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Author's Note: Thank you for your kind words. It's not an easy time and it sucks when you've already lost someone and now you have to deal with everything all over again, but we do everything on day at a time.


CHAPTER 3


Moments later,

Everything passed in a blur. Kim pushed the sloth for all it was worth to the Middleton Medical Center. She took Ron's mother, Hana and Rufus along, as they would reach there quickly. They already contacted Mr. Stoppable before they left and he was already on his way. Rockets screaming, the sloth was actually airborne, beating all the traffic that was in the vicinity.

("Thank you tweebs")

They arrived at the hospital in no time. The three females and Rufus all ran to the main desk, where they met up with James, the tweebs, Wade and Mr. Stoppable, who arrived just moments earlier. Now all focus was on one thing… where was Ron? The one person that could accurately answer them was heading towards them… but with tears in her eyes. It brought silence to all around.

"Everyone, let's go to the waiting room…" She said calmly.

Those words sat comfortably with no one. It sounded as if the worst news was about to be said to them. But they would wait to hear it from Anne herself. As they all got to the private area, she broke the news to them…

"Ron apparently tried to commit suicide. He was found in an alley unconscious with his wrists slit. A razor was still in his hands. Nobody knows how long he was there, but the call was immediately made to us. He was rushed here and they've been working on him ever since… but unfortunately, I can't tell you anything more."

Anne paused to wipe her tears away for a second…then her voice changed to one of emotion…

"The surgeon told me briefly though, that he lost too much blood and that he has little chance of surviving the operation at this moment…"

James took his wife in arm… immediately, the Stoppables cried. Kim fought to not show hers, but emotions got the better of her... she broke down as well. Wade held Kim's hand and tried to console her. Strangely enough, Jim and Tim were the first to ask the question

"I don't get it-"

"Ron was a cool guy-"

"Why would he-"

"Wanna take his-"

"Life?" both said the last word in unison.

All stares focused on them, which was utterly nerve wracking to them, but little did they know, it wasn't so much them, as it was so much the everyone wanted to find an answer… of course other than Kim, who knew the sitch that was about to go down…

"I think everyone should read this…"

Kim reached into her pocket and held out the diary Ron was writing in. Everyone had a chance to browse through it. Many secrets were revealed, many inner thoughts came out.

"You placed a chip in our son?" Mr. Stoppable said angrily… forgetting the other things written in the diary

"It was to help keep track of him on missions…" Wade responded, trying to keep some of the heat away from Kim.

"So how do we know it wasn't some sort of mind control thing?"

"It's not like that… it's only a global position locator. We did it after Drakken and Ron were lost that one Christmas…

"But you didn't tell him! You broke his trust!" Mrs. Stoppable yelled

"And you both called him a bad son and wanted him out of the house!" Anne intervened angrily.

That statement made his parents quiet down. They knew deep down that they had a part in this as well…

"Now I don't know what's going on and I don't care. What's important is that there's a young man in there whose life we're trying to save! The last thing he needs now, is for everyone to be bickering about who is to blame! If he makes it and gets better, then we can all have this conversation with him. Agreed?

Everyone accepted, but Kim somehow felt most responsible somehow… a warm hand took her shoulder…

"Say a little prayer Kimmie Cub… for Ron." He father said…

Everyone silently did so. Kim bowed her head sadly and closed her eyes…

("I know I'm not exactly the one to come to you like this… I usually think I can do anything. But I couldn't stop this. I… I don't wanna lose him… not now. Please don't take him away just yet… please… if I gotta do the puppy dog pout to get you to, I will… but please… don't take Ron away from me.")

All silence was broken by the sound of the door opening. The surgeon operating on Ron revealed himself. Many eyes now came upon him…

"Hello… I'm Dr. Williams. Anne? What are you doing here?" He asked in surprise…

"Extended family…" She said with a brief smile.

"Well he may have to count on you being that…" He said bluntly…

"Ron… is he?" Kim started to say

"Alive? Yes… but he lost a lot of blood and was out for some time. It's a miracle that he even is still alive at this time…"

"So then he's going to be alright?" His mother asked anxiously

"Unfortunately, no. His vitals are still fluctuating and we have him in the ICU. And also, he has slipped into a coma…"

Everyone gasped. Ron was far from being ok. He could still die. Anne stepped to him…

"Dr. Williams, I need you to stabilize him as much as you can. We need to do some cat scans done as soon as possible."

"But Anne that will take some time before…"

"I know. Just do what you can…"

DR. Williams nodded and left the room. Anne turned to everyone there….

"We're all going to do what we can. But for now I'd like to have a read of that diary again…"

"What good will it do?" Kim asked

"It may help me save him…"

The Diary was handed to her. She looked at it briefly and then looked back at everyone again…

"There may not be a change for a while. I don't know if you all would like to stay …"

"Well we have to take care of Hana, so we'll head back. But please let us know if anything comes up further…" His parents stated. Rufus chose to go as well… it was hard on the little naked mole rat just being there…

"I'll head home too. Mom's probably worried sick." Wade said.

"Kim?"

Everyone faced her at this point. Nobody knew what was going on in her mind… her eyes were just full of tears…

"I have nowhere else to go…"

The statement actually brought some tears from the Stoppables and James, who never knew just how much Kim loved Ron. He always threatened him with the black hole theory to straighten him up and make sure he did the right thing, but he could see just how much Kim felt for him… he knew Ron loved her greatly, from the time he went to space to find her… but this whole sitch brought to light just how close they became.

"Alright, but when I say it's time to go young lady, I mean it. Understood?" Her mom said sternly

Kim nodded. And with that, everyone left except Kim and her mom. Anne took her daughter to her private office where she could at least lay down or watch some television. But she knew all she wanted to do was see Ron. But that was impossible at this time. Anne sat there and reluctantly read the diary given to her. Now the diary was not all about sad moments, but it had many wonderful ones as well. The junior prom was first in mind when they first came together. She smiled at reading it from Ron's view. She could tell the affection he had for Kim and at all the things they have been through. But her smiles gradually shortened as she read through later logs. His notes were beginning to show more and more about how he messed up and wanting forgiveness… It also showed something else… he was suffering from headaches. Now normally, it wouldn't have been something that would be of significance to everyone, but to Anne's trained eye, she formulated a theory…

("So that could be it…I need those CT scans…")

She took a moment to glance at her daughter. Her eyes were heavy… she slumped in the chair she was sitting in… she was listening to a song on her kimmunicator…

"Honey… what are you listening to?"

"Oh nothing… "

"Kim…"

"Ok, ok… it was the song we first kissed to…" It actually brought some more tears to her eyes…

"Honey, right now I need you to be focused… you need to bear up a little…"

"I know but it's hard…"

"And it's going to get harder if you don't pull yourself together now…"

"Ok."

"That's my girl…"

She walked over to her daughter and hugged her. Kim faintly returned it. Some hours had past when a call came in the room for Anne…

"Hello?… yes Dr. Williams… alright then have in sent for a CT scan immediately." She looked to Kim…

"Ron's vitals have stabled enough to have him get some CT brain scans…I'm heading up there now. I want you to stay here ok?"

"Like I said mom, I have nowhere else to go. Ron's here and this is where I'm gonna stay…"

Anne nodded and left for the CT room.

One hour later,

Anne returned to the room where Kim had fallen asleep. But quickly awoke when she heard the door open.

"Did you find anything?"

"Yes. It seems he's suffering from a mental disease called SADR

"SADR?" Kim asked puzzled…

"Severe Articulate Depressive Regression" Her mother responded.