4
Blue bay harbor:
They'd made it half way through the second movie before Shane's phone rang.
"Hello?" The red clad young man asked his eyes on the screen as she listened to the voice on the other end of the line.
"Who is it bro?" Dustin called not looking away from the television. If he had he'd have noticed how his friend had gone pale and how his hands were now shaking.
"I see." Was all Shane said into the receiver? "When?" By now Cam had turned to look at his friend and he saw the change in Shane's demeanor and knew something was wrong.
"Alright, I'll be right there." Shane said hitting the end button on the phone even as he was on his feet and grabbing his jacket.
"Dude what's going on?" Dustin asked now starting to seriously worry.
"There's been an accident." The air ninja replied as he double checked he had his wallet.
"What kind of an accident?" Cam asked frowning even as he too got to his feet.
***
Angel Grove Track:
Blake was just replacing his bike when his cell rang. Pulling it out he hit send and wedged it between his shoulder and ear.
"Bradley here, talk to me?" And he froze in replacing the tarp as the speaker's words hit him. "What?" Had he just heard that right? A drunk driver? "I'll be right there."
***
Angel Grove memorial hospital:
the were of voices and sound of shoes on the linoleum floor didn't even register as he sat there, alone in a room of fifteen or twenty others, waiting either to be seen, to hear about loved ones or for their rides. To Hunter it didn't mater though, nothing did. He was there because she'd knocked him out of the way of that car. Hunter still couldn't believe she'd moved so quickly but that was just Tori, always thinking about others.
Now though that was the reason she was laying on some exam bed somewhere, bloody and god knew what else.
"Dude are you sure this is the place?" The yellow clad young man asked as the five young people made their way through the emergency room doors.
"Yeah that's what he said." Dustin replied and he was scanning the room.
"There he is!" Capri shouted and Cam rolled his eyes.
"Shh, this is a hospital not the academy." Dustin reminded the girl.
"I know that." She grumbled in agitation.
"Hunter?" Marah had separated from the group as she spotted the lone young man seated against a wall, watching them.
"Your hear." Hunter said rising in relief.
"Yeah what's going on?" Cam asked and hunter opened his mouth to explain but there was yet another commotion.
"What do you mean you can't give out…?" An irate voice fairly bellowed and Hunter knew it as soon as he heard it.
"Blake dude!" Dustin called receiving several dirty looks.
"Hey they won't tell me anything." Blake said as Shane brought him to join the others.
"They don't know anything yet." Hunter explained quietly seeing the fear and pain in his little brother's face.
"But they have to…" Blake felt the tears welling in his eyes.
"Come on Hunter was just going to tell us what happened." Marah said taking a hold of the navy clad young man and leading him over to a cluster of vacant seats.
***
Blake took it all in she'd tried to save his brother; she'd thrown him aside when she'd seen the car… Hunter had always known that Tori was brave and selfless but this…
'here." He looked up to find Capri standing there, holding out a disposable cup to him.
"Thanks." He took it lamely, not really wanting a drink but needing something to do with his hands.
"You know she'll be ok." The dark haired young woman said taking seat beside him.
"how you figure?"
"She's god."
"What does that have to do with it?"
"When we were with uncle we learned that the good guys always come out on top."
"but this was not an alien fight."
"So?"
"This is the real world." Hunter muttered from his seat on his brother's other side. "In our world good bad things happen a lot to the good guys."
"Well I know that Tori would say that everything happens for a reason." Cam said and Hunter looked to him.
"She would?"
"Yeah, when you tricked her," the green clad young man trailed off trying to think of how to say it. "I found her sitting in meditation one night and she said she was finding her peace."
"so?" Blake asked impatiently.
"She wasn't' angry, she said then that it's not what happens to you in life that counts but what you do afterwards that does." The group were a little surprised that Tori had told Cam that but then again they'd become good friends.
"Dude she was always so smart." Dustin said closing his eyes in pain.
"Dustin bro you ok?" Shane asked and his friend nodded.
"Yeah, I'm just going for a walk." the yellow clad racer said and left them there.
"Right." Blake murmured to really caring one way or another.
After a few minutes Hunter rose and headed off to. He needed to move he needed to do something.
***
"Excuse me Mr. Bradley" A man in stubs called from a doorway off to the right of the room.
"that's me." Hunter who'd returned a few minutes ago hurried to greet the doctor.
"What happened to her? Is she ok?" Blake was at his side.
"Miss Hanson sustained a concussion and a sprained wrist but there seems to be only mild swelling around the brain. " The man informed them and in his distressed state Blake tried t make sense of what he'd just said. she was ok but her head…
"Swelling?" Hunter was asking for him and Blake was just glad his brother was so on the BAL.
"yes, it should recede with in a few hours." The surgeon explained.
"Is she awake?" Blake now found his tongue and the doctor shook his head.
"No, Miss Hanson woke briefly but is now resting peacefully."
"Can we see her?" Dustin asked then joining them.
"We've moved her into a room. just remember she needs her rest." The doctor said with a nod.
"Alright." Blake said and was heading down the hall with Dustin even as his brother thanked the doctor.
***
The room was still, that was the first thing Tori noticed. She glanced around her surroundings, trying to figure out where she was or how she'd gotten there. taking in the dull walls, the abstract picture of a blow of flowers on one wall and the chairs stroon all about the area she assumed it was a hospital room.
Too there were strange people sleeping in the chairs. She noticed the two men in red, one in yellow, one in green and another guy in blue. There were also two girls seated in the laps of two of the guys, obviously sound asleep. Did she know them? Should she know them?
Narrowing her gaze on their faces she tried to think but her head ached.
Then there was a sound of cloth on vinyl and two of the boys stirred.
"Hey Tor how do you feel?" The guy in dark blue sat forward in his seat and she frowned, she didn't even know them but they knew her? this couldn't be happening.
"I…" Tori tried for all she was worth to remember but there was nothing, just inky nothing. "Who are you?"
"You don't know us?" The one in yellow asked and she slowly shook her head, instantly regretting the motion, it brought the pain on ten fold.
Sitting there Dustin and Blake exchanged looks, this wasn't good…
TBC
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Auh oh spaghetti O's… That's not good is it? What do you think?