A/N: This time it's prompt #14 – strange.
Hospital Visits
Drabble 4
He woke up to an unfamiliar room and alone, and it was a struggle to understand, at first. His room was smaller and more cluttered. And they didn't have wires dangling from anywhere. And the curtains were wrong.
It took a moment before he remembered. He was in the hospital. After falling down the stairs. After spending months in the digital world, constantly in company: with Cherubimon and the other warriors in the Venus Rose, and then with Kouji and the others…
With his brother and his friends.
And then the nurses and doctors and his mother.
Who'd been there when he'd fallen asleep.
He tried not to move his head. He just looked around. Her work purse was there, on a stiff looking plastic chair. And a cardigan he assumed she'd been wearing over her shirt. Or she'd gone home and changed in between. He couldn't remember; he hadn't looked that closely or thought to remember.
Funny how significant it was in the scene now. It could tell him more than the silence of the room, even if it didn't really matter. Because the things left behind meant she was planning on coming back, and the purse meant soon.