Come Back To Me

Chapter Ten

Casualty

"Kyo, what the hell are you doing here?!" asked Tohru, slamming her bag and suitcase down.

"Tohru," said Kyo, standing completely still "w-why have you come back? I thought you were in Paris?"

"That's not the point, Kyo," said Tohru, anger building up inside her "tell me what you are doing in my apartment."

"I came to grab some of my stuff," said Kyo.

"There's nothing here any more that's yours," replied Tohru, still standing by the open door "don't lie to me and tell me the real reason."

"Tohru..." Kyo began, starting to walk closer to Tohru "Tohru, I can't live without you, okay? Everyone used to be so envious of us!"

"That's got nothing to do with anything Kyo, and you know it," replied Tohru, standing her ground at the door.

"Tohru, why won't you come back?" said Kyo, once again moving closer to Tohru, who continued to stand her ground "We had some great times together."

"Kyo, what we had was too good to last, okay?" replied Tohru, her voice almost poisonous "I knew that it wasn't gonna last, so I took your gross betrayal on me a bit personally, okay?"

"Tohru, I never cheated on you!" exclaimed Kyo, his arms almost raised "Okay? I have done nothing wrong! Yet you've shut me off completely!"

"Kyo, don't do this, okay?" said Tohru "I've heard enough of it now, and I'm tired, and just need to rest. Please, just go, without any fuss, and let me live my life without you."

"Tohru, don't do this," replied Kyo,placing his hands together and getting closer to Tohru, he could almost reach out and touch her face "there's gotta be something I can do to make this up to you."

"There's nothing you can do, Kyo, so just leave," said Tohru, stepping aside and showing Kyo the door. He didn't move.

"Wow, Tohru, you're glowing. Being pregnant really agrees with you. And your beginning to show!" replied Kyo, almost ecstatically.

Tohru hadn't really paid much attention to that fact she was pregnant, she'd been much too busy doing other things. But now Kyo had mentioned it, she did notice a bump was beginning to show. But that was to be expected, seeing as she was now about ten or twelve weeks pregnant. Tohru almost smiled at the bump on her stomach, before returning her attention to Kyo.

"Be that as it may, Kyo," Tohru said "you're having nothing to do with this baby."

"What?" replied Kyo "You can't do that!"

"I can, and I am," said Tohru, looking at Kyo, her face etched with anger "now, please, just leave me alone!"

"Tohru, you can't cut me completely out of your life like that. That is truly unfair!" replied Kyo, standing in front of Tohru now, and looking down upon her.

"Here we go again with the unfair!" exclaimed Tohru, looking up at Kyo "I am not about to give you the speech weeks ago about being 'unfair', okay? I'm gonna have it even worse than you, okay? I'm gonna have to give up the next eighteen years of my life to raise this child, getting up at 3:00am to feed and change it, having to go to work and find someone who could babysit it. And for you, a man who only has to shove it in there and squirt to tell me about unfairness is just wrong!"

"Who ever said you had to do it alone?" asked Kyo "You know I'd be there for you, and if you were working, I'd babysit it. You know I'd be a competent father!"

"I am not letting my baby be taken care of by the man who ruined my life!" shouted Tohru "This conversation is over! Now just leave already! And stay out of my life!"

"Tohru, you know we were a great couple! I'm not gonna let you ruin this kid's life by neglecting them the one thing every child truly needs. Both parents," said Kyo.

"Excuse me?!" shouted Tohru, her jaw almost dropping to the floor "Did you just say I'm gonna ruin this child's life if I don't let it get love off you? I don't think so, Kyo. This child will grow up more loved than any I know! Yes, it may be strenuous on me at first, yes, I may hate having to be up twenty-two hours of the day, but I'll get used to it because I will love this child enough for two parents!"

"Tohru, that would kill you, and you know it," replied Kyo "just let me have some sort of interaction with my child. Remember, part of my DNA is in you, whirling around to help create that child."

"Oh, Kyo," said Tohru, ushering Kyo out of the door "Who ever said you were the father?"

And with that, Tohru slammed the door shut, placing all the locks on. Kyo began banging on the door heavily. Tohru smiled to herself as she walked over to the sofa, sat, and read a magazine, placing her feet on the coffee table.

"Tohru! You open this door right now and tell me what the hell is going on!" shouted Kyo, his voice muffled from the other side as he kicked and punched the door repeatedly.

Tohru sighed slightly as she flipped through the pages of the magazine. She continued to sit there as Kyo continued to pound the door in.
It was only then that Tohru realised she still hadn't called Uo and Hana, her plan had been foiled by Kyo's appearance. She quickly grabbed the receiver and dialled Uo's number in.

"The phone you are trying to call is switched off"

They were already on the plane then, about to leave for a week in Paris. Tohru was now wishing she'd gone with them.

"Tohru, answer me now!" shouted Kyo, still kicking the door.

Tohru stormed up the door and shouted through it "What do you want, Kyo?!"

"Tell me what the hell is going on!" replied Kyo "You're telling me that that kid may not be mine!! I think I have a right to know what the hell you've been doing!"

"Oh, Kyo!" shouted Tohru "Always one to quickly judge, even though it's you who did this."

"What?!" replied Kyo "You're telling me that it's my fault you had sex with another guy?!"

"I only said that to usher you out the door while you comprehended that sentence!" shouted Tohru.

"I don't believe you!" replied Kyo.

"Believe what you want, Kyo! I don't care any more! I've had it with your constant constraint on me and my life. I'm free now, free to do as I wish, when I wish, and you're not gonna stop that for me!" shouted Tohru, laughing heartily afterwards.

"I'm not leaving you alone with a child, when you could've been the one to cheat all along!" replied Kyo, folding his arms.

The door swung open. There was Tohru, still glowing, pregnancy really did suit her.

"Kyo." began Tohru "You're gonna leave, because if you don't, I'll just call the cops and tell them you're stalking me."

The buzzer rang next to the door. It was from the main reception.

"Yes?" Tohru asked, pressing the button.

"Miss. Honda? There's a package here for you." came a woman's voice from the front desk.

"Okay, I'll be right down!" said Tohru, happily.

She grabbed her key off the side table, shut the door and locked it. She hummed to herself as she began to walk down the corridor.

"Tohru, get back here and talk to me!" shouted Kyo, running to catch up with her.

"Why should I?" said Tohru, stopping at the doors before the staircase "So you can once again plead your innocence? So I can once again tell you to shove it and leave me alone? In which you'll just continue this vicious cycle? For the last time, Kyo, I'm not at all interested in getting back with you, baby or not."

With that, Tohru pushed open the door to the staircase, Kyo grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back.
He pulled her into an embrace, in which he kissed her passionately. His hands made Tohru's back ripple as he gently stroked her back, so strong, yet gentle.

Tohru pushed Kyo away after a couple of seconds.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" she shouted, wiping her mouth.

"That didn't do anything for you?" asked Kyo, a smug grin on his face.

"No!" replied Tohru "I'm not gonna keep doing this, Kyo. I can't keep telling you to leave me alone when all you do is keep coming back. Trying to get back with me when it's futile. I want to move on with my life, and I thought you would too, seeing as you slept with another woman. I'm just, not strong enough for this any more, and you plainly can't see it..."

She broke off as tears formed in her eyes. She put a hand to her mouth as she went to push the door to the staircase open.
Kyo walked through after her. He was still desperate to be with her, yet she wanted nothing to do with him.

"Tohru, wait!" he said, clutching at Tohru's arm, trying to pull her back.

"Get off me!" shouted Tohru, pulling her arm back.

Kyo had realised the floor was wet, and had tried to pull Tohru back, to stop her slipping. However, when she'd pulled her arm back and turned, she slipped on the water she'd earlier dripped on the stairs.
Tohru tumbled down the stairs, screaming and moaning in pain as she went, before hitting the concrete floor hard, landing on her stomach, her body almost spread-eagled.

"Tohru!" shouted Kyo, his voice echoing off the walls "Tohru, no!"

He jumped the last seven stairs and knelt by Tohru, he flipped her over and pulled out his phone, dialling emergency services.

"C'mon, you bastards! Pick up!" he said, as the ringing sounded through his ear.

"Hello, emergency services?" came a woman's voice.

"I need an ambulance immediately!" shouted Kyo, wiping tears from his eyes.

"What is the nature of your emergency?" asked the woman, clicking could be heard in the background.

"My pregnant.. girlfriend has fallen down the stairs, she's unconscious!" replied Kyo "we're at Evergreen Court Apartments, on the staircase to the seventh floor."

"Okay, stay on the line with me, an ambulance is on the way now." replied the woman "Now tell me, is she breathing?"

Kyo turned Tohru into the recovery position. He put his ear next to her mouth. Small shallow breaths were being drawn.

"Yeah, she's breathing," he replied, once again wiping tears from his eyes.

"Okay, how old is she and how far along is she pregnant?" asked the woman.

"She's twenty, but twenty-one this year." replied Kyo "And she's about ten or twelve weeks pregnant."

"Has she had any ultrasounds of the baby since it's conception?" asked the woman.

"Not to my knowledge, no." replied Kyo, looking down at Tohru.

Hurried footsteps resounded against the walls as Kyo looked and saw two men rushing up the stairs.

"The ambulance is here," said Kyo.

"Okay, they'll take it from here. Goodbye." said the woman.

Kyo hung up.

The two men had brought a stretcher with them, and in a matter of minutes, they'd gotten Tohru into it.
They loaded Tohru into the back of the ambulance, and one of them looked back at Kyo.

"Are you any relation to this girl?" he asked, rain pouring down around them.

Kyo stood for a few seconds, before saying "No, I'm not. I found her when I was walking up the stairs."

"Okay then," replied the man, and he slammed the door shut.

The sirens blasted as the ambulance pulled away, racing to the hospital. Kyo could only stare as the ambulance took Tohru to the hospital. He could only see this as his fault, if he hadn't have bothered Tohru, this wouldn't have happened. So he began to walk away. Away from Tohru's life for good.

(A/N: Dontcha love depressing chapters? Okay, bad thing to say, I know. Buuuut – Come Back To Me is now officially ten chapters long! Whooo – I know it's not a time to celebrate, seeing as Tohru fell down the stairs, but I'm happy about this. I want to thank you all for your continued support to me – keep those reviews comin' it only fuels me to write more, haha. See you again soon!)