Separated & Awaited || Trolls FanFiction

Aftermath: Chapter 2

Five Days After The Incident

Poppy and Branch's family entered the hospital building, ahout to visit Branch again. They walked towards the main reception.

"Hey queen Poppy! Hey Branch's family!" the main receptionist greeted, waving on them.

"How does know us?" Nathan whispered to Poppy as he pointed to himself and his parents.

"I told everyone about you guys" Poppy whispered back, smiling.

"Wait wha-"

"Hey Alen! We're here to meet Branch. Branch Timberlake" Poppy happily smiled, laying her hands on the desk.

Nathan crossed his arms and scoffed when Poppy cut him off. His parents chuckled a bit.

"Alright" The receptionist smiled and nodded, looking down and grab his clipping board. He put his finger from up to down, until he got Branch's name on his finger.

"I have good news," The receptionist looked up at Poppy. "Branch gained conscious ten minutes ago"

At this, everyone's eyes widens and gasped.

"You all can go and see hi-"

Before the receptionist even finished his sentence, they ran to Branch's room fast.

Alen smiled and rolled his eyes a bit. "Typical trolls" he put down his clipping board.

They ran through the hallway, until they got to the door. Poppy stopped, panting when they reached the door. She stared at the door, then walked slowly to it, grabbing the door knob. She rolled the door knob, and pushed open.

Poppy sees Branch, sitting up as he stares at the window outside. "Branch.." She called softly.

As they entered the room, they let out tears of joy, holding their chest.

Branch slowly turned his head to Poppy and his family. "Hey," he smiled.

Poppy gasps and let her tears fall down her cheek. "Branch!!" she ran toward him, her arms up in the air and hugged Branch tightly.

"Agh, Poppy! Y-You're squeezing me!" Branch yelled painfully but weakly, feeling his wound stinging.

"Sorry sorry" Poppy chuckled as she kept crying in joy. She let go off of Branch, not wanting to hurt him more.

Branch's family laughed, wiping their tears away.

"How are you?" Poppy sat down at a chair, leaning close on him. As the others just stood for now.

"Better than before" Branch sighed happily, laying down on the bed. "What happened anyway? I felt like I died from that fight"

Poppy wiped her tears away. "It's complicated" she giggled a bit.

Branch inhaled and exhaled deeply. "So, how are you guys?" he asked, sitting up properly. "Anything new happening?"

"Well," Poppy connected her hands together. "First thing I want to say that I told your family that they be staying with you on your bunker" she exhaled. "You okay with that, right?"

"Yeah, as long as they don't mess around with my stuff" Branch replied with a smile, looking at his family. Then his smile faded, "Did any of you messed with it?" he asked them.

"I only looked at the books" Rose said. "Jack here is expanding the place for space for ourselves" she pointed at Jack, who nodded in reply.

"Fine by me" Branch sighed. There was a pause between the five trolls. "You guys didn't look inside the curtains, did you?" he asked them.

"No, why? What's inside them?" Nathan asked.

"There's a reason why I asked, Nathan." Branch replied with a sigh.

"Right, okay" Nathan said softly.

Branch and Poppy stared at each other, smiling. They slowly leaned on each other, then closed their eyes. They connected their lips to each other.

Nathan couldn't help but cover his eye turn around. He's not much into romance. Rose and Jack just looked at Branch and Poppy, smiling happily.

Poppy and Branch pressed their forehead on each other.

Branch placed his hand at Poppy's cheek. "I love you" he whispered softly.

"I love you too" Poppy whispered back, giving Branch a kiss on the cheek.

Both leaned back a little, then stared at each other again, smiling happily.

Suddenly, Branch felt a pain in his chest, grunting in pain.

Poppy gasped. She put Branch back on bed to get him some rest. "Rest easy, Branch" she pulls the blanket to cover Branch's body.

"I will" Branch replied softly.

"Is the romance over yet?" Nathan asked, still facing back avoiding the view.

"Oh get used to it, Nathan" Rose told him and scoffed, nudging her elbow at Nathan's.

"I'll never get used to it" Nathan replied with a sigh.

"You will soon," Jack said. "Bet that when Branch gets back, Poppy would visit more and cuddle each other. Maybe even doing the thing in the bedro-"

"Jack! Not too far!" Rose cut him off, slapping her hand at his mouth.

"Alright alright, jeez" Jack sighed, putting down Rose's hand.

Branch and Poppy laughed at them, seeing how playful they are. And how dir-

"Hey Branch, when you can leave the hospital, why don't we continue settling the score from before?" Nathan asked, folding his arms with a fierce smile.

"You're on!" Branch let out a fierce smile at Nathan as sits up on his hand.

"First, recover. It'll be cowardice if I compete to an injured man" Nathan unfolded his arms and smiled. "Get well soon so I can beat you early yeah?"

"Speak for yourself, you got your eye injured too" Branch rolled his eyes. "And as if I'm getting myself lose to you like before" he let out a light scoff. "Besides, you lost to me when we hunted" he added, smiling fiercely.

"That was just luck, plus I didn't want my brother getting scared to death" Nathan said sarcastically as playfully rolled his eyes.

"Oh please, you screamed almost like a girl when that spider was dangerously close to you" Branch talked back.

"Alright you two can continue burning each other someday. Branch you need some rest" Poppy said, putting Branch back to bed.

Branch lightly sighed and nodded.

"I think our time is up" Poppy exhaled, leaning back and stood up.

"Aww already?" Branch frowned. "But I wanna look at you a little more" he looked at Poppy.

"Me too, Branch" Poppy held his hand, letting a small frown appear in her face. "But we'll visit again tomorrow" she then smiled.

"Bummer, we weren't able to much together today" Jack sadly sighed.

"Everything will be more different when I get out of this bed" Branch sighed, turning his head at the ceiling.

"Yeah," Poppy leaned down and kissed Branch's cheek, who lightly blushed from it. "We gotta go now, bye Branch" she let go of his hand. She turned her body and slowly walked away with Branch's family.

When Poppy reached the door and stepped out of the room, Branch slowly reached out with his right arm as she slowly closed the door.

"Dang.. I forgot how bad it feels being lonely" He put his right hand down as his ears dropped and frowned.

Branch turned his gaze at his bandaged chest. He slowly put his left hand onto the injury.

He exhaled, then looked at the ceiling again.

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End of Aftermath: Chapter 2