I could still feel something on my arms so I continued to punch and throw my arms. I kept my eyes closed. Someone grabbed my hands trying to keep me still but I could feel my fist connect with a face.
"Woah, calm down Crona. Ouch! It's me, Stein." He said. I stopped throwing punches and opened my eyes. My eyes started to tear up. He was holding my hands and the right one had a cast on it. I looked around my surroundings. I'm in the DWMA infirmary. No one but Stein is here, he let go of me.
"I-i'm sorry. H-how did I g-get h-here?" I asked him.
"It's alright. After Justin fought off Giriko, he brought all you kids back here. Giriko got away though."
"O-oh. W-what's today?" I asked. I'm really confused and disoriented.
"October 5th, Thursday."
"What? H-how long have I b-been asleep? When did I wake up?" I asked him. I'm on the verge of crying.
"You were in a mild coma for 3 weeks. This is the first time you woke up." he told me.
"I-in a coma? I'm s-so confused." I couldn't hold it in any longer. I could feel tears roll down my cheeks.
"That's okay, it's normal. How do you feel?" He asked me. I was so lost in being confused and disoriented that I hadn't taken the time to think about that. My shoulder and leg is sore, my wrist hurts and I have a headache. I really took a beating... I examined my hand, this is probably what broke when I fell off of the Golem.
"My leg, shoulder hurt a little. Nothing too bad though. My hand hurts, I think I have a headache." I told him. I looked at his face. His lip was split and bleeding. Now I know why my hand hurts... "Sorry I hit you." I apologized.
"It's fine. I'll have Naigus get you a pain killer. I'll have to run a test for your head, make sure your healing correctly." He said. "Do you want to see Maka?"
"Yes!" I said a little too fast which made me blush. I could hear him giggle a little and he made a couple of phone calls. I looked around the room a little more, there were flowers and cards laying around. I could see that a couple card titles said 'get better soon', others say 'I miss you', etc. I looked at the cast on my leg, it was already drawn on. One deifinitley stook out, Black Star's signature. I could hear the intercom come on saying, "Maka Albarn, to the infirmary." I knew it wouldn't be long before she would be here.
"If your wondering, you broke your right hand and left leg, your shoulder was popped out of place and you hit your head pretty hard. You had a small fracture in your skull and a major concussion. The concussion should be gone by now, but i'll have to run some tests to make sure." Stein said.
"Okay." Is all I said. I can't believe I got hurt so easily, well I guess I can. I'm used to the black blood protecting me and fixing any wounds, but now that it's weak I can't depend on it much. Also, if I was in a coma, then Medusa was a dream. Although the part about some witches being strong enough to haunt people is a fact. Why did I think that was real? I could feel another tear run down my cheek and I started to wipe the tears from my face so Maka wouldn't see when she got here. I could hear her boots hit the floor before she slammed the infirmary door open. As soon as she caught sight of me tears started to flow and she ran towards me. She hit me hard and started to squeeze me in her hug. It hurt a little, but I didn't mind because I was in a coma for 3 weeks and i'm sure she was really worried. She started to bawl on my shoulder.
"I-it's okay. I'm here now." I told her while rubbing her back.
"Don't ever do that again! I was so worried about you!"
"I-i'm sorry. I'll t-try not to." I said. She let go of me and examined my face.
"How are you feeling?"
"I'm sore, my h-hand hurts, and I h-have a s-small headache. Other than that, i'm f-fine." She stared at me for a moment longer then let go of my face. I studied her eye, Soul's punch must of gotten her pretty bad because there's still a slight discoloration under her eye.
"Okay. Are you tired? I'll go back to class." Maka said. Did she just ask me if I was tired?
"No! I mean, please don't go. I just woke up from a 3 week coma and i'm still really confused. Can you tell me what happened while I was in my coma, please?" I said. She just smiled and took a seat next to me, then started her long story. She started out with, Kid and Cumo are definitley dating. They made it official last week. Black Star still can't get Cumo to appreciate his 'godliness' he still scares her. Cumo has been getting used to Shibusen and started to hang out with them more often. She works as a maid at Kid's mansion. Tsubaki went through the pictures on her camera and found a picture from the night me and Soul came back from our mission, it was Black Star and Patty kissing. She hasn't said anything to them about it because they were both drunk at the time and probably wouldn't remember. Tsubaki doesn't remember taking a picture of them, which is weird. Also, she talked about the injuries her and Theresa got from the fight. Maka and Theresa both got semi concussions and Theresa broke her wrist. Either way it didn't make me feel any better that I was the one beat up the most. I guess i'm glad that I got hurt and Maka didn't though, I took a lot of hits for her. That one she took for me was pretty bad... Maka forgave Soul and now they are somewhat friends again.
"What got you to forgive Soul?" I asked her.
"Remember that envelope he threw at me?"
"Yeah." I remember that pretty well...
"It had a birthday card and an apology card in it. I'll have to bring the apology one for you to read, if you want to understand why I forgave him. It took me a minute to process, but it's all good now." She said.
"Okay. So I uh, have one question." I said. She nodded for me to proceed, "How do I get home?" I asked.
"Uhhhhh... Stein!" She yelled. Stein walked around the curtain to talk to us.
"What the hell? Where were you?" I asked totally confused.
"Behind the curtain." He replied.
"No really?" I said sarcastically, "What were you doing?"
"I don't know." What?
"Anyway... So how is Crona gonna come home?" Maka asked him.
"He can't. Unless he wants to crutch himself all the way up the DWMA stairs and back everyday. Which will already be a difficult task to get to your classes because you broke your hand." He said.
"Yeah... I'd rather not do that. I kinda wanted to go home though..." I said. It gets lonely here at night, I wouldn't admit that out loud though. I hate being by myself in the infirmary.
"It's alright, I'll stay here with you as long as I can. Try to heal though, so you can come home. Remember what I said before we left to go practice? I said I needed to show you something, I still do. But I can't if your in here." Maka said. Stein left the room for a little while. Why the hell was he behind the curtain, and what was he doing? It creeped me out when he said 'I don't know'. He usually doesn't act like that, maybe I can find out whats wrong... Maka and I talked for a long time. When classes got out all of my friends joined me (not including Soul) and we enjoyed our time. It was fun. Maka told me that she already talked to my boss about my injuries. He was totally cool about it and understood. I like Mike, I hope I work for him for a long time. When everyone left, it was just Maka and me. She stayed until about 10:30, then went home. Leaving me in the dark and lonely infirmary. I tried to fall asleep, but I was scared that I'd go into a coma again. Plus, if I start having nightmares, I don't want to sleep. I eventually dozed off about midnight though. I'd have to get up for school tomorrow. I woke up the next morning with a major migrain. Maka visited me early this morning, she gave me clothes and packed me breakfast. I got dressed and realized how hard it is to put pants on with a cast on my leg, not fun. I ate breakfast, then me and Maka walked to class. Well, Maka walked, I crutched. Stein was right, it's hard to crutch with a broken hand. Stein only had a lecture today, it was long and boring but, to be a good student I must always pay attention and copy down some notes. Then we made it through Marie's class, lectures... I didn't get half of what anybody was talking about. It was all completely new to me and it seems that they were already half way through the assignments. I was so confused and frustated that I was to the point of tears. I went to fitness class, the most boring class I have ever had. I was excused because I can't lift weights and I can't run, so I sat on the bench the entire time. Maybe since I can't participate in this class I can see if Stein or Marie could help me catch up, i'll have to ask. Then finally lunch! I was so happy. Lunch is like 3 hours long, so I get a break from moving. I noticed Soul was sitting at our table too, I just ignored him because i'm still mad at him.
"Hey Crona, how's your leg and arm doing?" Kid asked.
"They're sore. But, not as bad as I thought it was going to be. How are you guys today?" I asked him.
"We're fine, thank you. Have you seen Cumo? She's usually early to lunch and I haven't seen her."
"No, I would look for her, but i'm imobilized." I said. Maka giggled.
"That's too bad. By the way, how are classes so far?" Tsubaki asked me.
"I'm so confused, frustrated, and stressed out. I don't get anything." I said laying my head on the table. I would of just dropped my head onto the table for effect, but I recently had a concussion so i'd rather not..
"I'm sorry. If you'd like, me, Maka, Kid, and Cumo would love to study with you. We've already talked about it, so none of us would mind." Tsubaki said with a sweet smile.
"Thank you guys, I would really like that."
"I'd like to study with you too." Theresa said placing her tray on the table. I nodded. We ate and chatted for a while and started to get worried when we didn't see Cumo. We still had about an hour left of lunch so Kid, Soul, and Black Star went looking for her.
"How's your hand Theresa?" I asked her.
"It's good. It's really hard to write with my left hand though." She said.
"I know how you feel, except Maka's been helping me write notes down."
"Wait, you both broke your right hands?" Liz asked.
"Yep." we both said lifting our hands up. We all kind of giggled. Soul came running up to us, panting.
"Guys, come to the infirmary. It's about Cumo." He said trying to regain breath. We all got really worried.
"Crona, i'll walk with you." Maka said. Everybody started running to the infirmary.
"I'm fine, just go. I'll get there sooner or later." She kind of gave me a sad look then nodded and started running with the rest of the group. I sighed and got up from the table, slowly making my way there. What could of happened? A duel? A fight? Bullies? An accident? I could only find out by getting to the infirmary and hearing the story. I tried crutching my way there as fast as I could, I got really tired fast. I had to take a break and catch my breath by the stairs.
"There she is!" I heard someone shout. "Let's get him!" Another voice shouted. I looked over to where the voices came from and some boys were running towards me. They stopped right in front of me trying to catch their breaths.
"Is t-there something you n-need?" I asked them. Ugh, i'm still bad with new people. Stupid stuttering.
"Yeah, you back in the infirmary." One kid with blonde hair said.
"Huh?" I asked confused. The other boy with dark brown hair nudged him and gave him a dirty look.
"You need to be back in your hospital bed, you belong there with Cumo." The brown haired kid said.
"Oh, you know what happened to her?" I asked. Maybe they can tell me what happened.
"Are we scary to you." The blonde asked. He was again nudged by the brown haired boy.
"No... Why would you be scary? Anyway, can you tell me what happened to Cumo?" I asked them. They both frowned and started to look annoyed. "W-what, d-did I say something w-wrong?"
"Instead of telling you, how about we show you." The brown haired kid said. They started to walk towards me and I realized that these kids weren't as nice as I thought they were. One grabbed my arm and the other grabbed my cast on my leg. They both got evil smiles on their faces.
"Say, are you a boy or a girl? For a long time you wore that dress and now your wearing pants and shorts, your confusing the hell out of me." The blonde said.
"Guess we'll find out once you fall down the stairs. You belong dead in a ditch like that witch!" The other said.
"Hey! What do you think your doing?" I heard Maka yell from the top of the stairs.
"Oh crap! It's Nerd! Run!" The blonde yelled. They bumped into eachother before running away.
"Are you okay Crona? I had a bad feeling, guess I was right." She said walking towards me.
"I'm fine. Thanks. They kinda jumped me. How is Cumo?" I asked her.
"Not good. Someone pushed her down the DWMA entry stairs." She said.
"Oh no. Did she go all the way down?" I asked her worried.
"Unfortunately, yes. Almost all of her ribs are broken, broken wrist, both legs, and she has a fractured skull."
"I better get up there quick then. Here, take my crutches and i'll hop up the stairs." She nodded and grabbed my crutches and started walking up the stairs with me. It seemed like a good idea at first, now i'm too tired to even breathe. Maka giggled as she saw me pant and gasp for air as I got to the top. She gave me my crutches back and we made our way down to the infirmary. Maka opened the door for me and as I crutched in, I could see that everyone one was crowded around the bed. Kid was sitting in a chair, crying. Everyone made room for me to see her. As soon as I saw her I could feel my breathing stop. She looked horrible. She was sleeping but she still looked like she was in a lot of pain. There were stitches all over in her face and in parts of her arms and legs. She had a tube down her throat, the only thing keeping her breathing. Stein walked in looking upset as well.
"Hello children. Well, good news is that Cumo will live. Bad news is that she is in a coma and I have no idea when she could wake up. And a major concussion. She's lucky her brain isn't bleeding rapidly. I only hope that she will recover quickly. Witches tend to have rapid regeneration." He said. Kid didn't look up or react, he just kept crying. I felt really bad, this is the first time i've seen Kid cry. It's hard to get any emotion out of Kid that doesn't involve symmetry, but even then he hasn't ever cried. Maka hugged me and wiped her finger against my face. I hadn't realized it, but I was crying too. Suddenly my legs could no longer hold me and I fell to the floor. It hurt my broken leg but I couldn't react to anything. My hands covered my face as I cried harder to the point that I couldn't breathe correctly. Maka sat down next to me and hugged me hard. Her soul wavelength was calming but I couldn't stop crying.
"You kid's are excused for the day. Spend as much time with her as you can, especially you Kid." Stein said.
"Why especially me?" Kid asked. Finally looking up.
"I noticed from the heart moniter that as soon as you walked in her heart rate calmed. She knows when your around, she can feel your soul. Oh, and Crona's. Her heart rate has slowed to normal levels as soon as you both were here." Stein said. I looked up and saw Kid take Cumo's hand in his. I would do so too, but I can't move. I'm in shock and even if I wasn't, I hit the floor so hard that my leg wouldn't be able to hold my weight anyway. Maka took my face in her hands and started to rub my cheek with her fingers.
"Stein, I know who pushed her down the stairs." She said looking down.
"Do you?"
"They're the same kids that just tried to jump Crona. They probably would of tried to push him down the stairs too if I hadn't gotten there in time."
"I see, well do you know what class they're in?"
"Yes, I had to deal with them a long time ago. In the NOT class, they're still there I believe." she said.
"Okay, take me there now."
"But class is in session, shouldn't you be teaching right now?" she asked.
"I don't care. I'll be sure those kids are punished. Spirit's subbing for me."
"Alright." She looked at me, "are you going to be alright?" she asked me. I knew I couldn't speak, I gave a weak nod in response. She gave me a sad smile and went with Stein. I brought my hands up to my face once more and started to bawl hard. I felt hands on my arms pulling me off of the floor. I tried to grit my teeth and ignore the pain but I ended up yelling as pain was shooting through my leg. My hands were pulled from my face but I kept my eyes closed and continued to bawl. I was placed on the bed next to Cumo's. I don't know how long I cried for, but it was long enough for Maka to get back. I couldn't hear anything, I could feel her wavelength rush towards me. Then I felt her arms wrap around me and it calmed me a bit. I had stopped bawling so hard and it turned into a soft cry. Eventually I had stopped crying and I sat there with Kid and Maka next to Cumo. Everyone else left and went home. The clock said 8:30.
"Kid, are you alright?" Maka asked him.
"I guess. I don't want to leave her, I haven't felt this way about anyone before and now that she's nearly left me... I can't explain it. I feel like i'm abandoning her if I go home." he said.
"Your not abandoning her, she knows that. I can walk you home if you'd like. I would stay here all night if I could too, but unfortunately we can't. I feel the same about leaving Crona." She said.
"I would like you to walk me home. Thank you. I can wait until your ready to go." He said.
"Alright." She looked over at me and took my hand in hers," are you okay?" she asked me.
"I don't get how Cumo could feel safer around me. I don't understand why she even likes me. I was afraid of her for so long. I'm not afraid anymore but I still can't look her in the eyes because I get flash backs and nightmares. I just don't understand. She probably knows so much about me, but I know nothing about her." I said.
"You know, she cried just as hard as you did when you were in a coma. She cares Crona. After spending more time with her, I realized why." Maka said.
"Why?"
"She can relate to you. Your cousins. Your mother's abused you. You were tortured. You were forced to kill innocent people. You were forced to live a life that wasn't your own," she sighed, "she also told me a secret about your family, you don't know about it. She wanted to tell you, so i'll let her."
"Oh." is all I could say. She walked over to me and got close my face which made me blush slightly.
"Don't be gloomy all night, alright? Cumo will be fine and like Stein said, she has witch regeneration on her side. So she'll recover faster. I'll come visit you tomorrow." She pressed her lips against mine which lasted a while. It made my face feel really warm and i'm sure my face was red. "Here, read it and you'll understand why I forgave Soul. You don't have to, I understand that. See you tomorrow." She set an envelope in my hand and left with Kid. I got up from my chair and hopped over to the bed I was staying in. I read the letter. It gave me a different perspective of him, I still didn't completely forgive him, but i'll give him a chance. He won't be my actual friend for a long time though. I glanced over at Cumo one more time, then I layed in my bed and fell asleep.
Sorry guys, this is a short chapter (cries) I had major writer's block and I haven't been home long enough to continue this chapter's flow. It literally took me 4 days to start the chapter. I had ideas and it was going well, but then I was invited to go camping with my bff. I went and had tons of fun, but when I came back I had no ideas and the flow just stopped. Sorry again... I will write a long chapter next chapter (the actual chapter) to make up for it =) Btw, your probably wondering what Soul's letter was, so i'll write and post it =) It'll kind of be an extra. Well, even though this chapter was short how did you like it? Poor Cumo =( she's just like Crona, a broken soul just wanting to be forgiven and to fit in... sad... stay tuned! Leave suggestions and constructive reviews! Btw Serpentine zhark, loved the idea! It'll be a while before it'll show up though. Sorry.. Anyway, next chapter will be an extra for Soul's note, keep reading! Bye Bye!