The next morning, Ace's curled eyelashes moved slightly and she woke up.

His gray-green eyes glowed like amber in the early spring sunlight, and Ace had difficulty turning his head to avoid the sunlight shining on his face.

Her whole body was extremely sore, as if she had been running fast all night, and her muscles were very sore even when she made the simple movement of turning her head.

This movement woke up Snape, who was sleeping on the bedside. He suddenly raised his head and met Ace's eyes.

"How are you?" Snape asked worriedly as he held Ace's hand in front of him.

"I'm fine, Severus."

Ace responded with a smile, but the sound he made didn't sound like he was safe and sound, it was like the tip of a pen scratching rough parchment.The pain in his chest when he spoke made Ace barely able to keep the smile on his face.

Snape's eyes were filled with distress. The girl's usually rosy face was now pale, and her lips were purple. The long-term suffocation had caused some damage to her body.

"It seems that the tranquilizer has a good effect."

Madam Pomfrey's voice came as she was handing out breakfast to the patients.

Putting a piece of oatmeal on the bedside table, Madam Pomfrey checked Ace's condition, "It's not bad, just take a few doses of soothing medicine from St. Mungo's Hospital and don't do strenuous exercise recently. "

Ace nodded slightly, "Thank you, Madam Pomfrey."

Waving her hand, Madam Pomfrey pushed the dining cart away.

In the quiet ward, Snape fed Ace some clumsily some porridge.

"What's going on now, Severus?"

"I don't think you need to worry about anything else but getting some rest right now, Ace."

Ace stopped talking and just stared at Snape.With a pitiful look.

"Okay -" Snape finally lost the battle, put the bowl aside, and began to softly describe the situation after the game to Ace, "Except for you, nothing happened to anyone else. Hagrid only suffered. Slightly injured."

"Professors have been searching the Forbidden Forest, trying to drive out the remaining Voldebats. This incident was reported by the Daily Prophet, and parents were clamoring that Hogwarts was unsafe. The final Triwizard Tournament Delayed.”

"It turns out to be the Voldemort Bat. Where is it over there?"

Snape always had no way to deal with Ace. When he heard her asking about the Death Eaters, he sneered, "What those two stupid guys, the Carrow brothers and sisters, have done is exposed. The school board is discussing how to deal with it." Don't fire Amycus. You deserve it for taking the initiative!"

"They hid this thing? Cough, cough—" Ace started to cough a little.

Snape quickly brought water and patted Ace's back, "I think you have been infected by the Carrow brothers and sisters' stupidity! You should have a good rest now!"

After Ace calmed down, he reluctantly continued to add: "They want to use this incident to get rid of you. The original plan was to kill Durmstrang's student so that Karkaroff could This calls Hogwarts to task."

"Mr. Karkaroff!?" Ace was surprised and started coughing violently again.

"You shouldn't worry about this!" Snape was a little angry and refused to reveal even a little bit of information to Ace.

Ace's eyes turned red from coughing, and tears oozed from her eyes. She lay on the bed, her chest rising and falling violently, and she felt helpless.

After class, Asta was the first to rush into the ward. She saw Ace leaning on the bed in a daze, his eyes red.

"You finally woke up Ace, how are you? Are you still feeling uncomfortable anywhere?"

Ace shook his head and held Asta's hand to comfort her, "I'm fine, Asta. Madam Pomfrey brought me medicine at noon."

"Luckily you're okay, Ace." Diane sat next to Asta and looked at Ace carefully. Seeing her pale face and purple lips, she couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

Orville also followed in, and he was very angry, "Principal Dumbledore and the others will definitely fire that guy Amycus Carrow! He actually wants to kill you, which is unforgivable!"

Several people chatted and chatted until Madam Pomfrey chased them away.

Stephen came to the ward after the three people left.

"Ace, I'm sorry." Stephen sat on the small chair, looking a little embarrassed, "It's all because of me."

Ace poured a glass of water for Stephen, and she used the silent wand more and more skillfully, "I'm fine, Stephen."

"Snape—" Stephen opened his mouth and spit out Snape's name, "His patronus is the dodo?"

Ace's eyes widened, surprised, "What?"

"You do not know?"

Ace shook his head, no one told her about this, maybe everyone thought she already knew.

"That day, when I arrived, I saw a bird in the air. Snape was lying next to you, holding up his wand..." Stephen told Ace what he heard and saw.

"Thank you for telling me this, Stephen."

After waving her hand, Ace watched Stephen leave. She looked at the night outside the window and started to feel dazed again. For some reason, she always felt a little uneasy.

Snape slipped into the hospital wing not long after the three left.

"Shameless guys."

Looking at Snape's gloomy expression, Ace understood that he was blaming the Asta trio for disturbing his rest.

"I'm fine Severus, the soothing agent is working."

Ace's face did turn a little red, and Snape agreed, reluctantly forgiving the three annoying trolls.

The night is getting darker, and the lights in the medical wing are gradually dimming.

Ace looked at the way Snape was squeezing his brows to relieve fatigue, as well as the thick blue and black eyes under his eyes, and his eyes were filled with distress.Snape must have not had much rest since he passed out.

"Come up and get some sleep, Severus."

Ace moved to the side and made an empty space. The bed in the hospital wing was squeezed just enough to accommodate two people.

"This…"

"Sleep with me for a while, or you can go back to the dormitory and have a good sleep." In a tone that could not be refused, Ace looked into Snape's dark eyes.

Naturally, Snape would not go back to Slytherin's dormitory. He took off his shoes and carefully lay down next to Ace.

Lying on his side, from this angle he could see Ace's side face, his curled eyelashes blinking.

"Fortunately you're fine."

Snape stretched out his hand and hugged Ace gently, recalling the scene he saw when he arrived at Aragog's lair in his mind, and his heart was filled with fear.At that moment, he thought he had lost the girl in his arms.

Ace leaned into Snape's arms, feeling his warm body temperature through the hospital gown and his shirt, and the smell of absinthe filled Ace's nose.

She didn't answer Snape, she just hugged Snape back and buried her head on his chest.The feeling of dying was not pleasant, and Ace didn't want to remember it.

The two hugged each other, feeling each other's presence.

In the Ravenclaw tower, Diane sat on the window sill of her bedroom, the breeze ruffling her short hair.

A snowy owl disappeared into the night sky and flew south.

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