Chapter 185: Healing Pocket!
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In response, Astoria's grip tightened around him.
They stayed that way for a minute but Astoria didn't let go.
"Tori, do you want to go home? Do you need me to come?"
She shook her head in his chest. "I don't want to go home."
"Okay, let's go to my room then." He declared, moving towards the door.
Lily offered him a proud smile. "Good. I'll inform Proserpina that Tori won't return home for a few hours."
The twins led her out. But making Astoria walk was like pulling her through quicksand.
Seeing no other option, Harry picked her up in bridal carry, getting a short hysterical giggle from the younger girl before she hid her face in his neck, which didn't exactly help to ease the tense situation.
Harry looked at Iris in question, who just shrugged, none the wiser.
The trio walked up the stairs and into his room. Where he tried to lay Astoria down on the bed. But the little tyke didn't want to let him go.
Harry awkwardly climbed up the bed and lay on his side with her clinging to him like a monkey. Iris too got into the bed and hugged her from behind, sandwiching her between them.
Astoria stiffened for a moment before relaxing and closing her eyes.
The twins tried to make her talk, but she stubbornly kept her silence.
Half an hour later, she was fast asleep, mumbling something in her sleep and rubbing her face on his chest, wiping all the tears and snot on his t-shirt.
He laughed silently and shared an amused look with his sister. He placed an affectionate kiss on Astoria's head and closed his own eyes, not minding a short rest.
Before his consciousness could bleed into dreamland, his mother's distressed scream woke him up from his half-asleep state. "Harry!"
Thankfully, Astoria was still dozing, too gone to be disturbed. He untangled himself from her stubborn limbs and hurried down to the living room after silently conveying to Iris to stay with her.
He stepped into the living room to find his mother hovering over the unconscious body of Daphne.
There was already a pool of blood gathered under her.
He ignored the pungent smell and the dread that wormed into him. He kneeled beside her, wincing at the many punctured holes throughout her torso.
She was riddled with many grievous wounds and was on the edge of death. Her breath came as short and sharp gasps.
He picked her up, smearing blood all over his clothes, and activated his perk.
[Healing Pocket]
A square black hole opened up before him on the ground like a casket.
Knowing what to do next, he placed Daphne down into the dimensional hole and stepped back, letting it close up.
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The trio walked up the stairs and into his room. Where he tried to lay Astoria down on the bed. But the little tyke didn't want to let him go.
Harry awkwardly climbed up the bed and lay on his side with her clinging to him like a monkey. Iris too got into the bed and hugged her from behind, sandwiching her between them.
A minute after that, Astoria asked in a strange voice, "Harry, is that a boner?"
She cupped his crotch before slipping her hands into his pants and looking at him with innocent blue eyes. Only the uptick of her lips told him that she knew what she was doing.
The deviant.
Well, at least she was distracted now.
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Daphne blinked owlishly at suddenly finding herself standing in the living room of the Potter Manor.
The last she remembered was bleeding to death after she became a pincushion with arrows jutting out of her body. She recalled briefly glancing at the red evening sky before falling into the river.
She paled at the realisation, quickly running her hands over her chest and stomach, becoming more confused at not finding any injuries. Although her tattered clothes did indicate that she hadn't dreamed of dying, but really had glimpsed into the dark abyss.
Before she could continue her frantic inspection, Harry stepped forward and pulled her in a tight reassuring hug.
Daphne instinctively returned it, wrapping her arms around his back and sighing against his chest, breathing in his familiar scent and trying to calm her thumping heart.
The one good thing that came out of Harry's sudden growth was that she could easily bury her face in his chest, which was her preferred way of embracing him.
She bit her lip and smothered her whimpers as the phantom pains came back where the arrows had sunken into her skin and organs.
The miraculously healed wounds sent an imaginary flare of hurt through her body. She clutched the back of his shirt and shut her eyes, willing it away.
'I am fine, I am home. There are no more monsters.' She chanted in her mind, trying to forget what she had faced on that island.
Harry, as if hearing her thoughts, gripped her tighter, squashing her into him. The mild ache of his bruising hug distracted her from the morbid memories.
She sighed in relief and basked in the safety within his arms.
Today definitely had been an unusual day for Harry where he had to console all three Greengrasses. He didn't mind it, of course.
They were practically his extended family. But unlike with Proserpina and Astoria, he didn't know what had happened to Daphne.
He led her to the sofa and sat her down beside him, frowning when she didn't let go of him and snuggled to his side, clutching his arm like a lifeline. Which was quite a rare occurrence.
Lily sat on the other side of Daphne and caressed her back, sharing a concerned look with him.
Daphne must have gone through something horrible since she seemed so desperate and scared. Obviously, the pool of blood in which she had been lying was a dead giveaway, but he didn't know the entirety of the situation.
Which he needed to do if he wanted to understand her.
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