love in a hopeless place...style south park

chap 13

The door nob jiggled and Craig put his cigarette in the very little leftover coffee. He quickly slid it under the bed while tweek jumped up and slid into his room through the side door.

Luran walked in.

"Mmhh, like I didn't see that," she says walking in and over to Kyle.

"See what?" Craig asks nervously.

"Tweek," she replies.

"Oh..." thank god, he thinks.

Craig watches as luran checks kyles puls and times his heart beat.

"What's wrong with him?" he asks coldly,

"He's been in a coma, since his last chemo treatment." luran says, placing kyles arms gently in front of him, to keep him comfortable.

"So he's being kept alive on a machine?" Craig asks.

"Yes..." she says moving what little hair he has left out of his face and back under his hat.

"If he's been like this for a while, you mise well let nature takes its course and unplug the machine so someone else can actually get better."

Luran turns towards Craig. She becomes filled with anger but keeps her cool in front of Craig. She walks towards him.

"I dont even want to think about doing that. Nevermind you doing it while I'm gone." luran says getting in Craig's face.

"It was just a suggesting." Craig growls.

She walks away back over to Kyle. "Kyle was the very first patient I ever had. And out through the long years iv worked here...has been the best. I will not give up on him and I will not let anything or anyone hurt him."

"There's a reason I put you in this room, you know.." luran says while walking to the door.

"Oh yeah?" Craig answers.

"Yes, maybe one day you'll realize your not the only one with problems." luran says walking out of the room and over to the next one.

Craig slipped his hand back under the mattress grabbing the last cigarette and lighting it. He stood up walking over to Kyle looking at him.

"You won't mind if I smoke, coma boy?" he asked blowing smoke in Kyles' face. "Damn i-i-

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Luran walked into stan and tweeks room. Tweek was clearly awake laying curled up on his phone, while stan paced back and forth, tracing his hand against the blank wall. He had dark bags under his eyes and was holding his phone, which is still on the line with Kyle.

"Stanly...you need to sleep honey." luran says while checking tweeks heart rate, and reapplying Iv to him.

"Not until Kyle wakes up..." stan mumbles.

"Well how about you go take a shower, at least you'll be clean and you might feel a little better." luran says.

"I dont know..." stan replies.

"You know tweeks an insomniac." luran tells stan.

"Excuse me?" tweek says. "That's kinda personal."

"What?" stan asks.

"Yup tweek don't sleep very much. He just lies there with music playing through his earbuds." luran says looking at stan.

Neither of the boys say anything.

"I just want you to know kyles, not the only person that exists in the hospital. Some people might have more in common with you than kyle. I mean, your not sleeping and Kyle is stuck sleeping." luran tells stan before walking through the side door and into Kenny and butter room.

Stan stared at tweek and him back. " I can't sleep until I know he's ok." stan says with a shaky voice.

"I know how you feel." tweek says lowering his phone and making eye contact with stan.

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Luran walks into Kenny and butters room and sees something way different compared to the other four.

They were building a huge fort.

There were pillows every was and both mattresses had been promoted up, creating walls. Christmas light strung out through the room and the blinds stayed shut.

Luran opens the blinds and walked up to the pillow castle.

"Um knock knock?" she asked.

"I need to check butters heart rate and monitor him while he takes his pills." luran says cheerfully.

"Rawr!" Kenny says jumping up destroying the whole thing.

Luran laughs and butters giggles while holding kennys hand.

"Well if I didn't know better, I would think you boys were 6, not 16," she said walking over some pillows to the computer.

"I'm almost seventeen." Kenny smiled. While butters walked over and let luran do her thing.

"Well I'm happy that your boys are happy, it seems the other four are depressing as hell."

"Yea stans like that, but tweek and Craig are usually happy...when their together," Kenny says.

"Kenny pull up a chair you need to do a breathing treatment." luran says. "That must be why they're not themselves then, there split up in different rooms."

"Oh gee, that's definitely the problem, there practically inseparable. They even live together. They have been since eighth grade." butters mumbles the last part.

"And why is that?" luran asks.

"Becuase Craig family sucks," Kenny says sitting in a chair.

"...oh?"

"Yea they dont really accepted him..."

"Well his dad." butters says making it clear on who disowned Craig him. "and Craig was emancipated, he didn't just run away." butters justified Kenny.

"Yea...he doesn't have anger issues he just hates his father. They just dont want anyone getting any ideas of why he's acting all pissed around him though, the truth is he used to beat him, and well never step foot back into his parent's house." Kenny said while luran handed him his breathing mask.

"Yea, but he loves his mom and sister, but he won't admit it about his sister." butters says swallowing the pills luran handed him a couple minutes ago.

"Well that sounds like siblings." luran says smiling. "I well talk to Craig about if he wants to see his dad before his parents visit today."

"Oh and butters could you please pick up a little while kennys breaths, I will well be back in a half hour to check on you guys." luran says handing Kenny the tv remote, and ruffling butters hair.

Luran walks back to her desk. She types in her note about Craig.

"Hmmm, writing about the mr.moodswings?" Vinnie, lurans co-worker and assistant, asks.

"Yup and it's kinda serious." luran replies

"Oh well speak of the devil. He pressed the call button." Vinnie says, while luran looks up at her computer

(Craig Tucker- room 5115)

"Please, let him wait, last time I went in there he demanded I get him coffee. This is the emergency line, not room service." Vinnie says annoyed.

Luran stands up. "I-i dont know Vinnie, I have a feeling..." lurans says walking to Craig's room. She looks in, he's laying on the floor passed out.

"Vinnie get the gurnnie!" luran yells.

"Craig?

"Craig?"

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"Where am i?" craig questions.

"Your no were."