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Of course her parents had to get her sharpies. They just couldn't resist the cliche "writing on the cast" tradition. The worst part was that her Mom had good connections in the office environment, so she was able to get pretty much a rainbow of colors for others to write with.

Jared had already been a d**k and drew a lame drawing of a bike in pink. Zuniga had been a bit classier and wrote in black, doodling a skull next to his well wishes. Contradictory message at best. Phil didn't try doodling anything, but wrote in red, which seemed to turn into a purpley color on the blue cast material.

Ellie wished that the cast had been white, or even obnoxious bright yellow like her motorcycle. The colors could have shown up better.

With the black sharpie, she had begun to color the area around her fingers on her left side, filling in the scant amount of white at the edges with the more hardcore black color. It at least gave her something to do while sitting in a bed doing nothing.

Ridley's father had found it odd that she had wanted to go to the hospital and given her a suspicious look upon receiving the request. It drift from Jasper's mind even after his daughter explained to her that one of her friends was in the hospital and it still lingered even after he dropped her off, with explicit instructions to call him when she was done.

The orange haired girl had also arrived armed with decorations, she didn't think of bringing snacks but stickers were the first to pop into her mind. Of course they were Lisa Frank, they seemed fitting and the line had adorable looking cats to book. Her little fingers were nearly clinging to the sticker sheets as she made her way through the corridors and hallways, dodging the nurses and making sure not to bug anyone that didn't need bugging - the ones who did were the RNs that needed to tell her where to go.

With a turn of the knob and a heave of her shoulder, Ridley made her way into the room that held Ellie with a huge smile on her face. It grew wider when a familiar head of teal hair seemed to be obviously there as well. "Lissy!" She greeted happily, she didn't see this teammate as often as she could love to.

Then she turned to Ellie, and her eyes grew wide, "Hey Ellie... holy s**t your cast!" Obviously she knew their leader had been hurt but she didn't know it was this bad. ********* obviously missed some details.

And it was a very boring blue color.

The girl in the hospital bed was not prepared for someone small to come in and cling onto her like she was the best thing since sliced bread. It was awkward at best, especially since she was still in the middle of coloring. Even while the nurse was still in the room, Ellie couldn't help but mutter at the teal haired child "...do ya mind?"

Obviously Lissy did mind, for the next thing the tomboy knew, she had grapes being pelted at her head. In an exasperated tone, she had to ask "Really?! Really?!" With a heavy sigh, she added "Ya came all this way jus' t'do somethin' stupid like that?!" At least the grapes were firm enough that they weren't exploding into fruit goo on her face and just harmlessly bouncing onto the bed in her lap.

Another voice chimed in and soon enough her gold eyes managed to locate a head of orange hair. If she had turned away, she might have not seen a child with familiar ringlets following Ridley into the room.

"...so is there a reason why I'm stuck babysittin'? Did th'school like have a field trip t'the hospital or some sh*t?"

Huh, there were grapes. Ridley's orange eyes immediately meandered to them as she got closer to the blonde leader, curious how they had gotten there. Lissy obviously had a bag of them... but she couldn't put two and two together that the teal haired girl had thrown them at Ellie, even with how the older girl was complaining. She wasn't listening really to the banter, just coming up with funny ideas of why the grapes were pooled in her lap which made her usual easy smile turn into something a little wicked.

Sharpies though. "Oh!" Ridley's attention suddenly turned, eying what else Lissy had in her hands. The orange haired girl held up the stickers she brought, gearing to go on peeling them and assaulting Ellie's cast with them. Though, her teammates unease with Istas didn't go unnoticed.

Did they not know each other? Or well, know each other in that sense either? Ridley wasn't sure if she was supposed to say anything, but well ... they were all friends right? "That's HugBell." Ridley chimed in happily.

While the children seemed to be squabbling, the eldest in the room glanced at the pieces of fruit in her lap. Ellie was never a fruits person. Grapes were particularly gross to her, thanks to those god awful skins covering them. Grapes never went down the right way because those skins were always so bitter and gross.

After letting the children go squabbling for a bit, the blonde interjected with an answer that didn't compromise Istas' secret identity at all (though apparently the cat was already out of the bag thanks to Ridley).

"...she's th'one who called th'ambulance fer me..."

A pause.

"Seriously... why are all three of ya 'ere?"

Ridley didn't see why this was such a big deal as she rubbed the back of her head where Istas has thwacked her. "I wouldn't have if they weren't!" She explained, her mouth pushing up in an angry pout, she wasn't that dumb. "And obviously no one else is around!" There were no nurses and unless people had hospital rooms bugged or something, it seemed pretty much in the clear.

At least Ellie and Lissy didn't seem to be having a fit, in fact it seemed her other chibi teammate seemed better at ease with her simple explanation and had moved on to coloring on the older girl's cast.

"We came to visit you, duh." Ridley explained, not without sticking her tongue out at Istas before moving to the bedridden girl. "********* told us what happened, though obviously not well enough because your cast is huge! Not even my brothers have had as big of casts and they play sports and stuff." The orange haired girl rambled as she began to peel a very colorful cat from the sheet and pressed it against the blue cast, mindful of Lissy's work. "What exactly happened anyways? Did you get hit by a bus or something?"

Lissy definitely was not hiding the fact she had it in for the blonde. First grape pelting, then insults, and now Ellie could read the upside down graffiti. She wasn't in the mood to fight it. The child would get to color all she wanted on that cast of hers. It didn't really matter, it wasn't like it was permanent like a tattoo.

"Well... whatever... yer gonna do what yer gonna do at this point... ain't like I can shoo ya guys away, right? That's what the nursing staff is 'round for." She knew on TV the nurses had an awful tendency to shoo people away pretty quickly.

Knowing her luck, they would probably take forever before they attempted to rush the children away.

Rather than hide from the mistake she had made, she laid out bluntly what Hugbell had really done for her. "The kid saved my life. If she didn't supply me cushion, I woulda been a sidewalk pancake." There was a pause as she looked to the youngest of the crew.

"I would have died." There was no joy in her tone. No snarky hint to her voice. She almost sounded completely withdrawn in some sense, lacking the usual energy that seemed to rule everything she ever did.

Could have died. Could have died. As much as Ellie Spectre was not yet in the awesome category in Ridley's book, it still left a pang of something, the little girl was unable to really put into good words what she was feeling listening to Lissy and Istas talk about what had happened. Sadness and probably anger, with anger winning the fight as the more the little girl mulled it over. Ellie had gone it alone, that's what got her into this mess...

Ridley's orange eyes narrowed for a moment as she curled her fingers around a sticker she was about to place on the cast - it had hovered for a good few moments as she listened. With a puff, she haphazardly placed it on the cast and made to move, taking the extra effort to walk around the bed and to the other side. Ellie's good side and gave her a mighty punch into her good shoulder. "You made such a big deal with them being your stupid rules and you ended up breaking them!" She nearly yelled, only managing to stop herself when she remembered where she was.

"No wonder Lissy is calling you stupid, 'cause you are!" She added, still overly miffed, with another punch.