Ps: Sorry Chapter 5 wont be with pictures as the hospital is a rabbit hole unfortunately. But ill try to add whenever i can :D

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"Nate, Nate?"

The bright light seared his eyes as he struggled to open them.

"Nate, can you see me?" a girl's voice rang in his ears.

As he opened his eyelids slowly and the room came into focus, he saw his buddy Valen who was riding shotgun in the car

"Hey."He managed breathlessly."How are the others? as he feared for his pals.

"Glen had a punctured lung.Harry had a fractured ankle.I'm okay except for a few scratches."

Propping himself up against the pillow, he felt something strange. Where used to be his knee was covered by a mattress.

As realization dawned on him, he lost all sane control as Valen tried to restrain and calm him

He knew no more as a nurse came bursting into the room and jabbed his arm with a tranquiliser.

He was falling, falling yet again.. into the enclaves of nothingness.



Lights.Sounds.

As he regained consciousness, he felt a dull headache mowing across his entire head. What had happened before?.He could not open his eyes, his headache spelled agony.

He heard someone shout and in no time, he was surrounded.By whom?

"Are you okay?" a familiar voice said as someone or something grasped his hand.

Curosity pegged him, and he relented and opened his eyes as the room came into focus.

"Natalie?" he croaked.He had no idea how long he was unconscious.To hear that lilting voice again was almost unbelieveable.He refused to believe it as he firmly shut his eyes again.It must be a dream, he told himself.

"Nate?" that lilting voice called again.How did she know his name?

Opening his eyes, he found the face of someone .Someone who he had lost to his stupidity.

"Its going to be alright" she said.However, he detected a hint of sadness in her tone, and her eyes could have had been a blowfish equal.

"Whats wrong? "he inquired, as he wiped away her tears.Something was wrong,dreadfully wrong.

"Nothing."The facade was gone as she smiled.He wasn't going to buy it.

"Tell me, what happened?" he nuzzled against her arm."Or im not going to let you go."he teased.

She giggled, and then forlonly smiled.

"Nate. I dont know how to tell you this.. you had an accident..."Her voice faltered as she broke into convulsing sobs.

Flashbacks of the accident poured into his mind.He could see the consarned lorry, and the piercing scream filling the still night as he was pinned near the dashboard.

He peered down his body and as he saw his stump which once had been his leg,he could not help, but scream.

"Nate,Nate!" Natalie grabbed him as he started grasping at his head, his whole body convulsing and lashing out at the bed.



Pulling him into a hug, she whispered "Its going to be alright".It was the only word she could muster.

The months flew by as Nate began his physical rehabilitation.It wasnt easy as he could not accept that his leg was gone forever, and what would become of his studies?

Thankfully, Natalie and his friends was there to ease the void that would change his life forever.She was instrumental in his recovery, as she comforted him when he lost control and never failed to cook her own "inventions" which were much more revolting than the plasticky hospital food . He chuckled ;He could not decide if Natalie was there to help or torture him.As time passed, with Natalie's hard work, her cooking skill improved.


The doctors were amazed at his remarkable progress at recovery, and announced yet another piece of good news.Nate could undergo an operation to fix a prosthetic leg, which would greatly aid mobility and offer a return to normalcy to Nate's life, which had been, to say, an
gross upheaval.