A/N: This time it's prompt #15 – between.
Hospital Visits
Drabble 10
Tomoko let go of Kouji and then embraced her other son – carefully, but with equal fervour.
'Silly boy,' she mumbled into the other's hair. 'So this is why you were so distracted.'
Kouichi took that to mean "I'm happy but you still made me very worried and be careful next time…assuming a similar situation ever arises again."
'Hai, 'kaa-san,' he said obediently.
He peeked a glance at Kouji. His eyes were looking moist. He loosened his own embrace and gestured. Kouji leaned over the rail and they both wrapped one arm each around him. And they stayed like that until a nurse came wanting blood tests.
And then there were more people: nurses and doctors and even a bunch of medical students hoping to talk to a child. Tomoko looked a little amused at that. Kouji just looked confused.
'Interacting with child patients usually heavily involves the parent,' Tomoko explained. 'But when you're almost an adolescent, it's more parents just pitching in with things forgotten. With uncomplicated medical backgrounds – ' She shot an exasperated glare at her bedridden son at this. 'Don't really need the parent at all.'
And Kouichi's wasn't too complicated. Just a few extra bouts of pneumonia.