Fight
The black haired boy was walking among the castle grounds past curfew like normal. Admiring the stars was something he was trying to appreciate more without being graded upon.
Walking along, he spotted a bundle of something on the grass. "Not again-" He mumbled and made his way over, knowing who it was and hoping she'd be able to sneak back into her dorm.
'If she fell asleep out here, maybe I should try it too for my insomnia.'
Upon a closer look, he realized that she probably didn't fall asleep and more so looked like she fell and hit her head.
Now with concern, Phobos shook her awake gently only getting a few groans and lucid slow blinks. "Mmg..., Phobos?" She questioned with a strained voice.
"It's three in the morning, you need to be more careful when doing this." He said glancing to her knees. "Here, I'll carry you to the Hospital Wing. Where's your book?" Phobos questioned looking around.
"Book?"
"Yes, I'm assuming this happened because you were too busy reading again and didn't watch where you were walking?" His question seemed rhetorical and acted like this was a pattern.
"I... I don't remember walking out here...?" Yuna sat up slowly and looked around.
Phobos' face soon turned into pure concern, quickly picking her up, he paced his way back into the castle. "I am definitely taking you to the Hospital Wing now. You probably have a concussion."
"I- wait! Put me down! I can walk myself!" Yuna fidgeted. "No. You will not be walking, not with those bruises and cuts on your legs and from what I just heard." He responded not looking at her but straight ahead.
"If you take me to the Hospital Wing then we'll both get in trouble for being out past curfew!" She warned trying to come up with an excuse. "I think you being injured and not remembering things is more of a concern than getting detention." Phobos finally looked down at her, but only for a second.
"Oh, will you just-!" The girl quickly pushed against his chest and slung out of his arms. "I'm fine! See? Standing." She gestured to herself. "Thank you for the concern, but I'm going back to my dorm now." Yuna said with mild annoyance, quickly turning around and running off before he could stop her.
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Yuna walked into the library sitting across from Phobos and breathing through her teeth trying to sit.
He gave a cautious glance up at her, looking away from his work and questioning what's wrong. "What happened? And don't give me the 'beat around the bush' answer." He sat up forgetting his assignment.
"Uh... I may have been reading and walked directly into a table corner." She fidgeted with her books on the table not looking up at him.
"And you didn't think about going to the Hospital Wing if your side's hurting this bad?" Phobos asked with slight annoyance.
"It's fine Phobos, it's just a little bruised-" Brushing it off only made him a little upset.
"By how cautious you are says otherwise, tell me the truth. Are you just afraid of getting help or going to the Hospital Wing?" His tone switched from annoyance to caring.
"What? No." Yuna looked up. "I'm serious, small things shouldn't have potions wasted on them. It's not that big of a deal, I'm okay. And I would prefer us to get back to our last discussion on Geryon."
~
The girl was walking out along the castle late at night. A book covered her face and the sky was filled with stars.
"Yuna?" Phobos called out only to have her ignore him. He called out again. "Yuna!" He said a little louder incase she hadn't heard. She ignored him again.
Walking up to her, she walked around- acting like he wasn't even there.
"Hey! Yuna!" The male tried again and she avoided his presence.
Phobos sighed pulling out his wand and catching up to her again, "Expelliarmus!" He spoke out and her book dropped, as well as her head. Her bangs covered the top half of her face making her unreadable as she went to pick up her book.
Yet the male wasn't having any of it.
Stopping her, Phobos grabbed her arm pulling her up and moved the hair out of her face to examine a long scratch across her cheek. It almost touched her nose.
"What- happened?" He sighed trying to calm down and not unintentionally yell at her.
"I.. got.." She mumbled turning away from him and he took that as a sign to let her go. "What?" Phobos questioned her mumbling. "I got too close to a Slytherin's cat." She murmured more audible.
He sighed. "Hosp-" "No." Yuna said dully. "Then I'm walking you back to your dorm, now." The male demanded and noticed her eyes looking towards the side, more in annoyance than panic as he expected. But standing his ground, neither said anything.
"Fine." She gave up. "But don't even think about picking me up and running off to the Hospital Wing." With this warning, the two headed back in, Phobos carrying her seemingly worn out- new book to make sure she couldn't run off either.
The walk back was silent and filled with awkward glances at each other, easily avoiding prefects and professors seemed like a routine to both.
Stopping at the entrance of the Hufflepuff common room, he finally spoke. "You-" She mumbled the password and quickly walked in leaving the male worried and stunned.
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Phobos was going through his books when he heard the sound of soft footsteps and small breaths.
Turning around slowly, the light from his wand transferred over in the dark room.
"I-I- uh... ah..-" Yuna was holding her hands onto her stomach and there was blood on her white shirt. Too much to not be worried about. She lifted her hand slowly and it was covered in it. They both seemed too stunned to speak for a moment.
"Yuna..."
Quickly moving over to her, she leaned on him looking more lucid than he expected. "What the hell happened? This is the fourth time you've come to my room in the middle of the night! Where the hell did you even go?" Phobos was pissed and at his limit of worrying about her safety, still contemplating on showing his frustration with her given their situation. The two collapsed on the floor.
"P-please don't tell anyone! I just need help with bandaging! I swear I'll leave you alone after this. I promise this will be my last time apparating into your room, just please-" Yuna pleaded and he saw something in her for the first time. Putting something together after her final comment.
"Have you been getting bullied... this whole time?"
There was silence for too long as Yuna rolled her eyes. "No."
"Each time I told you to go to the Hospital Wing, you were just lying to avoid talking." Phobos called her out.
"No! Well- okay, I lied, but I'm fine! Nobody's bullying me, now can we please try and stop me from bleeding to death!" The girl was getting annoyed fast and the pain was not helping her mood.
"Sure," He picked her up bridal style. "At the Hospital wing." One step away from his beds edge and she grabbed a beam and "fell" out of his grip. "Forget it." She mumbled and took out her wand. Phobos was quicker though and grabbed her wrist taking it from her. "We're going to the Hospital Wing, even if I have to drag you there." His voice became strict and her face dropped.
Using her free hand, she pried at his grip hoping to get free with little strength before he could drag her into the Ravenclaw common room. "Would you stop being so stubborn! You can't even leave without someone seeing you without your wand!" He retorted feeling her pulling become weaker.
"Shit, I mean it Yuna, stop! You're gonna pass out from bloodloss!" The male had stopped, now worried about how much blood was on the floor.
"Then, just let me go!" She still fought to get out of his grip, more so seeming to rely on adrenaline currently.
Phobos groaned trying to hurry now but also fed up with her stubbornness. A smack was heard and she stopped pulling, now still and trying to process what just happened but quickly smacked his upper arm hard.
Yuna turned away holding her cheek.
"We're going, now." He grabbed her again, seeing as she wasn't fighting back anymore but stopped as his door opened and a prefect walked in turning on the lights.
"What the hell is going on here?! And why is there a Hufflepuff in your room?!"
Phobos turned to Yuna, throwing her at the prefects feet tired. "Take her, she's being bullied and has been apparating into my room multiple nights to comfort her. Take her to the Hospital Wing immediately."
"Tu malus nequamque." She mumbled looking down but Phobos only stared at the blood on his dorm floor.