AnimeKiwi369: Since I last updated, I have gotten into four new animes, two of which aren't so popular.
Anny: That's random, and you're cruel for making me wait to see what happens.
AnimeKiwi369: *Sighs*. I have a feeling I'm going to get this in ever single one of my torture fanfictions.
Anny: With the way you torture, I will second that.
AnimeKiwi369: Yeah, well, there are some moments that there are no torture. Besides I don't torture you as much as I do to Copper or Rikki. I torture Copper physically mostly and Rikki mentally mostly.
Anny: So that leaves emotional torture for me?
AnimeKiwi369: You're a smart girl.
Anny: What happens this chapter?
AnimeKiwi369: Well, there's a lot of emotion. And I'm going to apologize right now for it being so short and that so much of it is dialogue. A lot of this fanfiction will be dialogue in the early chapters before I got on a good rhythm. And I also apologize if any character is OOC through this story.
Anny: And?
AnimeKiwi369: I'm going to say up front this does have a happy ending. And if this seems just a tad like EchoGirl319's story "A Rose in the Stars", it is just slightly, but I have talked to her and she doesn't mind.
Anny: You have a disclaimer to do.
AnimeKiwi369: You're really mad!
Anny: Disclaimer!
AnimeKiwi369: All right, all right. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's or its characters, I just own my OCs and the storyline.
Psychic Connection
Chapter 3
The phone dropped from Anny's hand and onto the counter. She hastily turned off the stove and oven and ran to her duel runner with tears streaming from her eyes. She rode to the hospital as fast as she could, but it felt like her runner couldn't go fast enough. It felt like forever before she got to the hospital.
She ran though the hospital doors, avoiding nurses and other patients, tears continually coming from her eyes. Anny ran and ran until she saw Jack, Kalin, Mina, and Trudge.
"Where is he?" she managed to get out, through the tears. "Where's my dad?"
"The ambulance hasn't gotten here, yet." Trudge told her.
"It took them a while to get your father out of the wreckage." Mina added quietly.
"How do you…How do you know?"
"We," he pointed to Mina to tell her that she had been with him, "were following a speeder." Trudge explained in his gruff voice, "And we saw him when he ran into your father. I'll never be able to get that image out of my head."
Anny broke down sobbing as she fell to the floor. "Daddy!" she cried over and over as the tears fell faster and faster.
She faintly heard the sound of the ambulance pull up to the hospital and stood up as the medics rushed in with her father on a gurney. His clothes were shredded and soaked with blood. His face was contorted in pain with scratches and bruises covering it and he had an oxygen mask on.
Anny rushed over to him and the medics stopped, "Daddy!" she cried.
Yusei's eyes opened slightly and slowly; it looked like it hurt to do so. Her father's eyes were distant and glazed over. He reached up slightly, and she took his hands, entwining her and her father's fingers.
"Dad." She said, "Daddy, please don't leave me."
"Anny…" he started in a ragged breath, "I need…you…to be…strong…for…the both of…us."
Anny nodded numbly, "I-I'll t-try." She responded shakily.
Yusei barely smiled since he was in so much pain. "That's…my girl." He commented in a low voice.
She leaned down and kissed his cheek, "Please don't leave me. I love you."
"I love you, too." Her father repeated as his eyes closed. The medics began moving Yusei into the operating room. Anny didn't let go of his hands until they slipped out as he entered the operating room and the light for an ongoing surgery came on.
The brown-eyed girl sank back down onto the floor and cried into her knees. She vaguely remembered being moved by someone onto a bench. She wasn't sure if it was Trudge, Jack, or Kalin. She felt like she was four years-old again, instead of sixteen, as she cried.
Daddy, please don't leave me. She begged silently, You're all I have left.
She heard several people come in and was barely aware when someone sat down next to her and put comforting arms around her. Anny looked at who was next to her after a while, only to see Luna.
"It's all right." Luna tried soothing, "Your dad's tough; he'll be all right."
That caused Anny to cry harder, "Aunt Luna! I don't want to lose him!"
"I know. We all know." She said, "We don't want to lose him either. We're all here for you."
She cried for hours while her father was in surgery. She didn't know how long it had been since she's seen her father's face. It felt like he had been in surgery for years instead of hours. Each of the adults took a turn trying to comfort and get her to sleep, saying she was going to make herself sick if she didn't get any rest. Anny barely heard them but eventually the only one that got her calmed down enough to sleep was Martha, who Dove kindly drove to Satellite to get her, knowing she'd want to be there while Yusei was in surgery.
Martha stroked Anny's hair as she slept with her head in the older woman's lap. She didn't deserve to go through this torture. Yusei was all the girl really had left aft her mother left when she was a baby. No one even knew what happened to Akiza. She stirred in her sleep and opened her eyes dismally. She looked at the glowing sign above the operating room; it was still glowing brightly. She sat up slowly, her eyes with a glazed look of their own; only her eyes were glazed over with sadness and fear.
"Papa." She said quietly as tears slipped out of her eyes again, but she didn't even notice anymore. Anny looked around, only to see she and Martha were in the hospital.
"Where's everyone else?" she asked in almost a whisper.
"I told them to go home and get some rest. And told them I'd stay with you."
"You need sleep, too." Anny pointed out.
"That's true, but I'll be fine." Martha told you, "I've been taking care of orphans of all ages most of my life. I think I'm able to pull and all-nighter."
"If you say so, Martha." She responded and looked at the older woman, "Thank you for everything, Martha."
Martha just gently rubbed her hand in a soothing way.
The two were silent as they watched the sign continue to glow. They waited several more hours before they saw the bright sign dim out and who looked like the head surgeon came out with a solemn expression. Anny felt her heart tighten in her chest.
Oh, no. She thought, fighting tears, Please no.
The surgeon came up to her and Martha with a sympathetic expression in his eyes. "Are you our patient's relatives?" he asked.
"I'm Yusei's foster mother," Martha told him and motioned at Anny. "This is his daughter."
"Where's his wife?" the surgeon asked.
"She left New Domino fifteen years ago. No one's heard from her since." Martha explained.
"Is he…dead?" Anny choked out.
"No," the surgeon told her and she felt hope bubble up inside her. "But the thing is his injuries were very serious and is currently in critical condition; however, for being in critical condition, he is doing very well. He needed surgery on nearly every part of his body. There was internal bleeding and bruising in his abdomen and severe damage to his heart, lungs, spine, and every bone in his ribcage, right arm, and left leg was either cracked or broken."
"Will my papa be okay?" Anny asked in a shaky voice again.
The doctor sighed, "Yes and no." Anny gave him a quizzical and fearful look, "Your father also took damage to his head. He's not brain-dead or brain damaged, but he won't wake up."
"My dad's in a coma." She finished for him.
The surgeon nodded solemnly, "And like all comas, we don't when or if he'll wake up. I'm sorry. You're free to stay with him if you like."
The surgeon left and Yusei was taken to a room in the hospital. Martha went with Anny to the room and sat on a couch while the dark-haired girl sat by her father's side. Nearly part of Yusei's body was covered in bandages and he still had the oxygen mask on. His face looked relaxed, but she wished with all her heart that he would wake up.
Daddy, she thought as tears slipped from her eyes again and landed on her father's arm, don't leave me, too.
AnimeKiwi369: Yeah, short, I know, but I wrote this chapter like five months ago. Actually...more like nine or ten months ago.
Anny: What! You've been writing this for almost a year and you're just now publishing it?
AnimeKiwi369: Like I've stated before, I like to get halfway through or almost all the way through, even finished, before I start publishing. That way I don't feel rushed to write a chapter. And I got kinda stuck for a while and I was working on other stories that were flowing nicely. Though one isn't complete.
Anny: Such as?
AnimeKiwi369: Let's see. *Counts on fingers*. "Found Lost Love", "Reminiscences", "Nightmare's Return", "Missing Links", "Lost and Found", "Camping Confessions", "Of Markers and Freckles", and "When You Say Nothing At All". I think that's it, since I returned working on this around March or something.
Anny: That's eight other stories!
AnimeKiwi369: I started on "Found Lost Love", "Reminiscences", "Nightmare's Return", and "Psychic Connections" at all about the same time.
Anny: And two of those are finished being published and the other is almost finished!
AnimeKiwi369: Yeah, okay. But I didn't get stuck on them. Well, I did for "Nightmare's Return" for a while, and I'm stuck on the sequel to "Found Lost Love", "Big Sister". But as you all know, my "Twenty Years Ago" stories are going swimmingly.
Anny: Grrr...
AnimeKiwi369: Hey, think of it this way, you're going to be in the spotlight after I finish publishing "Lost and Found" and "Nightmare's Return".Though I do have to work on some decks...
Anny: And if you would stop watching new anime. Especially if you weren't re-watching "Murder Princess".
AnimeKiwi369: It's only six episodes! And it's an awesome show! It is my new obsession.
Anny: What about "Pretear"? You're re-watching that.
AnimeKiwi369: Only thirteen episodes and I'm on eleven.
Anny: "This Ugly Yet Beautiful World"?
AnimeKiwi369: Almost done with it. It's only twelve and I'm going to slow my watching of it.
Anny: "Code Geass"?
AnimeKiwi369: I haven't watched it since March and I just have three episodes left!
Anny: "D. Gray-Man"? "Vampire Knight"? You just got into those.
AnimeKiwi369: Yes, but if I watch an episode a day, I'll still have time to do my summer reading project and write. We are getting really off topic.
Anny: I know.
AnimeKiwi369: I'm gonna wrap things up. I'll try to update this soon, okay? I'm just going to ask for five reviews, if it's not too much trouble. So please be kind and please review! ;D
