What should I know (catradora)

Chapter 25

(catra's pov)

I awoke to bright lights and the smell of the hospital. I was here again for the second time in who knows how long. I could hear the beep of the heart rate monitor. My heart was beating slowly... so slow that if I stopped breathing my heart might slow even more and eventually stop, and nothing would be left of me.

I don't think I would mind the idea of my heart slowing into nothing. I could hear voices speaking. They were muffled. I tried to listen to what they were saying but couldn't make it out. I could only focus on my breathing. It was a struggle to breathe like a weight was on my chest. 

I blinked a few times to clear my eyes and finally took in the room I was in. It was the same as the others, boring white walls with monitors and a camera in the corner. There was a little TV hung on the wall opposite the camera but I couldn't see the remote. I sat up slowly and everything began to spin as if I had just stepped on one of those spinny rides at the fair. I heard a voice next to me.

"...Catra?" I looked at the person talking. It was Netossa.

"Netossa?" I squinted at her, her face was blurry and I blinked again. Before Netossa can say anything else I hear a voice I hadn't heard in a long time.

"Catra?... what happened?" It's Adora concerning lacing her features. She has a cast on her arm and it's in a sling.

"I'm not entirely sure at the moment..." I turn to look at her and wince in pain. There's a sharpness in my abdomen like I was stabbed.

"Catra... are you okay?" Adora says to me before netossa says "You have to be careful. Your kidneys are failing at a concerning rate. Both of them. if it were just one there wouldn't be as much concern, you could live with one but it's both of them so we might have to keep you at the hospital until we can find an organ donor" Netossa has tears in her eyes as she explains the reason I'm here. Adora is standing next to her now, a few silent tears trailing down her face. Netossa looks up at her in concern but doesn't say anything.

I look down at my hands unsure what to say.

"Catra I need to know what you have been doing these past few weeks"

"I haven't been doing anything." I don't look her in the eyes afraid she'll tell that I'm lying.

"Catra don't lie to me what have you been doing? You have fresh cuts on your arm and every drug test we have put you through has came back positive so be honest and tell me what you have been doing. You called me asking for help in trying to give it to you, and in order to do that you can't lie to me." Her tone is sharp and slightly angry. I didn't respond and we sat in silence. I looked up at Netossa after a few minutes but her eyes were on my charts. Adora was silent the whole time, studying me with concern in her eyes.

Suddenly Adora says something that I never expected her to say

"Do you think I could donate one of my kidneys to her?"