"Hey Kaid, you'll never guess what hap….pened," Declan's declaration faltering upon entering the dorm he shared with Kaiden that night. "Um, three questions, why is Alex in your bed? why is she bleeding? and most interestingly why is she wearing your clothes?"
Kaiden looked up from his medsci textbook to glance at the clearly unconscious Alex before directing his full attention to his best friend and sighing in resignation.
"Earlier tonight I was running an errand for Fletch and when I got back to the Med Ward Alex was there. It was obvious she was in a lot of pain and had some pretty serious injuries, I don't know specifics of how she got them but I'm guessing it had something to do with all the Aven stuff. Anyway, I helped Fletcher patch her up before he gave her a really strong sedative which knocked her out pretty instantly. Originally, he was just going to have her remain in the Med Ward to sleep off the sedative, but an urgent influx of patients – chem lab gone wrong – meant that he needed all the beds he possibly could. Since Alex wasn't technically injured anymore, he asked me if I could take her back to her dorm. So, I did, but when I got there D.C. wasn't there, and since she was unconscious Alex couldn't activate the bio sensor. So I went down to the boy's room but on my way, I ran into Bear, he told me that D.C. had been called back to the palace, Jordan was in detention and he was on his way to complete an extra credit project for Fitzy."
Leaning casually against the wall next to his bed, arms folded, Declan guessed, "so that's when you brought her back here?"
"Exactly. Fletch said that she probably shouldn't be left on her own, and since I didn't know when any of them would be back, I figured that it would be best to let her rest here." Kaiden confirmed.
"Okay, that answers the first two questions, but what about the last one?"
Moving into a more comfortable position on his chair Kaiden answered, "Well her clothes were covered in mud and completely drenched. I wasn't a massive fan of the accompanying laundry that would result from her laying on my bed, so I called Jeera. She is the one that changed her into my clothes."
"Right," Declan nodded as he moved to his wardrobe, collecting his pyjamas before entering the boy's bathroom to prepare for bed. It took all of five minutes before he returned to the main room, Kaiden still sat at his desk, finishing up his final notes for the night and turning his chair around to face Declan, who had made his way to his bed.
"So, it doesn't look as though Queenie is going to wake up anytime soon, what are you going to do?" Declan asked gesturing to the still unconscious Alex sprawled out on the bed beside his.
Glancing ever so briefly in Alex's direction Kaiden rose from his chair made his way over to the wardrobe and threw a pillow and blanket across the room to the empty space between his and Declan's bed. "I'll just sleep on the floor tonight, can't be too bad. Will definitely be better than the raft Hunter made us all sleep in on SAS."
"Hmm anything would be better than that," the two boys laughed as Kaiden settled into his makeshift bed. "Night Kaid. Sleep well mate, you'll definitely need it for tomorrow."
Arching an eyebrow Kaiden questioned, "why? What's tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow is when you have to explain this all to Queenie, and we both know how dramatic she can get." Declan returned, sending Kaiden a wicked smile before turning over and going to sleep.
Throwing one last glance up at Alex, Kaiden couldn't help but feel that Declan was right, tomorrow would be interesting.
