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Darren didn't normally worry about his friends missing LARP weekends - at least, not everyone once and awhile - but when Coraline had been absent for more than a few sessions, Darren became concerned. It wasn't like Cora was his type, or he had any sort of attraction to the older girl, but he was still as protective to her as he would be to his own sisters. Frowning, he picked up his phone and dialed her number, putting it on speaker and sitting it in his lap as he relaxed on a rooftop near the park. He'd made his way up to the top of the building as Corinth, but had decided it would be nice to just relax as Darren. Probably not the best use of his powers, but - they were his and he was going to use them as he saw fit.

He didn't play chaotic good characters for no good reason.

Closing his eyes, he relaxed and waiting for Cora to either pick up, or be sent to her voice-mail.

Darren quickly fumbled with the phone, turning the speaker off and bringing it up to his ear.

"Mrs. Spencer?!" Darren's voice almost cracked from the shock. It was still settling into the mild baritone, he could feel the blush forming on his cheeks even as he continued to speak.

"It's Darren, Darren Waughner, Chris Waughner's son... Or Lilly Waughner - I'm not really sure if she keeps in touch or not... Crap I'm rambling... I mean SORRY! Is everything okay? I mean - normally Cora answers her own phone... I didn't know she was paying you a visit - I'm sorry, I can call back later if I'm interrupting anything..."

He felt kind of bad now - obviously Cora was paying a visit to her mom and he was butting into that - he could just call later... or leave a text or something.

"WHAT?!" It was all he could do to not power up right then and made a mad dash to the hospital - but that wouldn't really do much good right then would it. Taking a few deep breaths to calm himself down he let out a long sigh.

"Any idea who might have done it?" He asked, fidgeting in his seat on the roof. "Also, do you think she'd mind if I dropped by to say hello? Is she feeling up to visitors?"

He'd let the group know she was injured and would be away for awhile - that was for sure, but he'd leave out the hospital bit - they'd freak out worse than he did.

Darren did some mental math in his head. He wasn't that far from the hospital, and if he traveled as Corinth he could get there as the crow flies instead of being forced to resort to the usual means of transportation.

"I'll be there in about ten minutes," He said after some deliberation. "I'm not that far from the hospital, I was out taking a walk to clear my head." Translation - April, his step-mom, had pissed him off again.

"Thanks for letting me know, though, if you want to let her know I'm on my way, feel free. I'm gonna go ahead and head out, so I'll see you in a bit." He waited for Deena to reply, then hung up the phone.

Once he was off the phone, he slipped behind the cover of the small service shed on the top of the roof. He powered up to Corinth and started to run across the roofs toward the hospital. Once he was close enough to be able to see the main entrance, he dropped down into the alley, powered down and walked in like a normal person.

He asked for her room - seeing as it was vising hours still and steeled himself. He was with Cora on not liking hospitals... He remembered the last time he was in one, which he would share with Cora... If she was up to listening.

Heading up to her room, he kept quiet, making his way to her door and looking for Deena the whole while.

Darren steeled himself for how Cora might look and smiled at Deena as she walked away. Moving to the door he placed his hand on the handle and turned it slowly, opening it and slipping inside the room in a single motion. Keeping his back to his friend for a second before he turned around to get a good look at her.

"Hey you, how are you holding up?" He instantly regretted asking the question because it was obvious by her body language that she had no desire to be here any more than he really did. But still, he had to know how she was feeling, all things considered.

He moved closer to her slowly, not wanting to make her feel like he was rushing her or anything.

"Yes, Hi, so they're getting you with a CAT scan too? They hit me with one of those not too far back..." Darren chuckled, and tapped the side of his head lightly. "Took a soccer ball to the head trying to score myself a date... It did not go as planned."

He made a face and moved over, flopping onto the bed next to her. "Yeah, it was me. I was checking up on you because you missed a couple of games. Was getting a bit worried. What do you want me to tell the group?" He chuckles a little. "They're as worried as I am, but they haven't started a search party yet."

She was also in college, he knew that her time was more limited - to be fair he was getting a bit more limited to... thanks to his new knighthood.

"So, you at least give the b*****d that jumped you just as good?"

"To be fair, the injury wasn't intentional. I took a bad dive for the ball... You see, the girl said she'd only date me if I passed her challenge and...." Darren stopped when she laid her head on his shoulder and he smiled, gently wrapping an arm around her and cradling her a little to try and give her some comfort.

He made a face when she mentioned Mathias. "You're still dating that a*****e?" He groaned, shaking his head slowly. "Well, I mean, I respect that he wants you to wait to come back to the game until you're back up to snuff - as well you SHOULD - but don't you think he's a bit... I don't know... controlling?"

He had never liked Mathias. When Cora had convinced him to come to LARP he'd been nothing but rude, rough and crass. He'd oogled the girls in their outfits, he'd been WAY too rough with his strikes. He had actually broken one of the other player's arms once breaking the guy's guard - which was an illegal move. But he also disliked him because he didn't think that Cora and Mathias were a good match - he always felt she could do better.

"I don't blame you, you know I hate this place too - the last time I was here was torture cause I couldn't leave till Mom showed up..." He sighed and snuggled with her. "I'd kidnap you, but they might not take kindly to that... It's not like I could sneak you out like a spy..."

Though he could probably steal her as Corinth but he doubted that was a proper use of his power...

Darren let the whole Mathias thing go for the time being, actually wanting to talk about Hafwen for a bit because he was excited about the potential for having a girlfriend.

"Her name is Hafwen, she attends Crystal Academy," he began, watching Cora with a small smile.

"She plays soccer. It took a bit to secure the date, but once she took me to the hospital... We seemed to hit it off. We've set up a date for soon, so I'm hoping things will go well."

"I'll have to introduce you two if they do."