The Reborn

Slowly, my eyes fluttered open and I looked around me. The steady beeping of the heart monitor I was connected at was the first thing that caught my attention. I was in a hospital room with light blue walls and pale cream tiles on the floor. Different kind of wires were connected at all sorts of machines and I have a tube stuck in my hand.

I shivered at the sight of the needle.

My back felt numb and sore as I tried to get up in a sitting position and my left hand being in a cast wasn’t helping me to get up neither.

I sighed as I pressed the button next to me.

The nurse rushed in not even 1 minute later. She has a petite figure with chocolate brown hair tied in a once tied bun and golden eyes.

“Hello dear. How are you feeling? Does anything hurt?” she asked with a warm smile as she verified all the wires.

“My back feels numb. Can you please help me to sit on my butt?” I asked with my raspy voice.

She gave me a glass of water from the little table from behind her. “Of course. You can use this remote to move your bed higher of lower.”

I gulped down the glass of water and gave her the empty glass as I took the remote. It was pretty simple. It only had one up arrow and one down arrow.

“Press and hold on the up button until the bed reaches the sitting position.”

I did as she said and now I was happily sitting on my butt. “Thanks.”

She smiled again. “That’s my job honey. Now, I have to go and announce the doctor that you’re up. Don’t try anything that can hurt you while I’m gone.” she said with a stern look and left.

Like I was about to jump off my bed and start dancing on the hospital’s roof. I can barely feel my body so I have 0 chances to get out of this bed.

“I’m starting to get tired of seeing your face here so often.”

I scoffed and glared. “Nice to see you too, Snow.”

He was wearing his usual white lab suit and his eyes as playful. For a doctor, he likes to piss off his patients a little too much.

“So” he started as he seat down at the bottom of my bed with studying my file “Broken spine, right hand is fractured and right temple busted. Per total it isn’t so bad and most of the healing is done since you’ve been asleep for 2 weeks, but your spine will be sore for another 2 and your hand will be fully healed in 1. I must say, I’ve never seen such an ugly hand fracture. I could say that it’s made by a weapon with a blade, but I don’t know what could’ve made such a bad injury. The flesh around the cut was burned and it reached the bone, slightly fracturing it.” he looked at me patiently waiting for an explanation.

I frowned. “It was a sword. A cursed one to be more exact, but that’s all I now about it. Oh, and it can kill any kind of supernatural creature.”

He rubbed his chin deep in thought. “Never heard about something like that. But I’ll make some research about it.” he got up to leave but I stopped him.

“Wait! Where are the others? Is everyone okay? Are they awake?” I asked worried and frowned.

“They are okay per total. Some of them are badder injured than others, but are stable. Everyone woke up except Lincoln and Sharpedon, but they’ll be fine.”

My heart dropped. “W-What happened with them?” I stuttered nervously. I know that he said that they’ll be okay, but it always is that tiny tiny chance that they won’t woke up and it scares me to dead that little chance.

“Sharpedon had his right lung pierced by a poisoned bullet and some broken ribs. His lungs were half full with blood when he came here, but he’s fine now. Not awake, but stable. He still has some breathing difficulties, but as long as he won’t force himself after he wakes up, he’ll be fine.”

“And Lincoln?”

“His left side was severely burned and he has a mild concussion. We cleaned his burned zone and he must wake up any minute. His injury isn’t as bad as Sharpedon’s and if he will do everything I’ll tell him, he won’t have any marks left.”

I let out a breath of air that I didn’t even realised that I was holding. They will be okay. They don’t any very bad injuries so they’ll be right in no time. I don’t have what to worry about.

“Okay. Thanks Doc Snow.”

He smiled. “You’re welcome, Moonlight. You go to sleep if you want to go and visit your friends tomorrow. All of them are still here under observations.”

I narrowed my eyes at him. He knows how to make me do whatever he wants. “Fine. But if I don’t see all of them tomorrow, I’ll make you a scene in the waiting room.”

“You won’t because you’ll see them all. Now go to bed and stop threatening me or the next time you’re here I’ll think twice before I’ll snap your spine back.” he smirked as he exited the room.

I huffed and snuggled into the covers. My blanket would’ve kept me more warm than this thin bed cover. I didn’t bother to let the bed back down since my back is still sore, so I leaned on my left side and started out at the window. The sky was dark as it’s 8 PM and I could see the wind blowing what left from the crowns of the trees. One or two dried leafs would pass my window once in a while and I stared at them as my mind raced from my parents to Spike and back to my parents.

Why they lied to me? Why they made me think that they died then in the garden? Why Spike saved me? Is this one of his many tricks? What did he meant with I’ll explain everything?

After a while, my mind grew tired from all this thinking and analysing any kind of possible explanation and sleep took over me.

“Wakie wakie.” I heard a muffled voice through my soft snores, but decided to ignore it.

“Come on, little Shadow. Wakie wakie, we have things to makie.”

“Really? That’s what you came with? Really?”

“What? It sounds very good to me. Your just jealous bitch.”

I groaned and rubbed my eyes. “What the fuck do you want from me this early?”

“Early? It’s 11 o’clock bitch.” Leaf said and I glared at him before I started to laugh. He has a little cast on his nose with red hearts draw with a red marker.

He glared at me. “Laugh as long as you want. I’m still looking drop dead gorgeous unlikely you!”

I calmed down and rubbed my tummy which was hurting from too much laughing. “I don’t have anything on my face loser. Only on my arm.”

He smirked. “Really? Sorry to burst your bubble, but your right eyebrow has a scar that won’t dissappear any time soon.”

My eyes widen and I ripped the mirror from his grasp. I have a cut running across the middle of my eyebrow. It’s slightly pink, but it will turn white as time will pass.

“Great. Fan-fucking-tastic. I’ll be uglier than I already am.” I mumbled and throw the mirror at Leaf.

Hazel smacked his head. “See what you did? Now she’s sad because of you. Our job is to make her smile not frown!”

Leaf rubbed his head and mumbled a sorry. They look so cute and I’m happy that they get along so well even if they can a big pain in the ass sometimes. You can clearly see that this 2 are brothers even you would be blind. From the way they look to the way they talk and act you can tell that they are at last cousins if not brothers.

I frowned again as I thought about Lincoln. I have to see him today.

“Oh, come on bitch! My nose will be crocked after this so we can look ugly together. Well, it will be very difficult for me to look ugly, but I’ll try for ma homie.” Leaf said as Hazel smacked him again, earning a ‘What’ from Leaf. Hazel looked at him with a dessapointed face and shook his head.

I chuckled. “I’ll take the risk. One of us has to be the ugly friend. Now, be the nice friend and help me to get up.”

He scoffed and came to the left side of me. “I’m always the nice friend.”

With his support I got out the bed and stand up on my shaky legs. He helped me to make the first few steps until I managed to stay on my own. My back was still snore, but as long as I don’t run I’ll be fine.

“Let’s go and visit everyone.” I motioned to the exit with my head and they smiled and came with me.

“Fine. Fine. FINE. I’LL LEAVE. GRUMPY PANTS!”

“I’m not grumpy! You’re just so fucking annoying! How can you be friends with her?”

Sparky smacked Ash and he glared at me. “Apologise. Now Ash. It’s rude to talk with her like that. She’s our friend.”

I placed my innocent look on. “Yes Ashy. I love you. Why you don’t love me back?” I stared to laugh as he threw a glass at me, but I quickly walked out of the room.

Leaf and Hazel stopped at Flame and River to play some game at their Xbox. Don’t ask me how in the name of hell they sneaked it in because I don’t have any idea. Python was busy glaring at the doctor as he kept asking him questions about his health and lecturing him about how he can’t bite the nurse when she changes his bandages even if it may hurt him a little. Iron was very revolted because he has things to do and they are keeping him here against his will. In his vision if nothing hurts, you can go home. Aiden was in his room with Windy of course, and they were watching some crappy romantic movie, to Aiden’s bad luck. He pleaded me with his eyes to help him, but I know better than getting between Windy and her movies. Ash was in Sparky’s room and they were having an argument about who killed more Darks and since both of them are stubborn as fuck, it won’t end very soon. The only ones I haven’t visit yet are Lincoln and Sharpedon. Sirius and Sky are fine since they stayed behind in the computers room.

I stopped walking when I saw Doc Snow rushing into Lincoln’s room making me scared that something might be wrong with him and he could die. He’s my twin brother and losing him would be like losing half of me. I waited outside his room anxiously biting my fingers and running my hands through my wild hair.

He’ll be fine. Maybe doc was just checking on him and he was rushing because he is very busy. Yes. That’s it. He is a very busy doc. But why is taking him so long?

As he heard me, doc exited Lincoln’s room and I almost jumped on him bombarding him with thousands of questions. “Is he alright? Is he alive? Why you rushed onto his room? What’s wrong with him? Will he be fine? What took you so long?”

He stared at me. “Are you done?”

I took a deep breath. “Yes.”

“He’s fine. Actually, he’s good. Better than yesterday and I rushed in his room because he just woke up-” that was all I needed to hear. I entered his room, slamming the door wide open and started to look around his room until my eyes landed on him. He was looking a little startled by my sudden moves, but after he saw that it was only me he rolled his eyes.

I grinned from ear to ear and ran to him. “TWINY!!!!” I yelled and hugged me carefully to not touch his burned side.

He hugged me back and chuckled. “Someone missed me?”

“What do you think? You really need to stop over sleeping. You overslept for 1 day! I woke up yesterday!” I said playfully because I know that his body wasn’t ready to wake up yesterday and I don’t want him to know how freaked out I was when I heard that he wasn’t awake.

“Oh, shut up. This is the first time when I sleep more than you do and you’re rubbing it in my face. You shouldn’t be teasing me since I’m still injured.”

I looked at him with a poker face and raised my left hand. “So am I, but this didn’t stopped Leaf from telling me that I’ll look ugly the rest of my life for my new scar. Or stop Ash from throwing a glass at me.”

He smiled. “You probably deserved that glass, but don’t listen to Leaf. He’s just jealous because your ass is better than yours.”

I started to laugh. Leaf told me how much he loves my ass and how he wants his ass to look like mine, but damn bitch. I’m unique and no one can be like me.

“You should see him now. He has a cast on his nose and someone draw on it some red hearts. He looks hilarious.” I said still laughing.

For the next hour, I told him how everyone was doing, including that Sharpedon isn’t awake and I told him about Spike. When we arrived at the parents topic we just shared a sad smile and pained look because it isn’t anything left to say. He knows and remembers exactly what I do and he is as confused and sad as I am. After we’ll be released, we’ll have some research to do. We decided that we need to find out exactly what happened because if we don’t, we’ll think about our parents as people who gave up on their kids to resolve one problem from many another problems they had back then.

I got up from my seat and hugged him again. “I’m happy that you’re fine and awake. I don’t know what I’d do without you twiny.”

“You’d be dead or in jail. It’s simple.” I pulled back and slapped him on the shoulder.

“So much honesty.” I snorted. “Now, if your majesty is kind enough to excuse me, I’ll go because I have one last stop before I’m going back to my room.”

He looked confused before his mouth formed an O shape and smirked. “The majesty permits you to leave him. You can go and visit your boyfriend.”

For some reason, his comment made me blush. “He isn’t my boyfriend!”

“But you’d want to.” his smirk grew bigger and I glared at him with my tomato face.

“Injured or not, I’ll punch you if you don’t stop harassing me, Snow.”

“It’s not harassing if you’re saying the truth. I’m just telling the truth.” he said with a hand on his heart.

I glared at him harder. “And I’ll play this at your funeral if you don’t stop.” (If you don’t understand check the lyrics from RIP to my youth by the neighbourhood). I exited his room and as I closed his door he yelled after me.

“But you never denied it!!!”

I ignored him and kept walking. As I was coming closer to his room, my happy mood started to dissappear and be replaced with worry and anxiety. I opened the door slowly and peeked through the crack. The whole room has white walls and grey flooring and it’s a little bigger than my room. A big window is across the door and it was opened making the room a little cold. I walked straight to the window and close it. Slowly, I turned around and saw him. His usual tanned skin has a sick pale tone, his cute little smile is replaced by a thin line and his lips are pale and chipped while his obsidian eyes are hidden from me by his heavy eyelids that refuse to flicker open. He has the oxygen mask on his mouth and nose to help him breathe. His breathing is slower than normal and I don’t want to imagine how was he breathing when he arrived here.

My heart squeezed when I saw how he looks almost lifeless. If he wouldn’t be breathing, you’d think that he’s dead. At last he doesn’t have any other injuries besides his lungs, thank God.

I seated down in the plastic chair beside his bed and I bite my lips. I feel like crying when I see him like this because I feel like it’s my fault. He jumped on Black when he tried to shoot me. If I wouldn’t have underestimate Black, he won’t have broke my spine and I could’ve handle Black without Sharpedon getting hurt in the process. I rubbed my teary eyes.

Flashes of memories with him walking with that stupid book on his head appeared in my mind and I smiled.

I took his hand in my shaky one. “Hi. Wow, this sounds so lame.” I let out small chuckle. “Listen up, Gaze. You have to wake up. You need to wake up because it’s not your time and you still have a lot of things to learn. Not all of them from me, but I still have some things to teach you. You’re our leader and we need you. Without you everything will be a chaos. You are the perfect leader ’cause you know how to make us all work together as one. And let’s not talk about how you do all that talking with others and writing papers thing. I have never seen in my entire life someone so diplomatic as you or someone who cares so much about people around him. You said that I’m something else, but I think that you are something else. Crazy bitches like me aren’t so hard to find if you know where to search, but kind people like you are very hard to find in our world. You need to wake up. We need you to wake up. I need you to wake up, Sharp. You are a part of my weirdos squad and once you’re in you can’t back away. You know, weirdos for life. You need to wake up as soon as you can. You can’t leave me here alone with this idiots or I’ll murder someone. You still have to teach me new cool things and I still have to tease you as much as I can, so please, wake up. Take all the time you need, but wake up.” I finished my motivating speech and wiped some tears that escaped from my eyes.

I took a deep breath. He will wake up and everything will be fine. I know it. He’s a fighter and a stubborn ass and he won’t die like this.

Right?