Pyro, Psylocke, and Jubilee sat in the hospital lobby; they avoided eye contact, no one could even talk. What was there to say? Storm and Logan were there as well, but all of them were thinking the same thing.
"We have to tell him." said Jubilee quietly. "We have to tell Bobby."
"What do we tell him!" said Pyro irritably. "Oh Bobby, just so you know, your girlfriend is in the hospital dying but we have no clue what's wrong with her?"
"No," said Storm. "Jubilee is right, Bobby needs to know. I'll step out side and call him."
She sighed.
"Come get me if the nurse comes."
Bobby woke up to the most annoying alarm on the planet, his cell phone. He looked at the clock. It was 2:00 in the morning and he really did not want to be awake right now so he ignored the sound. The sound that was growing louder and louder and louder.
The mutants' phones did that when the message was urgent.
This had better be important.
"Hello?"
"Bobby, is it you?"
"Yeah, Storm? You know if you had to tell me something, you could have knocked on my door or told me tomorrow I mean-"
"Bobby, I'm not at the school right now; I'm at the hospital."
His heart stopped.
"Where's Rogue?"
"Bobby listen to me, she is in the emergency room right now, we don't know what's wrong but Logan found her knocked out in an alley and she is not waking up- she isn't dead, don't worry."
Had Storm just told him not to worry although his girlfriend was in the hospital; and not waking up? She was insane.
"Bobby, we need you to come down here and- Bobby, Bobby? Hello?"
However, Bobby had hung up and was currently cramming his key into the ignition of his car.
He found his friends in the waiting room along with Logan and Storm. No one could look at him; they all stared at the ground wondering if he would get angry about it. Bobby was also protective of her; he loved her, and always came after anyone who tried to hurt her.
He looked at Storm.
"How is she?"
"Bobby, well, we don't know really. She hasn't woken up but the doctor has not said why. We'll find out tonight.
Of course it was no longer night, it was early morning. Pyro just couldn't stand it anymore; he left the hospital, leaving in a very bad mood.
The nurse came in 30:00 minutes later and asked to speak to Storm alone; Logan had left to get everyone food, or that's what he said. He just needed something to do to get his mind of Rogue.
Storm followed the nurse into a room and the three remaining teens (Bobby, Jubilee, and Pyslocke) raced to the door, but it was no use, the room was soundproof and they couldn't hear but this is what they would have heard if they could.
"Ms. Munroe, I have the results from the tests we ran on Miss, um, Miss, what is the girl's name?"
"Marie, we call her Marie."
"Well, the results aren't good. Marie has suffered seven broken bones. Four are ribs, one is her arm, one is her leg, and her ankle. Those will heal but it will be a long time before they do, a very long time. We are also dealing with internal bleeding, which we cannot stop with out a surgery, which can go wrong when dealing with a case like this. It will have to heal on its own, which is the safest way. And I have discovered something in Marie's bloodstream, a poison, that I sadly recgonize. It is called Butterfly's Dust, it puts people into a coma and while they are put out, as I say, it destroys the person from the inside by stopping their organs. They only way for the poison to stop is for the girl to wake up, which is quite possible."
"What if she doesn't wake up?"
The nurse only looked at her sadly. Storm left and went to tell the others the grave news about Marie's condition.