~3 days later...

~Husker's POV~

I was up, fully recovered, and back to work at the bar. And it was thanks to the magic of the mermaid scales Aqua gave me. Speaking of her... I couldn't believe what happened while I was on the mend. I was thinking about what happened the other day.

~The other day...

After I saw Aqua leaving my room, I tried to call out to her. But she was gone.

"And I was gonna ask her if we can talk alone." I said to Angel.

"Hey, she thought that you would be better off alone." he said.

"Wah!!!" a scream rang out, then a few thuds.

"Oh wow." my ears perked up the thuds.

"Holy shit, Aqua?!" Angel gasped. "And I was supposed to watch her!"

"Damn. Is she okay?" I asked. "Uhh, I mean I ain't worried or anything."

"Imma go see." he panicked as he ran out.

I was trying to sit up, but I couldn't. I was getting migraines like crazy. "Ugh fuck..." I muttered to myself. But then my ears picked up panicked voices.

"You're bleeding!" it sounded like Angel. "Help!"

"Damn. It's that bad..?" I said to myself. I kept my ears up listening to the voices since I was nearby the lobby.

"Hold on mija! Hold on!" it sounded like Vaggie.

"Oh god Aqua!" Charlie's voice sounded scared. "She's unconscious! We have to operate on her now!"

I gasped knowing that it was Aqua who got hurt now. "Shit..." I muttered to myself and tried to get back up, despite my migraines. But I managed to get all the way up. As I was getting out of my room, I heard running footsteps.

"Husk watch it!" Vaggie said as she was running with Charlie.

"Come on Angel hurry!" Charlie said as she was running with Vaggie.

"Huh?" I turned my head to see Angel carrying Aqua.

"I'm running as fast as I can! She's losing so much blood!" Angel said as he ran with Aqua in his arms. And right behind him was a trail of dark blue blood droplets.

I covered my mouth to see how terrible it looked. I watched everybody going into the office and closed the door pretty loudly. I looked at the office door and then the trail of fallen dark blue blood droplets. What the fuck was going on? My migraines got the best of me and I went back inside my room to go back into bed.

As I was trying to relax, I kept asking myself what had happened. I mean from the sounds of everyone's scared voices, it had to be serious. And then the sight of dark blood in the hallway... I tried to shake that feeling off my head. But it was glued right in the middle of my mind. I tried my hardest to not think about it.

~Later on...

As I was reading my book, I heard the door open. I saw Angel coming in and his gloves were full of that dark blue blood. That was the sight I was trying to forget.

"Angel, what the fuck happened?" I asked him.

"It's Aqua. She fell down the lobby stairs. And what's worst, she reopened her wound from that battle with RedClaw."

I gasped. "That stubborn wolf." I growled to myself. "That explains why she didn't eat dinner that night."

"And when she went to bed early." he sighed. "And after she was just making it up."

I looked down and knew I had to make it up to her. Make it all up to her. I really gave her nothing but a hard ass time since she arrived here. And I'm gonna start, once I recover.

~Present Day~

"Yeah. I'm gonna do that." I said to myself.

"Do what Husky?" Angel asked.

"To make it up to Aqua. I mean she's been through a whole lot here in Hell."

"You? Making it up to her? Wow, you're really changing Husk."

"Hey, tell anybody about this and you'll have a bottle jammed down your throat." I growled slightly at him.

"Ooh kinky~"

"Ugh." I rolled my eyes.

He chuckled. "Okay. Rachel is making lunch for her right now. Maybe you can give it to her."

"Uhh yeah. Sure." I blushed. "I'll be right back." I said as I gave him a drink before leaving to the kitchen.

After I left Angel at the bar with a drink by himself, I went to the kitchen door and knocked on it.

"Who is it?" Rachel asked.

"It's Husk." I answered.

"Come in."

I sighed and went inside of the kitchen to see Rachel cooking up a storm in there. I smelled the scent of soup and it smelled really good.

"I'm making jambalaya. Alastor's favorite."

"Of course Bambi's favorite." I rolled my eyes. "Anyway! Is lunch ready?"

"Well I was about to call Angel over so he can bring Aqua her lunch." she explained while she held out a plate which included a honey turkey sandwich with some tea.

"Uhh, actually..." I gulped the lump down my throat. "I was wondering if I can deliver it to her?"

Rachel gasped lightly. "You wanna give her food? Wow, what a shocking surprise."

"Ugh, don't act so surprised. Angel's already noticed that." I rolled my eyes.

Rachel released a giggle. "Okay Husk. You can give her the lunch." she said as she gave it to me.

"Uhh thanks."

"No problem. And make sure that she drinks that tea, it's supposed to help her wound."

"Got it." I said as I turned around and started making my way out of the kitchen.

As I was walking up the stairs and through the long hallway, I was wondering if she was really okay. But it didn't take too long until I reached her room door. I took a deep breath and looked down at the plate and cup. "You can do this. Just give her the food and leave. Easy as that." I said to myself.

I knocked on the door and waited for her response. But there wasn't. I knocked on the door again and waited again. "The hell?" I said to myself and slowly started to open her door.

As I peeked inside, I saw her sleeping soundly all curled up on her bed. "Huh, she's asleep." I said to myself as I walked in the room and closed the door.

I placed the sandwich and teacup on her nightstand and just looked down at her. She was sleeping and she looked peaceful. As I got a little closer, I sat on the beanbag that was next to her bed and just... looked at her.

She was sleeping all curled up. Just below her top were the bandages that were covering up the wound she hurt herself at. I sighed and slowly used my paws to tuck her in with her blanket. I reached my paw out to her head and slowly started petting her.

'What the hell am I doing?' I thought to myself as I continued to pet her head gently. Dammit, I really have gone soft.