Chapter 14

==Be Tavros

Tavros blacked out after screaming in pain. The pain had come in intense waves and he could see the blood gushing out of him as spots formed in his vision. It scared him, and he wanted it to stop, but it wouldn't. Then, he blacked out and felt nothing more.

When he came to, he still felt nothing. He was in a hospital. Which one, he wasn't sure. A nurse loomed over his face.

"He's coming to!" She shouted. Her shrill voice pierced into his skull and gave him a pounding headache. The blinding lights and white of the walls didn't help either.

"Mr.…Nitram is it?" A doctor came up to him, looking down at a clipboard. "How are you feeling?"

"I don't feel anything…"

"What do you mean? Describe it."

"Like, uh, there's no pain. But, uh, it feels weird, like, um, numb."

The doctor wrote something on a clipboard. "Can you feel this?" He moved Tavros's toe.

"Uh, no." Tavros looked worriedly at his foot. He tried to move it, but it wouldn't budge. He concentrated on that toe, but still it wouldn't move. "Why isn't it, uh moving?"

"I think you've become paralyzed. I'll have to do a full examination to see how bad it is. Also you've broken two ribs."

Tavros stared at the man in shock. "How…?" He trailed off as the memories of pain flooded back into him. Vriska was supposed to catch the bar, what had happened to her?

"I'm sorry," the doctor said, shaking his head. "I'll be back to do that examination later." He left.

"Um, do I have any visitors?" Tavros asked a kind looking nurse.

"Yes, dear, one. Do you want me to send him in for you?"

"Uh, yes please."

It would probably be his older brother, Rufioh. Rufioh was the coolest older brother ever. He always knew what to do. He would know how to fix this.

He walked in casually and sat down next to Tavros.

"Hey, Tav. What've the doctors told you?"

"Um, they told me I was, uh, paralyzed."

"Yeah, they told me that was a possibility, but they wouldn't be sure until you woke up. The school had you transferred out of that class and the girl who was supposed to be helping you has been suspended."

"Suspended?" Tavros was so shocked that he forgot to stutter. "I thought it would be, uh, much worse."

Rufioh shrugged. "That's the way it is, I guess."

"Uh, what should we, uh, do?"

"There's nothing we can do, really." Rufioh shook his head sadly. "We just have to leave it in the doctor's hands." He checked his watch. "Look sport, I love talking to you, but I have to go."

Tavros nodded and smiled for his brother's benefit. Rufioh ruffled his hair and left. As soon as Rufioh left his line of vision Tavros frowned and stared at his bed sheets. He clenched his hands in the thin blankets. He didn't want to be helpless. He didn't want to not walk ever again. He didn't want people to make fun of his stutter.

He wanted self-confidence.

==Be Vriska

Ok, look I know you want to see her response to this, but we're doing too many mid-chapter switches.

==Be Vriska, please?

Ok, maybe if it was someone else I would make an exception.

==Be…the spider obsessed girl?

That's the same person!

==How about the one that likes 8's?

Argh, fine. Be who you want to be.

Vriska sat in the principal's office, wracked with guilt. She didn't show it. Instead she smiled viciously at the man behind the desk. He probably thought she did it on purpose anyways, so why not take the blame? People would stay away from her and think her to be more of a bada**. She liked it when people feared her.

Then again, something like this might cause others to dredge up her violent past... no. She wouldn't think about it. She wasn't like that anymore.

Or at least, she hoped she wasn't. She internally sighed, putting aside those thoughts for later. She focused her attention back on the principal.

"Your mother will be coming in momentarily."

She blinked, surprised. He would not like her mother… Too late to warn him, she guessed. Besides, her mother couldn't make things much worse.

"Hello, darling. What did you do now?" Her mother walked in primly. She was wearing a neat blue dress and white pantyhose. She was always dressed fancily, to show her status or something.

"Well, we aren't quite sure what happened. We were hoping to speak with Vriska and you about what happened."

"And?" She raised an eyebrow.

The man nodded at Vriska to begin speaking.

"I was lifting weights, we're partners in weight lifting, and we switched so I would be the one holding the weight to make sure it wouldn't slip. He couldn't lift the amount I was lifting, so I put on the lightest weight possible. It's not my fault that the poor little weakling couldn't lift it."

Her mother nodded appreciatively.

"Shouldn't you have stopped the weight from crushing him?" The principal leaned forward.

"Well, I tried but I didn't get to it fast enough." She shrugged.

"That's my girl." Her mother murmured, grinning. Vriska smirked slightly.

"Excuse me?"

"You're excused." Vriska said, with a snarky quality to her voice.

"Young lady, you are only digging a deeper hole for yourself." He warned.

She shrugged like she didn't care. Really she didn't.

"Right now you're looking at a three day suspension. You won't be transferred out of your class, but the boy that was injured will be. He's been severely injured and has been excused from all physical activity."

"Pathetic." She muttered.

"Miss Serket if you have something to say, please speak up."

She rolled her eyes and waited. The principal stared at her with narrowed eyes for a couple of moments.

"That's all. You can go." The principal shuffled some papers on his desk, clearly dismissing them.

They left and went out into the parking lot.

"You don't have to continue going here you know. I could transfer you to a better school. Or if you really want to the public school experience, we can move."

"No… I have a feeling about this school. I'm not sure if it's the people in it, but it just has something about it. I like it." Vriska shrugged, at a loss for words.

"Alright. You won't be punished, obviously. I wish I could see what happened to the kid."

"I think he's still in the hospital." They both laughed. "Such a baby."

Her mother rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to the road.

"You know… I'm getting hungry." Her mother said slyly.

"Ugh not again. Why do you have to have such a voracious appetite?"

"I can't help it, my dear." She held up her head loftily, and grinned, exposing long fangs.

A/R: No she is not a vampire. I wouldn't do that. It would be stupid. Only Kanaya can be a vampire. Anyways, it's a short chapter. Edit2: Short chapter… I'm not sure what my definition of short was then.