Accidents Happen: Chapter 30

accidents happen: chapter 30

Sonic's POV

"It won't take to long and it won't be that busy, huh?" Shadow asked with clear dismay in his voice as his arms were crossed in front of his chest. "Hey! I didn't know it would be this busy this early in the afternoone!" I said as i leant against the wall next to where he was sitting. The waiting room we were currently waiting in was extremely crowded. There were poeple standing here because there wasn't anymore room to sit. Fortunatly someone was chivalrous enough to give their seat to my pregnant mate as it was obvious that he had quite some weight to carry. With the weight slightly lifted off of his back managed to lighten up his mood just a tad bit, but than you had the fact that his tail was still hurting like hell.
It took atleast three damn hours of waiting before we were finally called by a nurse. Saying that Shadow was just a tad bit ticked off would be a serious understatement. The mobian nurse's ears were flat against her skull as she could almost feel Shadow's anger about to explode behind her. She constantly looked over her shoulder at him to make sure he wasn't about to strike her with some sort of deadly blunt weapon.
I was exactly my usuall laid back self either. I hated waiting and i had to be the most impatient hedgehog, no living being, on the entire planet Mobius! My ears were bent back as i was feeling quite irritated by the excessively long wait. The nurse quickly lead us to a room and told Shadow to sit down on the bed as we had to wait for the doctor to come. A huge wave of relief washed over her as she left the room.
"Nice! More waiting!" I grumbled and dropped down on the chair and propped my head up on my elbow while Shadow heaved himself on the bed and winced when he sat down on his tail again. "That damn appendage better be broken! Or all this waiting is for nothing!" The pregger growled as he laid down on his side and wrapped an arm around his stomache and closed his eyes. I can't blame him for taking a rest. Although Shadow didn't have to stand for three hours straight, i can imagine that sitting on a chair wouldn't be as pleasant with your tail being an enermous pain in the butt. Litterally. "We can only hope that the doctor won't stay away for to long." I replied.
Another painfull half an hour passed before the doctor finally decided to show up. By now Shadow had started complaining that amputating his tail right after he fell would've been a better and quicker solution than waiting for hours for a diagnose and possible treament for the injured appendage. I tried to convince him otherwise, but his hormones dissagreed. Knowing better than to fight with a pregnant hedgehog, i quickly gave up on the small discussion and didn't let it become a major and pointless argument.
"So you're here for your hurt tail?" The doctor said after i had given him the document that the previous one had given me. "No shit, Sherlock." Shadow grumbled underneath his breath. He didn't bother to sit up on the bed. "In that case i better go and get an x-ray ready to be taken." The human doctor said and got up from his chair. "Wait! You haven't gotten the darn thing ready yet?!" Shadow yelled in shock and sat up. "Well, of course not. I didn't know that you were here for a broken tail." He said in his defence. Shadow growled and dropped back flat on the bed on his back, but quickly sat back up when a jolt of pain shot through his system.
He grumbled curses at his tail as the doctor turned to me. "I have to leave now, but i'll be back in just a few minutes when the x-ray is ready to be taken." The humen said and turned to leave the room. Shadow didn't notice as he just kept on cursing and complaining to himself. The doctor left us alone in the room and it was only after five minutes that Shadow finally realised that he had left. "Where did he go?" He had asked and i had told him what the doctor had told me. After the short tale finished Shadow got back comfortable on the bed.
I listened to his soft and almost inaudible breathing when Shadow had discovered that complaining silently to himself wasn't helping the situation at all. Another hour had passed by. Dinner time was only an hour or two away and i still had no idea what to prepare. Not to mention that Tails had been home alone ever since this morning. Sure, he was a genius and had helped me saved Mobius countless of times, but he was still an eight year old child. With Shadow calmed down and quiet, i was keeping myself busy with sending the kitsune a text message every few minutes to make sure that our house wasn't on fire or something.
"Do you think it'll have serious consequences?" Shadow asked out of nowhere. "Huh?" I hummed as a subtile question to ask for a repeat. "If my tail is broken. Do you think it'll have serious consequences?" He repeated. "I don't know." I answered after a while of thinking about the matter. I wonder if it would have any consequences. I personally don't think so. But than again, i'm not a doctor.
Another ten to fifteen minutes passed before the doctor finally came back to us. "Shadow if you would be so kind as to follow me." The human doctor said as he stood in the doorway. I got up from my chair and helped Shadow sit up and afterwards helped him off of the bed. "Thank you." He muttered to me before following the doctor. I followed him close behind. We walked out of the room and passed a few corridors before the doctor halted and told me to sit and wait in the waiting room. Great, more waiting. I watched him walk off with Shadow on his heels as i sat down.
My foot tapped impatiently on the floor as another forty-five minutes passed by before Shadow came walking back to me with his hand rubbing above his tail. "How did it go?" I asked and kept my foot still, much to the relief of the other poeple present in this room. "It went slow, but other than that it went pretty good." The pregger said and sat down on an empty chair next to me. "I guess that we now have to wait for the results." He said with a sigh. "I guess." I replied.
Two hours of small conversations and text messages being send back and forth passed when the doctor came with the results. "Shadow?" He called and both of us stood up and followed him to his office. We quickly arrived and sat down on a chair that was placed in front of the desk. "So what is it?" Shadow asked as he wanted to get to the point already. We had both waited enough for the diagnose. We had been in this hospital for almost the whole day and it was about time we got our answer. "Well, as you would've guessed, your tail is indeed broken." The doctor said and Shadow muttered something along the lines of "With this much pain we already figured that out for ourselves, Captain Obvious" and "now finally tell us what we really need to know."
"How far along are you?" The human doctor asked and leant with his elbows on his desk. "Six months." The pregger asked. "I see." He muttered and took the brown envelope he had been carrying with him. "You can take a look at it at home." He said and handed it to us. "You need to take good care of it and make sure that it's fully healed by the time your due if you don't want anymore complications." He said. We looked at eachother in confusion. What did that guy mean with "anymore complications"? He noticed our confused expressions and decided to enlighten us. "A broken tail bone might cause some trouble during and after birth. It's weakened and the nerves could be damaged. If you're not carefully during labour then you might end up being paralized for the remainder of your life. Or atleast for quite some time." He said. Both of us were speechless.