Litanya: I am sorry that it has taken me so long to write this but I have not had any time. I do not own Digimon, but I do own this plot.

The Reason

Their Reason

Sora opened her eyes with only a little trouble. From the way that the light was in the room she had been able to tell that it was early in the morning. By opening her eyes she was surprised at what she saw. She was not in her bedroom and neither was she in Kari's spare bedroom. Instead the room she was in was a plain white colour and the window, which was usually on her right, was on her left. She was facing her left and so she could see straight through the window. The Sun was rising and the red and orange of the sky was making a beautiful pattern across the sky. She pulled herself from the window and examined the room. Directly to her left a chair had been placed. There was a slight shape in the chair, as though someone had only just left it. She turned her head so that she was facing her right side and gasped softly to herself. A small machine was attached to her arm, but she ignored that. On a chair on her right, a sixteen year old Kari was sitting. She was watching the person in a bed on the other side. Sora could just see a tuft of brown hair sticking up over the top of a bigger machine behind the one attached to Sora's arm. Kari must have heard the small noise that she made because she instantly turned her head.

"Sora, you're awake!" Kari rushed over to the bed and gave her a soft hug; looking as though it was the first time she had had something to be happy about.

"What… What's going on?" she was so confused. A few minutes ago she had left a twenty-two year old Kari after having a coffee and now she was back in a hospital when Kari was sixteen. Either she was having a really strange dream or she had just woken up from one.

"You and Tai were involved in an accident on the coast. You were coming back from… somewhere and a drunk driver smashed into you guys. The pair of you have been in a coma since then. I'm just glad that you're awake; I was starting to get worried. It's been three days since the accident and Tai hasn't even stirred and… your mother is going to be so happy!" Kari was talking so fast that Sora couldn't keep up with her. It seemed that the young girl was so relieved that one of them was alive and awake that she could not stop talking. Sora let her talk for a while before interrupting.

"Is Tai alright? You said that he hasn't moved since the accident," she was worried. She knew that the car had crashed right into his side and she knew that it had been a bad crash. The chances that he was perfectly fine were very slim.

"Apart from the coma he is in the impact of the crash shattered the bone in his right leg. Apart from that the doctors think that he is perfectly fine. It's a miracle that neither of you were hurt too badly… excluding the comas of course," Sora absorbed the information quietly, thanking God that her 'other life' had only been a dream. She did not want to think of a life without Tai, although her 'dream life' had shown her that it was possible.

"So all we have to do is wait for him to wake up and then he'll be perfectly fine?"

"We hope so," Sora did not like that answer, but she certainly did not want Kari to explain what she meant by that. Instead her eyes flittered to the door. A tall shadow had fallen across it and she somehow knew that her mother was about to enter the room.

"S-Sora?" Rika Takenouchi had entered the room, as her daughter had predicted.

"Hi Mum," Rika then entered the room at almost a run. She was so happy that her daughter was awake. She had been scared that the reason that Sora had had so little injuries was because she was going to die in her coma. That had been Rika's main worry. Now that Sora was awake the fear had disappeared. The happy moment was ruined when the machine that Tai was hooked up to started to make a loud beeping noise. To the three people in the room it was the worst noise that they had ever heard. A couple of nurses, both young, rushed into the room and started to check the machine. The older of the two pulled the curtain across the halfway mark of the room as she realised that there were others in the room. Jim Kido, Joe's older brother, quickly raced to check on Tai, only giving Sora and the others a quick glance as he went through.

"What's happening? What does it mean when the machine starts beeping?" Sora had watched a lot of soap operas which were about hospitals and she knew that the beeping was bad, but she tried to block it out at that moment. She did not want to know if something terrible had happened to Tai.

"He'll be fine… I hope. The machine that you were connected to was beeping a lot when you first came here, but Tai's was silent. Maybe now it is making up for before. Tai will be fine, I know he will. He's strong and his courage won't let him leave here," Kari said stubbornly trying to make herself believe her own words. Rika just squeezed Sora's hand, knowing that she needed to stay calm. The beeping behind the curtain stopped a few minutes later and Jim pulled the curtain back so they could see again.

"Just a minor hiccup there," Jim told them, smiling a little. He turned to Kari, "Didn't I tell you to come and get me if either of them awoke?" Kari's face turned a little pink.

"I know, I know but… I was just so excited about Sora being back that I forgot," she stopped as she realised that Jim had only been kidding with her.

"It's okay Kari, really. I'll give Joe a call and tell him that Sora's awake. That should get him and the others to relax a bit more. I know that they have all been extremely worried about all of this. But don't worry; I have a feeling that Tai will be up and about soon and then you'll all feel like nothing happened," he was checking over Sora as he told them this, checking her eyes and her pulse as well as a bump on the back of her head that she had not even known she had.

"Yeah, I can imagine that they are worried," Rika put in. She knew how close the digidestined were and she found the little family that they had very interesting. She just hoped that it would all stay together. Kari, Rika and Sora talked and talked for about two hours, before Rika had to leave to open up the flower shop. Sora had been right when she had thought that it was early in the morning. Once Rika had left Kari swapped her seat so that she was on Sora's left.

"So Sora, what's the deal with the ring?" Sora could not believe that they had not mentioned it before. It was almost as if her mother had been too worried and then too happy to notice and Kari had had her mind on her brother. Now that the two young girls were by themselves, Kari had noticed the minor detail.

"What do you think is the deal with the ring?"

"Are you saying that you and Tai are engaged?" Kari was hoping against hope that Tai would get through this alive so that he and Sora could have their dream wedding. She had won the bet about when her brother would propose. She had guessed that he would perform the deed in the next three months, therefore making her the winner. The others had all guessed after that.

"Yes, I guess that I am. Do you have a problem with that?" Sora joked, feeling a lot better, although strangely tired. It seemed that her body was not used to being awake.

"Oh no, I've been waiting for this day for ages now. I wish that you could have told me under different circumstances though. So, how did he propose to you?" it was a question that every girl secretly dreamt of being asked. The most important question that they had to be asked, of course, was the 'will you marry me?' question. Sora described it to the younger girl, who was pretty amazed at her brother's behavior.

"…And then yeah… we were engaged," Sora finished up, almost laughing at the sight of Kari's jaw on the ground, "Are you a little shocked there Kari?"

"I'm just amazed that Tai of all people thought that up by himself. I mean, to a lot of girls that would be their dream proposal. Hell, if I ever get proposed to I hope that the guy does something like that," Kari found the whole thing so romantic. Everything except for the accident that had happened afterwards of course.

"I'll be sure to tell that to T.K then," Kari threatened Sora with a pillow, but that did not stop the auburn haired girl from laughing. After that they just talked quietly for a few more minutes until Sora fell asleep again. After all, being awake for about four hours after being in a coma for three days was pretty tiring. Well, for Sora it was anyway.

Tai groggily opened his eyes, wondering what someone was laughing at. When his eyes were actually open it took him a few minutes to register what was happening. He could hear two low female voices coming from his left and he thought that he recognized one of them as Kari's and one as Sora's.

'No, that cannot be possible. Sora's dead, remember?' but at the same time he was thinking this, his right leg began to hurt a lot. The pain was almost killing him. He closed his eyes again and tried to focus on what was happening. First of all Sora was supposed to be dead and he was supposed to be paralyzed. Secondly, the walls of his bedroom were a light yellow, not the bright white that they had been painted in the room he was in. And thirdly, the Kari that he had seen out of the corner of his eye should have been twenty-two and not sixteen. He had not been able to see the person that was lying in the bed as a black machine was blocking the way.

"Alright, I'll let you sleep now Sora. I'll let you know if anything happens," Tai heard and he opened his eyes slightly to see that Kari was moving around from the other side of Sora's bed until she was in between his bed and Sora's. He closed his eyes fully again, not really wanting to say anything. He felt as though his throat would tighten too much if he spoke. He was confused as to what was happening and it had made him nervous. What if he made a complete and utter fool of himself? It was true that he had done so many times before, but it had never been over something as weird as this. He waited for about ten minutes before his arm began to ache from being immobile, though he did not know how long he had been lying like that. He opened his eyes and saw that Kari was sitting on his left, flipping through a magazine. He began to move his arm as slowly as he possibly could; not wanting to make any sound that would draw her attention. He watched her closely for a reaction, but he jumped out of his skin when he heard a voice from his right.

"Tai, I see that you are awake now," it was Joe, standing in the doorway. His brother had called him hours before to tell him that Sora was awake, but he had not expected Tai to be conscious too. Kari looked up from her magazine, noticed Tai was awake and threw her arms around her brother.

"Tai, you never told me that you were awake! Why didn't you say anything?" it took quite a while for the girl to calm down. In a way Tai was amused, but more than he ever had been before, he was confused. How could he go from being twenty-five years old to being nineteen again in about two minutes? He did not understand.

"Uh-I…am a little confused. I didn't know what was going on, so I decided to keep quiet until I remembered. I- What is going on anyway? I don't really understand anything that I am seeing to tell you the truth," Joe and Kari exchanged glances. They knew that people who awoke from comas were often confused, but they had not expected this reaction from Tai. It was as though he was used to a place where things were completely different.

"You don't remember the accident?" Joe sounded very surprised. He had heard of countless stories of patients awaking from comas and they had always remembered what had happened to put them into the coma. Or at least they had remembered the accidents.

"Yeah, I remember the accident… that red car… but I don't remember what happened after that."

"Nothing happened after that. You went into a coma and when you woke up just now, your coma ended. Sora woke from her coma just a few hours ago too. What is the 'after' that you cannot remember?" Kari was curious. It was as though Tai had been talking about a life after the accident, which could have only occurred during his coma.

"It was nothing. It must just have been a dream thing that happened in the coma. All I know is that it was all very confusing," he winced as a wave of pain charged up his leg. Even though it had been hurting him a lot before, the pain had gotten a lot worse as he had began to wake up.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah, it's just my leg. Is Sora okay?" Now that they had stopped asking him questions he could finally enquire about his fiancée.

"She's fine. I should go and get Jim to tell him that you're awake otherwise he will kill me. He might be able to help you about your leg. Keep him company Joe," Kari ordered and she disappeared out of the room. As well as telling Jim about her brother, she also had to call her parents. After all, they had the right to know when their son was awake.

Back in the room Tai was trying to get all of the information about what had happened after the accident.

"So the driver of the other car died? That's terrible!" he exclaimed, realizing that he felt sorry for the family of the man. Joe did not have the same amount of pity.

"But he was the one that crashed into you guys. He was completely drunk. Because of him we almost lost you guys!" Joe was not one to be brought about easily. Once he believed something, he believed it for a long time.

"What was his name?" he said this quickly, the memories of his 'dream' in his coma coming back to him.

"Gary something I think. Why does it matter?" Tai thought for a moment before he replied.

"I don't know… I guess that I just knew it. He doesn't happen to have a son and a daughter does he?" Joe was amazed at how Tai could know so much about a person that he had never even met.

"Yes, a daughter called Lizzie and a son named Taichi. How do you know all of this?"

"I'm starting to form an explanation but it may sound a little crazy," he then yawned, suddenly realizing how tired he actually was, "I'll tell you about it later. For know I just want to sleep." Joe nodded, understanding the medical reasons behind Tai's tiredness.

"Okay, you just get some sleep. I'll come around again in a few hours and see you," but Tai was already asleep, in his dreams trying to puzzle out how he knew exactly what he knew…

To be continued…

Litanya: As I said before, sorry for the late update. The final chapter should be up in about two weeks. Please review and I'll see you all later! Bye!