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// Chapter 2 : Hospital 
// Story: Oblivion 
// by SymphonyOfSilence 
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"Tavi!!" Vinyl screamed. Octavia was being thrown around helplessly. She was unconscious and her head had a violent wound. Blood trickled down the side. The train hit the bottom, and everything for Vinyl went black.



Vinyl's red eyes fluttered open.  
"W-where am I?" She groaned. Her blurry vision sharpened, and she saw three ponies gathered around her. They were all familiar. 

"Nurse! She's awake!" She said one of them. Her sea-blue coat seemed to shine in the dull light. 
"L-lyra?" Vinyl stammered. The pony smiled.
"The one and only!" The other pony whacked the back of Lyra's head. It was Bon-Bon.
"Lyra!" She scowled, turning back to Vinyl. "You were involved in a train crash" She explained. Suddenly, the horrors flashed by her eyes once more. It wasn't the sight of corpses and the impacts of the train hitting off the cliff. It was Octavia, unconscious and wounded. 

"Octavia!?!" Vinyl cried, sitting and and looking around for her friend. Nurse Redheart gasped.
"Stay down Vinyl, you're injured!" When she said that, Vinyl noticed the stabbing pain at the back of her neck. She gasped, falling back onto the pillows. She closed her eyes, trying not to think of the worst.
"Is Octavia okay?" She whispered through quiet sobs. Lyra and Bon Bon looked at each other and bit their lips. Vinyl saw their looks and was getting worried again. "Where is she?!" She cried, tears streaming down her cheeks. Nurse Redheart stepped forward.

"Vinyl, Octavia had suffered major damage to the brain and has broken both her arms. She needs to get an operation to the brain so they can remove a blood clod" She said quietly. Vinyl gasped. She felt a massive big kick in her stomach. 
"Will she live?" Vinyl whispered. 
"It's to soon to tell" Redheart whispered. Vinyl got out of the bed, without thinking, and she galloped down the corridors. The pain in her neck was hardly there, but slowly it was increasing. 
"OCTAIVA?!" Vinyl screamed frantically. Another two nurses and a doctor chased after her. 

Meanwhile, a maze of corridors away there was a crowd of doctors crowded around a bed. One of them stuck a syringe into the patients limp arm. She had a gas mask over her mouth and nose, and her violet were half open half closed. Octavia fluttered in and out of conciousness several times, her heart rate going faster every beat. 
"We need to operate now, before it's too late" Said one of the doctors as he stuck another syringe into her right arm. One of the nurses nodded and turned to another nurse who stood at the back of the room. The two went at each end of the portable bed and began to push it to theatre. The doctors followed with an incubator and oxygen tanks.

Vinyl lay in her hospital bed, shaking. Her eyes were squeezed shut, tears rimming the edges. At the back of the room sat a nurse. Her head was leaning on her hoof, which was propped up on the arm of the small plastic chair. It was early in the morning, way before sunrise even came to mind. Several hours passed, and the unicorn still couldn't sleep. She opened her eyes, only to see a dull white ceiling. She sighed, sniffing a couple times. She sat up slowly. There was a glass of water on the table next to the bed. Vinyl took the glass and gulped down all of the water. Almost everything she did reminded her of Octavia.

Sunrise finally came. Vinyl was finally asleep, but she jumped awake at the sudden sound of a trumpet fanfare. Her red eyes darted to the door. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna stood at the doorway. Luna looked devistated, her eyes fixed to the ground and her ears pulled back. Celestia also looked upset, but she kept her chin high. 
"Vinyl Scratch?" She asked. Vinyl nodded timidly. "We apologize for waking you" Celestia smiled weakly. Luna looked at her.
"We understand that you were involved in a train crash the other day?" Vinyl nodded again, holding back tears. One slipped out of her eye, but she quickly wiped it away. Luna looked up at Celestia. Celestia nodded, as if saying Keep going, it's almost over with. Luna carried on. "You're friend Octavia has been saved, but we have found out that it was no ordinary train crash." She swallowed.
"Vinyl, what we're trying to say is the train crash was planned. Investigations had concurred that someone was trying to kill you." Celestia frowned. Vinyl gasped. "It was apparently a stallion named Meadow Song. He was jealous of how close you and Octavia were" 
"Meadow Song?" Vinyl gulped. "Octavia's ex."