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Chapter Ten

Mending the Wounded

"Aww, do I have to go to the hospital?" I whined the next morning as Emily and Paul literally dragged me to that dreaded building, since Uncle Billy had to run errands today.

"Yes you do. I'm not the one that got lost in a forest for six hours and break my arm, hmm?" Emily scolded as we walked into the large lobby that reeked of old medicine and death. I wrinkled my nose at the smell and tried sneaking out, but was unsuccessful. Plopping down onto a dusty chair, I pouted childishly as I waited for my name to be called.

"Gabrielle Black?" A young looking nurse asked as she scanned the lobby. I unwillingly got up and forced a smile while the nurse ushered me out of the room. Looking over my shoulder, Paul and Emily gave a thumbs up as support. Oh whoopee fucking doo.

"Right this way, Miss Black. Now, if you can stand right here so I can measure your height…" Ms. Joy I decided to name said unemotionally, pointing to a rather dumb looking giraffe measurement poster. God, how old did they think I was, six?

Standing against the poster, Ms. Joy quickly wrote down my height of five foot onto her piece of paper.

"Alrighty then, now onto this scale." I kicked off my shoes and stepped onto the scale. "One hundred-five pounds. Okay, if you can wait here, Mr. Ottoman will be joining you shortly." Ms. Joy said, leaving the room quickly to go torture some other poor soul.

I jumped onto the doctor's seat and spun around a few times before an short, fat, wrinkly old man came into the room. You can tell he gets his three meals a day.

"Ahh, Miss Black! It says here that you have a broken arm. Let's fix that, shall we?" Mr. Ottoman croaked, flashing a smile that I couldn't help but to feel slightly afraid of. "Okay, can you lift up your sleeve so I can take a look at your arm?" I mentally rolled my eyes and did what he asked. Carefully examining my arm, Mr. Ottoman jotted a few notes and turned back to me.

"Now, follow me and we'll go get your arm x-rayed." Hopping off his chair, I followed the old man into a different room much larger than the last one. "Sit here, Miss Black and put this on, then we can begin the x-ray." Sliding into a large padded chair, I put the heavy black-padded apron on and laid my arm on a small funny looking table. "This will only take a minute, so please relax and stay still."

Mr. Ottoman turned the machine on and from there, it took pictures of my arm. It made a weird, tingling feeling, but I remained still. Black pieces of paper came out of the machine. Switching it off, Mr. Ottoman gathered the paper and scanned them over, a relieved look washing over his face.

"That wasn't so bad, was it? Come, let's go back into previous room so you may look at the pictures yourself." I only nodded as we filed out of there and back into the first room.

Pinning the pictures onto the wall, Mr. Ottoman rolled a large overhead and turned off the lights. Flipping the switch on the overhead, it came to life and projected a bright light on the pictures.

"It appears that your arm has multiple fractures in various parts, but you won't be needing a cast. An arm brace would do just the trick." At least I don't have to lug a heavy cast around. "Now stick out your arm and I'll put the brace on. It might hurt for a little bit, but you'll soon grow used to it." Good, now hurry up and give me my stinking brace so I can leave this place!

Opening the bottom cabinet, Mr. Ottoman brought out the black arm brace that looked like it hasn't been washed in decades. I felt my eye twitch at the thought of that thing being stuck on my arm for weeks, but the doctor didn't notice and smiled as he carefully strapped it securely. A slight pain ran up my arm, but it wasn't enough for me to wince at.

"There. Now remember this; do not get it wet and don't take it off except for showering. Just keep it on for about eight weeks, come back in here for a check-up to see how it's doing and you'll be able to give it back. Any questions, dear?" I didn't have any, so I shook my head. "Well then, you're free to go."

"…That's it?" I asked, surprised that it didn't take so long.

"Mm hmm."

"Wow…really?"

"Yep."

"You're not pulling my leg?"

"No I'm not, you can leave and do all your little things that teenagers do nowadays."

"Um, okay then. Thanks Mr. Ottoman." Walking out of the room, I went to the lobby where Emily and Paul patiently waited.

"Ready to go, Gabrielle?" Emily and Paul stood up when I reached them.

"More than ready."

When we got back to Emily's house, Seth, Embry and Jake were playing some video game, a Playstation 3 I recall. Sam and the others were watching, bored out of their minds. Everyone roared with laughter when Jake and Embry tag teamed and killed Seth's character.

"Hey! What the Hell, man?" Seth cried out, Paul giving the other two a high-five.

"Ah Gabrielle, can you come with me to the grocery store? We're running a bit low on food." Emily asked.

"Sure Em." I agreed, snickering at the now fighting trio.

"Thank you, dear."

"It's nothing."

"Is there anything in particular that…you…never mind." Emily attempted to ask, but didn't even bother finishing her sentence when she saw Paul, Seth, Embry, and Jake now fighting each other for 'who gets the controls'. We only laughed as we went into Emily's little car.

The drive to Wal-Mart was short, but the actual shopping took much, much longer. Emily and I pushed two different carts and both were filled with practically every food variety there is! We somehow ended up in the sporting aisle just to look around when I saw them.

In front of me were four large guns, but not just any guns. They were paint ball guns that any kid in England would die for, and they were just sitting there, beckoning me to come touch them. What did I do? Just that. I ran a hand across their sleek exterior when Emily pushed her cart towards me.

"Gabrielle! What are you-you're not seriously thinking about getting those…beautiful…paintball guns…" Emily said, completely mesmerized by their beauty.

"And there's four here on sale. One for me…one for you, heck we'll even though one in for Kim and Leah. What do you say, Em?" Snapping out her awestruck gaze, Emily suddenly grinned evilly, something I would never believe if I hadn't have saw it with my own eyes.

"We're taking them."

I smiled and gave a short maniacal laughter as we took the paintball guns off the shelf. "Mrs. Uley, welcome to the dark side."

At Emily's House, Author's POV…

Paul, Seth, Jared, Embry and Jake were playing their video game without a care for the world. Quil was bouncing Claire on his knee, Leah and Kim were talking to each other in the kitchen, and Sam was leaning against the wall watching the five young shape shifters kill each other.

"Hey, how long has Gabe and Emily been gone?" Seth asked out loud, just now noticing the two young women's departure. Sam shook his head at Seth's thick headedness and answered with a blunt,

"About an hour." Not a moment later, the sound of a car pulling into the driveway was heard. "Ah, they're home."

"Hey Kim, can you come out here for a moment?" Gabrielle shouted from outside.

"Uh, sure Gabe!" Kim yelled back as she went out to the car.

All became quiet from the three young outside, raising a bit of suspicion with the guys. Suddenly, evil giggles erupted loudly as four distinct clicks rang out. This worried everyone in the house, especially when Gabrielle's sickly sweet voice called out,

"Can you all come out here to help take the groceries inside?" Still wary of the sudden change of voice, the guys and Leah went outside only to see three smiling girls with loaded paintball guns. Gabrielle was holding two, and when she saw Leah, the three giggled evilly, horrifying the guys.

"Leah, want to join the dark side? We need another girl here, and we just happen to have another one of these with your name written on it."

Leah's eyes widened at the offer. No one ever wanted her to join them in things like this, and it shocked her even more that Gabrielle of all people was asking this. After the way that Leah treated her, she was certain that Gabrielle wouldn't even give her a second glance.

Slowly moving past the guys, Leah walked up to a waiting Gabrielle who handed her a large paintball gun that indeed had her name engraved on it.

"Hey, um, Gabrielle…about what I said to you the other night…" Leah began, but was interrupted by Gabrielle's loud snort.

"Bah, that's all old news. That was then, this is now. Plus, I deserved that."

"So…we're cool now?"

"Cooler than two ice cubes in the middle of blizzard!" Sticking her right hand out, Gabrielle gave a goofy smile that Leah couldn't help but to smile along. Shaking hands, a great weight was lifted off Leah's shoulders, not to mention everyone elses.

"Excellent. Leah, would you do the honor's of siding with the us and pelting as many of these wondrous paintballs at the guys? Looking over her shoulder, Leah glanced over at Sam and grinned so evilly, that it would make Satan himself run home to his Hell-mother.

"I would be…more than delighted." Leah agreed as she took her gun. Now, all the guys looked scared shitless. Who wouldn't if four deranged females were in front of you, let alone carrying loaded paintball guns?

Simultaneously, Kim, Emily, Leah and Gabrielle pointed their guns towards the guys, and said in a deathly calm voice,

"Run." Boy, did they ever run. All of them ran to the forest, but they decided to let them have a thirty second head start. It makes the game more fun, no? As soon as the last person was out of sight, Gabrielle raised her gun and yelled,

"Charge!!!" They all then ran after the guys that were scattered throughout the forest.

"Why are you doing this, why?!!" Embry's voice echoed as Gabrielle began tracking him down.

"This is payback for eating my last damned chocolate muffin, you asshole!!"

Wow, a chapter finished in less than a day? Hmm…maybe I've been taking some strange steroids that allowed me to write chapters faster, I don't know. Sorry that it was much shorter than the last one. Hope you enjoy this chapter, review please!!