Christmas Angel Chapter 3
By Angnix
(Yep, another update! I might have final exams this week, but I go crazy if I study for long periods of time, so this is a study break story! Anyway after Thursday I am out of college doing almost nothing for a whole month, so expect a lot of stories from me then! Anyway, here is Chapter 3, the suspense is even killing me, and I'm the one writing it!)
In the Thorndyke Mansion, Ella had prepared lunch, but no one seemed to be in the mood for eating at all. Chris was sitting holding Amy's hammer, the others were sort of looking at it too trying to figure out why.
"Why would Amy try to climb up on the roof Tails?"
"That is simple Chris, Sonic was sitting up there, I guess she decided to go after him, Amy has always been like that."
Ella was still making sandwiches but she stopped momentarily.
"I know she made Sonic a Christmas cookie and put it in a box earlier, but she didn't appear to be holding anything, so I assumed she gave it to him earlier and he didn't like it or something so she was going to chase after him."
"Yeah, probably, she defiantly didn't have a box with her when she fell. The sad thing is Sonic always warned Amy not to follow him into dangerous situations, who would have known that that situation would be falling off a ladder? Grandpa, should we call the hospital yet?"
"No, give them some time or let them call us Tails, with an injury like that all that can help is time."
Meanwhile Sonic didn't like being still for long periods of time, so he started to roam the hospital. Of course many people were staring at him wondering what he was doing there, in fact some people freaked out a little thinking Eggman must be attacking the hospital for Sonic to be there, but when they saw how slow he was walking and the expression on his face they knew that he wasn't there to fight anything and calmed down. He walked passed the hospital Gift Shop, something there made him stop in his tracks. He walked into the Gift Shop and started staring at a Christmas Angel doll wearing a red dress. It had long blond hair with a hair band made of holly. She was holding a candle in her hands and a little light bulb was at the end of it. Sonic couldn't help but stare at it; the elderly lady behind the register couldn't help but stare at Sonic.
"Aren't you Sonic? Is Eggman attacking us?"
Sonic didn't even look at the lady and continued to stare at the doll, the Chaos Emerald slightly glowing.
"No, my friend Amy fell off a ladder and hit her head on concrete, she might not make it."
The lady walked up to Sonic and put her hand on his arm.
"That's so sad, working here in the hospital I hear a lot of sad stories, but something like that just a week before Christmas . . . So, you like that angel?"
"For some reason I am compelled to stare at it."
The lady picked up the doll.
"Beautiful, ain't she? You press the button on her back to make her sing."
The lady pressed the button on the doll and the song "Hark the Herald Angel Sings" started playing, the little light bulb lit up too. Then the lady handed it to Sonic.
"Take it."
"Really?"
"Yep! I'll be praying for a Christmas miracle for you too, someone like you deserves one."
"Well, thanks!"
Sonic continued walking down the hall, he didn't get very far when the hospital intercom came on.
"Sonic the Hedgehog, please report back to Trauma Ward."
The head paramedic and the head surgeon looked kind of annoyed that Sonic seemed to have left, but then suddenly a green light appeared right in front of them and Sonic appeared in it. That scared them half to death; Sonic looked at them and smiled.
"It's called Chaos Control, it's a thing I do. . . you called?"
The doctors stared at him weirdly for a little while longer, then the chief surgeon spoke up.
"Hello Sonic, I'm Doctor Petersen, the chief surgeon here at Station Square General. Her skull shattered and we are going to begin an operation to try to remove the bone fragments, some of them might have went into her brain but we are not sure. Plus there is evidence that her brain hit her skull in the front on impact and there is swelling and internal bleeding."
"So, is she going to be okay?"
"That's hard to tell Sonic with this sort of injury and especially since we have never worked with someone like her before. She might make a full recovery, but more likely there will be at least some damage, ranging from being stuck in a coma to not being able to speak to having a totally altered personality. But even if she is unstable when she first wakes up she may improve over time, it is way too early to tell. She also has a broken arm and leg, that's going to take time to heal too. We'll try our hardest to make sure your mate is okay."
"My mate?!"
"Oh sorry, we just assumed. . . anyway, we need your help Sonic, she lost a lot of blood and she might loose more during the surgery. We have already done tests and discovered no human blood is transfusable to her. So we want to test yours. Do you mind?"
"No, but can I do something first?"
Sonic walked up to Amy's bed, she had all sorts of machines hooked up to her, she was mostly covered with a sheet, but the left side of her wasn't, there were already casts on her left leg and left arm. Light gauze now covered most of her head and her face was obscured by a mask. Sonic laid the doll on the bed beside her, then he lightly touched the quills she had left on the right side of her head.
"Hang in there Amy, you will be alright."
A nurse led Sonic into a small room where he was instructed to sit in a chair.
"Okay Sonic, first I am just going to draw a little blood to do various tests and I also have to do a general exam to make sure you're healthy."
"Of course I'm healthy! Have to be to run as fast as I do!"
"I believe you Sonic, but I still have to do the tests! Here, put this thermometer under your tongue, and hold out your arm, I must first check your blood pressure, then I will just take a little blood, okay?"
Sonic just nodded his head, he had that thermometer in his mouth of course. The nurse pumped up the cuff on his arm, then satisfied she then took the thermometer out of his mouth.
"100.3 °F, kind of high. . ."
"Not for a hedgehog."
"Oh, well, Amy was recorded to have a fever too, we'll have to correct that. Okay Sonic, now I am just going to rub your arm here with a little alcohol, there seems to be a good vein right here. You might want to turn away."
"Na, I'm not freaked out by that."
Sonic sat there calmly as the nurse stuck the needle in. After she was through she placed a little gauze wad on where the needle when in and tape on it.
"Okay Sonic, I want you to press down on it for a minute, it will just take me a few minutes to do all the tests I need to do, okay?"
Sonic sat there waiting patiently for the nurse, weird thoughts kept streaming though his mind.
"Why do I keep thinking about cookies?"
The nurse came back pretty happy.
"Good news, there was no reaction with Amy's blood, and your blood has plenty of iron and red blood cells. So now Sonic we need you to lie down on this reclining chair, I will warn you, we have to take quite a bit of blood out of you, so you need to be careful after it is over, I will give you plenty of juice and cookies afterwards, and you need to refrain from physical activities for a few days after this."
"No running?"
"Sorry."
"But this will help Amy, right?"
"Yep."
"Well okay, do it."
Sonic laid down on the reclining chair, the doctor this time made him hold a rubber ball in his hand and she put a light tunicate on the upper part of his arm. Then she used a really big needle. Now his arm was in pain, but he wasn't going to complain about that. After quite a while Sonic still felt fine so he sat up.
"That wasn't too bad!"
But then suddenly his face turned blue and he passed out. The nurse just put her hand to her face.
"Forgot to tell him not to sit up quickly. . ."
By Angnix
(Yep, another update! I might have final exams this week, but I go crazy if I study for long periods of time, so this is a study break story! Anyway after Thursday I am out of college doing almost nothing for a whole month, so expect a lot of stories from me then! Anyway, here is Chapter 3, the suspense is even killing me, and I'm the one writing it!)
In the Thorndyke Mansion, Ella had prepared lunch, but no one seemed to be in the mood for eating at all. Chris was sitting holding Amy's hammer, the others were sort of looking at it too trying to figure out why.
"Why would Amy try to climb up on the roof Tails?"
"That is simple Chris, Sonic was sitting up there, I guess she decided to go after him, Amy has always been like that."
Ella was still making sandwiches but she stopped momentarily.
"I know she made Sonic a Christmas cookie and put it in a box earlier, but she didn't appear to be holding anything, so I assumed she gave it to him earlier and he didn't like it or something so she was going to chase after him."
"Yeah, probably, she defiantly didn't have a box with her when she fell. The sad thing is Sonic always warned Amy not to follow him into dangerous situations, who would have known that that situation would be falling off a ladder? Grandpa, should we call the hospital yet?"
"No, give them some time or let them call us Tails, with an injury like that all that can help is time."
Meanwhile Sonic didn't like being still for long periods of time, so he started to roam the hospital. Of course many people were staring at him wondering what he was doing there, in fact some people freaked out a little thinking Eggman must be attacking the hospital for Sonic to be there, but when they saw how slow he was walking and the expression on his face they knew that he wasn't there to fight anything and calmed down. He walked passed the hospital Gift Shop, something there made him stop in his tracks. He walked into the Gift Shop and started staring at a Christmas Angel doll wearing a red dress. It had long blond hair with a hair band made of holly. She was holding a candle in her hands and a little light bulb was at the end of it. Sonic couldn't help but stare at it; the elderly lady behind the register couldn't help but stare at Sonic.
"Aren't you Sonic? Is Eggman attacking us?"
Sonic didn't even look at the lady and continued to stare at the doll, the Chaos Emerald slightly glowing.
"No, my friend Amy fell off a ladder and hit her head on concrete, she might not make it."
The lady walked up to Sonic and put her hand on his arm.
"That's so sad, working here in the hospital I hear a lot of sad stories, but something like that just a week before Christmas . . . So, you like that angel?"
"For some reason I am compelled to stare at it."
The lady picked up the doll.
"Beautiful, ain't she? You press the button on her back to make her sing."
The lady pressed the button on the doll and the song "Hark the Herald Angel Sings" started playing, the little light bulb lit up too. Then the lady handed it to Sonic.
"Take it."
"Really?"
"Yep! I'll be praying for a Christmas miracle for you too, someone like you deserves one."
"Well, thanks!"
Sonic continued walking down the hall, he didn't get very far when the hospital intercom came on.
"Sonic the Hedgehog, please report back to Trauma Ward."
The head paramedic and the head surgeon looked kind of annoyed that Sonic seemed to have left, but then suddenly a green light appeared right in front of them and Sonic appeared in it. That scared them half to death; Sonic looked at them and smiled.
"It's called Chaos Control, it's a thing I do. . . you called?"
The doctors stared at him weirdly for a little while longer, then the chief surgeon spoke up.
"Hello Sonic, I'm Doctor Petersen, the chief surgeon here at Station Square General. Her skull shattered and we are going to begin an operation to try to remove the bone fragments, some of them might have went into her brain but we are not sure. Plus there is evidence that her brain hit her skull in the front on impact and there is swelling and internal bleeding."
"So, is she going to be okay?"
"That's hard to tell Sonic with this sort of injury and especially since we have never worked with someone like her before. She might make a full recovery, but more likely there will be at least some damage, ranging from being stuck in a coma to not being able to speak to having a totally altered personality. But even if she is unstable when she first wakes up she may improve over time, it is way too early to tell. She also has a broken arm and leg, that's going to take time to heal too. We'll try our hardest to make sure your mate is okay."
"My mate?!"
"Oh sorry, we just assumed. . . anyway, we need your help Sonic, she lost a lot of blood and she might loose more during the surgery. We have already done tests and discovered no human blood is transfusable to her. So we want to test yours. Do you mind?"
"No, but can I do something first?"
Sonic walked up to Amy's bed, she had all sorts of machines hooked up to her, she was mostly covered with a sheet, but the left side of her wasn't, there were already casts on her left leg and left arm. Light gauze now covered most of her head and her face was obscured by a mask. Sonic laid the doll on the bed beside her, then he lightly touched the quills she had left on the right side of her head.
"Hang in there Amy, you will be alright."
A nurse led Sonic into a small room where he was instructed to sit in a chair.
"Okay Sonic, first I am just going to draw a little blood to do various tests and I also have to do a general exam to make sure you're healthy."
"Of course I'm healthy! Have to be to run as fast as I do!"
"I believe you Sonic, but I still have to do the tests! Here, put this thermometer under your tongue, and hold out your arm, I must first check your blood pressure, then I will just take a little blood, okay?"
Sonic just nodded his head, he had that thermometer in his mouth of course. The nurse pumped up the cuff on his arm, then satisfied she then took the thermometer out of his mouth.
"100.3 °F, kind of high. . ."
"Not for a hedgehog."
"Oh, well, Amy was recorded to have a fever too, we'll have to correct that. Okay Sonic, now I am just going to rub your arm here with a little alcohol, there seems to be a good vein right here. You might want to turn away."
"Na, I'm not freaked out by that."
Sonic sat there calmly as the nurse stuck the needle in. After she was through she placed a little gauze wad on where the needle when in and tape on it.
"Okay Sonic, I want you to press down on it for a minute, it will just take me a few minutes to do all the tests I need to do, okay?"
Sonic sat there waiting patiently for the nurse, weird thoughts kept streaming though his mind.
"Why do I keep thinking about cookies?"
The nurse came back pretty happy.
"Good news, there was no reaction with Amy's blood, and your blood has plenty of iron and red blood cells. So now Sonic we need you to lie down on this reclining chair, I will warn you, we have to take quite a bit of blood out of you, so you need to be careful after it is over, I will give you plenty of juice and cookies afterwards, and you need to refrain from physical activities for a few days after this."
"No running?"
"Sorry."
"But this will help Amy, right?"
"Yep."
"Well okay, do it."
Sonic laid down on the reclining chair, the doctor this time made him hold a rubber ball in his hand and she put a light tunicate on the upper part of his arm. Then she used a really big needle. Now his arm was in pain, but he wasn't going to complain about that. After quite a while Sonic still felt fine so he sat up.
"That wasn't too bad!"
But then suddenly his face turned blue and he passed out. The nurse just put her hand to her face.
"Forgot to tell him not to sit up quickly. . ."