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"Damn Kai, what have they done to you!" breathed Ray. To see the normally strong boy in such a helpless and dependant state pained him and the others immensely.
They all approached the bed, cautiously, though they didn't understand why. Maybe the thought of him being so fragile made them want to be careful around him. Whatever the reason, none of them knew it.
"Oh Kai!" sobbed Hilary. She couldn't help but cry. It wasn't going to help and she knew it, but then what could she do to help? That made fresh tears work their way down her face.
Max leaned towards Hilary to put his arms round her shoulders.
"Its ok Hil, Kai's going to be ok! The doctor said he needs rest, and then he'll be fine!" Max didn't really believe those words, but he needed to convince himself just as much as Hilary needed convincing.
"Yeah, he'll be fine. You know Kai, he'll bounce right back! He'll be yelling at us for not training in any time!" said Tyson, "right Mr. D?"
"Well, um, yes. Yes of course he will! His body is healing as we speak, and he is in the best of care! It wont be long till he's back as your captain, so stop worrying and try to positive!" answered Mr. Dickenson, surprised by Tyson asking him, he had been lost in thought.
Tyson's grandfather interrupted the awkwardness the only way he could, "the old dude's right little dudes!!! Your main man will be up and jamming before you knows it! So quit with the long faces and just be there for him me peeps!"
Mr. Dickenson ruffled his moustache at the 'old dude' remark, but kept quite as the normally infuriating man had lifted the room's spirits slightly.
"Your right, all of you. We need to be here for Kai, now more then ever. We have to be positive for him, he's been through more then we can imagine, even though we've had a taste."
"Right Ray, we will be!" answered Kenny, the others nodded agreement.
"Good, i'm very proud of you all, and I mean it! I will have to go talk to the police and clear up some things, I take it you all want to stay here till Kai wakes up?" said Mr. Dickenson, not voicing the very likely fact that Kai might not wake up for a long while yet. They needed optimism right now.
"I'll go with you old dude, no knowing when you'll need my help!" declared Tyson's grandpa, he figured the team needed time alone with Kai.
"Bye grandpa, bye Mr. D! And thanks." Said Tyson, he was really grateful that he had those two to count on, as well as his dad. Kai had only his friends now, and as one of them, he was determined to be there for Kai, no matter what! A look at his friend's faces told him they felt the same way.
After the round of quite goodbyes the two men left the teens to watch over Kai, something they knew they could trust them with, something they knew the teens would never take lightly.
Hilary, Kenny and Max sat down in chairs lined against one wall, Tyson sat on the floor, leaning back on his hands and facing both the bed and his friends. Ray stood against the wall next to the seats and the door, his hands in his pockets, one foot resting up against the wall.
They all watched Kai for a long moment, the only sound in the room coming from the bleeps of Kai's heart on a screen, and the hum of machines.
Finally Ray sighed and turned his golden eyes to the rest of the team. "How did this happen guys? We had no idea! We don't even know Kai, he wouldn't tell us anything and we didn't pursue it enough!"
"There's no sense in blaming yourself Ray, or us for that matter" replied Kenny.
"I didn't mean that..."
Kenny put up his hand to silence the rest of Ray's defence. "I know you didn't, and you are right to a degree. Kai never told us anything, even under pressure. But it's no ones fault this happened, and Kai would agree with that. It happened, no matter what could have been, it still happened, and we can't change that!"
"Your right chief, but we still cant helping how we feel. But we wont dwell on it, lets just concentrate on Kai now, lets help as we can" replied Max, his tranquil blue eyes expressing how much he felt in this situation, and they were brimming with the strength of his emotion.
Before anyone could say any more, the door opened to reveal a nurse carrying a tray. She smiled warmly at the assembled group, her green eyes dancing; her reddish hair was tied in a neat braid down to between her shoulder blades where it swayed slightly as she walked.
"Hello there! I heard our new patient had guests! I brought you all a drink with your friend's medication, I hope you don't mind!"
"Of course we don't! Thank you so much.?" answered Hilary, bowing in thanks. The boys stared at the nurse, she was gorgeous!!!! Hilary nudged Kenny in the ribs.
He jumped and bowed, blushing furiously, "yes thank you!" the others followed suit, all with a red tinge to their cheeks.
The nurse giggled and smiled at them, "nice to meet you all, I was told you would be around a lot for your friend. I'm Samantha. I'm going to be your friend's personal nurse. I suppose id better start by asking for his name, none of us know it yet!"
As the boys were still staring at the redhead, Hilary answered for them, "His name is Kai."
"Kai? That will make things easier for me when he wakes up! Thank you, now about these drinks, I can't keep holding them all day!"
The boys blushed even more as they reached for a polystyrene cup each. As Hilary took hers she rolled her eyes up at Samantha who giggled in return.
"I bet you get that all the time!" said Hilary.
"Yes I do, it's a good thing I love attention!" came the reply from the still giggling redhead.
The boys all of a sudden had somewhere else to look, somewhere less embarrassing. Hilary couldn't help but like the bubbly nurse. Especially as she seemed to help keep the boys in check, they would behave around this person. She almost sighed with relief at that thought.
Samantha went over to Kai's bed and set the tray down on the small bedside table next to it. The team went over to join her and to watch what went on. The frowns returned as they looked at their captain properly for the first time since the operation. They had been avoiding getting to close to see him properly and now felt very ashamed for doing so, what had happened to the support they had promised to give him? He would get it now.
Kai lay on his bed, his face even paler then normal. A bandage was wrapped round his head at forehead level. Tubes were stuck in his nose and one came out from between his broken lips. The cover of the bed was pulled up low on his waist, his chest and abdomen swathed in bandages, with part of the bandage coming over his left shoulder to go under at his chest. The top of his left arm was also bandaged up. Further down his wrists were surrounded by the white material and his left hand also had the I.V tube attached. One of the legs beneath the bed cover looked bulkier then the other, and his feet also looked unnaturally large with packed bandages. Small cuts were dealt with a plaster, or a square of bandage taped down.
Tubes were attached to the bare skin at the top of Kai's chest, as close to his heart beat as possible; with one on his neck to make sure it was detected. They looked up at the I.V bags to see one half full of blood, the other half full of a clear liquid. Wires were also placed by the bandages on his arm, and one they believed attached near the bandage on his leg as it went below the cover.
In other words, he looked a mess!
"Your friends had a really rough time from the look of it. Don't worry, i've been told not to ask questions until the police have interviewed everyone. But I would like to know more about Kai on a personal level. I wouldn't be a very good nurse if I didn't know the basics of the patient I was in charge of!"
"Yes, that would make sense. Unfortunately we have a very odd relationship with Kai ourselves. He keeps himself to himself and likes to rely on himself as well. I'm afraid he might be a difficult patient for you!" answered Kenny, being his normal matter of fact self.
"Well, I like a challenge! And Kai's going to have to get used to the fact he has to rely on others, he'll have no choice for a while. Now, i'm going to give him an injection to reverse the anaesthetic, which will hopefully help him to wake up sooner as well, you can all stay, I'll be here too" Samantha said as she measured out a syringe full of yellowy liquid. Everyone waited as she sat on the edge of the bed and lifted up Kai's right arm, injecting the whole syringe full in a measured way.
Placing the syringe back on the tray and capping it she said "id sit down if I were you, this still might take a while!"
Everyone pulled up a chair around the bed.
Somewhere deep in Kai's mind, a thought sparked. He headed towards the light.
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"Damn Kai, what have they done to you!" breathed Ray. To see the normally strong boy in such a helpless and dependant state pained him and the others immensely.
They all approached the bed, cautiously, though they didn't understand why. Maybe the thought of him being so fragile made them want to be careful around him. Whatever the reason, none of them knew it.
"Oh Kai!" sobbed Hilary. She couldn't help but cry. It wasn't going to help and she knew it, but then what could she do to help? That made fresh tears work their way down her face.
Max leaned towards Hilary to put his arms round her shoulders.
"Its ok Hil, Kai's going to be ok! The doctor said he needs rest, and then he'll be fine!" Max didn't really believe those words, but he needed to convince himself just as much as Hilary needed convincing.
"Yeah, he'll be fine. You know Kai, he'll bounce right back! He'll be yelling at us for not training in any time!" said Tyson, "right Mr. D?"
"Well, um, yes. Yes of course he will! His body is healing as we speak, and he is in the best of care! It wont be long till he's back as your captain, so stop worrying and try to positive!" answered Mr. Dickenson, surprised by Tyson asking him, he had been lost in thought.
Tyson's grandfather interrupted the awkwardness the only way he could, "the old dude's right little dudes!!! Your main man will be up and jamming before you knows it! So quit with the long faces and just be there for him me peeps!"
Mr. Dickenson ruffled his moustache at the 'old dude' remark, but kept quite as the normally infuriating man had lifted the room's spirits slightly.
"Your right, all of you. We need to be here for Kai, now more then ever. We have to be positive for him, he's been through more then we can imagine, even though we've had a taste."
"Right Ray, we will be!" answered Kenny, the others nodded agreement.
"Good, i'm very proud of you all, and I mean it! I will have to go talk to the police and clear up some things, I take it you all want to stay here till Kai wakes up?" said Mr. Dickenson, not voicing the very likely fact that Kai might not wake up for a long while yet. They needed optimism right now.
"I'll go with you old dude, no knowing when you'll need my help!" declared Tyson's grandpa, he figured the team needed time alone with Kai.
"Bye grandpa, bye Mr. D! And thanks." Said Tyson, he was really grateful that he had those two to count on, as well as his dad. Kai had only his friends now, and as one of them, he was determined to be there for Kai, no matter what! A look at his friend's faces told him they felt the same way.
After the round of quite goodbyes the two men left the teens to watch over Kai, something they knew they could trust them with, something they knew the teens would never take lightly.
Hilary, Kenny and Max sat down in chairs lined against one wall, Tyson sat on the floor, leaning back on his hands and facing both the bed and his friends. Ray stood against the wall next to the seats and the door, his hands in his pockets, one foot resting up against the wall.
They all watched Kai for a long moment, the only sound in the room coming from the bleeps of Kai's heart on a screen, and the hum of machines.
Finally Ray sighed and turned his golden eyes to the rest of the team. "How did this happen guys? We had no idea! We don't even know Kai, he wouldn't tell us anything and we didn't pursue it enough!"
"There's no sense in blaming yourself Ray, or us for that matter" replied Kenny.
"I didn't mean that..."
Kenny put up his hand to silence the rest of Ray's defence. "I know you didn't, and you are right to a degree. Kai never told us anything, even under pressure. But it's no ones fault this happened, and Kai would agree with that. It happened, no matter what could have been, it still happened, and we can't change that!"
"Your right chief, but we still cant helping how we feel. But we wont dwell on it, lets just concentrate on Kai now, lets help as we can" replied Max, his tranquil blue eyes expressing how much he felt in this situation, and they were brimming with the strength of his emotion.
Before anyone could say any more, the door opened to reveal a nurse carrying a tray. She smiled warmly at the assembled group, her green eyes dancing; her reddish hair was tied in a neat braid down to between her shoulder blades where it swayed slightly as she walked.
"Hello there! I heard our new patient had guests! I brought you all a drink with your friend's medication, I hope you don't mind!"
"Of course we don't! Thank you so much.?" answered Hilary, bowing in thanks. The boys stared at the nurse, she was gorgeous!!!! Hilary nudged Kenny in the ribs.
He jumped and bowed, blushing furiously, "yes thank you!" the others followed suit, all with a red tinge to their cheeks.
The nurse giggled and smiled at them, "nice to meet you all, I was told you would be around a lot for your friend. I'm Samantha. I'm going to be your friend's personal nurse. I suppose id better start by asking for his name, none of us know it yet!"
As the boys were still staring at the redhead, Hilary answered for them, "His name is Kai."
"Kai? That will make things easier for me when he wakes up! Thank you, now about these drinks, I can't keep holding them all day!"
The boys blushed even more as they reached for a polystyrene cup each. As Hilary took hers she rolled her eyes up at Samantha who giggled in return.
"I bet you get that all the time!" said Hilary.
"Yes I do, it's a good thing I love attention!" came the reply from the still giggling redhead.
The boys all of a sudden had somewhere else to look, somewhere less embarrassing. Hilary couldn't help but like the bubbly nurse. Especially as she seemed to help keep the boys in check, they would behave around this person. She almost sighed with relief at that thought.
Samantha went over to Kai's bed and set the tray down on the small bedside table next to it. The team went over to join her and to watch what went on. The frowns returned as they looked at their captain properly for the first time since the operation. They had been avoiding getting to close to see him properly and now felt very ashamed for doing so, what had happened to the support they had promised to give him? He would get it now.
Kai lay on his bed, his face even paler then normal. A bandage was wrapped round his head at forehead level. Tubes were stuck in his nose and one came out from between his broken lips. The cover of the bed was pulled up low on his waist, his chest and abdomen swathed in bandages, with part of the bandage coming over his left shoulder to go under at his chest. The top of his left arm was also bandaged up. Further down his wrists were surrounded by the white material and his left hand also had the I.V tube attached. One of the legs beneath the bed cover looked bulkier then the other, and his feet also looked unnaturally large with packed bandages. Small cuts were dealt with a plaster, or a square of bandage taped down.
Tubes were attached to the bare skin at the top of Kai's chest, as close to his heart beat as possible; with one on his neck to make sure it was detected. They looked up at the I.V bags to see one half full of blood, the other half full of a clear liquid. Wires were also placed by the bandages on his arm, and one they believed attached near the bandage on his leg as it went below the cover.
In other words, he looked a mess!
"Your friends had a really rough time from the look of it. Don't worry, i've been told not to ask questions until the police have interviewed everyone. But I would like to know more about Kai on a personal level. I wouldn't be a very good nurse if I didn't know the basics of the patient I was in charge of!"
"Yes, that would make sense. Unfortunately we have a very odd relationship with Kai ourselves. He keeps himself to himself and likes to rely on himself as well. I'm afraid he might be a difficult patient for you!" answered Kenny, being his normal matter of fact self.
"Well, I like a challenge! And Kai's going to have to get used to the fact he has to rely on others, he'll have no choice for a while. Now, i'm going to give him an injection to reverse the anaesthetic, which will hopefully help him to wake up sooner as well, you can all stay, I'll be here too" Samantha said as she measured out a syringe full of yellowy liquid. Everyone waited as she sat on the edge of the bed and lifted up Kai's right arm, injecting the whole syringe full in a measured way.
Placing the syringe back on the tray and capping it she said "id sit down if I were you, this still might take a while!"
Everyone pulled up a chair around the bed.
Somewhere deep in Kai's mind, a thought sparked. He headed towards the light.