The Trials of Friendship
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(and if you could tell me if disclaimers are required in every chapter, or not, let me know)
A/N-I don't know if I said this already, but this fic will be a cross between the books and the show
Taranees' POV
Chapter 8-Conquering Fears
Taranee still hadn't brought herself to actually go into Wills' room at the hospital. She went their everyday to see if there was any change, but of course, there wasn't. Will had been in the hospital for a week, and all Taranee could think about was what the doctor had said, "The longer she is like this, the less likely it is she'll ever wake up"
Taranees' shoulder sagged as she thought about this on her way home from school. Irma, Cornelia, and Hay Lin were walking next to her, all were oddly silent. This had been a rough week for all of them.
Taranee got home and instantly went to her room, not in the mood to talk to anyone who might be home (it was one of her brothers' rare, come home right after school day; normally he was a surfing maniac). Taranee laid face up on her bed, deep in thought. It was more then just the fact that she and Will had been friends practically Will had moved to Heatherfield. Taranee had been at Sheffield for three days, and had met Will when they were both late for class. They had become really good friends after that, and then, when the whole, becoming guardians' thing happened, it just put a seal on the friendship. It was the fact that without Will, they would never be able to do their job of protecting the Veil without Will. Their powers weren't as strong when they were divided, and they were divided in a big way this time. She just didn't know what they were going to do.
Irmas' POV
Irma sighed as she dragged herself to the hospital. She was the only one of her friends who had been visiting Will on a daily basis. Taranee was basically too scared to go into the room, Hay Lin didn't like seeing her friend like that, and Cornelia? Irma hadn't seen much of her earth guardian friend that week. It was as if she had come to some unspoken agreement not to talk to the other guardians. And it made Irma kind of mad.
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Irma walked quietly into Wills' hospital room, and noticed that Mrs. Vandom wasn't there, for once. It caught Irma by surprise. Normally Mrs. Vandom was there everyday, but Irma got a feeling that the nurses had forced her to go home and get some rest.
Irma sighed and looked at Will, who was, of course, still not awake. She wished desperately that Will would wake up. Will was the leader of their rag tag little group, and even though she couldn't always prevent fights from breaking out among the friends, most of the time she could stop them. And Irma felt like the whole group'd just had one big fight.
Wills' POV
"Whoa!" Will cried as a surge of energy blast out of her hands, "What was that!"
"There is no need to fear, Will", the old lady said with a smile, "You must not think about what might happen to you. You must think about what you can do"
"How do you know me?" Will asked for about the millionth time, knowing it wouldn't do any good, "Who are you?"
"You will find out soon enough", the lady said, "For now, let us return to your training"
Training. That was what this was all about. Bringing Will to Candrcar, telling her about her powers, all of this was just training, for her to become a better guardian. She wasn't sure how her friends felt about this (she also wasn't sure what was happening back on Earth), but she was sure someone had to be worried about her by now. If only she knew.
"Let us try again", the old lady said, "Focus on the pillar. See it collapsing. See your power"
Will sighed. She closed her eyes and held up her hand, focusing all her energy on that one pillar. She felt a big surge of energy stream thru her, and she heard a resounding crack as the energy hit the pillar.
"All right-" Will started to celebrate at finally knocking out that dumb pillar, but she suddenly felt a little dizzy, and felt her knees give out beneath her.
"Ah yes", the lady said, walking over and helping Will stand back up, "That is something else you must learn. You must not use up too much of your own energy at once, you must learn to control it"
"I have to learn a lot, don't I?" Will asked, not caring if she sounded rude. She'd just been yanked into this parallel universe, had no idea what was going on back home, and, on top of it all, she was being taught a whole new kind of power, by someone she didn't even know! That gave her the right to be in a bad mood.
"Let us try again", the lady said.
Irmas POV
Irma sighed and looked depresedly at her lunch. It wasn't the fact that the tapioca pudding looked like glue, or the fact that the carrots looked poor pale then orange, it was the fact that everything was so quiet. Well at her table anyway. All around them, kids were laughing, chatting, and looked like they didn't have a care in the world. It was just that one little area that was utterly silent.
"That's it", Cornelia said, looking up from her own lunch. It was one of her rare, sit with her friend days, "I don't know why were all acting depressed, but I say-"
"Cornelia where've you been?" Irma asked her friend heatedly, "Will is in the hospital! Don't you even care?"
"Remember the time before we were guardians?" Cornelia asked, ignoring Irma, "We were all so happy then. We didn't have to worry about some invisible Veil, some lunatic trying to take over the world, all we had to worry about was whether or not there as gonna be a pop quiz in science"
"There was also a time", Irma said, "When people ate with their feet. What's the point Cornelia!"
"The point is, we were all so much happier before Will moved here", Cornelia said, "Think it'll all go back to that now?"
"W-What?" Taranee stuttered, "Whatta you mean?"
"Well, now that Will is gone, I-"
"That's it!" Irma exclaimed, jumping out of her seat, "I can't believe you! How can you be so insensitive? I mean, in case you haven't noticed, Will's in the hospital, in a coma, and all you can worry about is how all this is going to effect you? I mean come on!"
"Come on yourself!" Cornelia snapped, standing up as well, "Don't tell me you never once thought about how life would be if Will had never come here! I know you, I'm sure you've thought of it at least once!"
"That's not the point", Irma said angrily; by now the whole cafeteria was looking at them, "The point is, you could at least pretend to care that one of your friends might die!"
Taranee and Hay Lin gave each other scared looks. Irma and Cornelia had fought before, but never like this. Irma could tell they were scared, but right then, all she felt was mad. At Cornelia, mad about just about everything.
Cornelia glared at Irma for a second, then turned and walked away without another word.
"Irma?" Hay Lin said quietly. She turned to face her friend, who still looked a little upset. "Maybe you were a little hard on her Irma", Hay Lin pointed out carefully.
"What?" Irma exclaimed, "You're taking her side? Maybe you weren't listening Hay Lin, but she was being way to unreasonable, how can you think like that!"
Before she gave Hay Lin a chance to answer, Irma turned away from her friend and walked away from the table, not wanting to see the hurt look on her friends face.