Hummingbird- Hoping you like this chapter, I am all better now and it's all thanks to the holiday season spirit. hic

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"That is impossible!!" 2D yelled, "How we found her, she was unconscious! Bleeding!"

"She's just asleep," the nurse was backing away a bit, "Very deeply asleep, and though the blood might be hers, there are no cuts!"

Murdoc shook his head.

"I'll show you!" the nurse put down Noodle's files and indignantly ran a bowl of water from the tap. Fetching a sponge from below the sink, she dabbed the wet sponge on one of Noodle's arms.

Crimson water slipped away off her arm. Where there should have been deep, bleeding gashes, there was perfectly healed fair skin.

Noodle's eyes flickered and opened. Sensing that it was a conversation she needed to hear, she closed her eyes again and pretended to be asleep.

"My God," Russel fell to his knees, "It's a miracle."

Murdoc's jaw dropped.

2D took Noodle's hand and then took the bowl and sponge.

"You see?" the nurse folded her arms while 2D wiped away the blood.

"Awright, you've proved your point, now go!" Murdoc commanded.

The nurse snatched up her files, placed them in the folder attached to the end of Noodle's bed and left.

"This is impossible," Russ said again.

"It's not, because it's happened. And we won't know how bad it was until she tells us," Murdoc grumbled, and left, muttering something about needing a drink.

"For once," Russel said, standing up from the chair in the corner, "he's right. I'm going too. You comin'?"

"Nah," 2D shook his head, "I wanna be here when she wakes up."

For the next hour or so, Noodle let 2D move her and wash what he could. Her arms, face and neck. He spoke to her gently as he did, telling her stupid things like how he remembered silly times when they were mucking about. And he said important things, too. He felt like it could be the only time he could say them.

"But Noodle, when I untied that rope and watched you float away, I realised what I had done. I wanted you back, Noods, because..." he paused for a second and reached for a towel that was hung on the back of the chair, "Because I realised I can't live without you."

He said nothing more as he dried off where he had washed.

After a while the nurse came back.

"Still not awake?" she asked, taking Noodle's pulse

2D shook his head, putting the towel back on the chair.

"Do you want to try and wake her?"

2D leaned over Noodle and stroked her hair.

"Sweetheart?" he called, slightly louder than normal speech, "You there?"

Noodle realised it was time to 'wake up' and obediently opened her eyes, blinking a few times to give the impression of sleep.

"2D?" she asked.

She didn't have to fake the quietness of her voice. She hadn't spoken in hours and her throat was tingling. She put her hand to her neck, running a finger over it. She was sure that…

"It hit my throat, it cut it so deeply. I thought… I knew…" she slowed.

"What hit your throat, darling?" she nurse walked forward.

Noodle stared up at her.

"This could be serious, what hit your throat, Noodle?" the nurse asked again.

"Something…" Noodle's hand began to shake slightly and so she pressed it into the sheets.

There was a pause.

"Noodle, don't make me get angry, this could kill you if you don't tell me, what hit your throat?"

"A piece of the windmill. A piece of glass. It was sharp, I fell and began to remember. Then they put the bomb down as well and…"

She stopped.

The nurse took a step back.

"Find out exactly what happened in order of events. This was serious. Was anyone ever out to get her?" the nurse turned to 2D. She was white.

"We're the Gorillaz. Everyone's out to get us somedays," Murdoc entered again with Russel.

The nurse left, muttering about conspiracies and, "Seen bad things before, but this?? Impossible, impossible!" shaking her head.

There was an uneasy silence as Murdoc sat down on a chair and Russ leant up against a wall. Noodle checked each of their faces.

"We need to talk," Murdoc motioned to the guys and left. They followed.

Noodle was annoyed, so she pricked up her ears. No word would be left unscrutinised, not today.

"Like the nurse said, we need to find out what happened from start to finish. She said something about a bomb as well, I mean, this is bad."

"I really don't know where you got that notion from, dullard."

It was hard to make out who was saying what, but accents and the way they said things gave it away.

"One of us needs to go back to the site, chances are the people who did this are checking it over to make sure she's dead."

That could have been Russ.

"Good idea."

Yes, that was 2D, agreeing as always.

"You can't come, shit-face!"

No guesses.

"Why not! I want to help find who did this to her!"

"You're as much responsible as the ones who actually shot the bullets and dropped the bomb! If YOU had convinced her to stay, you should have come and got one of us, what in Satan's name possessed you to put her life at stake!?"

"STOP BLAMING HIM!"

Noodle sighed. This was one of the reasons she had wanted to leave. It could have all been fine if she had left silently. They could have got another, better guitarist. She ould have left o chill somewhere nice. She had had her eye on the Maldives for a while. White sands, azure skies, clear seas and blazing sunshine. No worries at all. Then she could travel back to Osaka and find out some more things about her past. Knowing you were shipped to somewhere was fine, but there had been some questions.

Now she had to go straight back no matter what. It was time to travel, as sson as they let her out of this hospital. Maybe she would have to do it alone, she couldn't tell anyone, not even 2D. she knew he would miss her, but she had to find this out.

She realised she hadn't been listening to the rest of the boys conversation, but the outcome was obvious.

"Noodle?" 2D waved a hand in front of her distant expression.

She snapped back to reality. 2D jumped. Her eyes had been somewhere else, but with a turn of the head they were piercing daggers.

"Woah, angel!" he nearly fell backwards, "What have I done?"

"Don't call me angel."

There was a troubled silence.

"Why not?"

Noodle shook her head, fighting off any kind of emotion, there was no time for that now.

"Okay, erm… anyway, Murdoc and Russel have gone back to the site."

"Without me?!" her voice didn't need to shout to have enough anger for every person in pain in the world.

"Well you can't go!" 2D tried to defend himself.

"Don't try and back up your side of the argument! You're so stupid sometimes! They can't go back, they'll be killed you retardant fucker!"

Noodle slapped a hand to her mouth. She had never cursed out loud before. 2D sat down on the plastic chair by her bed, absolutely unbelieving. His head dropped, and who it rose again, his large black eyed were full of tears.

"I never knew you could be a bitch. I thought you were above that. I believed that you were better."

He got up and left. Noodle felt herself beginning to cry as well.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I just care too much to let them die!"

2D snapped around.

"That's what I should have done, Noodle! I cared too much to let you go as well!!"

He walked away, leaving Noodle with hot tears streaming down her cold face. she curled up and hid her head.

"What have I done?" she whispered after a while.

A thought popped into her head and she sat up in a split-second. She grabbed her clothes and dressed as quickly as she could, even thought they were soaked in half-dried blood and had large tears in them. her boots were in tatters but the zips held it together long enough for her to pull them on.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, I am FINE," she told her reflection in the mirror above the sink. Then she ran out of the hospital and into the car park. Listening to the world around. She knew exactly where to go, all she had to do was run.

You think running, okay? Contraction and relaxation of muscles in limbs. Not for Noodle anymore. A super-human purple haired streak flashed down motorways and across fields, trying to get somewhere damn important.

"Noodle, I'm sorry too," 2D announced, pulling the curtain back.

There was no one there.

A despairing scream echoed round the hospital. From as far away as Noodle already was, she heard it.

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