This 'week' is going to be sporadic, I'm just not in a writing mood and have a bunch of stuff to settle with my mom. I love you all so much for the condolences and love. Thank you for being patient with me.
Also, these are going to be one shots, I can't focus long enough to make a full story, not that good yet :p
Lots of love and snuggles
Lev
It was the worst mission she could think of, and that was saying something. She had pain radiating up and down her body from her left leg. Cris wasn't on this mission and she knew that she needed someone to heal her before she passed out.
Desierto had turned out to be a trap, she had been leading the troupe with her hunting dogs out when she felt a massive rise in power around her. She screamed at her team to run, and they did, so she knew that they had gotten out of the epicenter before the explosion. Lucy wasn't so lucky, she had been hit with a jolt of magic while escaping that had exploded her leg. It was the most excruciating pain she had ever experienced, it was like little burning needles were imbedding themselves in her nerves. She had flopped onto her back and curled in on herself, she was starting to see black spots on the edges of her vision and thought she could hear shouting through the smoke.
There were bright lights when she woke up, and she knew she wasn't still in the crater that she had collapsed into when she was hit. Lucy cracked her eyes open and closed them just as quickly, it was way too bright in here and it hurt her eyes. She slowly opened them again and let them get used to the brightness, and she looked around the room she caught a man's eyes, he was wearing a white lab coat so she assumed it was her doctor.
"Mrs. Pradesh, I'm glad you're awake" Lucy shook her head and blinked a few times to clear her head.
"Where am I" Her voice was raspy and using it made her throat scream in protest.
"You're in a hospital in Capresa, you were teleported here by one of the mages on call for the hospital. You were badly hurt" Lucy nodded her head
"What was wrong" She couldn't fully feel her body, it was kind of stuck in a numb state.
"Mrs. Pradesh -" "Lucy, please Doctor" The doctor smiled at the woman and nodded
"Lucy, I have some bad news" Lucy inhaled through her nose and set her mouth in a firm line.
"It's okay Doctor, what happened"
"Well, it had been too long and there were no healing mages around to help heal you as soon as you needed. We had to go into emergency surgery," He paused and cleared his throat. "We had to amputate your leg, it was shattered so badly that the bone was not salvageable"
Lucy could hear something roaring in her ears, her eyes went out of focus and she shook her head. She ripped the blankets from her body and stared where her left leg should be. There was nothing. Her eyes stung with tears and her breath started coming in short pants. She could hear the doctor saying something, but she couldn't focus on anything other then the lack of leg. Her eyes drooped and the roaring in her ears stopped, she was so sleepy suddenly.
When Lucy awoke again she knew what had happened, she didn't need to be reminded. She also knew that her team had come to visit her, and that she hadn't acknowledged them. She just stared at the ceiling, they spoke around her and about her, she could hear everything they had said, she just didn't care. They had said that her husband was on his way and that he would be there as soon as he could, but she just kept staring at the ceiling.
How could he love her like this, she knew she couldn't love herself like this, she was shattered, just like her leg had been. How could she ever be okay after this. There was always a breaking point, and this was it for her. This was where she broke, and break she did.
When the team had all vacated the room she finally let out a heartbreaking sob and kept on sobbing until she fell back to sleep.
Kaleb had been called by a frantic and sobbing Bixlow an hour ago to tell him that his wife was in emergency surgery in Capresa. The doctors there hadn't thought to call Cristoff, who was on the list of people to contact in an emergency, they just rushed her into surgery and he had no idea why.
He pushed the door to the emergency waiting room open and saw her team sitting there. They all looked worse for wear and at least Bixlow and Laxus needed some form of medical attention.
"Bix" he wasn't too proud of the break in his voice when he called for his little brother.
Bixlow's red eyes snapped up and his body jolted from the seat and he sprinted to Kaleb.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry Kaleb. I caused this, I thought she was right behind me and I didn't notice until she screamed that she wasn't there.
He started getting flashes of what had happened out of Bix's mind, the branch of Nightmare they were trailing had set an ambush, they had things set so that an explosion would go off when someone used magic near the mine. Lucy was in the lead with her hunting dogs when things got bad, she felt a massive charge of magic and yelled for the team to run, and he saw Bixlow look back to make sure she was following and then there was a lot of smoke, and a agonizing scream. Kaleb pulled out of the memories and hugged his brother tighter.
"It's okay Bix, we can deal with whatever happened. Where is she?"
"Room 6"
Kaleb brought Bix back to Laxus and Freed and turned to go find his wife.
She awoke to the soothing scent of spiced apples next to her face and her eyes shot open.
"Kaleb!" she latched herself onto him and half pulled him onto the bed, she wept into his shoulder and was babbling incoherently so he just kept moving his fingers through her hair.
"Little Star, what's wrong" He whispered into her hair and she froze.
"I-" She started sobbing harder and pulled his face to hers for a wet kiss before pulling back and shuffling around to sit up.
"They told me they couldn't have done anything, I don't think Cris would have been able to fix this Kaleb, it was bad. They showed me the x-rays, there was nothing left to salvage." She stopped and gave him a watery smile and pulled the blanket away from her legs. She heard the sharp inhale of breath from her husband and closed her eyes.
"Oh gods Little Star, I'm so sorry this happened to you" He shifted her so she was resting on his lap and pulled her head back into the crook of his neck. She sobbed harder then she had before, what was she thinking, of course Kaleb would still love her.
"We can get you the best prosthetic I can find, I don't know where to get it, but Dad or Cris may" Lucy nodded against his chest, she had finally cried herself out, she was just laying on her husbands chest at this point.
"They're both on their way here Little Star, we're going to make this as easy for you as possible." She nodded again and buried her face in his shirt.
"Can your team come in?" She paused at that before nodding. She knew that they needed to know she was okay.
It wasn't a minute before the three other members of her team came through the door.
"Cosplayer I'm so sorry" Bixlow was instantly at her side and she felt awful that he would ever blame himself for something like this.
"It's not your fault Bixy, they just got me before I could get out" she raised her hand from Kaleb's shirt to cup the side of his face.
"No more tears okay? Can you do that for me?" Bixlow was the best brother she could have ever asked for, he was opening up so much since Rory had come into his life and Lucy knew that she was going to be needed badly for this mess.
"Blondie, you okay?" Lucy lifted her eyes up to one of her dragon brothers and gave him a small sad smile.
"No, but I will be eventually, like I always am"
"Miss Lucy, what was wrong" Freed had stepped up next to Laxus and Lucy smiled at the formal mage.
Lucy didn't say a word, just pulled the blanket off of her legs, all three sucked in air and Bixlow had already wrapped his arms around her.
"Well shit"
"Always so eloquent Laxus" she gave him an exasperated smile that he didn't return.
"well, what's the plan" Lucy rolled her eyes, he was never good at showing how he was feeling and this was a prime example.
"We're waiting for Dad and Cris to show up to get things moving with a prosthetic."
Both men, at that moment came barreling through the door, but stopped suddenly at the group of their sad family before them. Arman was the first one to break out of the silence and he walked to the small blonde woman and wrapped her in his arms, Lucy immediately burst back into tears and Kaleb started rubbing wide circles on her back.
"Where's the doctor" Cris had regained his voice and turned into the wizened battle healer that he was.
"He's out in the lobby at the desk last I saw him" Freed supplied and then Cristoff was gone.
Lucy wobbled a little on the new metal leg, it was going to be something to get used to, that's for sure. She was going really well though, it had been three weeks since the surgery now, and they had all made their way back to Bosco. Lucy had gone between hers and Kaleb's penthouse above the guild to the family estate, both were easy for her to navigate with her new limb and had very little stairs, or an elevator.
She was just tired of having to rely on people all of the time, for literally anything that was a slight challenge for her. It was getting to the point of ridiculousness. She had walked out of the bathroom to find Cris waiting outside of the door, and when she asked him what he was doing he said he was making sure she was okay. Of course she was okay, it was just the bathroom. She was getting stupidly angry over stupid things now though, and she was about fed up with everyone.
With a huff and a tossed pillow, Lucy finally made it down the stairs and onto a cushioned bench. She let out an angered groan and buried her face in her hands. The nearly silent incoming of one of her favourite Pradesh's drew her head up.
"Vander" She wiped the tears betraying her off of her cheeks
"Hey Stella, what's with the tears" He plopped himself down on the bench next to her and leaned back against the wall.
"I'm so frustrated with being treated like an invalid. I can do everything I did before and every body is acting like I've died or something" She grumped and folded her arms over her chest.
"except you don't need to wax anymore" He teased and the corners of Lucy's mouth twitched up.
"Yeah, that's a bonus" She laughed
"Ahh, you can do this shit Stella, you come find me when you want someone to treat you like you're still in there" He said with a wink and he disappeared.
"That explains so much" She muttered, staring at the little plastic stick in her hands.
She had been kind of randy after getting home from Minstrel, and had been ALL over Kaleb, and the birth control potion she had been taking was counter acted by the pain medication.
"Little Star? You okay in there?" She had learned a long time ago to throw up mental blockade's when she wanted things kept to herself for a bit.
"You can come in" She muttered and pulled her one knee closer to her chest. Kaleb came and sat next to her on the edge of the raised bathtub.
"Is... is that what I think it is?" Lucy turned and gave him her brightest smile
"Yeah, it is"
