Title: Cold Beds, VI Challenge: hot Word Count: 100
"Professor Snape?"
Severus came awake with a violent start. Someone was banging on the door to his borrowed room, and the voice was not Minerva's.
"Yes?" He summoned his dressing gown and pulled it as he stumbled to open the door. "Miss Doge?"
The seventh year prefect seized him by the arm and started for the staircase to the Gryffindor common room. "It's Netherton, sir. She's been coughing all night, and I just checked her forehead. She's running a fever, sir, and it's getting worse!"
"Have you called Madam Pomfrey?"
"Yaxley's gone for her," said the girl, dashing at tears.