A few days later, Sera had yet to wake up, which was starting to worry everyone. Though, she didnt know it, she had been visited by everyone on the Urameshi team, Hiei being the most frequent. They had all hoped that she'd be awake by the time the hospital got rebuilt and restaffed, but that time came and went, so they had to wait on.
Those who visited at the same time as Hiei never saw it, but when it was just Hiei and Sera, he talked to her unconscious form. She was the person he went to when he needed to talk and be listened to. Within a few days, he felt as if he'd known her forever. It was an odd feeling, to talk unconditionally to someone without worry of their judgement. Finally, a week and a half after the decimation of the infirmary, Sera opened her eyes. Hiei was the only one in the room with her at the time, which was probably better than if there was a group visit in progress. Hiei didnt notice at first, being in the middle of another single-sided conversation with her.
"--and that detective. I swear if it weren't for the fact that Koenma would throw me back in the cells...", he fumed.
"Back in the cells...?", she asked hoarsely, having not spoken in over a week. "So you've been in there before?" Her responding startled him and he nearly broke his neck with the speed at which he turned to look at her.
"When did you wake up?"
"Just now, a few seconds ago..", she said. Wanting to sit up, she tried, only to be pushed back down to her bed by Hiei.
"Dont get up. Dont move. I'll be right back."Before she could protest, he was gone. Ignoring his words, she sat up. Looking around the room she was in, Sera stood, walking away from her bed. She didnt get too far, however, as there was an I-V cord connected to one wrist. Taking it out, she allowed herself to wander to the windowsill. Sitting on the sill, Sera saw that she was at least a story, maybe two, from the ground floor. She tried to recall where she was, or even the reason she was where she was, then suddenly remembered.
'The Jagan transplant..', she thought, absently reached up to touch her forehead. Surprised, she felt soft cloth instead of skin. 'Usually,' she reasoned, 'things are wrapped for a reason.' So she left the cloth tied. She was about to lose herself in thought until a male's voice brought her back to reality.
"I thought I told you not to move." Turning her head towards the speaker, she recognized him as the one they called Hiei. Face emotionless, he walked into the room, followed by Koenma, the rest of Team Urameshi, and the the girls as well, insistent on seeing her.
"Oh goodness! She IS the spitting image of Hiei isnt she?", Botan breathed. She had seen Sera before the operation, but hadnt had to oportunity afterwards.
"Yea," Urameshi agreed, "'Cept where Hie's black, she's white."
"And she's also the same height.", Kuwabara added. "Hey, we've got another shrimp!", he said, earning him a glare from Hiei and an indifferent stare from Sera.
"If you're all done talking about me as if I werent here, I'd like to be told why theres a large gathering of people around me." Sera was getting annoyed with the people around her talking about her like she was invisible. She had it enough back home. Koenma, in teenager form stepped forward.
"If you remember, which I hope you do, you underwent a surgery to have a Jagan Eye implanted, which, by the way, was a success in its own. The reason that theres such a large group with you today, is that you've been out like a light for a little more than half the year, and your visiters wanted to see you." This news startled Sera, surprise being the first animated emotion she showed on her face since her arrival. Not the fact that she had surgery for an implant, but the fact that she had visitors. And she wasnt even awake.
"...I had...visitors..?"
"Yes!", Koenma said, slightly amused at her reaction, "And by the look on your face, I can tell that what the nurses in the human world told us was true." Now she was really confused.
"Nurses in the human world...told you what?" Everybody in the room had taken a seat somewhere, in a chair or on the bed, save Hiei, who stood. (She stole his window.)
"Well...", he started, "We needed more information on your past, since we didnt have much on you in the first place, so we, that is to say, the Urameshi team," he indicated by extending his arm towards the boys, "went to the local human hospital to get your medical records and to talk to the nurses. Generally getting any and all information they could on you." Kurama, sitting in one of the chairs, legs crossed in the male fashion, started now.
"What we found out from your medical records alone was astonishing. You had been in the hospital over twenty times for attempted suicide."
"But with a mother like yours," Yusuke interrupted, "I dont exactly blame you." There was silence
around the room. Evidently, Sera wasnt supposed to find out that they had talked to her mother.
"You talked to my mother?!" There was a tremor in her voice, fear shaking it more than anger for their trespassing.
"Well...yes." Koenma said. "We needed permission from her to look into your medical records. It was inevitable." She stood up, nearly giving herself a headrush.
"I...I've got to go home. Now. Shit...she's gonna kill me for sure..."
'What a change.', Hiei thought absently. 'Before her surgery, she would have gladly done anything it took to have a chance to die. Now she seems...afraid of the thought. No...More rather afraid to die by her mother's hand.' He didnt like that she had to be afraid of her own mother, but kept his face void of that.
"She's not going to kill you.", he said sternly before anybody else had a chance.
"Hiei's right.", Botan said.
"Indeed.", Kurama agreed. "We'll escort you over to make sure your mother doesnt attempt to cause any harm to come to you." Sera's head was beginning to hurt as she ran her fingers through her hair to clutch her head.
"Escort me? I'm going back home, you cant come with me. Theres no room in the house for guests to stay." Koenma stood.
"Ah, well, you see... You're only returning home for a visit. To tell your mother what has happened while you were away, and to gather your things. I'd like you to stay here, in the mansion with the rest of us. That is, if you agree. I'm not permitted to force you into anything, by my own law." An emotion that Sera had not felt since long before her father left resurfaced. Joy. She was going to her mothers for the last time, never to return if the thought pleased her. She looked at everybody in the room. They were all waiting, the girls visibly hopeful. How they would love having another girl around the place amongst all the boys. For the second time she'd been there, the first since she woke up, Sera didn't scowl or glare, rather, she almost smiled.
"Alright. I...I'll stay."
