Part 29
We pulled up outside of San Diego Memorial Hospital less then half an hour later, probably breaking at least half a dozen traffic laws getting there. Weevil pulled off his helmet and then grabbed my hand again. He hadn't said anything since he had gotten the phone call outside the DMV, and I was starting to get a little worried, though he didn't seem upset, he didn't really seem anything, just determined.
Felix's mother and sister where sitting in the waiting room when we got there, I tried to tell from their faces what was going on, if something had happened to Felix, but they both just looked tired. Anna smiled at me when we walked by, but Mrs. Toombs didn't acknowledge either of us. Weevil walked right past them and threw a set of doors that we had taken before to see Felix. When we got to his room he looked mostly the same, some of his bruises where fading and he was no longer hooked up to a respirator, but other then that, I couldn't see a difference; that was until we walked through the door, and he opened his eyes and looked at us.
"Weevil, man, my little sister said you where coming by, but I didn't think you would be bringing Blondie." Felix's voice was scratchy, probably from having a tub down his throat for almost a week.
"Yeah, well I thought that you would like to thank her yourself, she's the one who found you, and your bike, which is safe and sound at your house."
"What you do that for, V?" Felix looked puzzled, we had never been friends or really talked at all, I had dealt with Weevil when I did anything with the PCHers, and the last real time we had had any interaction I had tazered him.
"Weevil asked real nice." I smiled at him, I wanted him to know that I was sorry about everything that had happened, and I hoped we could get along, since he was Weevil's best friend.
"Well, then I guess it's a good thing you're here. We need to talk about what we're going to do about Thumper." Weevil's eyebrows about hit what should have been his hair line.
"So it was Thumper, Weevil said you two went to a party together the night you didn't come home, but we weren't sure if you had gotten in trouble at the party, or what." I took a seat in on of the orange hospital chairs to one side of Felix's bed, while Weevil took up residence behind my chair, placing his hand on the back of the seat.
"There was no party, Thumper took me out to the middle of no where, we met up with some guys, I don't know them, but they seem to know Thumper. He said it was a message to you, that you hadn't been doing what you should with the gang, that you where spending too much time chasing after Blondie, and not enough time with the boys."
"Well, that won't be a problem anymore, Blondie got caught, but your right, Thumper's got to be dealt with." Weevil looked at me, trying to determine whether or not he wanted me to hear what he and Felix where going to do to Thumper.
"Don't look at me like that, you plan what you want, I'll make sure you don't get caught, but if you are going to let me in, you have to listen to what I say, I don't want to have to give up another fortune getting you two get out of jail free cards, and I'm pretty sure there isn't another fortune coming to me."
The boys spent the better part of the next hour deciding what to do with Thumper; my suggestion was to get him sent to jail, on assault charges, which would be completely legal, not to mention the fact that he deserved it. The boys said it would send the wrong message to the gang, but if all else fails, they where willing to let me handle the authorities, letting the PCH know that if you messed with Weevil or anyone close to Veronica, then I would use every resource I had to bring the law down on you; I had resources in both directions, I could get you out of trouble or into trouble, just don't cross me or mine. In the end they had a plan that I was mostly happy with, and we said out good-byes to Felix, who would be released from the hospital on Friday, pending no more complications.
Weevil put his arm around my shoulders as we walked through the automatic doors that lead out of the hospital. "V, you're really one amazing girl."
"Aw, shucks Weevil, you say the nicest things." I tucked my head into his chest, letting him guide me into the parking lot.
"No, really, you have been great this past week, I've really needed that, and you've been there for Duncan and Logan, your helping out with Meg and Duncan, when do you take time to help you?" His voice was all soft, like it was when he asked me about how I was when he picked me up from Logan's that first night, and this time I took it seriously, it was his worried voice, and I was beginning to appreciate it.
"I'm taking time right now, see, you're going to hand over the keys to your bike, and I'm going to take you to this nice beach, and we're going to walk for a while, then your going to take me to dinner, not at your house, though I really enjoyed meeting your family, but I want date number two."
"Good, cause I've really been looking forward to those snickerdoodles." He squeezed my side, pulling me more into him.
"Only if you let me put them in a spirit box." I smiled up into his eyes, and was happy, everything was going perfectly, life was really falling into place, and this time I didn't have that nagging felling in the back of my mind that there was something that still needed to be worried about. Felix was going to pull through, we would deal with everything at school, and I had the best boyfriend ever.
"How are you going to decorate a spirit box for me, I don't do any sports."
"You'll just have to wait and see, now hand over those keys, Vato." Weevil deposited the keys in my hand, and I took off for where his bike was parked, with him chasing after me, right on my heals.