I'm Always here chapter 4
by Duo no Baka & Baka yarou
see Chapter one for all warnings and stuff
I learned a lot about Heero in those first couple of days,we learned about each others pasts I told him about my parents dying and having to live with an uncle that had despised me from the day I was born, he told me how his mother couldn't bear to have a child with a birth defect even if you could'nt see it and put him up for adoption, it seemed no one else wanted him so he lived in an orphanage until he was 17 then he was sent here to work but some of the other things I learned about him were more important, ya know little everyday things like, he always ate blackberry yogurt for breakfast and never drew unless he was on the train and how he would sing along to ' The Offspring's Americana ' CD every day when he was in the shower and NEVER smoked in the house, ever even if it was snowing out side.
I also learned why he and the guys lived at the hospice, Bobby has Down Syndrome but I already told you that, Richard has epilepsy, Billy had Congenital Heart Decease and Heero had something called Server Hemophilia B [1]. Mrs. P. is a registered nurse and works out of the same hospital Heero did, when I found out what his job was I wasn't too surprised.
He worked as a language translator for non-English speaking patients at the hospital,the part that surprised me the most was that he could speak six different languages, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese and English. ( have you ever heard someone speak French with a Japanese accent?, now that's interesting)
Well any way we spent most of our time doing the 'normal' date thing, dinner, movies, etc... nothing to out of the ordinary, until out fifth official date, we had just eaten dinner and the movie we wanted to see didn't start for another hour so we went to the arcade in the theater to kill time,we were playing one of those martial art game like ' Street Fighter' and he was beating my ass into floor for the hundredth time in a row when he got a spontaneous nose bleed, a very bad nose bleed, I was scared I had never seen so much blood be for, he stood there holding a handkerchief to his nose as one of the men that worked there called an ambulance, I was felt helpless and I didn't like it, suddenly he went deathly pale and collapsed into my arms.
He spent three days in the hospital, from that day on I vowed never to be helpless like that again, in the three days Heero was in the hospital Mrs. P. taught me everything I needed to know to take care of him when he had another spontaneous bleed, by the time Heero got home I was an expert.
Over the next few months Heero and I got closer, we moved into an apartment a few doors down from the hospice, and I got a job in the small coffee shop in the subway station where we met, Then on my birthday exactly seven months and nine days after we met he popped the question, of course I said "YES!" I mean who wouldn't (right).
We were joined in a small ceremony on the one year anniversary of the day we met, it was a small intimate affair, the guests included, Quater and Trowa ( Quater was teary through the whole thing) Wu-fie and Sally, Richard, Bobby, Billy and of course Mrs. P.
my uncle didn't come because he hated me but I did'nt care about that I was deliriously happy, though the state didn't see it as a legal marriage we still took the same surname,
' Maxwell-Yuy ', our first few months of marriage were bliss until we suffered a devastating blow Billy, William Scott suffered a massive heart attack and died from complications on the operating table, he was 19 years old, thought it's been years, it still hurts to think about that brilliant young man.
understandably it took several weeks be for life was back to normal ( well as normal as could be ) We went out on dates, and I spent alto of time with Mrs. P.
( I switched my major from Psychology to Medical technician) and I Started my intern ship at the same hospital that Heero and Mrs. P. worked at.
Life went well for about a year when Heero took a turn for the worst, He started spending
more time at home, He stopped eating and slept all the time, after about two days I managed to get him to the hospital, my worst fears were confirmed he had developed a condition called ' Artropathy' chronic joint disease, caused by uncontrolled bleeding in his joints, due to this a blood vessel in his hip joint had hemorrhaged and he was slowly bleeding to death, Heero was admitted to the hospital that day and I stayed with him,
Mrs. P. and the guys would stop by from time to time and make sure we were both comfortable, we would chat about nothing in particular and at night I slept with him.
" Duo-San." He said in a strong voice on the third day.
" Yes, koi."
" Do me a favor."
" Of course, love anything."
" Don't cry for me."
"Nani?!"
"Please don't cry for me."
" Okay"
" And remember, just because you can't always see me, it docent mean i'm not here."
" I will"
" Ai shiteru, Duo-koi."
" I love you too, Hee-Chan"
Heero passed away peacefully in his sleep a few hours later,he was 20 years old,
it was a Sunday it snowed that day, blanketing the city in soft white, it was almost like the world was mourning with me that day.
Even though I was mourning I wasn't sad Heero's body died that day not his soul or his heart they live on in me.
Not one single day ha gone by that I haven't smiled at his memory, I was one of the few people that got to see the warm, loving side of that strong quite young man and i'll never as long as I live forget what he said to me that morning...
' Just because you cant always see me, it doesn't mean i'm not here.'
I feel him with me every moment and i'm grateful.
~ Owari ~
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[1a] congenital heart disease is a heart related problem that is present since birth and is often as the heart is forming even before birth.
[1b] an inherited instability in the functioning neurones seems to be responsible
for the common forms of generalized epilepsy.
[1c] a person with Hemophilia has blood that wont clot
severe Hemophilia B is caused by several different gene abnormalities.
by Duo no Baka & Baka yarou
see Chapter one for all warnings and stuff
I learned a lot about Heero in those first couple of days,we learned about each others pasts I told him about my parents dying and having to live with an uncle that had despised me from the day I was born, he told me how his mother couldn't bear to have a child with a birth defect even if you could'nt see it and put him up for adoption, it seemed no one else wanted him so he lived in an orphanage until he was 17 then he was sent here to work but some of the other things I learned about him were more important, ya know little everyday things like, he always ate blackberry yogurt for breakfast and never drew unless he was on the train and how he would sing along to ' The Offspring's Americana ' CD every day when he was in the shower and NEVER smoked in the house, ever even if it was snowing out side.
I also learned why he and the guys lived at the hospice, Bobby has Down Syndrome but I already told you that, Richard has epilepsy, Billy had Congenital Heart Decease and Heero had something called Server Hemophilia B [1]. Mrs. P. is a registered nurse and works out of the same hospital Heero did, when I found out what his job was I wasn't too surprised.
He worked as a language translator for non-English speaking patients at the hospital,the part that surprised me the most was that he could speak six different languages, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese and English. ( have you ever heard someone speak French with a Japanese accent?, now that's interesting)
Well any way we spent most of our time doing the 'normal' date thing, dinner, movies, etc... nothing to out of the ordinary, until out fifth official date, we had just eaten dinner and the movie we wanted to see didn't start for another hour so we went to the arcade in the theater to kill time,we were playing one of those martial art game like ' Street Fighter' and he was beating my ass into floor for the hundredth time in a row when he got a spontaneous nose bleed, a very bad nose bleed, I was scared I had never seen so much blood be for, he stood there holding a handkerchief to his nose as one of the men that worked there called an ambulance, I was felt helpless and I didn't like it, suddenly he went deathly pale and collapsed into my arms.
He spent three days in the hospital, from that day on I vowed never to be helpless like that again, in the three days Heero was in the hospital Mrs. P. taught me everything I needed to know to take care of him when he had another spontaneous bleed, by the time Heero got home I was an expert.
Over the next few months Heero and I got closer, we moved into an apartment a few doors down from the hospice, and I got a job in the small coffee shop in the subway station where we met, Then on my birthday exactly seven months and nine days after we met he popped the question, of course I said "YES!" I mean who wouldn't (right).
We were joined in a small ceremony on the one year anniversary of the day we met, it was a small intimate affair, the guests included, Quater and Trowa ( Quater was teary through the whole thing) Wu-fie and Sally, Richard, Bobby, Billy and of course Mrs. P.
my uncle didn't come because he hated me but I did'nt care about that I was deliriously happy, though the state didn't see it as a legal marriage we still took the same surname,
' Maxwell-Yuy ', our first few months of marriage were bliss until we suffered a devastating blow Billy, William Scott suffered a massive heart attack and died from complications on the operating table, he was 19 years old, thought it's been years, it still hurts to think about that brilliant young man.
understandably it took several weeks be for life was back to normal ( well as normal as could be ) We went out on dates, and I spent alto of time with Mrs. P.
( I switched my major from Psychology to Medical technician) and I Started my intern ship at the same hospital that Heero and Mrs. P. worked at.
Life went well for about a year when Heero took a turn for the worst, He started spending
more time at home, He stopped eating and slept all the time, after about two days I managed to get him to the hospital, my worst fears were confirmed he had developed a condition called ' Artropathy' chronic joint disease, caused by uncontrolled bleeding in his joints, due to this a blood vessel in his hip joint had hemorrhaged and he was slowly bleeding to death, Heero was admitted to the hospital that day and I stayed with him,
Mrs. P. and the guys would stop by from time to time and make sure we were both comfortable, we would chat about nothing in particular and at night I slept with him.
" Duo-San." He said in a strong voice on the third day.
" Yes, koi."
" Do me a favor."
" Of course, love anything."
" Don't cry for me."
"Nani?!"
"Please don't cry for me."
" Okay"
" And remember, just because you can't always see me, it docent mean i'm not here."
" I will"
" Ai shiteru, Duo-koi."
" I love you too, Hee-Chan"
Heero passed away peacefully in his sleep a few hours later,he was 20 years old,
it was a Sunday it snowed that day, blanketing the city in soft white, it was almost like the world was mourning with me that day.
Even though I was mourning I wasn't sad Heero's body died that day not his soul or his heart they live on in me.
Not one single day ha gone by that I haven't smiled at his memory, I was one of the few people that got to see the warm, loving side of that strong quite young man and i'll never as long as I live forget what he said to me that morning...
' Just because you cant always see me, it doesn't mean i'm not here.'
I feel him with me every moment and i'm grateful.
~ Owari ~
__________________________________________________________________________
[1a] congenital heart disease is a heart related problem that is present since birth and is often as the heart is forming even before birth.
[1b] an inherited instability in the functioning neurones seems to be responsible
for the common forms of generalized epilepsy.
[1c] a person with Hemophilia has blood that wont clot
severe Hemophilia B is caused by several different gene abnormalities.