Adora's POV

As soon as those words left his mouth, I felt my body began to fall into an unfocused state, a very numb one too. My ears began to muffle the sound, with a small ringing sound that rang throughout my ears. My eyes began dart everywhere as I clutched the blankets of the hospital bed, I attempted to control my ragged breathing but that seems impossible.

"What do you mean?!" I heard a muffled scream come out of Glimmer's mouth while she slammed her hand against a nearby table.

My eyes darted up to Glimmer's figure making my anxiety whirl, even more, I saw the doctor begin to bicker with her as Bow tried to calm her down. I felt my hands begin to shake, with my knuckles turning white.

"Adora?" I heard a soothing soft voice come from the side of me.

I slowly turned my head looking over at Catra, her eyes were soft and the way her voice said her name was beginning to calm me.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

I felt balls of sweat begin to form on my forehead, my mouth was barely able to move to answer her question. Instead, I just leaned forward to have my head hang loose against her shoulder. Her hand began to soothingly make circles around my back, which helped suppress the anxiety that was building up.

"Is she okay?" Someone asked, maybe the Doctor. I didn't seem to care at the moment, I just wanted to lay here with Catra to calm myself down.

I heard Catra give a light, "Yeah, I think she needs to be alone".

A couple of minutes later, and shuffling around later. The room went quiet, the only thing I was able to hear was Catra's light breathing. As soon as I knew we were alone, I almost broke. I clutched onto the side of Catra's shirt and breathed raggedly.

Tears began to escape my eyes, staining her flannel. Making a huge puddle of tears begin to form a huge circle.

"It's gonna be okay" Catra whispered holding me tight against her chest.

"H-How do you know that" I mumbled feeling weak.

"Because I know you. You're strong Adora, a strong person. I know this won't stop you from doing anything in life, you're gonna be just fine" She reassured still holding me close.

Catra's comforting words helped me calm down, and the feeling of fear in my stomach begin to release.

"But the fight-" I began to tremble once again.

I felt Catra begin to slightly shuffle around making me stop mid-way sentence, it took me a minute to realize the position we were in. Catra had removed me from her chest, she held my right shoulder with her hand and squeezed it lightly, making me look into her heterochromatic eyes.

"I don't want to hear anything about that right now, you don't need any more pressure on your shoulders...no pun intended" Catra mumbled.

That got me to laugh a little, "Thanks Catra, for being here...for me.."

I saw a small blush begin to rise on her cheeks, making her wiggle in her seat uncomfortably, "Y-Yeah, it's nothing"

I saw her holding something back slightly, "What is it?"

Her eyebrows raised in confusion, "What?"

"Catra, come on. I know you want to tell me something, what is it?" I said rolling my eyes.

I watched her suck in a sharp breath, "I- 'll tell you later"

I groaned and slapped my hand against my face annoyed. She isn't telling me anything, I've been waiting days to find out why she was acting so weird, and she is going to tell me 'later'. Yeah, right.

I scoffed to myself and looked away slightly.

A couple of seconds later, I felt her hand touch my arm lightly.

"Adora, come on. Don't be mad" Catra pleaded.

I stayed silent.

"Adora...please" She pleaded once again.

I continued to not say anything.

"Look at me..." I almost thought she sobbed.

I turned my head in her direction but didn't look at her direction.

"Adora, I said look at me" She commanded. It almost shocked me, she rarely ever used that tone of voice, only if she was extremely serious about something.

I eventually looked at her, I knew my eyes had turned a bit darker since she hesitated to bring her hand closer to me.

"Are you seriously mad?" She asked.

That's when I snapped, "Yeah! Catra, I'm mad! You have been practically ignoring me, leading me on, teasing me, everything! You won't let me kiss you, you always hesitate to touch me, I thought we were over this! I thought we could...we...could finally be comfortable with each other! But no! Where am I going wrong, Catra! Where?!"

She looked totally shocked and taken aback, she then brings her hands back into her lap and fidgeted slowly. I waited for her to answer, but instead, she continued to open her mouth as if she was going to say something, but she closed it quickly.

I began to get impatient, I slowly brought my hand up to her arm and pushed her lightly making her flinch. My heart almost dropped at the sight, she hasn't flinched at my touch in a while.

"Catra...at least say something...I just found out I'm probably not going to be able to use my shoulder anymore...and this is how you're gonna be?" I mumbled with a small sob.

"Adora..." She whispered, probably not knowing what to say.

"No...I think you should go, and...come back later" I hissed.

"Ado-"

"Go, for now. Please?" I told her.

I saw her clench her fists in her lap, but quickly let them fall to her side as she got up to leave. But before she did, she looked over her shoulder.

"I'm sorry," She said with a crack in her voice. The crack almost made me tell her to come back, and tell her it was okay. But, I held back. After that, she left leaving me alone in the hospital room alone.

"Why does this always happen..."

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"Adoraaaaaa" I heard my name being slurred close to my eye.

I groaned and tried to swat away whoever was doing that.

"Bow, stop!" I heard another voice say.

"Sorry"

"No, you're not!"

"Yes, I am!"

"Is she dead?"

"I think so"

I heard two voices continue to bicker at each other, but they eventually came to a stop since I began to have eyes flutter open.

"She's not dead!" Bow exclaimed.

I whined and attempted to get up but my shoulder felt worse than earlier. I saw from the corner of my eye, Glimmer rush to my side and helped me up into a better sitting position.

"Are you alright?" She asked worriedly.

I sighed and tilted my head to look at her, "Not really"

"I know what we can do, we can get you ice cream by the nearby store!" Bow exclaimed.

"Bow, she can't get up. You know that" Glimmer scolded.

Bow frowned, "Can't she wear that shoulder brace? While she was out, I asked the doctor. He said she can wear that brace to protect the shoulder from getting worse, and she has those pain meds. Plus she no longer needs an IV...AAAND. We'll protect her from getting hurt!"

I looked at Glimmer with puppy dog eyes, It has been a while since I've been out of the hospital. Plus, I need to stretch my muscles since the last time I've gone out.

She eventually sighed and went to go pick up the shoulder brace, "Fine! But, if anything starts hurting Adora. You better tell us!"

Bow and I cheered, we both high-fived each other in victory.

"Best friend squad's trip to the store while Adora is injured!"

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"Adora! Stop trying to do everything" Glimmer groaned taking the cart from my grasp.

"But...Glimmmmmmmerrrrr, I hate being useless" I whined trying to reach for the cart again.

"No! You're injured, you know you can't do stuff like you used to. Plus, do you want your injury to get worse?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

I rolled my eyes with a small grumble, "No...ugh, fine"

Glimmer sighed with a satisfied look, while Bow was squeaking about the stuffed animals.

"Squishy!" I heard him say.

"Bow!" Glimmer yelled.

"Sorry! Ice cream and out!" He apologized.

I've always had a feeling since middle school that they liked each other since Glimmer thought Bow was dating Kyle, and she got sooo jealous. But turns out they weren't anything, which Glimmer seemed pretty relieved about that. I'm not making any assumptions though...

"You okay?" I heard Bow ask as we continued to walk around the store.

"Ya, why?"

"You just zoned out there" He mentioned.

"It's nothing, just thinking about Catra..." I lied.

"Oh yeah, I saw her walk out of the hospital. She seemed pretty...sad but also angry?" Glimmer added in.

Why would Catra be angry? Did telling her to leave make her angry? I hope this doesn't turn into a huge argument, I'm tired of fighting with Catra.

"She's...just being, Catra" I mumbled.

"She's not causing you any trouble right?" Glimmer asked protectively.

"N-No! Nothing like that, just stupid problems that we need to fix" I reassured.

She exhaled and let out a quiet, 'alright'.

Glimmer has always been the one to protect me from anyone who was mistreating me, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, ex, anyone basically. While Bow, he was chill. As long as they were nice to us or him, he was nice to them. But if you got on his bad side, it's probably something you don't want to experience.

"Finally! Why does the ice cream have to be so far" Bow grumbled.

"Hey, it must be worse for, Adora" Glimmer said with a small smack to Bow's shoulder.

"True" Bow whispered, then squealing at the freezer that holds the popsicles.

I gasped and made my way over to where he was looking at.

"What?" Glimmer questioned, confused.

"It's the Spongepop Bobsicles!" Bow and I said in unison.

I heard Glimmer give herself a facepalm as we continued to drool at the sight of them.

"Come on, Glimmer. You have to have one!" Bow exclaimed handing me one, then holding one out for Glimmer to take.

She rolled her eyes and looked at it closely, then looking back up at Bow's baby eyes. I almost thought she blushed but she quickly snatched it and walked away.

"Mission success!" Bow said punching the air in victory.

I let out a small laugh, as Bow continued to tease Glimmer about his victory. Which caused them more bickering, but while they were doing that something caught my eye. I looked closely at the freezer and saw a lonely Spongebob push pop laying there. I remembered that was Catra's favorite ice cream, of like. ALL-TIME. I sighed and opened the freezer than taking it in my hand looking at it intently. I clutched onto it and walked it over to where Bow and Glimmer were checking out.

"You're getting two?" Glimmer asked.

"Nah, this one is for Catra," I said with a small smile.

She nodded and continued to wait in line.

Finally, it was my turn to pay, I stepped up in the line and placed my popsicle on the conveyer belt. I was fishing for my wallet in my pocket and eventually found it.

"Wow, is that you Adora?" I heard someone ask.

"Uhhh..yeah?" I stared at the cashier speaking to me, she had blue eyes and pink hair. She looked extremely familiar, but then It clicked.

"Oh! You're the one from my math class, with the service dog?" I asked.

She nodded and leaned closer, "It's not actually a service dog, I just put a vest on her because I want to take her everywhere with me"

I let out a chuckle, "Oh, I see. What's her name?"

I bent down and pet the dog waiting for her to answer.

"Cindy," She said scanning the item.

"Cute name, also cool hair" I complimented handing her the amount I needed to pay.

She smiled and handed me change, "Yeah! I just dyed it recently. I know you're leaving, just follow me on Instagram. I'm sure you'll find me"

I nodded and waved her goodbye, "Yeah! Of course!"

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"Adora! Seriously, what took you so long?!" Bow whined holding his ice cream.

"Sorry! Someone from my math class noticed me and we talked for a little" I said beginning to open my ice cream as well.

"Watch out, don't let Catra see" Glimmer teased.

I lightly pushed her back as we walked to a nearby step and sat down, eating our ice cream.

I heard once another gasp come from Bow, making Glimmer and I look at him.

"Mine's deformed!" Bow gasped.

We all laughed at Bow's ice cream, while Glimmer and I's looked somewhat normal? At least our Spongebob had it's two eyes.

We eventually finished our ice cream, then deciding to take a quick walk around the area before heading back to the hospital.

"Look!" Bow pointed to a kind of abandoned park, which had a gate in front of it.

Glimmer noticed and walked in front of us, "No! We're NOT going in there, besides how is Adora going to get over?"

"Easy" Bow challenged, walking over the fence and jumped over opening the door for us. I grinned looking over at Glimmer and walked in.

"I have a bad feeling about this" Glimmer muttered.

I haven't been to a kid park in a while, so it gave me nostalgia. I ran up the slide and ducked under the slide to make my way up the stairs of the big toy.

"Adveeeencha!" Bow screamed on the tip of a broken pirate ship. Seahawk would always say that, and Bow always looked up to him so he says that all the time now.

"Come on, Glimmer!" I told her curling my finger, telling her to come over here.

She rolled her eyes and made her way over to the shipwreck, Bow and I were lying on top of. Glimmer shifted her way in the middle of both of us as we stared up at the sky that was now dark.

"I can see stars" Bow whispered.

"I think we can all see stars" Glimmer retorted.

"They're so bright today" I added in, almost dazed.

I then heard soft snores begin to come from both of them, totally surprising me.

"How fast can they both fall asleep?" I mumbled, then grabbing my phone to see no new text messages or calls.

I sighed with a twinge of sadness, hoping that Catra would at least text. But then again, she did send Catra away. I decided to put that in the back of my head and drift into a short slumber, the breeze on my face felt relaxing.

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A loud blaring noise made me shoot right up into a sitting position making my shoulder ache, from the position I was lying in. I steadied my vision seeing two cop cars that had their sirens on at full blast with red, white, and blush flashes hurting my eyes.

"Who's there!" I heard one cop say.

I quickly shifted around and shook both of them, making them both sit upright quickly recognizing the situation we were in.

"Oh, shit!" Bow whispered, moving frantically around to hide from the cops searching the perimeter.

"I told you this was a bad idea" Glimmer hissed quietly.

"Well, I didn't know this was going to happen!"

"But I still told you!"

"This isn't my fault"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

I groaned at them fighting and slapped them both on the face lightly making them look at me, "Now is not the time, to bicker!"

They both nodded and I devised a quick plan to escape. But...It wasn't a plan it was basically just-

"RUN!" I screamed with a whisper.

We both all ran out the back door, we heard footsteps behind us making my heart race. We all sprinted towards the back area of the store that we bought the popsicles from. I exhaled happily seeing a door that I could open, I pointed towards the door for Bow and Glimmer and we all made our way to the door.

"Show yourself! You were in a place that was off-limits!" I heard another cop say.

My hands started to tremble as I went to open the door, but my heart dropped realizing the door wasn't budging.

"Come on Adora!" Bow whispered frantically.

"I-It's not opening!" I frantically mumbled.

Not thinking clearly, I decided to smash my shoulder against the door to open it, making a surge of pain go through my shoulder. I dropped to the ground clutching it in pain, gritting my teeth together.

"Adora?!" I heard an unfamiliar voice say. I looked up slightly seeing the cashier I was talking to earlier.

I groaned not being able to talk, as I crawled my way into the doorway she was standing in. Bow and Glimmer pushed through the door somehow. We were all panting for breath, Bow with his hands on his knees and Glimmer just wheezing fast.

"Can you please explain what's going on?" The cashier said.

Glimmer held up a finger, finally catching her breath.

"ADORA!? What were you fucking thinking! Your shoulder! Are you kidding me?!" Glimmer yelled.

I groaned and shook my head, "Stop, screaming. It was the only way to get us out"

"She's right, Glimmer. If she didn't smash against the door, no one could've heard us" Bow said patting Glimmer on the back.

"But, that doesn't make it okay!" Glimmer paced around.

I let out small whine feeling another wave of pain go to my shoulder, "Oww..."

"Are you okay?" Glimmer and the other girl said in unison.

I nodded and gulped not finding the ability to say anything.

"Who are you?" Glimmer asked.

"Madison, I go to your school" She responded.

Glimmer nodded and looked over at the dog who was licking her foot.

"Service dog?" She then asked.

"Yup! Her name is Cindy" She exclaimed.

Glimmer was about to respond when we all heard a loud pounding come from the door we ran into.

"Etherian police department, we need you to open this door immediately" A man spoke.

"Did you guys seriously-" Madison began to speak but stopped when she saw all of us pleading for her help to get us out of this situation.

"Fine" She whispered, she then pointed to a nearby closet. We all then made our way into the closet, with Glimmer and Bow helping me up.

We began to hear their conversation.

"Hello, ma'am. Did you happen to see any 3 teenagers, roaming around your store? We saw them in an off-limits park, so we are searching for them," The policeman spoke.

"No, I haven't" She spoke softly.

"Are you sure? You aren't lying right?" He pressed.

"No, I promise you" She spoke with a sincere voice.

The man sighed, "Alright, cute dog by the way"

"Yeah, thanks," She said dryly.

I heard the policeman tell her goodbye, she waited a few seconds for him to leave. The footsteps beginning to become quieter and quieter as the seconds went by.

"You can come out now," Madison said.

We all sighed and all fell on the floor with me toppled on top of them.

"God, that was the most cramped place ever"

"My shoulder...."

"I'm dead"

I heard a chuckle come from Madison as she heard all of our complaints, I looked up at her and smiled.

"Thanks for getting us out of that" I thanked.

Bow and Glimmer said their thanks as well.

"I advise you don't go out there," She told us.

We all nodded and watched Madison go out of the storage room to get us blankets for the night. I was sitting in the most comfortable position for my shoulder, but the pain was almost impossible to withstand.

"Do you not have any more of your pain meds?" Bow asked with concern.

"C-Catra, has them. She should be in the hospital, I hope" I whispered since speaking began to hurt now.

Glimmer nodded, fetching for her phone and dialed Catra's number.

"Catra?"

I couldn't hear Catra's voice since she wasn't on speaker.

"Um, we need you to get Adora's pain meds for her shoulder"

"We need them now"

"Yes now!"

"U-Um, Adora is fine?"

I saw Glimmer exhale and walk towards me giving me the phone. I weakly grabbed the phone and held it up to my ear.

"Adora?" She said worriedly.

"Hey, Catra" I mumbled weakly.

"Hey, are you okay?" She asked I heard shuffling around. She must've been in the hospital room already.

"No...p-please just get here. I need you" I mumbled, not realizing I had said the last part impulsively.

"I'm coming, don't worry. I'll be there" She whispered, with the sound of pills clanging into the bottle.

She then ended the call, as I waited for her to come. 

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A/N: I know there has been a lot of angst lately, but I promise it's gonna stop for a bit after the next chapter. >:D