A/N: This time it's prompt #04 – deep.
Hospital Visits
Drabble 14
Had he seen his father when looking for Kouji? He strained – and recalled the man and the woman – the three of them walking the dog. He'd forgotten – hadn't Cherubimon told him his father had left because of that woman? Except Kouji's memories had said elsewise.
Hate was such a silly word. Kouji hadn't hated his stepmother. With what he'd seen, it was easy to say. He'd just disliked the idea of a second mother. Kouichi…he thought he may have gone along with the idea. It didn't seem important somehow. It was the idea of siblings that would've been earthshattering. A child with his father – there was. Children coming along with the step-parent. There wasn't.
And he realised he was just going in circles and lying on the hospital bed was an easy way to do that. Wasn't that how he'd kept on missing Kouji? Wasn't that how he'd tripped and fallen on the stairs – but then again, would he have gotten to the Digital World otherwise?
Though so easily he could have died instead. That was a dues ex machine that probably wouldn't come again and it'd be foolish to count it.
He closed his eyes. It was settled then.