Round one: Romeo wakes up and launches himself off the bed to punch two members of the hospital's staff in their smiling, sunny faces. He gets all the way out of the room and half way down the corridor before someone bigger and burlier than him grabs him by the arm and jabs a needle into his neck. Round two: Romeo wakes up to a strange man leaning over him with a stethoscope. He yanks the stethoscope from his ears, smacks him in the face with it, and rolls off the opposite end of the bed, directly into a man with another needle.
Round three: Romeo wakes up with one hell of a headache, and he's strapped down to the bed and can't move. No amount of 3 AM shouting and yelling on his part is enough to bait anyone to come into his room again.
It's a long couple of days, after that.
A doctor tells him that he was in an accident. "Not just any accident," he says. "A plane crash. You were flying the plane. Might want to brush off that ol' dusty flying manual before you hop into the pilot's seat again, eh?" Romeo is, like, 80% sure that what he's saying is complete bullshit, but he nods and keeps nodding until someone decides that he's healthy enough to leave.
One of the nurses hands him a pair of loose cotton trousers and a cotton t-shirt after he bitches (and bitches) about having to walk around half-naked. Then hospital security shoves him out the door. You can change somewhere else, they say.
Romeo is so distracted with pulling the hospital gown down over his knees that he doesn't notice Lantar seated on the steps until he's already on top of him. He nudges him in the side with his knee as he trips, one hand flying out to grip the nearby railing, just barely saving himself from a tumble down the concrete stairs.
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Round three: Romeo wakes up with one hell of a headache, and he's strapped down to the bed and can't move. No amount of 3 AM shouting and yelling on his part is enough to bait anyone to come into his room again.
It's a long couple of days, after that.
A doctor tells him that he was in an accident. "Not just any accident," he says. "A plane crash. You were flying the plane. Might want to brush off that ol' dusty flying manual before you hop into the pilot's seat again, eh?" Romeo is, like, 80% sure that what he's saying is complete bullshit, but he nods and keeps nodding until someone decides that he's healthy enough to leave.
One of the nurses hands him a pair of loose cotton trousers and a cotton t-shirt after he bitches (and bitches) about having to walk around half-naked. Then hospital security shoves him out the door. You can change somewhere else, they say.
Romeo is so distracted with pulling the hospital gown down over his knees that he doesn't notice Lantar seated on the steps until he's already on top of him. He nudges him in the side with his knee as he trips, one hand flying out to grip the nearby railing, just barely saving himself from a tumble down the concrete stairs.
When he recovers, he turns to look at him.
"My bad, buddy. You good?"