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It had been perhaps a day or two since the accident. Anna was getting more lucid, but because she was so in-and-out, it was hard for her to keep track of the days anymore. She'd gotten in contact with her brothers and her few friends here on the island and let them know what had happened. The crash had been more traumatizing than anything. Anna's brush with death in the same manner that her parents and several of her siblings had died had spooked her immensely.

She looked worse than she felt; bruises up and down her arms, and on the right side of her head from where she'd collided with the door of the car. A small row of stitches on the side of her cheek from getting cut by a shattered jar of pasta sauce. Small scrapes and cuts from being hauled out of the car. A bandage wound tightly around her midsection to hold three broken ribs in place while they healed. A cast on her left leg that had been crushed.

Anna opened her eyes and sighed. She was still there, in the hospital bed, with the television on the wall across the room displaying some kind of game show. Its noise mixed with the steady beeping of the heart rate monitor she was attached to. An IV dripped steady fluid from the bag and through the tube, into the needle taped to her arm. She wondered what time it was. Daytime was all she could gather, from the light that streamed in through the window nearby. She was alone, and sore, and tired. She must have woken up between morphine doses. The next one probably wouldn't be for a while. Everything hurt. Moving hurt. Breathing hurt. This sucked.

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James slipped in quietly, a small vase with roses in his hands, a large case strapped to his back. He gave Anna a small smile, "hey there," he set the flowers on the desk beside her bed before taking a seat beside her, "it's good to see you awake."

In hadn't been that long ago when he was in the hospital, though he was attacked. He wasn't really sure what to do, so he very gently took her hand. "I came earlier but you were asleep," he had opened up a bit quicker to Anna than he had other people.

"I brought a few things for you," he held up a bag, "mostly snacks, I know hospital food is awful." James always treated his friends as if they were family.
 
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Hell.
Racing down the street, coffee sloshing down the front of his shirt, Nix thought back to just how crappy his life'd been the past few weeks. First Havoc with that kidnapping thing, now Anna?! And a car crash, too, he'd heard - Gods, don't get run over yourself, dumbass!
A car honked loudly at him, the driver scowling, but Nix kept on running, almost tripping in a few places.
Of all people to be in a car crash, why had it had to have been Anna? The sweet girl he'd met a the beach, that pretty voice - goddamnit. Nix had no idea of her condition. Was she alive? Dead? Almost-alive? Fine? First Havoc and the kidnappings, now Anna. Was he.... Was he cursed?
No, I'm fine, she's fine, he coaxed himself into believing, the hospital in sight. She was fine. A few broken ribs, maybe a broken leg or arm - nothing he hadn't dealt with in the cave before. Thank God she didn't have wings - otherwise things would definitely be 100 times more screwed up. Then again, they probably had good doctors here - ones who were experienced in wing-setting an -
FOCUS, DUMBASS!
He slid through the doors and walked as quickly as he could. Room 118... Room 118... That was Anna's room right?
Wrong - as he soon learned, as he veered into a completely empty room. Veered, because he almost slid into a bunch of things as Nix stumbled out of the room.
Wrong room - but this one was the right one. Huffing and puffing, he swung the door open and stood there, making sure it was the right one.
Shit.... Anna looked worse than he'd imagined. Bruises everywhere. A leg practically crushed, as he'd expected... but not like this.... little cuts and scars everywhere.
"I came as soon as I heard." Gently padding across the room, Nix stopped to sit gingerly in the visitors' chair, which he kept his (very) sparky fingertips away from.

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The familiar face was a welcome sight. "James. It's good to see you," she greeted him, wincing a little as she turned her head to watch him set the flowers on the table beside her. "Pretty," she observed. He didn't have to do that, but it was appreciated nonetheless.

"Good to be awake. Means I'm alive." She gave a woeful smile and shifted her dark-eyed gaze towards him. And he'd brought her snacks. Her eyes lit up. "Ooh, gimme," she raised her arms, a little too quickly because it hurt enough to make her whimper in pain. She dropped her arms back to her sides. "Guess I can't do that yet...might have to feed me. The nurses do, I think. I can't really remember. Everything's all fuzzy because of the morphine. The crash broke three of my ribs." She wasn't going to be moving comfortably for a while.

Nix breezed into the room, introducing a much different kind of energy in contrast to James's calm and collected presence. "Hey, Nix. Thanks for coming. Though you look almost as bad as me. Is that coffee?" She nodded to the stain on the front of his shirt. Okay, maybe he didn't look nearly as bad as she did, but he was still a mess. Her lips settled into an easy smile. It was good to have her friends here. Nice to know that so many people cared about her. She looked between the two, "Have you met James? He goes to high school at the academy and works at the magic museum." She looked at James. "Nix goes to the academy too, for college."
 
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Oh. Shit.

Nix looked on as the two others shared a quick conversation. It seemed she was a bit closer to James. Which, of course, made sense. Presumably she'd known James for longer. But still. He tried to manage a smirk despite his still-pretty-worried exterior. He was a friend - that's what he'd come here to be. And so here he was.

"Whoa, shi - ship. Careful. Your arm. Shouldn't be liftin' it more th'n ya have to." Three ribs.... Damn, that was bad. "Thank Gods for morphine, though. Hope it's uh, not too bad."

AHEM. Jeez, he was acting so awkward. Time for puns.
"Yeah, you got a point there," he remarked offhand. "You kinda look like hell," Nix admitted, as he pulled something from out of his own backpack... a thermos full of steaming hot... something. Tea. "In a good way, but still. Anythin' I can do to help out?"

Heheh. "Yeah, it's coffee - was on coffee break when i found out. Since I ran a latte, I had to take the espresso route. Traveled faster than I've ever bean. Had to make sure you were good and stuff. But uhh, holy crap. Like.... Wow. Holy sh - uhm, shite." Twisting the thermos top idly as he spoke, Nix greeted James as well.

"Hey, man. Nice to finally meetcha," with a casual but polite nod. Was he uh.... not supposed to be here? Mean, not that it mattered, but like.... GAH. He didn't even know anymore.

"Guess what, guys? Drinks," getting back into his usual charismatic tone, "are on me. You guys want some?" he asked with a smile, offering the steaming hot drink to both James and Anna
 
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"Yea... pretty flowers for a pretty girl," he unwrapped a piece of candy and offered to feed her. "Yea, I know. I was on morphine when I was in here a while back."

He nodded back Nix, "good to meet you." Nix seemed nice enough, James had trouble socializing with most people.

James took some of the tea with a grateful smile, "thanks Nix." Scooting close to Anna, he slipped a straw into it and offered her a drink, "careful, it's hot, straws sometimes make it seem hotter."
 
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Anna nearly choked on the piece of candy that James had fed to her when Nix started punning around with a coffee theme. She coughed, leaning forward a little, then recovered and managed to swallow before laughing, though the effort obviously was hurting her. Laughing hurt. Coughing hurt. It all just hurt. She gave a soft groan as her eyes rolled back a little in her head from the sharp pains in her chest.

"I'm good, I'm good," she steadied herself. "Sorry." She didn't want to tell him to not joke around too much. She knew how much Nix loved his puns. She shook her head as James offered her the tea, "I'll take my water, though, if you don't mind. It's that cup right there," she nodded her head towards a white styrofoam cup with a lid and straw that sat on the desk next to her.

"This sucks," she sighed. "The doctors said I have to stay at least a few more days to make sure there's no internal bleeding. I'm not sure how I'm going to manage once they let me out," she was so used to being independent when it came to taking care of herself. She was used to taking care of others. Now she was going to have to lean on the bonds she had made with the people around her. She wondered how long it would take before she could walk again. "The nurse said I'll probably have to be in a wheelchair, since crutches will hurt my ribs too much and they don't want to risk any more damage."

"I haven't been able to stop thinking about my family," she said suddenly, tears welling up in her eyes. "I keep having dreams about them, about how they died. How scared they must have been." The pain and the meds in her system weren't helping matters when it came to her emotions. The crash had inflicted more trauma on her than it typically would for others. A few tears spilled over and rolled down her cheeks. "I'm sorry," she sniffed, "I'm such a mess right now. You guys are so nice to visit me, and I'm just...I'm sorry..." she couldn't seem to stop the tears now that they'd broken free.​
 
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Picking the water up, he brought it over to her to take a sip, "yea, I broke a few a while back, don't worry, you'll be ok." He'd do his best to help her all he could.

Grabbing a tissue, he whipped up the tears as they flowed, "it's ok, were here." He gently squeezed her hand, he knew very little about family, but he knew about nightmares, he rarely got a good night's sleep. "You have nothing to apologize for," he'd been doing his best to help his friends, despite the fact he was secretly a mess himself.

He stayed close, still holding her hand, he knew what it was like to have built up emotions. How terrible it could be to have those negative feelings swirling inside you.
 
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In a flash of panic, he watched Anna suddenly stop breathing, the candy from James lodged in her throat, the pain in her eyes evidence that her lungs were aching as she coughed up the tiny candy. Probably because she had laughed. At his puns. Shit, that was NOT good. He was already on his feet and reaching for the water cup (which, in fact, wasn't there, because James had grabbed it already), ready to help, when she coughed it up finally, before swallowing painfully and giving a weak laugh in reply. That somehow made the whole incident that much sadder, and Nix, with a slight glare in his eye, sat back down, feeling completely useless and completely at fault.
Trying to regain at least some of his utility/friendliness/whatever the hell you wanted to call it, he too offered his services. "Hey, it'll be all good. Again, willing to help with anything I can. We gotchu, Anna. We gotchu. We're gonna come visit, make ya laugh and be nice, help ya round the house - it'll be all good! Piece o' cake." They'd have to be extra-careful taking care of her - there was NO way he was letting her get hurt again.
Speaking of hurt.... Ouch. He knew that look. The one where you were traumatized beyond comprehension? Yeah, he'd seen that look before. Hell, he'd worn that look before. The tears only made him wanna tear up too, but fuck that. He couldn't cry, man! That was not the Nix Way TM.
Fortunately, since he knew the look, he also knew how to deal with it. Nix got up and drifted to Anna's other side, trying to be as comforting as James apparently was.
"Hey, hey hey. It's okay. You don't gotta be sorry for anything. Just... Let it all out, yeah? It's gonna be okay."
Hopefully, letting out her emotions would be a good stress reliever for her, and she would smile, and everything would be OK for a bit.
He was no stranger to pent-up emotions, after all.
 
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It took a while for Anna to regain her composure. She sat there in silent tears for a few minutes, feeling like she wanted to just curl up and disappear for a while. But she couldn't. And that sucked. A lot. She tried to bring herself back to the present, focusing on the hands that were holding both of hers. She had her friends here. They were good friends. She was going to be okay, right?

...Right?

As she started to calm down, Anna gave a soft sigh and let her head lean back onto the pillow beneath it a little more. "Thank you. Both of you. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have such good friends," she said, looking between them.

"I honestly can't wait to go home. It's hard to get any decent sleep with all this beeping," she stared at the heart rate monitor, beeping away steadily. "Except for when they give me the morphine. Then it's off to La La Land for Anna. Speaking of," she watched the door open and a nurse entered. "And how are we feeling?" "Still hurts a lot." "It's going to, honey. That's what the meds are for. Here," she stepped around Nix to the IV bag and shot a syringe of morphine into the little receptacle. "You should feel better in a few minutes." And she was gone.

"And next stop, La La Land," she told her friends. "Would you guys mind staying with me for a while longer? It gets lonely here." At least until she fell asleep, though she would be fighting it hard to stay with the company she had. It brought her almost as much comfort as the morphine did.​
 
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