Sorry about the long hiatus! Life has been busy! Anyways, here's chapter three for your enjoyment.
I know this is a short one, but as stated earlier, chapter breaks are at specific points. I suppose you'll just have to keep checking back to see if the next chapter is any longer. =)
As usual, I don't own GW or the characters but the plot is mine. (Oh! I guess the nurses and Dr. Hale are mine, too. LOL)
Anyways.... Please, Read and Enjoy!
Duo scooted back and scrambled to put distance between himself and the ghosts before him. "No! NO! Just leave me alone! I'm so sorry!" Tears streamed down his cheeks as he struggled against the IVs and sheets. "Leave me alone! I didn't mean to kill you! Please just let me be! I'm so sorry!"
"Duo! No, it's ok! We're alright!" Quatre held up his hands trying to calm the braided pilot down. The others stood around him, concern etched across their faces. "Calm down, Duo."
Nurses rushed in and pushed past the pilots. "Let me go! They're here! Don't let them get me! NOOO!!!" Two held down the panicked pilot as a third placed a syringe into the IV, injecting something into the drip line. "I didn't mean to kill… sorry…. no." They held him until his struggling ceased and he fell into a drugged slumber.
The doctor walked in, checked the charts and frowned before turning on the four stunned pilots. "You shouldn't have been permitted to remain in the room." He fixed the nurse who was in earlier with a stern look before the three of them exited the room. Turning his attention back to the others he continued. "However, nothing can be done about that now. I'm Dr. Hale, chief neurologist at Mercy Medical. Your friend Mr. Maxwell suffered some serious injuries in his accident. I'm amazed that he even woke at all. With the amount of swelling on his brain we weren't sure he would make it through more than just a few days. He surprised us by lasting these past two weeks."
Heero frowned at the doctor. "Will he make it?"
The doctor glanced back at the charts and the monitors. "That is uncertain at this point. He has signs of considerable damage to the brain. As it is, the sight of you four may have done further damage."
Quatre turned away from Duo to look at the doctor. His voice shook. "What do you mean?"
"I mean that the areas of his brain showing the most significant amounts of damage are those related to memory and reasoning. This means, should he be lucky enough to survive, he may not remember you. My assumption based upon his panic attack when he awoke is that he remembers you well. However, he seems to be under the impression that the four of you were killed in the same accident that caused such trauma. I think it best he not see you until we've been able to determine the full extent of the trauma to his brain."
Wufei left the room with a growl. Trowa gave an apologetic look to the others and followed after. "But he will recover, right?" Quatre's eyes pleaded with the doctor's; searching for some sign of hope.
"I can't be certain. With time and therapy and the right treatment he may regain some of the level of function he had prior to the incident. But there are no guarantees. He may never recover."
Heero nodded. "Thank you, Dr. Hale." He placed a hand on the blonde pilot's shoulder. "Let's go, Quatre. There's nothing we can do here."
"NO! It's Duo! He wouldn't just leave any of us."
"We aren't going to leave him. We'll cover his treatment for as long as he needs it."
Quatre's shoulders sagged as a ragged sigh escaped his lips. "Very well." He turned and walked through the door with Heero. Two nurses slipped past him with clean bed linens and a gown. He watched through the glass of the window. "Hang on, Duo. We're all counting on you to pull through this.
Ok, now I know some of ya'll are putting this on alert. But unless you leave me some feedback I'm not sure if that's because you like it or you enjoy making fun of it. So please, take the time and drop me a note just to let me know what you think so far. At this point I'm contemplating making this longer than just the 5 chapters I'm planning right now. But I don't know if there's enough interest.
So if you want more, let me know. ^.~
