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Warning for mentions of a hit and run accident, threatening teenagers, and a slight bit out of character. This is also a Doctor!AU in which Sam LaRusso groups up to become a doctor. The word count is 1,670 words. I hope you all enjoy Anatomy of Love.
The most unexpected things can happen when you least expect them to. Which is the one thing that you must remember or this story will make absolutely no sense to you at all.
"You have to work on your defensive technique, Tory," Sensei Kreese was saying. A thing I thought was pretty out of character for him. He was always preaching at us to strike first. He preached it even more so than Sensei Lawerence before him.
"But aren't you always saying strike first?" I asked, watching as he got this strange look on his face.
"She must have hit her head harder than I thought she did," Hawk's voice floated to my ears. "She's making absolutely no sense at all."
I looked up at him expecting to see Hawk with his usual devil-may-care attitude. But that wasn't what I found. The Hawk looking down on me was more adult-like. Sure he still kept his hair colored and in a mohawk but this wasn't the Hawk that I was used to.
"What happened?" I asked, baffled and looking around at most of the familiar but not so familiar faces around me.
"Do you remember the last thing that happened to you before you woke up here?" asked a very beautiful woman in a white doctor's coat. "Anything at all, Tory?"
"I was arguing with Sensei Silver about him buying off the referee at the All-Valley Tournament," I said, reaching up and putting a hand to my head. All these strange new things were making it hurt quite a bit. "That's all I remember."
Robby's angry face floated over the woman's shoulder. I couldn't understand why my being awake would make him angry.
"Robby," Miguel chided him, putting a hand on Robby's shoulder. Since when had the two of them become close. The last time I talked to either of them they were both on different sides of the argument between Cobra Kai, Miyagi Do, and Eagle Fang.
"I'm just saying," Robby said, sounding pretty defensive.
I hadn't even heard him talking. I blinked in confusion and Miguel must have noticed this because he sat beside me and looked into my eyes.
"Terry Silver attacked you after you confronted him about what happened with the referee," Miguel said, looking over his shoulder at the beautiful woman with familiar crystal blue eyes. "Sam, Robby, and I found you in the parking lot a few minutes later."
Robby snorted. "No one ever bothered listening to us about that fact," he said, sounding bitter.
"I know, babe," Miguel said, looking up at him.
"Babe?" I asked, looking between the two of them. "The last time the two of you were in close proximity to each other you pushed him over a railing."
"Tor, that was years ago," Robby explained, looking over the woman in the white coat.
"Who are you?" I asked finally looking at her.
"I know it's been a while," she said, voice sounding close to breaking. "It's…..uh….um….it's Sam. Sam LaRusso."
"Why are you dressed like a doctor?" I asked, looking as she tried to keep a comforting smile on her face.
"Tory, you've been in a coma for six years," she said, looking at me sadly. "Terry Silver hit you with his car."
"Then paid the witnesses off to lie about," hissed Robby, glaring at the ground.
"What?" I asked, looking at them all.
It was Hawk who spoke once more. "Silver hit you with his car," he said, closing his eyes angrily as Moon slid a comforting hand into his. "He tried to pay me off to say that you'd walked out in front of the car but I wouldn't take his money."
"Me either," Moon said, looking at me sadly. "We called 9-1-1 and he threatened us."
"Six years?" I asked, looking around the group.
"Yes," Sam said, putting a comforting hand on my arm. "I went to Med school in order to try and help wake you back up again."
"Med School?"
"Yeah. I'm training to be a doctor. What happened to you made me want to go into medicine so that I could help people in your condition."
"Intern LaRusso, are you on a coffee break?" asked a rather angry-looking woman standing in the doorway.
"No, ma'am," she said, standing up and walking over. "It's just…." she pointed over to where I was sitting.
"Miss Nichols, welcome back to the world of the waking," the other doctor said, walking past Sam. "How are you feeling?"
"Very confused," I said, blinking and looking over her shoulder at Sam. "I've been asleep for six years?"
"Yes. Do you remember anything from the night that you were attacked?"
"Just confronting my karate sensei for buying off the referee for my match against Sam LaRusso over there," I said, pointing to Sam.
"That's the last thing you remember?"
I nodded.
"You don't remember being hit by the car? You don't remember your sensei threatening you with bodily harm? Anything that can corroborate your story?"
I shook my head. It was beginning to pound much worse than it had when Sam had pushed me down those stairs during our epic fight at school.
"Perhaps we can get Tory something for the pain?" Sam suggested, looking at her teacher more than likely.
"Alright," the older woman said, prescribing some pain medication and sending Sam off to fetch it. She turned back to me. "The cops are going to want to come in and question you about what happened. Anything you can tell them would be helpful."
I nodded. Leaning back I closed my eyes and tried to will the pain in my head and entire body to go away. Why couldn't things have gone back to the way that they were? Why had I stayed with Cobra Kai when things had started to get bad? Why hadn't left when Sensei Silver had Sensei Kreese thrown in jail?
"Miguel, are you and Robby together?" I asked, opening my eyes and looking at the two of them.
Robby nodded putting a hand on Miguel's shoulder.
"You guys," Sam said, reentering the room with the medicine the other doctor had prescribed, "why don't we give Tory a few minutes to readjust to things? You can come back later and finish this conversation then."
"Okay," Miguel said, leaning down and hugging me. "It's good to have you, Tory."
"Yeah," Robby, said, giving hug as well.
The others followed suit. Even Moon and Yasmin who I wasn't exactly friends with before my "accident" gave me hugs like we were friends. I watched as the door closed behind Hawk and I was left alone with Sam.
"Why would what happened to me make you want to go into medicine?" I asked, hating the silence that had hung heavily upon the room after our friends had left. "We weren't exactly friends before this happened." I indicated myself and the room around me.
"Well…." Sam said, hesitatingly looking towards the door. "A lot of things happened in the days leading up to your accident….not accident. I had a lot of time to think about things. But when it all boiled down to it I found that I wasn't angry at you. I was angry at myself and taking it out on you. Because you dated Miguel and then you dated Robby. But I was the one who couldn't admit that I wished you were dating me."
I blinked at her in surprise. None of the things we did to each other were the actions of girls who actually liked each other. Were they?
"My mom helped me figure it out," Sam continued. "She told me what she saw was going on and I had thought about what she said. What she said was what truly confirmed it for me. After All-Valley Tournament I was going to….this is going to sound silly but…..I was going to ask you out on a date. But then Moon ran over to me and told me what had happened to you."
"About the not accident I was in?"
Sam nodded. "I sat by your bedside for the longest time hoping that you would wake up and that I could ask you the question that I was going to ask you that night," Sam told me. "But then time started to slip by and school came to an end. High school at least. I just have to get past my internship year and….but that doesn't matter. When you didn't wake up I started thinking that maybe if I could help medically that would make you wake up. So, I became a doctor. I think my parents were just happy to see me going somewhere besides the hospital and dojo."
"Well?" I asked, looking up at her as looked upon in me confusion at my question.
"Well what?" she asked, making sure the air was out of the medicine bag before attaching it to my IV.
"You said you wanted to ask me a question before my not accident," I said, smiling at her. "I guess now's as good a time to ask it as any, right?"
She giggled as she smiled down at me. "But I wouldn't be able to be your doctor anymore. It's a rule."
"Do you always do what you're told?" I asked, folding my arms over my chest and smirking up at her.
"No," she said, sitting down next to my bed as soon as she was sure the medicine was dripping down the tubing. "I guess you're right."
"I know I'm right."
"Tory, would you like to go on a date with me?" she asked, taking hold of my hand as the medicine started to hit me.
"I would love that," I said, smiling as the pain dimmed a bit.
When I walked out of the All-Valley Tournament six years ago I never imagined that my life would change like this. But I guess besides the coma part I wouldn't have wanted any other way.
I hope you all enjoyed Anatomy of Love as much as I enjoyed writing it.