Disclaimer: I don't own CCS, Clamp does. If I owned CCS I can say that I probably wouldn't be typing this fic...
A/N: Hi it's me again! I can't quite decide, do I wanna make Eriol-kun run away or not (hehe or maybe even get kidnaped)? Oh the choices the choices that I'm faced with, maybe I should have things work out correctly for poor Tomoyo-chan for once... Nah, something will defiantly happen, something just has to happen. Maybe a fight, or perhaps a kidnaping, who knows. Oh yeah, I also wanna thank my wonderfully great reviewers, you all rock! And sorry for the long update, I've been kinda busy with forensics meets and practicing...
Previously:
Eriol arrived at Tomoyo's house. He began to lift his hand towards the doorbell, he froze in fear and then lowered his hand down to his side. "What am I scared of," he thought, she's my friend, and I've never been this nervous around her before." Somewhere in his unconscious his dream was playing through his head. He then lifted his hand again towards the doorbell.
Chapter 10: Hospital Trip
"Okay I'm really nervous now, this is scary. Just press the darned doorbell already you idiot! Why the heck should you be scared of pressing a doorbell!" he mentally screamed at himself. "Let's try again," he thought calmer this time while breathing deeply, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. "See it's not that bad now is it, so just reach up and press the doorbell. Oh great, now I'm mentally talking to myself." Eriol nervously began to reach his hand up to the door, and then he heard the sound of a car horn beeping and turned to see some drunks speeding down the street. He turned back to the door then and extended his arm out, his hand nearing the doorbell. Six inches away, five inches away, four, three, two and then he thrust his hand forward quickly before he could chicken out and pressed it.
'Ding dong,' it rang.
Tomoyo had gotten home from school and done her homework in a rush, she was excited, but as we all know excitement can turn into anxiety and nervousness and Tomoyo was feeling a ton it now. "He'll be here soon," she thought. "Oh great, maybe I should change into something better. Should I cook something or should we order out? Wait a minute, maybe you should go out? What no way, that would be too much like a date! Great, now you've officially gone insane, it's really bad to argue with yourself you know. Oh shut up you! Make me." Tomoyo walked over to the door. "I'll just wait by the door for him to get here, yes I'll calmly wait here for him," she muttered aloud. "This silence is killing me!" She went upstairs and got her portable cd player, plugged in the headphones and then put them on, turned on some music and returned to waiting by the door. "Much better," she thought while calming down.
'Ding dong.'
She jumped up startled. "It's just the doorbell," she thought, trying to calm herself down. "Wait a minute, the doorbell!" She pulled off her headphones and threw the cd player onto the couch and ran over to the door. "One minute!" she called while fiddling with the lock on the door. She opened it, a tall blond woman wearing a nice suit stood outside.
"Hi I'm Sheridth from the new makeup shop downtown and we're handing out free samples of our new makeup. Would you like any?" asked the tall blond.
"Sure," Tomoyo said while, with much effort, trying to speak and smile sweetly. "I'd just love some, thank you very much."
Sheridth, handed Tomoyo a small, white plastic bag with some samples in it. "I do hope that you enjoy them and perhaps even stop by our store sometime, good bye and have a good day!"
Tomoyo nodded her head and waved goodbye as the lady left. As soon as she was out of sight Tomoyo slammed the front door shut. "Darn it, when will Eriol-kun get here?" she thought impatiently. "Maybe... maybe he's not coming. Maybe he forgot about me. I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up, after all he's just a friend and doesn't love me the way I love him. He's probably forgotten all about me." Tomoyo began to cry, she was depressed and felt completely worthless and miserable. "Stupid, stupid, stupid me," she cursed as she dropped the bag and ran upstairs to her room. She didn't care now, not about anything. She opened up the door to her bathroom and walked in and towards the cabinet on the wall, she truly didn't care. From it she took a small plastic box, in it lay a razor blade. She pulled it out and held it to her wrist. "I don't care," she whispered to herself, this moment was what everything so far amounted to, this was it. Tomoyo squeezed her eyes shut and pressed the blade to her left wrist. She opened her eyes and saw the blood flowing from her wrist, she was getting dizzy, never had she been good with the sight of blood. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest, it echoing beat through her ears, she was dizzy, her head was swimming, she heard her every breath echoing in her ears alongside her ever constant heartbeat. She stumbled and tripped backwards, her head came in contact with something, everything was going black, darkness was consuming her. She could faintly hear it, the distant sound of the doorbell, then she lost all consciousness.
Eriol waited at the door but noone answered. "Tomoyo-chan, are you there?" he called out. "Tomoyo-chan!" He was worried more than ever now, something was wrong. He pressed the doorbell again and began to pound on the door. Something inside of him made him feel like something bad had happened, something very bad. He grabbed onto the doorknob and twisted it while pushing on the door, it opened. Eriol bolted inside as fast as he could, his eyes scanning the room all the while. While looking he happened to glance down at the floor. "A bag?" he thought. It wasn't like Tomoyo to leave her stuff on the floor. "Tomoyo-chan," he called out, surely she was here. "Maybe she's upstairs in her room and can't hear me?" he wondered. He began to ascend up the stairs, upon reaching the top he again called out for Tomoyo, but again received no answer. He looked down the hallway, there was a door wide open but all of the others were closed. He walked over to the door and into the room that it led to. "Tomoyo-chan's room," he thought to himself while looking around. He then spotted her, lying unconscious in the adjoining bathroom with blood coming from her wrist and head. He ran over to her side. "Tomoyo-chan!" screamed while picking up the phone, he had to get help right away.
Soon there was an ambulance outside of Tomoyo's house, it was going to take her to the hospital. There were people running about, one was phoning Tomoyo's mom, another two or three were carrying Tomoyo down towards the ambulance and another one was questioning Eriol.
"So tell us exactly how you found her," said the man to the highly devastated Eriol.
Eriol felt tears coming to his eyes, if he had been to her house sooner this wouldn't have happened, making this all his fault. He opened his mouth but no sound came out, he tried to tell the man but he just couldn't. How was he supposed to tell him that he saw his friend great, happy and all at school and the next time he saw her she was lying in a puddle of her own blood? The image haunted his mind and soon he felt himself crying.
"It's alright kid," the man said, evidently he would just have to go on unknowing, for it seemed that no matter how hard this kid tried he just couldn't get any words out, less than form sentences. "Just forget it, don't worry. It doesn't matter much anyways."
"Oh, so what happened to Tomoyo-chan doesn't matter much!" he angrily thought. He glared at the man between his tears and then turned and ran.
"Did I say something wrong?" he asked one of the other men there.
"Don't worry, the kid's probably just going through mental hysteria right now, he'll be fine later, just fine."
Eriol ran, he was going to Sakura's house, he would go with Sakura and the others to the hospital, it was only fair. After all they too were Tomoyo's friends. He got to Sakura's house and loudly knocked on the door.
"Hel- Eriol-kun, what happened?" Sakura gasped after seeing his tears. "What's wrong?"
He tried to tell her, only he didn't want it to be true and telling her would mean that it was true, he sighed. "Tomoyo-chan's wrist and head are cut and she's been taken to the hospital. I thought that you, Syaoran and the others should all know too."
Sakura began to cry and quickly began to call the others, soon they all were over at her house and Fujitaka offered to drive them all to the hospital, he knew how much they all cared about their friend so it was the least that he could do to help.
Eriol ran through the hospital doors first and over to a nice young lady sitting behind a counter. "Which room is Tomoyo Daidouji in?" he demanded fiercely to the woman.
She smiled at him and the group of kids that were all crowded around pressing her for the needed information. "Room number 414, take that elevator up to the fourth floor and then at the end of the hallway make a turn to your right, go through the big, double doors. Then walk until the hallway branches off into two directions and go left and you should be at her room," she said. And then watched them all run over to the elevator as if their very lives depended upon getting to their friend's room in the least time possible.
"Thank you!" Sarrin shouted to the woman while running into the elevator. She then pressed the button that had a 4 on it.
Eriol could feel his heart pounding in his chest and echoing in his ears. "Why the heck didn't I get there sooner," he thought. "I could have stopped her! Why did I take so long to get there?" As soon as they got onto the fourth floor and the door opened up Eriol bolted out of it and began to run down the hall.
"Perhaps we should allow him some time to be with Tomoyo-chan alone," suggested Syaoran.
"Yes we should," agreed Meilin and Chiharu at the same time.
"It would be good for him," said Naoko while Rika nodded her agreement to the two suggestions.
Takota slowly walked over towards Naoko and put his arms around her. "You're right, it would be better for him, but I think that we can still start to head towards Tomoyo-chan's room. After all we do need to get there sometime or another."
The group then started to walk over to Tomoyo's room.
Eriol raced towards her room, he was almost there. He reached the door and stopped at it. He extended out his hand and turned the knob and pushed the door.
A/N: Hey! Hoped that you liked the chapter! I'll try to update sooner this time, but I still need to update my other fic and go to forensics meets and practice my new forensics piece, exct... Anyways please submit a reviews, I would be most grateful to you if you did!
