The Accident: A Tinker Bell Fanfiction

4. Visitors

The Accident

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Terence was finally let into the room where Tinker Bell had been taken after the lengthy surgery. He sat down next to her bed and held the girl's hand. Her little green dress was gone, replaced by a white hospital gown. She was heavily bandaged around her right leg, left arm, around her chest and torso and on her head. Surprisingly, her lovely golden colored locks had been shorn from her head. The doctors explained the injuries that included several broken bones, cracked and broken ribs, numerous injuries to internal organs and a serious concussion. They had to relieve pressure under her skull to keep her alive, although no one truly expected her to be alive in the next 24 hours.

"It's like this, young man," the lead surgeon told him, "her chances of surviving the night are less than 1 in ten. If by some miracle she does survive, she will have only a fifteen percent chance of making it through the week. You might want to say your goodbyes now while you still can."

"I already did once and she held on," he said. "I'm not making that same mistake twice."

The physician nodded and commended Terence on his optimism. Then, under his breath, he mumbled "Foolish boy," while leaving the room.

The young dust keeper didn't hear it. He kept his mind focused on the girl who lay before him. He leaned over to her and said in a soft and kindly voice, "You'll be fine, Tink. I have faith in you. I'll be right here by your side taking good care of you."

About a half hour later, the first visitors came into the room. It was Queen Clarion herself and she was accompanied by her ministers and Fairy Mary. Mary, seeing how badly Tinker Bell looked, had to turn away. "It's alright, Mary," the queen told her. "You can wait outside if you want."

After a moment to compose herself the tinker guild master said, "No. I'll be fine."

Queen Clarion took the chart in hand and read the healer's report. It was very grim. "How did this happen, Terence?" she asked the young dust keeper.

He explained how Tinker Bell tried out another Pixie Dust Express design. "It went sideways, tumbled out of control and smashed into a log. I went looking for her, but couldn't find her right away. I thought she was playing with me as she always does. That's when I saw her at the bottom of the stream."

Terence retold every event that happened afterwards, including how he thought Tinker Bell had perished, but hadn't. Or maybe she came back to life. "I don't know. I honestly can't be certain because I'm not sure myself."

Queen Clarion put her hand on his shoulder, an act to both comfort and console him. The queen looked over the young tinker and felt her heart break. She remembered when Tinker Bell arrived in Pixie Hollow and the troubles the little one had learning to fit in and accept her talent. All she wanted was to visit the mainland, the queen remembered. Since then Tinker Bell had not only visited the mainland on numerous occasions, but she broke the first barriers between fairy kind and humans when she befriended the Griffiths.

Then she left Pixie Hollow for a time to have adventures with Peter Pan. Queen Clarion had been very cross with Tinker Bell when it came to light that the little fairy had actually tried to kill a human. However, Tinker Bell showed that she had learned her lesson was very contrite and had made amends with the young girl, Wendy Darling. She also played a pivotal role in rescuing Wendy, her brothers and the Lost Boys from the pirate Captain Hook the queen recollected. Though Tinker Bell deserved so much more for her careless acts that nearly broke one of Pixie Hollow's founding laws, do no harm, Clarion considered everything and only imposed a minor penalty on the young tinker for her assault. Now it all seemed to pitifully trivial as she lay here dying.