Green with Jealousy
Part 1
By crystalquirt
Sibey yaoi - action adventure boyxboy romance. Barnue
Ideas for this fic contributed by:~loveless kittykat~Pandalover~Lycan-wolf96~forever tiki [Sadie] from DA
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Right in the middle of deliveries on a dark, foggy evening, Sue lost Tobey and Sid, both at the same time! Just after trying to cover for the boys with Mr. Wu and Nana, she pulled her phone out and angrily pushed buttons. She stomped out by her bike and sat in front of Wu's after being loaded up with bags and bags of food orders. Even Barney didn't look like he believed her story about flat tires and mean dogs.
"They're both gone! I can't believe those two would leave me alone with all the deliveries on a Friday night! I will kill them if Mr. Wu doesn't beat me too it. Delivering all these will take me all night if I have to do it alone!"
Sid's and Tobey's pictures flashed on her phone as she tried to get them both to pick up at the same time for a conference call. Her phone beeped . . . and beeped again. "Come on guys! At least one of you pick up!"
She waited and her call went to voicemail! "Aaaargh!" Sue ended the call and brought up the locator application to try and find their GPS signals.
"There they are, and they're together. I should have known."
Pedaling as fast as the wind coming inland off the ocean she followed their signals, hauling all of the deliveries with her hanging on her handlebars. Their signals showed them to be on or very close to the beach by the wharf.
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Tobey screamed at the top of his lungs as the cold water hit his bare skin. As he surfaced he had to hang onto his boxers to keep the current from pulling them down. Once he spit out the cold salt water and took a deep breath he looked around for Sid.
"Sid!" Tobey cried angrily. He didn't know whether to stay out in the water and look for him while he froze to death, or go to shore and put his clothes back on. Tobey put his head back under water and opened his eyes. It was much to dark to see much of anything! "Crap – Sid! Where are you? You better not be in trouble!"
Breathing hard and shivering, he surfaced again and looked around. "This is not turning out to be as much fun as I had hoped." he mumbled. A whisper on the wind, that sounding a lot like Sid's laughter came to his cold, waterlogged ears. "Sid?" he swam back to the pier where they had jumped off. Sid, wearing his only his briefs on the chilly night was lying low up on the deck so Tobey couldn't see him.
"Hahaha, I can't believe you actually dived in Tobey! Aren't you freezing?"
"Sid, you dared me, and I dared you – you said you would jump too! This is soooo - not – fair!"
Sid sat up on the edge with his feet hanging down, still laughing hysterically and pointing at his boyfriend. "You are such a dork!"
"Sid." Tobey hissed as he reached up and grabbed Sid's ankles, bracing his feet against the pike he yanked Sid off the deck! With an uncharacteristic scream Sid hit the cold water butt-first and sank under the surface.
"Ha! Sid! Glad you could join me! A little cold isn't it?"
Tobey stuck his tongue out and made a face aimed at where Sid went in the water. Circling in the water like a shark, Tobey dog-paddled over as Sid floated back up to the surface where he stayed, face down. Tobey stopped and watched him for a second, his arms and legs weren't moving – and he still hadn't picked his head up to take a breath.
"Sid? Sid!" Tobey swam to him in one stroke and grabbed Sid's arm. He rolled him over being careful to keep his head above water. "Sid! I'm sorry – please be okay-did you hit your head or something?" he felt Sid's head with his fingers and couldn't feel any bumps or cuts.
Kicking hard with his legs to stay up and keep Sid's face out of the water, Tobey didn't even take the time to pull Sid to the beach. With his boyfriend floating on his back over his arm, he checked for breathing and couldn't feel any!
"Oh dammit - Sid! - Why am I so stupid?" Tobey pinched off Sid's nose and pressed his lips to his boyfriend's to blow air into his lungs. Tobey felt a strong hand behind his head and Sid's tongue against his teeth. Already upset and surprised, Tobey startled and tried to pull away. Sid held his head still and kissed him. Tobey whined angrily into Sid's mouth.
When their lips parted, Tobey cried, "S-Sid-that was so mean! I thought I killed you!" Tobey coughed violently after swallowing a gulp of water down the wrong pipe when Sid grabbed his head. "Teach you to yank me into the water Tobey!" Laughing, Sid swam slowly back toward the beach leaving Tobey floating alone and still coughing.
Tobey watched Sid as he swam away. "Big jerk, that was mean!" Cough-cough . . . "I thought he . . . I thought I . . ." Tobey blinked water out of his eyes and pushed his bangs out of his face.
Sue rode along the beach on the boardwalk by the stores until she saw Sid's yellow bike glinting in the moonlight. She parked her bike with all the deliveries and ran down to the boy's bikes. She found Sid and Tobey's helmets, their clothes, shoes and their phones lying in a pile by their bikes and looked toward the water. Sue growled and grumbled as she walked toward the water.
"It's freezing, there are deliveries backing up and those two are skinny dipping!" She saw Sid first, wading toward her with his arms wrapped around himself like he was freezing.
"You guys ran off and left me! Mr. Wu is so angry I'm surprised you couldn't hear him yelling from here! I have a dozen deliveries on my bike going all over Chinatown! I'm not doing them all alone!"
Sid held up his hands like he needed to physically protect himself from his sister. "Sue, its not my fault, Tobey dared me, and we . . ."
Sue interrupted, "Where IS Tobey?" Sid looked back out in the water and didn't see him. "He must be hiding in front of the pier paying me back. I'll go get him." Sid jogged back to the water.
"Paying you back for what Sid?"
"Later Sue." Sid was out far enough to dive in to swim out to where he left Tobey.
"Tobey?" He called when he didn't see him. Tobey sniffled in response and Sid swam to the sniffling noises coming from under the pier. "Tobey come on – you're not crying are you?"
His concern was met with silence. "Are you giving me the silent treatment?" Sid was moving slowly between and around the rows of pikes, Tobey obviously avoiding him. "Tobey come on – Sue is here, and very angry – we have deliveries."
"Sue is angry? I am ANGRY Sid! You scared me half to death thinking I killed you and then you . . ." Tobey was so choked up and upset he couldn't talk anymore.
Silently, Sid swam up behind him and put his arm around his shoulders while he held onto the pike. "Tobey I'm sorry, I thought it would be funny. I hoped you would laugh." Sid turned Tobey so he could look at his face. Tobey tried to say something, but tears turned his words into a whimper. He gritted his teeth in frustration and turned his head away.
"Tobey, I'm really sorry - you're shivering. Let me help you to the beach so we can get warmed up. You can be mad at me later." Tobey twisted out of Sid's hug and went straight down, pushing on the pike. Before Sid could even look for him, he kicked off a wooden brace and shot through the water back toward the beach. Sid saw his head bob back to the surface half way to the beach, the moonlight reflecting off his white bangs.
Tobey yelled at him, "PSYCHE!" and laughing out loud swam to the beach where Sue repeated herself yelling at him now while Sid swam over. As Sid walked up out of the water he noticed that the conversation sounded familiar.
"It was all Sid's idea! He dared me!"
"I don't care who's idea it was, you both know you have responsibilities!"
"Alright Sue." Tobey picked up his pants and shook the sand out of them.
"Sorry Sue." Sid shook out his mustard yellow shirt to put it on. Pulling their scratchy, sandy clothes on over their cold, wet skin proved to be an unpleasant task. Sue paced angrily back and forth while waiting impatiently, until she started yelling again.
"I hate it that you guys always make me have to act like your mother. Why is it my job to track you down try to make sure you are doing what you're supposed to be and trying to keep you out of trouble all the time? I would like to have some fun with you once in a while and since you two decided you like each other 'that way' you leave me out even more than you used to. I get so lonely sometimes – and then when I am with you, instead of having fun, doing friend or family stuff or even working, I have to correct you or scold you – or cover for you! I'm tired of it!"
Sue jogged up to her bike, took all the bags off and rode away without them. Tobey was still trying to get sand out of his shoes and Sid couldn't find the arm hole in one of his shirts, the material sticking to his wet, salty, sandy skin, he watched his sister ride away. "Sue wait up! Don't be mad!" He started to push his bike up to the board walk with his shoes and helmet in his hands.
The bags were already starting to look warn out and the food was cold. "No tips tonight."
Tobey walked his bike up beside Sid's and they separated the orders. "Come on, lets get this done so we can get home and apologize to Sue, I don't remember the last time when she was this angry." Sid and Tobey tried several times to call Sue, but she wasn't picking up her phone. She sat at a corner and watched her phone light up, their faces flashing on the little screen.
"Right now, even the thought of talking to those two makes my stomach turn. They probably want to ask me to do something, to tell them how to handle something or where to deliver something. I don't care, let them figure it out alone for once."
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While they were messing around in the ocean, Tobey teased Sid and acted like he was playing, but what happened really did bother him. Not so much what Sid did to him anymore, but what he had done to Sid. Thinking about it, he realized Sid could have really been hurt when he was horsing around like that. He felt anger when Sid let on that he was okay, but also relief like he never felt before. He realized he never felt so scared before - even when Sid really was in trouble. Like when Kong Li captured him and took him to the pier to feed him to the demon crab. Or when he was trapped by Kong Li's minions in the paint truck and they tortured him on the paint shaker, or when the Chio warrior was after him for cooking the recipe wrong.
Sid noticed Tobey was being unusually quiet when they got to ride together for short distances when they met up between deliveries. After they had all the deliveries delivered. They had planned to meet up on Orchid Street. Tobey came around the corner from Locust Street and saw Sid almost two blocks ahead riding toward him. Before they got within a block of each other, an earthquake started. The pavement cracked in front of Sid and he went down.
"Sid!" Tobey called to him and stood up to pedal faster. Tobey jumped the wide crack that opened up in front of him. He jumped off of his rolling bike and ran over to Sid.
Sid pushed himself up into a sitting position as Tobey ran over to him and kneeled next to him. "Sid are you alright?"
"Yeah Tob, but this is the worst earthquake we've ever had! Do you think it's Kong Li again?"
"Probably." The earth opened up on the sidewalk across the street from where they sat and the front end of a blue Toyota Prius sank down. Sid and Tobey watched with their mouths open until Sid spoke. "Tobey! We have to find Sue – what if she is still out in this someplace?"
Sid tried to call Sue for about the thirteenth time that evening and when she didn't answer, again, he called Nana. "Have you heard from Sue? She got angry and left us a while ago and won't answer her phone, the earthquake is causing a lot of damage downtown!" While Sid was on the phone with Nana, Tobey picked up both bikes and rolled them over.
Nana answered Sid, "Well, since she is angry with you guys she may not answer your calls. I will call her and see if she answers and call you back."
"Alright Nana, thanks." Sid's voice was quiet. "Tobey, I hate that Sue feels so lonely – I had no idea! We have to try harder to include her in stuff."
"I know Sid. I thought she was enjoying her alone time. She and Nana are always cooking something or studying. Smiling weakly, Tobey found Sid's hand and gave his fingers a gentle squeeze. "Sid don't worry, we'll find her."
"We have to Tobey. She depends on us way more than I thought she did. Sue should find a boyfriend. Barney is never gonna come around. Or even find some girlfriends. Don't girls like to do each others hair or something?"
"I guess . . . you like to brush my hair." Tobey grinned.
"That's different, I think,"
"Hey Sid, maybe we can get Barney to take her out! We can offer to do more of his chores for a week or something. He is so clueless, but maybe if he spends some time with her he will figure out that she likes him and that she is a great girl!"
"I don't know, why do you suppose Sue hasn't told Barney herself that she likes him. Maybe she is shy and would be mad if we interfered."
"Really, if you think about it, I mean who else has the same interests all three of us do? Kung Fu, fighting Kong Li are biggies in our lives. Even if we find friends at school or in the neighborhood, we cant tell them about what we spend most of our time doing; the magic recipes and Kong Li must be kept secret. We can't make friends who what to spend a lot of time hanging around. We can't even make friends who count on us to do much of anything with them since we would have to cancel all the time. We three only have each other, and since we've become so close, we have been leaving Sue out without realizing it."
Sid's phone rang and interrupted them. "Nana's calling! Cross your fingers she heard from Sue. "Nana?" he answered.
"Sid, Sue won't answer for me either. You two better find her!"
Before Sid could end the call with Nana, Tobey found Sue's GPS signal on his phone. The quake rumbled again and harder as the two boys jumped on their bikes and took off in the direction the GPS showed for Sue.
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Sue found Eugene sitting on a short wall behind the arcade and tried to talk to him to find out what he was doing. Unfortunately he was so busy with what ever he was doing; taking notes; digging through his bag for different art supplies and turning through pages of drawings in a large drawing pad, he barely seemed to notice that she was there.
"Oh well I guess I am invisible to everyone tonight." Eugene didn't even seem to hear her say that. Sue sadly got back on her bike and rode aimlessly through the alleys and parking lots around Chinatown. After following a pretty orange cat, who also didn't want to hang out with her for a while she found herself in an alley. The earthquake started. Being in the narrow alley with tall buildings on each side during an earthquake was unsettling, especially when a flower pot fell from someone's window and landed inches in front of her front tire.
"Ahh! I better get out in the open!"
She stood up to pedal ahead faster and came to a wider area behind a grocery store. As she coasted into a small parking area the pavement cracked in front of her and she jumped it, just as effortlessly as Tobey had. The crack continued to widen and got longer across the parking area. One end of the crack gut under a tree and it fell across a parked car. When the windshield broke Sue had been riding by and it make her yelp softly with surprise and turn, following the crack to the other side where she hoped she could get out at the end of a wall that lined the property out to the street.
Right away, the crack widened behind her and made the earth fall away from the base of an electric pole. The pole sank a foot before it started to lean over. The first of the lines overhead snapped and the ends fell sending sparks all around. Sue ducked and dived forward off her bike to get away. The pole came down and smashed her bike before it fell over. Sue dived and rolled against the concrete block wall on the north side of the small parking area.
Two more lines snapped and sparked as they whipped around like they had a life of their own. Sue yelped and scrambled to get away from them, but found herself cornered by the concrete wall, the wires and a trailer full of newspapers for recycling parked near by. She brought her knees up to her chest and sat in as tiny a ball as she could against the wall. The metal trailer had a wire lying across it and she was afraid to go under it in case she would touch the metal and be electrocuted.
The rumbling as the strange earthquake continued and the cement block wall she was leaning against began to crumble. Sue panicked and dived along the cracking wall on her stomach, but couldn't get away because of the wires. A large chunk of the cement block fence hit the ground next to her and rolled to rest on her arm before she could move. Pinned between the chunk of concrete and remaining wall that hadn't fallen down. Sue screamed as another wire snapped and sparks rained down around her.
"Help! Help!" She pulled frantically on her arm and pushed to try and move the chunk of concrete, but it wouldn't budge. Fear and adrenaline blocked the pain from her mind as the bone in her arm broke.
"Help!" with her free hand Sue felt her pocket for her phone, but her pocket was empty! She looked over her shoulder and saw back by bike, her phone was lying on the pavement between sparking, wriggling wires! Sue tugged on her arm and it hurt for the first time so badly that she screamed and started crying.
Sue had never been so scared, and the rumbling of the earthquake continued relentlessly, making the wall and pavement around her crack more. She could hear people screaming and saw when she looked back under the trailer that citizens were running down the street. Where she was trapped, she was hidden from view from anyone out on the street or in the alley even if there had been anyone around who was looking for her. The grocery store closed when the earthquake started and the two employees headed home right away, happy the earthquake got them the rest of the night off.
Sue tried to calm herself to try and think of a way out of this. She didn't know who owned the car that the tree fell on, but hopped they would come by soon looking for it.
Sue's bike had fallen a distance from the wall and trailer, but the electric pole was lying on it and she thought it would probably be hidden from anyone on the street. The broken lines in the trailer behind her ignited a fire and smoke started to pour out and along the wall over Sue.
Sue smelled smoke and looked up, "No! Not fire too! . . . Help!" The smoke was drifting right over her making it harder to breathe and harder to see her. She was afraid if she passed out and couldn't yell for help, no one would find her.
Another electric pole down the line fell and jerked all the wires as it hit the wall out near the street. The wall crumbled some more and rocks rained down on her with the sparks from the lines. Sue kept patting her head with her free hand, fearful that the sparks would get in her hair. She screamed loudly and tried to pull her arm out again. A severe pain shot from her wrist all the way to her shoulder and across her back. She screamed in frustration.
"Sid! Tobey! Please don't be hurt!" she prayed. The smoke pouring off the trailer was getting heavier and Sue started coughing. Soon she stopped trying to free herself and lie still.
Sid and Tobey nearly laid their bikes down they came around the corner so fast. Sid saw moonlight glinting off of what he thought was Sue's bike in the parking lot behind the grocery store where her GPS signal led them. Tobey rode in front of him and screamed, "Stop Sid!"
Sid stopped and glared at him. "Sid, there are live wires down between us and Sue's bike and that pole looks like it will fall any minute!"
"Sue! Sue! Where are you?"
Sue screamed, "Stay back! There are live wires all around me!" Sue could feel heat from the burning newspapers on her back. Sid and Tobey could hear her coughing. The fire roaring, flames shooting up into the trees now. A wire lie in the alley ahead of them writhing around like a snake with a handful of sparkler's in its mouth.
"Aaaahg! Tobey, stay here, I will go in and try to get to her. You call 911!" Sid jumped off of his bike and jumped over the first downed pole that lie one end up against the wall. Tobey dialed 911 as he ran after Sid. Tobey followed against orders and joined Sid looking over the situation. They had big problems. More broken, live wires were lying around Sue, and the flames from the burning newspapers in the trailer were intense and only a few feet away from her legs.
With no warning, the tires on the trailer exploded in the heat and the force knocked Sid and Tobey down. Sid groaned and looked for Tobey. He was on his knees and elbows holding his head. The smoke prevented him from even seeing Sue now. Sid took off running toward the alley. He vaulted over the wall beyond where the wires were down. The 911 operator told Tobey to hang on and it would be a while before anyone could get there. There were people trapped and damage had occurred in several parts of Chinatown.
Sid found himself in a lumber yard on the other side of the wall and prayed quickly while he ran that the fire in the trailer wouldn't jump the wall and start all the lumber on fire. Sid bravely went over the broken wall and lowered himself down over Sue. "Sue – where are you hurt – I am afraid to move you."
"You can't move me anyway - I'm trapped – I think my arm's broken." Sue was beginning to sound too weak to be frightened anymore.
"Sue! What can we do?"
"I don't know, you figure it out!" Sue was not so weak or scared that she forgot she was mad at her brother.
"Sue - Now is not the time – if you have an idea share it!"
"I really don't know you dork, if I did I would tell you to save my hide." Sue coughed some more.
Tobey shouted, "There's a hose behind the grocery store, maybe I can cool off the fire!"
Sid yelled at him, "No Tobey! Water conducts electricity - we would all be electrocuted!"
"Ow Sid, I think my clothes are melting into my skin! Help!"
Sid tried to go in front of Sue where he could grab the concrete and roll it off her arm. Being that close to the wires when he touched the concrete, his hands and arms tingled. The electricity arced from the nearest wire to the iron re-bar sticking out of the concrete block. Sid yelped and let go. The smoke made him cough too, but he forced out, "Tobey! Find a board, something wooden I can use for a lever – come on over on this side, its a lumber yard.
In only a moment, Tobey appeared at the top of the wall handing Sid a two by four. He put the end of the board under the concrete, near Sue's arm. "Ready Sue?"
Sue didn't answer him. Ready or not he had to try. Sid braced and lifted on the board with both hands. The large chunk of concrete lifted up and with one more push it rolled over. Sue still didn't move.
Both boys coughing violently from the smoke, Tobey jumped over and landed behind Sid, he moved around carefully so he didn't touch the wires as he held Sue's arm out straight while Sid picked her up across his arms. Once she was up, Tobey gently placed her arm across her stomach and Sid handed her to him. Sid jumped up and lie across the top of the broken wall. Tobey handed Sue up to him and helped lift her over. Sharp edges on the broken concrete block dug into Sid's stomach as he pulled her across. He gritted his teeth and powered her over the wall, giving her a smooth ride.
With the fire and electricity popping all around them, they hadn't noticed the earthquake had finally stopped. Tobey followed closely as Sid took Sue far enough away that they were out of the smoke. No sooner had they put Sue down on a stack of plywood and Sid patted her cheek to see if she would wake up, but a tree that was on fire, fell over the wall and started burning the plywood stacked closest to the fence where they had just been. Sid carefully picked Sue up again and Tobey followed him to the back of the small lumberyard. Tobey found a hairpin in Sue's hair and used it to pick the padlock on the gate so they could carry her out.
They went two more doors down, out of the alley and put her down on the sidewalk in front of a vacant lot where there was nothing around that could fall on them or burn suddenly. Sid sat down and pulled Sue into his lap, just as another quake started. Tobey, did you call for help?"
"Of course – I called them, but they said they were busy! These quakes are causing sever damage and injuries all over Chinatown. There aren't enough emergency services to handle it all, but they said more were on their way."
"Call Nana Tobey . . . Sue please be okay." Sid stared at his sister's bruised and swollen arm while he listened to Tobey talking to Nana. After Tobey ended his call he saw Sid, still with Sue in his lap, holding his stomach and rocking slightly with his eyes squeezed shut.
As he crawled back over he asked, "Sid whats wrong?"
Sid opened his eyes and smiled weakly when he looked at Tobey. "I'm okay, just a little road rash from the top of the wall." Tobey frowned and pushed on Sid's shoulder to make him lean back a little. Tobey reached over Sue and pulled up Sid's shirt. "Ow, Sid that looks like it hurts!" Tobey held onto Sue to be sure her arm didn't move. "Lie back Sid."
Sid cooperated, he hurt and was still coughing. Lying down didn't seem like a bad thing to do right then. Tobey let Sue back down to lie across Sid's legs like a lumpy pillow. Tobey coughed too as he lifted Sid's blood-stained shirt. There wasn't a lot of blood, but there were spots all over the front of his shirt. Tobey saw his stomach even looked a little like really bad road rash. He picked a small chunk of concrete out of Sid's skin.
"Ow!"
"Sorry Sid. I'll let Nana clean your stomach. She can probably do it without hurting you."
"Naw, it will hurt if she does it too. How is Sue?"
"I don't know, she's breathing, she's not bleeding anywhere. She has some burns on her back and the backs of her legs but I don't think she came into contact with the wires. Her arm is definitely broken. I could feel the bones crunching when we moved her."
"I hope we didn't hurt her even worse than she already was."
"Sid we had to move her, fire and electricity would have ended her life if we hadn't moved her."
A police officer driving by in his patrol car after his last call saw the them lying on the sidewalk and stopped. He radioed their location and got out. "What happened you three?"
"My sister is badly hurt!" Sid got choked up and looked away. Tobey told him all he knew about what happened and Sue's condition. The officer told them all he knew about the disaster. "There are no available ambulances or EMT's that can respond to this location for perhaps a long while. I can take you to the hospital. You will still have to wait a long time, because Emergency is crowded, but at least the staff can get you in triage and in line for care.
"Okay Officer - thanks." Tobey patted Sid's back.
He replied, "Tobey, call Nana back and tell her to meet us at the hospital if she can."
Sid helped Officer Lucas put Sue across the back seat and belt her in. Sid slid in under her head and shoulders and put his seatbelt on under her. Tobey got in the front with the officer and they made their way through broken streets and downed lines all the way across town. While the officer drove Tobey took his seatbelt off and turned around with his knees in the seat. Sid had one hand on Sue's shoulder holding her tightly in his lap, he held his head with his other hand.
"Sid, anything change with Sue?"
He saw Sid had tears in his eyes when he looked up and shook his head no. "No change."
The officer pulled up and helped them get Sue out. There weren't any gurneys available, so Sid sat down on the pavement outside emergency and held Sue in his lap again. "Sorry kids - I can't wait with you. Good luck now – I hope your sister will be alright."
Tobey thanked the officer and he left. They waited as patiently as they could for one of the triage nurses to come over and take down their information. People all around them were crying and screaming in pain, yelling at others in anger or sitting very quietly, as they were doing. Sue took a raspy breath suddenly and the breaths that followed were all labored and sounded like she was drowning without being in water. Sid hugged her and repeated her name loudly. Tobey jumped up and ran. Sid could hear him yelling, please help - Sue needs help now! I think she can't breathe!"
Tobey returned with a nurse following. She bent over and checked Sue. After only a moment she stood up and waved at someone while she spoke to someone else on her walky-talky. Without taking time to explain anything to Sid and Tobey, someone else came over to help. They put her on a gurney and wheeled her inside. Sid stood up, tears running down his face intending to follow but Tobey took his hand and spoke softly.
"There is no room in there Sid. They are stopping everyone who isn't a patient at the door. We will have to wait out here."
"But Sue – what if she wakes up and we aren't there? She was so mad at me . . . What if she - what if we can never . . . ?"
"Don't talk like that Sid. You will apologize and we will take Sue out to eat at a good restaurant – someplace besides Wu's Garden. You'll see!"
Sid smiled, appreciating Tobey's positive outlook, even if he didn't completely believe it. He turned to face Tobey and pulled him close for a hug. Tobey rested his cheek on Sid's shoulder, hiding the tears he had in his eyes. When Sid stood up another orderly saw that the front of his shirt was bloody. He came over interrupting their hug. "How badly are you hurt kid?" he touched Sid's arm and led him a couple of feet away from Tobey so he could see Sid's front.
"I'm fine." Sid assured the orderly. "Others need help more. How can I find out about someone's condition who is already in there?"
"Stay close, someone will find you with news, or if it has been a long time, you can stand in that line and speak to the nurse with the clipboard over there. She is receiving updates as they are available."
"Thanks," Sid pulled Tobey over for another hug before they walked a short distance away and sat on a truck bumper in the parking lot to wait for Nana to call, or find them.
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Tobey Continued . . .