A little more then two weeks have past since Stormy came to 'the place' she didn't know if it had made any difference but,…
Stormy wasn't the only one who came to the Hospital two weeks ago, Flora, the Flower faerie, was working as a trainee nurse there. The Alfean students had to work for two months at a place to help people, some went to schools, others worked in regular hospitals,… And that's how she ended here.
It hadn't really been easy, because of Stormy's stay, the first floor patients had given her a hard time. She wasn't sure if the witch goaded the others one or not. But Flora decided not to let it get to her.
However she fell quite uneasy when she was left alone for cafeteria duty. It was only about ten minutes before Nadine came back but still, a lot can happen in ten minutes, especially in a place like this.
And unlucky as she was at the moment, she heard the familiar loud voice of Caitlin yell "Food fight! Get the nurse!" before she had the time to digest the information all kinds of food were heading into her direction.
"Caitlin, why the hell did you do that!" Stormy snapped.
Caitlin shrugged smiling happily at the witch.
"Don't you know that I'm the one who will get the blame? AGAIN!" she felt some mashed potatoes collide with the back of her head and part of it slide in her shirt. She shuddered violently "that' s disgusting," she whispered.
"What do you want to do about it?" Caitlin shrugged.
"This is fun," Kimberly said dryly when she grabbed two hands full of mashed potatoes of Sarah's plate, since the young girl doesn't participate in stuff like this.
"Well stop it" Stormy said. Stormy had meant it as an order towards Caitlin, but the younger girl answered, "Well good luck with that" And she threw some more towards the other end of the room.
Great, Stormy thought. She didn't much like the idea of helping someone, especially a faerie, especially THIS faerie. She grunted when she stood to move towards Flora, yelling over her shoulder "That's enough guys!" and she kneeled down before Flora.
Jeff raised his hand to make it all stop and took a few steps closer. "Well look at that" he said in a mockery tone "The big mean witch is helping the poor little faerie," Stormy looked back at his, her look shooting daggers. "Does the big mean witch luv the little faerie? Like her sister?" The last part he laid up thickly.
Stormy's eyes shot open, how the hell he knew that! She shot up and flew at him, they collided hard and fell to the floor. Soon they were surrounded by a crowd encouraging them "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"
They rolled over the floor punching, kicking. At one point she found herself on her stomach, he sat on top of her and pulled her arm back. She struggled to get free but he tightened his grip and pulled some more, at one point she fell something snap. Tears of pain rolled down her cheeks. He tightened his grip some more until she suddenly fell his weight shifted off of her.
The doc head heard the commotion all the way to his office and ran as fast as he could. When he saw his two patients fight he pushed his way through the crowd and roughly pulled Jeff off of Stormy.
Stormy quickly sat up cradling her arm to her chest, tears still rolling down her cheeks. Kimberly quickly sat next to her and wrapped an arm around Stormy's shoulder "It's over, hun, you're gonna be okay, now" she whispered. She cradled Stormy's head to her shoulder, holding her until the biggest commotion was over.
That evening Stormy hit the showers early. Everyone was at dinner, but she wasn't hungry and more important she didn't want to see anyone right now. She looked down at her now plastered arm. She had never been on the receiving end of a beating before and now it had left her with a broken arm.
She couldn't properly shower with this thing so she only turned open the small water crane and kneeled next to it. Damn, things are so damn complicated with only one arm available. She was stumbling with the soap bar and washcloth when she heard someone got in. She glanced over her shoulder and saw it was Flora wrapped in a towel.
"Oh sorry" the faerie said, "I thought no one would be here"
Stormy felt uneasy with the faerie seeing her naked and all. "I just wanted to be alone" she said quietly. "Don't you guys have a private shower? And why aren't you still around?"
"Is this an interrogation?" Flora placed her hands on her hips. "No we don't have a private shower and I'm still here… well I hadn't got the time to freshen up after the food fight properly and I didn't want to walk the streets like this…"
Flora saw that the witch was having trouble with her washing cloth and moved in "Here let me help you with that" she kneeled down, took the cloth and started washing Stormy's back. She saw the witch was looking for words of protest but she shut her up before "Shush now, I'm your nurse. I'm supposed to help you, right?"
Stormy sighed and let her finish. While the faerie was performing her task she muttered, hard enough for Flora to hear "Well this is awkward"
"Yeah" Flora agreed. She hesitated before she asked carefully. "Why did you do it?"
"Do what?"
Flora swallowed hard before she continued "Bloom" she said quietly.
Stormy looked over her shoulder. It took a few seconds before she softly answered, "I don't know… I just don't know" She cast her eyes down.
They both sat in silence until Flora finished. "There you go… I think you can manage the rest on your own" She handed the witch the cloth and went on her own. Stormy quickly finished and left the showers.
"Goodnight" she whispered over her shoulder.
Flora looked back over her shoulder to say something back but the witch was already gone.
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Author's Note: That was some progress in their relationship… a little one : ). See you all on Saturday : )