An Incident to Forget (Sienna)

[Claire Diastone]

It was obviously not a calm day in the hospital Claire noticed as she had come walking into the Emergency Room, looking around for some help but there had apparently been quite the big car crash downtown involving multiple vehicles and people involved so it had quickly enough turned out that for the doctors at least it was one chaotic day of work already.

It had been some more waiting after that on one of the waiting chairs in the waiting room, holding the new one miserable piece of tissue the woman behind the counter had given her for her bloody nose to her nose and looking around, noticing how some of the other people that were waiting were looking at her, obviously trying to figure out what was wrong with her.

It had been quite the afternoon for Claire even before all this, she had passed a test so she was happy about that, her homework had been done a little too quickly for her liking but okay, at least that was a worry less before she would quickly enough get new homework of course. But most importantly it had been the demon that had attacked her as soon as she was a few minutes away from the library where she had gotten a new book, like almost always knowing exactly which book she wanted and where to find it, and had surprised her so much that he had gotten the drop on her.

Claire decided that she could re-run the entire fight again for the 100th time already in her head, but that wouldn't change anything, she had multiple bruises, a strained wrist probably, a bloody nose, and a very ugly cut on her other arm where her wrist was mostly okay from the athame she had used to protect herself, luckily having it with her, but had cut herself eventually as she was fighting the demon off and protecting herself. So here she was, with some tears in her clothing, blood on some places and a still bleeding nose and cut foremost.

So she was relieved when finally someone quickly called her name, told her to wait in an empty room and she took place on the bed, dangling her legs over the edge and letting her eyes wander around the room, trying to figure out what they used this room for most of the time. Because honestly, she might be somewhat of a nerd or whatever people might call her for loving to study and even sometimes make homework, she had watched enough TV and hospital shows to be wondering such things. She wasn't really sure what, or mostly who, she was exactly waiting for here, and whatever the reason was anyway for just moving her from one waiting place to the other, but on the other hand, at least she didn't have those eyes pointed at her and knowing they were trying to figure her out.

At least she was happy that her athame and her knowledge and all that about magic had helped her out to at least not get killed or something, so she did have a bright side to look at, but every time she thought about that she realized that she better hope Eli didn't find out about this until she was healed mostly again, and since she wasn't immobilized or whatever, she had decided even before she had arrived at the hospital that she wouldn't call Eli or her parents about this and take care of it herself. So she tried to stay patient, sitting and still slightly moving her legs one by one from up to down and eventually also started tapping both her hands on the side of the bed to at least have something to do while she was waiting for a doctor, or even nurse, at least someone medical to come and help her before she would still bleed out, even with the pressure on both her nose and the ugly and deep cut. 'Yeah... Any day now..' She mumbled at the same time in herself, looking at a random place, not even wanting to constantly look at the door.

[fallenintospace]

It had been one of those days where a lot of accidents seem to occur and even though she hadn't been working since morning, Sienna did know a lot of other people had. She just wondered why she hadn't been called earlier. Especially with the car crash going on and all the casualties it brought.. Well, no deaths, as far as she knew, but it could still happen, so, she was a little bit one edge and a little bit cautious, though, she was sure nobody would blame her.

As quickly as she could, Sienna had skipped out of the busyness and into the hallway, to help someone one-on-one. When she heard someone calling her name, telling her that she needed to help a patient, she nodded and walked to the designated room.

When she saw a girl with a bleeding nose and other cuts, she quickly walked toward her. ”Hello, I am nurse Lovelace. Lets look at your nose first, okay?” That way, she had someone to actually help, with something kind of small. Although, she wasn't so sure it was anything too small, as the girl looked awful. Like as if she had been fighting and had been on the losing end of it. She couldn't help but thinking how awful it was that someone could actually go out and do something like this to someone.

[Claire Diastone]

Claire was still tapping with her hands on the side of the bed and was still slightly swinging her legs back an forth over the edge as her patience was getting thinner and thinner, especially because she was getting a little light headed from all the blood she had lost over the time with the traveling to the hospital and the waiting there, but also because her nose started to hurt with trying to stop the bleeding but just slowing it down in the process.

When finally the sound of the door getting opened rang through Claire's ears, she looked up at the woman coming in and could just barely contain herself from saying: 'Finally! Someone who isn't immobilized would die earlier than someone who's always on death's door with all this waiting!' But kept it in and just smiled slightly, nodding when she introduced herself and said to start with her nose. 'Claire, Claire Diastone.' She managed to introduce herself back, thinking that would be helpful for the both of them and then slowly and cautiously lowered the almost completely red from blood tissue she was holding against her nose.

Instantly Claire rose her head a little upwards so that it would hopefully help stop the bleeding from instantly fully starting up again and letting even more blood drop on her clothes, which she totally wasn't waiting for after all. 'I don't think it's broken... But it has been bleeding for... A couple of hours now I think, I honestly don't really know for sure how long I've been waiting.' She couldn't help but tell her after what she said about her nose itself and then sighed and smiled slightly. 'Sorry, I'm a little on edge, but you seem nice so I can't blame you.' She apologized and meant it as she kept looking with a upwards tilted head at Sienna. 'And you can ask... If you want, I know almost the entire waiting room wanted.' Claire said to Sienna about her injuries and how she had gotten her, but Sienna could easily not understand that yet and ask what she meant, but she would notice that soon enough she figured instead of continuing on again by saying something, she was just so relieved to finally have someone helping her.

[fallenintospace]

Sienna smiled in acknowledgment as the girl introduced herself and walked closer, taking a better look at the girl and once noticing her impatience, deciding not to wear it any thinner. When Claire lowered the tissue, she looked slightly worried, but went on to proceed carefully. ”You better look down and keep the tissue under it. Looking up can let the blood go to your head and that’s not good either.” She said as she got her a few clean tissues. She got out a chair and sat down on it, as she went to work on her nose, to make the bleeding stop. She didn’t look up, at the girl’s words. ”Only if you want to tell me.” She said gently, before lowering her hands and looking up.

[Claire Diastone]

Claire still felt enough pain as the adrenaline in her body was almost completely gone after all after all the sitting and waiting, but she still felt that she relaxed enough once she saw how this nurse seemed friendly and trustworthy enough to forget about the frustration of the waiting and to know that someone was finally going to take care of the injuries she had sustained.

Claire looked surprised for a short moment when she heard what she said about better keeping her head down and the tissue under it but then smiled half honest but the other half she couldn't help but to be somewhat bitter because of the pain and the situation. 'Sorry, I never really had such an almost unstoppable nose bleed before, and I was more concentrated on stopping the bleeding on my arm too.' She explained as she lowered her head an bit her lip for a second. 'And I just bought this shirt three days ago, and I'm not the shopping type.' She told her with a sigh, feeling better not staying completely quiet, and it was just a slightly nervous tick of her sometimes.

Still the more the nurse started working on her nose, the more she stayed quiet first, but eventually Claire had weighed her options for a few minutes about telling this woman what had happened to her or not, but figured that she at least had to tell someone, and that hopefully it would be easier to just think of an excuse if someone else asked her, she didn't want to suddenly look like a fool or amateur when she was actually the opposite by now. 'I umm... I got attacked by some crazy guy, after getting a book of all things, but I managed to fight him off... Luckily I carry a knife.' She said with a knife as she looked up in an automatic response of her body and then quickly kept her head down again, still hoping there wasn't going to be a too big amount of blood all over her clothes. Still she stated thinking about her story and the cut on her arm and a thought quickly went through her head a few times. Please don't ask me about the knife, please don't ask me about the knife, please don't ask me about the knife. But if this nurse was good, she would, or she would just figure it wasn't her business or work or something, so it was just hope and see she figured.