Disclaimer: We don't own the Ducks and probably never will because they belong to Disney. However, Emaliar Malfoy does own Bella, Emily, Alex, and Johnson. Bobcatwriter owns Annie, Mike, Travon, and all the characters at Lakeshore Academy.
A/N: This is the sequel to the other Mighty Ducks stories "The Way Things Are" and "The Way Things Were". We recommend you read those two first. However, this can also be read as a stand-alone story. Please read and review.
Chapter 7
March 1st, 1998
1:15pm
Bella's POV
Ollie and I headed out with another search party early this morning. We were now up to four search parties. Which made sense because we had such a wide area to explore. We got the radio call 45 minutes ago. Mike's team found Adam, lying behind a bush. He looked like he had a dislocated ankle and a nasty gash on his forehead. We headed back up to Lakeshore Academy. People were everywhere, there was an ambulance, three Lassen County sheriffs deputy's, a California Highway Patrol officer, People from the US forestry service and the entirety of Lakeshore Academy standing outside in 40-degree weather waiting to hear my older brother of 17 minutes fate.
When the Search and Rescue team finally brought my brother down to Lakeshore Academy, he was awake and was saying that it hurts to breathe. He was loaded into an ambulance and taken to the highway where he was transferred to a medical airlift helicopter to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. We hoped for the best but feared the worse. The doctors sent him into emergency surgery for his foot and ribs upon his arrival to the hospital.
Adam's POV
March 2nd, 1998 or so I am told.
When I woke up, they were there. Bella, Coach, Michele, Ollie, Mike, Annie, Travon, Dr. Binford and Dr. Freeman. It was the circle of life, I guess. Them by my bed in some hospital where I've just been unconscious. I looked down at my foot, it felt strange and sore at the same time. Now I know why there was a moon boot on my right leg. When I lifted my right hand to my head, I could feel a bandage wrapped around it.
"What happened," I asked groggily, rubbing my eyes with my left hand.
"WHAT THE FUCK? ADAM JONATHAN BANKS! YOU SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME! I THOUGHT WE WERE PAST ALL THIS? WOULD YOU STOP ACTING LIKE A CHILD!" Bella screamed at me.
"You have a mild concussion, a large gash on the back of your head, a smaller gash on your right hand, a dislocated ankle and two cracked ribs," a passing doctor said, checking my chart.
I looked up at Dr. Binford, he didn't look pleased, neither was Gordon for that matter. Michele and Annie were relieved that I was found. Michele cried bucket loads of tears over me. Dr. Binford had my razor blades that I stole from Walmart, "Adam I am severely disappointed in you, son. How could you do such a thing? He asked.
I stayed quiet.
"SPEAK ADAM," Gordon yelled at me.
He never yelled at me; I was taken aback.
After I was quiet for 10 minutes, Dr. Binford said; "As soon as you're out of here you are on house arrest. You are to go nowhere without an adult that would be there to supervise you. We are going to be doing a thorough search for more blades throughout you room and the facility. Also, there will be no allowance, no phone calls, extra chores, extra sessions with Dr. Freeman and no fun group activities," Dr. Binford said.
"THIS SUCKS!" I said.
"ADAM!" Dr. Binford, Gordon, Annie, Mike, Bella, Ollie, Travon, and Michele said together.
"We also know all about what was said in your phone call to and from Minnesota," Dr. Binford said.
"YOU CAN'T DO THAT, THAT'S AN INVASION OF PRIVACY! TELL THEM THAT'S AN INVASION OF PRIVACY, Gordon," I yelled.
"It's in the contract that you and I signed, Adam," Gordon said.
"WHAT?" I yelled.
"Paragraph 5 subsection D line 3: All students are subjected to having phone calls monitored or recorded. Line 4: All students are required to have a thorough search and seizure of prohibited items such as guns, ammunition, knives, razors, blades, smoking materials, drinking materials, offensive or drug paraphernalia, sharp scissors, needles, and anything else that might become questionable to the safety and security of the rest of the student body and staff. Are those not your initials?" Dr. Binford said as he handed my contract to me, to look over.
"Yeah it is my initials," I said.
"Adam did you not read the contract?" Gordon asked.
I stayed silent and then I whispered, "No."
"Oh, Adam you're supposed to read contracts or anything legal before you sign anything," Gordon said.
"Did you read it?" I asked.
"Yes, I did," Gordon said.
"As did I," Michele said.
"This is such horse shit. You get treated better in PRISON! WHY DON'T YOU SEND ME THERE?" I yelled.
"Although it would be a great idea. It would also be a perfectly good use of wasted red tape," Dr. Binford said.
"I don't believe this," I said.
"You also have to wear this while you are on house arrest," Mike said as he attached something to my left leg.
"WHAT'S THAT?" I yelled at him.
"It's a tracking device Adam, you will have it removed after you complete your 10 weeks of house arrest," Dr. Binford said.
"This completely SUCKS!" I yelled.
Bella's POV
6:15 pm
All the adults and the doctors were in the waiting room talking about what to do with Adam. Travon had left about a half an hour ago. He knew who I was apparently from the photos on Adam's wall. I had spoken to Gunnar on the phone and Charlie apologized profusely in the background. I sat by Adam's bed as he slept. He began to stir, and I stroked his hair and tried to mop some of the forming beads of sweat off his forehead. I kept thinking about the lyrics to Waterfalls by TLC. It was uncanny how my whole life story could be summed up in a few verses. Everything we'd fought for these last few years was also uncanny. No one knew what he was going through or what I was going through. I could only stop to imagine how hard it must be for Adam. Adam had been through it all, it was almost too much. I wish all of this would stop.
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