Her mother stirred for a moment but stayed asleep, that was kind of cold comfort as Bloom knew she might never wake up but at the same time she knew her mother was alive. Her father was in worse shape, but the doctors said he'll live; maybe.
She was outside of the hospital, it was nice to get some fresh air. Behind her Stormy was silently thinking of asking something but held her tongue, she can ask later at a better time. Now she just blended into the background, like she always have done. "Stormy," she was kind of taken by surprise when Bloom said something to her. Normally no one would even look her way, "did you want to go find Icy?"
"Not really."
"Go ahead, I'm just going to be moping around here." Bloom was trying to be cheery but there was an underlining sadness to her tone, "you would kill someone out of boredom if you stayed." That was true, she would strangle someone if she stayed.
"I'll be fine."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm only humoring you 'cause I hate this place," Stormy turn on her heels to leave. Only stopping to look back once, Bloom smiled but sighed afterwards as she returned to worrying about her parents. Times like this, she wish she was never born.
Flora had picked up the phone and reported the current state of things. Faragonda didn't quite sound pleased with what she heard, but gave her best of luck before hanging up. She slowly prepared a new plan to bring Bloom to Alfea, she tried to be direct so maybe a different approach would help.
She sat on the edge of the bed before falling back, in her mind she saw those two kissing and holding hands. As it went farther she swallowed hard try to clear her mind of that thought train, instead she focused on why she wanted to go to Alfea. Why it was so important to her.
Flora eyes shot open, her heart was pounding as the thought of someone was now in her room. She heard the door open, it closed very slowly as she jump to her feet; transforming into her winx form while spinning on her heels she came face to face with the invader.
Her heart leapt up into her throat, the door closed at last.
She was a foot taller than her, skin a few shades darker and marred by a rivulet of blood that seeped from above the hairline. Her eyes, brown and deep yet cold and.. distinctly evil, were focused on Flora. The cloak hid her body, but she knew what was underneath. This was her mother after all.
Panic over came her, she stumble back into a wall hard as her eyes dilated to near nothing while her breath was quick and shallow. Her small frame shutters before her mind kicked into action, she flexed her arms to her side as a surge of energy gone through her arms. Her golden hoop bracelets changed into her own Esoterica Seele, a pair of three pronged claws.
She charged forward, slash one went from down left to up right and left three long and thin cuts in the wall and window. Her second slash was left up to right down, the door was slice into pieces, the woman moved out of both attacks on leapt back onto the bed where she used both claws. When it was over, the entire room was empty; she was breathing hard as her mind was trying to figure out what had happened here.
She quickly grabbed the gym bag full of money, which somehow survived her attacks, and left the room without looking back. If she had she would have seen a woman standing on the edge of the roof, a woman with a wicked smile.
She came back to the place, a tarp was laid over the hole that was a result of the fight the other night. She could see that Stormy had came back as well, so predictable but it was nice to see her again. Icy pushed away from the street lamp, approaching quietly she would just walk right behind her and kept going.
Stormy didn't even noticed her, she was too busy with her own thoughts to notice Icy.
They wound up on opposite sides of the street with their backs to each other.
It was official as they came back to the apartment, things were basically screwed for them at the moment. They were unofficially kicked out of Alfea, they had to stay at an apartment with a quite oversexed closet lesbian (which only worried Techna and Musa) and to top it all off, Stella was still denying (and babbling about) her like for Bloom and women in general.
Techna wonder if she can go home soon, after her parents get over the fact (and shame) she had failed Alfea.
Musa was having the same thought but it turn to a more selfish one, since there was so much love going around among her friends that would mean there were more boys at Red Fountain. She could picture Brandon, Sky or Riven. Even Timmy to a certain extent, he was cute in own way.
"What are you thinking about," someone said.
"Banana boats!"