Life a Cripple

He was immediately hit with something hard followed by some cursing "Fuck you piece of shit!"

Jacob held his head when he looked, his vision was hazy but he was able to see that it was blood.

Jacob was still in a daze, his body was aching and barely listening to him. More and more stones started to connect onto Jacob and each time they would draw blood, Jacob out of instinct he curled into a fetal position.

After some time the stones stopped and Jacob looked down to see a group of kids around 4 - 5 flippin' him off.

"Not so tough now are you?" one of them loudly shouted before running away, "Mika, get over her what are you doing! get over here".

Quickly moving over was a middle-aged woman, she looked at Jacob like she was about to apologize, but she held it back and never said anything and continued on her way.

It didn't take Jacob long to figure out he was a cripple. His wounds wouldn't close up which was almost natural for him now his genes didn't have the slightest potential to grow, as well as his gene foundation being crippled there was no way for him to restore it.

His bones were brittle and his flesh was soft, the tiniest graze would draw blood for him. After a few minutes of thought, he decided to leave, and avoid any more attention.

"If I die I pray that someone fries that fish bastard for me" Jacob left the platform then wondered about the nearest hospital, he thought more about it then decided to go to a clinic.

A lady working at a clinic muttered "No matter how you try, things always find the internet" she said as she watched a video of a 2 man get decapitated, later the video finished "I bet it sucks to be that guy, but I can't feel sorry for him when I am barely getting by"

Finally, she notices a person walking in, quickly she got up and greeted him "Hello, sir!" but her face quickly fell dim.

"Owner someone is here!" she yelled then helped Jacob into a room. She was a young girl, 17 years old and not yet experienced.

"Sir, can you tell me what happened? Did you fall down some stairs?" the little girl was confused as she asked many questions but she wasn't getting answered. Soon after, an old man walked in, he was about 5'3 and had a potbelly and a stethoscope around his neck.

"Macy! Why did you buzz me 911, what happened?" Macy pointed at Jacob and said, this old man has some serious injuries, I suspect that he might have a head injury.

The old man walked over to the 'man' and quickly accessed his injuries, a little while after the man suddenly stopped "H-he is Jacob Shepherd!".

"The one that was crippled in the town earlier?" Macy asked.

The man then replied, "Hmph, don't worry about him, he won't die you can lead him out of the clinic. He's smart for not going to a hospital, he thought he could have tricked us. Follow order, remember he never existed."

"Get him out of here, that sore will not have anything to do with my clinic" The man ridiculed Jacob, he never forgot to mention that someone like him would never come here as he is still a part of the shepherd family.

He called him many things and eventually stormed out, the commotion caught the eyes of many people as they began discussing.

They were all trying to get a peep to see if Jacob was really who he was, Jacob could have been seen as the prince of Crenos, now he was battered and bruised in a clinic.

Macy was slightly shocked. She never thought that the person who would have been the same person she had been watching on the computer just now. She mustered up some sort of resolve and locked the doors of the room they were in.

She looked at Jacob who was sitting silently, Jacob stood and said "I'm sorry for troubling you, I will leave". Jacob walked past the girl going toward the door, he felt he would just trust his body to keep him alive.

"Wait" the girl stopped him as she put a hand on his shoulder "I don't care what you and your family have going on, but I know it's a doctors job to treat the injured. Please let me clean your wounds," the girl asked.

"Won't that old man fire you?" Jacob wasn't very optimistic at this point. "I will tell him I was practising on you, I've never got action since I started my internship" Macy stood waiting for his answer, Jacob saw she wanted to practice on him but that was good enough.

"Fine" Jacob allowed it. His wounds were dressed and he sat still and made her work. Most of his wounds were on his back and not many were on his head.

"How do you feel?" Macy asked as Jacob replied, "Good, thank you very much." She corrected herself saying "How do you feel about your family..... Aren't you sad?".

"Of course I'm sad, Who would want to see something like that happen, I don't know why I haven't cried either. Maybe it's a shock" Macy went silent and continued to dress his wounds, she was slightly nervous of Jacob, even though he was noting now before he was one of the main figures on Crenos.

After an awkward silence, she asked "S-so what will you do now?"

Jacob thought then said, "Maybe I will find someplace in a forest, I don't have any kind of plan yet, I haven't fully processed what happened yet even though I understand what happened".

Macy totally understood him and was surprised he was this calm about it.

She could tell that he still carried some elegance from his lifestyle before, his voice was calm and untainted and he spoke to her with respect.

He was still mannerable, you would never guess his predicament.