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Arcturus Black (arcturusfirst) wrote in spinningcompass, @ 2022-03-11 22:32:00

Who: Alexander Hamilton and Arcturus Black
What: Visiting an ill friend
Where: Medbay
When: Saturday



Arcturus hadn't been in to visit Hamilton before now. He had needed to take precautions. It wasn't that he didn't trust O'Hara, only that the price of being wrong could be very high, and he was far more worried for Sirius than himself. Arcturus could shake off any muggle disease without a second thought, but the same couldn't be said for young magical children. It was two years since he'd lost his daughter, Isidora, and that had started with a cough and not a fever, but the details hardly mattered. He didn't talk about it. A wizard from his own time would have known that it spoke to some grief when he listed his children and gave a five year gap between Alexius and Leila, but modern people with their smaller families appeared not to notice, and in a way that made matters easier for him. Sirius' life already seemed to hang in the balance, however, and Arcturus meant to do everything in his power to keep the boy safe.

That meant watching Crawley. Arcturus would never have prompted his friend to visit Hamilton for this purpose, it would have been monstrous – but Crawley was visiting anyway, and after he had been in Hamilton's company for a week and showed no signs of illness, Arcturus was as assured as he could be that the malaria would not somehow get passed on to Sirius.

That meant he could visit, which he was doing despite his misgivings and dread surrounding muggle medicine and all that related to it. He kept his wand close, just in case. Arcturus knew that half the tales he'd been told about muggles as a child were inventions or exaggerations, but that didn't account for the other half!

When he arrived, he was surprised to find Hamilton in what looked like a reasonably ordinary bed, with nothing horrendous and muggle to be seen, at least in his immediate vicinity. He raised one hand in greeting, the sleeve of his dark robe falling down his arm a little. 'It's very good to see you, Hamilton,' he said, standing at a distance and trying not to look as awkward and uncomfortable as he felt in that place.