Random quote #5: "Present fears are less than horrible imaginings." –Anonymous
Chapter 5
Starfire hated waiting. As a child, she was always told to do so; waiting for her sister to come home from schooling, for all her favorite festivals to come to town, or for her own schooling to be over with.
Yet, in this "waiting room", as Robin had called it earlier, she was forced to. She fidgeted in her slightly comfortable seat and checked the black, circular clock on the white wall.
11:35 the clock said, it's hands moving slowly, but steadily, across its face. Too slow for Starfire's liking. If only she could speed up time. Then she would be able to she if Raven was okay.
'What is taking them so long?' She thought impatiently to herself, her own hands cupped on her lap.
She had been sitting there for an hour she figured in her head, and she still didn't hear any word from anyone, the doctors nor the nurses, about how Raven was doing.
Starfire growled, the anger she had buried deep within her finally surfacing. She couldn't take it any more! She had to know now!
"Robin, I'm going to go check if there is any news on Raven's condition of health." Starfire said quietly, to the boy's sleeping form, lying in the chair beside her on her left. "That is alright with you, yes?"
Robin just snoozed away, admitting a small snore now and then, a small spot of drool forming at the corner of his mouth. He just lay there, oblivious to his surroundings.
Starfire sighed, dejectedly. "Nevermind."
But even though she was a little miffed, she understood. It was late and today had been a long day for them. For all of them.
Starfire rose out of her stuffy chair and walked toward the huge receptionist's desk. Sitting there was an old, though hardly wrinkled, woman.
She looked like she had been working there for a while, like she knew everything there was to know about the giant hospital.
"Um, excuse me." Starfire said timidly to her, "But do you know if anything has happened with the condition of the girl in room number 262, on the third floor?"
The woman looked up from what she was doing, eyes twinkling with kindness as she glanced at Starfire.
"What room was that, Hun?" She asked, voice sweet and soft like a child's lullaby, but still clear and understandable.
"Number 262, on the third floor." Starfire repeated.
The old lady typed the room number into her computer with her long, nimble fingers and read what popped up into her sight.
"Is there a young girl, named... Raven, staying in there?" She asked, not looking up from her computer screen.
Starfire grew anxious; this woman was almost as slow as the clock on the wall!
"Yes, that is correct. Any news?" She replied politely, none of her inner emotions coming out in her voice.
The woman paused, staring at the monitor, as if concentrating on something. Something very difficult.
'What? What's wrong?' Starfire thought growing worried. She feared and also hoped for the word this elderly one would bring. It could be bad news, but she had been waiting far too long to really care.
She just had to know now the news, no matter what it was.
Finally, the woman looked back toward Starfire and spoke in her lullaby voice.
"No, I'm sorry Hun. No news. But I'll tell you right away if there is any. Okay?" She smiled sadly, yet still kindly at the girl in front of her.
Starfire's spirit dropped and she looked down toward the floor, avoiding the gaze of the much older female. She murmured an, "Okay." and shuffled back to her seat next to Robin.
'I hate waiting.' She thought grumpily, as she sat down, arms and legs crossed tightly.
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