? POV:
"How is she, Doktor?" I ask him.
"She is now in stable conditions. But you do know without those limbs, she is as helpless as a newborn baby. She won't be able to help you on missions anymore for right now." Doktor tells me.
I nod my head as I look at the sleeping girl, I am sitting next to. She has heavy bandages on her left shoulder and on her right knee (but he isn't able to see under her medical gown and blankets). I see some wires hook into her right arm connecting to her IV bag until she wakes up. Lastly, on her face, there is a breathing tube on her nose wrapping around her ears. While I brush my fingers against her newly dyed, long, (like down to her waist), platinum blond hair covers her ears and parts of her face.
"How long would it take to get the upgrades on her, Doktor?" I ask without taking my eye off her.
"It depends on when she will wake up. I need her awake in order to do this procedure, but the procedure itself is going to be broken into two parts. The first part will take about a half a day to get the metal bases on. The second part will take just a few minutes to get the new limbs on. Lastly, the recovery rate will take about two to three weeks for her body to get used to the new limbs. But when she wakes up from her coma, I know the both of you would want to get the field sooner. So I decided to shorten the recovery days to just eleven days." Doktor said and I nod my head, I understand what he just said to me.
"Can I have a moment with her, Doktor?" I ask him as I turn my head to him.
"Of course, you do not have to ask me. She is your daughter, after all, Raiden." He says to me.
Doktor leaves the room to give me privacy and I turn my head back to my daughter. I grab her right hand (because remember she lost her left arm in the battle, they were just in). I move some hair out of her face and start speaking to her, but I knew she wouldn't be able to respond to me since she didn't the last few times I tried.
"Marie, please wake up. I know you can hear me, you are stronger than this. I can't help but worry about you, your mother and little brother are worried about you too. You have been in this coma for almost two weeks now. But Doktor is telling me, your health is improving by the minute and you would be waking up..." As I said this, I felt Marie's hand squeeze mine and I gasp in shock.
Callista's POV:
'Ugh, where am I? All I hear is beeps and voices on my right side. Wait, why can I not feel my left arm and right leg?' I think to myself.
I feel two presences by me because I hear a door open and close. I then feel a cold hand grab my right hand, and feel another move my hair out of my face. A few seconds later, I hear a deep but gentle, worry, familiar voice start speaking to me.
"Marie, please wake up. I know you can hear me, you are stronger than this. I can't help but worry about you, your mother and little brother are worried about you too. You have been in a coma for almost two weeks now. But Doktor is telling me, your health is improving by the minute and you would be waking up..." The familiar voice tells me before I squeeze his hand.
I hear a surprised gasp as I tighten my hold on their hand, thinking they would let it go and leave me. I try to open my eyes. But they are too heavy like two bricks are hanging on the ends of my eyelids, and being too stubborn for me to be able to open them properly.
A few seconds later, I am able to open them up. I turn my head to my right, my sight is a little blurry, but it became clear. Clear enough to see the person is my dad, who's holding my hand and the one who's talking to me as I was asleep.
"Dad...dy, whe...re am I?...Why can…'t I feel m...y right le...g and left…arm?" I ask with a hoarse voice since I haven't been able to use it for two weeks.
Dad chuckles at my voice but then stops. He looks at my face with his calm, gentle blue eyes.
"You haven't called me that for a long time, Marie. To answer your first question, you are in Doktor's medical clinic. The second one, you were kidnapped by Liquid Snake. He tortured you to get info from you but you didn't give up any info. He first cuts off your right leg right above the knee cap. Then cuts your left arm from the shoulder down. But we got to you before he could do any more damage to you. I am so proud of you for not giving anything up, even after what he did to you." He tells me with pride in his voice, while grabbing a pitcher and a cup from the table by my bed.
As he pours the water into the cup, all the memories came pouring into my head. When he turns back around with the cup in his right hand and put his other under my head to prop up.
He sees how pale I am and assume he figures my memories came back from how white I went. He didn't say anything and while he is giving me the water, he didn't want to spill any of it on me, nor choke me. I truly didn't know how thirsty I am until the water hit the back of my throat.
After the cup is empty, he moves it away from my lips and places it back on the table. I then remember, "Daddy where is Grandpa Snake?" I ask him.
Dad went from having a smile to a frown on his face. I knew then straight away something's wrong. A few salty tears came down rushing down my face. He sees them and tries to wipe them away before more could join them, but was too late for more were taking their place.
"Marie, Grandpa Snake and everyone else, but Boris, Kevin and Courtney turned themselves in. But Grandpa Snake has told me to tell you, he is very proud of how far you came when he first saw you. He's truly worried about you when he saw your limp form in my arms after we rescued you." He said before more tears came down my face.
Dad quickly stops talking; moves out of the chair and onto my bed. He gently lifts me up and went underneath me. I shift to my right side and hide my face in his chest. He tries to comfort me but knew I want to be in my grandfather's arms. Grandpa Snake and I have a very close bond just like how he and dad did when dad was younger.
Raiden's POV:
'I hate it when Marie starts crying, it makes me feel like I'm a horrible parent.' When I come back from my thoughts, I hear no more crying come from Marie and her breathing has become evener. I figure she tired herself out from all the crying, she did.
A few minutes later, I decide Doktor should know Marie is awake. So I slowly move to press the help button.
After I hit the button, a nurse comes rushing in. She asks me what's wrong. But I just ask her to get Doktor and to tell him it is about Marie. She nods and went to get Doktor.
"What can I help you with, Raiden?" He quietly asks when I put my finger to my mouth after he opens the door to her room.
"I wanted to let you know, Marie is awake from her coma now, but just went back to sleep from crying after finding out on what happened to her Grandfather," I tell him.
He nods his head in understanding. He moves to our right side to check up on her vitals.
While he is doing this he's telling me, he is going to do the procedure today. Since she is now awake.
"Raiden, the first part of the procedure is going to be the most painful. So I suggest you stay today and tomorrow just for the Kind's sake." He quietly tells me.
I nod my head. I then tell him, I need to call Rose to let her know Marie is awake and we're going to come home in two days. Doktor tells me, my idea would be the smart thing to do, so Rose doesn't have her worry on Marie anymore.
I let Doktor continue to check on her vitals as I slowly grab my phone. I gently move Marie, so she's laying on the bed. I quickly go into the hallway. I dial Rose's number and on the second ring, she picks up. She quickly asks me on what Marie's condition is. I tell her all the info on what just occurred and what is going to happen for the next two days.
She says John misses his big sister and wishes she is home now. I ask her to have her hand the phone to John. She immediately does. As the phone gets in John's hands, he starts a little ramble on how his big sister should be home right now. I tell him I'm going to bring her home in two days.
He became so happy, I hear crying on the other end of the phone. I knew he is super happy after hearing his big sister is going to be coming home in two days. I then ask him to hand the phone back to his mother.
Once the phone is back to Rose, she asks me to tell Marie, she wants the both of us to come back home, safe and sound. I agree with her and hung up. I open back up the door to Marie's room.
As I got through to the room and close the door, Marie is starting to wake back up from her little nap, she's in.
TO BE CONTINUED...