Ivy's POV
I tried to keep my breathing even, panicking at a time like this was not good. It was getting dark, very quickly, and nasty looking thunder clouds were quickly rolling in. As for me well, I was kinda turned around, and the woods all looked the same. Oh who was I planning on fooling. Lost. Completely, utterly, lost, and good thinking I forgot my phone. No light, no communication, not even something as simple as a compass to help me. To make things worse my father's stories were getting to my head. I was being watched. No, no nothing but my imagination. I turned around helplessly trying to find a way out, I did not want to spend the night out here.
My attempts at not panicking were fruitless I still felt like I was being watched, shadows moved when they shouldn't. Rain started to fall, I started to run. The ground was slick, I was trying not to fall. Lightning carved the sky into two full halves. I glanced at the sky for only a moment, and then as rain poured down, the ground disappeared from beneath my feet. I heard myself scream as a I tumbled forward.
I couldn't tell you how long I fell, probably not to far. That wasn't the bad part, I hit the ground and rolled. I felt myself being beat up, breaking through branches, and tumbling over slick rocks. What finally ended my fall was two rather large boulders. My head hit one, and my body slammed into another. I saw stars, it felt like ages, I was in and out of consciousness. Surely I was about to die. I heard footsteps, I sensed a presence. A voice gasped out some words I didn't understand. I felt fingers brush me cheek I tried to open my eyes to say something, but I couldn't make my eyes open and all that came out of my mouth was a groan. A voice shushed me, told me I was going to be okay. Strong arms wrapped around me, that was it, an angel taking me away to heaven. I felt myself lifted off the ground and then I felt wind, yes heaven. One thing didn't make sense. Shouldn't the pain be fading? Well it wasn't in fact it was getting more intense.
Suddenly there was a bright light and I felt warmth, I was laid on something soft. Footsteps retreated away from me. I forced my eyes open above me I saw nothing but a tall ceiling with a nice light fixture. My head throbbed, and so did my arm. I tried to sit up and see who had brought me here. When I did pain shot through my middle, I gasped, but that hurt too. I saw a figure turn around and look at me. He didn't look like an angel, more like a demon, maybe I was in Hell, maybe I should be afraid of him. He was pretty. I recognized him vaguely, when he saw that my eyes were open he smiled. He came over and sat on what I assumed was his coffee table, as I was probably on his couch.
"Hey Ivy, you took quite a fall, scared me a little," He said with a smile.
"How do you know my name?"
"Well I wouldn't expect you to remember me, we don't see each other much. I'm Ashley, your neighbor," Then my memories came back, I remembered wanting to ride his horses, and bringing him food my mother cooked when he was just moving in.
"I think I need a hospital," I said.
"No, I can fix you. What hurts?"
"My head, arm, and I can't breathe," I gasped, having no idea how he planned on fixing me.
"Can't breathe?" He said to himself. To my surprise his leather clad hand started lifting up my shirt. Using my good hand I slapped his hand away, he looked at me the sudden realization of what he was doing seemed to register on his face.
"Uh, I uh, when you said you couldn't breathe, I uh wanted to see your ribs... I promise that's all I was gonna look at. I'm sorry, should have asked," he stumbled over himself, was he blushing. He looked at the ground, yep he's blushing. I would have laughed at him, but that probably would have hurt.
"It's okay, I understand. You can look, at my ribs, I mean," I said, blushing a little myself. He lifted up my shirt looked for a moment then put it back down. He swore, I looked and he was biting his lip and tapping his knee, thinking. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and dialed, I heard half of a conversation.
"Hey Jake... yeah really sorry to bug you man... I need you... like now... it can't be one of the other guys... get here as fast as you can," the conversation ended. Ashley looked at me and smiled again, he looked like he was trying to stay positive.
"I've got a friend coming over, he can help with pain,"
"Would it be easier just to take me to a hospital," I was scared, and I didn't trust that my neighbor and his friend could fix my obviously serious injuries.
"No, we can do it quicker than them, you'll be back to normal by morning, no pain," He said. I was beginning to question his sanity. Suddenly the door opened, without a knock. Ashley turned and looked at the man entering. They appeared about the same age, but the new guy was a bit shorter and his dark hair was curly.
"Ash, what did you do to her?" the guy said with a smile.
"Nothing but save her," Ashley replied.
"Well I guess you didn't save her all the way, or you wouldn't need me,"
"Ivy this is Jake, Jake, Ivy," Ashley introduced us.
"I'd ask how you're doing but I'd guess not too well," Jake said, in any other situation he would have been funny. Not now though, I was scared and in pain, and two guys one of whom I just met and the other I barely knew were about to perform some unknown medical procedure. I didn't even realize I was crying until Ashley reached up and brushed away a tear.
"Don't cry, we won't hurt you. You have to promise though, you won't tell anyone what you're about to witness," Ashley said.
"Wait she doesn't know?" Jake exclaimed, I was very confused. Ashley shook his head.
"Then promise you won't tell anyone, and we'll make it better right now," Jake said.
"I promise," I said. Jake grabbed my good hand.
"This will be weird, but just relax it won't take long," Ashley cooed. I felt a tingling sensation in my hand like when it falls asleep, soon that went away and I realized that hand was numb. The feeling quickly grew up my arm and across my collar bones. Soon my broken arm stopped hurting. The feeling flowed down my chest and into my ribs all pain gone.
Ash took my broken arm in his hands, and with one quick movement he straightened the horribly bent angle I'd been trying to ignore. It should have been agonizing but I felt nothing. Ashley reached out over my arm and the strangest thing started to happen. A golden mist curled from his finger tips, it seemed to locate were I was hurt. It cradled my broken arm and the swelling vanished. It spread over to my ribs, floated there for a moment and then. Ashley reached up and brushed my face with his fingers and I knew I was healed.
"Jake I'm done," He said nudging his friend. Jake seemed to snap out of a trance I never realized he'd fallen into. He looked pale and sweaty, as exhausted as I suddenly felt. Jake let go of my hand and all the feeling came back. But there was no pain.
"Jake you're not driving home like this, crash here tonight. Ivy I'll call your dad, let him know you're okay, you'll sleep here too," Ashley instructed. Jake nodded, saying nothing and wandered off somewhere I couldn't see.
Ashley pulled a blanket from the top of the couch and wrapped me in it. Before I could say anything to him I was sucked into the wonderful abyss if sleep.

Notes

Whew, that's two chapters in one night. I'm beat tired, let me know what you liked, please leave a comment, they make me so happy. Ashley is so awkward sometimes :) I'll try and update again tomorrow, but now it's time for me to enter the wonderful abyss of sleep. Goodnight. :)