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9/25/02

Waiting for the Results..

"Daddy! DADDY!"

Engel screamed with tears flowing out from his round jade eyes. "He'll be alright! Calm down now." Wufei kneeled blocking the boy's path of his bedroom door. Engel started to choke on tears and mucus. His face was red from the heavy crying, "I want to see my daddy!!!" He shouted through tears, endless rivers.

"Not now. He'll be ok, you have to be strong! You must for your father.. And for us."

"Wufei.. Why aren't you sad?"

"I am very sad.. And scared like you.. I've known your dad for a long time. But you must be strong, i'm trying. But Engel no matter what, we'll always love you.."

Wufei hugged the boy, letting his shirt become stainded with tears. 'I only wish I said it more..' He thought silently when Quatre came in, "They're here.. Let's take Engel to make sure he's fine."

Wufei squeezed the boy before carring him away. Quatre's face was pale and upset. Battle they all knew death was a second away, and all were ready to die, to feel their body in a moment of pain before they felt nothing more. But this? It was so unexpected for them.. It wasn't like an enemy attack were you knew the drill of how to fight. It was a inoccent mistake.

Will this child live in guilt if Duo is crippled or worst... dies?

Duo's body was already placed inside the ambulance. And Wufei stood on the porch, gazing at the gathering crowd, there was blood in the street from Duo. "Who do you want to go with?" Wufei whispered to the confused boy. "You and Heero.." He whimpered.

They got inside the same ambulance with Duo. Wufei was only allowed, but Heero winked at Engel a sign that the child knew what Heero would do. In the middle Duo laid on the stretcher and Wufei held Engel as they both watched, and soon were rushed to the hospital. Engel knew Heero was on the roof, but didn't say a word.

The paramedic checked a bit on Engel, he did have cuts on his knees and arms, but X-Ray would tell a better story. It was only fifteen minutes when they had arrived. They led Duo into the Emergency, but a nurse led Heero, Wufei, and Engel to a room to be checked by a doctor.

Engel was cried silently, Trowa and Quatre would arrive there soon. Twenty minutes the doctor examined Engel, poking and looking. "He doesn't appear to have broken bones, and he's breathing and heart beat are fast, but mostly from shock. Are you his family?"

"We're his uncles.." Heero said when he smiled at his 'nephew' rubbing his black hair. "Ah. So I believe he is fine.. It says on the chart he was saved by his father?"

"Duo, turned his back to the car and held Engel close and the car hit his legs and they rolled.."

Engel started to tear up again but Wufei and Heero started to rub his back and hair. The doctor wanted to check his skull and he would return shortly. "I want my daddy.." With a small whimper..

Meanwhile..

The doctors and nurses, ripped and cut away at Duo's clothes, while one doctor moved back his eyelids and looked at his pupils. "He's in shock."

He had scrapes on his right cheek, a dislocated right shoulder, but that wasn't a major concern. What they did fear was his back and head. When Duo was hit, he fell on his right shoulder and rolled continouesly, the glass and rocks in the street were sent into his skin.

Doctors sent him into the X-ray room. His skull wasn't fractured, but his spine was.. Just before it reaches the pelvis there were small fractions. The doctors checked else where, but that was their major concern.

Trowa and Quatre waited in the Waiting Room. Fourty minutes they sat and Quatre rested his chin on his left hand with a depressing pout, while Trowa paced. "I can't take it! My stomach is twisting and its going to explode!" Quatre raised his voice a bit above normal speaking tone.

"I know.. I never really felt so worried.." Trowa looked outside the Waiting Room before sitting next to Quatre. Before either could say another word, Heero came in. "Ah! Heero! What's going on?!"

"Engel is fine.. Heard anything on Duo?"

"No.. Have you?"

"No.."

"Looks like we may be here for awhile." Trowa looked at the coffee colored carpet. "Wufei is at the vending machine getting something for Engel to eat. He just has cuts, nothing the human body can't heal on its own."

Wufei came back with Engel, he was walking now and carring a chocolate candy bar. Trowa and Quatre's faces lit up and hugged him gently. Another half hour they waited for someone to finally come and tell them the news.

"Good evening.. " The doctor checked something on the papers before looking back at the others. "He went into shock, but he's stable now. He doesn't have internal damage or bleeding. He has a dislocated right shoulder, but we are worried about his spinal fracture."

They gasped, they felt like their hearts stopped beating altogether.

"But it isn't broken.. I believe he'll be fine. You can call at this number tomorrow and you may go home now."

They glanced at each other for a moment. "I'll stay.." Heero commented, they nodded and left to go home. Engel looked back, "Goodnight, Heero." He smiled and winked, leaving a bright smile on the child's face.

-To be continued.

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