Sora woke up in his familiar white hospital room, he gasps, finding he couldn't move. He yells and struggles against his restraints, then the door opened and Kairi stepped inside, wearing a customary white nurse uniform, carrying a tray with small pancakes on it. She sets the plate down and sits by Sora and sighs, "Must we do this every morning, Sora?"
"Kairi!" he gasps in joy, "Untie me!"
"Sweetie, we've been over this, we do every day. I'm not Kairi. I'm Sophie." the nurse replies.
Sora frowns, having mistaken her brown hair for violet, and the fact that Sophie looks exactly like Kairi does. Sora struggles against his restraints again and Sophie sighs, "Ready for breakfast, Sora? I brought you chocolate chip pancakes, your favorite."
Sora looks at her and nods, smiling slightly, "I like those pancakes. Why am I tied up?"
"Yes, I give you these pancakes every morning. And you are restrained like every night. You would have hurt yourself, screaming and flailing about, screaming about some darkness that's coming after your heart." Sophie replies.
"But the darkness is after my heart! It has been since the Keyblade chose me!" Sora insists.
Sophie shakes her head, "That never happened."
"What?" Sora asks confused, "Yes it did. The Keyblade chose me the night the darkness attacked Destiny Islands."
"Sora, Destiny Islands isn't a real place. The darkness never attacked you because it isn't real." Sora sighs.
"Yes it is!" Sora was getting frustrated now, "Ask Riku or Kairi! They'll tell you! They'll tell you all about that night! They'll tell you about everything!"
"Sora, sweetie, Riku and Kairi don't exist." Sora says gently.
Sora shakes his head furiously, "Why are you lying to me!?"
He fights against his restraints again, yelling at Sophie to take back what she had said about Riku and Kairi, but the nurse just watched Sora until he wore himself out and passed out. She sighs and gets up, leaving the tray of food, she leaves the room, locking the door back behind her.
Vanille comes into Sora's room and she smiles, "Hey, Sora. How are you?"
Sora looks over at her, confused, "I'm fine, I guess.."
"Do you remember me, Sora?" Vanille sits beside his bed and smiles softly.
"You seem familiar." he replies.
"I'm Vanille. I'm your big sister." Vanille smiles in response.
Sora nods, "Okay, yeah, that I remember."
"So, how are you doing? It's been a few weeks since I last visited. How are they treating you?" Vanille asks.
"Oh, uh, I'm okay, I guess. They're nice, but they keep me tied up most of the time." Sora frowns.
"That's for your own good, you know that don't you?" she asks.
He yawns and nods, "For the most part, I remember what they keep telling me. And some times I don't."
"You've always had a problem with that." she says.
"What do you mean?" he asks.
"I mean, like when you were little, you were always pretending to be on some island with your imaginary friends. You hardly ever knew where you really were, it was scary at times. I remember this one time you said you were going to Riku's house and I had to stop you from running out into the street, you almost got hit by a car." she explains.
Sora frowns, "I don't remember that."
"You don't remember a lot of things, Sora. It's because of that fantasy world you've created, you're never here anymore. That's why we had to put you here in this place. It will help you." Vanille replies.
"So I've heard." Sora frowns, "this is crazy! I'm not crazy, I have to get out of here, Kairi needs me, and Riku too! If I'm not there to help Xemnas'll kill them!"
"Sora, Xemnas isn't real, Riku and Kairi aren't real. None of that is real. This is the real world, not some fantasy thing." Vanille responds.
"Don't say that! It is real! My friends, they're real, they need me! I'm the Keyblade Wielder!" Sora yells, getting angry again.
"There's no such thing as a Keyblade!" Vanille huffs, "Sora, that world you made when you were little, the islands, it isn't real."
"Yes it is, that's my home!" Sora whines, "Stop saying that!"
Vanille sighs and shakes her head, standing up, "I'm sorry, Sora, but that isn't reality. I"ll see you soon."
She turns and leaves the room. Once she's out of the room and Sora's door is closed she finds Sophie, "you're his nurse right? My brother's? Sora's?"
"I am." Sophie nods.
"How's his progress doing?" Vanille asks.
"It hasn't changed. No matter what we do with him, counseling, or group therapy, nothing's working with him." Sophie replies sadly.
Vanille frowns, "I see. I'll be back when I can, try to work with Sora more, I'd like for him to be a normal kid."
"I hate to say it, but he's sixteen and lives in his own reality. He won't ever be normal, but we'll try our best." Sophie replies.
Vanille nods and leaves the building. Sophie sighs and goes into Sora's room.
"Sora, it's time for Group." she smiles and unlatches his restraints.
"Okay.." Sora nods, just relieved to be out of the restraints that he's been locked in pretty much all day besides meal times.
Sophie leads him from the room and into the hallway, and down the hallway they enter a large room with many children around Sora's age sitting in a circle and an older nurse is there in the front of the circle. The older nurse is a fair skinned woman with dark hair named Fang.
Fang smiles, "Please, pick a seat anywhere in the circle."
Sora nods and timidly takes a seat near in the circle closest to the door.
"Is this everyone?" Fang asks.
"There should be one more person." Sophie says from the door.
"Who?" Fang asks.
"Aqua's her name." Sophie replies.