Sloane had been gone for nearly two weeks at this point. After that disastrous corn maze, her fever had been so high after being out all night that' she'd slipped past the flu and right into pneumonia; straight out of the infirmary to the actual hospital for fourteen days. It had been one of the scariest points in her life, even worse than the squid encounter. Her fever had spiked and there were points she didn't even remember, but after being fever free for five days and showing impressive improvement, Sloane had been released to go home. She'd spent the the day at home but had badgered her mother into taking her back to school this evening instead of in the morning. She wanted to have the full day to get back into the routine before starting back up with classes on Monday. She was so behind at this point that it would be a miracle if she could catch up. Repeating fourth year would be miserable.

Realistically though, she wanted to get back without telling anyone so she could surprise them. It was after dinner by the time she'd been up to see the nurse to get all of her check in information and potion schedule to continue her recovery, before she made it up to the common room. Almost everyone was there and generally happy to see her, but one important person was missing and she was told he was in the library of all places.

After dropping her things off in her room and frankly wishing she could go to bed, Sloane briefly contemplated just going to sleep and waking up in the morning to surprise Cam, but she couldn't wait quite that long. It would have been glorious though, to just waltz down the stairs and see the look on his face, but this would be equally as amusing, she suspected.

She spent a fair few minutes wandering through the library itself, thinking she might give up and head back to the common room to fulfill that original plan, when she finally spotted him tucked away in a secluded corner. Smiling to herself, Sloane pulled a random book from the nearest shelf and tucked it under her arm before swinging around the far side of his table to sneak up behind him. "Is this seat taken?" She asked innocently enough, but it was hard to keep the mirth from her voice.