The hospital was busy, as it always was. Full of bustling doctors and nurses, worried families on chairs in lobbies, and hospital beds wheeling about all over the place.
Ryou had always hated hospitals. They smelt wrong, looked intimidating and you could always find someone, in a small room, dying with their loved ones around them. Bad memories came from this place, and Ryou felt uncomfortable as he wandered through the all-too familiar halls, with Maggie's hospital bed beside him.
Soon, the small group of people; including Ryou and Maggie, the doctor, and a couple of paramedics came to a small room; a simple, white box with equipment and a small bed. With Maggie safely delivered to the room, the paramedics left for another duty, leaving the doctor, and the two teenagers.
Ryou looked over to Maggie, who was still unconscious. The bleeding from her side had stopped, finally, and the colour had drained from her cheeks. Her short, blonde curls looked limp across her round, spot-ridden face. She definitely didn't look like her usual cheery self, and it made Ryou feel guilty.
I should have done something, Ryou thought to himself. Something to help. Why do I always have to stand by while my friends get hurt like this?
Wait, hadn't he been in this situation before?
A good few years ago, yes.
The telephone rang, making the empty house echo. A seven-year old Ryou walked over, and pressed the moulded plastic onto his ear.
"Hello, Bakura residence," Even a little lad like himself spoke with a polite air about him; he was taught so by his father.
"Ryou, this is daddy," a low, husky voice entered Ryou's ears, and he squealed in delight.
"Hi daddy! Why aren't you home yet? Where's Mummy and Amane?" he asked innocently, to which his father sobbed slightly. "Are you crying, Daddy?"
"Look, Ryou, I have something to tell you. Your mother and sister, they were coming back from their shopping trip, and they had an accident,"
"Did Amane do a pee-pee in the car again?" Ryou's nose turned up in disgust, while his father said nothing for a while.
"Far from it, lad. I'll pick you up and take you to where they are, ok?"
"Okay, daddy! I can't wait to see them! I wonder, did they buy me the Duel Monsters cards that I wanted?"
"…I'll pick you up later," his father hung up.
The doctor, who was examining Maggie, looked up and saw Ryou's worried expression. "Hey. Try not to look so worried. Your friend is going to be fine," she said gently. Ryou looked up and saw the small smile on the doctor's face.
"Do you know what's going to happen to her?" Ryou's voice trembled slightly, and he looked over to Maggie, who was breathing steadily, but slowly.
"Yes. She has received a major concussion, which resulted into a coma. As for her waist, she will have to have a few stitches, but we won't give them to her for now. She needs to rest for a few weeks, and by then, hopefully, she will have woken up. We also think that Maggie has a broken ankle, most likely from the fall. Once she wakes up, she will need crutches. I trust that you'll be able to help her get around places, won't you?" the doctor stood back upright to look Ryou in the eyes.
"Yes, I mean, I hope to," Ryou managed a small smile. "I suppose I'd better get going now," He stood up, waved good-bye and left. The doctor went back to observing Maggie, until Ryou came back in, asking, "Oh, by the way, what's your name?"
"Dr. Yamashita," she replied. "And yours?"
"Bakura Ryou," Ryou said, bowing slightly. "Thank you for your help, ma'am," he said, before leaving once again.
Dr. Yamashita chuckled to herself and watched Ryou as he left the ward.
When Ryou got home, no one was there. He sighed, knowing that his father would be out at work, and, well, his mother and sister were in another place. He kicked his shoes off and sat down on the couch with a book.
However, no matter how much he tried to get into his favourite horror story, his mind always went back to Maggie, and more importantly, those girls who chased her into the road in the first place. Ryou had seen the look in Aruka's eyes; they were full of vengeance. Whatever Maggie had done first, it had surely aggravated her enough to start chasing her.
His mind brought him back to that fateful trip to the hospital, all those years ago.
"We're here," Ryou's father whispered as he parked the car. Ryou opened the back door and skipped out, looking over to the looming white building.
"Why are we at the hospital, Daddy?" Ryou asked, delicately sucking his thumb. His father turned, kneeled, and put his hands on Ryou's shoulders. He had a deadpan expression, and his eyes were red.
"Look, Ryou, I want you to act grown-up and mature, like me, okay?" his father said, while Ryou nodded. "Your mother, and Amane, well…" he paused to turn away, and sobbed. Ryou patted his father's cheeks with his hands.
"What is it, Dad?"
"Your mother and Amane, after that accident, they went to a better place. They're gone now, okay?" his father's voice trembled, and he sobbed loudly on Ryou's shoulder. Reality smacked Ryou in the face, it screwed up, and he cried along with his father.
Ryou was now sobbing in the present, and tears stained his face and book. His sobs shook his whole body as he remembered him and his father crying in that car park.
Would the same thing happen to Maggie? Ryou could not stand the thought of another loved one dying so abruptly, especially at the hands of two spiteful girls.
He vowed that Maggie would get justice, but what would happen to her in the meanwhile?
That's the end of the second chapter! I honestly think that there's a HUGE ton of mistakes in this, but I just ain't bothered atm to fix them. Sorry!
Anyways, R&R please. And thanks for reading. :)