I combined two requests to make it into one chapter. Hope you enjoy.
Prompt(s): Kat breaks her arm / something happens to Kat in school.
Kat's age: 8
"Bet you can't climb that tree."
Kat narrowed her eyes at Joe. The eight year old blew her bangs from her eyes and smirked at her best friend. "Bet your ass that I can!"
"Don't do it," Mark shook his head. "You can get hurt."
"No I won't," Kat rolled her eyes and looked up at the tree that was closer to them. She glanced around and noticed the teachers weren't paying attention to them. She brought her attention back to the tall tree and tried to decided how to climb it.
"There's a branch here that is the lowest of the tree," Joe said from the other side of it.
Kat walked around and stood next to her friend with Mark joining them after. Joe was right. She took a deep breath and let it out before jumping up at the branch. She huffed when she couldn't reach and frowned in concentration.
"Stop," hissed Mark. "A teacher could see you and get in trouble."
Joe rolled her eyes and helped Kat climbed up the tree. Kat struggled for a bit but she finally got on the big thick branch. She grinned down at her friends and looked around the playground. Luckily the teachers were preoccupied with other kids to pay them any attention.
"It looks so big!" Kat looked around the playground. Some kids were playing on the swings, running in the field with the ball, sliding down the slide or making figures in the sand.
"Maybe you should get down now," Mark bit his lip.
Joe punched his arm. "Shut up Mark! You're always the party pooper!"
He winced at the punch and started to rub his arm. "Well someone has to be the one that—"
"Benson!" A voice across the field yelled. "You get down from that tree right now!"
Kat's eyes widen when she noticed her teacher walking towards them. The young girl then frowned and said, "I like the view from here!"
The teacher was a couple of feet away from the tree and placed her hands on her hip, "If you don't get down from there I will tell your mother!"
The color left from Kat's face at the mention of her mother. She knew that she would get grounded and her dolls would be taken away. She sighed heavily and nodded to her teacher letting her know that she will get down. She was about to climb down as she stood on the branch but she lost her footing. Next thing she was on the grass with a hot pain running down her hand. She yelled in pain and heard footsteps running towards her.
"Kat!" Mark kneeled next to her. "You okay?!"
"Of course she is not okay dummy!" Joe yelled at him. "She hurt her arm!"
"Kids move away from her!" The teacher from before sternly said as she knelt down next to Kat, "Kathryn, where does it hurt?"
"My arm," Kat sniffed.
"Ok," the teacher nodded. She and another teacher who heard the commotion helped Kat stand up. They shared a grim look when they noticed the young girl clutching her left arm to her chest. "Are you hurt anywhere else?"
Kat shook her head. They quickly took her to the nurse office. Kat's teacher quickly called the girl's mother while the other teacher left back to keep an eye on the other children in the playground. Joe and Mark had followed them to the office. The teacher told them to leave but the kids were very stubborn so she let them stay with Kat. The nurse placed an ice bag covered in a small towel on Kat's wrist when she noticed it was swelling.
Thirty minutes the door in the nurse's office opened and a panicked Olivia Benson stepped inside. She glanced around the room until her eyes rested on her daughter who was sitting on the small bed. She noticed that the young girl had a bit of grass in her loose hair and some dirt in her face. Her eyes then landed on the arm that was cradled to Kat's chest with a covered ice bag resting on the forearm.
"Kat," she whispered and rushed to her daughter's side. She gently brushed her hair a bit before turning her attention to the teacher. Her brown eyes harden and sternly asked, "What happen?"
Before the teacher could explain Joe said, "She fell off a tree."
Olivia' eyes rested on the small blonde girl before returning her attention to the teacher. Her voice hardened as the protective—or what her colleagues called 'the mama bear'—side came out. "A tree? What the hell was she doing up in a tree?! Where were you or the other teachers?!"
Mark, who was getting scared at how angry Kat's mom looked, blurted out, "Joe dared her!" He pointed his index finger at his friend. "And she helped her climb the tree."
"Mark!" Joe glared at him and slapped his arm. "You snitch!"
"Joe!" The teacher sternly said at the young girl. "You don't hit."
Olivia turned to look at her daughter. "Is Mark telling the truth?"
Kat smiled sheepishly and slowly nodded. "Yeah. But at least I proved Joe wrong. I can climb a tree." She looked down arm before looking up at her mom. "I can't feel my hand now."
The detective stared at her daughter for another second before turning to look at the nurse and teacher. "I'm going to take her to the hospital."
"Well as you can see here," the male doctor placed the X-Ray pictures on the illuminator, "Her ulna bone looks fine but her Radius is broken. It's not a very serious injury but we do have to put a cast for the bone to heal."
"For how long?" Olivia asked with worry tinged on her voice.
"Three weeks."
"And will it be completely heal after that?"
"Well we need to do a check up to see if it healed. If it still hasn't then we might have to put another cast but I don't think that will happen," he smiled gently at both Bensons. "I will tell my nurse to get everything ready and I will be back in a bit."
He closed the door behind him and Olivia looked down at her daughter. "Well you heard the doctor. They have to put a cast on you."
Kat grinned, "Does that mean I don't have to do my homework?"
"You broke your left arm not the right one," Olivia frowned, "which means you still have to do your homework."
"Ah poop."
The nurse walked in with everything her and the doctor needed for the cast. The young nurse smiled at Kat and asked, "What color do you want your cast to be?"
"Purple!"
The nurse chuckled. "Is that your favorite color?"
The dark haired eight year old nodded. "It's also my mom's."
The process didn't take long and the cast was put on. The doctor told Olivia to bring her daughter back for a checkup in a week. After signing some papers and some more talking both Bensons waited for the elevator to get to the floor they were.
"Can we go get some ice cream?" Kat asked as she looked up at her mother.
Olivia turned to look at her daughter in disbelieve. "Are you kidding me?"
"No, I'm been serious."
"You think you deserve ice cream after your friend Joe dared you to climb up a tree and you did for the result to break your arm?" Olivia firmly said as the elevator doors opened and they both stepped inside. After she pushed the first floor buttons and the door closed.
"Yeah."
"Unbelievable," the detective shook her head.
"So is that a yes?"
Another chapter done. Hope this was a great chapter.
Sorry if I got anything wrong but I have never broken a bone so I don't know the process, fractures, ect...
I'm already working on the next chapter and let me warn you all...there will be feels!
Next chapter will be up by Friday for sure.
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