Hi there y'all! I'm so sorry I haven't updated for a while, I've had some family crisis, but I'm back now!! a reviewer was upset that I was gonna give Kai a tattoo, but he already has the face tattoos, and they are not bad at all, I've got a tattoo, am getting another one soon, and I don't have ink poisoning and it hasn't marred my skin, it looks great! Kai can't do anything about the ones on his face, so getting one of his own might be a way to help him find himself. Anyway, thank you for all the reviews, and the emails! Love you all!!!! Just a note, this will probably turn into a Tyson/Hilary fic, since that's the way they seem to be heading, sorry to those who don't like it, but they do go together!
The hospital seemed a dreary place at night. Half the lights were switched off in the seemingly dull corridor, and hardly anybody was about. Still, this particular corridor was full of people, either sitting on the benches, absent mindedly reading wall posters and leaflets, or pacing the squeaky tiles. The doctors had chased the lot of them into the corridor when they went to check on their patient, and now they waited impatiently to be let back in.
One of the doctors was middle aged, and greying at the temples, but the other was younger, with soft brown hair, and the brownest of puppy dog eyes. Even his smile seemed to beg at your heart.
The two doctors were chatting to each other quietly as they walked out of Kai's hospital room. They stopped when they looked at all the faces pointed in their direction. Questions were not asked by voice, but in every pair of eyes as they drilled into the white coated men. One of them put his hands up in a surrendering gesture.
"Ok, ok, your friend is fine, he had the earlier stages of hypothermia, but his body temperature is back to normal now. To be honest, we were surprised it wasn't anything more severe considering how long he was in the water for. The stab wound to his leg is all stitched up, and the blood transfusion is dealing with the blood loss he experienced."
He looked at them all, his expression unreadable as the other doctor took over.
"Who are his legal guardians?" he asked, suddenly changing the mood.
Mr. Dickinson answered. "We're afraid the Kai is no longer under his legal guardians care. He has no parents and his other living relative, his grandfather, is the other man brought in with Kai. He is now under the polices supervision and will have nothing to do with Kai. The boy had been staying with the Granger's and will continue to do so for his recovery, I think it best you talk to them regarding Kai's welfare."
The doctor nodded at the end of the explanation and gestured them to follow him and his younger counterpart. Mr. Dickinson, Tyson's grandpa and father, and Samantha. Samantha and Mr. Granger walked arm in arm behind the others. Samantha whispered something into her partner's ear that made him blush and scowl, and her laugh as she patted his arm reassuringly.
Before they were too far down the corridor, the younger doctor turned and said they could go back in. the remaining teens, including Mariah, who had turned up earlier when Ray had told her what had happened, all turned to go into Kai's room. They paused at the doors thresh hold when they heard giggling. Turning, they looked at Mariah and Hilary holding each other up and laughing so hard that they nearly fell despite the support they were giving one another.
"Uh, what's so funny?" asked Tyson, just as confused as the rest of the boys.
Hilary wiped away a tear from the corner of her eye and tried to speak to them between giggles, not helped as Mariah was bent over and wheezing with the laughing she was doing.
"Didn't you, hehehehe, hear what Sam said? Ahahahahaha!!!!" Hilary couldn't continue. The boys waited another five minutes before the girls had calmed down enough to speak without bursting into another rainbow of giggles.
"Are you ok to tell us now?" asked Ray.
Mariah nodded, "Samantha said that, heh, that she didn't realise that the doctors here were so cute, and that she should work here instead, hopefully with the younger doctor! Your dads face Tyson!" and that was it, they burst into more giggles.
The boys stood there, faces set in a confused and worried pose, to them, it wasn't a funny joke. Then Mariah turned to Hilary.
"Maybe I should pretend to be hurt, and then I could get close to that cute doctor!"
"Hey! You have to share something that good looking!"
And then the giggles started all over again. Ray and Tyson did not look amused. The laughing ceased and a quick transformation took over the girls.
"Why are we standing in the corridor, shouldn't we go in and see Kai?" said Hilary, her face was one to rival a strict headmistress.
The two girls pushed the boys through the doorway, the boys now very confused as to what was going on with the girls. They never saw the wink that passed between the pink haired girl and the brunette.
They mood was defiantly more subdued when they entered into the hospital room. The walls were a funny greenish colour, almost mint but heading down the grosser line of greens. The single light hanging from the ceiling lit the smallish room well, and Kai was bathed in the false light.
He seemed asleep on the hospital bed, his face serene in the slightly glaring light. An oxygen mask over his nose and mouth made a slightly hissing sound as he breathed. They gas canister by the bed, attached to the mask by a tube, showed they were giving him oxygen with a painkiller involved. An I.V was attached to his the underside of his wrist, and was joined by a tube from a blood bag. The beds blankets were tucked up to his waist and Kai appeared to be wearing a hospital gown of some sort. The boys hoped it had a back to it, the girls secretly wished it didn't.
They surrounded Kai's bed, each looking at the peaceful face. The blue triangle tattoos contrasted strongly with his pale skin. The lip ring gleamed softly under the transparent plastic of the face mask. With every breath, the mask clouded over and cleared a regular pattern. One thick wire snaked out of Kai's gown, attached to his chest somewhere to monitor his heart. The only sounds came from his breathing, and the faint beep of the heart monitor that seemed to be part of the wall.
Max broke the silence, "he looks better then last time he landed up in hospital."
"Yeah, he's almost cute when he's a sleep, but not as cute as you Ray!" added Mariah quickly as Ray gave her a wounded look. She gave him a hug to show she meant it. He wrapped an arm around her waist and they stood, watching, her pink haired head resting on his shoulder. Tyson gave Hilary a sneaking glance, but she was watching Kai. He almost groaned out loud, it wasn't fair!
Tyson was confused about Hilary, she argued with him all the time, and she annoyed him to no end, but there was something that sparked when he looked at her. Her eyes were expressive, and the way they sparkled made him want to smile. When he looked at her he just wanted to hold her, she gave him butterflies, worse then any tournament had. It all started when they had caught Hilary kissing Kai when he had fallen off the roof. It was a funny incident, but afterwards Tyson had been jealous. It just wasn't fair! Why couldn't she like him? What did Kai have that he didn't? He looked away from her, until he sorted his feelings out, he might as well not torment himself.
Ray frowned at Kai, "I wonder why his lips pierced?"
"Dunno, but Tadashi had her eyebrow pierced" added Kenny.
As soon as the word Tadashi was out of Kenny's mouth, Kai's eyes flew opened.
Hilary squealed as she noticed, but Kai continued to stare at the ceiling. Tyson waved his hand over Kai's line of vision, nothing. He clapped right in front of Kai's nose, nothing.
"What's wrong with him?" asked Hilary.
"Do you think we should get someone?" asked Max.
Ray let go of Mariah and leaned over the end of the bed and called Kai's name softly. He said it twice before Kai shot bolt upright, his nose just inches apart from Ray's own. Kai's gaze wandered from Ray's, to the others around the room. He then noticed the I.V in his arm.
"Fuck! Not this again!" he muttered before ripping the needle from his vein, blood welling up and dripping from his hand as he reached up and searched around the neck of his gown to pull out the wire that measured is heart beat. The suction cup smarted as it pulled from his skin, but he paid it no heed. He pulled the mask of his face, pausing slightly as he felt it brush against something that wasn't him.
He pulled it off and swung his legs round, lurching to his feet. He pushed past the startled faces of his friends as he staggered to the small basin on one wall. Leaning his hands on the basin lip, he looked into the mirror.
What faced him was a pale tired face. He looked like he hadn't slept in a week; his eyes were ringed with dark circles. The blood loss he supposed. Then there was that damned ring.
"Kai? Shouldn't you be in the bed, with the drip? You don't look well buddy." Prompted Tyson behind him.
Kai ignored him and let go of the sink to touch the ring with both hands. Leon did this too him, and he wanted nothing more to do with him, or Biovolt. He pulled at the ring, feeling for the seam so he could undo it. The ring stung as he pulled around, but he forced his teeth together and gritted out the pain.
"Do you need help with that?" asked Ray, coming up behind him.
"Go away" Kai growled through his clenched teeth, there was the seam. He used both hands to pry the ring ends apart from one another. Once pulled apart he pulled it out of his lip. Blood dripped down from the hole and dripped down his chin. Wiping his chin with the back of his hand, he succeeded in mostly just smearing the slightly viscous fluid. Grumbling to himself, he dropped the bent ring into the sink.
"Dude, I really think you should go back to bed, you look a mess, you can hardly stand, and that thing you're wearing is a bit short for my liking!"
Tyson was over-exaggerating, but the gown was short, even if it did have a back to it. You could see the bandaging around Kai's thigh, and the defined muscles that flexed when he moved. The two girls were in staring heaven, even if there was others that held their affections, they could at least enjoy looking.
"No" was all Kai said as he limped over to the door.
"Not this time Kai" said Ray as he and Tyson grabbed an arm each.
"Let me go! I have to see Tadashi!" he snarled at them, he was in no mood to play their games.
"No you don't! She's fine, their taking care of her, now think about your own health and get back to bed!"
"No, as soon as I see Tadashi, I'm leaving, I'm not spending any longer here then I have to!"
"How did you get so stubborn?" commented Mariah.
"Practice" was the curt reply before Kai shrugged off the hold to his arms and limped out of the room, only he could make limping something moody and purposeful.
"Better alert someone, he's not as well as seems to think he is" said Max with a sigh as Kenny pressed the nurse alert button by the bed.
"I'll go find him" said Ray, following Kai. Tyson, Hilary, and Mariah followed him.
Only Kenny and Max were left to think of what damage Kai would do this time, to them, the hospital, and himself.