Chapter LIII: Oh, BEEP! What Now?
Hello again, Summer Love, Summer Fears readers! We're glad to see you all again, and hope you are not being driven insane by the medical drama. Anyway, we're glad you're still enjoying this tale and hope you stick with us all the way through to the end. Thank you again for the reviews, everyone! We love hearing from you. As of this moment we're at about the halfway point. So hang on tight! We're not through yet.
Last time: Bastion and Violet came back from their date feeling pretty lousy. Bastion's mom called Kisara and the young doctor figured out that Violet had mono. Both kids had strep and Violet also had an ear infection. They went to sleep, but it seems as the last chapter closed that something went wrong. And so, we open the new chapter, dear readers.
Disclaimer: Please read chapters 1-47's disclaimers and chapter 52. Otherwise, we'll just be repeating ourselves.
Warning: Mild theological discussion, Bastion angst and familial insanity. Also, if you hate Naruto, you might want to skip part of the chapter. If you like Naruto, read the whole thing. Thank you!
Violet had been sleeping well enough, even though she kept feeling hot and then cold. However, she continued to sleep through the fever until a sharp pain occurred in her lower abdomen. It was enough to snap her wide awake, letting out a loud gasp of pain. Violet had to close her eyes tightly, biting her bottom lip hard enough to make it bleed a little. "B-B-Ba-a-astion," she managed to get out.
Kisara woke to hear Violet's monitors beeping. "Oh, my gosh, Violet!" The girl's temperature was up to 103 degrees and she was clutching her stomach. "Violet..." Kisara saw where Violet was clutching her belly. "Oh, no!" She hit the code button, which sounded a loud alarm and the droning "Code Blue!" Hiro and Katai were wide awake in seconds.
"What's happening?" Katai asked.
"Violet's spleen is rupturing! She needs surgery now!"
Violet wasn't paying attention to the conversation around her, completely blinded by the intense pain. She'd stopped biting her bottom lip, but tears had formed in her eyes. Hiro was shocked at this new development. "But I thought you said it would happen if she exerted herself!" Some of the others were waking up because of all of the commotion, confused with drowsiness from sleep.
"Hiro, it's rare, but sometimes a spleen can go on its own...Darn it! Where's the...!" Two orderlies, nurses and Scout Rhodes came running in with a crash cart.
"Oh, my! Kisara, what happened?" Scout yelped.
"Spleen rupture due to mono...Hurry, Scout...Oh, why didn't I see this?" Kisara moaned.
"She'll be all right...It'll be all right, Violet," Scout soothed, helping move the girl onto the crash cart.
"I-It...h-hurts," Violet moaned. Exhausted, she fell back into a laying position, still in immense pain.
Syrus was finally awake enough to take in the severity of the situation. "Annie! Annie, wake up!!" he said, shaking her.
Annie awoke abruptly. "Sy...what? VIOLET!! What happened? Kisara?"
"Her spleen's ruptured..."
"Nooo," Annie moaned, turning pale.
By this time, Annie could only manage a glimpse of her friend as she was quickly rolled out of the room. "Annie, Kisara, what's happening?" asked Syrus. He figured it was bad, but didn't know by how much.
Bastion, by this time, woke through his medicine-induced sleep. "M-Mum...D-dad? What's..?"
"Sweetie, they just had to take Violet," Katai explained gently.
Annie, meanwhile was shaking. "Her spleen...is ruptured...noo..."
"They had to take her into surgery, son. Her spleen ruptured on its own," explained Hiro slowly.
Meanwhile, Syrus noticed the way things were going, and quickly hugged Annie. "Annie, calm down. Just stay calm..."
Jaden and the other kids were wide awake now. "No...no way...she was supposed to be okay!" Jaden moaned.
"This isn't fair..." Chazz groaned.
Bastion looked straight at his father. "Dad? It...ruptured? No..." Hiro sighed and placed a hand on his son's shoulder comfortingly.
Syrus just continued to quietly comfort Annie, while Alexis squeezed Jaden's hand nervously. "I jinxed us..."muttered Atticus, remembering his earlier statement.
"You didn't, bro," Chazz groaned. "Man, this sucks..."
Annie wasn't handling it well. 'Not Violet...not Violet...please, God, not her,' she prayed in her head. And her heart rate was rising fast. Her breathing went funny.
Syrus realized it wasn't working, and quickly turned to Kisara. "Kisara! Annie's having another episode!!"he stated worriedly.
'Not her, too! It's just one thing after another,' Alexis thought in horror.
"Annie," Kisara said, moving close. "Annie, it's okay...Let's lay her down..." The doctor grabbed a blanket and laid it on the floor with a pillow. "Just calm yourself down..." she soothed. It seemed like an eternity, but after about three minutes, Annie's heart rate dropped back to normal.
"Oooh..." Annie moaned softly.
"It's okay, sweetie, just relax," Kisara said gently.
Syrus was kneeling beside Annie, still holding her hand. "Just stay calm, Annie," he stated gently.
Hiro was sitting beside his son, worried about how he was taking the sudden turn of events. "Bastion, son, are you all right?"
Bastion swallowed, his throat hurting from the strep. Tears were forming in his eyes. "Why, Dad? Why?"
Hiro sighed again, running his free hand through his hair. "I don't know, son. Sometimes God works in mysterious ways..."
"Is this God or Satan?" Bastion moaned in anguish.
Kisara looked at him. "Hiro? May I?" she asked softly. Hiro really had no idea what to do, so he stood and allowed Kisara to take over. He understood that his son was going through more than most teenage boys should have to. "Bastion...my dad is a theologian," she began.
"Okay, then tell me why...why does Violet suffer? She never hurt anyone...and...I just don't understand..." He was crying and shaking and his parents pulled around him.
"Bastion...it's the curse of our mortality. It's not because God willed this stuff to happen or because of evil...it's because we're all human and we're all mortal. Being good or bad doesn't mean we'll escape or get certain illnesses." The young doctor sighed. "I asked Daddy when I was your age and first dealing with patients the same question when a baby who'd been beaten by her parents came in...I sat there and watched her slip away..." Kisara teared up, the memory very fresh.
Hiro frowned, placing a comforting hand on Kisara's shoulder. "Kisara's right, son. Whether you're good or evil, these things just happen."
"Thanks, Hiro," Kisara said softly, wiping her eyes. "Bastion, I can't promise anything at this point, but if it just happened, I think Scout will get her patched up quickly..."
"Okay...Annie?" he called down to the floor, "Are you all right?"
"Yeah," Annie answered weakly.
"All we can do now is wait and hope. Kisara, when do you think we'll receive news on her condition?" asked Hiro.
"It'll take a few hours...we probably won't hear anything until at least an hour or so from now...Oh, I need to call her parents..."
Hiro glanced at the clock; by now it was one-thirty. "Oh my, it'll be four-thirty in the morning there. But it can't be helped, I suppose," he stated, sighing. "Kisara, if you need to, you can use my phone," Alexis offered, pulling it out of her pocket.
"It's okay, Alexis. Save your battery," Kisara answered, moving to the room phone and quickly dialing the phone number on Violet's chart. And in Ohio, a phone rang.
All of the Haverbrooks-- excluding Barbara-- could sleep through a train wreck, let alone a ringing phone. Luckily, Barbara was woken by the sound and answered the phone. "H-Hello? Barbara Haverbrook speaking," mumbled the tired mother through a stifled yawn.
"Barbara, this is Kisara Kaiba...I'm sorry to call you so early, but...we have an emergency...Violet has been taken into surgery..."
Barbara's mother instincts kicked-in, and she was instantly wide awake. "What?? My baby's in surgery?! What happened? Is she all right?!" The questions poured out in a flurry, the usual symptom of a worried mother.
"There was a complication with her mono...it happens rarely, but...Violet's spleen ruptured and it must be removed."
"Oh no..." When it came to urgent situations, Barbara was the last person you wanted to disobey. Which was why Alan Haverbrook forced himself to stay awake when she shoved him off the bed.
"What is it, Barb??" he asked groggily.
"Violet's in surgery, Al! She has to have her spleen removed!!"
Alan could tell his wife was getting frantic with worry and quickly took the phone from her. "Kisara, this is Alan. Barb told me what's going on and she's really shaken up. Is there a possibility that our daughter might not...make it?" he asked. He knew that the answer-- if positive-- might calm his wife down.
"Fortunately, I think she'll be okay...and she's in the hands of one of the best pediatric surgeons in the business. Dr. Rhodes is one of the very best and she will be very thorough..." Kisara quickly outlined some risks, and concluded, "Because she's young, she should be all right...If you want to fly out here, I'll call my husband and have the people at Kaiba Corp Cleveland ready a plane immediately."
"Barb, honey, Kisara says there's an extremely high chance that Violet will survive the surgery. Please don't worry. She says that we can fly out there to see her if we need to," Alan explained gently.
Barbara took a few deep breaths to calm herself down, then nodded. "Al, I am not going to let my daughter go through this without her parents. Bobby can take care of Haylee while we're gone."
Alan nodded. "Kisara, we'd appreciate it if you would do so. We're very grateful."
"You can bring your whole family and we'll have a place for you to stay...Violet talks a lot about her brother and sister," Kisara offered.
"Really? Kisara, we're in your debt. After this is over, if there's anything we can ever do for you, just ask," replied Alan. Barbara had left to wake the kids, who had slept through the entire phone call.
"Don't you worry...just get ready," Kisara said. "I'll have a limo to you in less than two hours..."
"Thanks again, Kisara. Goodbye." With that, Alan hung up to go get ready with his family. He then took a deep breath. "Barb, let's wake the kids...Violet..." he whispered the last.
"I know, Al, I'm so worried. You get Bobby and I'll go wake our little princess," she replied.
The nervous parents embraced for a moment before separating, Barbara going into Haylee's room. "Haylee, sweetie, wake up..."she whispered, gently shaking her.
"Mmmm...Mommy? Is it morning yet?" seven-year-old Haylee asked, blinking her big eyes. And then she noticed Mommy looked upset. "Mommy, what's wrong?"
"Haylee, sweetie, Violet's in the hospital. We're going to go see her, so you have to wake up and get dressed," Barbara soothed gently.
"The hospital? Why?" Haylee asked.
"Well, sweetie, Violet's a very sick girl. Which is why we need to go see her, okay?"she explained, getting some clothes.
Meanwhile in Haylee's room, "Okay, Mommy...can I help Sissa?"
Meanwhile, Barbara set the clothes out on the bed-a lavender T-shirt and jean shorts. "Yes, of course you can, honey. Just get dressed while Mommy packs a bag for you."
"Okay, Mommy..." Haylee said.
Meanwhile, Alan headed for his 23-year-old son's room and walked in. He went up and shook the boy. "Bobby, get up...Bobby!" He shook the boy again and then yelled, "BOBBY, GET UP!"
Bobby fell off of his bed in true Haverbrook fashion. "Ow! Dad, what?!"
Alan said, "Bobby, we're taking an emergency flight to Domino. Violet's in emergency surgery. The doctor thinks she'll be all right, but I think we all need to be there. Get a bag ready, okay?"
Bobby was awake at that, eyes filled with worry. "Oh, man! I knew she'd be in trouble on her own!!" He jumped to his feet, emptying some things from the bag he'd brought with him from Florida.
"She'll be okay, Bobby. And she's gotten a good group of friends it sounds like. Hurry up and get dressed. We don't know what time the limo will be here," Alan told his son.
By the time the two hours were up and the limo arrived, all four Haverbrooks were dressed and packed. They got in and headed off nervously to the airport.
Back in Domino, no one in the hospital save Bastion had slept. Kisara had gotten a lounger for Annie to lie on so the teen girl would be comfortable. "Kisara?" Annie asked.
"What is it, honey?"
"When will we know?"
Kisara looked at her watch. "It's been two hours...someone should..." And then a nurse came to the door.
"Dr. Kaiba?"
"Yes?"
"I'm Rosalie, I've been in the room with Dr. Rhodes and the surgery is going very well. Violet should be in recovery in about one hour."
"Thanks, Rosalie..."
"That's good. Should we wake Bastion and tell him?" asked Syrus from beside Annie.
"Would that be all right, Kisara?" Hiro queried.
Kisara thought about it. "Yeah...we probably should...it's a good idea..."
Hiro nodded and lightly shook his son's shoulder. "Bastion, son, wake up. We have good news to tell you about Violet."
Bastion was slow to wake up. "Ooh...Mum? Dad? What...Good news?" He came awake quickly. "What is it?"
Katai smiled. "We just got an update and she should be in recovery in one hour. It's all going very well..."
"Oh, thank God...I thought..." Bastion sank back in his pillows, exhausted.
"Bastion, just rest, okay?" Kisara said, checking his vitals. "Your fever's been coming down...just rest."
Bastion closed his eyes and Kisara gave him a new dose of fever reliever through his IV. "He'll do better now that he knows..."
"Oh, Kisara, you never did tell us if her parents were coming," stated Syrus. They'd heard Kisara offer, but the teens had all been too worried to ask if the Haverbrooks had accepted the offer.
"Yeah, they're coming and they should be in the air by now..." she said. "I went out and called Seto and he made it happen, so the Haverbrooks are on their way now."
Annie, sitting at her lounger said, "That's wonderful...I've never met Mr. and Mrs. Haverbrook, or Violet's brother and sister...they sound like fun!"
Alexis groaned lightly, imagining Violet times four. "As long as we hide the sugar," she replied. This evoked a few much-needed laughs from the group.
Kisara smiled. "Violet's nuts with sugar in her system?"
"Yeah," Annie answered. "Alexis, remember that time when she ran through the dorm? And Dr. Crowler was doing inspections?"
Alexis sighed, rubbing her temples though smiling all the same. "Yeah, I remember. She'd eaten all of her Halloween chocolate in one sitting and went crazy. She ended up literally running over Crowler, then nearly ripping his arm out of its socket when she helped him back up. I still remember what she said...'SORRYMISSHOPEYOU'REOKAYGOTTAGONOWBUH-BYE!!'" Her eye visibly twitched.
Jaden, Atticus, Zane, Chazz and Sy all looked at each other and started cracking up. "Oh, man, Lex! Tell me you had pictures!" Jaden laughed.
"Man, you two have a lot in common, Jaden..." Chazz said. "He ran through the Slifer dorms and down to Ra and back…I think he ran Professor Bonaparte down."
Annie sighed, laughing a little. "Crowler actually said, 'She has to be related to that Slifer Slacker...there's no other way they're so alike!' He actually went through your records."
"And I thought Principal Rooney was rough," Kisara remarked.
"Who?" Jaden asked.
Kisara sweat-dropped. "You haven't seen 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off?'"
Annie said, "I have...and Dr. Crowler actually kinda likes Jaden..."
"Nope, I haven't either," replied Syrus. "Why don't you explain, Annie?" Alexis suggested, smiling. Atticus nodded, as he wanted to keep the upbeat mood so everyone could keep their minds off of the current problems.
However, at Annie's last statement, everyone in the room showed some expression of shock. "What??"
"Yeah, he does...I...sorta read his diary," Annie blushed.
"Annie! That's deviously sneaky...find anything else?" Alexis had a mischievous gleam in her eye that was rarely seen.
"You read his diary?" Jaden asked in shock. "Yup...and he thinks you're a good student and you'd be better if you'd apply yourself, but he knows you're happiest as a Slifer, and...Alexis...he has Naruto cosplay stuff!"
Kisara said, "This should be good..." She, too, had a naughty look on her face.
Syrus grimaced at the idea, Alexis doing the same. "Oh man, I don't think I want to know," she muttered. Atticus was trying to stifle his laughter.
Zane, however, asked, "Who? C'mon, Annie..."
Annie grinned big. "Mighty Gai!! Rock Lee's mentor!"
That did it. Almost the entire room cracked up, and Atticus nearly fell out of his chair. "It just HAD to be him!!"
Chazz and Jaden were laughing so hard, tears were streaming down their faces, and Annie was grinning wickedly. "And..." she added, triumphantly reaching into her purse, "I have pictures!" Everyone immediately crowded around the lounger, eager to see them. Hiro sighed and ran a hand through his hair, glad everyone was joyous again.
"Oh, my gosh! He's in the classic pose!" Chazz laughed. "Annie, how did you get these?"
"Scanned 'em last year...those PDAs have a scanner feature..."
"Seto spared no expense on those," Kisara laughed and flushed a bit.
"I didn't know it had a scanner feature," Jaden said. "Oh, the possibilities..."
Alexis sent a deadly glare her fiancé's way as a warning. She didn't know how much Atticus had influenced him. "Last year, I thought he'd be more of an Orochimaru," mumbled Syrus, blinking.
"Ew," Annie said, remembering the bad guy. "I don't want to think of him with a lizard tongue..."
"Oh, gross! I'd forgotten that!" Jaden groaned.
"Oh, that reminds me, Jaden...he said in his diary that you're Duel Academy's version of Naruto..."
Alexis grinned. "Of course he is. You know, it might be fun to figure out which character we're all most like. What do you guys think?"
"Sure, why not?" Jaden said reasonably.
"The Chazz likes," Chazz grinned.
"I'm in," Annie said.
"Naruto?" Katai asked Kisara.
"It was an anime that was popular a few years back," the young mother and doctor explained.
Syrus nodded, and Atticus seemed eager enough. "Well then I'll start off by saying that Hinata is definitely Annie," Alexis stated, smiling.
"Thanks, Alexis! I love Hinata!" Annie said. "You're like Sakura, easy!"
Alexis grinned. "I guess you have a point there. I think some would compare me to Ino, too," she replied.
Syrus thought for a moment. "Well...I think Zane's just like Sasuke."
"What? Am I that emo?" Zane asked, a little shocked.
Syrus grinned sheepishly. "What? Would you like it better if I said Itachi??"
"NO!!" Zane yelped. "Hmmm...Sy...hard to figure you out...Atticus...you're Rock Lee..."
Atticus grinned, flipping his hair. "Hey, what can I say? We both have style," he replied, grinning. "Chazz is kind of like...man, there a few guys that could fit him."
"Hmmm...Shikamaru or Kiba, I think," Annie said.
Jaden nodded. "Bastion's like Shikamaru in brains, but I don't think he'd slack off like Shikamaru..."
"Why Kiba or Shikamaru?" Chazz wondered.
"Well, bro, you can be a bit full of yourself sometimes like Kiba. And you also shrug a lot of stuff off like Shikamaru," explained Alexis, grinning sheepishly.
Syrus blinked. "Oh yeah, who would Violet be??"
Annie and Alexis looked at each other. "Oooooh...Lady Tsunade!" Annie said.
Syrus sweat-dropped. "Really? Why do you think that??" he asked.
"She's pretty tough," Annie said simply.
"Yeah, and you don't want to mess with her, remember?" added Alexis. They all remembered the episode when Tsunade had punched that hole through the wall. Hiro took a glance at the clock, realizing half an hour had passed by.
"Who'd be Choji?" Annie wondered. "Nobody in this room seems to fit Choji..."
"No...there's also Shino, Neji, and Tenten," reminded Syrus.
"Hmmm...Violet has her Tenten moments," Annie said thoughtfully. "Ooh...Zane, you're like Neji!" she squealed.
"Yeah, you are," agreed Alexis, grinning. Heck, it was better than being Sasuke or Itachi...or even Orochimaru.
"Oh, we forgot Tamari and Gaara!" Jaden said.
"I don't know if anyone matches them, though," Syrus replied, frowning.
"True, Sy...and maybe as far as Gaara's concerned...that's a good thing..." Everyone nodded. "So...am I Naruto?" Everyone nodded. "Cool!" Jaden grinned even more widely. "I'm Duel Academy's number one, hyperactive knuckleheaded duelist. I'm gonna be King of Games! Believe it!" And then he posed like Naruto Uzimaki.
Alexis sighed, but smiled nonetheless at her fiancé's silly nature. Syrus and Atticus were both laughing at their friend's imitation.
Zane looked at Jaden. "Oh, there are times I wish I knew how to do that fireball jitsu..."
Chazz grinned. "I'd like to do the shadow-clone thing..."
Annie smiled. "I'd like to do that fighting technique that Hinata used to fight the bugs in the anime..."
Jaden grinned. "I want to do the shadow-clones too! Send them to class!"
Syrus thought for a few moments. "That mind-transfer jitsu was pretty cool," he stated.
"I know I'd want the one that makes all those weapons shoot out everywhere at my enemy," stated Alexis.
"Mine would be Naruto's se-- I mean, transformation jitsu." Atticus was just barely able to stop himself from saying "sexy jitsu."
Annie looked at Atticus and grinned. "We all know which jitsu you were thinking of."
Chazz snickered. "Good going, bro!"
Atticus sweat-dropped, realizing he had in fact said enough to let everyone know what he meant. Alexis simply sighed and rubbed her temples, reminding herself to search her elder brother's room later.
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The group exhausted Naruto talk and lapsed into silence. Finally, after forty-five minutes, Scout Rhodes came into the room. "The surgery was successful. She's going to be okay..."
"Oh, thank goodness," Katai and Kisara said at the same time.
The teens let out a collective sigh of relief, and Syrus smiled at Annie. "Will you be okay now, Annie?" he asked, holding her hand.
Annie nodded tiredly. "Yeah...that just scared me... Is Bastion awake?" Bastion was still sound asleep.
"No, and since Violet's out of danger, I think he should sleep," Kisara advised. "I assume she's in the isolation ward?" she asked the other doctor.
"Yeah," Scout answered. "No one can see her just yet. It's because she's already fighting off an infection, guys. We want to give her a few hours."
"By then her parents might be here. I think it only takes four hours to get here from Ohio on a commercial flight," Alexis said.
"And they're on a private jet, so maybe they'll be here even sooner," Syrus figured. Atticus stifled a yawn; it was pretty early in the morning.
"I hope so," Scout said, moving to her three kids. "Are you kids all right?"
"I am, Mom," Chazz said; "I'm just tired."
"Yeah, it's really early, isn't it?" added Atticus tiredly. Alexis nodded in agreement.
"Maybe we could all get some more sleep?" Syrus suggested, also tired.
Annie was already nodding off. "Good idea," Kisara said. "Hiro, Katai...I'd like to speak with you two a moment...Kids, get to sleep, and I'll make sure no one bugs this room..." She nodded to Scout, who stepped out of the room.
Everyone was getting comfortable again in the chairs, the two couples using each other for pillows. Hiro glanced at his wife, and the two followed Kisara out of the room. Scout looked at Kisara as they and the Misawa parents stepped out into the hall. "What's going on, Kisara?" Scout asked.
"I needed you out here with us, just in case..."
"Okay, then..."
Kisara took a breath. "Hiro, Katai, how do you think Bastion would take being separated from Violet?"
Hiro was caught off-guard by the question, and had to consider for a few moments. "Well, Kisara, Bastion has never truly been in love with anyone until now. It is quite obvious that he and Violet love each other, since he proposed and she accepted. I believe that you saw for yourself how distraught he became earlier. If they're separated, I am quite sure that he won't take it well at all."
"That's what I was worried about. He won't do himself any favors, especially when he's been sick with what he's been sick with. He'll run himself down." She looked at her fellow doctor. "Scout...I think we need to bend the rules a bit. When she's able to be moved back here, Bastion stays with her..."
"Agreed...how do we explain it, though?" Scout wondered.
Kisara grinned. "Easy...exhaustion and observation..."
Hiro was a very smart man, especially when it came to optometry. But he was a bit unsure of why the two doctors needed an excuse to have them together. "May I ask why Violet needs an excuse to stay with Bastion? I understand that mono is spread by fluids, not air..."
"Hiro, it's to keep Bastion here," Kisara explained. "Ordinarily, you know we'd have to discharge him, but I don't want to risk him having a relapse...and possibly getting pneumonia, since the bacteria that causes strep also can pneumonia."
"Ah, I understand now. Jolly good idea, you two. Katai, perhaps you should go home. I don't want you to exhaust yourself here," Hiro said, placing his hands on his wife's shoulders.
"You either, Hiro...Maybe we should go home together...You're going to be too tired this morning," Katai pointed out.
Kisara nodded in agreement with Katai, as did Scout. "Hiro, go home...we'll keep an eye on Bastion. You won't be any use to your patients as tired as you are," Scout pointed out.
Hiro sighed, knowing all three women were right. Besides, he was outnumbered. "All right, all right. We'll both go home and rest. If anything happens, do give us a call, please?"
"We will," Kisara promised. "Get home and rest...the Haverbrooks should be here in about an hour or so...I'm going to see if they'd prefer a hotel or our house..."
"Right then. Goodbye you two. Try getting some rest yourselves." With that, the Misawa parents walked off down the hallway to return home.
"I hate leaving him...but I know we have to," Katai sighed, looking back as they walked down the hall.
"Yes, I know, darling. But he has his friends, and Kisara will watch over him for us. Soon he'll have Violet as well," Hiro replied, an arm over her shoulders.
Meanwhile, back at the room, the kids drifted off to sleep if they weren't in dreamland already. "XYZ Dragon Cannon, blast that Dark Witch..." Chazz murmured.
"Come back here dueling pizza slice," Jaden muttered.
"Water Dragon, put out that fire..." Bastion groaned softly.
"Lita, take out Avian with Supreme Thunder Dragon," Annie sighed.
"Gyroid, attack Zane directly," Syrus mumbled.
"Cyber Blader, destroy Jaden's Burstinatrix," Alexis muttered.
"Please, ladies, one at a time..." Atticus sighed.
Zane muttered, "Cyber End Dragon...blast Doom Lord to ashes..."
"Aww, they're dreaming of duels," Kisara smiled, hearing the kids in the room.
"They do that a lot. The first night Chazz was with us, they all fell asleep in the living room...but for some reason, Jaden dreamed about a dueling marshmallow," Scout explained.
"Hmm...sounds like Joey," Kisara murmured, getting some blankets over the kids. "We'll let them sleep as long as they can. Bastion, especially...his immune system is fighting this off..."
"Yeah..." Scout whispered, sitting down with her own kids.
Meanwhile, in the sterile isolation ward, Violet was drifting between a subconscious and unconscious sleep. "Ba...stion..." Somehow, her call reached him.
Back in the regular hospital room, Kisara sat next to Bastion's bed, checking his vitals and then brushing a lock of hair out of his face. "She'll be all right, honey...you just rest..."
"Violet," he whispered softly in his sleep, responding to his love's call.
And so all is quiet now in the hospital room. Violet's going to be fine, and so is Bastion. Violet's family is on their way to Domino, so that means the future in-laws are meeting each other! So, next time: The Haverbrook Invasion! What will happen when Violet's parents, brother and sister come to the city? You'll just have to read, review and tune in next time! Thank you!
