Winx Club sad AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)
"I did a little while ago…while Miss Griffin was talking…there's no use in me opening them anymore…I'm blind now."
The assembled teachers stared at the red head for a second after she had said the last bit so uncaringly, as if she wasn't really concerned with her eyesight…or lack thereof.
"I-I'm sorry Miss Bloom. If-If I was a little faster in getting to you, you might still have your sight." Griselda said swallowing thickly as tears built up in her eyes, believing it to be her fault the young woman was now blind.
"Nah it's not your fault Miss Griselda. A few hours here or there wouldn't have made any difference, I'm just happy one of you actually came and saved me." Bloom said smiling over at Griselda as she waved the womans apology off dismissively.
"W-Why do you say that Miss Bloom?" Faragonda asked swallowing thickly as she stared at the young woman on the bed.
"I've been chained up in my room with the barbed wire in my eyes ever since the day I got back to earth. Someone rescuing me a few hours earlier wouldn't have made any difference for my eyesight." Bloom said shrugging this off easily, while DuFour sat on the bed next to her heavily.
"S-Since the day you got back?" DuFour asked gulping audibly as she gently held one of the red heads hands.
"Yes ma'am." Bloom said nodding her head while Griffin had another question on her mind.
"H-How can you shrug something like this off so easily?! What those people did was worse than what some of the worst criminals in the Omega dimension did!" Griffin demanded causing Bloom to flinch slightly at her tone of voice.
"I can shrug this off easily because I've had worse happen to me before." Bloom said completely honest and completely blunt, causing Faragonda and Ophelia to flinch at that while the others were confused.
"What could have happ-" Griffin was cut off by a touch to her arm from her wife.
"Her scan Griff…it's almost four feet of nothing but red and black." Faragonda said softly, causing Griffin's mouth to snap shut while Griselda, Palladium, and DuFour looked absolutely horrified at this. Black and red were two of the absolute worst colors than could show up on a medical scan the only color that was worse than them was-
"A-And the other foot was pur-pure red." Faragonda said swallowing slightly and causing Griselda's eyes to water slightly. A full foot of pure red…not even prisoners of war who are tortured for information have pure red show up on their scans more often than not.
"….Aaaaaand I'm lost." Bloom said drawing out the 'A' in and as she merely sat there looking between the people without opening her eyes.
"Black and red are the second worst colors a person could have on their medical scan…pure red is the worst. Miss Bloom prisoners of war who were tortured don't even have pure red on their scans, much less a foot of it!" DuFour quickly explained to the clueless red head.
"…Joy something else that makes me different." Bloom said blandly after a minute of silence.
"Wh-why don't you open your eyes and I'll see what I can do to heal them?" Faragonda asked causing Bloom to sigh slightly.
"Alright if you want to see them so bad." Bloom said opening her eyes and causing Griselda to nearly fall out of the chair in shock and horror, and the others weren't much better. Faragonda looked ready to hurl, Palladium already had hurled, Griffin wasn't able to look at them for more than a second, DuFour was crying silently as she stared at Blooms eyes and Ophelia quickly joined Palladium in hurling in the trashcan.
Where Bloom's expressive cyan blue orbs had been…were now two glazed over white balls with holes visible in them where the pupils had once been and near the outer edges of the eyes. The holes weren't deep…but they weren't bleeding or covered up either so you could actually see inside of Blooms eyes.
"I think I'm going to be sick." Griselda muttered covering her mouth with her hand as her stomach churned at the sight.
"I figured they'd be bad. Usually my healing power heals up all of my wounds but if it can't or doesn't heal my eyes…" Bloom said closing her eyes and sighing as she trailed off.
"H-How will you get around the school without being able to see?" Faragonda asked gulping down her own urge to vomit as she looked at the red head's now, thankfully, closed eyes.
"Easy I'll use my magic like a sonar. I can already tell one person from another by their scent so it's only inanimate objects I gotta worry about." Bloom said with a shrug of her shoulders at the rather simple, to her, solution.
"I-I suppose that works. W-Would like for me to wrap some bandages around your eyes?" Faragonda asked causing Bloom to look in her direction slightly before nodding.
"Yes please, that way I don't cause anyone else to puke at the sight of them." Bloom said causing Palladium and Ophelia to wince slightly while Faragonda merely nodded and wrapped a roll of hastily summoned bandages around Bloom's head to hide her eyes from view.
"Hey think of it like this…the next idiot that attacks me or the school will be in for a nasty shock." Bloom said trying to lighten the tense atmosphere as she grinned slightly.
"Huh?" Griffin asked raising an eyebrow at the red head who couldn't see it…but could guess that she did it. The grin Bloom gave in response to this made Griffin wonder why the red head wasn't a witch.
"Well look at it this way. In my first year…Trix and Army of Decay attack…second year, Darkar and Trix who knows what'll happen this year…but they won't expect a blind fairy to be able to fight…so I'll have the advantage of surprise on my side should I or the school be attacked this year.
