That afternoon, the doctor from the night before walked in and told Butters about his options concerning physical therapy. The teenager was somewhat reluctant because he didn't want to go through all of it only to find out he still wouldn't be able to walk, but ended up agreeing for Kenny's sake.

"We can start the therapy later today, if that's what you would like to do," the doctor said as he wrote something down on his chart. "The sooner you start, the better."

Butters nodded. "Okay, I can do that."

"Great." The doctor smiled and wrote something else down. "I will send one of the therapists up shortly to help you out of bed and into a wheelchair."

"I can get Butters into a wheelchair," Kenny offered. "Just tell me where to go after he's in the wheelchair."

"You want to do that?" The doctor asked just to be sure.

"Yeah, I have no problem with it."

"Okay then. I'll bring a wheelchair up then." He turned and left the room for a wheelchair.

Butters bumped his fists and looked over at his boyfriend. "A-Are you sure you don't want to go hang out with Stan and Kyle?"

"Of course I'm sure." Kenny smiled at Butters. "I'll stay with you through all of this."

Butters smiled. "Well, thanks Ken."

"No need to thank me," Kenny grabbed Butters' hands, "I just want you to be okay."

"O-Okay."

"Knock knock," Kyle said with a smile in his voice as him and Stan walked into the room.

"Hey guys," Kenny smiled, "where's Cartman?"

Stan and Kyle exchanged a look and then looked at their friend. Stan scratched the back of his head. "Well, uh, I'll talk to you about it later, okay?"

"Uh, sure," Kenny said slowly. He was afraid of what it was about, though he realized that he would need to find out whether or not to kill Cartman.

"Here we go," the doctor said as he walked into the room with a wheelchair. "Just take a left outside of the door and keep going down the hall, a nurse will be outside of the door to the physical therapy room waiting for you."

"Alright then." Kenny picked up Butters bridal style as Kyle grabbed the IV and followed Kenny as he carried Butters to the wheelchair and sat him down gently. "Kyle," he looked at his friend, "could you continue pushing that as I push the wheelchair?"

Kyle nodded. "Sure."

Kenny pushed Butters in the wheelchair with Kyle and Stan following down the hall until a blonde nurse stopped them. She said that she needed to speak with Butters alone for a minute about legal matters and then pushed him and the IV into the room.

"So, what's up with Cartman?" Kenny asked as soon as the door closed.

"Well," Stan looked at Kyle for a moment and then continued, "when we told him that Butters is in the hospital, he looked more pissed off than anything."

"Pissed off?" Kenny raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Why?"

"We think that Cartman might've had something to do with this."

"What? I mean, I know he can be an asshole, but you don't really think he'd think about something like this. Butters could've been killed."

"He asked if Butters was dying or dead," Kyle said concernedly, "and when we said that he isn't, he looked pissed off. We got a good look at his car when we were leaving and part of the front bumper had blood on it and was slightly dented in. It looked like it happened recently too."

"Are you sure it was blood, not paint?" Kenny knew they were telling the truth, but for some reason, he still had faith in Cartman's ability to be humane.

"Dude, we checked, that's what took us so long," Stan said. "We're not sure it's Butters' blood, but considering Cartman's behavior…it could be."

"We gave it to the county police to run a DNA scan," Kyle said. "Barbrady said that the county was the one doing the investigation on the accident, that's how we knew where to go. And the police chief said he'd contact us when the scan came back, whether or not the blood belongs to Butters."

Kenny nodded. He did want the person who hit Butters to die a very slow and painful death, and considering the person just drove off, he knew they must not have cared if Butters lived or died. But surely Cartman didn't…

The door to the physical therapy room opened and the nurse said that Kenny could go into the room. Stan and Kyle said they'd be down in the cafeteria, and to get them when Butters went back to his room before they left.