Sorry it took so long. Still a couple chapters before the party, I'm still accepting girlfriends.
We arrived at the hospital and she was bawling again. I got out of the wagon and picked up Mush. Kid Blink thanked the flour man. Hush got out of the wagon and started to walk follow me. She tripped over nothing, but regained her balance. Spot stepped closer to her. As we walked through the door she almost walked into the wall. Spot put his arm over her shoulder and guided her the rest of the way. I walked up to the lady at the counter and said, "Excuse me miss, my friend here got real beat up."
She nodded and gave me some papers, "Please fill these out while we take care of him. Are any of you related to him?" I handed the papers to Kid Blink. He had known him since they were like three.
Then, I looked at Hush, "Yes, ma'am, this is his sister."
"Alright, dear you can come with us. The rest of you boys have to stay in the waiting room though," she said.
"A miss, could I please go with her," I asked.
"She's really upset and I thought she might want someone she knows there to comfort her." Hush nodded quickly. The nurse took one look at Ziva and agreed.
"Alright, follow me," she said. We walked down a long hallway and into the last room on the left.
"Set him on the bed the doctor will be here any second." I laid him on the bed. Ziva immediately pulled the chair in the corner right up to the side of the bed. She smoothed his hair.
The doctor came in looking at a clip board, "Devon 'Mush' Meyers, 16?"
"Yes, that's him," I said.
"Alright, a boy in the lobby filled out his papers, so we shouldn't have very many questions. Did either of you see what happened?" Ziva nodded, on the verge of crying again.
I nodded too, "She was with him the whole time. He was protecting her. I came towards the end." "Well, would you please tell me what happened?"
"When I got there I saw someone push him and he fell on his arm pretty hard. I think he broke it. He favored it for the rest of the fight and he never does that. He was doing well before he fell, but everything went down hill. He got a good punch in but then one of the goons grabbed a board and slammed it into his head. He crumpled under it."
"Alright, I'll have to take an x-ray of his arm and maybe his head," the doctor said. "My name is Dr. Cullen, by the way." (Yes, at the moment I am also obsessed with Twilight. He isn't a vampire in this story though.) He did some tests on Mush and put an IV in him. He took him for the x-rays and we stayed behind. When he came back we looked at him expectantly.
"His head is fine there isn't anything wrong with it other than some bruising. We don't know when he'll wake up. His wrist is broken, I've put a cast on it, and he's obviously unconscious. Other than that he's fine. I'll go tell your friends they can come in now. Visiting hours are over in a half an hour though. I'm afraid only family can stay after that," he said.
"Thank you, Dr. Cullen," I said. A few minutes later all the boys came in. The others had made it to the hospital by now, grabbing anyone they saw on the way. We all barely fit in the room.
"What's wrong with him?" Race asked.
"He's got a broken arm. There's nothing wrong with his head though other than he's unconscious. They don't know when he'll wake up," I said.
"How ya doing, Hush?" Kid Blink asked. She looked around the room at all of us staring at her and wiped her eyes.
"He'll be fine, don't worry," Spot said. I wondered why he was being so sensitive. Then I remembered. Spot had had a sister, a year younger than him that would have been Ziva's age. She died after she was attacked by some stray cats when she was eight. Spot ran away shortly after that to become a newsie, hoping to leave his past behind. Hush got up gave us each a hug. When she came to the end of the line she turned and stared at Mush for awhile. Then, she went back to Spot and looked him straight in the eyes. I knew she was searching. She was very good at reading peoples emotions through their eyes. She found what she was looking for, I assume sadness and worry, and started sobbing again. Spot awkwardly pulled her into a hug. He guided her back to her chair and she grabbed Mush's good hand and held it, laying her head on the bead. We all talked for awhile and then we had to leave.
"Hush? Will you be alright if I leave?" I asked her. Shook her head 'no' and grabbed my hand pulling me up to the doctor. She looked at him pleadingly.
"Umm, Dr. Cullen, sir, would it be alright if I stayed with her," I asked. He looked at Hush, then me.
"Well, I suppose that would be alright," he said. Hush hugged him, I was starting to think she was getting a little too huggy (couldn't think of another word to describe it), but that was her way of expressing thanks.
"Thank you, sir. Thank you very much," I said, pulling her back into Mush's room. I sat in the other chair on the other side of the room. It was late so I leaned my head against the wall. Hush sat in her chair for a second. Then she climbed into the bed next to Mush, good thing they left him in his normal clothes because they didn't have mud or blood all over them. How he managed to avoid that I have no idea. She lay down on her side with her head on his chest. She placed his arm on her back, so that it looked like he was hugging her to him. She fell asleep quickly. I watched them for awhile. The looked like they belonged together, like a real brother and sister. The doctor came in to check Mush. He softly knocked on the door and I went and opened it.
"Hi there, sorry if I woke you, I just wanted to check on Mush before I left," he said.
"That's fine I wasn't asleep," I said leading the way inside. He started to say something but stopped short when he saw Ziva in the bed with Mush. I didn't say anything, just sat back down in my chair.
"Umm, I don't know that some of the doctors or nurses would approve of this," he stammered.
"Well, what about you? Do you approve?" I asked.
"How are all of you related again?" he asked.
"I'm the leader of the Manhattan newsies. She's, uhhh, she's his, well, his sister," I said. I felt bad lying to the doctor. He seemed really nice. I knew right away he didn't believe from the second he first saw Mush and Ziva they were related, but he let us stay. Evidently, he thought I was lying because she was his girlfriend though.
"Come out into the hallway for a second. We need to talk," he said. I followed him into the hall.
"Why don't you tell me, from the beginning, what's really going on and why she's sleeping with him." I told him the whole story, from when she first ran into Mush, till right then us talking in the hall, not skipping a single detail.
"I know it's not my place and that you know him better than me but are you sure he's not just using her? Another girlfriend that'll be gone in a week," he said.
"Girlfriend, she's not his girlfriend. Neither of them thinks of the other that way, they're brother and sister. You see sir. As kids of the streets all we have is each other. And they may have just met a few days ago, but they depend on each other now. He would do anything to help her or make her happy. She trusts him to protect her and she would do anything to thank him for that. They may not have the same parents, but they love each other so much that they are brother and sister," I told him.
"You're the leader, what do you honestly think?" he asked.
"You want my honest opinion?"
"Yes, putting all friendships aside."
"I honestly think that they're secretly blood related. If they lost one another I think they would die. I don't see any issue with her sleeping with him. Besides, even if none of what I've just said in the past five minutes applied, he's unconscious! What could possibly happen?" I asked.
"Okay, I approve. I just wanted to hear your side of the story."
"Thank you, doctor."
"Alright, I've got to go and you need some sleep. I hope your friend gets better too. If you need me I'll be back at 7:00." I nodded and walked back in the room. Hush rolled over and looked at me, careful not to move Mush to much.
"Hey, I just needed to talk to the doctor. Go back to sleep," I said. I went and sat back in my chair. Her eyes followed me.
"What?" She just kept staring me straight in the eyes.
"He's gonna be fine don't worry. The doctor had a little concern with the sleeping arrangements, but he's fine with it now. Go to sleep." She nodded and laid her head back on Mush's chest. I leaned my head back against the wall, closed my eyes, and fell asleep.
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