[Mushverse: For everyone in the hospital visiting Joe]

[halfboiledjoker]

Half the wall is missing. The window is shattered, lying in shards and pieces on the floor. It seems like the fancy hospital equipment all survived, judging by the humming and beeping I can peripherally hear as I stare out of the building.

Less than twenty-four hours ago I found Joe, bruised and barely breathing, discarded on the side of the road like garbage. Before I'd even gotten to the hospital I'd decided I'd make sure he was safe, and healthy, and be someone he could depend on. Then I met his brother, found out how important Joe really is to this world of ours. And I came in here, hoping to help him in any way I could.

And then he hopped on the back of a shapeshifting monster from another world, the two of them running away together.

At some point I must have fallen to my knees. I'm still trying to find words, figure out what to do next, but all I can think of is that somebody must have heard that wall break. And nobody is going to believe what I have to tell them.

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[yellowlion]

I'm whistling as I run up the stairs to Joe's room. He's hurt, he's terribly hurt, but he's safe now, he'll be fine, and we'll-

...I reach the top of the stairs and belt along the corridor. I know it's coming from Joe's room. Of course it is.