Drafts (Mostly Inanimate Insanity)

This one is a human au!
And in Lightbulb's POV
TW for blood and bad injuries

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"CAN YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!!" Paintbrush yelled.

I stumbled. Shocked wt the heat and volume. I had been talking to Paintbrush all day. I guess they would say more 'bothering' them all day. But clearly they didn't want me here. I could take a hint!

Even though I would refuse to admit it, it kinda hurt to hear them talk to me like that. "Okay Painty," I stuck finger-guns at them, "I have more important business to tend to anyway."

Turning around, I waved the them, "Byeeee!" as I left I could hear them groan.

I guess we weren't really friends yet, but I'm still determined to change that.

It was the morning before the competition, so everyone was outside talking to one another.

I walked to a group of people. Trophy and his buddies, I think. Knife, Baseball, Suitcase, and Nickel. They stood infront of the huts we slept in. One for each team.

"Heya, folks!" I waved my hands in their direction. I caught Suitcase's eye but she turned away. Actually they all turned away, rude! Suitcase was the only one didn't look of anger ar disgust.

"Got any room for me?" I squeezed in anyway. Trophy shot me a look. "No." Nickel said.

"Hey... can't you go spend time with your team." Trophy told me in a negative way. Yeah, I get the idea.

"Yeah, yeah. Your not my favorite group anyway." I walked away.

Next to the Grad Slams' hut was the Bright Lights. You know, my team!

"There's my favorite people!" I said wrapping an arm around Fan and another around Testtube.

"Ugh." Testtube pushed my arm off.

"Lightbulb, we're trying to work here." She said.

"Yeah, we're trying to strategize." Fan politely pushed my arm off to.

"No prob, I can help." I said cheerfully.

"What we mean is we want to be alone right now, so can you please go." She pointed away from the huts, into the forest.

I frown. Fan saw and attempted to lighten the situation. "We don't mean to be rude, we just need to think and you kinda... smothering us." He put a hand on my shoulder, leaning into my ear, "and Testtube is kinda in a bad mood right now." He whispered. Then he smiled at me.

I snapped my fingers into finger-guns again, "Got it!"

And with that I left to walk through the woods alone.

What else could I do? No one wanted me around. Fine! I don't want to be around them either.

That was a lie. They're my friends and teammates. Maybe I was too overwhelming, I couldn't help it. I loved them and wanted to be around them more.

I'll just try not to bother them so much. I made a silent promise to myself.

Not looking where I was going, I tripped. A sharp branch snagged on my leg, ripping the skin.

I immediately fell to the ground.

The pain was almost unbearable. I laid in the dirt, unable to move because of the pain. A huge was gash now on my outer thigh. I cried out, but nobody heard. My vision was blurry. I felt like I was gonna pass out.

No one came to my aid. I was alone l. Bleeding out on the floor of the forest.

Okay okay. Breathe in. Breathe out. I thought to myself. I needed to stop the bleeding. I sat up, slowly. Half of my face was covered in dirt.

I observed my wound. It was deep and big. From a tree branch? Damn.

I took my t-shirt off and wrapped it around my leg. It didn't really help the pain but it stopped the bleeding a bit.

Now I needed to get up.

I put my hand on a tree and, very slowly, stood up on my other leg.

I gently put my injured leg on the ground. I immediately felt lightheaded. I yelped, removing the pressure from my leg.

How was I gonna make it to the huts?

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And that's all I wrote.

The rest of the story goes something like this:

Lightbulb somehow how makes it back and through the next few challenges. Her friends are worried for her but she tells them she just scratched her leg, no big deal. Until she passes out mid challenge. They finally take her to a hospital where they tell them that if she got there any later, they probably woulda had to amputate.

Anyway yeah, Lightbulb feels unwanted and through her stubbornness she almost gets her leg amputated.