Rapido!

Chapter 4

Octavio woke up to the sound of beeping. He opened his eyes but it was too bright so he quickly shut them. He was a bit cold, and his mouth was dry. He attempted to open his eyes once more, the room was small with a curtain, bedside table, and TV in the corner. After looking around a few more times he realized he was in a hospital! He went to get up but couldn't move, so he called out for help. Some doctors came in immediately, "Ah Mr. Silva, you're awake!"

"What's goin on huh?"

"Mr. Silva you were in a crash. You got hit by a semi truck, and after that you went into a coma."

Octavio started to remember the crash, "I rem- wait, a coma? How long have I been out?"

The doctor held up four fingers, "4 months."

"Oh my gosh..." Octavio tried to grasp this, he had been in a crash and survived, he missed four months of- The Games!

"Also," the doctor began, "You were hit in the lower part of your body... you uh..." The doctor moved his blanket and Octavio gasped... both of his legs were missing, from the knees down there was nothing. He put his head down and sighed.

"Does this mean I'll have to sit in a wheelchair the rest of my life?" He asked.

"Fortunately no," The doctor said, and Octavio's head went up, "We were going to do that, but someone told us that mechanical legs might work. We did some research... they will."

"Wh- who told you?"

"Ajay Che?"

Octavio closed his eyes, he was gonna get a huuuuge talking to from Ajay when he got back. But she saved his life in a way, and for that he was grateful.

"If you would like we will leave you alone now."

"Si, I'd like that very much... Gracias."

"Of course." The doctor said, and he left the room. Octavio put on his mask, he felt naked without it.

Four months. What had happened? Octavio asked for his phone, if they had it. They did and it was in pretty good shape for being in a semi truck accident. The games had gotten extremely popular, Mirage seemed to be everyone's favorite, Crypto was the most successful Legend, and the new Legends had joined. Fuze and Wattson. Octavio looked at their pages, Fuze was a hotshot bombs away kind of guy, he seemed to really like grenades. He opened the page for Wattson, she was a shorter, blonde girl, who seemed to be French from the videos he saw. He saw one picture of her in a dress at an event and blushed a bit. She was cute. But he then frowned when he saw she was also with Crypto in a lot of these pictures. He closed out the page and looked for news on him. Nothing. Nothing at all. It was as if he wasn't ever in the games. He sighed and laid back, but ended up picking up his phone again and searching for any news on him. He found one article explaining why he was absent in the last few games. He laid back down again and thought for a moment. He had two things in his mind, that fact that no one cared about him, and that girl. He didn't know why, he just couldn't stop thinking of her and he didn't even know her! A few minutes later Ajay came in to see him,

"How ya doing Silva?"

"Eh, could be better, no legs feels weird ya know?"

She nodded, "Why were ya in the way o dat truck?"

He thought for a moment, "Ah... I don't remember..."

She rolled her eyes, "Probably doing anotha one o ya stupid stunts."

"No, I wasn't doing that, I swear!"

"Ok, I believe ya."

"Hey Ajay... thanks, for getting me those legs."