Chapter 4: "He was fighting."
Heero awoke in his bed in the blinding dark. He sat up in his bed and fumbled for the desk lamp. He blinked his eyes in the harsh light until he could see and looked around the room. The other beds were empty. Heero grabbed his looked at the clock. 10:35pm. He slept for about 6 hours. He threw the covers off of him and made his way to the door to see if there was any news.
Heero walked through the doorway and came upon Trowa leaning against the wall beside the weight lifting equipment. "I wondered where you were."
"Keeping watch." Trowa said as he indicated with nod of his head towards the balcony railing.
Heero walked over towards the railing and looked over the side into the pit where the sparing mats were. In the far corner Wufei was throwing punches and kicks at the punching bag. By the erratic movements every now and again, it looked like he's been practicing for quite awhile.
"How long has he been at it?"
"Since the meeting." Trowa said walking up beside Heero. "He's no longer screaming at least. Have you checked on the others?"
"Yeah I just came from there. Duo had them move him to the room right next to Quatre's. He wanted to share a room but since they still consider Quatre dangerous they wouldn't allow it."
"Knowing Duo I'm sure it's taking everything they have to tolerate his requests." Trowa said with a little smirk.
"The nurses are threatening to sedate him if he keeps harassing them over 'Quatre Updates'." Heero added with is own little smile.
Heero looked up at the clock inside the gym. 10:55pm. "Quatre's going in for another brain scan. I'm going to head over to see if they find anything. Keep you posted."
"Same here." Trowa said looking back down at Wufei.
Heero nodded and started walking back over to the med center.
Wufei punched, jabbed and kicked with all his might willing himself to keep going. 'Why!' He screamed in his head over and over again. He screwed up his face, pulled back his right arm and pushed it forward with the last of his strength. He missed and feel onto the floor on his hands and knees. Wufei stayed there looking downwards at the mat and breathing deeply. Angrily he punched the floor with what little will he had left, "BAKA!"
Two lone teardrops fell and landed by his fist as he clenched it harder.
Heero was walking up the hallway towards the scan room. He could see it at the end of the hallway when all of a sudden two doctors and a nurse ran frantically passed them. Heero paused only for a mere second before he dashed after them, his heart beating frantically against his chest. He burst through the open door into the operation room and looked through the window. Quatre was laying on the cat-scan bed but there were too many people in his view. He ran through the other door and into the room that held the machine. Here he could see everything including Quatre's body violently shaking. Heero ran up to the bed. Quatre's eyes were rolled up in his head. 'A seizure'. Heero thought as he kneeled down. One of the doctors stuck Quatre with a needle a nurse got and slowly the shaking subsided.
A minute went by before Quatre regained consciousness. Quatre's blue eyes looked around the room before resting on Heero's. Quatre propped himself up on his left arm as his right hand shot out and grabbed Heero's arm. "What just happened?" He said. The fear and alarm was plainly evident in Quatre's voice.
"You had a seizure."
"I.. I saw it happening again..."
"Eh-hem." came a deep voice next to Heero.
Heero looked up to see a security guard standing there staring down at him. Quatre released Heero's arm and lied back down onto the bed while shutting his eyes. Heero stood up and looked behind him. There was a second security guard standing off of the entrance that he also didn't notice.
"I'm afraid you'll have to leave." The doctor said as he looked at Heero. "We're going to check him over again and then continue with the scan."
Heero nodded and looked down at Quatre but the boy didn't look back at him or say anything. Heero walked out of the room and was heading back towards the waiting room when he heard a commotion coming from the patient recovery section. Without skipping a beat Heero ran towards Duo's room. "Not again." he muttered quietly to himself. He ran up to the opened door and looked in breathing a sigh of relieve.
"Don't you understand English lady? Go. See. What. Happened." Duo demanded angrily.
"I'm sorry sir but I'm only here to check in on you. I'm sure someone will be along shortly if anything is wrong." The nurse tried to pry the pillow away from Duo who was using it to hide his chest.
"Not until you do as I said. I saw those docs running past the door. Don't play dumb with me."
Heero leaned his back against the door frame with his little smile wondering how much more the nurse is going to take. "He's fine."
Both Duo and the nurse looked over at Heero.
"Quatre had a seizure just as they were getting him ready for the scan but he regained consciousness and appears fine."
"Told you so!" Duo stuck his tongue at the nurse but finally moved the pillow so she can check the bandages.
She finished up her exam and left muttering angry words under her breath.
"They all really love me 'round here." joked Duo as he grinned over at Heero and put his hands behind his head. "But there is something seriously not right."
Heero looked over at Duo from the doorway with a questioning look in his face. He knew just like everyone else that no matter how silly and naive Duo acts, it was just that. An act. Duo was just as smart and cunning as the rest of them. The fact that he could joke and find humor in almost any situation only shows Duo's willingness and persistence to survive and not be discouraged by anything.
"How Quatre can't remember anything last night until a few minutes before he passes out seems... I don't know.. important I guess." Duo pondered as he looked up at the ceiling. "Especially at the fact that the only thing he could remember was what happened at the house."
Heero walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge. "You have a point. Why that part?"
"He was fighting."
Duo and Heero looked over at the doorway to the brown haired figure walking into the room. "Quatre told Sally that he was trying to stop what was happening. The fact that he was actively fighting in his mind and that also happens to be the part he remembers is too much of a coincidence. However there is still a possiblity that this could be an elaborate deception."
The others didn't like it but they couldn't ignore that either. Trowa sat in the chair against the wall and looked over at Heero. "He went to sleep."
"For now let's give him the benefit of the doubt. This is Quatre we're talking about." Duo said.
Heero nodded as yet another figure entered the room drawing their attention.
"Well," Sally said. "Which news do you want first? Quatre's medical anomalies or an eyewitness who says Quatre wasn't alone?"
