Taking a Break(Althea)

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Hope wasn't normally one to let her emotions get the best of her. Especially while she was at work. She and her staff had been running around almost all day like chickens with their heads cut off. There had been several patients that had come in today most of them with just the usual plant poisoning for being bit or hurt by poisonous plants, or even the occasional potion exploded all over me injuries. No this afternoon was what had been the worst that it had been in a while. Her ward was packed full of patients right now recovering from various potions that just so happened to be different types of poison. Of course she knew how to get rid of the poison but the last patient that had been brought in was a little girl, no older than seven or eight years old, and the girl's mother had also been brought in. They were in very bad shape both of them. Hope worked tirelessly over both of them, having to heal many broken bones and cuts and even take care of spell damage. They had been attacked and couldn't really remember what had happened since both had been brought in unconscious. Hope had to get someone from the Spell Damage ward to come and help her since some of the spells that had been used, needed more than one person to remove the damage. It wasn't that she couldn't do it but she was also working on removing the harmful poisons that had been administered to both the little girl and her mother.

After making sure that her two newest patients were in a stable condition Hope retired to her office where she still was. She currently had her head in her hands, as she thought about the damage that had been to the little girl and her mother. It was horrible, who would do something like that to a little girl, let alone cause harm to anyone. This attack wasn't ordinary at all but she had done all that she could and hoped that those people pulled through. Almost everyone that had come in this afternoon had been poisoned, and it had all happened at various places around Diagon Alley. But what was even odder was that almost everyone that had been poisoned worked in the Ministry of Magic. This was something that she needed to report to the aurors, since this was right up their alley, or maybe even to the hit wizards. To hell with it she was just going to inform the Magical Law Enforcement department. Right now though she could use someone to talk too. Hope felt a few tears run down her cheeks, it had been difficult to see the little girl in the condition that she was in and Hope didn't know if she would make it since she was still in a critical condition. For the poison had yet to leave her body completely. However Hope knew that she couldn't save everyone, but she was surely going to do everything in her power to do so.

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Her office was set down on the first floor of the hospital, right there in lobby behind a portrait of her mother who had passed long ago by poison. She was outside her small office in the private lobby of her own behind the portrait talking to her assistant when she heard noise outside in the lobby. Her head titled sideways and walked to the portrait steeping out into the lobby to see someone collapsed on the floor a young man barely in his twenty’s it looked like. Running over she fell to the floor beside the man and immediately put him on his back tilting his head, he was barely breathing. A lady was screaming her name and she looked up to see a woman, who was the wife of an high ranking Ministry official, and a friend of hers. The young man indeed was her son Seth. ”Get me a stretcher now, incoming Potion and Plant ward, now!”exclaimed Althea lifting the man with the help of some of her staff onto the stretcher which started floating and moving through the air with Althea right behind it.

This was her specialty as a Healer, she used to run the ward she was going up to right now for a few years and her mother had ran it before her for almost two decades. Her wand was out and she already going thru the different charms she knew to try and slow down any infections going on from any plants, she was not sure what had happened yet. His mother kept going on about he didn’t feel right after drinking one of his potions he made, apparently a rather common potion to relax. Impossible those would not cause this thought Althea as they exited the lift and as soon as they did the man started shaking violently on the stretcher, convulsing. She flicked her wand at once they were running down into the ward as the stretcher raced beside her. People were alerted they were getting another patient but not, one that was dying right before them. ”CODE BLACK, were losing him! Move now, get her back!!” shouted Althea as she yelled at security to prevent the mother from going any further. As soon as she shouted, the ward sensors went off making a blaring noise which sent everyone scrambling out of the way, afraid of getting in the way of the Director of St. Mungos. This was a poisoning one that was rather nasty and hard to brew, this was an attempted assassination if she thought about it anymore.

She was having one Healer help him down as she started going thru a different couple of potions pouring them into a small cauldron, preparing an antiditode that she was nearly sure would work. ”Induce vomiting now!”ordered Althea who despite the entire fast pace she moved, she looked completely calm, there was no doubt who was in charge right now. Just need more time thought Althea, looking behind her she could see the man was barely vomiting which was not helping, if he could vomit enough she could buy some time before his organs would fail him. Eventually they would if she couldn’t get the cure made, this was not a poison that was used ever rarely. She grabbed a bottle from a cabinet, a minor poison they carried which could be started to induce vomiting, she poured it down the man’s throat at once. Snapping her body back she went back to the curse as the man started puking violently on the floor, finally she was done with the cure which she stuck in a syringe that inserted into his arm. It needed go to the blood stream at once. For a few seconds he laid motionless, and non puking his eyes not moving it looked as he was dead, but then he started taking shallow breaths. ”We got him…get me an inspection team in here, contact the Auror office at once this man was poisoned. Have security watch over her mother, where’s Hope?” spoke Althea as she started cleaning up the puke with her wand.

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Hope was still in her office when she felt it. The ward that let her automatically know when a knew patient was admitted to her department. She immediately looked up before hearing an all too familiar voice that belonged to her boss Althea. A woman who had actually been the head of her department before being made director of St. Mungos. Hope got up with a rush of adrenaline that always happened whenever she was ready to help people. She grabbed her wand which had been laying on her desk and rushed out of the office. Upon doing so she saw where Althea was at currently administering a cure for what seemed to be a poison. She could tell since she had made many of them today and the cure was to induce vomiting.

”We got him…get me an inspection team in here, contact the Auror office at once this man was poisoned. Have security watch over her mother, where’s Hope?” Hope reached the place where her boss was just in time to hear her name and as Althea was cleaning up puke. “Althea good to see you again in the department, granted I wish it would have been under better circumstances.” She paused as the man puked once more. She waved her wand and made the puke disappear just before it hit the ground. “I have been dealing with this all day.” She said waving her hand towards all of the occupied beds. “There have been many people coming in today from being poisoned. When this young man came in was it just a regular thing or was it a Code Black?” She asked Althea.

Hope had been wondering just when she would get a Code Black today due to the poisonings. And now it seemed that this was it. “So who do you think is behind all of this?” Hope asked as she grabbed a potion from a cabinet that would help replenish the fluids in the man’s body and it was going to also help neutralize the poison in his body. Granted he wouldn’t be getting it until he stopped puking to make sure that most of the poison had been expelled from his body.

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After finishing cleaning up the puke she pocketed her wand and started on getting a vial of the man’s blood she was going to have tests done on it later. What was unique about Althea skill as Healer she was well trained and rehearsed in muggle practices and medicines as well as being a Healer, a gift of having a her dad as a muggle neurosurgeon. Her dad had never really cared for magic and after her mother’s death he rejected magic fully blaming it for her death, which Althea knew was not the correct way to handle the grief. Magic didn’t cause it, an honest mistake had happened. She turned around as she heard the voice of Hope Knight, the Head of the ward currently. A smile came across her face as her eyes fell upon Hope, she couldn’t honestly ask for a better person to run her old ward, except maybe herself. Either way Hope had impressed her in the ways she ran the ward, a tight ship things were in order and she knew her stuff, all things that stood well for Althea. ”Yes tell me about it but, I guess it was the most eventful day for me” spoke Althea and her eyes glanced back over to the guy on the stretcher.

”His mom is a friend brought him in, because he was not feeling good and he collapsed on the floor in the lobby. Went code black by the time we got up here” spoke Althea her eyes looked past her as one of the security guards walked in and informed her that the mother of the man was in her office with security. ”Thank you have her stay there with them and send an owl to the Senior Undersecretary to the Minister, I’d like him here as soon as he can spare” spoke Althea rather bluntly but still in a pleasant tone. She was on a break from Dwight but, she still wanted him here on this to make sure the Ministry handled this correct plus she had some high suspicions now. Turning around she looked back over to Hope who had asked her who might have done something like this, her thoughts were swirling around in her mind trying to figure out who might have done this. ”The poison was foreign, and very rare in these parts and he believed he took a relaxing potion he made. Someone tried killing him just I don’t know who” Althea replied back to Hope as her eyes looked at the guy still trying to wonder who did this, and how they got the guy’s own stash of potions.

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“Yes tell me about it but, I guess it was the most eventful day for me….His mom is a friend brought him in, because he was not feeling good and he collapsed on the floor in the lobby. Went code black by the time we got up here” Hope knew that it probably was the most eventful day for her boss, since she had taken up the post of being the Director of St. Mungos. Althea had been the head of this ward before Hope had been given the job as head of the department. “That is quite a fast acting poison, if from the moment he was brought in he was on the floor and then on the way up here went code black. But the question is what can cause or have that kind of effect, to put someone in that state of being so fast?” Hope asked after the security guard had come over and informed Althea of the young man’s mother being here. It was just a question that she was asking herself since she was thinking about what poison and where it could have come from.

However her question although she had guessed as much already, was answered by her boss, saying that it was a rare poison, and Hope nodded her head in agreement at this. “Yes the real question is who did this. But I think that there is a connection between this poisoning and the poisoning of all of the patients that I have dealt with all day. Some of them did pass out but those were mostly due to shock of the fact that they had been poisoned. I think that whoever it was that did this, was outside of the country for some time, due to the rarity of the ingredients that I know that could cause something like this.” She said, and knew all about the different types of ingredients that could be used and where they came from, that could cause these systems. This poison was meant to kill the young man if he didn’t receive help right away. Which was something that she knew as well. “Well whoever it was is probably an experienced assassin or something of that nature, or possibly a thief.” Hope stated but at the same time she had a feeling that they would finding out exactly just who it was soon enough.

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