Slums Hospital

Holding her shoulder, Amber falls to the ground. A cold stingy sensation fills her shoulder. Looking at her shooter she recognizes him as one of the guards that was with her.

"Princess Amber! Get away from those criminals!" Seemingly not even aware that he shot her, he takes a few steps closer. "You two! Hands in the air!"

As Raven looks Edward straight in the eye, he says "I'm too tired for this."

"Same" Edward slams his leg into the roof causing it to collapse. "Wha?!" Falling through the roof, Raven quickly grabs Amber, and with the help of Edward, they run away.

Jumping across the roofs, Ravne looks at Amber and curses. "What is my luck? How is it that we ended up running into her again?!" sliding down a building, Edward says. "I don't know how about you, but I feel we're gonna be seeing her quite often."

Resting her against the wall, I look at her wound. "Amber? Do you hear me? It's fine, it went cleanly through." Getting a nod from her, Iook at Edward. "The wound isn't bad, but I think we should bring her to the local clinic."

"What? Raven, do you even hear yourself? We're wanted criminals! Why would they let us in? Not to mention that Amber is being actively searched for now!" Shaking my head, I ask him.

"Where are we right now?" Giving me a weird look he opens his mouth to say something, only to start nodding. "Yeah, I'm, just dum. So how will we cover up Amber?"

Telling him that we don't need to do much as she's still wearing her clothes from the night. I walk over to a burned-up barrel. Grabbing some black pieces of wood. I wipe them against Amber's hair.

Turning it darker, almost brownish color. "Good enough for me." Seeing Amber start to sweat, I realize. "I shit, I forgot she's bleeding, We have to go!" Grabbing AMbe like a sack of potatoes, we run past a newspaper boy.

"News-" Not letting him finish, I steal his hat while running past him. Putting on Amber, she looks like a typical resident of the slums. "I will buy all your newspapers! I promise!" Yelling that out loud, we arrive in front of the slum clinic.

Bashing in the door, the nurse yells at us that we can't just barge in like crazy. Pointing at Amber she immediately understands the situation.

"Get the doctor!"

...

Now sitting beside sleeping Amber in her room, a nurse comes to us to explain the situation. Practically telling us, what we know already, I ask her what the bill is.

"Before that, We need the name of the patient, to archive their visit." Smiling at me, I scratch my neck. "Anna Nemo"

"Okay, Anna's bill is, 12,000 Aquars." As Edward chokes on the water he was drinking, I sighed.

"Here, you daylight thieves." Smiling at me, she takes the bills and ensures us that Anna's file will be lost in the archive.

"10 000 Aquars just to make it seem like this didn't happen, You got to be kidding me." Rubbing my forehead Edward pats me on the back. "we should have gone somewhere else, Raven."

Looking him dead in the eye, I ask him if he wanted to visit Demian. "You know, 10,000 Aquars Isn't that much money."

"I'm gonna deduct 5,000 Aquars from your next salary."

As he tries to say something a woman's laugh interrupts our conversation. We're in a room for 4 patients but only two beds are occupied. Walking over to the other bed I push the curtain out of my way using the cane.

A brown-haired woman with a broken leg lies on the bed. Laughing slightly, she asks.

"I'm sorry, am I bothering you?" Staring at me with her purple eyes, I smile. "No, I just thought that I recognized you." Sitting on a chair beside her, I use my cane to pull something out of the socket.

As Edward stares between us, he decides to take a seat next to Amber.

"This is gonna be fun."

As Raven smiles at the woman with a broken leg, she tries to pull out a gun from beneath the bed, only for it to get grabbed by Raven. "1911? You're into old classics, this thing is almost 200 years old now, Right? You winged woman, AKA Crow."

Stashing the gun away into my clothes, I signal Edward to watch the door.

Seeing him lean against them, I continue. "Now crow, tell me, Why did you work for Gunter?"

Looking around for a way out, she tries to secretly press the nurse button only for me to tell her that I plucked it out. "Now tell me, How did you get that injury?"

Tapping the splint, I hear her say. "Your friend, what is that inhumane strength? My suit can protect me from almost anything!" Looking at Edward, I tell her that clearly not everything.

"I don't understand it. When he grabbed my leg, he easily crushed it along with the suit!"

Nodding along, I ask what is her real name, since Emma, or what's written on her patient papers can't be it. "No, my real name is Emma-"

Turning the morphine dozer it starts to drip faster, I say. "Every time you lie, I will increase your morphine doze." Asking her for her real name again she tells me that it's Emma.

Increasing the amount of morphine again, she starts to panic.

"Look, my real name is Emma! I go by Crow as a mercenary!"

*Knock Knock* as a Nurse knocks on the door she yells. "Sir! Stop blocking the door!"

Signaling Edward to let her in, the nurse form before barges in, Her eyes are filled with determination, the moment she sees Crow's heart rate.

"Noma," I say, Her seriousness and all her determination disappear, as she says, "Bera"

Slamming my hand, I pull out my wallet and hand her 500 Aquars. "Thief!"

"Criminal!" Taking my money, she acts like something fell into her eye and leaves the room.

"What the hell was that? Isn't a doctor suppose to care for their patients?!" Seeing Emma's heart rate, Increase to 120, I close the valve on the morphine. I don't need her going into a shock now.

"So, Emma-" Cutting me off, Emma tells me that she answer me once I tell her what the hell happened. Not seeing the harm in it, I just tell her that Noma stands for [no one] in Latin.

"So? What does that have to do with anything?"

"I was just getting there! It's a secret code for criminals to use in poor hospitals, For a price the hospital will hide their visit from anyone, even the police." Letting the gears turn in her head, she turns to me confused.

"So... I just had to say that and no one would know I visited the hospital?!"

"Noma, It's Noma." Talking with Emma for a few more seconds, and asking her question as to why she worked for Gunter, I learn that if she knew that the target was the princess. She would never have agreed to that contract.

"Well, sorry to hear that Emma, Maybe in the near future, I will be the one hiring you."

Satisfied with her explanation, I tap my cane on the splint again. "What medication are you using?"

"The first one. It increases recovery time by 3 times." Doing the math in my head, I ask. "So you will be laying here for a week, Right?" Nodding her head, I plug in the nurse button.

*DIng* "What are you doing?"

"Calling the nurse, you're a talented person. That flying gear is used in the military, but for you to make it from the scrap you find here in the slums, I have a huge respect."

"Yes?" Seeing the nurse walking in, I tell her to hide Emma's identity and to change her medication to the Third level.

"Okay, that's gonna be a-" Hushing her, I just hand her a roll of cash.

smiling at me she takes the roll and thanks me for being a good patron. "Yeah, Thank god I still have some of that money." As Edward put his hand on my shoulder, he jokes. "Gunter's money?"

.....

A few minutes go by, with us sitting in silence. Throwing a ball at Edward he throws it back at me. "What are we doing?"

"Waiting for Amber to wake up." Hearing the police sirens get even louder, I sigh. "How did they still not find us?"

*Tick*

"Yeah, they think, that she was kidnapped by Gunter who attacked her transport." Throwing me the ball, he looks outside the windows. "Why are there bars on the windows?"

*Tick*

"To stop you from killing yourself." Throwing Edward the ball back, I look at sleeping, Amber. "I thought they said she would wake up within an hour?"

*Tick*

Catching the ball, Edward says. "Well, what did you expect? The medicine here is not equal to the ones in the big city." Throwing the ball back, I hear it.

*Tick*

Catching the ball, I throw it against the clock with full force. "SHUT UP!" Quickly jumping up, Edward catches the ball before it hits the clock. "Raven! I know you hate clocks! But you can't brake every single one you see!"

*Tick*

Jumping from my chair, Edward quickly grabs the clock and pulls out the battery. "Happy now?!" Sitting back down, I reply. "Happy." Hearing someone chuckling, I turn to ask Emma what she found so funny, but she's asleep.

So turning to Amber, I see her fully awake, laughing. "Did you sleep well? Ya sleepy head?"

Nodding her head she stretches. "I haven't slept this well, since.... Never."

"Well, not many people experience life-or-death situations so..." Understanding what I mean, she just kinda laughs it off and looks around the room. "Where are we?"

"Saint Rose Hospital, Or at least their small branch clinic, Anyways, now that I know you're fine we will be going." Getting up, I tell Edward that we're going.

"Wait! What about me?" Looking Amber straight in the eye, I tell her that [She] Needs to get it together, as there is no way that she should be here doing these things. Pulling out the 1911I throw it at Emma.

"What!?" Looking at me and the gun, I tell her. "We're leaving, make sure she doesn't follow us." Giving me a thumbs up, we leave.

.....

As Raven and Edward leave, Amber jumps from her bed and tries to follow them only to get stopped by Emma.

*Click* "Where are you going?"

Looking at the gun, Amber says. "After them of course! Are you going to stop me?"

Thinking about it for a second, Emma asks. "Depends, You've killed right? So, why do you wanna stay?" Taking a deep breath, Amber replies. "It's just..... I've never felt something like this. Back home everyone expects something from me....... But here, No.... Once I woke up far from home, it was magical..... No one expected anything from me, I didn't have to act in a certain way, I was a [Nobody]!"

Spinning on her leg, Amber looks out the window. "Isn't it amazing? I could do anything! and No one would judge!"

Aiming her pistol at Amber, Emma states. "You're just high on Adrenalin, and what about your problems? Did they disappear? What about your worried family do you plan on leaving them?"

Looking Emma dead in the eye, Amber says. "No, none of that, I'll go back to my family, but only after I get an Answer to a single question I have, so if you want to stop me! Stop me now!"

*Sigh* "I'm Sorry,"

*Click*