A/N: Heh. SORRY! That's the first thing I have to say. things got crazy and
hectic and before I knew it, Christmas was here and gone and NOW! It's
February... Where ever January went. I know I promised chapters more often,
but where I'm rewriting these first few chapters, I'm having a bit of
trouble actually working on it, life is CRAZY! And I'm writing chapter 18
at the same time. So. SORRY! Again, and KATIE! Keep pushing me! And
everyone... THANK KATIE FOR THIS! She keeps asking for the next chapter and
pushing me to work on it. so, it's her fault I'm updating... he he! Ok,
Katie, I PROMISE to work on the story more, and I'm going to promise to get
chapter 5 out next week. Let's just hope I keeps it..
*action* I have them talking in some spots and this is in there. It's an action, just incase no one realizes it.
Chapter Four: Dates, Hysterics, and No Driving The Car!
The night went by in a blur. The next morning, at breakfast, Amanda told the girls about her date. "Well, we went to see some Opera. We sat in Quatra's family booth and it was all cool and neat and high up! It was a perfect view, if I could understand whatever was going on! I was too busy staring at Quatra to pay much attention! *Quatra blushes at the head of the table, Amanda giggles, Lorena looks at her strangely, and Deborah laughs at her* He he! Then there was an Intermission thing, and some dude brought champagne to the booth for us! It was so cool! I really tried to pay attention to the opera thing, but I didn't exactly understand the language, so I got confused easily. *Deborah laughs again, some of the guys and Lorena look at her like she's an idiot* Then, after the opera was over, we went out to a real Arabian restaurant! That food was interesting! I liked it, too! So all in all, it was a great date and I'd like to go out with Quatra again!" At this, Quatra turns a very bright red.
"Amanda may be you should tone down the boldness. You're embarrassing Quatra!" Deborah told her.
"Oops! Sorry Quatra!" Amanda tells him.
"It's ok, I'm not really embarrassed."
"Really? Then why are you so red?" Duo asks him, smiling goofily.
Many at the table crack up laughing. "Well, guys. It's time for me to head to work. I don't want to be late." Deborah said, getting up from the table, "I want to hear about the rest of the dates when I get home!"
The girls laugh at her. "I want to hear about yours too!" Serena tells her.
"What date?!" Lorena asks her.
"Tell you later, I'm going to be late if I don't leave now." Deborah took off and the girls turned to look at Lorena. "Your turn." Serena told her.
"Ok. Well first off, Duo took me out to some great Japanese food. We had Oyakodon+, Sushi, which I disliked, and . Then we went to a club, and danced for a few hours. That was fun. They only served non-alcoholic beverages though, so that was a bummer. But then, I couldn't get drunk and make a fool of myself. After, we went to a fair that was opened late. We rode the Ferris wheel about a million times. We played a few games, sat on a hill and watched the fireworks they put off and rode a huge roller coaster! I had a blast! What about you Serena?"
"Well, I love the way this conversation all of a sudden went to talking about me! Well, first off, I want to move to a more comfortable place. My ass is going numb form sitting on this chair at the table."
The others agreed and they moved into the living room. The guys went off their separate ways, having had enough women gossip for one day. As soon as they sat down, Serena started to tell them about her date. "Well Trowa took me out to my favorite restaurant, (Heaven On Earth). It has a lot of different types of food, but I really like their Italian food. So we just sat, and kinda talked. That was about all for my date, but it was nice. It was relaxing and great. Trowa is a really nice person.
*~~~* Meanwhile, At The Hospital *~~~*
Deborah was making her rounds, visiting all the patients, getting to know more about their conditions and things. About halfway through, she gets paged to the Operating Room to perform an emergency surgery. Upon arriving, she gets ready and enters the actual operating room to find a nine-year-old boy lying on the table. "We finally got a liver for this little guy." Another doctor tells her.
"O.K. people! Let's get to work!" She says.
They start to operate on him, but upon opening him up, they realize that his liver is too far-gone. He has been on the waiting list for so long that the problem no longer only involves the liver, it now involves the Kidneys as well. If they go ahead with the liver transplant, he'll die because his kidneys no longer function well enough to deal, and if they don't perform the transplant, he'll die. It's a lose-lose situation. They decide that the liver would go to better use in someone who will live to use it, so the stop the operation. (A/N: Harsh, I know, but it's true. The liver would really go to better use with someone who will really benefit from it. Someone one that was further down on the waiting list would be grateful that they gave it to someone else too. That seems mean to, I know, but it's really true. I know I would be really grateful that they gave it to someone who could use it. It would also mean that their chances of getting a liver would be higher. I bet you all think I'm mean and unsympathetic now, but I'm thinking about going on a transplant waiting list so I know that if they decided to give the organ I needed to someone further down the list then to someone that would die even with the transplant, I would be really grateful. I might live longer because of it..) As soon as Deborah realized that she was unable to save the boy, she freaked. She began to cry and shake. She ran from the room, not caring what anyone thought. It hurt so much to see that she was unable to save a poor, innocent child. It's what she did for a living, inside and outside the hospital, save innocents.
The other doctor quickly closed up the boy and told the nurses to get the next person on the list for a liver transplant. They complied and he went to tell the boy's parents that there was nothing he could do for the little guy. After doing so, he let them visit with their son, one last time before he was gone forever. He hurried down the hall, back to the operating room. Upon arriving, he found the next patient and two other doctors. Only needing one, he sent the other to look for Deborah. Dr. Joe, the one sent to look for Deborah, found about a half hour later, sitting in the corner of a closet, still crying. "Dr. Devourx, what's wrong? Why are you so upset?" He asked her.
"Oh, Joe! I couldn't save the little boy, and. and. *Takes a deep breath* And it's all my fault he's dead now! I'm a horrible doctor!" the tears began to fall harder.
"But how? He was on the waiting list long before you came to work here. There was nothing that you could have done that would have helped him. Come on; let's go talk to Dr. Kosher." Joe tries to console her.
Dr. Kosher is the head of this particular department of Tokyo hospital. He is an older man, with a small amount of white hair on the top of his head. He's kind and gentle to patients but very strict with his staff, maintaining a perfect group of employees. He has never been too harsh with anyone, though. Deborah calms down enough to walk to his office. She enters, and Dr. Kosher instantly knows that something is wrong. At his inquiry, Deborah explains the situation, and begins to cry again. "There was nothing you could do." Dr. Kosher says, but Deborah keeps on crying, seeming to pay him no mind.
"After a minute or two, Dr. Kosher tells her, "I think you need a vacation. Is there anyone you can call to come and get you? I don't want you driving."
Deborah nods, picks up and the phone and tries to dial Quatra's number. Her hands are so shaky, that she can't hit either button. Dr. Kosher takes the phone and asks whom she is calling. Telling him the number, he dials it and talks to Quatra.
Back at the mansion, a shaky Quatra hangs up the phone. Duo looks at him, questioningly. "Who was that and why are you so upset?"
"That was Dr. Kosher. Deborah had a mishap of some kind or was unable to perform an operation or something to that affect, and is now sitting in his office, in hysterics. She was too shaky to call us herself, so she's obviously too shaky to drive home. She needs a ride. Any volunteers?" He explains as best he can.
Lorena, Amanda, and Relena went out to get the weapons from the apartment about an hour ago. They haven't come back, so it's only the guys there, sitting around the living room. Quatra looked at the guys. No one seemed at all ready to really volunteer, everyone for their own different reasons. "Heero, will you and Duo please go pick her up? Someone needs to drive back her car." Quatra asked.
"Hn." Heero grunted and got up to go. "Ok, I'll go too." Duo consented and followed Heero. They went into the garage and got into Duo's Tracker, with Duo driving.
Arriving at the hospital in record time, they went inside to find Deborah. She was waiting near the door with Dr. Kosher. She was still crying some, but knew who the guys were. "That's them Dr. Kosher. Thanks for everything." She told him.
"You're welcome. And go on a vacation. It'll do you good."
Deborah nodded and walked over to the guys. "There's no way you guys are driving my car home." was the first words out of her mouth.
"Well, we're in my Tracker, so I'm driving that home. And Heero will drive your car. I guess." Duo told her.
Deborah shook her head, no, as they walked out of the hospital and to Duo's Tracker. "Where's the car?" Heero asked in monotone. Deborah stayed silent as she climbed into the back of the Tracker and waited for the guys to get in and go.
"I guess she really does mean that we're not driving her car home.." Duo said as he climbed into the driver's seat. Heero climbed into the passenger's seat and they drove back to the mansion.
+The name of this popular domburi dish comes from its two main ingredients, chicken and egg.
*action* I have them talking in some spots and this is in there. It's an action, just incase no one realizes it.
Chapter Four: Dates, Hysterics, and No Driving The Car!
The night went by in a blur. The next morning, at breakfast, Amanda told the girls about her date. "Well, we went to see some Opera. We sat in Quatra's family booth and it was all cool and neat and high up! It was a perfect view, if I could understand whatever was going on! I was too busy staring at Quatra to pay much attention! *Quatra blushes at the head of the table, Amanda giggles, Lorena looks at her strangely, and Deborah laughs at her* He he! Then there was an Intermission thing, and some dude brought champagne to the booth for us! It was so cool! I really tried to pay attention to the opera thing, but I didn't exactly understand the language, so I got confused easily. *Deborah laughs again, some of the guys and Lorena look at her like she's an idiot* Then, after the opera was over, we went out to a real Arabian restaurant! That food was interesting! I liked it, too! So all in all, it was a great date and I'd like to go out with Quatra again!" At this, Quatra turns a very bright red.
"Amanda may be you should tone down the boldness. You're embarrassing Quatra!" Deborah told her.
"Oops! Sorry Quatra!" Amanda tells him.
"It's ok, I'm not really embarrassed."
"Really? Then why are you so red?" Duo asks him, smiling goofily.
Many at the table crack up laughing. "Well, guys. It's time for me to head to work. I don't want to be late." Deborah said, getting up from the table, "I want to hear about the rest of the dates when I get home!"
The girls laugh at her. "I want to hear about yours too!" Serena tells her.
"What date?!" Lorena asks her.
"Tell you later, I'm going to be late if I don't leave now." Deborah took off and the girls turned to look at Lorena. "Your turn." Serena told her.
"Ok. Well first off, Duo took me out to some great Japanese food. We had Oyakodon+, Sushi, which I disliked, and . Then we went to a club, and danced for a few hours. That was fun. They only served non-alcoholic beverages though, so that was a bummer. But then, I couldn't get drunk and make a fool of myself. After, we went to a fair that was opened late. We rode the Ferris wheel about a million times. We played a few games, sat on a hill and watched the fireworks they put off and rode a huge roller coaster! I had a blast! What about you Serena?"
"Well, I love the way this conversation all of a sudden went to talking about me! Well, first off, I want to move to a more comfortable place. My ass is going numb form sitting on this chair at the table."
The others agreed and they moved into the living room. The guys went off their separate ways, having had enough women gossip for one day. As soon as they sat down, Serena started to tell them about her date. "Well Trowa took me out to my favorite restaurant, (Heaven On Earth). It has a lot of different types of food, but I really like their Italian food. So we just sat, and kinda talked. That was about all for my date, but it was nice. It was relaxing and great. Trowa is a really nice person.
*~~~* Meanwhile, At The Hospital *~~~*
Deborah was making her rounds, visiting all the patients, getting to know more about their conditions and things. About halfway through, she gets paged to the Operating Room to perform an emergency surgery. Upon arriving, she gets ready and enters the actual operating room to find a nine-year-old boy lying on the table. "We finally got a liver for this little guy." Another doctor tells her.
"O.K. people! Let's get to work!" She says.
They start to operate on him, but upon opening him up, they realize that his liver is too far-gone. He has been on the waiting list for so long that the problem no longer only involves the liver, it now involves the Kidneys as well. If they go ahead with the liver transplant, he'll die because his kidneys no longer function well enough to deal, and if they don't perform the transplant, he'll die. It's a lose-lose situation. They decide that the liver would go to better use in someone who will live to use it, so the stop the operation. (A/N: Harsh, I know, but it's true. The liver would really go to better use with someone who will really benefit from it. Someone one that was further down on the waiting list would be grateful that they gave it to someone else too. That seems mean to, I know, but it's really true. I know I would be really grateful that they gave it to someone who could use it. It would also mean that their chances of getting a liver would be higher. I bet you all think I'm mean and unsympathetic now, but I'm thinking about going on a transplant waiting list so I know that if they decided to give the organ I needed to someone further down the list then to someone that would die even with the transplant, I would be really grateful. I might live longer because of it..) As soon as Deborah realized that she was unable to save the boy, she freaked. She began to cry and shake. She ran from the room, not caring what anyone thought. It hurt so much to see that she was unable to save a poor, innocent child. It's what she did for a living, inside and outside the hospital, save innocents.
The other doctor quickly closed up the boy and told the nurses to get the next person on the list for a liver transplant. They complied and he went to tell the boy's parents that there was nothing he could do for the little guy. After doing so, he let them visit with their son, one last time before he was gone forever. He hurried down the hall, back to the operating room. Upon arriving, he found the next patient and two other doctors. Only needing one, he sent the other to look for Deborah. Dr. Joe, the one sent to look for Deborah, found about a half hour later, sitting in the corner of a closet, still crying. "Dr. Devourx, what's wrong? Why are you so upset?" He asked her.
"Oh, Joe! I couldn't save the little boy, and. and. *Takes a deep breath* And it's all my fault he's dead now! I'm a horrible doctor!" the tears began to fall harder.
"But how? He was on the waiting list long before you came to work here. There was nothing that you could have done that would have helped him. Come on; let's go talk to Dr. Kosher." Joe tries to console her.
Dr. Kosher is the head of this particular department of Tokyo hospital. He is an older man, with a small amount of white hair on the top of his head. He's kind and gentle to patients but very strict with his staff, maintaining a perfect group of employees. He has never been too harsh with anyone, though. Deborah calms down enough to walk to his office. She enters, and Dr. Kosher instantly knows that something is wrong. At his inquiry, Deborah explains the situation, and begins to cry again. "There was nothing you could do." Dr. Kosher says, but Deborah keeps on crying, seeming to pay him no mind.
"After a minute or two, Dr. Kosher tells her, "I think you need a vacation. Is there anyone you can call to come and get you? I don't want you driving."
Deborah nods, picks up and the phone and tries to dial Quatra's number. Her hands are so shaky, that she can't hit either button. Dr. Kosher takes the phone and asks whom she is calling. Telling him the number, he dials it and talks to Quatra.
Back at the mansion, a shaky Quatra hangs up the phone. Duo looks at him, questioningly. "Who was that and why are you so upset?"
"That was Dr. Kosher. Deborah had a mishap of some kind or was unable to perform an operation or something to that affect, and is now sitting in his office, in hysterics. She was too shaky to call us herself, so she's obviously too shaky to drive home. She needs a ride. Any volunteers?" He explains as best he can.
Lorena, Amanda, and Relena went out to get the weapons from the apartment about an hour ago. They haven't come back, so it's only the guys there, sitting around the living room. Quatra looked at the guys. No one seemed at all ready to really volunteer, everyone for their own different reasons. "Heero, will you and Duo please go pick her up? Someone needs to drive back her car." Quatra asked.
"Hn." Heero grunted and got up to go. "Ok, I'll go too." Duo consented and followed Heero. They went into the garage and got into Duo's Tracker, with Duo driving.
Arriving at the hospital in record time, they went inside to find Deborah. She was waiting near the door with Dr. Kosher. She was still crying some, but knew who the guys were. "That's them Dr. Kosher. Thanks for everything." She told him.
"You're welcome. And go on a vacation. It'll do you good."
Deborah nodded and walked over to the guys. "There's no way you guys are driving my car home." was the first words out of her mouth.
"Well, we're in my Tracker, so I'm driving that home. And Heero will drive your car. I guess." Duo told her.
Deborah shook her head, no, as they walked out of the hospital and to Duo's Tracker. "Where's the car?" Heero asked in monotone. Deborah stayed silent as she climbed into the back of the Tracker and waited for the guys to get in and go.
"I guess she really does mean that we're not driving her car home.." Duo said as he climbed into the driver's seat. Heero climbed into the passenger's seat and they drove back to the mansion.
+The name of this popular domburi dish comes from its two main ingredients, chicken and egg.