C.N. April 2014: Digital Distraction Part 4

The invitations were completely forgotten the next day after he woke up to Yugi’s distress and bolted into the corridor between rooms to find out what was wrong and found Yugi had finally come around enough to notice the state of his soul room.

The pair of them worked together for most of the day to start shifting through the damaged and broken toys within Yugi’s room, setting those that were still mostly whole safely to one side, while they worked to try and shore up or piece together the ones that they could save and put aside those that were empty with the hope of recovering what had been lost later.

There was still an awful lot of work to do when Yugi started drifting off again, but the teen didn’t agree to rest until Yami had promised him that the moment he was up to it, they would spend as much time as was needed fixing the damage where they could. It was dangerous, Yami reminded his light, for him to tamper with the soul room too much at the best of times, yet alone while Yugi was so weak and his soul in such a fragile state and it was quite possible that some of the damage would undo itself if Yugi just allowed himself to rest properly.

Yugi backed down at that, agreeing to wait until he was fully recovered, but Yami could tell something about the way he had phrased it had bothered the teen, who had flopped down on the bed, turned his back on Yami and fallen asleep so swiftly that if Yugi hadn’t been so injured, Yami would have suspected him to be faking it.

Over the course of that day and most of the next, Yami spent most of his time flitting between the infirmary, helping Yugi build protections in his mind to stop this sort of thing from happening again, and the Gryffindor tower, catching some sleep. He was pleased to see Yugi perk up a bit again when Harry came around at dusk of the following day, though neither of them were allowed out of the hospital wing yet.

By the End of Term banquet Yugi had, physically at least, seemed to regain most of his bounciness, though Yami could still sense the pain beneath the surface and Harry, who had been tired and lethargic for a couple of days as he recovered from his fight with Quirrelmort, s Joey was calling him, was back to his old self. This meant that Madam Pomfrey had no excuse to not follow Professor Dumbledore’s orders that both of them were to be allowed to go to the feast.

They were released the afternoon before to give them time to pack to leave the following day. Once they were away from the quiet infirmary, however, Yami and the others had to do what they could to protect Yugi and Harry from the hordes of students who wanted to know everything that had happened down in the mirror room and hadn’t been able to get any information from the others.  It wasn’t easy though and it was a relief when they all piled onto the train.

It didn’t take Yugi long to settle at Yami’s side and fall asleep and they settled in quietly, discussing their plans for the summer and cheering up Harry when they realised how little he wanted to go back to the Dursleys by coming up with more and more elaborate plans for kidnapping him and bringing him to Japan.

Finally, when they tired of that topic, having run out of things to do that wouldn’t leave the Dursleys with long term scarring, Kari brought up something that had been bothering her since the leaving feast.

“I know this is going to sound ungrateful and everything else, but does anyone else think Professor Dumbledore was wrong to give us those extra points at the feast?” She asked with a frown, causing the others to look at her.

This prompted a discussion about the fact that where anyone else could have been expelled for some of the stunts they had pulled and at least would have lost house points, they had been given points in front of the whole school AFTER Slytherin had been announced as the winners. In hindsight it wasn’t very fair to anyone who had worked hard to earn their house points over the course of the year.

By the time they had settled between them that, if they went back to Hogwarts next year, they would earn the House Cup rather than steal it at the last minute, they had arrived at Kings Cross Station and the group parted ways after a minor set to with Harry’s uncle.