.
“I told you I don’t like hospitals” she said with her teeth clenched. She threw the gown at the bed, staring at it.
“Muggle doctors don’t know how to handle a teenage burn victim, babbling about being a witch and magic while stoned on morphine properly” she said, still with her teeth clenched.

He looked away when she changed. Sure, he had seen her body, but it seemed impolite to watch her now. He didn't know what to answer her. His mind was blank, like completely. So he decided to turn into a Prefect. Prefect, the role that he felt the most comfortable playing. He reached into his bag and grabbed her red and gold tie.
"You can't go without your tie", he said, his eyes meeting her, as he tied it around her neck.

He probably thought that she was insane. Again. He didn’t even say anything. Well, what was he going to say, anyway? The muggles were right to treat her as a mental patient, because she was completely mentally insane? She didn’t need to hear that, she already knew it. She flinched when he reached around her neck and tied her tie.
“Thanks, Mr Prefect” she muttered, yet jokingly, before picking up her bag.

He let his hands stay at her shoulders for a brief moment before he pulled them back.
"So, what do you want to do now?" he asked, looking down at his watch. "I don't have any classes until after lunch, but I don't know your schedule..." He kind of knew it. He had puzzled some of it together, but not all of it.

Audrey nodded.
“I just have two classes today; Herbology which I missed, and double hour Astronomy later today. I really don’t want to think of school right now” she said and shook her head. She bit her lip.
“Sorry for freaking out before” she said quietly and looked at him. She just realised what she wanted to do, and she was embarrassed by the thought of it; just laying somewhere, close to Noel and just rest.