A/N: Once again I lost track of time and when I realized it this chapter was almost 4000 words long. I couldn't find a great spot to split it so I chose a decent one. Well once again enjoy.
We both flinched and I stepped back but instead she hugged him.
"You dummy if the doctor says you should ude a wheel chair you use it. End of discusion. Consider it a personal favor to me. The faster you heal the faster you can get back to working at the shop." She pulled away and a single tear rolled from her cheek.
Meeks sniffled and looked at her. "You're not mad at me for not being able to protect the shop?" She scoffed and cupped his face.
"Meeks, Tarlo told me how you fought off 5 benders the first time and the second time managed to take out 8 of them before they took you done." She placed her forhead to his. "You did fantastic and next time anything like that happens I know you can protect the shop."
Meeks was now crying and Asami held him to her chest as he sobbed. After a minute or so I put my hand on his shoulder and pulled him back. I stepped beside Asami and looked him in the eyes.
"Meeks when you get better come visit me. I will spar with you so you can get more expirience fighting benders. Also I will show you how to try and predict what they are going to bend at you. Keep in mind its just a concept, I havent been able to utilize it in real-life fights." Meeks wiped his tears and nodded.
"Ok I will. Now where is a wheel chair and maybe somemore painkillers." His whole body shook and I caught his as he began to fall. He fliched at contact and tensed up. I looked at Asami and she motioned to the ladies who then sped off. Asami led me to a room and had me place him on the bed.
Once I set him down I looked at his bandages and they were soaked with blood. Soon a woman walked in wearing a long white coat and she began examining him.
"So doc how bad is it?" Asami walked around the bed and grabbed Meeks' hand. The doctor looked up after removing his bandages.
"Almost all of his wounds re-opened and he lost quite a bit of blood. This kid is strong. That would have put much stronger men in bed for a week minimum." She shook her head and began rewrapping him. "We dont have a healer availible right now so it going to take a few days before he can move around."
I leaned in and looked at her. "I know a healer." She spun around and stood, looking me in my eyes.
"Good bring them here immediately." I scratched my head and took a step back.
"Well I would but Im actually lost and I dont know where the room I was in is." I smiled and laughed. Just then Shade jumped off of my shoulder and ran out of the room. I turned and began chasing her, she ran quickly and turned the corners sharply. I had to have run into 3 corners and bump into a couple unoccupied stretchers. I turned one last corner and saw Shade in Jinoras arms and Rina attempting to pet her but each time she moved her hand closer Shade pushed it away.
"Hey Sai-Ryu you ran out so quick we had no chance to see how you were." Jinora scratched Shade behind her ears causing her to purr loudly.
"Yeah you almost knocked me over and by the way where is my boyfriend? I miss him." Rina walked over and poked me in the chest. "And why doesnt your cat like me." Shade jumped out of Jinoras arms and ran inbetween Rina and myself and began hissing.
I bent down and picked her up. "Maybe because you are aggressive when interacting with me and she take it as a threat." Rina stepped back and looked down.
"I cant help it thats how I act to my friends Im not the greatest with expressing emotions." I smiled and walked over and grabbed her hand and placed it on Shades head. Shade tensed up but I began petting her with Rinas hand until she started purring.
"Now you can hold her." I placed Shade in Rinas arms and Shade snugled into her.
"Thanks Sai-Ryu I really wanted to hold her." I nodded and remembered what I wanted to ask.
"Oh hey Rina you think you could help heal Meeks right now. He really over did it and the hospitals healers are unavailible and I kinda offered your services." I shot her a half smile and put my thumbs up. She sighed and laughed.
"As payment for this." She said as she raised Shade up alittle and scratched her head. "I will do it. Well lead on." I spun around and started walking as they followed me. We walked for a minute before I stopped and spun around to face them.
"You're lost right?" Jinora said and I nodded. She put her hands on her hips. "What are we going to do with you? You need to learn this stuff or you will always get lost." I nodded and gestures for her to take the lead.
She led us to the nurses station that I had been to with Meeks just minutes before. I spaced out and when I turned back Jinora was pulling me towards a room. We entered and Asami sat there talking to the doctor as Meeks slept.
"I brought her." I said cheerfully to which Asami replied.
"More like you got lost and Jinora had to lead you back here." I looked at her and tried to think of something to say back but nothing came to mind so I just nodded.
The doctor stood and walked over to Rina. "My my my Katerina how you have grown. When this young man told me he knew a healer I did not expect it to be you I thought you were still in the southern water tribe with your mother." Rina looked and the woman and raised an eyebrow.
"Im sorry but do I know you?" The doctor laughed.
"I guess you dont remember me but I was once dated your mother. It was a couple of years after you were born and your father had died. Now that I think about it you were too young to remember me." She turned back to Meeks. "Well we can catch up later for now could you heal him alittle bit?"
Rina handed Shade back to me and walked over and examined him. She cracked her knuckles and held her hand out and the docter put a bolw of water in it. Rina began bending it and healing Meeks.
Over an hour later she sat back and yawned. "Wow he was really messed up. That took all I had but he still needs some healing." Rina stood and popped her back.
"Thank you Rina I really appreciate it." Asami walked over and hugged her.
"Hey now nothing is free. I think now you own me a bowl of ramen." Rina joked as she tightened the hug. My stomach growled and I looked down at Shade as her stomach growled too. I looked up to see all four women in the room staring at me.
"What? I havent eaten anything all day and all Shade had was one small piece of fish." I said defensively.
Jinora walked up and grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the room. "It is passed dinnertime so why dont we go get some food?" I looked back at the room. "Oh they will be fine come on."
"What about Hinako?" I asked worried about my brother.
"Oh he told ud he would be back home in the morning. Something about he had something he had to do." She grabbed my hand and lead me out of the hospital. We walked down the street till we came up on a small ramen cart. We sat and ordered and when the food was up I set Shade on the counter.
"Hey buddy you have to get your cat off the counter. I got a business to run and I dont think customers would like to eat at a place that lets animals walk where I serve the food." The owner had a point so I put Shade back into my shirt.
"Sorry about that could I get a small one to go when we leave?" I felt bad for not feeding Shade with me but I I could let her eat after we left. He nodded and started preping a small bowl. Jinora sighed and played with her food.
"Whats wrong?" I leaned in and checked her temperature. She grabbed my hand and brought it to the counter and turned to look at me.
"Its about the fight with the Triple Threats you guys had. Lin told me every single person that got frozen in the water had severe broken bones. Some of them will take years to heal even if they use a healer. One guy is paralysed from the waist down." She looked back at the counter. "Hinako didnt want to kill them but he did want to make them suffer are you Ok with what he did?"
I pulled my hand away and leaned against the counter. "Well Hinako can get very emotional. Taking people away from their families for selfish reasons is something that he cant turn away from. We were orphans and when Wan found us we finally had a family. We expirienced being alone and we dont want anyone to go through that." I took a bite of ramen and looked back at her.
"We both handle our emotions in a fight differently, I guess when that guy tried to kill Mahi Hinako lost it for a second. The fact that they are still alive is because maybe subconsiously he thinks that even if people are bad they dont deserve death. Thats where we differ though If you are evil, like cold-blooded evil, I will kill you where you stand inorder to prevent you from being able to hurt others." I continued eating my ramen.
"Air nomads believe all life is sacred and to an extent I believe that too. I am not a vegitarian like my father or my grandpa Aang. In order to survive sacrifices need to be made regardless of how you live your life. If someone causes nothing but death and destruction I think they deserve to be locked away forever." She said as I finished my ramen and leaned back.
"Does that include Varrick?" I said wondering myself.
"No Varrick may cause trouble but he doesnt do it to be evil, He does it for the money. Not selfishly though Varrick has donated more than half of his money to charities all around the city and he has single-handedly funded the repairs that were caused by what he has done." She fineshed her ramen and stood. I pulled my money out and handed it to her.
"How much will it be for the two bowls plus the takeaway one?" The man turned to us and smiled.
"I over heard your conversation and I just want to thank you for saving my brother. He was taken hostage by the Triads." He bowed and shook my hand. "For you free of charge."
I smiled. "You are welcome but you do not need to thank me and it would hurt my pride as a warrior to accept your meal without some sort of payment regardless of who I saved. So please let me pay for the meal." I looked at him and waited. He thought for a moment and looked back at me.
"If thats how you feel 50% off for life. I will accept no more." He stuck out his hand and I shook it.
"Perfect. Jinora could you put how ever much that is in my hand?" I smiled and stuck my hand out to her. She flicked through the money and handed me some bills which I relayed to the owner. Jinora then handed me the rest of my money which I put back in my pocket. That man looked at me confused.
"Im new here and I dont know how to use money I have never had to use it before." I scratched my head and we both laughed. I grabbed the take home bowl and walked off waving.