Chapter 7

Vex was still in hospital. All of his friends had been released already, but Doctor Synecdoche wanted him to stay in for observation, which is fair enough seen as she's the doctor here. But god! It's so boring.

"Can I leave yet?" he asked her

"No, I still need you in for observation" she replied while checking his clipboard and vital signs.

"I'm alive, I'm alive" he snapped, waving her hands away.

"Alright, I'm going to keep you in for a little while longer" he sighed so she added "You shouldn't have survived what you went through"

"I wish I didn't" he said quietly

"Don't speak like that" clocking him on the back of the head

"Sorry" he mumbled slightly

"So you should be, you don't realize what you mean to the people around you" with that she left the room, leaving him to his thoughts.

About an hour of counting the tiles on the roof he heard someone enter his little room. Looking up he saw the face of Clarabelle.

"Ummmm, Hi" he said unsure

"Hi, I'm Clarabelle" she replied brightly "Everyone said they thought you were gonna die"

"Oh"

"But you didn't"

"Is there something you wanted?"

"Yeah, I wanted to talk to you because I know what you've been through and if you wanted to talk about it I'm here" she swirled and skipped out of the room.

"Thanks" he said just as she was about to leave the room, she turned and flashed him a bright smile.

Even though he was warmed by the offer, he didn't know if she truly knew what she was on about. But still the offer was nice. He slowly started to drift off to sleep, but was rudely awakened by Saracen tripping over the threshold of the room.

"You are right there mate" he chuckled

"Yeah damn door frame"

"Eejit"

"Says the one bed ridden" sitting next to his bed.

"What's going on in the world?" he jested

"Well where to start, ummm, Tanith cleaned up Ghastly's place. Err Valkyrie's gone to America, Skulduggery's gone quiet, I haven't seen him since Val left but I think he's gone to America to see if she's settled in, but other than that nothing been happening"

"I want to get out of here"

"You say that, but when you have to go back to work you'll be wanting to be back in this bed" kicking the side of the bed

"That bad huh!"

"Yep, it's so boring there is no one's trying to take over the world or bring back the Faceless Ones" he smiled "Oh yeah Tanith said she's popping by later"

"Okay" he smiled well if he can't get to his friends, his friends will come to him.

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