A/N: Heyyy guys so not much really happens in this chapter, kinda fluff and maybe a little bit of angst at the end
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Chapter 20: Forever is composed of nows
Simon's POV
His eyelids felt heavy and it took a lot of strength just to lift them. When he did all he could see was white. It surrounded his blurry vision encasing him in endless white. "Am I dead?" He asks his voice sounding hoarse and pain flared through his throat as he spoke.
Then there's a laugh, or should I say a pair of them, as two very familiar voices drift in his brain. "What do you think?" Katniss asks sarcastically and then Izzy snorts at Katniss' response. His vision returns to a sort of normality and he notices he is in a hospital room and in the clothes he came to the hospital in. Then like that all the memories and emotions come flooding back to him in a tidal wave which makes him shiver in disgust and horror.
"Well, since you two are here I'm either alive or in hell," Simon says giving a ghost of a smile as the two girls scoff "Yeah, we knew we were going there anyway," Izzy says with a smile but Simon could tell she was hiding her true emotions.
"How long have I been out?" Simon said now turning serious. Katniss looks at him with sympathy and says "Only a few of hours, it's like 6 in the morning now," Simon sighs at this and Izzy continues on from Katniss "You kind of went a bit mental: shouting at yourself, the doctors tried to calm you down but you seemed to be getting angrier so the doctors had to sedate you for a while and check your mental stability,"
Simon wasn't shocked to hear this as he remembered the voice that caused the hysterics but he was a bit surprised to hear other people had to hold him down; he didn't know anyone had come or, in fact, that anyone was touching him, okay more like forcing him.
"Have you two been here all that time?" Simon asked curiously and Izzy and Katniss gave each other a sheepish look. "Well" Katniss started but she paused as if not knowing what to say. Izzy continued on from Katniss and said "Yeah, I mean they wouldn't let anyone else in, so we promised the others, especially Clary, that we would stay with you like we did for Cris," Izzy looked saddened by what she said, Katniss seemed to notice this as well and put a comforting hand on her back.
"Well, what we would've done for Cris if they hadn't sent us out," Izzy continued she still looked sad but now she was looking expectantly towards Simon. "What?" he questioned but he already knew what they wanted to know; how could he tell them, should he? I mean they don't seem like they've heard any news about her; especially the news that she's dead. SHE'S NOT DEAD! He reminded himself but it was true it didn't seem like they had any news on her current condition.
Simon decided to change the subject and asked "How did your parents let you stay?" Simon was genuinely curious as Maryse and Robert (Izzy's parents) and Mrs Everdeen (Katniss' mum; Simon still thought it was weird how none of them seemed to know her first name) even let them stay overnight, in a hospital.
Izzy and Katniss shared a look as if to decide who was going to speak first and then Izzy spoke "Well, my mum actually thinks I'm staying round your house and your mum thinks you're at my house because we didn't know whether she would want to know about this or more importantly whether you would want to tell her," As she spoke she fiddled with her fingers looking at her lap.
Simon was grateful at this, he knew his mum would never let him see any of them again, including visiting Cris, if she found out he had an extreme panic attack and hallucinations, and Simon couldn't let that happen. He grabbed both Katniss' and Izzy's hand with his left one and said quietly "Thank you,"
They both smiled at this and Simon looked to Katniss expecting her motive, she sighed at Simon which made Simon laugh. Katniss started "I said I was round Gale's house and before you start, firstly it was the only way she would've let me off" As she said this she did hand gestures showing what numbered point she was on. "Secondly I'm not using him because one he doesn't like me like that and secondly he owed me for when he accidently shot me in the leg with an arrow,"
Izzy shook her head at this, smiling and countered "Firstly he so likes you" she said elongating the 'so'. "Secondly he's only doing it because he likes you" Katniss scoffed and Izzy's smile grew wider as she continued disproving Katniss "Thirdly, how long are you going to use that getting shot with an arrow excuse? It was ages ago, you use it a hell of a lot and it grazed you thigh only leaving you with slight bleeding from a not very deep cut"
Katniss looked at Izzy and retorted "You try being shot with an arrow," Simon smiled as he realised at this moments they resembled toddlers having an argument. Izzy looked at her perplexedly and asked "Don't you remember that time when you and Alec where fighting to see who the best archer was and then Alec shot my arm"
Katniss laughed at the memory and said "I think I won that, and you walked in front of the target; it was lucky Alec's aim was off otherwise it would have been more than a scratch on your arm," As she said this she sounded quite proud of herself.
"Hey! I only walked in front of the target to stop you to from shooting anymore; you had been shooting for like 2 hours" Izzy said faking sounding offended. Simon smiled, it was nice to have a normal conversation considering everything that had happened yesterday, that was one long eventful day!
"Alec had already pulled back, ready to shoot, he couldn't not shoot, he would have damaged the bow," Katniss defended and Izzy looked unimpressed. Izzy was about to speak to counter Katniss when Simon interrupted, "Hey, as much as I like you two having your little cat fight" Simon paused at the glares he earned from the girls but he knew they were suppressing a smile.
"When can I leave here?" he continued and both the girls looked to each and smiled. At that Simon pulled a confused face and then Katniss said "Oh yeah, you were allowed to go when you awoke, you just need to check out at the reception desk"
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" Simon almost shouted and Izzy just laughed while Katniss answered innocently "Well, we got kind of distracted," Simon shook his head, typical he thought. "But Clary brought you some new clothes for when you woke up" Izzy said with a mischievous smile.
"She wanted to be helpful in some way since she wasn't allowed to stay but I think it was more so she could rummage through your stuff" Katniss said with a smirk. Crap. "She didn't say anything, did she?" Simon managed to splutter out. "I mean about my room," he continued at an accelerated rate.
Katniss laughed and Izzy said "Well she said some interesting things about it but someone else had something better to say" Simon flopped down on his bed and muttered "First give me what Clary said,"
"Well, there was the normal amount of pictures of you with us and Clary and family blah blah blah but more interestingly, there was apparently an abundance of pictures with you and Cris" Crap! Before Simon could have anytime to die, Izzy carried on from what Katniss was saying. "But you know that wouldn't have been that bad if Jace hadn't been there with Clary,"
Izzy, to Simon's dismay, continued nevertheless, "And you know how Jace has really heightened senses" A smile was now plastered on both the girl's faces. Simon sighed "Stop dragging it out and tell me what Jace saw or heard or whatever he did with his heightened senses"
Katniss started "Well it wasn't what he could see or hear but rather what he could smell," At this point Simon was totally clueless to what they were talking about but then it dawned on him as Izzy continued "And apparently Jace could smell the faint scent of vanilla, coming from your bed"
"And who do we know who wears vanilla body spray?" Crap, they only knew one person who wore that vanilla body spray because it was extremely expensive and very hard to find: Cris. Simon paled as he realised what they were thinking. "It's not what you think?" Simon stammered.
"Uh huh, try telling that to Jace and Will" Izzy said sweetly. "Oh yeah Jace told Will and now they're both going to kill you for sleeping with their sister" Katniss said and the stood up and headed towards the door.
"Si, the only thing you could have done worse, to Jace or Will, would've been if you slept with Clary or Tessa," Izzy nodded at Katniss' comment and replied "Yeah, I mean it would have the same outcome if you slept with Cecily but we all know that wouldn't happen, because you know she's going out with my cousin" Izzy shuddered as she said it and muttered something about being related to Herondale's.
"I didn't sleep with Cris!" Simon shouted getting out of bed. Izzy and Katniss then walked out the door saying "It must have been worth it," Simon's face visibly reddened and he felt mortified. Of course he didn't sleep with Cris in the way they were thinking: he let her sleep in his bed but they didn't sleep together, Simon wouldn't have done that to her as she was in a vulnerable state at the time.
0.o.0
Once Simon had dressed in the clean clothes the girls had brought him, he walked to the front desk to sign out, this place was more like a hotel than a hospital, and hand the discharge forms in; to check he was actually allowed to leave. The hospital was quite busy for it being about 7 o'clock on a Tuesday.
He spotted Izzy and Katniss leaning up against the wall of the visiting room and as soon as they saw Simon, Izzy waltzed off out the door. Katniss sighed as Simon approached her. "Come on, Izzy's driving,"
Katniss then walked off leaving Simon to trail behind her, "Hey," he called and Katniss turned sharply, "What's wrong with you two?" Katniss scoffed and started "Izzy was already pissed at you for 'screwing Cris', her words not mine" before she could continue, a slightly horrified, Simon cut in, "We didn't do that, we didn't even kiss,"
Katniss gave a short smile before saying "I know you didn't but it's not me you have to persuade,"
Simon just stood there confused, Katniss smiled at him then started to walk around the corner to where he guessed the car was parked. Simon huffed, slightly annoyed, and ran to where Katniss was walking.
"Firstly, how did you know we didn't" He coughed then unable to speak the words, he was always quite awkward around this subject. "You know," he continued, then, realised he was making obscene hand gestures and put his arms to his sides.
Katniss scoffed "Please," she just said as if that was an answer. He saw the black Mercedes up ahead with Izzy leant up against the driver's door and refrained from running away; an angry Isabelle, or in fact any angry Lightwood, was something to be feared.
"Okay," Simon says elongating the word out of sheer awkwardness. "Anyway, secondly, what was the other reason you two were angry," As soon as Simon finishes, Katniss whirls around, almost making Simon crash into her, and slaps Simon right in the face. Immediately pain shoots up his cheeks and across his face and he covers his now red cheek with his hand and feels throbs of pain at the touch.
Now that was already something to make him flinch away but the cold hard glare that Katniss is boring in to his skull makes him step back and, partly, fear for his life. Katniss' normally warm grey eyes have turned in to steel: grey, cold, hard and shielding.
"Why didn't you just have the courage to tell us? Why did you leave it to the doctors to tell us? If it weren't for the fact that Magnus was the doctor who told us, you would be in for a whole other world of pain, believe me!" Simon stammered at this; it wasn't hard to know what she was talking about, the fact that Cris' heart stopped, he still didn't know whether she was alive but he was too afraid to ask, and he certainly believed he would have been through physical pain if it weren't for Magnus but he didn't know whether that was better than the mental anguish he was about to receive.
"Come on" she said walking towards the car with an extremely quick pace. "You either have to face two very angry teenage girls who are, let's say, extremely tempted and good at fighting, who can kill you slowly, intimately and in every way we know you fear, or you can try and find your way two miles back to your house, it's your choice,"
"Somehow I don't think it is," Simon muttered under his breath, just quite enough so that Katniss wouldn't hear him, as he walked towards the car where the two girls were waiting impatiently.
