I do not own Fairy Tail.

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The wet snap of a bone breaking, and a scream of pain. Virgo's eyes had been squeezed shut in anticipation of the agony, but it hadn't come. She opens her eyes in confusion before being overcome by horror.

Lucy is tied to a table across from her, and Warren is standing over her with a club. But something is off with him.

That's it, he's possessed. It's 'Warren'.

"Awake? Good. Now you can watch."

The club descends, bringing another snap and another scream. Virgo screams too, but in anger, and starts thrashing, tearing at her bonds.

But her efforts are useless. She has no choice but to watch as 'Warren' methodically breaks every bone in Lucy's body. About halfway through Virgo's been reduced to a sobbing mess. All she can do is chant, "I'm sorry," over and over again, for she knows the pain that Lucy is going through.

Virgo finally wakes up, screaming "LUCY!"

She looks around, a wild look in her eyes, before recognizing where she is. She'd fallen asleep in Lucy's hospital room. Virgo sighs and checks the clock. 12:05 AM.

'Thirty minutes, huh?'

The last time she had seen the clock, it had been 11:35 PM, so she had gotten an absolute maximum of thirty minutes of sleep.

Virgo sighs again and gets up, heading to the nearest bathroom to wash her face. It had been two and a half days since 'Warren' had stopped by, and that was the first time she'd fallen asleep. She could barely think or move, and she was starting to hurt pretty badly from spending too much time in the physical plane. In the last week, she had spent less than twelve hours in the Celestial World, and ten of those hours were during the first day. She really hopes that Lucy will wake up soon; then maybe she can get some actual sleep.

Virgo walks back into Lucy's hospital room and sits down next to Lucy's bed again. She's so exhausted, she almost misses the word that she's been waiting five days to hear.

"Virgo…"

Virgo's head snaps up, then to the side. Lucy's eyes are barely open, and are glazed with pain, but she is awake. Virgo tears up, then sobs and cries "Lucy!" She starts to throw herself at Lucy, but catches herself before she lands, remembering that many of Lucy's bones are still very much broken.

Lucy manages to murmur, "What happened to you…?"

Aside from the bags under her eyes, Virgo also had filthy, matted hair, red, puffy eyes, and an assortment of scratches from debris during her fight with 'Warren' a few days ago.

Virgo just smiles, though. That was entirely like Lucy, having a majority of the bones in her body broken, and being more worried about her friend not washing her hair. Virgo answers Lucy, "What happened to me is that spirit dropping a crate on you."

Lucy looks a little confused. "How did that affect you like this?"

Virgo responds, "Well, I've only gotten about an hour of sleep since then. Oh, we should probably call in a doctor; they'll want to know that you've woken up."

"How long was I out?"

Virgo glances at the clock, which reads 12:09 AM. "Five days, eleven hours and thirty seven minutes."

Lucy frowns. "You didn't just make that up, did you?"

Virgo shakes her head, "No, I-" and passes out.

Lucy's eyes slide closed as she mumbles, "I think I'll sleep too…"

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Early in the afternoon of the next calendar day (roughly 38 hours later), Lucy slides back to consciousness. As her eyes open, she notices that she's in a hospital room.

'Huh? Why aren't I in my apartment?'

Lucy tries to sit up, but stops when she's hit by waves of pain from all over her body. She groans in pain, then notices something shifting on her bed. Moving just her head and eyes, she looks down and sees a woman with disgustingly dirty waist-length pink hair, sleeping with her head on Lucy's bed. As Lucy looks at her, the woman mumbles Lucy's name.

'Don't I know her from somewhere? Oh well. Hospitals have doctors, right? And those doctors will know what happened to me.'

Lucy does her best to look around, and eventually spots a small box practically underneath her left hand. The box has a button on it, and a cable that snakes over the edge of the bed and out of sight. She goes to press it with her index finger, but is reminded of the fact that there are broken bones in her arm when she tries to move it into position. After recovering from the pain, she uses her pinkie to reach over and press the button.

'Phew, that was exhausting…' Lucy thinks before falling asleep.

A minute later, a doctor arrives at Lucy's room. When he looks in the room, though, he sees the exact same thing that he'd seen yesterday, which only differed from the five days before it in that the pink-haired one was asleep. She had definitely looked like she needed it.

The doctor sighs and walks over to the bed, fully expecting the nurse to have been mistaken about the call button being pressed. However, when he gets there and looks, he notices that Lucy's hand is slightly out of place… and that one of her fingers is resting on the call button.

He taps her on the shoulder, then when she doesn't respond in any way, he pulls open an eyelid and shines a light in her eye. He grins when her pupil contracts in reaction to the light. He heads back out to the nurse's station and tells the nurse on duty, "She's asleep."

The nurse smiles, and the two of them go back to work.

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As Lucy wakes up some time later, the woman who had been there last time she woke up greets her, "Hey, Lucy. Is there anything I can do for you?"

Lucy frowns and concentrates on the woman's face. Lucy definitely knew her from somewhere.

"Um… Virgo? Is that your name?"

Virgo's eyes widen in shock, then she stands up fast enough to knock over her chair before backpedaling as fast as she can. When she hits the wall, she collapses into a ball on the floor, rocking back and forth and saying "Not again, not again, not again…"

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I actually did some research on the effects of comas, so for those of you that have fallen prey to the myth that a coma is essentially a really long nap, it's not. The damage that caused the coma leaves various lasting effects that only time can heal, with the effects decided more or less at random from a list.

If you want (at least a portion of) that list, read on. If not, move on.

Keep in mind, the symptoms a person shows are pretty much randomly selected from this list, so they may have only one, or they may have every single one. The durations of the symptoms are also pretty much randomly selected, anywhere from a few days to the rest of their lives.

This list is in no particular order.

- Things associated with newborns, i.e. waking up in the middle of the night, putting things in their mouths, not recognizing the need to use the bathroom, and lack of balance.

- Outbursts of anger that aren't remembered

- Lack of basic memory, such as how to walk, talk, and eat.

- Tiring easily

- Incoherent speaking

- Temporary memory loss

- Abnormal expressions of sexuality

- feeling "unsafe" while alone, night sounds in particular are frightening. These fears are best dispersed by any form of physical contact.

- Double vision

- Sensitive hearing

- Weakness

- Partial paralysis

- Lack of coordination

- Loss of tactile sense

- Short-term memory loss

- Inability to pay attention to multiple things or inability to pay attention to only one thing

- Lack of emotional control

- Paranoia

- Depression

- Difficulty detecting others' emotions; for example not noticing that someone close to them is upset or angry

- Temporary relapsing back into a coma

Phew, that list was longer than I expected it to be. Anyway, for those of you that read that, you now understand the extent of POSSIBLE damage that COULD HAVE been received by somebody in a coma. Those emphases are because I don't want to receive flak for having Lucy see straight or anything like that.