Golden Thorns Chapter Twenty-six
The three of them sat in the small yet comfortable lounge that served as the Beacon Med centre waiting room as the minutes on the small clock ticked by. They had been there for half an hour when the door finally swished open and a smiling nurse in purple scrubs pushed through a wheel chair. As the three team members stood they saw that in the chair was a slightly dishevelled and frail looking Marie. She was dressed in simple clothes, a pair of loose fitting trousers and a hoodie, and had a nervous smile on her lips as she saw her team.
"You're back!" Jo exclaimed as she ran over to her friend, who was gingery standing up, and enveloped her in a tight hug that threatened to crush her.
"Easy now, you don't want to break the stitching." The nurse said warmly as she gently pulled the girls apart. "Remember Marie, you can go back to class but no physical activity for another week or so. Just ease yourself back into it okay. I don't want to see you in here again anytime soon."
"Thank you." They all said as they left the hospital wing.
"I would presume that I have missed quite a lot in the past week." Marie said, clearly happy to be out of the med bay at last. Jo answered her question.
"Oh nothing special. Coran broke Cardin's leg, Coran and Dev got beaten up by Yang…" Marie looked somewhat concerned about this.
"Just your average day at the office" Devlyn joked, rewarded by a chuckle from the group.
"How're you feeling?" Coran asked
"I feel like I require a hot bath and a few more hours asleep." She sighed
"That can be arranged."
"What did you two do to incur the wrath of Yang? Whatever it was it wasn't a very smart thing to do." She asked
"We didn't do anything. She got caught out in the rain and went she saw us laughing she kicked the stuffing out of us." Devlyn complained
"You laughed at Yang Xiao long?" she raised her hand to her face and shook her head slowly.
"We weren't actually laughing at her, she just happened to walk by while we were laughing." He continued.
"I had noticed that Coran's nose was a little crooked. Was that her?"
"That obvious, huh?" Coran sighed sarcastically, knowing that there was a very slight kink in the bridge of his nose, even if it was barely noticeable. Not that he cared much about his appearance anyway. He had mildly good looking patrician features, a slightly broken nose would probably complement his air of distain for all around him, he reflected. "I was going for the 'rugged badass' look. Do I pull it off or should I get her to unbreak it?" he grinned
"Ladies love scars, Coran." This earned Dev a punch from Jo.
"Then you'd best get some lover-boy." She remarked.
"I told you it's not like that." He muttered attempting to silence her.
"This I must hear." Marie interjected.
"Dev's got a crush on Yang." Jo spat out as she was shoved roughly against the wall.
"Well, as I recall, there is a dance coming up, my reptilian friend." Coran stiffened at Marie's words. Red leaves, the colour of blood. A tight grip on his hand slowly slackening. A few desperate words…
"Coran, something wrong?" Jo snapped him back to the present.
"Nothing. Just thinking about how we can get clueless over here a date."
"Dammit Coran! I don't have a crush on Yang!" his scales flushing to a dark green, his equivalent if a blush. Sure you don't, buddy.
"It's perfectly understandable. She has got a very large… personality"
"Good god just shut up all of you." They continued their teasing all the way back to their dorm where Dev hid amongst a pile of work and buried his green-tinged face in a textbook.