Shocked

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Chapter Seven: I don't know

Bonnie's POV

Bonnie opened her eyes to a bright white ceiling, she wondered briefly where she was and how she had gotten there before her memory caught up with her. How long had she been out, what had happened with Dementor, what about… Ron.

Bonnie shot up in her bed, before wincing and grabbing at the bandages wrapped around her, yeah she had broken several ribs.

"Bonnie!" a voice caught her attention. Bonnie looked over to see Tara getting up from a chair looking concerned at the pain Bonnie was in.

"I'm fine," Bonnie groaned out, "what happened to Ron?"

Tara looked at her with a small grin on her face, Bonnie now realized that she was in the hospital, which explained the white room, the bed, and the sterile smell.

"Tara," she said as menacingly as she could, "how is Ron?"

"He's not that bad," Tara said, "but Bonnie, what happened in there, no one knows."

Bonnie looked down at the sheets and grabbed hold of them as she rode out the memories that resurfaced.

"It was a trap," she said quietly, "Professor Dementor hacked into the Kimmunicator and disguised himself as Wade. He lured us out to that lair thinking we were going to take down a huge magnet that was going to bring down satellites onto Middleton, only it was a bomb that was there. We were locked in and Ron threw himself over me, and when Professor Dementor came back to gloat, I … I wanted… I tried to kill him."

Tara walked over to the bed and without saying anything wrapped Bonnie in a hug, Bonnie just buried her head in Tara's shoulder and started to cry as she relived the explosion's terrible heat, and the feeling of her ribs breaking, and the fear of knowing that she had been willing and eager to kill Professor Dementor for what he had done.

Bonnie cried for almost 20 minutes before she felt exhausted of it enough to ask, "How long was I out for?"

"Only the night," Tara said, "once you called Wade, he had all sorts of agencies there in next to no time, they picked you and Ron up and rushed you to the hospital."

Bonnie let out a small sigh of relief, at least she hadn't been out for any length of time. "And is Ron awake?" she asked.

"No," Tara said, "but it's a miracle he's alive at all Bonnie, you said he covered you through that explosion, and there wasn't any cover in that place, so how did Ron even survive that, much less with the few injuries he has."

"Ron's… hurt?" Bonnie gasped, somehow she had managed to convince herself that as long as no one actually said it that somehow it might be true that Ron hadn't been hurt, despite what she had seen.

"Yeah," Tara said with a look of sympathy, "but it's odd, he only got 1st degree burns on his back, a concussion, and some shrapnel in his left leg. Bonnie, he's less injured than you are except for that concussion, how did that happen?"

Bonnie thought back to that blue glow in Ron's eyes she thought she had seen, maybe there was something to that. But if Ron hadn't told her about it, he doubtless wanted it kept secret, so she wouldn't lie to Tara, she just wouldn't tell the whole truth.

"I don't know," Bonnie said, "I thought he was dying right after that explosion, his breathing was so shallow, did Wade know anything?"

"No," Tara replied, "he called me right after it happened, and told me everything, but even he has no clue how Ron survived, much less came out almost unhurt."

They sat there in complete silence for almost 5 minutes before Bonnie whispered, "Tara, I know why I'm doing my plan now. Ron deserves better than Kim, he's literally willing to die for his friends and his best friend should be willing to do the same, not drop him for a pretty face, and Kim did just that. And I want to be that better friend, and show Ron that I'm that better friend, and make Kim see that Ron knows it, make her feel the guilt of knowing she's responsible for it too."

"Can I ask you something?" Tara said just as quietly, "If I did what Kim did, just dropped you for a pretty face, would you forgive me?"

"Yeah," Bonnie said, "you're my best friend I'd forgive you anything."

"Then what makes you think Ron won't forgive Kim?" Tara asked.

Bonnie dropped her eyes tucked her knees under her chin and almost murmured, "But I still have to try, he just deserves better, and what Kim did is so…"

"Bonnie," Tara cut her off, "do you… do you, uh"

"Don't go there," Bonnie interrupted, "just don't go there, I don't know, I'm so confused, just please don't ask me that now."

Tara gave Bonnie another look of sympathy before slipping out saying, "Your parents should be here in a few minutes, try and get some rest because everyone is going to be visiting you before they let you out."

Bonnie cringed at the thought of her parents coming to visit her, they'd question every decision she made on the mission, just like they did on the few she'd been made to tell them about, and if her sisters came to visit, they'd ignore the fact she almost died to laugh at her about being saved by a 'loser,' Bonnie thought she might well put her sisters in the hospital if they dared call Ron a loser after this.

The rest of the day was not a good one for Bonnie, 'family time' with her parents was everything she feared it would be. And from there it kept going downhill, the police, fire department, GJ, a revolving door of authorities wanting to know everything that had happened on the botched mission forcing Bonnie to relive the experience over and over again.

To her mild relief, Kim's mom managed to do her exam making it as quick as possible, the only other bright spot if one could call it that was that her sisters were no-shows. Though both of these were made pretty much moot since she was told that they weren't allowing Ron any visitors for the time being.

She slept not at all well that night, and in the morning when she was released, it wasn't with great enthusiasm since she would be stuck at home all weekend. That was why when one of the nurses asked if she wanted to see Ron even though he wasn't awake, Bonnie nearly tackled her parents in her drive to get up to his room.

She raced up the stairs, not bothering to take the elevator, and barely noticing the pain in her broken ribs. Dashing down the hall to Ron's room she almost slid past his door on the slick hospital floor, throwing open his door, she slowly walked over to the visitors chair in the room and sat down.

"Hey Ron," she said in a voice so quiet she barely heard herself speak, "so I stayed safe, you saved the day."

Of course he didn't respond, but Bonnie felt better just talking to him so she scooted the chair until it was right up against the bed. Leaning over him Bonnie felt a swirl of emotions she had only begun to feel very recently, but that now seemed so much larger in her thoughts.

"You stupid lunkhead," she managed a little smile and a light hit to his arm, "why'd you have to go and save my life and then make it so complicated."

She stood up from the chair and looked at his unmoving face, Bonnie knew it was entirely illogical, but she couldn't help blaming Kim for this, for somehow not doing something more when she was still going on missions that might have let them recognize the trap for what it was.

Figuring her parents would catch up with her soon and make her leave Bonnie leaned right over him and whispered, "Don't you die before I figure out how I feel about you." She then gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and as she left the room turned and said over her shoulder, "You earned it for playing the hero."

Ron's POV

Ron woke up to a pounding headache and remembering the weirdest dream, he had been lying there, and someone he thought was Bonnie but he knew couldn't be, came in and talked to him and then kissed him. The thought of Bonnie brought back a flood of memories, and Ron shot up in bed, then groaned in nausea as his head spun.

"Ron!" a voice sounded from somewhere that Ron couldn't pinpoint because of his spinning head.

"Ron, are you alright?" The voice sounded again, Ron knew that voice.

"Felix?" he managed to get out.

"Yeah," his friend said, "I'm right here." Ron tried to focus as he saw the blur he assumed to be Felix move his chair closer to the bed.

Pausing to try and stop the spinning, Ron managed to croak out, "How's Bonnie?"

He thought he heard a chuckle from Felix, though Ron was still too out of it to be sure, he did though hear Felix say, "She's fine Ron, a few broken ribs, some bruises, she was let out two days ago, not like it mattered because she's been in here almost the whole time. Kim's mom made her go get food on threat of putting her back in the hospital and I managed to get in."

Ron laughed, but that proved to be a bad idea as it made his head spin again erasing what little progress he had made towards being awake as opposed to conscious.

"Ron," Felix said hesitantly, "everyone's going to be asking this, but I think you should hear it from me or Bonnie first and since she's not here. How did you survive that explosion period, much less come out of it as unhurt as you did?"

Ron was glad that he had the excuse of having just woken from an explosion because he needed the time to come up with something to tell Felix since he couldn't talk about Mystical Monkey Power, he hadn't even told Bonnie about that.

"I don't know," he finally said, "I thought I was going to die there, I had thrown myself over Bonnie, done the whole heroic last words thing, I was running Torah verses through my head that you're supposed to read before you die. I just guess it wasn't my time."

Felix paused to digest what Ron had said, and Ron took the opportunity to look around the hospital room, it was filled with flowers and cards, and vases, it looked like half the school had sent something.

"Hey Felix," Ron said, "have I gotten any visitors or something, because I think I could open up a flower shop when I get out of here."

Felix looked back over with a wry smile and said, "Everyone has visited Ron, I mean everyone in the school, Bonnie's been here almost the whole time, the hospital finally just gave up and changed the visitation rules to Bonnie plus one person." Felix stopped for a second and looked down at the floor before looking back up and saying much softer, "Well everyone except Kim and Josh has been here, they've been off doing something, but her mom said she was going to have a 'talk' with Kim when she got back."

Ron felt the smile he'd been getting on his face wilt and he eventually managed to say "Well hey, I'm sure she had a good reason, and if she didn't well it's KP and I'll let it go."

Felix looked down at his watch and then back up at Ron as he said, "Look I don't wanna sound like Bonnie ripping on Kim, but Ron this isn't new or anything she's been doing this for 3 months now and I don't think anyone would hold it against you if you got mad at her."

Ron looked around for awhile before looking down and saying, "I know man, but I've known her since Pre-K. I'm just not wired to be able to be mad at her for long."

Felix looked down at his watch again, Ron assumed it meant that Mrs. Dr. P or Bonnie was going to come through the door in not too much time. Felix looked back up and said, "So then why did you almost get yourself killed for Bonnie, do you like her?"

"Well yeah," Ron said nervously and looking anywhere but at Felix, "I mean after that many missions and that much time together Bonnie had better be my friend."

Felix sighed and then looked right at Ron and said, "Ron are you in love with Bonnie?"

Ron looked back before flopping back on his bed and groaning out, "I don't know man, I mean I've known KP for so long and you know, it just always seemed like we'd end up together. But I've been spending all this time with Bonnie, and she's not bad once you get to know her. I mean she's smart, funny, I like being around her, and I'd be lying if I said she wasn't incredibly hot, but then it's the same with Kim."

Before Felix could say anything back, the door burst open and Bonnie rushed into the room, out of breath and looking like she couldn't quite believe Ron was awake. When she saw he was indeed awake, she fairly well dove from the door to land on the bed and she started hitting his chest and crying before collapsing against him shouting "Don't you ever do that to me again Ronald Stoppable, I hate you I hate you I hate you, never ever do that again!"

Ron just hugged her back thinking that life just kept getting harder and harder.

AN: Huzzah, another chapter! And more good news, if I stick to my plan of how the story goes, Kim should be making an appearance in the next few chapters so don't despair of her yet. That said, this was a fun chapter to write and the next one should be even better so tune in on friday.