Hello
Sorry i got delayed on this chapter but its not really delayed because its one a week, but meh i still apologize. Im not quite satisfied with this chapter, mainly on how i wrote and transmit the ideas, but this is the best i could do, so please enjoy it.
After the fight they only spent a couple of hours walking before they finally arrived to the town, Mallow Shade, but during that time Jaune only got worse, he looked pale, without any strength at all. He finally showed alarming signals at the entrance of the town, though he tried to hide it, he was clearly struggling with each step
Weiss put her hands on his back and his chest to support him.
"We need to get you to a doctor now"
He could only nod, the pain finally getting to him for some reason.
The town didn't looked big in itself, but it was cramped with lots of different buildings, almost all of them being cabins woods, with some little exceptions made of stone, and the people inside didn't looked very friendly. She ignored them and asked the nearest woman while holding Jaune.
"Is there any doctor near?"
The woman didn't seemed happy to see them, but she also looked curious and uncertain
"Please, we have enough money"
Weiss started pleading, they were desperate, she was desperate, Jaune needed help and now, she didn't cared if they had to spend everything there and now, his life was worth it.
"Ughh, come with me i know this town's doctor"
After some streets and a couple of turns,with a slow pace because of Jaune, they got to what seemed like a clinic, they entered and the woman told them to stay in the waiting room while she found the doctor, they both seated in the comfy chairs, Weiss maintained one arm on his chest so he wouldn't fall.
"How are you doing?"
He turned to her showing a smile which looked way too forced.
"I've had better days"
He looked worse by the moment, it almost seemed like his eyes were losing color.
"Have you checked your Aura at all?"
"Haven't since…the tower, kinda lost my scroll."
The memories of the call she had with Jaune that day came back to her, how hurt he sounded, angry and sad, and how he smashed his scroll in a moment of rage, ending their call.
"Idiot"
She didn't noticed her own hand tugging his shirt.
Suddenly an old man ,with a hair as white as her own, wearing a white coat entered the room.
"Hello I'm doctor Cryant, what happened?"
"We got attacked in the forest by bandits, and he got cut in the back with a sword, leaving a nasty wound across his back, I did the best I could, I disinfected him and bandage the wound"
"Okay, follow me to the examination room"
They did as told, slowly and steady they entered another room with some lockers marked with numbers, and a small bed in the center that had a small table with some medical tools on the side.
After them a woman came in wearing a nurse attire.
"Okay, please lay him on the bed"
Weiss carefully, helped put him face down on the bed.
"What's your name, son?"
"Jaune, Jaune Arc"
"Nice name, rolls off the tongue"
"Funny, that's my pickup line" He lightly chuckled
The doctor was making conversation with Jaune as he was pulling his armor and clothes off, Weiss couldn't tell if it was to entertain himself, or to keep Jaune distracted from the pain.
"Jaune?"
"Yes,doctor?"
"What the hell happened to you?"
He pulled his hoodie off, then a shirt drenched in sweat and blood, then the red bandages that used to be white. Revealing the big clean cut.
"It's a miracle you are alive, you should be dead from blood loss, or unconscious from pain, the cut is too deep, you have some superficial damage on your bones, but the only risks are either blood loss or infection."
"I've been told I have a good constitution"
"As good as it may be, you need stitches, nurse apply a light sedative, sorry son but you'll be left with a nasty scar"
"Girls love them don't they?"
"They sure do, sorry missy but you'll have to leave the room."
The "missy", as he called her, just gave a quick nod and approached the door but was stopped by a hand weakly pulling her wrist.
"Please let her stay…"
"Its okay Jaune" she said giving an apologetic smile. "I'll be right outside"
"Applying sedative"
Just as the nurse said that they heard the sound of something breaking, and saw the needle break when it clashed against… his aura?
"How does he have aura with a cut like this, and why isn't it healing if he haves aura? It just doesn't make sense"
"What now doctor?"
"...We can't wait, well have to do it like this"
"What?!"
Stitch a wound like that, without any kind of sedative? He had suffered a lot by now, and he wanted to make him go through more? Was he insane?
"Do it"
Then the doctor wasn't the only one
"Jaune what are you thinking, you could die from the shock!"
"So either I die from blood loss or I die taking my chances? There's no much to choose from is there?"
Another answerless question.
"I guess I'll need you here now, to keep him still while I do this"
Weiss gave a nod and proceeded to lean next to Jaune and take his trembling hand. He is scared, he wouldn't admit that, not to her at least. She wanted to help him, but the only thing she could do right now was help him relax… 'When did I start caring about him so much?'
The doctor poured some disinfectant on the wound, this time Jaune made a lot more than just twitching, and the moment the needle entered through his skin, was the moment he almost broke one or two fingers from the girls hand , with every movement the doctor made, Jaune started yelling and shaking, Weiss and the nurse could barely manage to maintain him down.
The heiress couldn't bear to look, she didn't wanted to, she didn't had to, but she kept watching him suffer.
"Stop it! You are killing him!"
"There's no much left, just keep him like that"
The expressions in his face could tell her everything he was feeling, he tried to quiet his own screams by clenching his teeth, which looked like they would shatter from the pressure, but he kept his eyes open full with tears of pain and something else, looking directly at her eyes as if trying to burn something in his memory, then suddenly all the muscles in his body went limp…
"Pyrrha…"
He said ,almost in a whisper, before going out cold.
"Jaune!"
"Its okay, he just fainted from the pain"
The doctor straightened himself and wrote some stuff into a paper, wich Weiss could only guess was some protocol.
"I'll need put him an IV, do you know his blood type?"
She shaked her head without taking his eyes off the boy, caressing his hand without noticing.
"He should be alright now Pyrrha don't worry, he just needs to rest"
She was visibly shaken by what the nurse said. "That's not my name" she said in an almost calm whisper, trying to hide the hostility.
"Oh, sorry"
She didn't saw her expression, but his words cared the weight of guilt and shame.
"Missy" He said leaning next to her. "Since the actual situation doesn't allow us to contact his guardian, nor we have any medical info on him, I'll need you to take the role of medical guardian"
"What do you mean..?" The words didn't make sense for her, he was safe now wasn't he? That's what the nurse said.
"Look miss…"
"Schnee, Weiss Schnee"
He was taken aback for a moment, but he continued.
"Right now we don't know what might happen to him, he lost a lot of blood, a normal person would have died from it, or from the pain, but clearly he's not normal, we don't know when hell wake up, or if he will. We also don't know what's going on with his aura, nor we know the complications that might be present in the future. If we need to take measures, we need you to take the decision"
"Me? Why me?"
"Because you are the only close person with him right now"
That sounded ridiculous to her, weeks ago she wouldn't even talk to Jaune out of her own will, sure they recently came to peace and maybe call each other friends, but she just wasn't near close enough to him to make decisions like that, they were practically putting his life in her hands.
"Is there no other option?"
"Right now, no there isn't, you could leave it to me, but I don't know anything about him"
"Then I'll do it"
She would take his life, and save it.
"Okay, well do the paperwork later, but right now please rest, there's a bed in the nex bedroom you can use. Well discuss the payment later"
He was right, with almost all the stress off her shoulders, the exhaustion she beared came to her
"Thanks doctor" She said while giving and light and courteous bow with her head.
"It's my job, now please rest"
"Do you mind if I stay here?"
The doctor just shrugged, and left the room. Followed by the nurse.
"It won't be as comfortable but do as you wish"
"Thanks"
She moved a chair next to the bed and just sat there, trailing some kind of pattern on Jaunes hand as he just laid there, his breathing was weak, but it was there, a signal he was alive, that he was there with her.
She couldn't help but to drop tears of relief.
"You are still alive Jaune, don't forget that"
Weiss couldn't tell if the words were meant to the knight or to herself.
Hmmmm, more development, yup
Im afraid to say next week chapter may get delayed because of some personal stuff but after that i will have more free time than normal so i mayyyy be able to give 2 chapters some weeks, but cant promise anything. Please share and leave your opinion so i can upgrade my work
06/01/18