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Title: Cold Beds, X
Challenge: hot
Word Count: 100
"I should have known," said the woman's voice. "I had his school records but didn't check them."
Severus tried to sit up and failed. "Wha - "
"The poor fellow forgot to dose himself," said someone who sounded like - who was Albus. "I am afraid the blame is mine. I should have insisted that he take his own medicine."
"Poppy?" Severus squinted up at the matron and the Headmaster. "What - "
"Drink this," said Poppy, holding up a vial of swirling pink. It tasted of chalk and peppermint. "I'm afraid you have a rather nasty case of measles."
Challenge: hot
Word Count: 100
"I should have known," said the woman's voice. "I had his school records but didn't check them."
Severus tried to sit up and failed. "Wha - "
"The poor fellow forgot to dose himself," said someone who sounded like - who was Albus. "I am afraid the blame is mine. I should have insisted that he take his own medicine."
"Poppy?" Severus squinted up at the matron and the Headmaster. "What - "
"Drink this," said Poppy, holding up a vial of swirling pink. It tasted of chalk and peppermint. "I'm afraid you have a rather nasty case of measles."