A Fault in the Code

Chapter 20

I hear hospital-like beeping. My eyes are shut. Did I black out? How long was I asleep?

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear the beeping is Herobrine's lab. Isn't this the same beeping? I can't be back here. I killed him. Well, more like deleted him. What am I being done to now?

I can see light shine through my eyes. A bright, yellow light. I also feel something uncomfortable in my throat. And my whole body feels as if it is tightly wrapped in something. My eyes flutter open, but immediately shut tight. My eyes are not adjusted, as if I haven't seen light in weeks.

I slowly adjust my eyes, and my vision is blurry. But I can make out the shape of a foot. Not a square foot. A real foot with rounded toes. But it is covered in bandages. There's another foot. Also covered in bandages. These are my feet. I am laying on a bed, and my whole body is wrapped in white bandages.

My head cannot move, no matter how much I try. I look around with my eyes. To my right is a wall with a window. It is dark outside. There is machinery at the end of the bed the I am lying in, with many wires and tubes and scary tools that connect to them. Two of the tubes are shoved down my throat. And I am breathing involuntarily. One tube is forcing air into my lungs. I don't know what the other one is for. And to the left is the other side of the room I am in. It is small, but there is a wooden desk right next to my bed, and in the far corner is a doctor's desk with tounge depressers and bandages. I am alone.

I wonder what could've happened. How long have I been here? When did I get here? Is this from the car crash? Is my instructor okay? Then I hear footsteps and voices outside the door. And then the door opens. I hear a female's voice speak.

"...very rare to wake up from a coma, Ma'am. Again, we can only hope that she'll wake up. We can keep her alive as long as possible, but there's no guarantee that she will come back to conciousness."

A coma?

And then I hear a familiar woman's voice crying. My mother's voice. Has she come in to see me? I try to move, show them I am awake. But I for some reason cannot. They come closer to the bed. And I see their faces come into view. A woman I have never seen before who wears a doctor mask, must be a nurse, and my mom, her face covered in tears. And as soon as our eyes meet, she let's out a sob of relief.

She reaches out to touch my arm. I want her to. I want to feel the comfort of being with my mother. But the nurse touches her arm with a gloved hand and keeps my mom from touching me. I try to say her name, but my mouth will not move. The only things that move on my body are my eyes and my lungs, that move up and down from the air being forced in and out of them.

The doctor looks surprised, then takes my mother over to the opposite corner of the room, where the doctor's desk is. She whispers to her things that I cannot understand. After a few minutes, they come back to the bed. The nurse is the first to talk.

"How are you feeling?"

Really? I can't move or speak. How am I supposed to answer that?

"You're probably wondering what happened." Her tone is light and soft, like a cloud. "You were in a car crash."

I know that bit.

She keeps talking. "It was more major than you probably think it was. A lot more major. Eight of your bones were broken, you lost a lot of blood, and you were paralyzed from the waste down. The worst part is that you were put in a coma for almost 4 years. Your car was crushed, and you and your intructor were both trapped inside and were on the verge of death when we got you out. Luckily we brought you back here and have kept you alive since. I know it's a lot that we're putting on you as soon as you wake up, but it's better to know now than to wait until later."