Hu Tao left out a heavy sigh, as a nurse put a needle in her arm. "You know, I don't get why I need this. I'm all good and healthy! Can I go now!" She exclaimed, clapping her hands together.
"No, you may not. Your body was fulled with toxins, that could have already killed you but you're still alive." Nurse Joy explained to her, withdrawing Hu Tao's blood and placing it down on a tray. "Let's not forget to mention about how fast your wounds healed." She added on.
Hu Tao eyed the needle with her blood in it. "Hey how about I just-" She reached over to grab it, but the nurse slapped her hand.
"No, don't touch it. We're taking it to the examine room." The nurse said, giving a glare at her.
"Oh come on! Nurse Whoever You Are! Can you give good old Hu Tao a exception here? I'll give you a discount once you die!" Hu Tao asks, leaning to the nurse and pulling off a sadden look.
The nurse looks very…very unimpressed. "I have seen far better acting than that." She says to the director. She grabs the cart, with the tray on it, and starts heading to the door.
Hu Tao, still sitting on the hospital bed, frowns. "FIRST OF ALL, MY ACTING IS THE BEST WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ME HUH?!" She shouts after the nurse, crossing her arms together.
"Hmph! What does someone like her know huh?!" She tells herself, puffing.
"Hu Tao."
"Huh?"
That voice is familiar, meaning it's from Qiqi. She looks to the side, to see a little face with magenta eyes and a talismans on their forehead staring back at her.
"QIQI!" Hu Tao squeals, smiling wide. "OH! YOU WOULDN'T GUESS HOW MUCH YOUR OLD BUDDY MISSED YA!" She says to the girl, still smiling.
"…Hu Tao…" Qiqi whispers out.
"Hm? What is it, one of my loyal customers?"
"Where is my Vision?"
Hu Tao's smile slowly fades, as she sinks back to the bed. She forgot all about getting Qiqi's Vision from Archie. There was only one thought to herself, as she took a deep breathe. Archie has her Vision now. "DAMN IT CURSE HIM AND MAY HE NEVER GO TO THE AFTERLIFE!" She randomly shouts out despising Archie, Qiqi blinking in confusion. She just realizes what she had just said. "Too far, I went a bit too far everyone deserves to go to the afterlife." She says to herself.
"…Curse…who? Are you talking about Archie?" Qiqi shutters, backing away.
"Oh. OH! Something random came into my mind! It was nothing and it totally has nothing to do with Archie!" Hu Tao assures the child. "Now as for your Vision…" She puts her hand on her chin, trying to come up with a lie. "Do you remember anything that happened?" She asks her.
Qiqi nods her head. "You…couldn't get my Vision back." She said, sounding gloomy all of a sudden.
"Oh no no! You lost it somewhere in a horrible earthquake! The earthquake was so terrible, lemme tell ya!" Hu Tao says, trying to not tell the truth.
"…It was a thunderstorm." Qiqi said, frowning.
"WELL! THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM BUT THEN BAM! AN EARTHQUAKE CAME! BOOM CRASH!" Hu Tao frequently shouts out, starting to sweat a little. It's obvious Qiqi sees through her lies.
"Qiqi will go now. But…" Qiqi's words are lost on Hu Tao.
"Hm? What is it?" She asks her.
Qiqi punches Hu Tao's face in a blink of a eye.
Ignoring the frequent shouts and exiting Hu Tao's room, Qiqi finds herself in the same white and dull hospital hallway. There's nurses working around the corner. There's too many sounds for her to focus on one thing.
But yet, she moves around. The nurses took her blood, saying they needed to examine it. Those same nurses asked her questions, relating to the incident. She tried answering them to the best of her abilities. It worked out.
"Archie has my Vision…" She wonders to herself, as she sneaks a peek into another of the rooms.
There, in the bed, is a woman with light brown hair. She's sitting up, leaning on the mattress of the bed. She looks sad and worried. There's multiple machines hooked up to her.
Qiqi opens the door, letting herself in. The unknown woman's eyes turns to her.
"Oh hello…darling…What is a child like you doing here?" She asks her.
She sounds in pain.
And for some reason, she looks familiar to her. But not Hu Tao familiar. It feels more like she'd seen her face before, but never spoken to her.
"Qiqi is…" She says, but stops her thought. "Qiqi is wandering around." She says.
"Well…A child like yourself shouldn't be here…" The woman said, still smiling. "The nurses will sincerely catch you, and I don't want you to get into trouble…" She adds on.
"It's fine…Qiqi will keep you company." She said, walking over to a chair and jumping on to sit.
"Oh no! It's fine…really." The woman keeps on saying. "Don't worry about it!" She said.
"No." Qiqi gave a blank stare, refusing to leave. "I remember you however. You were fighting against Archie?" She asked her.
"…Yes. I was but something happened and I can't remember. I must have been hit by a very powerful attack." The woman said, sighing.
"…Qiqi is tired too." She said.
"Hah! At least you won't be aching as me!" The woman jokes, laughing.
"Miss Lisa?"
The door opens, revealing to be another of the Nurse Joys. The nurse looks over to Qiqi, eye's widening at the girl. Qiqi takes this sign to leave the room now.
"Bye." The girl says, hopping off the chair and walking over to the door. The nurse says nothing, and as soon as Qiqi leaves, she closes the door. Qiqi turns to look at the closed door, thinking of eavesdropping in, but she leaves.
She keeps walking and walking, with the nurses paying her no attention.
"Hey Qiqi!"
A shout from behind, she turns around. There, Bennett pulls an sneak attack hug on her. Her arms frail, the girl being in a shock state.
"It's me!" Bennett says, pulling out the hug and throwing a thumbs up.
Qiqi blinks. "…Who?" She asks him.
"Bennett. You know, the boy you hit in the head?" He said. He almost looks like he's about to cry, and his head is wrapped up in bandages.
"Oh. I remember now. You said to hit you in the head…" She said, shrugging.
"…I uh sure did." He laughed, although it was a bit awkward. "Um, do you know where Lisa's room is at? I'm definitely not rushing, because of some visitors here!" He asked her.
"You passed it." Qiqi pointed behind him, than at a door to the left. "There." She said.
He turned, than looked back at Qiqi. "Thanks Qiqi! I'd appreciate it!" He said, running off and leaving Qiqi there.
"...Qiqi forgot to mention the nurse."
Entering the room, Bennett closed the door shut, taking a sigh of relief on finding Lisa. He turned, expecting only Lisa to be there but she wasn't alone.
After a few moments of silence, he smiles weakly and waves. "H…Hi." He greets the two.
"You need to leave. Now." The nurse turns to him, with a stern glare at him. "You are not permitted to be in this room, so please leave."
"Actually…Can he stay? I wish…to talk with him in private." Lisa raised her hand up, interrupting the nurse.
"Huh?! Miss Lisa, are you sure?! You've awoken later than everyone else involved in the incident and-"
"I'll be fine." She said, interrupting her again.
The nurse closed her mouth and huffed, she turned around and walked over to the door. "I'll be waiting outside." She said, with Bennett backing up to let her have space to move. Than she left the room.
Bennett stood there, with an nervous smile.
"Bennett…It's nice to see you again...!" Lisa said, breaking the silence.
"Oh it's nice to meet you too!" He said back. "How uh, Lisa, I wanted to talk to you about-"
"Archie. Am I right?" She asked.
He nodded his head, frowning. "Yes it's about him. I don't believe him! I don't believe someone is out there betraying us! Why would someone we know, betray us for whatever Archie's planning?!" He exclaimed, yelling. "I think he's lying to throw us off!"
"…Bennett. I don't know if anyone is betraying us, but we need to tell the others. As unfortunate as that sounds, we need to do it." Lisa said, sitting up.
"What if they don't believe us?" He asked.
"Jean wouldn't let something like that pass as a joke." She said back.
"I…Alright. Let's do it." He nodded his head, easily agreeing with her. "Well, once you're out and well, then we'll do it." He added, explaining his statement.
"I-Yeah…" Lisa didn't have the strength to add more. "I just wonder…what happened to Jean…" She said.
Bennett glances at her, his head moving from down on the ground and at her. "Jean? Oh uh, I don't know." He said, shrugging his shoulders. He scratches his head and looks over to the door. "I think she's getting rest." He added on.
"Can you stand?" Beidou asked the blonde woman.
"I…" Jean let out a cough, as she nearly collapsed. But thankfully, Beidou caught her just in time. She lift the woman up, letting her use her shoulder as support. "Thank you." She said to the pirate captain.
"No problem." She said back to her.
"Where's…Lisa? I need to find her and-" Jean looked at Beidou, her eyes frequently looking around the place.
"Lisa's fine. She's going to have to stay here longer however." She said, taking small steps to not distress Jean.
"…What happened to her?" She asked, in a hushed voice.
Beidou didn't exactly know what happened in that morning or afternoon. Or what happened to Lisa. All she knew was that she was channeling massive amounts of Electro energy within herself. That could have killed her. "She…hit her limit for her powers." She said.
"Oh…Oh I see…" Jean said. "…Where are we going?" She asked her.
"Fresh air outside." She said.
"What's the time…? It felt like a blur to me…" She asked the captain.
"Four. It's 4:15." She said. "Don't stress yourself out too much." Now Beidou was sounding like a hypocrite herself. Telling Jean not to worry when the captain was obviously going to go after Archie.
"I…Okay." Jean sighed.