A/N: Sorry if I butcher all of the medical stuff…
Previous Chapter (Tris POV)
"Tobias, it hurts." I say, quietly. The world is fading around me, and I start to see spots. I can hear Tobias faintly saying, "Stay awake, Tris, please," but I can't. I close my eyes, and everything goes black.
Tobias POV
"Stay away, Tris, please," I plead as she slowly closes her beautiful grey blue eyes.
She's not dead, I know that because her chest is rising and falling.
"She passed out. It's her body's way of responding to all the blood loss." I hear a familiar voice, and I see that Caleb is beside me.
"Caleb? How did you know that Tris was here?" I ask, shocked.
"Well, I work with the computers here, assigning people to beds. It's one of my many volunteer jobs. I noticed that my sister had been entered into the system. I needed to make sure she was ok." Caleb says. He looks worried, but he's not as worried as I am.
"I love her, Caleb. And I don't want her to get hurt." I say, quietly.
Caleb nods, "I've known that you've loved her since we were young. It's the way you look at her. It's like you would be willing to take a bullet for her."
I'm about to answer, but I'm interrupted by a few doctors coming into the room. They have all of these creams and jell on a cart. The nurses wash her leg, first with water, then with rubbing alcohol. They also connect her to an IV.
"What's in the IV?" I ask.
"It's support to help her stay sleeping, even if her body naturally tries to wake up. Also, it has some medicine to help prevent any rust infections that she could have possibly gotten." A doctor answers.
They then proceed to put on some jelly like substance, and then they rub some cream around it. The doctors leave, and the nurses begin to bandage it up.
I look over to Caleb who is watching the nurses intently, almost as if he is taking notes.
After the nurses wrap her up, they take out her IV, and they put another one in. They also attach her to some monitors, that look like they are watching her pulse, and heart.
"She should start to wake up in a few minutes, and once she's up call the nurse station. We are going to move her to a permanent room. She should needs night, and but she can leave in the morning. We will show you how to apply her medicine and her bandages. Also, she is on pain medicine, which we will slowly wean her off of through the night. We have contacted her parents, and they said that she was in good hands with you but your mother would like you to call her, Caleb."
The nurse leaves, and I wonder how she knows Caleb. Oh, right, Caleb works at the hospital.
Tris starts stirring, and Caleb starts to talk to her.
"Why are you talking to her?" I ask, confused. She can't hear him, right?
"It will help her wake up if she hears familiar voices." He says.
"Tris, I love you, please wake up."
"Tris, we are here, you're ok," Caleb says.
Tris POV
I hear voices, and I'm not in any pain. It doesn't burn, like it did in the last few seconds that I remember.
"Tris?"
"Tris, I love you so much," a familiar voice says. Tobias.
"Tris, Tobias and I are here." Caleb.
I feel groggy, the whole world feels fuzzy and I haven't even opened my eyes yet. Slowly, I try to pry my eyes open, and everything is so bright.
"Tobias? Caleb?" I ask.
"Hey, you're awake," Tobias says. He's sitting next to me, still holding my hand.
Caleb presses a button by my bed, and a voice comes in through a speaker.
"Nurses Station," It says.
"Hi, Beatrice Prior is awake," Caleb says.
"Ok, we will be there momentarily."
I'm confused. What happened to me? Why don't I feel any pain?
"What happened?" I ask.
"I would try to tell you, love, but I really don't know. This is more of Caleb's area of expertise." Tobias says, rubbing circles on my thumb.
"Well, Tris, you were at risk of a rust infection, also they didn't want you to wake up until they anti rust infection medicine was going throughout your body, so they put you on an IV. Also, they put some jells and creams on the area of your gash. You have to stay here tonight, and they are moving you to a permanent room and out of the ER." Caleb explains.
A nurse rushes into my room, and starts writing things down on a spreadsheet.
"Ok, Beatrice, we are going to move you to the recovery wing for the night. But first we are going to have to put you in a wheelchair. Can you get out of bed for me?" She asks, still writing things down.
"I can lift her into the chair, ma'am," Tobias offers.
"Are you her brother also?" the nurse asks without looking up. How much does she have to write down?
Caleb whispers something to Tobias. "Well, I'm the one who brought her here."
"Well, the ER is supposed to be family only, but since she's leaving I guess we can make an exception."
A second nurse brings a wheelchair in, and rolls it to the side of the bed that my IV rack is on. Tobias walks over, scoops me up, and gently sets me into the chair.
"Beatrice, you are going to move 4 floors up to our recovery wing. Your friends can go too." The first nurse says as she leaves. The second nurse begins to push me and my IV rack to the elevator.
On the elevator she presses 6. We must be on the second floor. The elevators one of those cool glass ones, and I can see out of it. As we go up, I see all the people down below getting smaller. I look over to Tobias, who has his eyes closed. 2 of his fears, claustrophobia and heights. I feel bad for him, but I don't. I don't want to look at him like he's damaged, or a kicked puppy. Right now I'm the one that's damaged; I'm in the hospital for god's sake.
The elevator doors open, and the nurse pushes me out. The halls are like a sterile, white maze.
Once we are in my room, which is a single thank god, Tobias swoops down and lifts me onto the bed, and then he pulls the cover on top of me.
"You need sleep, Tris; you want to recover soon, right?" Caleb says.
"Yeah, of course, can I still play FHockey?" I ask. Wow, tryouts feel like they were ages ago, when in reality, they were yesterday.
"Not for a while, you need to heal," Caleb says.
Damnit. But it makes sense.
"I'm sleepy," I yawn.
"I'm going to stay with you all night, Trissy," Tobias says, as he kisses my forehead.
"Me too, and I need to call mom, so I'll be back soon," Caleb says as he steps out of the room.
"I love you, Tobias," I mutter as I drift off into a much needed sleep.
A/N: So, Tris is ok. Also, I know that it feels like Tobias and Tris happened really, really quickly, but remember that they had known each other forever. But the point I'm trying to make with this is that I don't want this to be an unhealthy (no offense but think Bella and Edward in New Moon) type of romance. It isn't, or at least I'm trying to make it that. Next chapter is more hospital, sorry. It will be Caleb's phone call with Natalie, Tris getting discharged, and some fluff. Please review and tell me what you think!
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