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-Your POV-
It was a hot day out, the kind of weather for shorts and a t-shirt. However, you were wearing jeans and a(fav color) shirt. Since it was a Monday, you were at work, and you just so happened to be a riding instructor at a local stable.
You had just finished up your last lesson for the day, so you decided to go get your horse and go for a short ride.
"Hey Phoinex, ready to go for a ride?" You cooed to your golden stallion. He turned to look at you and then went back to munching his hay.
"I sure am (Name)! Neigh!" You heard a goofy voice say from behind you. You whirled around.
"Alfred! I didn't know you were coming today!" You exclaimed. Today he was wearing a red plaid button down shirt, blue jeans, cowboy boots, and a cowboy hat. Alfred was your best friend, and you loved everything about him. You two were very much alike, one of the only differences being the fact that Alfred was always the self proclaimed "Hero".
"I wanted to surprise you! So are you going for a ride? " He said with a his usual grin.
"Yep, Phoinex needs to stretch his legs a bit. I'm just going for a quick gallop around the field."
"Can I come! Please!" Alfred whined. "I want to ride on Lightning!" (Lightning was a snow white horse that is taller than you at the shoulder, and you are pretty tall.) He exclaimed. "How many times have you ridden before? I don't want to babysit you, and I don't know if Lightning will like you riding him or not."
"I've ridden enough times to know what to do! I'm the Hero after all! I have to be able to ride a horse to be a Hero!"

"Alright, but if you can't keep up, then just let Lightning lead you home, or start yelling for me and I'll come find you."
"YAY! I'll go get Lightning! WOOHOO!! You had a feeling you were going to regret this later.
-20 minutes later-
"Come on Alfred! Aww what's the matter, can't keep up with a girl?" You teased over your shoulder as you two tore across the golden field.
"(Name)! Don't be so mean, it's not my fault you decided to ride a race horse!!" Alfred yelled back over the slight wind that was picking up. You could only laugh over your shoulder in response and turn your horse so that you were headed for the other end of the field.
-10 minutes later-
Phoinex and Lightning were both getting tired from running, so you stopped to let them rest a bit. Alfred reached down and pulled up a piece of the tall golden grass, and stuck it in his mouth.
"Alfred, are you about ready to head back?" You asked once he had come up beside you.
"Yeah, it looks like it's about to rain." He replied tilting his hat back and looking up at the cloudy sky above.
"Well then we better get going." and the two of you set off at a brisk trot towards the stables. You were almost there, when it started to pour down rain, and the lightning and thunder started to make the horses nervous.
"It's ok" you said soothingly to the horses as much as to yourself. -BOOM!!- Thunder exploded nearby, scaring the horses. They both took off… In the wrong direction.
"AHHH!!!" You screamed above the roar of the wind. You two were going so fast that you couldn't even see. Suddenly you were hit in the face by a tree branch, and having not been expecting it you abruptly fell off.
"(Name)! Alfred yelled when he heard you hit the ground behind him.
"ALFRED!" You screamed back, completely terrified, because you knew that many dangerous animals lived in the woods here. Phoinex would be fine. He could outrun them all, but you definetly couldn't.
"ALFRED WHERE ARE YOU!" You screamed again. You heard a faint response towards your right that sounded alot like someone yelling and began to move towards it.

You had been walking for a long time now, and you were completely drenched. 'If I don't get dry soon, I'm going to get sick... I hope alfred is ok.' You thought to yourself. About five minutes later, you saw a flash of white between the trees infront of you.
"Alfred?" You wondered aloud. You no longer needed to yell since the storm seemed to have blown itself out.
"(N-Name), ugh…" You heard Alfred groan from somewhere off to your left. You quickly made your way over to where you thought you heard him. You saw Alfred lying on the ground, with several cuts and a muddy hoof print on his ribs, which he was holding with his eyes screwed shut in pain.
"Alfred! What happened!?" You asked, running over and kneeling by his side in the mud.
"I h- heard you fall off... so I g-got off of Lightning t-to look for you, and then there w-was more thunder, and h-he pulled the reins out of m-my hand and k-kicked me aginst this t-tree." He grunted, shivering from the cold. He sounded like he was in alot of pain, but he was trying to hold it back like the hero he was. You carefully tried to sit him up against the tree he had apparently been kicked into, resulting in several pain filled moans. Now he was panting with a grimace on his muddy face, still clutching his ribs. His hat had gone missing, and his glasses were cracked in one lens.
"Let me see it Alfred." You asked gently.
"No, I'm fine (Name)." He said, trying to stand up to show you, using your shoulder to push himself up against the tree. He quickly realized that this made his ribs hurt more and with a sharp intake of air he gave up and slid back down to the mud. His eyes screwed themselves shut again as he continued to pant, grinding his teeth together to try and help him ignore the burning in his chest.
"No Alfred you're not, don't try and be the hero right now ok?" You told him in a soothing voice. He nodded as you gently moved his hand from his left torso to his right side. You undid the buttons of his shirt so that you could get a better look at his injury, but you could already tell that the huge horse had done quite a bit of damage. His shirt was torn in that area from Lightning's sharp hooves, but there didn't appear to be any blood. Once you had pulled back his shirt, you gasped and covered your mouth with your hand, eyes wide in shock. Alfred took that as a bad sign since you had become something like the stable nurse and saw things like this all the time. You could clearly see the dark purple U shape on his skin.
"Alfred, tell me where it hurts ok?" You said to him quietly. Again he nodded. You started on his bottom rib, pressing against it lightly with your fingertips. He was still grimaceing with his hands fisted in the mud at his sides but you didn't think that this rib was broken, so you pressed gently against the next one, and the one after that, and still there was no change. When you pressed on his fourth rib however, his eyes went wide and he gave a small yelp. You knew that it hurt him, but you had to count and see how many of his ribs were broken. You pressed against three more of his ribs, and each time his eyes would either slam shut, or pop open,(depending on which one they were doing before hand) and he would groan in pain. When you were done, you determined that he had three broken ribs.
"Alfred, we need to take you to the hospital." You said, mostly to yourself since Alfred seemed to be fighting to stay concious at the moment. You carefully slipped the arm on his uninjured side around your shoulders and slowly helped him stand.
"(N-Name) It hurts…" He rasped out his eyes slightly glazed, and he was panting again.
"Hey, don't you go fainting on me Mister! We need to get you to a hospital and I can barely hold you up even with your help." You told him in a determined voice."Now march soldier!" The two of you managed to stumble back to the stables around midnight. You saw the horses eating grass in the field on the way to your car, and you were silently relieved that they were safe.
"Hang in there Al, we're almost there." You managed to get Alfred into the car and put his seat belt on him just in time for him to pass out. You jumped into the drivers seat and, tires screeching, drove to the hospital faster than any ambulence could have.
-Alfred's POV-
I woke up in a stark white room, my clothes had been replaced with a hospital gown. "I must be in a hospital" I concluded. I looked around and saw (Name) sleeping like a rock next to my bed in a chair holding my hand with her head on the edge of the bed.
"Alfred..." She mumbled in her sleep. I smiled and tried to sit up so that I could see her better, and I almost screamed from the pain in my ribs.
"What the hell?"I whispered so that I wouldn't wake (Name) up. Then it all came back to me. (Name) falling, me getting kicked into that tree, and then passing out in (Name)'s car. "Alfred...know... hurts… mm sorry." She spoke again in her sleep. I noticed the tear stains on her face, and I tried to sit up again. This time I was successful in my mission, but I let out a loud hiss that woke (Name) up. She blinked at me a few times and rubbed her bleary eyes. When they focused again she smiled at me and cried "Alfred!" as she wrapped her arms around my neck. I grimaced over her shoulder and hugged her back tightly. When she pulled away there were tears in her eyes.
"Alfred I'm so glad that you're ok! The doctor said that Lightning b-broke five of your ribs, and that you got a concussion when you hit the tr-tree. He s-said that you would probably be unconcious for a while an-d I'm just s-so h-happy you're okay." (Name) stuttered between sobs. I pulled her up onto the bed with me and she immediately clung to my side. I let out another hiss and gently moved her hand. "I-I t-thought you were g-g-going to die out t-there Alfred, I was s-so s-s-scared!" I ran my fingers through her hair and whispered to her soothingly "It's alright (Name)… shhh…, It's okay…" Until she finally calmed down enough to realize that she was clutching near my injury.
"Oh my gosh Alfred, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" She cried and she sprang back, obviously thinking that she had been hurting my broken bones.
I smiled "(Name) it's fine, you're not hurting me." I insisted, missing her warmth already. I patted the bed next to me, and she carefully lay back in the small hospital bed. I wrapped my arm around her gently, looking down at the fragile girl in my arms.
"(Name)?"
"Hm?" She replied looking up at me.
"Why were you so afraid out there?" Her face turned pink and she looked away. She mumbled something I couldn't make out under her breath.
"What was that?"
"I said, b-because I love you…" Her face was now bright red. She started to sit up again to leave, but (despite my ribs' protests) I sat up, grabbed her hand and pulled her back down. I looked into her eyes for a moment and then, I kissed her. I could almost feel all of the love I had been hiding for her over the years come spilling out of my lips into hers. "She tastes even better than I imagined…" I said to myself. She was a bit stunned at first, but she slowly relaxed into my arms and started to kiss back. When I started to nibble on her lower lip, she moaned and grabbed my hospital gown accidentally hitting one of my ribs and causing me to yelp. She quickly realized what had happened as my hand went down to my now aching ribs.
"I'm sorry! I'll go get the nurse!" she said as she jumped out of the bed and ran down the hall. I tried to stop her, but I was starting to see black spots.
-half an hour later-
The nurse had just left, and (Name) had come and laid back down beside me.
"I love you too." I said. She smiled so brightly when I said that I thought I might go blind. Then we both yawned.
"Good night (Name)." I stated groggily
"Good night Alfred." She replied as she kissed me one last time before passing out on my shoulder.

Description
-Your POV-
It was a hot day out, the kind of weather for shorts and a t-shirt. However, you were wearing jeans and a(fav color) shirt. Since it was a Monday, you were at work, and you just so happened to be a riding instructor at a local stable.
You had just finished up your last lesson for the day, so you decided to go get your horse and go for a short ride.
"Hey Phoinex, ready to go for a ride?" You cooed to your golden stallion. He turned to look at you and then went back to munching his hay.
"I sure am (Name)! Neigh!" You heard a goofy voice say from behind you. You whirled around.
"Alfred! I didn't know you were coming today!" You exclaimed. Today he was wearing a red plaid button down shirt, blue jeans, cowboy boots, and a cowboy hat. Alfred was your best friend, and you loved everything about him. You two were very much alike, one of the only differences being the fact that Alfred was always the self proclaimed "Hero".
"I wanted to surprise you! So are you going for a ride? " He said with a his usual grin.
"Yep, Phoinex needs to stretch his legs a bit. I'm just going for a quick gallop around the field."
"Can I come! Please!" Alfred whined. "I want to ride on Lightning!" (Lightning was a snow white horse that is taller than you at the shoulder, and you are pretty tall.) He exclaimed. "How many times have you ridden before? I don't want to babysit you, and I don't know if Lightning will like you riding him or not."
"I've ridden enough times to know what to do! I'm the Hero after all! I have to be able to ride a horse to be a Hero!"

"Alright, but if you can't keep up, then just let Lightning lead you home, or start yelling for me and I'll come find you."
"YAY! I'll go get Lightning! WOOHOO!! You had a feeling you were going to regret this later.
-20 minutes later-
"Come on Alfred! Aww what's the matter, can't keep up with a girl?" You teased over your shoulder as you two tore across the golden field.
"(Name)! Don't be so mean, it's not my fault you decided to ride a race horse!!" Alfred yelled back over the slight wind that was picking up. You could only laugh over your shoulder in response and turn your horse so that you were headed for the other end of the field.
-10 minutes later-
Phoinex and Lightning were both getting tired from running, so you stopped to let them rest a bit. Alfred reached down and pulled up a piece of the tall golden grass, and stuck it in his mouth.
"Alfred, are you about ready to head back?" You asked once he had come up beside you.
"Yeah, it looks like it's about to rain." He replied tilting his hat back and looking up at the cloudy sky above.
"Well then we better get going." and the two of you set off at a brisk trot towards the stables. You were almost there, when it started to pour down rain, and the lightning and thunder started to make the horses nervous.
"It's ok" you said soothingly to the horses as much as to yourself. -BOOM!!- Thunder exploded nearby, scaring the horses. They both took off… In the wrong direction.
"AHHH!!!" You screamed above the roar of the wind. You two were going so fast that you couldn't even see. Suddenly you were hit in the face by a tree branch, and having not been expecting it you abruptly fell off.
"(Name)! Alfred yelled when he heard you hit the ground behind him.
"ALFRED!" You screamed back, completely terrified, because you knew that many dangerous animals lived in the woods here. Phoinex would be fine. He could outrun them all, but you definetly couldn't.
"ALFRED WHERE ARE YOU!" You screamed again. You heard a faint response towards your right that sounded alot like someone yelling and began to move towards it.

You had been walking for a long time now, and you were completely drenched. 'If I don't get dry soon, I'm going to get sick... I hope alfred is ok.' You thought to yourself. About five minutes later, you saw a flash of white between the trees infront of you.
"Alfred?" You wondered aloud. You no longer needed to yell since the storm seemed to have blown itself out.
"(N-Name), ugh…" You heard Alfred groan from somewhere off to your left. You quickly made your way over to where you thought you heard him. You saw Alfred lying on the ground, with several cuts and a muddy hoof print on his ribs, which he was holding with his eyes screwed shut in pain.
"Alfred! What happened!?" You asked, running over and kneeling by his side in the mud.
"I h- heard you fall off... so I g-got off of Lightning t-to look for you, and then there w-was more thunder, and h-he pulled the reins out of m-my hand and k-kicked me aginst this t-tree." He grunted, shivering from the cold. He sounded like he was in alot of pain, but he was trying to hold it back like the hero he was. You carefully tried to sit him up against the tree he had apparently been kicked into, resulting in several pain filled moans. Now he was panting with a grimace on his muddy face, still clutching his ribs. His hat had gone missing, and his glasses were cracked in one lens.
"Let me see it Alfred." You asked gently.
"No, I'm fine (Name)." He said, trying to stand up to show you, using your shoulder to push himself up against the tree. He quickly realized that this made his ribs hurt more and with a sharp intake of air he gave up and slid back down to the mud. His eyes screwed themselves shut again as he continued to pant, grinding his teeth together to try and help him ignore the burning in his chest.
"No Alfred you're not, don't try and be the hero right now ok?" You told him in a soothing voice. He nodded as you gently moved his hand from his left torso to his right side. You undid the buttons of his shirt so that you could get a better look at his injury, but you could already tell that the huge horse had done quite a bit of damage. His shirt was torn in that area from Lightning's sharp hooves, but there didn't appear to be any blood. Once you had pulled back his shirt, you gasped and covered your mouth with your hand, eyes wide in shock. Alfred took that as a bad sign since you had become something like the stable nurse and saw things like this all the time. You could clearly see the dark purple U shape on his skin.
"Alfred, tell me where it hurts ok?" You said to him quietly. Again he nodded. You started on his bottom rib, pressing against it lightly with your fingertips. He was still grimaceing with his hands fisted in the mud at his sides but you didn't think that this rib was broken, so you pressed gently against the next one, and the one after that, and still there was no change. When you pressed on his fourth rib however, his eyes went wide and he gave a small yelp. You knew that it hurt him, but you had to count and see how many of his ribs were broken. You pressed against three more of his ribs, and each time his eyes would either slam shut, or pop open,(depending on which one they were doing before hand) and he would groan in pain. When you were done, you determined that he had three broken ribs.
"Alfred, we need to take you to the hospital." You said, mostly to yourself since Alfred seemed to be fighting to stay concious at the moment. You carefully slipped the arm on his uninjured side around your shoulders and slowly helped him stand.
"(N-Name) It hurts…" He rasped out his eyes slightly glazed, and he was panting again.
"Hey, don't you go fainting on me Mister! We need to get you to a hospital and I can barely hold you up even with your help." You told him in a determined voice."Now march soldier!" The two of you managed to stumble back to the stables around midnight. You saw the horses eating grass in the field on the way to your car, and you were silently relieved that they were safe.
"Hang in there Al, we're almost there." You managed to get Alfred into the car and put his seat belt on him just in time for him to pass out. You jumped into the drivers seat and, tires screeching, drove to the hospital faster than any ambulence could have.
-Alfred's POV-
I woke up in a stark white room, my clothes had been replaced with a hospital gown. "I must be in a hospital" I concluded. I looked around and saw (Name) sleeping like a rock next to my bed in a chair holding my hand with her head on the edge of the bed.
"Alfred..." She mumbled in her sleep. I smiled and tried to sit up so that I could see her better, and I almost screamed from the pain in my ribs.
"What the hell?"I whispered so that I wouldn't wake (Name) up. Then it all came back to me. (Name) falling, me getting kicked into that tree, and then passing out in (Name)'s car. "Alfred...know... hurts… mm sorry." She spoke again in her sleep. I noticed the tear stains on her face, and I tried to sit up again. This time I was successful in my mission, but I let out a loud hiss that woke (Name) up. She blinked at me a few times and rubbed her bleary eyes. When they focused again she smiled at me and cried "Alfred!" as she wrapped her arms around my neck. I grimaced over her shoulder and hugged her back tightly. When she pulled away there were tears in her eyes.
"Alfred I'm so glad that you're ok! The doctor said that Lightning b-broke five of your ribs, and that you got a concussion when you hit the tr-tree. He s-said that you would probably be unconcious for a while an-d I'm just s-so h-happy you're okay." (Name) stuttered between sobs. I pulled her up onto the bed with me and she immediately clung to my side. I let out another hiss and gently moved her hand. "I-I t-thought you were g-g-going to die out t-there Alfred, I was s-so s-s-scared!" I ran my fingers through her hair and whispered to her soothingly "It's alright (Name)… shhh…, It's okay…" Until she finally calmed down enough to realize that she was clutching near my injury.
"Oh my gosh Alfred, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" She cried and she sprang back, obviously thinking that she had been hurting my broken bones.
I smiled "(Name) it's fine, you're not hurting me." I insisted, missing her warmth already. I patted the bed next to me, and she carefully lay back in the small hospital bed. I wrapped my arm around her gently, looking down at the fragile girl in my arms.
"(Name)?"
"Hm?" She replied looking up at me.
"Why were you so afraid out there?" Her face turned pink and she looked away. She mumbled something I couldn't make out under her breath.
"What was that?"
"I said, b-because I love you…" Her face was now bright red. She started to sit up again to leave, but (despite my ribs' protests) I sat up, grabbed her hand and pulled her back down. I looked into her eyes for a moment and then, I kissed her. I could almost feel all of the love I had been hiding for her over the years come spilling out of my lips into hers. "She tastes even better than I imagined…" I said to myself. She was a bit stunned at first, but she slowly relaxed into my arms and started to kiss back. When I started to nibble on her lower lip, she moaned and grabbed my hospital gown accidentally hitting one of my ribs and causing me to yelp. She quickly realized what had happened as my hand went down to my now aching ribs.
"I'm sorry! I'll go get the nurse!" she said as she jumped out of the bed and ran down the hall. I tried to stop her, but I was starting to see black spots.
-half an hour later-
The nurse had just left, and (Name) had come and laid back down beside me.
"I love you too." I said. She smiled so brightly when I said that I thought I might go blind. Then we both yawned.
"Good night (Name)." I stated groggily
"Good night Alfred." She replied as she kissed me one last time before passing out on my shoulder.