Hoedown

[Cairo Savage]

After all the crazy shenanigans he had followed Rome into during his time at Hogwarts, Cairo never thought he would be visiting the hospital wing due to a simple headache. If he had the choice he would have continued studying and waited the headache out so he could avoid the hospital wing altogether but the inability to focus on anything he was suddenly faced with and the endless pounding in his head begged to differ. It forced him to walk into the hospital wing with a sour mood and a matching frown on his face as he stood near one of the beds and waited for a nurse's assistance. He did not know how long he needed to wait or plead for a nurse to give him something to cure the thumping in his head but he was prepared to wait a long time if it meant he was able to return to studying like nothing had happened. ​

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[Esme Lancaster]

I'm so sorry about how long this took.

In all of her five years at the academy, Esmè had never once visited the Hospital Wing herself, rather, it was she who put a handful of other students there in the first place. Had she been a beater rather than a chaser, the count may have been even higher. This year, the Slytherin had decided to "turn a new leaf" - which only translated to trying to be a little less aggressive, and a little more cautious about getting caught if she was. So far, she'd been doing okay, until an altercation with two younger students had caused her to lash out once more, ending with her knocking a boy down a staircase after hitting him with a babbling curse. Usually she'd leave a student to tend to themselves, or hobble to the hospital wing on their own, but in this case it was difficult to tell whether she'd done too good of a job of cursing him, or he'd sustained some heavy brain injury from the fall. Either way, she was going to take advantage of the situation whilst he couldn't properly defend himself, and half-dragged the injured kid to be attended to by a nurse.

Entering the Wing, Esmè took note of another student already present and waiting. Even though he'd been there before them, he didn't look like he was in critical condition and the girl wasn't about to wait for her curse to wear off. "You don't mind if we go first." Lancaster told him, more of a statement than a question.