I came to speak with an adult on Hospital Wing

Parker Fitzgerald

March 29, 2018 9:54 AM

I came to speak with an adult by Parker Fitzgerald

Cleo's advice had been good. More importantly she was speaking to him again. As Parker had made his way to the Hospital Wing though he began having second thoughts. What if it wasn't anything. What if he was just still a bit crazy with his magic and had accidental magic go off for no reason? What if the healer just rolls her eyes? Parker slowed down his walk a bit.

This is just silly. It seems that students have this happen to them all the time. Cleo with her fire. Jouza with... well different things. Even Nathaniel seemed to have it. Though Nathaniel was a first year, he was still from a magical family and Parker had noticed those from magical families seemed to be more adept at using their skills.

Parker stopped in the hallway. He was trying to decide if he should continue towards the healer or not. He turned to look back down the hall and imagined lying to Cleo that he'd gone to see the healer and she'd said he was ok.

Parker shook his head. He knew that he couldn't do that, not if he wanted Cleo to start telling him the truth. So Parker took a big breath in. A breath to hold in his resolve. And continued walking.

He was thinking about how he would explain to the healer how he'd made a bird-fish and then exploded as he got to the door. It opened and Parker kept right on walking into the room, the door closing behind him without him touching it.

Parker took a deep breath and started counting, like his mom had taught him, while he waited for the healer to come out of her office.

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Aisha Kapoor

March 30, 2018 10:22 PM

I totally count as one of those by Aisha Kapoor

Aisha was out back, enjoying a cup of coffee and a sneaky chocolate bar when the wards alerted her to someone entering the main part of the hospital wing. She put the remainder of the candy down, but still held onto her mug - if she left it on her desk, it would be stone cold by the time she was done with a patient, but you could usually find time to sip as you worked, unless someone was seriously injured. She came out, expecting another fever case, and was surprised to find someone who looked entirely healthy. Although someone she already knew. She wondered whether the letter she'd written to Parker's mother hadn't done the job - she had explained that he was fine, that he was biologically still a human being, and that his mother was more than capable of attending to him as she always had done. Perhaps he was feeling ill but, like a nice sensible boy, had come to see her before it got too serious. She had asked the deputy headmistress to emphasise to students that they should see her sooner rather than later if they were feeling under the weather. It was a pleasant change to find someone who seemed like they weren't about to collapse.

“Hello again,” she smiled. “What can I do for you today?”

OOC - for future reference, if you're doing something like coming to see a staff member, you can assume that they are there/appear out of the office/tell you to come in and take a seat without it counting as god-modding. People usually use a construction like ‘Once the medic appeared, he explained…' or ‘Once he heard Professor Wright answer, he went in and took a seat.'

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Parker, Pecari

April 17, 2018 7:36 PM

If I survive I might be one someday too by Parker, Pecari

Parker looked up as Healer Kapoor entered. She looked relieved, which Parker guessed might disappear in a few minutes. After he told her about well, what was happening, but first Parker felt a bit hot.

"Hi, umm..." Parker tugged at his shirt collar a bit, "I told my friend I'd talk to an adult, and I thought you'd be the best adult to talk to about something that happened yesterday since you were so nice to me before." Parker could feel his mouth running away from him again, but it felt like it kept getting hotter and hotter, and he wanted to let her know or maybe warn her before this got worse.

"I'm sorry, is it getting hot in here?" Parker asked waving his hand at his face. He had felt fine walking in, maybe he had gotten sick just coming to the hospital. Oh wouldn't that be perfect. Getting sick by going to talk to an adult. His throat felt weird too.

"Can I have some water?"

Parker closed his eyes, the image of the inside of the MARS room came up. No he had to explain why he'd come, even if it meant getting sick.

"I'm sorry. I was talking to my friend about something that happened yesterday and she told me to talk to an adult if I was worried. I don't know if it is normal for boys, since I don't come from a magical family, but I kind of exploded in a MARS room yesterday. I felt weird... kind of like now, but not, and then I exploded... I think. At least it looked like an explosion had gone off around me."

Parker started getting cold and rubbed his arms while talking. Part way through describing the event in the MARS room he began rocking back and forth in the chair. Now he knew he was getting sick.
"Cold... I think I have..."

Parker didn't finish his sentence, he felt terrible. Though he didn't feel like he was going to throw up, he didn't feel like talking was going to help. He began to curl up on the seat, trying to get warmer. If he was human, like the healer had said, than his mom's history of taking care of him at the slightest instance of sickness meant he had a flu. A really not nice one.

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Aisha Kapoor

April 18, 2018 9:24 AM

Yes. Definitely. We're not all just pretending. by Aisha Kapoor

Aisha smiled kindly at Parker when he said she'd been nice before, hoping that he'd be encouraged to continue, seeing as he seemed a bit unsure about coming to her, and glad to find that she had gained the status of ‘competent and trustworthy adult' with at least one person.

Although things rapidly went downhill from there. She fetched him a glass of water when he asked, but she was already summoning the thermometre. It hovered patiently, waiting for him to finish talking, but he was looking decidedly unwell before it got the chance to pop itself into his mouth.

“There's a fever been going around,” Aisha informed him, “And it looks like you've got it. Get into bed, and I'll bring you some medication,” she advised, as the thermometre confirmed what was evident just by looking at him. He hadn't quite hit the heights of some of the other cases yet, but he was definitely ill.

“As for the other part… It's probably due to you being ill. I'm sure you've come quite a long way, but you have only had one year of study. When your body gets busy with something else, like fighting off a bug, it can knock your magic control,” she had been quite concerned by him reporting himself as having ‘exploded' even though he looked fine, although by the time he'd finished explaining, it seemed more like he'd damaged the room around him than anything had happened to him, “I'm sure you'll be back to normal once the fever's gone. Here, drink this,” she advised, holding out a vile of the cheerful orangey-yellow ‘Fever Be Gone.' If he was anything like the others, he'd be asleep within a short time of taking it, even though he was getting the non-drowsy version for now.

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