Harry Potter:Diamond Heart.

The pain gradually faded away to a dull throb, and then to nothing as the nurse cast several spells upon Fleur.

'Stay on the bed,' she instructed, once she had finished with Fleur's face. 'You're exhausted, and your body temperature has fallen well below what it should be.' She cast an array of warming charms that Fleur barely noticed and pushed something thick, sticky and sweet into her mouth. It tasted like marzipan and Fleur gratefully choked it down. 'You'll feel much better soon,' the nurse encouraged her. Fleur doubted she would feel anything of the sort until Gabby was here in the tent with her.

Madam Pomfrey strode across the room to Krum, muttering about the insanity of subjecting children to trials like this.

His bite marks were healed within moments, none of them had been deep and whatever had bitten him had clearly not been poisonous.

'They are still sleeping,' he told Fleur in his heavy, Eastern European accent. 'The enchantment used to keep them asleep and breathing underwater is meant to last for the full hour and no matter what, so they will not wake for a few more minutes.' He shifted uneasily, looking guilty, and tapped his forefinger against his lips. 'I am sorry for the curse,' he apologised. 'I was angry, things got out of hand.' 'What happened to Gabrielle and Harry?' Fleur asked, not caring about his apology in the slightest. Krum had done nothing outside of the rules, so if Gabrielle was fine she would not care. If her sister was still in the lake, the it would not matter how sorry he was; Fleur would hate him until he died for destroying her veil and stopping her from saving her sister.

'Your sister,' Krum gave her an apologetic look, 'when I left she was still a hostage of the Merpeople. Harry has not yet returned, he swims slower than me, and I had a head start.'

A silver cat suddenly bounded in through the flaps at the entrance, sitting up on its haunches to murmur in the distinctive Scottish accent of stern looking Hogwarts teacher of transfiguration.

Fleur could not make out the words, and when she tried to stand up and get closer she swayed and fell back onto the bed. 'Drink this,' the nurse commanded, thrusting the same peppery smelling, pick-me-up potion she had forced down the throats of all the champions after the first task. Evidently the food had not been enough.

Madam Pomfrey was gone out of the tent before Fleur had finished the concoction.

'She must have gone to get Potter,' Krum deduced, eyeing his two rivals, thoughtfully. 'I hope he is ok, I owe him revenge for all the bites in the next task.'

'The bites?' Fleur repeated absently, staring at the flap in the tent. Her stomach was twisting and turning in anxiety as she prayed that the nurse would return with Gabrielle.

'He transfigured all the pebbles around me into aggressive fish,' Krum laughed. 'They had very sharp teeth. I owe him a curse or two, I think.'

'He's only fourteen,' Fleur reminded the Bulgarian, slightly worried for Harry.

'He was holding his own against me for several minutes before you came and disarmed him, and I think he was holding back, every spell he cast was a minor curse or hex. He hit me a couple times, had he used some of the more powerful curses he knows I would still be in the lake.' The Durmstrang student seemed quite upbeat about being matched in a duel, even one in such unusual conditions, by a fourteen year old.

'I wonder what our scores will be?' Cedric Diggory had awoken. 'Did you guys all make it there and back?'

'Yes,' Krum answered curtly.

'No,' Fleur confessed, very quietly. Gabrielle.

'Oh,' Cedric fell silent. 'Where's Harry?'

'The nurse went to get him,' Krum replied, pulling his robes back on now he was healed. Fleur did the same, dragging her Beauxbatons uniform from the end of the bed and slowly dressing herself. She felt like all her fingers had suddenly become thumbs, fumbling with the buttons, and belt.

The flaps of the tent parted and Madam Pomfrey stepped inside, she was smiling slightly, but the only girl floating behind her was Katie Bell.

He left her.

Fleur's heart collapsed, leaving her chest hollow and sore. Harry had left her baby sister to drown. Harry Potter ducked through the entrance, turning sideways to brush the flap out of the way with one arm. His face was blank and unreadable, but Fleur thought she caught a slight tremor of despair there.

She pushed herself off the bed to demand why he had not saved Gabrielle too, but then he turned, and cradled in his arms lay her precious, younger sister, sleeping peacefully with a small smile on her lips.

'You saved her,' Fleur whispered. Her heart rose from the ashes of her disconsolation.

Harry placed Gabby gently on the bed next to his and accepted the proffered Pepper -Up potion from Madam Pomfrey with resigned, wry smile.

'I do not expect, Mr Potter,' Madam Pomfrey lectured, 'to see such a dangerous use of self-transfiguration in all the rest of my life. You turned your lungs into some horrible parody of gills, restructured the entire musculature of your chest and thought it would have no consequences.'

Harry nodded, then turned away to cough violently into this hand. Fleur glimpsed a spatter of crimson upon his palm before Madam Pomfrey sat him down.

'You put far too much strain on your lungs,' she muttered, running her wand over his exposed chest. 'I've fixed you as best I can, but you'll have that cough for the next week or so anyway. Maybe it will remind you that we can't just put you back together every time you try something so reckless.'

Harry looked like he wanted to object, but bent over to cough into his hand. It was a deep, painful, wet sounding action that made Fleur shift uneasily and Cedric wince. He had been fine under the water when she had seen him by the hostages, and Fleur somehow knew that it had been swimming with the weight of both Katie Bell and Gabrielle that had put too much strain on whatever he had done to his lungs.

A flurry of guilt struck her as she remembered how much she had hated him in the brief moment between losing her veil and having to head for the surface.

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