Be There [Riley]

[Shelby Crescent]

"Well you know I meant after some time. Not right away. Maybe I should follow that advice for once." she says with a faint sigh before looking up at his smile. "Ah... why did she send me flowers though?" Shell asks laughing a bit.

[Riley Pearson]

I nodded faintly. "It helps.. well, it helps me, at least." I said with another small shrug.
"Cos she.. liked you or something." I said shaking my head faintly, "I dunno, really. No harm in some flowers though." I added with a small smile, before coughing a bit more at the end of my sentence.

[Shelby Crescent]

She nods faintly before laughing a little. "I suppose not. Just my teammates were teasing me all day is all about them. They think I'm some tough as nails kind of person." she says with another faint laugh until he coughed again. "Are they going to try to heal you some more or?"

[Riley Pearson]

I smiled faintly and nodded a bit. "Sorry then.." I said after a moment.
I nodded faintly again. "Yeah, 'course they are.." I told her with a weak smile that sort of just stayed there from a moment ago, before coughing slightly again. "There was an emergency on another floor, so I told them to deal with it first.. They'll get to me." Actually I had some type of surgery type deal later. Not actually a surgery, of course, but they were gonna put me out while they worked.

[Shelby Crescent]

"Good otherwise I would be yelling at them. How's the emergency then? Did they tell you or not?" she asks softly as she got up and walked over to the window. It was still raining which she wasn't too fond of when she went to a hospital. It just made everything more grim in general here.

[Riley Pearson]

"Yelling wouldn't be needed anyway." I said with a faint shrug. "If they don't do something it's because I told them not to." Like, for example, how I told them not to put me into an induced coma. I knew it would probably slow down the process of things, but I didn't like the idea of that...
"Um.. I don't know.. They haven't been back since they were here a few hours ago." I said shaking my head faintly. ".. Something about a werewolf.. or, something." I shook my head again. "I can't remember specifically."

[Shelby Crescent]

"That doesn't sound good at all.... you know I could try my hands at your wounds." she says with a small wink as she leaned against the wall. "Only kidding of course, I love you too much to torture you further." Shell says, realizing she was failing at even getting him to smile.

[Riley Pearson]

"Probably not." I said, moving slightly again, trying to get comfortable, and trying not to wince as I did. I wouldn't mind some more pain medication right now..
"Yeah.." I said with a weak chuckle. "Please don't do that." I said looking over to her, feeling a bit dizzy but just trying to ignore it.

[Shelby Crescent]

"You okay... you don't look so good." she says frowning instantly. "Did you need something? I can get it for you." she adds before biting her lip.

[Riley Pearson]

"I don't think I'm supposed to look good." I said shaking my head faintly. Another moment passed and I put a hand up to my head for a few seconds. "Um.. yeah, think I'm fine." I told her with a really weak shake of my head. "Could you just get me some water?"

[Shelby Crescent]

"Okay, I can do that." she says with a faint nod as she walks over to the little bathroom in the room and gets some water. "Here you go. That will be one galleon please." she says before sitting back down in the chair.

[Charlotte Whelan]

Charlotte was absolutely furious. Not because Riley was in the hospital... that would be ridiculous. No Madds lied about what had happened between Riley and his friend Arden. He tried to explain to her what had happened was a lie and she didn't believe him. Now she was coming here to his work to apologize to him only to find out he was hit by a car.

Once finding the room she walked in and seen Riley in the bed but Shelby Crescent as well. She would ask for her autograph later. "Hey Riley, Shelby." she says softly before walking over to the other side of the bed and kissing his cheek softly. "I-I'm sorry love. She said she was lying and we're in a big fight now... how long have you been here?" she asks sitting on the edge of the mattress.

[Riley Pearson]

"I'll try to remember that." I said with weak chuckle as I took the water from me. Actually, I think I really will add that to my will. One Galleon for water. Just for the hell of it.
Right after I said that to Shelby, I took a sip of the water and then heard footsteps by the doorway. I swallowed and looked over, slightly surprised to see Charlotte. "I.. hi." I said watching as she walked over to me, kissing my cheek. "I.. what?" I asked, feeling sort of confused as to what she was talking about. "Um.. Four days.. I think."

[Charlotte Whelan]

Charlotte sighs and looks at him. "Madds said everything about you kissing Arden at Diagon Alley was a lie just because she was jealous. I'm sorry... I shouldn't have dumped you based on what she said... I'm so sorry." she repeats again before feeling a couple tears falling from her face.

[Riley Pearson]

I stayed quite for a few moments, looking back at her. At least I was proven innocent I guess.. and I guess she had just apologized.. Plus, I wasn't going to not forgive her.. maybe if I wasn't possibly on my death bed, but I sort of am. Not to mention, she's crying and I can't say no to people most of the time if they're crying.
I nodded faintly. "It's okay, Charlotte."

[Charlotte Whelan]

She sighs lightly before kissing him lightly on the lips. "So why are you even in here? All they said was you were hit by a car... unless you don't want to go through that whole spiel again." she says with a nod to the door where Shelby had went out of just as few moments ago.

[Riley Pearson]

I let her kiss me, and watched her as she kept talking. I hated this part. I'd done it a couple times now and I really hated it.. I don't see why someone wouldn't hate it, actually. Someone told her that I got hit, so why didn't they go ahead and tell her I was basically dead?
Shelby just left without much of a sound and after looking toward the door for a moment, I looked back to Charlotte, with a small frown. "Charlotte.." I said quietly, pausing as I reached for her hand with one of mine. "There's more that they didn't tell you.."

[Charlotte Whelan]

Char's face instantly falls and looks at him, giving him a stern nod. "Okay then. Do you have to get surgery or go through a lot of healing? Whatever it takes for you to feel better again, I'll be happy." she says letting their fingers link together as he took her hand.

[Riley Pearson]

She linked our fingers, "Charlotte.. they don't even think they can heal me..." I told her quietly, frowning some up to her. "By the time I got here, it was sort of.. too late."

[Charlotte Whelan]

"Too late... too late is when you're dead on a table Riley. I'm talking to you right now... you're not gone they can still save you." she says her voice nearly cracking before a few tears fall. "They have to... I love you."

[Riley Pearson]

"I know, Charlotte.." I said quietly, before coughing a couple times again, into another tissue. I cleared my throat faintly and shook my head. "There's a small chance.. maybe.. fifteen, twenty percent chance they'll actually be able to heal me."

[Charlotte Whelan]

"Well it's better than zero... when are they going to try to fix this?" she asks feeling slightly hurt that he didn't say it back, but of course she said before she hated him and slapped him across the face.

[Riley Pearson]

"They've been trying." I told her, shaking my head weakly. I really wished telling people was as easy as it was when I told Arden. I felt like no one was listening me when they just kept insisting it could be fixed.. and that I was going to be okay. The truth was I didn't have a lot of a chance. Yes, there was a small one.. and there was still hope, but the odds weren't good.
And as for the whole I love you thing, I don't think I've ever told her that before.. and well, after that fight, I needed some time.. and I didn't want her to get the wrong idea. "And I know the it's more than zero, but Charlotte, I want you to understand. The odds aren't good." I said frowning a bit. "I'm a healer and I know the signs... They're trying again tonight though.. in a few hours." I feel like I may have just spoken way too much, but oh well, I guess. I was dying, I could do whatever I wanted.. Most anything, at least.

[Charlotte Whelan]

"Okay, okay... did you want someone here then when you wake up afterwards or someone to hold your hand if they can that is when they're doing the healing? I'll stay if you want love." she says softly before leaning forward and kissing his cheek again.

[Riley Pearson]

I closed my eyes for a moment, letting out a small breath and rubbing my forehead slightly, wondering why this dizziness wouldn't just go away already. "Um.. I wouldn't mind if you were here when I woke up.." I said quietly, smiling weakly as she kissed my cheek again.

[Charlotte Whelan]

Charlotte nods lightly before looking at the sheets. "Okay..." she says again with nod until she looks up at him. "Are you still mad at me?"

[Riley Pearson]

I shrugged faintly, "I, um.. You couldn't have known.." I said instead sort of skirting around the answer for the moment. ".. Not exactly mad.. I was mad.. now I'm just..." I paused and shrugged faintly again. "I don't know, really."

[Charlotte Whelan]

"You really don't like me that way now do you?" she asks with a faint smile before shrugging a bit. "I'll understand Riley, it's okay."

[Riley Pearson]

I shook my head weakly, "No.. I do.." I said back to her. "I just.. Not as much as before." I clarified, before rubbing my chest for a second, it feeling a bit tight. "Not to mention I've been trying to forget you ever since the fight."

[Charlotte Whelan]

"Oh... I see." she says before frowning a little more. "If you make it out of this... could you give me another chance Riley?" Charlotte asks slowly hearing someone outside of the door and figuring it was Shelby, but she continues to look up at him.