"Rose!" Kanaya ran into the room embracing her matesprit. Rose hugged her, too. The warmth felt disappointing to her. She certainly did a horrible job in her attempt to detach herself from the world.
"How's my sister?" Dave smiled, trying to pretend he wasn't nervous seeing the machines she was hooked up to.
"We went through the Taco Bell drive-thru," said John, as Dirk sat the bag of food on the table. "Are you hungry? Mr. Strider said you normally ate kind of late,"
"Yes, I am hungry. Thanks, everyone," Rose fake smiled.
"So, girlie. You wanna stay in bed or do you want me to sit you in the window?" asked Dirk.
"Window," said Rose, starting to sit herself up.
"I gotcha," he said, motioning at her to stay where she was.
"Can I help?" asked Dave.
"Yeah, lil' man, just wheel that thing along behind me when I carry her," he pointed to her IV. Dave carefully brought it behind her as Dirk picked up Rose in his strong arms and settled her down into the window seat.
"Rose, are you making a scarf?" asked Jade excitedly, looking through her materials sitting in the open closet. She was scared that Rose could've been sitting around doing nothing, and consequently was quite happy to see her productivity.
"I am, Jade. Perhaps if you pick out the colours from what I have stored, I'll make one for you later,"
"You don't have to make anything for me!" exclaimed Jade. She reached into one of her large pockets in her fuzzy coat that she had yet to sit aside in the excitement of getting the chance to see her friend again.
"I had this in my house. I thought you might want it. It's not much, but I'll bring you more," she added a bit of rainbow yarn, leftover from some random project, in with the materials and sat down beside Rose in the window.
"I'm heading out," said Dirk, taking a few things from the pile of food. "Get me if any of y'all want anything. I'll be back in a bit over an hour so I can bring y'all to where Jade'll be staying,"
"Bye," said Dave, as Dirk made his way out of the room. Kanaya sorted out the food and napkins as everyone sat down.
"What was he speaking of that involved Jade?" asked Rose, extremely concerned, as Kanaya lovingly put her hand on top of hers.
"She's going to stay here for a week starting tomorrow," said John.
"I'll be in a different ward of the hospital for a sleep study about my narcolepsy," said Jade.
"Bro reorganized his work schedule so he'll start working nights tomorrow, mostly in her ward, and Jake will stay with her during the day," explained Dave.
"I wasn't going to do it for a while, but since you were here, I asked if they could get me in,"
"Jake's been recording when she sleeps for a while now, and since she had that whole ordeal already done, she could just come in whenever the fuck she wanted," added Dave.
"Now we can hang out together so you won't be lonely!" Jade smiled.
"Thank you, Jade. I have confidence that you can make this enjoyable," Rose was a little touched.
"I'm gonna go and take the kids on a tour of where Jade'll be staying. Rose, too. That cool with you?" asked Dirk, throwing away the remainder of the garbage left over from his lunch with Roxy.
"Yeah. She hasn't been out of her room yet. It'll be a nice change," said Roxy.
"You got something to do while I'm gone?"
"Yeah, I'm going to go see how Tavros' feeling,"
"Okay. He stopped puking after getting medicated yesterday," Dirk informed her as he walked back to the room, getting a wheelchair on his way. The kids were all laughing when he came into the room, and Kanaya and Rose were cuddled up against each other. Dirk started to clean up what was left of the mess of wrappers and crumbs, so Roxy wouldn't have to later, as the kids started to get up to go walk around the hospital. He noticed Rose and Jade wearing make-up. Kanaya gave little makeovers while he was gone. She'd drawn little hearts next to their left eyes with eyeliner. Pink for Rose, and green for Jade. He then noticed how Dave "ironically" had a red heart drawn on, too. He helped Rose into the wheelchair, and Kanaya immediately took control in guiding her. Dave took the IV again, carefully making sure it followed behind without tugging at her or causing her any discomfort whatsoever. The passed by some signs with warnings on them to be quiet, and Dirk unlocked the doors to a long, plain hallway. Dirk took them down a set of desks at the end with 4 computers, and a ton of cabinets. There was neatly organized paperwork on the desks by a couple of nurses.
"This is where I'll be from 8 at night until 6 in the morning," he said, and then led them into a nearby room.
"Jade, this is where you'll be staying. I can hang out with you for most of the night if that's what you want. It's got a cable TV and DVD player. Your own bathroom, too. We'll have you all hooked up to shit to track changes in your heart rate and crap like that. It'll be a little uncomfortable, but it won't be too bad or anything. Jake can take you out of the room to see Rose for an hour or so during the day, too,"
"Yeah! He told me to text him whenever I wake up, and if you're not here, he'll come to see me. Then, we could visit Rose sometimes!"
"I'm gonna write down her therapy schedule so he'll know when he can bring you. He just needs to sign you out with one of the nurses on duty, nothing difficult to get you out of this ward,"
