[complete] Characters: Adrian Pucey and Nymphadora Tonks Location: St. Mungo's, first floor, Magical Sports and Games Injuries ward Date: 30 November 1998, Afternoon Rating: PG for possible language? Summary: Adrian processes Tonks' exit paperwork after a broom accident. Status: Complete.
The first-floor wards at St. Mungo's had done more in the first few weeks Adrian had been assigned to them to turn him off quidditch than his own experiences at Hogwarts ever had. Healing up in the infirmary from smashing his bones to flinders had been bad enough, but the complexities of trying to fix someone else who'd done the same thing was even worse. He was beginning to wonder about the sanity of quidditch players everywhere, including himself. Maybe hitting his head too hard one time too many after a failed Wronski was what had gotten him into this fix in the first place. (Never mind Dangerous Dai Llewellyn and Maternity, the latter of which Adrian was not talking about at all.) But even worse than the treatment of injuries, which were at least theoretically in the purview he'd signed up for, was the paperwork afterward.
His quill--they required him to write by hand for the full period of his Traineeship, restricting Quick-Quote Quills to accredited and sworn Healers--was the main thing that stood between the Auror who'd come off her broom badly on duty and a near-term exit from St. Mungo's. She hadn't been badly injured, and Adrian himself had been more than competent to handle the damage under the supervision of a full Healer. The parchments he was filling up for St. Mungo's and the Auror Division, though, were taking more time than he expected.
Adrian looked up from the Ministry form at the rather cross Auror still lying on the bed. He wished he could transfigure the rather uncomfortable chair into something less hard on his tailbone, with two clipboards in addition to the one he was currently writing on leaning against the chair legs. "I'm sorry," he said apologetically, resisting the impulse to drag ink-stained fingers through his dark hair, "this is the first time I've had to fill out the Auror Division form. Would you please narrate the events that led to the injury--slowly, because I have to write all this down by hand and I'm sure you'd rather not repeat yourself several times."