Her birthday..February twentieth. Jay slowly lifts his head to look at the clock on his bedside table. It's nine pm. She's been in her coma for quite some time now..but he hasn't bothered to check exactly how long. Has it been it been two months? He lazily gets up from the bed, tugging some jeans and a shirt on. Yes..the festival had been on December twentieth..and today was February twentieth..two months, since Deity had been..asleep. He's been having the strangest nightmare about his beloved sister lately. Zane's muffled voice telling him to pace his shocks and keep them gentle..but she looks asleep in the fresh white snow, as they try and restart her heart. To regulate her pulse. Cole silently stares into nothing, crying like he'd lost the love of his life. He shakes his head from his thoughts. Cole, his poor best friend..the boulder was still sulking in his room, calling them liars anytime they tried to get him to come see her. Picking up a box from his dresser, he catches a glimpse of the television and game console in the corner..and a grimace crosses his face. He doesn't want to play games anymore..not without her. It's just..not the same. Shaking his head and slowly locking the door as he leaves, Jay makes his way down the hallway to the medical bay.
'Mom..is she up there with you?' Jay asks in his mind, but he's speaking to his mother. Not to Edna, no. A few years ago, Deity had revealed pictures of his real mother..holding him as a baby. Being adopted was a heavy shock to him..but family wasn't blood. It's love, and that's all that ever mattered to Jay, especially with Deity and his brothers. 'We know she's not dead..but are you taking care of her?' Another question to his loving, departed mother. Mistaké had raised Deity as a child after the loss of her parents, and had told her stories about their parents. Maybe the old tea shop owner did know their parents..she was certainly old enough to have known them. Slowly opening the door to the medical bay..he can see Zane washing his hands again. There's nothing on his hands..can nindroids have mental breakdowns? Jay pauses, watching the droid repeat his actions. He slowly sets his box down, gently turning the water off and taking the now frozen soap from the ice elemental. "Zane.." Jay slowly turns the droid around to face him. He can tell Zane has been crying. Slowly tugging him into his arms, Jay rubs his back. "It's okay, Zane. She's not gonna leave you all alone." He knows Zane has a big heart..and a terribly soft spot for the song elemental. "You're her best friend for cryin' out loud!" Zane pauses, frowning as he lays his head on Jay's shoulder. "Her..best friend..? When..when did she say that?" Jay hesitates. The answer will hurt the shaking nindroid. "The night of the festival." Jay can feel the shoulder of his shirt getting wet. He's crying again. A pained sob breaks free from Zane's throat..it hurts knowing she said such a wonderful thing, mere hours before she had stained his white gloves with her blood.
Zane shakily holds onto Jay, giving him a squeeze. He's so tired..but he can't sleep. He keeps having the nightmare..he can't take seeing her in his dreams..bloody and blaming him-. Jay slowly tugs his nindroid brother away to look at him. "Zane, you should sleep, I-" Zane is shaking his head. Why is he..oh no-. "You can't sleep, can you? You see her when you do..is it a nightmare?" Zane lets out a shaky breath, as silent..painful sobs leave him and he nods. He won't speak of what the nightmare contains, but staying awake is killing his processors. He's starting to hallucinate. Blood on his hands..seeing her bleeding out, her wounds still open-. He wipes his eyes, trying not to bother his brother too much with his pain. The next words out of his mouth shock the lightning elemental. "Jay would..would you force me into an emergency rest state? Without-" Jay finishes his sentence, watching him. "Without REM sleep active, so you don't see her, right? Look, I can't mess with your neural drive, but I'll do what I can. Shirt up, Frosty." Zane hesitates, wiping his eyes as he tugs his pajama shirt up. Jay knows Zane hates the way he's bolted together-so Jay is quick to open his chest panel. Carefully looking inside, he finds the right switch and catches Zane with his shoulder when the droid slumps over onto him. Jay closes the chest panel and carries the droid to his bed, shaking his head. "Get some sleep, Frosty. She needs you as rested as you can be."
Coming back into the medical bay, Jay silently closes the door and shuts the lights off, aside from a small lamp next to the chair. Jay doesn't..usually cry, no. But right now? The lightning elemental takes a shaky breath and scoots the chair a little closer, wiping his eyes. He's crying. No sound comes out, he just lets the wet drip down his cheeks. If he doesn't let it out in some way, he might snap at Kai again. Digging in his box he brought, he shakes his head. "You know, instead of being worried you might leave us..how about I make sure you know we still care? We do care its just-" He sighs, tugging a stuffed dragon from the box and setting it next to her. "We miss you, Melody." That was his nickname for her..just his. He watches her, forcibly smiling. "Not really the same without you, you know? Trash talking me while we play Smash, or even just playing a co-op game and teasing me, I-" Jay hears his own voice breaking and clears his throat, going silent for a minute. He had never cried in front of anyone, before. "I should be happy you're around for another birthday..no matter what state you're in.." He looks at the music pod and Cole's headphones, that are in his box. He slowly tugs them out and turns on the music pod, hooking up the headphones. "Hey...if you see my mom..could-" He turns to look at his sister, slowly fitting the headphones of the earth master onto Deity's head. "Tell her I love her, okay? And..And I'm not mad, for her giving me up. She did what she had to do."
He carefully switches the song on the music pod to something soft, shaking his head. He wasn't mad at Cole for doing this. No one was..they just needed their sister, and Cole needed his love. 'Mom..please take care of her. I don't think Cole could take it if she died.' The ginger rubs his face, sitting back in the chair. He just lets her listen to music for a few moments, while he stares at the ceiling. When the songs are done, Jay tugs the headphones off and puts the music pod away. "Deity..Happy Birthday. Truly. I really hope you're around for a lot more of them. I..-" His voice is breaking again. He can't help but chuckle to himself, wiping his eyes. "L-Look what you made me do..Melody-I've sprung a leak.." He can't stop, now. He just cries, watching his "sleeping" sister. She'll wake up, won't she? He won't have to shock her heart back into beating ever again, right? He doesn't want to. He doesn't want to see her half dead, ever again. Taking a breath and wiping his eyes, Jay digs in the box again. "Where is it..Ah!" Jay tugs a wrapped box out of the box he brought, shaking his head. "Man, I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached.." He sighs, unwrapping the box for her because she can't. "I wanted to give you this when we found out you were the elemental master of song.. But I was still sorta workin' on it." He feels a little silly, thinking back to when they found out. She'd been so confused. Elements weren't always genetic..he'd come to learn that through Zane. He takes a breath, opening the box and taking the music note pendant on the silk ribbon out. "It's not just pretty-what, you think I wouldn't make it functional, too?" He's talking to himself..he can only hope the theory that people in comas can hear is true. "I think I'd be in a lot of..treble if I didn't make it functional." He slowly smiles at the pun, lifting her head so he can tie the satin ribbon loosely around her neck. "The pendant has a few sensors in it that'll help regulate the tone and pitch of your sonic screams.. I mean I know you can do it on your own in time, but you were still training and learning before-" He takes a shaky breath, laying her head back down after the ribbon is gently tied around her neck. "Before you..fell asleep." He clears his throat, adjusting the music note pendant on her throat. "When you wake up, and you're all trained up..the sensors will help when you're fatigued from battle, too. It'll provide the same function."
Jay glances at the clock..11:30pm. God..had he been talking to his sister for nearly two hours? He looked at the sleeping song elemental and felt his chest tighten. "Guess time flies, huh? Just like when we play video games.." He shuts his eyes for a minute. "It's almost not your birthday, but I do want you to know something, Deity." Opening his eyes halfway, he stares at the large and loose black shirt she's in. "Cole loves you. He won't believe you're in here, but he did see you nearly die in his arms. He thinks he really killed you..I'm not..one to be serious unless there's a need for it, but all I ask is that you try not to forget us. Don't.." His voice cracked. "Don't let me lose my sister, okay?" He silently packs his box up, leaving the pendant around her neck and the stuffed dragon by her side. They had to smile, for her sake. "Happy Birthday, Deity. Wake up from your nap soon, okay? I need my player two." He opens the door to the hallway to see Zane-the droid could run on little sleep-but not for long. "Zane, you should-" The droid shakes his head. "Why don't you go sleep? I will take care of player two."