Hopes and Time turners

All I want for Christmas is a good recovery

I woke up in another compartment with a blanket over me and bright lights that were hurting my eyes. I was at first disoriented and confused, but then the memories came flooding back and I slumped onto the cot I was on. Just then a witch, probably in her fifties, came over to me and softly said, "Oh good, you're awake. Just take it easy my dear, you have been through a lot. Your parents will be on in a second."

I groaned. "How long was I out?"

"Half an hour. Are you feeling okay?"

I shook my head no. I was anything but fine. "Did they catch her?" 

The matron came over to me and said, "She disappeared after you blacked out. Your brother is waiting outside, do you want his company?" I replied, "Yes."

Hugo ran into the compartment and threw his arms around me. "Oh my gosh Rosie I was so scared when Scorpius told me about you being...well..."

"Tortured? Yeah, It was pretty scary." I remembered the woman's cruel laughter and shuddered. Hugo noticed and hugged me again. 

My Mum and Dad then burst into the room. My mum looked like she had been crying, my father looked very worried and pale. "Rose! Oh, I'm so glad you're alright!" She hugged me like a python would its dinner. My dad hugged me and kissed me on my forehead. "You're safe now. She can't hurt you here" He assured me. The matron announced, "Lily and Albus Potter are here to see you." 

Lily bounded to the cot and started crying as she hugged me. "Rose, I was so scared! Please tell me you're alright!" I assured her I was fine, but she wouldn't let go. Albus then came in, with a look of relief on his face when he saw I was fine. 

"Rose, you really scared us." My dad said, relieved. He started asking me about who it was, and I told him what happened, from the time I'd left mine and Lily's compartment to waking up. My mother cried when I got to the part that she made me tell her who I was, and I never had seen my father as angry as he was when I told them about how she just laughed when I screamed. 

By the end my father looked like he wanted nothing short of killing Delphi, and my mother was horrified. I wanted to tell them that I was okay, but I wasn't. I was feeling sick and scared at the same time. 

When we got to king's cross, my Mum had already pulled some strings and there was a car behind the train. I wanted to walk out myself, but the cruciatus curse had damaged my nerves enough that my dad had to carry me out. Harry and Ginny Potter came out to talk to my parents while I was in the car, and after a moment my aunt Ginny came to talk to me. "Hi Rose. Are you feeling okay? I can't even pretend to know what it's like to be tortured. I am so sorry." She hugged me after saying that. 

Crowds of reporters were waiting at my mum's office the next morning, each wanting to get the scoop on the minister's daughter being tortured. Among them was Rita Skeeter. Rita and my mum never really got on, so this was an extra pain for her. 

After I woke up, I thought that the worst part of being tortured was the actual torture, and that I was out of the woods. I wasn't. The worst part's the nightmares you have afterwards. The first night I woke up screaming from a nightmare about Delphi torturing me. My mum and dad ran in after I woke up, and even after insisting I was fine, they stayed with me the rest of the night. Recovery was mostly regaining my ability to walk and having day/night terrors about the torture. I woke my parents up five nights in a row with my screaming! FIVE! 

After my Parents deemed me okay to not be on bedrest, it was library to kitchen to bathroom. All the time. Hugo didn't pull any pranks on me during the holidays, which was good. We still went to the traditional Weasley Christmas gathering because I was doing well and it looked like I would be able to hold up against my dad's crazy family.

We arrived early because we wanted to avoid causing a huge distraction when I (the tortured one) walked in the room. Grandma Molly answered the door when we knocked, and when she saw me she cried and hugged me with superhuman strength. "Oh Rosie, I've been so worried about you! When I got the news..." She forced out through her tears. 

"I'm fine grandma. I've missed you too." I assured her softly. Then my aunt Fleur came into the room. She ran across the room and hugged me while talking rapidly about how she was so worried and about how Dominique was after Scorpius took me to the hospital compartment. 

It didn't stop there. Pretty soon I had gotten hugs from all my aunts, uncles and cousins on my dad's side. Even Teddy, who came later than everyone else, hugged me when he came. Albus was the only one of my cousins that didn't treat me like I was super fragile and couldn't stand much of anything. Victorie, Fleur, and Grandma were the worst though. They were always making sure I was alright and I shared a room with Vic, so when I had nightmares, she would wake me up and stay with me for a while, sometimes saying that I wouldn't have anything that awful happen to me again. 

She was wrong, but none of us knew that yet. 

Christmas morning was fun, we had a lot of food and the presents were fantastic, not to mention for the first time since I was tortured, my parents were really enjoying themselves, which made me happy. We finished Christmas off with a huge feast, where I ate so much I felt like I was going to burst! That night I thought that the worst thing I would ever experience was behind me and that there was only good ahead. 

I had no idea how wrong I was.