Author note: Sorry for the long notes in chapter 1 I'll keep things short and I guess nobody really wants to read about an edited battle. Alright here we go kids.
Darkness filled the void within Adams vision when he tried to force himself to open his eyes, he felt as if he were being crushed under a heavy weight. Time was unknown, did everything stand still or was he only catching glimpses. Every now and then he'd hear whispers and foot steps like rolling thunder, there would be moments when the voices would come out frantic and yelling. He couldn't tell who was yelling or why. As he lingered on, trapped in a resting state he'd see the face of a girl with long blond hair, blue eyes and pale creamy skin. She'd appear and disappear, he could never hear until now.
"Hey. . . . . looks like. . . . starting to wake. . . . you should. . . . more, your. . . . yet." He just barely heard the girls soft voice as he felt the warmth of her small hand on his own. Sinking back into the heavy waves of sleep he once more found himself drifting slowly in time.
He heard a soft clattering sound near his head, with what strength he had, he turned his head seeing a small light. Shadows had overtaken the daylight but couldn't drown out the small light of the candle. It illuminated a face much similar to the one he saw earlier but older with green eyes that held year's of experience. The woman was adorned in a dark brown dress with a long sleeve tanned shirt under it and white apron wrapped around the waist. He could feel something on his face with a shaky hand he reached to pull it off, before he could pull off the bothersome object the woman stopped him and readjusted it to better set on his face. "Don't take that off, you still need it. Your not strong enough yet."
Adam shut his eyes for a moment silently accepting what she said. "You can hear me?" The woman tilted her head to the side, her long flowing blond hair fell off her shoulder. Adam blinked again resulting in a smile from the woman. "You're doing a lot better than when we found you, aside from your chest injury, the rocks did a real beating on your body. But I think you'll be up walking around soon. Try to rest some more, you need it, I'll be right here if you need me." She took a seat on a stool next to the bed pulling out a book to read.
Adam turned his head looking up at a dark wood ceiling, he was alive and being looked after by the creatures he hated most. He was so weak he couldn't even care for himself, couldn't even breath without assistance. He laid trapped in a bed being looked after by the very beings that had hurt him in the first place, branded his face, put fear in a place where love should have been. He roughly exhaled and fell back to sleep.
When he next woke there were hands on him too many hands, his eyes suddenly snapped open his own hand instantly going for his sword only to grab at nothing. He no longer had his weapon, he was defenseless against his 'attacker'! Adam began to panic fighting against his enemy "give him some space!" The hands quickly retreated, Adam panted gasping for breath, he started to calm down when he realized it was the woman from before. (1) "I'm so sorry we startled you, we're just trying to change your bandages." She softly spoke her brows furrowed in concern as she pressed a hand to her own chest. He looked down at him, his chest was wrapped in white bandages some of which had been pulled loose while they were being changed.
It was true, all they were doing was swapping out the old with the new. "I didn't want to wait another day, if we don't change them soon you could develop an infection." Just a few inches to the side of the woman was a man with messy brown hair and blue orbs for eyes hidden behind thick rimmed glasses, he appeared as though he hadn't shaved in days. By the looks of him he was a doctor, he wore the white coat of a medicine man but under it were the ordinary clothes of a simple man, pale green shirt and dark gray pants. He spoke was more "we won't do anymore if your not okay with it."
Adam shook his head relaxing, he was struggling with how things are, how he'd ended up in such a state. "We'll give you some time alone." The woman bowed her head and exited the room the man following behind her.
This gave Adam a moment to take in his surroundings, only to find himself living in a nightmare of pink and frilly. The poor faunus was in a pink child's bed with white polkadots. The walls of the room had been painted as mural of the sky with colorful birds flying around, while the ceiling had remained unpainted. A bookcase had been built into the walls fill with children books, in one corner of the room was an over stuffed princess toy chest, lego's scattered across the floor some even having rolled under a giant dresser stacked with lego made farm animals. Next to the bed resting just between the night stand is the oxygen tank that had been so tirelessly helping him breath. There was the stool the woman from before had been sitting on with a book she'd been reading. He pulled off the mask setting it down on the nightstand next to what could only be the new bandages and gauze.
Adam jerked when he heard the sound of a small lego hitting the floor and a tiny gasp. He looked towards the window, specifically the rainbow curtains with giant white puff balls attached to the curtain rod, just below he could see a pair of little blue shoes. "Why are you hiding?" Adam's voice came out hoarse and cracked.
The little girl poked her head out from behind the rainbow, she smiled coming out and walking closer. "My parent's don't want me to bother you, so I hid behind the curtain." The child gave a big proud smile, she recollected her dropped lego piece re-attaching it to what could possibly be a lego Blue-jay. "This is my room! You were originally in the living room on the floor in front of the fire place but after you weren't blue anymore they put you in here and I sleep with my parents!" The little lady had such a large smile on her face as if she had just accomplished the greatest thing on earth.
Adam stared at her with raised eyebrows or at least with the one he had left. She stepped forward getting just a little closer "Sooooo how did you get the scar? Are you faunus? Where are you from? What's your name? Are you a hunter?" She talked a mile a minute and was suddenly at his bedside. Adam stared at her in shock finding himself unable to respond to the barrage of questions. (2)
"Azula." The man had return and put his hands on his hips giving a stern look to the little girl. "The man doesn't need to answer any questions." He walked over and picked up the girl, holding her close. "I'm sorry about that, this is my daughter Azula and I'm Orrin. We don't get a lot of people around here, Azula tends to get a little overexcited when there's somebody new." Orrin kissed his daughter on the cheek and set her down gently. "Go find your mother." He smiled ruffling her hair, Azula nodded her head and ran off. Orrin looked at Adam with a face of worry "May I please change your bandages now?"
Adam was still in no condition to care for himself and had no choice but to rely on the help of other's. "Yes."
Orrin was relieved to hear him answer, moving the woman's book from the stool he sat down and proceeded to remove the old bandages. All the while Orrin noticed Adam was tense the entire time, like the man didn't want to be seen by a predator. "Y-you've been in and out of for two weeks now, I tried to heal your wound but it was quite serious." Orrin tried to break the ice but all he did was chip it.
"Heal?" Adam questioned finally looking at the man.
Orrin removed the last bit of the bandages and gauze revealing Adam's chest wound. Though it had been healed quite a bit the wound was still open. "Is it alright if I heal you some?" Adam gave a hesitant nod. "I-I'm going to touch you, okay?" Orrin gave warning before he laid his hand against the wound, a warm glow emitted from his palm. Adam stared down as his flesh began to mend back together closing the wound just a bit more while at the same time draining Orrin of his aura. Pulling his hand back Orrin sighed in exhaustion after his aura was depleted. Swapping out the old bandages with new one's, he quickly covered Adam's injury. Getting up Orrin threw out the old gauze "I'll leave you be."
As Orrin was on his way out Adam spoke up "Who? . . . . Who was that woman, earlier?" Orrin turned back to him.
"Sherry, she's my wife." A moment of silence passed before Adam laid back down pulling the blanket over himself. Adam couldn't escape, he was injured and in no condition to move. Shutting his eyes he drifted off to sleep, wondering back into the abyss of darkness.
Notes:
(1): Adam is in and out of it, injured, tired and being looked after the things he hates most, it's not unlikely or even uncommon for people to panic when waking up in strange place.
(2): I didn't know how to write this part so I might end up coming back to it later I just felt Adam wouldn't respond in the moment.
(3): Orrins name means white. Azula is blue and Sherry is red.
Author note: Sorry for such a late update, I hope everyone is doing alright out there. Things will be a bit more clear in the next chapter. I'll explain where he is and who the people are~ For now please accept this with my humble apology for being late.