The Outsiders. (SNK fanfic)

Chapter 14

The year passes and everyone starts to lose hope that River will wake up. Even me.

"River," I sigh at her bedside. I take her hands in mine. "Please wake up." It's about a year and 2 months in. I'm the only one that visits anymore.

She turns slightly and I think I'm seeing things, I brush her now rib length blonde hair from her face and she wearily opens her eyes. Tears of joy fill my eyes.

"River!" I say happily.

"Stream?" She asks, holding her head. "What happened?"

"You were in a coma for a year!" I say. "Let me go tell the others you woke up. I was getting worried."

~River~

A year? A throbbing pain is sent to my head and I hold it. Damn. She must be right I've lost a lot of muscle, and my hair is so long now. A year.

A few minutes later the dwarf rushes in. "River!" He says excitedly.

"Hey." I mumble, still not fully understanding what was going on.

He hugs me tight. "I missed you!" He says. I stiffen at his touch. It send a warm feeling up my spine being the first thing that had touched my back in a year. My now healed back. I lightly hug back.

"I missed you too." I say, but that's complete bullshit. I didn't even remember the year I was out. He begins to cry and this is when I get uncomfortable. I pry his hands off of me and push him away.

The rest of the clan appears in the doorway. "River!" Stream says relieved. Foal smiles and the twins both smirk. 'Was it to much to ask them to smile for once?' I chuckle at my thoughts.

Stream runs up and hugs me gently. "We missed you River." She says. Again I lie.

"You too." I say. "Can I get up now?" She pulls away and helps me to my feet. God I've lost more muscle than I thought, but I had alot to begin with so I'll be fine. I take a step towards Foal, he's the reason I was in a coma.

"Take over my leadership again?" I ask sarcastically. He cries and hugs me tightly and I'm taken aback. This wasn't like him at all!

"Little sister!" He cries. "I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry River!" I gently hug back.

"It's ok Foal. I forgive you." I say I pull away and wipe his tears.

"R-Really?" He asks.

"Yeah." I say smiling. "I can't stay mad at my brother."

He smiles back. I walk to the twins. "You two better not have caused trouble while I was gone." I joke, crossing my arms.

"So what if we did?" Night joked back, smirking. I laugh.

"Come here you two!" I pull them into a hug. I hate reunions but I knew that this is what they'd want. Me to say that I missed them and that I'm not going back.

"River." The dwarf addresses. I turn to face him. Why hadn't the other wall dwellers come? Did they not care? If so why did he? Fucking confusing wall dwellers.

"Yeah?" I ask. He seems uncaractoristucally nervous.

"I was wondering, if maybe now that you're awake, you'd like to go out with me." He looks at the ground. Was he serious?

I bit my lip. What do I say? If I say yes it's admiting that I like my enemy, if I say no I could lose him. Why would I even care if I lost him? It's not like I cared about him.

Oh but I do. His somehow caring eyes, and his tears at the sight of me waking up was enough for me to feel my heart melt. I wanted to say yes. But the other clan members, they wouldn't aprove, maybe my group would but the rest of the caln...I think and look into his eyes.