The nurse found Soul, Black star, and Tsubaki in the waiting room. Soul was sitting in a chair staring at something in his hands. Black star was on the floor doing sit ups with Tsubaki spotting him. "You're the only three left?" the nurse asked. They nodded and she sighed from relief. "Please follow me." She turned and began to walk in the direction she came. The trio quickly followed.
"How is she? Is she going to be alright?!" Soul began panicking slightly.
"Yeah tell us! Don't withhold information from your God!" Black star demanded.
The nurse chuckled at their overreaction. "She's fine... Relatively speaking. Of course it could have been a lot worse. She'll need to stay in the hospital at least a day. One leg is broken. The other ankle is sprained. Her wrists are also sprained from impact with the ground." The nurse stopped outside the door to Maka's room. "She still has an oxygen mask on, and even if she didn't she still wouldn't be able to talk at the moment from the smoke inhalation. She's been through a lot tonight, so I recommend keeping the conversation simple." The nurse smiled comfortingly and opened the door for the visitors. They entered the room but Maka continued to stare out the hospital room window even though there was nothing to see but the dead of night.
Soul, remembering the nurse's advice, decided he would try to lighten the mood. "So, I heard the good news: you only broke one leg."
Maka immediately locked her eyes on him and slowly turned her head away from the window to look directly at Soul. Her eyes narrowed and her expression clearly conveyed the thought, 'you REALLY didn't just say that, did you? How is that good news?' She swiftly raised an arm and pointed at him and then forcefully pointed towards the door. Soul knew what she meant but still couldn't bring himself to respond at all. After a brief stare off, Maka looked at Tsubaki, but with her eyes more relaxed and pleading with Tsubaki to make Soul comply. Tsubaki walked over to him and gently rested her hands on his shoulders. She kindly looked in his eyes and sweetly requested, "Just let me talk to her OK?" She smiled. Soul took one more glance at Maka before leaving the room.
Maka then turned her glare towards Black star, as if daring him to say something stupid. "I think I'll go hang out with Soul..." Black said with fake confidence as he left he room. As he closed the door behind him, he saw Soul lean against the wall in the hallway and quickly pocket something.
"So what's going on in there? She kick you out, too?" Soul joked.
"Not technically. But it seems they want to have some girl talk and I'm not into that. What was that in your hand?"
"What? Nothing."
"C'mon! You can't hide secrets from me!" Black star demanded while trying to reach Soul's arm to pull his hand that was obviously holding something out of his pocket. Soul swatted him away with his free hand. "I told you it was nothing! Buzz off will ya?!"
Of course, "the mighty Black star" was easily able to maneuver around Soul's lackluster swats and hooked Soul's occupied arm at the elbow. Soul's hand came out of his pocket from the force of the blow and he lost his grip on the item he was holding. It fell to the floor with a clatter. Black star looked down at it.
"Is that a cell phone? It's so beat up I can hardly tell." Black star jeered.
"It's Maka's," Soul said sourly while picking it up. He stood up and looked at it with a longing expression on his face.
"Dude, that's creepy," Black star stated.
"Huh?"
"Why do you have Maka's phone? And why are you so attached to it?" Black star asked, surprisingly serious for a moment.
"Blair gave it to me after the... Before we came to the hospital." Soul tried his best not to have to think of the horrifying ordeal, but all the thoughts he was trying to keep buried came flooding in. "She won't let me get anywhere near her. I wasn't there for her when she needed me most and now she won't let me be there to comfort her. When I look at this thing..." he squeezed the phone tighter, "and how useless and damaged it is, it just reminds me how close I came to losing her. And how it would have all been my fault. I don't blame her for hating me."
AN: I KNOW I KNOW, I said there's only be one more chapter! But my sis and I decided to go to the movies on the spur of the moment right now (To see Monster's University) so I thought I'd be nice and go ahead and post what I've done already (that's why it's so short). Really, honestly, just one more chapter.