The Hospital Visit

A little something for *ToniBabelony, based on his "Bound for Termination"



The last thing the Shik could remember, was a bang, a shock, an earth-shuddering crash that shook through her body. She was dead - she must have been. The hit to her head was hard, it felt as if her skull had shattered into a thousand pieces.

Hours, days, eons seemed to have passed before the feeling in her head subdued. The world that had slipped into a hue of grey slowly seemed to rebuild itself, until with a flick of her eyelids, the girl opened her eyes again, seeing light, seeing shapes, seeing colours.

In front of her, a dot of yellow and pintpoints of blue formed themselves on a blot of flesh. A red streak transformed itself into a smile; waves shaped themselves into curls of blond hair. Trying to focus her eyes, the shik saw a friendly face staring down at her, a girl not quite, but very much unlike herself.

"Allez, regarde, elle a ouvert ses yeux!" a soft voice said. Looking around, the Shik could see a second blond-haired girl, almost the spitting image of the other girl, looking down at her. Only now, she began to become fully aware of her surroundings. The heavy smell of desinfectants penetrated her brain, the noise of feet running around in corridors hit her ears. A hospital - she was in a hospital. Had she somehow survived the bullet to her brain?

"Non, ne bouge pas... don't move!" the girl sitting in front of her said. "Le docteur said you shouldn't move, c'était une accident grave, a really terrible accident! You were lucky to survive it with so few injuries, mais... you took a massive hit to ze head! Monsieur le docteur, he said you will have to rest in ze bed for at least a month!"

"What happened?" the Shik reacted. Images of a gun, memories of a shot seemed to penetrate her brain for a moment. Her throat felt rough and dry, and she had difficulties suppressing an urge to throw up. Was this some kind of dream?

"Relax," the girl said in her strange accent, "you must know... le docteur, he said that it might be a while before all of the memories come back. But you were lucky, l'avion... the aircraft, it did not catch fire, otherwise you wouldn't have made it. Nicole et Blanca, zey saw it happen, zey ran and dragged you out of ze wreckage. Les pilotes too, they made it, but... I'm zo sorry, le radio, zey could not save him."

Confused, the Shik looked at the blonde girl. "Aircraft? Pilots? Radio? What are you talking about? Where am I? And why..."

Looking around her, the Shik girl noticed everything about the room she was in looked out of time. The thick and course sheets, the iron-framed bed, the outdated clothes, the odd, wavy hair on the girl that was talking to her. A pain shot through her brain, for a moment the world turned in front of her head. She was sure now. She was dead, she was dying... this was all just a dream, it had to be, right...?

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Yet another of *Shabazik's Shik girls suddenly finds herself oddly in my INU-Air universe. Whatever happened to her...?