A/N: Sorry about the break again a lot of stuff has been happening at my job so here you go. Enjoy and if you do follow it.
Chapter 7: Breakdown.
I opened my eyes as I felt myself fall backwards and with a sudden thud I saw myself looking up at Sokka.
"Hey how's she doin?" I groaned and sat myself back up.
"It's been almost 5 hours of non-stop crying and she hasn't passed out yet. I'm really surprised usually she cries herself asleep in an hour tops." Sokka looked extremely exhausted and wobbled with every step as he headed towards the kitchen.
I looked to my right but no one was there, before I could ask I heard Kayna from the kitchen.
"Aura took her into the living room, we tried to move you but you wouldn't budge." Her voice was raspy and she coughed.
"It's going to be alright aunt Kayna you've got my word, I'll make sure of it." I grunted as I forced myself to my feet and struggled to maintain my balance. One leg at a time I forced myself to step as I tried to keep my right knee from giving out on me.
I looked into the room and followed the crying till I found Sky curled up on the corner of the bottom bunk. As I made it to the bunks my legs gave out on me and I hit the floor with a horrible crack followed by a loud pop.
I sat on the floor and sighed. "And I just rolled my ankle and probably broke my foot. Good thing the nerves are still fried." I chuckled then looked back towards the bed only to see Sky reaching for me.
"Akira your leg!" She shouted. "MOM CALL AN AMBULANCE!"
I looked at her worried face and smiled. "Finally you stopped crying that's good." I could see her expression change to one of confusion.
"What are you-" She stopped herself and wiped her eyes. "You idiot! Did you do that just so I would stop?" She lifted her fist like she was going to hit me.
I heard footsteps and someone slam into the door frame. I looked back to see a stunned Sokka and Kayna.
"It wasn't how I meant to do it but I got her to stop crying." I rubbed the back of my head and sighed. "And I'm pretty sure I broke my foot and dislocated my ankle."
I sat there with my leg propped up as we waited for the ambulance to come. I was content with staying silent because I had four women who were all but furious with me and Sokka kept his distance from the living room.
"You reckless dumbass." Aura mumbled.
"Complete moron." Hope growled.
"Idiot." Kayna said flatly.
"Stupid." Sky laughed.
"There were better ways for you to get to her but nope you had to try and walk on your own. Your wheelchair was barely a foot outside the door." Aura leaned in and poked my chest. Hope flicked my forehead and Kayna sighed.
"At least Sky is feeling better right." Sokka pitched in from the dining room table.
"You shut up." Kayna, Aura and Hope all shouted.
"He's right though, I'm doing much better now I don't feel depressed, and right now I'm just angry. Cause someone lacks proper thought processing and is stubborn as a polar bear dog." Sky leaned back on the couch and stared at me.
I felt like I was burning alive with how intense their stares were. I tried my best to ignore them for the moment and I looked over to where Sokka was and gave him a pleading look. He shook his head and hurried out of my line of sight.
'Oh that traitor.' I thought and looked back at my foot which had swelled up and was starting to turn purple. "Shit that looks bad." I thought aloud.
"Bad? No that looks horrible! We were going to do so quick healing before we drove you to the hospital but when I called the hospital they told me not to do anything except keep the leg elevated and wait for them." Kayna looked like she was about to explode.
"Aunt Kayna don't worry I can't even feel it so it's not even a big-" I stopped as she shot me an even more intense look. "I uh mean yeah I'm so stupid my wheelchair was right there and uh." I looked down and chuckled.
I heard a knock at the door and went to stand up to get it.
"Don't you even think about it!" Kayna snapped at me and hurried to the door.
"Oh right for a second I forgot about my leg." I looked at Aura who huffed and glared.
I looked back at my aunt and the two people who came in the house and smiled.
"Simon! Hey I thought you were just a nurse I didn't know you were allowed to come on ambulance calls." I perked up then quieted down. "Jolie's not here too is she?"
Simon laughed and leaned down to lift me onto a stretcher. "No son she aint and we are a little under staffed at the moment and I am a trained EMT as well as a nurse." He sat me on the cart and repositioned my leg. He took a look at my ankle and grabbed it and twisted sharply. I felt and heard a gruesome pop and everyone froze.
There was silence for a couple seconds after that before anyone spoke. I was the first one to break the silence. "OK I almost felt everything on that ha-ha. I could feel my ankle pop back into place, hell everyone heard it but I mean I almost actually felt it."
"Yup and that's another reason why they sent me because I gots the magic hands son." Simon laughed and wheeled me out without another word. Everyone else except the other person that Simon came in with was still froze in place. They slid me into the back of the ambulance and were about to shut the doors when Aura appeared and jumped in with me. Simon smiled and shut the doors.
A short awkwardly silent trip later.
"Not even two days and you are already back in here?"
"Well hey to you too Jolie." I snickered. "Sorry but Roku can't make it today." I said with a laugh. She looked at me as if I had just slapped her and motioned for Simon to wheel me into a room. Once the door shut we both busted up laughing while Aura stood very confused.
"What does my dad have to do with that nurse?" She said skeptically as she walked to the chair next to the window and looked out at the rain.
"Not a damn thing darlin and that's what's so damn funny about it." Simon laughed even harder. It was a couple minutes before we calmed down and right as we stopped laughing the door opened and a young woman in a white lab coat stepped in.
"Hey Suki how's it going?" He grinned.
"Well getting called in at 3 in the morning on my day off isn't something I'm too fond of but when they told me it was him again I couldn't say no. Damn that Roku and his stupid favors. He'll be buying my lunch for the next week for this." The doctor looked like she was about to fall asleep at any moment. "Simon could you-"
"Say no more Suki I got you just give me a moment." He said with a smile and hurried out of the room. She walked over to the chair Simon was sitting in and sat down. She looked at me with a blank expression and sighed.
"I can't believe it. I fixed you up almost good as new not even a week ago and now... Ugh." She grabbed my foot and started to squeeze here and there feeling for where I broke it. "Ah there it is, feels like a clean break just above the arch of the foot."
"You can tell just by squeezing my foot? I thought I had to get an x-ray or something." I leaned forward. "What's your secret?" I whispered.
"Well for starters steep drop from one part of the bone to the next is a dead giveaway and the fact that the bone is pushing out on your skin." She raised an eyebrow and sighed. "Let me guess you thought I had some super healing power or something?"
I nodded and sat back looking down at my leg. "So it's going to be alright?"
"As long as you don't do anything stupid and hurt yourself again." Suki grabbed my foot and reset my bone with a crack. "This time we are going to put a cast on your whole leg and reinforce it with some metal."
"That probably won't stop him." Aura spoke up from the window. "He cares too much about other people he didn't even care that he messed his leg up again because he was trying to make sure his cousin wasn't going to hurt herself again."
Suki perked up and glared at me. "First of all, just don't be an idiot. Second you can still help people and third why was she planning on hurting herself."
Aura turned back to the window and I pulled at my shirt collar and scratched my scar. "It's pretty complicated." Suki just glared even harder. The door opened and Simon handed Suki her coffee.
"What's goin on in here now?" He swung an extra chair to the edge of my bed and sat resting his arms on the back again.
"Akira was just about to tell me why his cousin was planning on hurting herself, RIGHT?" She raised her voice at the end and I gulped.
"Oh that's what this is about? Don't you worry I'll have a talk with her about the blood bending and what not." As soon as Simon said that everyone froze and looked at him. "What you didn't think that I couldn't sense her blood bending power as a blood bender myself?"