Love By the Moonlight

Awake

Beep…… Beep……Beep……Beep

I awake slowly to the rhythmic beeping of the heart monitor. As i flutter may eyes open I’m met with a very white and sterile hospital room. I look about and see no one.

I search around my bed for the call button and find it on the bed rail. Pressing the button i hear an excited voice say

“Oh! Youre awake! Ill send the doctor in right away miss blackpaw”

her voice is way too chipper. I’m not sure what time it is, but i feel she’s way too happy for this time of day. I try to sit up in bed and instantly lay back down as a pain rips through my back. I let out a groan and squeeze my eyes shut.

“that was not a good idea” i say aloud to myself. I look around the room and see I’m hooked up to an IV bag. “Baxter Sodium Chloride saline. Am i dehydrated or something?” How long have i been here exactly? I wonder to myself.

Just then the door opens and in walks a middle aged man in a white doctors coat. He has tan skin and dark hair greying slightly on the sides and glasses. He enters looking down at paperwork and shuts the door before finally looking up at me.

“Miss Blackpaw, it’s good to see you finally awake” he smiles “how are you feeling? Any pain?”

He says as he moves over to a small stool on wheels and rolls to my bedside. He puts on his stethoscope and begins to listen to my chest.

“A little when I try to sit up” i say

“that’s understandable, you have a very significant wound on your back. Your wolf is doing a good job at healing it but the process will still be slow. Take a deep breath in for me please”

I do as he says and then. He says “okay I’m going to assist you in leaning forward, let me do the work you just move with me okay?”

Again i comply and this time the pain is much less. “Okay this is going to be a little cold as i listen to your lungs, once again take a deep breath in for me.”

After moving the stethoscope around my back he says “ okay, sounds good, let’s lean you back down.”

After im laying on my back he says

“Okay, you are looking really good so far. I’d like to get some blood drawn though to be sure we aren’t missing anything. Now,” he says as he rolls over to the charts on the counter.

Opening them and flipping through some papers he says “You suffered from a puncture wound through your left Scapulothoracic space, so below your left shoulder blade, going through your muscle and fracturing three ribs and two vertebra and puncturing your lung.”

He pulls out some X-ray sheets and walks them over to the wall where theirs a machine to light them up. He attaches them and shows me the damage. One looks horrific, another looks slightly better and the last one looks almost normal.

“As you can see from the progression of these images, you have been healing really well over these last three months. This last image here is from just a few days ago. Your lung is healed nicely, the vertebra as well and the connecting ribs are just about fully healed.” He says pointing to the image.

“Three months?!?” I say shocked “I’ve been here for three months!”

“Yes” he answers realoutly “Your injuries were quite dire. And your wolf has been working tirelessly to heal you. I had expected you to sleep another week.”

He takes the scans down and walks. Them back over to the counter and puts them back into my file. “Do you have any questions?” He asks sitting back down on the stool.

“Have I been alone here this whole time?”

He smiles and says “No miss blackpaw, quite the opposite. Your room has had a number of guests from the Luna all the way to the general and your father coming in around the clock.” He glances at his watch “it is currently five fifteen in the morning so i assume everyone is still asleep at this time.”

i let out a sigh “that’s a relief. How much longer will i need to stay here Mr?”

“Oh! I apologize, Doctor Jennings. I’d like to keep you here for a few more days until those ribs fully heal up ands based off your current rate of healing.” He pauses and opens up my file again.

‘Mmmmmmm that looks like roughly four days.” He shuts the file and looks at me “we just need those ribs to fully fuse back together.”

Just then the door opens and in walks the Luna carrying flowers, a balloon and two coffees. I smile at her and her at me and she says

“Girl, I am so happy you are awake. I have so much to tell you.”