Chapter 34

The group has been waiting for six hours now. Everyone was being restless, they wanted to see Cartman and see how he was doing, except for Wendy, she was afraid to see Cartman once again in his conditions. Stan and Kyle would complain why it was taking them so long to know the conditions of Cartman. Kenny did his best to calm them down with either random stories he heard in school, or some of the stuff he saw when he went to heaven or hell. It settled the two guys, but not much. Bebe would zone in and out of what Kenny was saying and would always look at Wendy to see how she was doing. Every time her condition was still the same and Bebe hated seeing Wendy feel like shit right now.

"Wendy" Kenny called

Wendy slowly turned to look at him. "Yeah?"

"I know this might be hard for you... but we need to know. What happened to the two of you guys?"

Soon Stan and Kyle turn their heads over to Wendy, Bebe did the same, the four of them wanted to know what happened to them.

Wendy looked over the room and saw that everyone was looking at her. She knew she had to tell them.

"I-I went to Cartman's house, to check on Kenny because he wasn't at school for a week and Bebe was worried about him. After I saw Kenny was alright, I asked if Cartman was there"

"Why?" Kyle looked at her with a troubling face.

"I was going to apologize to him"

"What you do, steal his cheesy poofs?" Kyle started to laugh.

"No... I punched him in the face, and because of that, Cartman wasn't at school for a week" Wendy squeezed her water bottle when she said that, she felt so terrible right now.

"Oh..." that stopped Kyle's laughter. He felt a bit bad for making that joke.

"He wasn't there so I started to walk back home. As I was walking back home, I was dragged into an alley way..."

"What?" Bebe was shocked, she knew how the situation was leading to.

"I was then pinned to a wall, there were two guys, one from school, and another was from the party from Clyde"

Bebe remembered that Wendy told her that someone tried to rape her at Clyde's party. Bebe couldn't believe that guy tried again.

"They then pushed me to the ground and were taking my clothes off..."

"WHAT?" Stan jumped up from his seat, enraged from what he was hearing. Stan was gripping his fist so tightly that everyone was able to hear his bones cracking.

"Cartman, though, came in and prevented those guys from raping me..."

Wendy paused for a bit before telling the next part. "He fought the two of them. He was beating the both of them up too. But because of me... Cartman was stabbed in his leg, and started to get beaten.

"The guy kept punching and punching Cartman, over and over" While retelling the part when Cartman was getting punched repeatedly, her body was starting to shake, remembering the continuous punching was heartbreaking for Wendy.

"It felt like an eternity till he stopped. He was about to kill him until Cartman saw the chance he had and finished off the guy"

"If it wasn't for me, Cartman would have never ended up here..., and that he wouldn't have to be fighting for his life..."

The group couldn't believe the story they were told. The entire group was glad that Wendy was alright physically, but they knew that emotionally, she was really hurt. The entire group were mad at what they heard, mad at what had happen to Wendy and Cartman. Stan was especially the angriest of them all. He wanted to do something to those guys. Make them pay for what they did.

Stan stood up.

"What are you doing Stan?" Kenny was curious why he was up. Kenny could tell in Stan's eye that he was going to do something rash.

"I'm gonna find those fuckers! They must be in the hospital after the fight with Cartman"

"Dude! Don't do that man, it's not worth it" Kenny pleaded his friend.

"Why Kenny! Look what those fuckers tried to do to Wendy! What they did to Cartman! I can't let them fucking get away with that!"

"If you do go through with what your planning Stan, you'll be arrest and go to prison" Kenny was right, it was obvious that Stan wanted to kill those two.

"I don't give a fuck, those two are gonna pay!" Stan didn't care at this point, he wanted retribution. He then started to walk to the hallway.

"Please Stan, don't!"

This wasn't Kenny's voice that was stopping him, but Wendy's. He turned around to see that the girl was crying now.

"Why Wendy..." Stan didn't understand why she told him to stop.

"Please Stan... I don't want to lose anyone else..."

Stan still wanted to kill those two guys after hearing Wendy's plea, but he knew if he did, Wendy would feel even worst when he went to prison because of her and Stan couldn't go through hurting Wendy anymore. "Alright Wendy... I won't"

"Th-thank you Stan"

As Stan was going back to his seat, a doctor soon appeared to the group.

The group all stood up before the doctor.

"Is Cartman going to be ok?" Wendy asked the doctor.

"Well he's stabilized for now, but he isn't fully cleared yet.

"Oh..." It didn't help Wendy to feel much better.

"Can we see him doctor?"

"I don't know Miss, it's too early for him to have visitors, especially after..."

"Please..."

The doctor looked at her, he could tell that Wendy was hurting a lot. "Alright then, follow me"

The doctor leaded the group to the room Cartman was in. He opened the door and let them inside to see Cartman.

The group was horrified to see the condition of Cartman. His face was almost unrecognizable due to the swelling and the bruises. They noticed that there was some work on the leg too. Kenny couldn't believe what had happened to his best friend, it pained him to see Cartman like that. He felt that only he should be allowed to experience such beating because he would bounce back after dying to such beating. Stan felt so horrible for his friend, but the swelling and bruise on his face made Stan's stomach uncomfortable and he threw up on the ground.

"Sick dude!" Kyle was disgusted by the vomit.

"I'm sorry man..." Stan truly was, but he couldn't stop it. Those bruises and swelling looked hideous to say the least.

Kyle, in his life, had always wished that Cartman would go through excruciating pain, because he was an insufferable asshole, for hating on him and Jews, for trying to kill them, for being manipulative towards everyone. His wish finally came true, but Kyle, now wished that it never came true.

Wendy wasn't able to handle seeing Cartman like that once more, she felt that her entire body was going to self destruct on her. She then went to cry on Bebe shoulders, tormented by the after math of Cartman risking his life.

Bebe did her best to comfort Wendy, but she, herself, couldn't stop but feel terrible for Cartman. No one deserved this, no one.

The doctor soon entered the room. "Your friend had some very serve head traumas. He came here a week ago with his mother after receiving a blow to the head.

Wendy sank, it was her that sent him there a week ago.

"The first one was pretty bad, these next ones didn't help at all. I'm afraid that it's highly likely that your friend here has some brain damage.

The entire group was hurt to hear that. Stan, Kyle, and Kenny were soon in the same boat, all heavily angered by this. Bebe was worried how Wendy was feeling now, she knew this couldn't be easy for her.

"I'll leave you alone with your friend now"

The doctor left the room, leaving Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Bebe, and Wendy to be with Cartman now.

It wasn't easy for the group to be there in the room. Seeing Cartman's condition right now was tough for everyone, especially Wendy. Kenny couldn't believe what had happen to Cartman. Just this morning, Cartman went out for a bit and the next thing he hears about him was that he was in the hospital. Kenny felt terrible now, it was his responsibility to watch over Cartman as he was recovering. Kenny failed that mission and felt even worst, he was wondering how his mom was going to react once she knew.

The group knew they had to phone his mom, she was his only family. The group didn't know how they were able to tell Liane about this. Kenny knew he had to tell her, and only he should tell her. When Kenny phoned Liane, it was even harder now, Liane was excited to hear Kenny call her, he and Cartman were her delights in her life. When he told her about what had happened to Cartman, Liane was frozen, terrified of what she had just heard. She begged Kenny that he was joking and it was a little prank that Cartman did, but unfortunately, it was no joke. He heard her cry in the background when she dropped the phone from hearing the news, it tore him up in the inside.

Twenty minutes later, Liane showed up to see her boy. She came inside to see the group there, she was devastated to see her son's condition. As she walked up closer to Cartman, her heart snapped.

"Noooooo! M-my p-p-poopsikins!" Liane fell to her knees, uncontrollably crying. Kenny, Kyle, and Stan went to help lift Liane up from the ground. Kenny hated seeing Liane look so weak. As she was crying for her son. Wendy and Kenny had the same thought. That no mother should see their child like this.

"E-E-Eric..." Liane tried to call her son's name, but it was hard for her with her intense crying.

Kenny looked at Liane, it was hurting Kenny so much for him to see Liane like this. Liane was like a mother to him, and he appreciated everything she has done for him. That amplified the painfulness of seeing her like this in another level. Kenny wanted to say something to make her feel better, but Kenny knew that words weren't going to help much right now.

Wendy was looking at Liane and she felt even worst than Kenny about it. It was because of her that Liane was crying.

After a while, Liane was able to control her crying. She knew that it wasn't making anyone in the room feel any easier about the current situation, especially Kenny.

Wendy felt that she had to apologize to Liane. She walked up to Liane.

"Mrs. Cartman... I'm so sorry, if it wasn't for me..."

"Please Wendy" Liane cut her off. "It's not your fault Wendy. Eric was protecting someone he cared about"

Wendy saw that Liane smiled when she was looking at her. 'Cared'... Liane said that Cartman was protecting someone he cared about. Was that true? Did Cartman really cared about her?

"I'm proud of Eric, that he protected you, the most courageous thing he's ever done..." Liane looked at her son once more. As much as it hurts her to see her son like that, she was so, so very proud of her little boy.

Everyone stayed for another three hours watching Cartman, but soon it was getting late and everyone had to go. While the group was leaving, Wendy was still sitting at her chair, near Cartman's bed.

"Wendy are you coming?"

"No Bebe... I'm staying"

"Are you sure Wendy?"

"Yes" Bebe knew that Wendy was going to stay, and nothing was going to change her mind.

Bebe went to her friend and patted her on the shoulders. "Alright Wendy, I'll see you tomorrow"

"Bye Bebe"

Once everyone left the room, except for Wendy, Liane was looking at her son. She wanted to kiss him so badly because a kiss always made everything better. She was afraid though with Cartman's damage, that a kiss might cause something bad to happen, even though it was highly unlikely. But Liane didn't want to take that risk for her son.

"Bye Eric..." She left the room, Liane started to weep a bit.

Kenny saw that and walked over to her. "Don't worry Ms. Cartman, Eric's a tough guy, he'll pull through"

Liane soon was able to stop her weeping. She smiled at Kenny. "I know Kenny, he will because that's how my little Eric is"

Kenny smiled back at her. He felt happy that he was able to make Liane feel a bit better.

Wendy was now alone in the room with Cartman. She kept watching for another three hours, but soon her eyes were getting tired. Wendy tried her best to keep them up, she couldn't go to sleep, what would happen if he was to wake up. Wendy slowly drifted to sleep. While sleeping, a nurse walked by and saw that Wendy was sleeping. The nurse saw that Wendy was a bit cold, even with heating in the building, South Park was still a cold place. The nurse went to get a blanket and placed over Wendy. The nurse then exited the rooming, leaving Wendy to sleep now in warmth, beside Cartman's bed.

Alright, chapter 34 is up and it seems that Liane finally learned what happened to Cartman. Though it would be nice if Cartman didn't receive the beating, but oh well, things happen.

As always, thanks again for reading and hoped you enjoyed it.