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Savior
The sound of coughing woke him up from a light sleep. He opened his eyes and let his eyes travel to the source of the coughing, the girl in the bed. He sat up straight in the chair he used to watch her at night and stretched stiffly. His back and neck screamed to go lay down in his bed so he could be comfortable, but he ignored the soreness. After the third day of sleeping like this, he was used to it.
He rubbed his eyes, trying to wake up, before getting up and sitting on the edge of the bed. The way the girl slept was anything but peacefully. True the medications she was on made her tired and allowed her to sleep without coughing or fever, but by two or three in the morning they wore off and she would cough and tremble the rest of the night away. He pushed her sweat soaked bangs out of her face and set a hand on her forehead. A little warm, but not much; that was a good sign.
She coughed again and he listened, silently, to her shallow labored breathing. That was not such a good sign. At least her fever was down, that was his biggest concern. She was doing a pretty good job of keeping it down; she was going to get better.
"Taichi I'm not sick," she whispered. He reeled back thinking she was waking up. Wait, did she just say Taichi? She was talking in her sleep. He sat back down, still ridged in posture and leaned over to listen to her. "I want to fight!"
He sat up. "I wonder what she dreams about." He asked himself.
"What was that, Ken?" Wormmon lifted his head from where he lay beside the girl. Like Ken, he rarely left her side and Ken allowed him to sleep on the bed beside her. Ken also chose to ignore that the worm disrespected him by calling him Ken instead of master.
"Nothing," he replied shaking his head. "Just thinking."
Wormmon crawled up onto the girl's stomach and lay down again. "Okay," he mumbled before falling asleep again.
Ken stood up and strode out of the room. The castle was silent and dark. Usually there was some servants loitering around, but there was no one. He pulled out his dark digivice to check the time. 5:10 in the morning. That's probably why no one was up, too damn early.
With a shake of his head, which caused his sore neck to scream again, he went back to the room she was in. He tried to sit, but he was too awake to sit still. He got up and began to pace, his footstep loud in the silent room. He paused when she moved in the bed. She just moved her head and fell back to sleep. He rubbed his face with his hands; he was way too awake for five in the morning. "Wormmon," he announced. The green worm looked up. "I'm going to take a shower. Watch over her." The worm nodded. He slipped into the bathroom in the corner of the room and shut the door. He turned the water and waited for it to get hot. Soon steam rose from the shower and began to fog the mirror. He stripped and climbed in, breathing in the steam.
When he finally forced himself out of the hot water, his fingers were wrinkled like raisins. His chin length ink colored hair sloshed around his face and dripped water down his back, causing him to shiver. Goose bumps ran up his skin as he wrapped a towel around himself. He dressed and opened the bathroom door, pausing when a wall of cold air hit him. He did a quick digivice check as he walked towards the bed. 7:43.
"Morning." He looked up to see the girl sitting up in bed with Wormmon in her lap.
"Morning. Did you sleep well?" He asked as he stood over her.
"I guess. My chest hurts from coughing though." Her voice was hoarse and she sounded like she was about to lose it.
"Come're." She leaned forward and he felt her for head for the second time that morning. "You're still warm, but not as much as before. It looks like you might actually beat this." He sat down at the edge of the bed.
"I hope. I'm tired of being sick."
"I'll send for some cough drops or something. Does your throat hurt like yesterday?" She shook her head.
"Aren't you sick of me?"
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Aren't you sick of taking care of me?" She clarified. "I mean I feel bad for taking up your time like this. I'm keeping you from your…work."
"The way you say that sounds like this is some sort of scheme the DigiDestined cooked up to keep me from taking over the Digital World." He meant it was a joke. His foes would never put one of their own in danger like this. He could have killed her long ago. But then again, he never was very good at joking around.
Her eyes widened. "No, please don't think that," she begged. "I didn't mean for it to sound like that."
"I wasn't thinking that," he reassured her. There was a knock at the door. "Enter." An Apemon stepped into the room. "Yes?"
"It's the prisoner, master. He refuses to eat for the third day in a row," Apemon explained.
"What prisoner?" She asked.
The Apemon opened his mouth to answer. "Shut up you fool!" The Kaiser cut in. The Apemon shut his mouth.
"What prisoner?" She demanded.
"The DigiDestined known as Reliability. He followed us through the digiport when we returned from visiting the doctor," he replied.
"Joe?"
"If that is his name I do not know it," he muttered, voice hardened.
"I want to see him," she announced.
"I don't think-"
"I want to see him!" She yelled, which was followed by a long hacking cough.
Turning his attention back to the Apemon, he sighed. "Bring the prisoner in here." The Apemon left.
"Thank you," she whispered.
"Save it," he snapped. "I will not leave the room. I don't care if either you or him objects."
"That's fair," she agreed.
"I'm going to call for breakfast," Wormmon announced. He climbed down from her lap and left the room.
A few minutes later yelling erupted the silence that had settled between them. "Let me go!" A deep male voice raged. Soon he appeared in the doorframe with the Apemon holding his arms securely behind his back. Reliability looked up. "Kari!"
"Let him go," Ken granted. Reliability glared at him and the Apemon released his arms. He charged at Ken and rammed him to the floor.
"I'll kill you for what you've done!" The blue haired DigiDestined boy screamed at him as his hands wrapped around the Kaiser's neck.
"Joe, stop it!" The girl begged. "Joe!"
The Apemon pulled Reliability off of Ken and held him back as he fought to get out of his grip. Ken stood up calmly despite his heart about to pound straight out of his chest. "That was not smart."
"Ken!" His head snapped towards the bed. It was empty. The girl was now on the floor after a futile attempt to get up. He walked over to her and lifted her up. She draped her arms loosely around his neck.
"Don't touch her!" Reliability screamed. "Get away from her!"
"You called me Ken," he whispered rather plainly.
"I know." He set her on the bed, but she kept her arms around his neck. She hugged him closer. His heartbeat doubled in speed and the aura in his mind laughed. "Please don't hurt Joe. He's just doing what he thinks is right. Let me talk to him. Please." He stepped away from the bed and ignored the hateful glares the holder of Reliability gave him. "Joe," she called to him. He turned his gaze to her and his face softened. "Please don't do that again Joe. Don't hurt him."
"But he kidnapped you. And he hurt you!" Joe yelled.
"Joe, just listen. Don't hurt him, okay?" She pleaded.
"Kari, you don't understand-"
"No, you don't understand! Joe, please!" He stopped struggling with the Apemon. "Let him go." The Apemon hesitated and looked to his master who gave him a confirming nod. He released the blue haired DigiDestined and ran to the bed. He hugged her tightly.
"Everyone's so worried about you. They feared the Kaiser wouldn't have been very merciful to you." Ken watched her face. She looked very uncomfortable in Reliabilities arms. He let go of her and looked over at Ken. "Do you think we can get a little privacy?"
"I think not," Ken rejected fiercely.
Reliability look back at her. "What did he do to you?"
"Nothing, he took care of me," she answered softly.
He looked back at her and pushed hair out of her face. He touched the frames of the glasses. "Why are you wearing these?"
"I can't see without them."
"What happened?"
"How long have I been gone?" She asked.
"A month and a half. There are police going nuts along with your family. Tai's close to a nervous breakdown in worry. What happened?"
"During the last battle with the Kaiser I got hurt. An attack hit me when I wasn't looking." Her rose/brown eyes jumped to the Kaiser's hard face before looking at her friend again. "I fell and the others left me." There was pain in her throaty voice as she explained. Apparently her friends leaving was still an open wound for her. "The Kaiser brought me back here and kept me for a few days before he let me go. He offered me equipment to get to the DigiPort, but I was too hardheaded to take it. I got sick. He brought me back and took care of me."
"Is that why you were at the Guvin's office?" She nodded. "That's not what TK and he others told us. They said that the Kaiser kidnapped you."
"They lied," she shrugged.
"So what's going on? You can't see without these glasses. You have a cough. Anything else?"
"I've been trying to break a fever since I came here the second time. And I can't walk."
"You can't walk?"
"No. I have no feeling in the lower half of my body," she sighed.
"And he did none of this to you?" He whispered. She shook her head. "Don't worry. I'll get you out of here."
"I think that's enough," Kaiser announced. "Apemon." Apemon stepped forward and grabbed Reliability.
"Let me go!" He yelled.
"Joe, don't fight, please," she pleaded. He stopped and submitted to the yellow ape that dragged him out of the room. "And Joe," she called. The Apemon stopped and he looked at her. "Please eat." Then he was gone. She looked to the Kaiser. "That was it?!" She yelled. "That was all the time you'd let me have with him?! Why?"
"Calm down or you'll make yourself sick," he said quietly.
"I am sick so it doesn't matter! He's my friend, it would have been nice to speak to him!"
"Need I remind you this is still my home? You are still technically my captive."
"Do I have to remind you that I edited the story I gave to him for your benefit? I helped you out and tried to make you sound like a good person. That was bullshit, Kaiser!"
He was shocked on two levels, and it showed on his face. First it was surprising to hear her cuss. She seemed too innocent to cuss. And second it was the use of name she chose. Five minutes ago she had over stepped all his authority and called him 'Ken'. Now she was calling him Kaiser.
"Well, Light, thank you. But I don't need you covering for me with your friends. They have their opinions and I'm not afraid of hatred or anger."
"Don't call me that," she snapped.
"What?"
"Light. Don't call me Light. It's just degrading. I have a name."
"I realize that. But that's a little too close for my taste. So just stick to calling me Kaiser and I'll stick to Light," he reasoned.
"I disagree with you, Ken," she replied. A triumphant smile played on her face.
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It took two Red Veggiemon to control Reliability when he was at full strength. The Kaiser stood before him, warily watching his struggle. He looked up at the Kaiser. "What? Don't trust to have your minions let me go?"
"Not with out that girl around," he smirked. Reliability smirked. "So, you wanted to see me?"
"Yeah. What did you do? Brainwash her? Because everything Kari told me yesterday was a lie! TK would never leave her and neither would the others," he yelled. The Veggiemon struggled to hold him back.
"Let him go," he ordered. Reliability was caught off guard when the Veggiemon released their vine and he fell to the floor.
He pushed himself off the floor and rubbed his arms where the Veggiemon had nearly cut off all circulation. "You let me go. Do you trust me?"
"No. First of all, I didn't do anything to the girl-"
"Kari."
"Whatever. I didn't kidnap her nor did I hold her here against her will. She had every opportunity to leave, but she chose to stay. Probably due to your friends disloyalty to her." Ken smirked at the grimace that appeared on the DigiDestined boy's face. He got serious again. "The girl wants to stay here and until she decides to leave, I will abide by her decision. So here's the deal. Despite the lack of faith that you have, I will let you live. But I'm not letting you go home. Not as long as she stays."
"I wouldn't leave her alone with you," the older boy snapped.
"You care for her very much," Ken stated off-hand.
"And you enjoy laughing at the pain of others!"
"I'm not laughing at your pain. I find it intriguing. As I was saying, you care for her very much. I could use this to my advantage. I want you to start caring for her, as a doctor would. That would save us trips to the real world. That's exposure neither of us need." He pulled some folded papers from his pocket. "There's are some of her medical papers I copied from Guvin's office."
The blue haired boy took the papers and his black eyes skimmed them. "Frost bite, near fatal fever, a cold, burns. There are so many. Can you explain why she has them?"
"The frost bite, cold and fever were from the snow. It went untreated for a long time. The burns were from the attacks that hit her. There marks are just scars now. She's on medication for the fever. And its pretty much gone. But she has developed a cough."
"Yeah, that's always been there. She developed it when she was little and it comes and goes as it pleases. She's on medication for it back home. That's why its come back. You'll need to get her prescription if she stays here longer."
"She's just one big sick, isn't she?" Reliability looked like he wanted to laugh, but his face stayed straight. "So do you accept? Would you like the opportunity to play doctor?" He nodded eagerly. "Alright. Every three days you will have two hours with her."
"How generous."
"How sarcastic."
"No, I'm serious. Thank you." He folded the papers and slipped them into his pocket. "I'll be keeping these. When can I see her?"
"Tomorrow." He looked to the Red Veggiemon. "Take him away." With that Reliability was dragged out of the room. "Wormmon." The green worm appeared. "I had the prisoner to a room. Make sure a guard is posted and the doors are locked."
"Yes Master."
"I don't want to be bothered for the rest of the night."
"Yes Master."
With that he turned and waked out of the room. He walked down the long hall and stopped at a door near his own. He knocked. "Come in," rang out. He stepped inside. She was sitting up in bed with a baby digimon in her lap. The baby digimon looked up at him and started to shake in fear. She picked it up and hugged it. "Its okay, he won't hurt you. I won't let him." She looked up at him. "See the fear you cause others."
He approached the bed. "I don't care, seeing them shaking in fear is a nice little pleasure." He grabbed her chin and lifted her face to meet his eyes. "It's a compliance you have yet to learn." She pulled away. He snatched the baby digimon out of her arms and held it up by one ear, examining it as it shook and twisted in his grip. "Where's his black ring?"
"Let him go!" She yelled trying to grab the black digimon from his hands. He held it above her head out of her reach. "Stop that! Let him go!" With a shrug he let the digimon go and he fell safely into her arms.
"My question still stands, where is his black ring?"
She hugged the digimon tightly. "Because of the constant darkness this digimon dedigivolved to his fresh form." She looked down at the digimon again. "You really are evil."
"So why didn't you tell me you're on medication to control your cough?" He asked without warning.
She made a face. "So you found out? Joe told you, did he?"
"Yeah. Mind telling me why you didn't tell me?" He asked.
"You don't know everything about me and I figured it was a need to know basis."
"It was a need to know basis. I've been worrying about your health for over a month, but you hide your sickness and refuse help. I can only imagine what its doing to your system. It'll probably end up killing you."
She grinned. "Is the great Ken Ichijouji actually worried about someone other then himself?" She laughed.
"I won't do it again," he replied impassively.
"Did you ever learn how to laugh or smile? And a sneer doesn't count as a smile."
"Then I suppose I haven't."
She rolled her eyes then pushed the glasses up onto her face. "These are too big for me."
He sat down on the bed and landed back against one of the bed posts as he looked at her. She stared into his blue eyes. "So looks like I'll have to get me hands on that prescription of yours."
"Looks like it," she shrugged as she looked down at the fresh digimon in her lap. He had fallen asleep.
"You don't take your health very seriously."
"No I don't," she admitted. "I don't care. I have had so much crap happened to me and disable me, its ridiculous." As she talked his eyes watched her lips. "I've stopped caring! This whole sickness is just was the last straw and-"
He leaned over and silenced her with a kiss. After a few seconds he pulled back. "Maybe you should start caring." With that he pushed himself off the bed and out of the room.
Well, this chapter was...interesting. What did you think? The whole kiss scene, I know, it was major crap. Sorry. But the rests of the chapter I liked, I hope you did to. Please review thanks!
Savior
The sound of coughing woke him up from a light sleep. He opened his eyes and let his eyes travel to the source of the coughing, the girl in the bed. He sat up straight in the chair he used to watch her at night and stretched stiffly. His back and neck screamed to go lay down in his bed so he could be comfortable, but he ignored the soreness. After the third day of sleeping like this, he was used to it.
He rubbed his eyes, trying to wake up, before getting up and sitting on the edge of the bed. The way the girl slept was anything but peacefully. True the medications she was on made her tired and allowed her to sleep without coughing or fever, but by two or three in the morning they wore off and she would cough and tremble the rest of the night away. He pushed her sweat soaked bangs out of her face and set a hand on her forehead. A little warm, but not much; that was a good sign.
She coughed again and he listened, silently, to her shallow labored breathing. That was not such a good sign. At least her fever was down, that was his biggest concern. She was doing a pretty good job of keeping it down; she was going to get better.
"Taichi I'm not sick," she whispered. He reeled back thinking she was waking up. Wait, did she just say Taichi? She was talking in her sleep. He sat back down, still ridged in posture and leaned over to listen to her. "I want to fight!"
He sat up. "I wonder what she dreams about." He asked himself.
"What was that, Ken?" Wormmon lifted his head from where he lay beside the girl. Like Ken, he rarely left her side and Ken allowed him to sleep on the bed beside her. Ken also chose to ignore that the worm disrespected him by calling him Ken instead of master.
"Nothing," he replied shaking his head. "Just thinking."
Wormmon crawled up onto the girl's stomach and lay down again. "Okay," he mumbled before falling asleep again.
Ken stood up and strode out of the room. The castle was silent and dark. Usually there was some servants loitering around, but there was no one. He pulled out his dark digivice to check the time. 5:10 in the morning. That's probably why no one was up, too damn early.
With a shake of his head, which caused his sore neck to scream again, he went back to the room she was in. He tried to sit, but he was too awake to sit still. He got up and began to pace, his footstep loud in the silent room. He paused when she moved in the bed. She just moved her head and fell back to sleep. He rubbed his face with his hands; he was way too awake for five in the morning. "Wormmon," he announced. The green worm looked up. "I'm going to take a shower. Watch over her." The worm nodded. He slipped into the bathroom in the corner of the room and shut the door. He turned the water and waited for it to get hot. Soon steam rose from the shower and began to fog the mirror. He stripped and climbed in, breathing in the steam.
When he finally forced himself out of the hot water, his fingers were wrinkled like raisins. His chin length ink colored hair sloshed around his face and dripped water down his back, causing him to shiver. Goose bumps ran up his skin as he wrapped a towel around himself. He dressed and opened the bathroom door, pausing when a wall of cold air hit him. He did a quick digivice check as he walked towards the bed. 7:43.
"Morning." He looked up to see the girl sitting up in bed with Wormmon in her lap.
"Morning. Did you sleep well?" He asked as he stood over her.
"I guess. My chest hurts from coughing though." Her voice was hoarse and she sounded like she was about to lose it.
"Come're." She leaned forward and he felt her for head for the second time that morning. "You're still warm, but not as much as before. It looks like you might actually beat this." He sat down at the edge of the bed.
"I hope. I'm tired of being sick."
"I'll send for some cough drops or something. Does your throat hurt like yesterday?" She shook her head.
"Aren't you sick of me?"
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Aren't you sick of taking care of me?" She clarified. "I mean I feel bad for taking up your time like this. I'm keeping you from your…work."
"The way you say that sounds like this is some sort of scheme the DigiDestined cooked up to keep me from taking over the Digital World." He meant it was a joke. His foes would never put one of their own in danger like this. He could have killed her long ago. But then again, he never was very good at joking around.
Her eyes widened. "No, please don't think that," she begged. "I didn't mean for it to sound like that."
"I wasn't thinking that," he reassured her. There was a knock at the door. "Enter." An Apemon stepped into the room. "Yes?"
"It's the prisoner, master. He refuses to eat for the third day in a row," Apemon explained.
"What prisoner?" She asked.
The Apemon opened his mouth to answer. "Shut up you fool!" The Kaiser cut in. The Apemon shut his mouth.
"What prisoner?" She demanded.
"The DigiDestined known as Reliability. He followed us through the digiport when we returned from visiting the doctor," he replied.
"Joe?"
"If that is his name I do not know it," he muttered, voice hardened.
"I want to see him," she announced.
"I don't think-"
"I want to see him!" She yelled, which was followed by a long hacking cough.
Turning his attention back to the Apemon, he sighed. "Bring the prisoner in here." The Apemon left.
"Thank you," she whispered.
"Save it," he snapped. "I will not leave the room. I don't care if either you or him objects."
"That's fair," she agreed.
"I'm going to call for breakfast," Wormmon announced. He climbed down from her lap and left the room.
A few minutes later yelling erupted the silence that had settled between them. "Let me go!" A deep male voice raged. Soon he appeared in the doorframe with the Apemon holding his arms securely behind his back. Reliability looked up. "Kari!"
"Let him go," Ken granted. Reliability glared at him and the Apemon released his arms. He charged at Ken and rammed him to the floor.
"I'll kill you for what you've done!" The blue haired DigiDestined boy screamed at him as his hands wrapped around the Kaiser's neck.
"Joe, stop it!" The girl begged. "Joe!"
The Apemon pulled Reliability off of Ken and held him back as he fought to get out of his grip. Ken stood up calmly despite his heart about to pound straight out of his chest. "That was not smart."
"Ken!" His head snapped towards the bed. It was empty. The girl was now on the floor after a futile attempt to get up. He walked over to her and lifted her up. She draped her arms loosely around his neck.
"Don't touch her!" Reliability screamed. "Get away from her!"
"You called me Ken," he whispered rather plainly.
"I know." He set her on the bed, but she kept her arms around his neck. She hugged him closer. His heartbeat doubled in speed and the aura in his mind laughed. "Please don't hurt Joe. He's just doing what he thinks is right. Let me talk to him. Please." He stepped away from the bed and ignored the hateful glares the holder of Reliability gave him. "Joe," she called to him. He turned his gaze to her and his face softened. "Please don't do that again Joe. Don't hurt him."
"But he kidnapped you. And he hurt you!" Joe yelled.
"Joe, just listen. Don't hurt him, okay?" She pleaded.
"Kari, you don't understand-"
"No, you don't understand! Joe, please!" He stopped struggling with the Apemon. "Let him go." The Apemon hesitated and looked to his master who gave him a confirming nod. He released the blue haired DigiDestined and ran to the bed. He hugged her tightly.
"Everyone's so worried about you. They feared the Kaiser wouldn't have been very merciful to you." Ken watched her face. She looked very uncomfortable in Reliabilities arms. He let go of her and looked over at Ken. "Do you think we can get a little privacy?"
"I think not," Ken rejected fiercely.
Reliability look back at her. "What did he do to you?"
"Nothing, he took care of me," she answered softly.
He looked back at her and pushed hair out of her face. He touched the frames of the glasses. "Why are you wearing these?"
"I can't see without them."
"What happened?"
"How long have I been gone?" She asked.
"A month and a half. There are police going nuts along with your family. Tai's close to a nervous breakdown in worry. What happened?"
"During the last battle with the Kaiser I got hurt. An attack hit me when I wasn't looking." Her rose/brown eyes jumped to the Kaiser's hard face before looking at her friend again. "I fell and the others left me." There was pain in her throaty voice as she explained. Apparently her friends leaving was still an open wound for her. "The Kaiser brought me back here and kept me for a few days before he let me go. He offered me equipment to get to the DigiPort, but I was too hardheaded to take it. I got sick. He brought me back and took care of me."
"Is that why you were at the Guvin's office?" She nodded. "That's not what TK and he others told us. They said that the Kaiser kidnapped you."
"They lied," she shrugged.
"So what's going on? You can't see without these glasses. You have a cough. Anything else?"
"I've been trying to break a fever since I came here the second time. And I can't walk."
"You can't walk?"
"No. I have no feeling in the lower half of my body," she sighed.
"And he did none of this to you?" He whispered. She shook her head. "Don't worry. I'll get you out of here."
"I think that's enough," Kaiser announced. "Apemon." Apemon stepped forward and grabbed Reliability.
"Let me go!" He yelled.
"Joe, don't fight, please," she pleaded. He stopped and submitted to the yellow ape that dragged him out of the room. "And Joe," she called. The Apemon stopped and he looked at her. "Please eat." Then he was gone. She looked to the Kaiser. "That was it?!" She yelled. "That was all the time you'd let me have with him?! Why?"
"Calm down or you'll make yourself sick," he said quietly.
"I am sick so it doesn't matter! He's my friend, it would have been nice to speak to him!"
"Need I remind you this is still my home? You are still technically my captive."
"Do I have to remind you that I edited the story I gave to him for your benefit? I helped you out and tried to make you sound like a good person. That was bullshit, Kaiser!"
He was shocked on two levels, and it showed on his face. First it was surprising to hear her cuss. She seemed too innocent to cuss. And second it was the use of name she chose. Five minutes ago she had over stepped all his authority and called him 'Ken'. Now she was calling him Kaiser.
"Well, Light, thank you. But I don't need you covering for me with your friends. They have their opinions and I'm not afraid of hatred or anger."
"Don't call me that," she snapped.
"What?"
"Light. Don't call me Light. It's just degrading. I have a name."
"I realize that. But that's a little too close for my taste. So just stick to calling me Kaiser and I'll stick to Light," he reasoned.
"I disagree with you, Ken," she replied. A triumphant smile played on her face.
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It took two Red Veggiemon to control Reliability when he was at full strength. The Kaiser stood before him, warily watching his struggle. He looked up at the Kaiser. "What? Don't trust to have your minions let me go?"
"Not with out that girl around," he smirked. Reliability smirked. "So, you wanted to see me?"
"Yeah. What did you do? Brainwash her? Because everything Kari told me yesterday was a lie! TK would never leave her and neither would the others," he yelled. The Veggiemon struggled to hold him back.
"Let him go," he ordered. Reliability was caught off guard when the Veggiemon released their vine and he fell to the floor.
He pushed himself off the floor and rubbed his arms where the Veggiemon had nearly cut off all circulation. "You let me go. Do you trust me?"
"No. First of all, I didn't do anything to the girl-"
"Kari."
"Whatever. I didn't kidnap her nor did I hold her here against her will. She had every opportunity to leave, but she chose to stay. Probably due to your friends disloyalty to her." Ken smirked at the grimace that appeared on the DigiDestined boy's face. He got serious again. "The girl wants to stay here and until she decides to leave, I will abide by her decision. So here's the deal. Despite the lack of faith that you have, I will let you live. But I'm not letting you go home. Not as long as she stays."
"I wouldn't leave her alone with you," the older boy snapped.
"You care for her very much," Ken stated off-hand.
"And you enjoy laughing at the pain of others!"
"I'm not laughing at your pain. I find it intriguing. As I was saying, you care for her very much. I could use this to my advantage. I want you to start caring for her, as a doctor would. That would save us trips to the real world. That's exposure neither of us need." He pulled some folded papers from his pocket. "There's are some of her medical papers I copied from Guvin's office."
The blue haired boy took the papers and his black eyes skimmed them. "Frost bite, near fatal fever, a cold, burns. There are so many. Can you explain why she has them?"
"The frost bite, cold and fever were from the snow. It went untreated for a long time. The burns were from the attacks that hit her. There marks are just scars now. She's on medication for the fever. And its pretty much gone. But she has developed a cough."
"Yeah, that's always been there. She developed it when she was little and it comes and goes as it pleases. She's on medication for it back home. That's why its come back. You'll need to get her prescription if she stays here longer."
"She's just one big sick, isn't she?" Reliability looked like he wanted to laugh, but his face stayed straight. "So do you accept? Would you like the opportunity to play doctor?" He nodded eagerly. "Alright. Every three days you will have two hours with her."
"How generous."
"How sarcastic."
"No, I'm serious. Thank you." He folded the papers and slipped them into his pocket. "I'll be keeping these. When can I see her?"
"Tomorrow." He looked to the Red Veggiemon. "Take him away." With that Reliability was dragged out of the room. "Wormmon." The green worm appeared. "I had the prisoner to a room. Make sure a guard is posted and the doors are locked."
"Yes Master."
"I don't want to be bothered for the rest of the night."
"Yes Master."
With that he turned and waked out of the room. He walked down the long hall and stopped at a door near his own. He knocked. "Come in," rang out. He stepped inside. She was sitting up in bed with a baby digimon in her lap. The baby digimon looked up at him and started to shake in fear. She picked it up and hugged it. "Its okay, he won't hurt you. I won't let him." She looked up at him. "See the fear you cause others."
He approached the bed. "I don't care, seeing them shaking in fear is a nice little pleasure." He grabbed her chin and lifted her face to meet his eyes. "It's a compliance you have yet to learn." She pulled away. He snatched the baby digimon out of her arms and held it up by one ear, examining it as it shook and twisted in his grip. "Where's his black ring?"
"Let him go!" She yelled trying to grab the black digimon from his hands. He held it above her head out of her reach. "Stop that! Let him go!" With a shrug he let the digimon go and he fell safely into her arms.
"My question still stands, where is his black ring?"
She hugged the digimon tightly. "Because of the constant darkness this digimon dedigivolved to his fresh form." She looked down at the digimon again. "You really are evil."
"So why didn't you tell me you're on medication to control your cough?" He asked without warning.
She made a face. "So you found out? Joe told you, did he?"
"Yeah. Mind telling me why you didn't tell me?" He asked.
"You don't know everything about me and I figured it was a need to know basis."
"It was a need to know basis. I've been worrying about your health for over a month, but you hide your sickness and refuse help. I can only imagine what its doing to your system. It'll probably end up killing you."
She grinned. "Is the great Ken Ichijouji actually worried about someone other then himself?" She laughed.
"I won't do it again," he replied impassively.
"Did you ever learn how to laugh or smile? And a sneer doesn't count as a smile."
"Then I suppose I haven't."
She rolled her eyes then pushed the glasses up onto her face. "These are too big for me."
He sat down on the bed and landed back against one of the bed posts as he looked at her. She stared into his blue eyes. "So looks like I'll have to get me hands on that prescription of yours."
"Looks like it," she shrugged as she looked down at the fresh digimon in her lap. He had fallen asleep.
"You don't take your health very seriously."
"No I don't," she admitted. "I don't care. I have had so much crap happened to me and disable me, its ridiculous." As she talked his eyes watched her lips. "I've stopped caring! This whole sickness is just was the last straw and-"
He leaned over and silenced her with a kiss. After a few seconds he pulled back. "Maybe you should start caring." With that he pushed himself off the bed and out of the room.
Well, this chapter was...interesting. What did you think? The whole kiss scene, I know, it was major crap. Sorry. But the rests of the chapter I liked, I hope you did to. Please review thanks!