Rocket stumbled as he landed roughly onto the concrete. He ran across to Drax and Gamora who were waiting for both him and Peter, whilst they cleaned off their weapons. They looked up as an angry Rocket stomped over to them.

"Rocket? Where is Peter?" Gamora asked

"The bloody git threw me out of the building." Rocket complained before he explained the full story of how they got attacked and how Rocket set a bomb for five minutes.

"How much longer does Peter have to get out?"
"About a minute." Rocket answered hesitantly as he and the others looked up in hopes to spot Quill. They did. They watched as he smashed through the window and then BOOM. The bomb went off. Eyes watched as Peter was sent flying at the pressure of the explosion. Hope filled their eyes as the Star-Lord turned his jet boots on, only for despair and horror to fill them as debris smashed into Peter causing him to plummet to the hard ground. They watched in surprise as Peter's plunge to the deathly coloured ground, seemed to slow down. Confusion filled them as he sort of softly slammed into the ground with a THUD. Turning around they spotted Yondu Udonta and several other Ravagers such as Kraglin. The blue skinned man seemed to have done something to slow Peter's fall. As Drax ran over and carefully craddled the Terran in his arms, Gamora went over to ask what the bloody hell they were doing here.

"Well you see girl, we happened to be flying through this planet when we heard this commotion. So like the people we are, we hovered in the air watching silently until we could work out what was going on. And when I saw my boy falling from a 60 storey building (or whatever), I had to well save him." Yondu sort of explained.

"Why would you save Peter? He has betrayed you many times."
"Yes the boy has double crossed-"
"How can someone double cross someone?" Came Drax's quiet confused question which everyone ignored.

"As I was saying the boy has double crossed us many times but he does it with no malice intentions. Plus who do you think helped look after the eight year old lad when he boarded my ship? I was there when he was crying in his sleep -not that he will ever know. I was there when he got ill with strange Terran illnesses. I could go on." Yondu again sort of explained as he helped Drax place Peter on the Terrans bed in the Milano. Yondu then told his men he was going with the Guardians to the hospital on Xander and that he would meet everyone else there. Kraglin decided to come with them.

"He forgets to mention the many times he spoilt the kid. He also won't admit that he loves Pete." At this statement Yondu smacked Kraglin on the head allowing a very loud 'OUCH' to come out of the man's mouth.

The journey to Xander hospital was about an hour and a half, so what better way to pass the time than to -after they wrapped up any bleeding injuries and just made sure Peter was in a stable condition- talk about Peter as the Terran rarely opened up to his team about personal things really -not that they could say anything as they were the same.

They finally arrived at the hospital and quickly got Peter sent off. Now all they could do was wait. Wait for any news about how the blonde was doing. Yondu was pacing and whistling. Gamora was also pacing but ended up just leaning against the wall with her legs to her chest. Drax sat on a chair with his head in his arms. And Rocket too sat on a seat but with Groot in front of him (on the chair as Rocket would be too small to take up a full seat), the two just stared aimlessly.

A pink nurse came out with a clipboard. Everyone quickly stood up and looked at her.

"Who here is in charge of Mr Quill?" She asked and Yondu hesitantly said he was after everyone looked to him.

"Please come with me Mr Udonta. Everyone else must stay." And he followed her into Quill's room.

Upon seeing the boy wrapped up in bandages, some of which had already had blood seep through, he gasped.

"Mr Udonta. Peter Jason Quill seems to have been stabbed by a knife -most likely thrown- as he had a hole on his upper thigh. He lost a good few pints of Terran blood, but we have given him some to replenish his system. Along with the blast from an explosion, he has broken a few bones from his landing along with cuts and bruises from debris. Whilst he may look terrible, he is actually doing quite well but he must stay her for at least six days to fully recover. He should wake in a few hours-" Or now as the Terrans eyes opened and a large inhale of oxygen filled their ears. They watched as Peter tried to lift himself into a sitting position.

"Easy there boy." Yondu said as he helped Peter,

"Wha' h'ppened?"

The nurse allowed the others to enter and they told Peter what happened, Peter then remembered what happened and sighed.
"Did you at least get the artifact?" Typical Peter

"Yes." Rocket answered with his head bowed, Peter sighed in content before slowly patting Rocket on the head. Rocket looked up confused.

"It wasn't your fault Rocket. I'm just glad no one else was hurt." Rocket's eyes widenned.

"I..I ne-never th-though-thought th-that." He stuttered, blatantly lying. Peter just chuckled softly before his arm fell limp by his side and Peter fell asleep.

"You can come see him tomorrow. But he needs his rest." The nurse said as she kicked them out of the room.

"Captain." Kraglin said as the others reached the reception, having arrived a few minutes before -Yondu had sent him to inform the crew and to get the ship here.

"Yes Kraglin?"
"How is Pete?"
"He'll be fine, I think the hospital will be the one to make him worse and not his injuries." This statement confused the other Guardians of the Galaxy but before they could say anything, the blue Centaurian had said bye and left with Kraglin. The Guardians just sighed and headed to the Milano, hesitantly mind you, they wanted to stay by Peter's side but they knew he needed rest and so did they. No one realised that Groot had stayed around with Peter, other than the nurse who just smiled and allowed it as the little tree snuggled against Peter's arm.

Peter woke up in the middle of the night with a gasp and tears hanging in his eyes. He had to leave. He couldn't stay. Now that the drugs were out of his system and he had more control of his mind, he could recall how much he hated hospitals. He needed to get away from this place. His anxiety had picked up and began to cause his heart beat to beep quicker and louder. He couldn't hear the people racing to his room. All he remembered was a slight pinch in his arm before he drifted back to sleep. He didn't feel a small creature move onto his chest, just above his heart and he most certainly didn't notice the small black eyes that had watched him with worry as he had a panic attack.

His friends visited the next day and the next one, each time they were forced to leave, Groot stuck behind. Peter would once again have a panic attack in the night, but as he got better and had less drugs in his bloodstream, the attacks got worse. On the third night of his recovery in the hospital, Peter recalled his friends saying that they were staying in the Milano which was in the parking lot of the hospital. So when it was midnight Peter quietly got up and grabbed his belongings that were by in the drawers by his bed. He threw on a pair of clean clothes that Gamora had left for him. He noticed that theonly things he had was his red jacket that had somehow survived the accident and his now functional helmet -which had been jammed the moment he had been pushed to the feet of the Glyki leader- and his working jet boot attachments, all of which Rocket fixed. Noticing Groot sleeping on the warm patch where Peter had been lying, he picked the small tree up gently and quietly but wuickly snuck out of the hospital. He had to limp and be careful as he wasn't fully recovered yet, maybe about 67% healed.
Peter was surprised at how easy it was to sneak aboard the Milano and take off. He was aiming to get as far away from Xander as possible so they couldn't try and drag him back. Peter set the ship on autopilot, before with a still sleeping Groot (and crew), he himself went to sleep in his bunk.

Authors Notes:
I know it's a quick update but I have finished the fanfiction. Therefore if the final chapter isn't out today it's because it needs some editing or it is complete rubbish that needs to be re-written. Thank you for your reviews on the previous chapter.

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