Chapter 12:
It has been a few days since Crystal was rushed to hospital and Lloyd was next to Crystal's hospital bed,
"I hope you wake up soon. I need to know that you'll be ok." Lloyd said and as he was about to leave, he heard a groan,
"What the? Where am I?" Crystal question for all she saw, when she opened her eyes was white.
"Crystal." Lloyd said,
"Lloyd? What happened?" Crystal asked
"You passed out from too much blood loss." Lloyd explained,
"Ah Miss Brookestone. Wonderful to see you awake." The nurse said as she answered to check up on Crystal, "Are you feeling alright?"
"I think. I have a slight headache but nothing serious." Crystal replied with her voice barely audible for she felt extremely weak,
"Headaches are all natural after what you've been through." the nurse explained as she did all the check ups, "I'll tell the doctor that you have awoken." She said and left the room.
"Lloyd, are…are you mad at me?" Crystal asked after the nurse left the room,
"Mad at you? Why would I been mad?" Lloyd asked, full of confusion,
"You kept on telling not to cut and look at what I did." Crystal explained, not wanting to make eye contact with her boyfriend,
"Crystal. Yes I told you not to cut and yes you kept on going but I know that you'll stop. No I didn't believe that you would stop straight away because it takes time to stop a bad habit and you will get there." Lloyd explained, holding his girlfriend close.
"Shame that it had to go to this length to realise." Crystal sighed.
They talked for a little bit more with Lloyd trying to cheer up Crystal until the doctor came in.
"Hello Miss Brookestone." the doctor greeted as he walked in
"Hello." Crystal greeted back,
"Well based on your results, I'm afraid that you'll have to stay here for 2 nights for you lost a lot of blood and before that, you hadn't been eating properly so it will take a little bit more time for your body to heal." the doctor explained
"Ok." Crystal replied and the doctor left for the nurse had done the check up earlier.
Soon Lloyd had to go back home,
"I'll see you tomorrow." Lloyd stated as he stood up,
"Bye and Lloyd, thanks for being there." Crystal said with a faint smile that made Lloyd happy for it has been ages since Crystal had smiled and seeing her smile made Lloyd's day, even if it was a faint smile,
"Hey, I'll always be there for you, no matter what." Lloyd replied as he went in for a kiss.
They kissed, said their good-byes and Lloyd headed back to the temple.
When Lloyd got back to the temple, he went to the games room where Kai, Nya, Jay and Zane were playing video games and Skylor was also visiting.
"Hey Lloyd." Nya said,
"Hey." Lloyd replied
"How's Crystal going?" Kai asked
"She woke up but she needs to stay there for the next 2 nights." Lloyd explained,
"At least she's awake." Skylor stated
"Yeah." The others agreed.
4 days later, Crystal returned back to the temple and it was morning, Crystal left her room and headed to the kitchen for some reason she decided to finally take her turn on the dishes. She went to start the dishes but the soapy water stung her wrists and Kai and Zane walked in,
"Whoa whoa whoa Crystal. You're off all chores until you've healed. Ok." Kai instructed
"Ok." Crystal said quietly and started to head to the doorway when,
"Stop. Fridge. Pink container. Eat it." Kai instructed
"I'll grab it later." Crystal said quietly for she wasn't in the mood to eat,
"Zane." Kai said and Zane froze the doorway before Crystal could get trough,
"Zane!" Crystal said,
"I would highly suggest you grab the food." Zane said,
"Fine." Crystal sighed and grabbed the pink container out of the fridge and Kai melted the ice that well blocking the doorway and Crystal went down the hall to the games room but she stopped at Cole's room. On Cole's door there was a sign that read 'Keep Out!' and underneath in Spanish it also read 'unless you're Crystal' and Crystal stood there, looking at the door for a bit before turning the doorknob, opening the door slowly and slowly walked in.
The walls were painted black and there were all sorts of things pined on the walls from posters of his favourite bands, photos of the ninja group, his family and photos of just him and Crystal and his drawings. His room was a mess with clothes spread out on the floor and his bed was messy but Crystal didn't mind, as she wandered around the room until she got to his desk where were a few more drawings including one of Crystal with the words 'My Amazing, Wonderful Sister' stretched a cross the top and bottom. She found his favourite hoodie and for some reason, she decided to put it on and when she did, she felt safe and secure like Cole was giving her a great big hug and it still smelt like Cole which made her feel even more safe. She left the room, still wearing Cole's hoddie, and went to the games room, on the way noticing that her doorway was frozen so she couldn't enter.
She entered the games room to find Jay, Nya and Lloyd playing video games and the round just ended as Crystal entered.
"Hey Crystal." Nya greeted,
"Hey." Crystal said back,
"Hey isn't that Cole's hoodie?" Jay asked, recognising the hoodie for Cole wore that one whenever he could,
"Yeah." Crystal replied, putting the hood over her head and took a seat with Lloyd and cuddled up to him as he wrapped his arm around her.
Soon Zane and Kai entered the games room,
"Zane." Crystal said,
"Yes Crystal." Zane replied
"Explain why in Ninjago is my door frozen up." Crystal said,
"Kai requested that I do that." Zane explained,
"Ok…Kai?" Crystal said,
"You have a day's ban on your room." Kai explained,
"And who gives you the authority to do that?" Crystal questioned,
"Me." Kai answered and took a spare controller to play the next round,
"In that case…" Crystal said as she grabbed the last controller and sat in the remaining spot,
"Are you sure about that because I rule this game? No one has ever beaten me in this game…ever." Kai said, glad that she was getting involved in things,
"And I can beat you without even trying." Crystal said,
"OH SNAP! The master of fire just got burnt!" Jay called and everyone but Kai laughed,
"We'll see who's laughing when I win." Kai said,
"Yeah…me." Crystal said with a smirk.
They played the round and Crystal destroyed Kai,
"And I wasn't even trying so HA!" Crystal said and Kai couldn't believe that he lost,
"Come on. For real? You're just showing off." Kai said,
"Maybe. I'm swapping out, who's next?" Crystal asked and Zane took the controller.
Crystal looked at the pink container and out of curiosity, she opened it and inside was a piece of cake.
'Cake? CAKE? Out of all the foods in the world, it had to be cake. Cole's favourite.' Crystal thought and turned her attention back to the game and un-subconsciously eating the cake, piece by piece and when Lloyd saw that she was eating, he couldn't help but to smile.
While the round was playing, Crystal wasn't done with messing with Kai,
"Jay, use the shield instead of the 2nd sword." Crystal pointed out and Jay did so and ended up beating Kai,
"Crystal!" Kai called and looked back angrily at Crystal who just smirked,
"Pay back for telling Zane to freeze up my room." Crystal said and Kai turned back and smiled a bit for he saw that Crystal had eaten about ½ of the cake.
Later they went out to train except for Crystal who stretched for Zane told her that would be the wiser choice for she hadn't trained in a while and had just came out of hospital.
"Is it just me or is still really weird not having Cole around?" Jay asked,
"Yeah, you're not the only one." Kai agreed,
"How do you think Crystal feels, she was closer to him than anything." Nya stated,
"Yeah. It's one thing to become an orphan but it's another thing to become an orphan and losing your only sibling." Kai added,
"At least she has us." Zane stated and the others agreed.
Later that evening, Crystal was wandering around the temple for her room was still frozen, so for no reason, she went back into Cole's room, still wearing his hoodie, sat on his bed and went through his sketchbook, looking at every drawing he ever done. Some of them were of flowers and animals and others were more gory and usually made Crystal cringe but for once, she didn't mind them. She also stumbled across other drawings of people from family members, enemies and the ninja group. She went through the book, carefully examining each and every detail, she smiled for each of these drawings, were who Cole was: flowers and animals for his sweet, gentle and kind side, gory ones for his tough side, family for the people he grew up with, enemies for people who he wasn't afraid of and the ninja group for the people he called his brothers and sisters and Sensei. When she finished going through the book, she closed it and gave it a hug for it felt like she was hugging her brother. She placed the book back where she found it and head to the doorway where she found Lloyd looking in at her,
"I just miss him more than anything." Crystal simply said,
"I know, we all do but we all know you miss him most." Lloyd said softly, giving his girlfriend a hug as a tear ran down her face, "Dinner's ready if you're hungry." He added,
"Yeah." Crystal replied and Lloyd was so happy when she said that but didn't show much of it but Crystal could feel it with the help of her powers.
Crystal and Lloyd walked into the dinning room and the others were happy to see Crystal there. Tonight they were having roast lamb with mashed potatoes, gravy and roasted veggies. They helped themselves to the meal, with Crystal having the least for her apatite wasn't that great as a result of her not eating before, and afterwards, went to the games room to watch a movie. Tonight was Nya's turn to choose a movie and offered Crystal her choice for she hasn't chosen for a while but Crystal declined. Nya selected the movie 'Liar Liar'. The movie played through and afterwards, Kai melted the ice that was blocking Crystal's room and they all went to sleep.