Her Single Rose (Remus Lupin)

Seventy-Seven

"Help! MOM!" James panicked as he quickly went out the door and looked over Aries.

Mrs. Potter quickly came out, gasping once she saw the girl on the ground passed out, "James step back!" She said quickly pulling out her wand.

"Wingardium leviosa"

With that, Aries floated into the air, the silver metal visible in her side as Mr. Potter and Sirius came out of the kitchen.

"Oh Merlin. James, Sirius, clean off the table, we'll put her there." Mr. Potter said quickly as he opened the door more the get the unconscious girl through.

James and Sirius seemed rather stunned for a moment before Mr. Potter slammed the door shut once Aries was inside.

Quickly the two scrambled to push everything off the table, bringing a pillow from the couch for under Aries head.

"Fleamont, get wormwood and-"

A harsh whimper left Aries mouth as she started waking up. She looked around slightly, confused where she was until she tried to move.

A gasping shriek left her mouth as she threw her head back on the table, the pain in her side becoming too much for her to hold in her tears.

"My- my bag." Aries breathed, looking at Sirius. "The s-small one." She looked up at the ceiling as Sirius rushed to grab her backpack.

Mr. Potter rushed back with a potion, placing it in Mrs. Potters hands. "We're out of dittany, Mia." He said nervously.

"We have to take her to St. Mungos." Mrs. Potter announced.

"No!" Aries cried out as Sirius looked through Aries bag. "I have-...I have potions, ointments- it's all in there." She explained, whimpering between her words.

James was holding a now very bloody rag to Aries side keeping the blood from spilling more, putting Aries in all the more pain and need to scream out from it all.

Sirius dumped out the medical supplies for Mrs. Potter to see, "the dittany, hand me the jar of dittany, and the blue ointment." Sirius quickly handed Mrs. Potter the jar and the ointment while Mr. Potter got more clean rags and a cup of water.

He took out a dittany leaf and crushed it into tiny pieces and mixed them into the water cup, lifting up Aries head slightly and allowing her to drink it.

The dittany leaf mix began to set in her system as Mr. Potter gently placed her head back down on the pillow.

"Ok, now for the painful part, James, Sirius, you two need to do this alright." Mrs. Potter said sternly.

"That wasn't the painful part?!" Sirius gasped out, he looked ready to pass out from constantly looked at the knife in Aries side.

"Sirius, darling, I'm gonna need you to pull out the knife carefully and place pieces of dittany in the wound, alright? James, I'm gonna need you to take this rag-" Mr. Potter handed Sirius the clean rag "and press it hard against her side once Sirius pulls it out. She's going to lose a lot of blood, so we have to be fast." She explained as she took another ointment from Aries pile and began making a small potion while Mr. Potter began patching up the rest of her cuts.

"Ok, be careful when taking out the knife, quickly put a bit of dittany inside the wound the hold the rag to her side before she bleeds out and dies, no biggy." James said nervously.

"The- the small container...Consuta videbutur, it will-" Aries winced when Mr. Potter placed an anti infecting ointment on a cut on her leg "it will heal any open wound." Aries explained as she squeezed her eyes shut from the pain.