Nepeta peaked into her cousin's hospital room. It was ungodly white and clean. She looked over to her cousin's body laying the bed, it was as if nothing had happened and he was just taking a nap. But the bandages where the signature of reality. The doctors told her he was in a coma due to head trauma. Apparently a robot he was working on blew up, and she could figure out the rest.
Not wanting to disturb the perfection of the room, she walked away and decided to look at the rest of the hospital. As depressing as this place was, she didn't feel like it was right to leave just yet. She wandered around, said hello to some of the children and older folks who were stuck there. She walked around some more until she realized she was in the psychiatric ward. She hated this part of the hospital.
She pulled up her blue cat hoodie and started for the exit. It was time go home anyway. She stopped in her tracks when she heard some loud crashing behind her. She spun on her heel and saw one of the many people she did not want to see ever again. Sollux Captor, Aradia's boyfriend.
He was a mess, though he wasn't all that great when she last saw him either. His shirt was inside out, his pants were sagging and he only had one shoe on. He was yelling at some poor nurse when he caught sight of her. He started to stalk towards her. This was bad. Nepeta began to speed walk towards the door, but he managed to catch up to her.
He grabbed her wrist and violently yanked her around to face him. He towered over her with an expression of pained rage on his face.
"Sollux I'm so-"
"THUT UP! IT'TH YOUR FUCKING FAULT ANYWAY! IT'TH YOUR FAULT THHE WON'T LEAVE!" His lisp was worse than usual, he was really pissed. But what did he mean she won't leave?
"Sollux I'm sorry what happened! She was my friend too-"
"THEN WHY DID YOU LET HER DIE? IT'TH ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT THHE'TH DEAD AND IT'TH YOUR FAULT SHE WON'T LEAVE!" At this point he had jerked her arm upward so that she had to stand on her toes. She was terrified. She had never seen him so angry before. He continued to yell at her about how it was 'her fault' until some of the nurses managed to pull him away. As they lead him back to his room, Nepeta could see that he was crying, no, sobbing.
That was too much. She tore out of the ward and through the lobby. She ran across asphalt and concrete but paid no mind to what was around her. All she could focus on what the rhythmic thumping of her backpack against her back and the blue and white blurs of her shoes as they dashed in and out of her downward view. She tried to keep the knot of guilt from forming in her stomach, but to no avail. Seeing Sollux so upset, and the fact he blamed her, it hurt. She knew what happened wasn't her fault. But she couldn't help but feel responsible.
Her panicked running was brought to a halt as a car horn sounded through the air. She looked up just in time to see the terrified face of a diver as his car collided with her body. The impact threw her to the ground and she felt her head collided with the pavement, but not hard enough to knock her out. "This can't get any worse…"