Mr. Normal
Chp.19
Something Good Out Of Something Bad
Disclaimer: Insert funny disclaimer here.
Pairing: Jake and Miley
Rating: T (I guess) I seriously haven't written this chapter out.
Summary: Jake comes back after two years of trying to figure out what a normal kid is like.
A/N: This is all in Miley's Point of view.
Wednesday morning dawned bright and shiny. She slowly tried to roll over in the hospital bed, but there was a pillow or a lump of blanket blocking her way. Her hand snaked out to remove the obstacle only to come into contact with the side of something completely and utterly warm, and the room was completely freezing. She tugged on the object bringing it closer to her for more warmth.
"MMM," she heard through the drug induced fog of her sleep. Then a warm arm found its way around her waist, and she'd come to like some one had thrown an icy cold bucket of water over her head. The arm had tugged her closer, and she could feel the rise and fall of whoever's chest against her back. God she prayed that it was Jake.
"Jake?" Please be him, please be him, she chanted in her mind.
"Hmm?" She let the breath she'd been holding out slowly. Thank the good lord, was all she could think as his head popped up over her shoulder.
"What are you doing? And here?" His hair was all mussed and sticking up in odd ways, and he looked just so darned adorable.
"Boy, those little blue pills they give you sure must've messed with you." He smiled against her shoulder.
"They were Valium and yes they threw me for a loop." She could feel his giggling against her, and she wanted to slap him. "Quit, laughing!"
"Sorry, it's just so funny."
"You still haven't answered my questions."
He flopped over onto his back and she finally got to roll over like she'd wanted to.
"You really don't remember, do you?"
"O-kay, big boy, that's annoying."
"What's annoying?"
"That right there."
He just give her a strange look with the explanation.
She was getting frustrated with him, and slapped him lightly on the stomach.
"You're answering my questions with questions of your own, it's aggravating."
"Oh, you want to know why I'm here?"
She give him a look she knew he'd never forget. "Yes."
"Well it's not like I could've left, what with you giving my poor hand the death grip when I did try to leave, and that was just so I could use the facilities. I could only imagine what you would've done if I was really going to go home. Plus, there was no way on god's green earth that I was going to leave your side. You were so completely out of it, you started calling me Jake. Which if you don't already know might have blown our cover."
She was giving him the deer in headlights look that she uses when she can't believe she did something stupid. "Oh, God, Jake. I'm so sorry. This is so not good."
"Yeah, I know." He slid a hand through his unruly hair, his thumb getting caught in a snag. She almost laughed at the spectacle of him trying to free it, but kept it to herself.
"I can't believe I did that. Did I tell anyone that counted?"
"No, not really. Just that idiot doctor. Oh, which by the way wasn't even an E.R. doctor, he was a Proctologist. Dude didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground when it came to emergency medicine. You really don't want to look at those stitches by the way." He smiled as she tried to lift the blanket up and take a look at the afflicted area.
She let out a huff, and crossed her arms in defiance when she couldn't see for the huge bandage on over her leg. "That sucks, does it look like Leather Face down there?"
He raised one eyebrow in disbelief. "How do you know who Leather Face is?"
She just rolled her eyes at him. "Oh, I don't know, maybe because my goofy brother likes to watch that kind of stuff."
He nodded, and smiled knowing that she'd probably never seen any of those movies. "Well in that case, I'd say Frankenstein's Monster would be more accurate."
She groaned, "how am I supposed to get up on stage Friday, when my leg will look like that?"
"Uh, Miles." She knew that she wasn't going to like what was going to come out of his mouth.
"What," she asked hesitantly
"Your dad sort of, like, umm, canceledtheshowsforthisweekend."
"Pretty boy say what?" She just couldn't believe that her father would cancel her shows just because of one tiny little cut. My god what would he do if she'd broken her arm, cancel her shows for the rest of the year?
"I'm sorry. I knew you'd be upset."
"You really seem to be saying that a lot today, and it really isn't your fault."
"Still I know how much you look forward to performing on the weekends and all. I just wanted to..." He didn't get to finish his sentence as the door had opened.
A nurse walked in, with Lily and Oliver right on her heels.
"It seems that you have more visitors Ms. Stewart," the nurse said, as she turned to look in the couples direction.
"Hey, guys."
"Hi, Mile, we brought you some balloons," Lily said as she looked in Ollie's general vicinity.
"I see that." She almost laughed, they must have gotten every kind of balloon that they could, and if Oliver didn't watch out he was going to go flying off in to the wild blue yonder. "But did you have to get every one that the gift shop had?" She couldn't hold the giggles in any longer, and started to laugh at the rainbow boy. For a moment she thought she'd actually seen his feet come off of the ground, as he started to take a step.
"Oliver, why don't you tie those to something, before you take off on an unscheduled flight."
"Oh, god. Thank you," he exclaimed as he started to tie the balloons to various things through out the room. "Do you guys know how hard it is to keep your feet on the ground when you have that much helium trying to lift you off of it?" He tied the last two to the bed post, and flopped down in exhaustion on one of the bed/chair thingy's that was near the window.
They all just gave him varying weird looks.
"So, how's the leg this morning," the nurse asks as she ignored Oliver, and started to read her chart.
"Fine, I guess. It feels like little pin pricks where the stitches are, but that's about all."
"That's good." She scribbled something in the report, and looked up at her. "Young man, you do know that you aren't supposed to be on the bed with her." It wasn't a question, but a matter of fact.
"Yeah, but you try breaking the death grip from hell when you try to leave, and see how far you get."
"Les, be nice," Miley scolded, she had no idea who she'd told his other name to, but she really doubted that this nurse had been around last night, considering how coiffed she looked this morning.
The nurse smiled amicably at her, and looked back down at the chart. "It looks as if you're scheduled to leave this afternoon, but the doctor will have to check your leg, and blood pressure before you go." She'd noticed that the young girl had needed a blood transfusion last night, and made a note to check her pressure in the folder.
They all watched as the nurse placed the chart back on the end of the bed, and left the room.
"So, Miley can we see your stitches," Oliver piped up as soon as he was sure that the lady had gotten completely away from the room.
"There's not much to see, considering they covered it with a huge bandage."
She watched as all of Oliver's hopefulness flew right straight out the window he was sitting in front of.
"Aw poor Ollie, he can't see his friends misfortune," Lily said in a sad little voice.
"Do they always act like this, or is it just for our benefit," Jake whispered into her ear.
"Unfortunately, they're always like this."
She could see his body shake with unheard laughter at her comment, and she couldn't help but laugh along with him.
"So did anyone find out what happened to Derrick?" She had to ask, there was just no way around it. She had to know if he was in this hospital, because if he was he might accidentally figure out that Les is Jake Ryan, and blow his cover.
Everyone was looking at her in total disbelief, she knew it had come out of the blue, but this was something that she needed to know, for her own peace of mind, and for Jake's own good.
Oliver pushed a hand through his hair, and looked her directly in the eye. "Mrs. Martinique found him sitting there in beside of her car, and called the police." She was going to say that she remembered calling. "Yeah, I know. We called on the way here, but the teacher didn't know. Anyway, he was still out cold when she found him, and she assumed that he'd been hit by a car. It seems that they took him to the other hospital with the better trauma ward. They're keeping him hopped up on Morphine so he's not very coherent. So for now you guys are in the clear." His eyes travel over to find Jake's down cast. "Dude, you messed him up pretty good."
At that Jake's gaze found his, "Yeah, well." He'd glanced in her direction, and she'd taken his hand in hers, and smiled at him reassuringly.
"No, I mean, you broke his nose, and a couple ribs."
She felt Jake flinch at the bluntness of Oliver's words, and squeezed his hand in comfort.
"He should've watched what he was doing, Oliver. I'd never had done that if he would've just left well enough alone. But he couldn't and I was completely fed up with his stalking, and snide remarks. It got old real quick."
"I totally understand dude, and if it had been Lily, I'd probably have done the same thing."
"Awww," Both girls exclaimed, they'd made Oliver blush in embarrassment.
"That's so sweet, Ollie." Lily plopped down in his lap and gave him a huge hug, "I didn't know you cared that much."
He wrapped her in his arms tightly as she and Jake watched. "Of course I do, I love you, Lils."
Miley felt like crying, because the sentiment just rolled off of his tongue so easily, like he'd said it a million times, and she knew that he hadn't. Lily would've told her something that important.
Jake had wrapped her in his arms again, she could feel his breath playing in her hair, and she knew in that moment that she was still completely in love with him. She couldn't tell him, though, it would just seem like she was saying it because Oliver had said it, and she wanted it to be as special as his and Lily's had just been when she told him.
A/N: Yes, I know not much going on, but I'm so sick that this was all I could manage. I hope you all enjoyed, there won't be another update until next Friday. I will be out of town Monday, although I'm sick. So you guys know what to do, Be kind Review.
