He's Going To Be Mine
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Chapter 15: I'm here for you
Cloud, Rikku, Sora, and Irvine busted through the front doors of the hospital, running down the hall.
"Ok lets split up!" Rikku suggested somewhat out of breath
"We're not looking for a criminal dumb ass so there's no need to spit up!" Cloud hissed at her. "We just need to find a doctor!"
"Hey look, there's Riku!" Sora yelled as he pointed over to the front desk.
All four of them immediately ran over to the silver-haired youth.
"Riku!" Sora exclaimed as he noticed Riku was sobbing into his hands. "What happened!? Is he all right!?"
Riku looked up at Sora through watery eyes.
"I don't know." He whispered as he fought back some of his tears.
"Why don't you know!?" Cloud yelled at him completely disregarding the younger one's feelings.
"They told me I couldn't be in the operating room with him and I had to wait here."
Fresh tears began to fall down Riku's cheeks.
"What!?" Cloud stomped on the floor.
"It's just like when mother and father died!" Riku yelled as he pounded his fist in the desk making a small dent. "I can't lose him! He's the only family I got left!"
"Riku." Sora said sympathetically. Rikku herself was almost on the verge of tears from this sad display. Irvine also couldn't help but feel a little teary-eyed.
Riku grabbed onto Sora's shirt and let all his emotions fly. He cried his heart out. The worst thing that could ever happen to him was losing his brother.
"I think we should all take a seat." Rikku suggested.
"Good idea." Sora agreed.
All five teens took seats in the waiting room. Rikku twitted her fingers, Cloud held his head down, Riku traced lazy circles on Sora's shirt while Sora comfortingly rubbed his back, and Irvine picked his nose while thinking hentai thoughts.
And so they waited.
"Excuse me." A nurse politely said as she tapped Riku on the shoulder.
In return, Riku yawned and stretch his arms, which cause Sora to awaken also since Riku's upper body was up against Sora's chest. They had been waiting so long that they had fallen asleep.
"You may see your brother now. He's out of the operating room." The nurse smiled at them at first but then her smile faded some and her features became a bit more sullen. "The bullet was deep in his arm so—"
"No!" Riku yelled as he shot out of his chair. "You didn't!?"
"Excuse me?" The nurse asked a little puzzled by the sudden out burst.
"OH NO! You took his arm off!"
Sora sat straight up in his chair. "They what!?"
"What!?" The nurse counter back "Oh! No, no, no, no, no." She laughed while shaking her head. It had taken her a few seconds to fully register what the two overly excited teens had said. "I was going to say that the bullet was deep so it took longer than expected to get it out. Leon still has his arm."
"Oh." Riku said looking down to the floor. He felt a little stupid for making such an outburst.
"Hey Cloud!" Sora yelled over to his brother. Cloud groaned and opened one eye.
"What's up?"
"Leon's out of the operating room."
"Really!?" He perked up. "Can we see him?"
Sora looked up at the Nurse for the answer to his brother's question.
"Yeah." She said smiling in his direction.
Cloud stood up and walked right next to Riku. Rikku yawned and awoke from all the noise and turned to look at a sleep Irvine who had his head on her shoulder.
"We get to see him!" Riku chirped.
Cloud also had a small smile on his lips.
"Ok, ok, calm down boys." The nurse chided. "Leon still hasn't awakened yet though. So if anyone goes to see him, it can only be three. I suggest family members, close friends or lovers."
Riku, looked at Cloud, who in turn looked at Sora, Irvine, and Rikku.
"Well, I'm going. "Riku said. "That is my brother you know."
"Yo! I gotta see how my friends doing. I am worried despite my calm appearance." Irvine said startling everyone; they all thought he was still sleep.
"When the hell did you wake up!?" Riku yelled very indignantly.
Irvine just winked at him and stood up.
"Well that's two." Riku counted on his fingers while sighing.
"Cloud you should go." Sora said waving in his direction while taking a seat next to Rikku.
"No, I couldn't." He tried to play it off. Of course he wanted to see Leon! His heart was dying to see him and hold him close thanking god he was ok. But he wasn't sure if Leon wanted to see him. Earlier that morning Leon had dissed him and he didn't want to make him unhappy by showing his face.
"What!?" Riku yelled at him. "You have got to kidding me! You don't want to see Leon!?"
"You know Leon hates me!" Cloud shot back.
"What!? I swear you guys need to act your age!"
Everyone turned to look at Riku shocked. Out of all people, he was the one to say that.
"I'm getting sick of your little love affair. One minute you two are making out and then the next you're at each other's throats. Make up your fucking mind! Leon's lying in there on the hospital bed unconscious while you're here bitching and complaining about how he doesn't like you! No shit he doesn't like you! The guys head over heel in love with you! And if you two can't see you like each other then maybe you're not meant to be together!" Riku yelled
"I—"Cloud tried to speak but apparently Riku wasn't done his lecture.
"Now you can prove me wrong by going in there and the moment he wakes up you tell him you love him, or you can act like a scared little dog and run away with your tail between your legs!"
Everyone was dead silent staring at Riku.
CLAP! CLAP CLAP CLAP!
The silence was broken when the nurse began to clap.
"That was beautiful." She chirped. "But I think if you guys want to go see him you should do so now before visiting hours are up. We have to stop them short today so the visiting hours are up at 6:30. It's already going on 6:00."
"6:00!?" Riku yelled. "Wow time really flies, doesn't it?"
Riku began to make his way down the hall of the hospital followed not too far behind by Irvine and Cloud. The nurse made her way to the room marked 265 and opened the knob.
The four of them quietly stepped in. once inside they immediately looked at the bandage around Leon's left arm and the needle in his right. Riku instantly felt his eyes water up. It was almost like when their parents died except they had no needles in their arms; by the time he got to the hospital they were dead. The memory of his parents made his eyes water up more to the point where he was almost crying.
"Leon." He heard himself whisper.
"Leon has lost a lot of blood." The nurse started. "So he probably wont wake up for a while."
Irvine had a heavy feeling in his heart too as he looked at Leon lying on the hospital bed. That feeling only got stronger as he looked over at Riku to see him crying.
"Riku." Irvine said as he walked over and embraced the boy in a hug. Riku clung to Irvine's shirt and sobbed into it.
Cloud stared down at the silent body. He didn't say a word and he knew if he did he would end up crying. He was not a punk!
The nurse walked out of the room to give the boys some privacy.
After about five minutes Riku pulled away from Irvine and walked out the room as well. Irvine watched Riku leave and then walked over to Leon.
"Leon. . . look at you! What the hell were you thinking?" He asked the unmoving body.
Cloud just stood there staring while thinking everything over.
'Maybe it was my fault he's in here. Maybe he was so upset that he didn't care about his actions. Why did I have to kiss Aeris? Why!? It's all my fault.' Cloud thought as he walked over to Leon.
Cloud extended a hand and gently caressed Leon's cheek. The longhaired cowboy looked over at Cloud's sad expression and backed away from the bed.
"I'll let you be alone." He bowed and backed out of the room.
Cloud looked at him and mouthed a sad 'thank you'.
He looked back at Leon and continued to stroke his cheek.
"Leon."
A tear formed at the corner of Cloud's eye. He quickly brushed it away before it got a chance to fall.
"I'm sorry."
He found Leon's Right hand and picked it up to press it against his now wet cheek from the fresh tears.
"I'm so sorry. It's all my fault." He cried on Leon's hand.
Riku sat in the chair next to Sora while leaning his head against his chest.
"I couldn't stay in there." Riku started. "I couldn't stand to see my brother hurt."
Sora wrapped an arm around his shoulder.
"How did he look?" Rikku asked.
"He didn't look that bad." Irvine said. "It was just the fact that he was unconscious and he had needles and stuff in his arm."
Rikku winced at the thought.
After a few minutes of waiting around the nurse came back with a clipboard in her hand.
"I just need to get some information down if you don't mind, Riku." She said while motioning him to walk over to her.
Riku reluctantly got up out of his seat and walked over to her.
"So," She began. "His name his Leon Leonhart. And you are?"
"Riku Leonhart. I'm his younger brother."
"Any parents?"
"No." Riku looked down at the floor.
"Parental guardians?"
"No."
"Elder family members."
Riku paused for a second thinking to one person but then quickly changed his mind before uttering her name. It was almost blasphemous to speak her name.
"No."
"I see. Ok Leon is. . . "She looked over her clipboard. "17 and is about to turn 18?"
"Yes."
"You are . . . 16 going on 17."
"Yes."
"Ok, now I understand he got shot," She turned a curious eye over to Riku who looked up at her. "By hijacking a bus?" She then raised one eyebrow.
Riku mentally rolled his eyes. 'Oh! Great how the hell are we going to get back in school now!? I bet everyone saw the news including the principal.'
"You could say that." He answered
'Damn idiot!' he thought 'Even when you're hurt you seem to piss me off!'
"Well, I guess the police will handle that."
She turned all her papers in one direction and looked at the group.
"Ok! Visiting hours are officially up! But I have been told by Leon's doctor that one of you can stay the night."
Everyone looked around at everyone.
"I guess you would want to stay, Riku?" Sora said.
"Nope. I couldn't stay in there for ten minutes let alone a whole night. Maybe we should just, leave Cloud here. He might figure out a way to tell Leon that he loves him."
Sora looked over to Riku with pure admiration. In the short time that he had known him he didn't think that Riku could be so mature.
"So where are we headed?" Irvine asked as the four teens began to walk down the hospital hall towards the exit.
"I'm going home. I don't know where you're going?" Riku answered him
"What are you saying you're kicking me out of the house!?" Irvine screeched a little too high pitched for his liking.
Riku clinched him fists tight together thinking about how Irvine made him sleep in the bathtub.
"Irvine, you made me sleep in the bathtub!" Riku yelled at him.
"Well you wouldn't have had to if you and Sora would have slept with me."
"What!?" Riku shouted into the cool night air as they exited Destiny hospital
"Irvine! When I'm done with you, Leon's not going to be the only one in the hospital!" And with that being the cry of war, Riku took off running after Irvine who had decided to bail when Riku forehead began to pulse.
Sora sighed and slumped his shoulders. Well there goes the admirable and mature Riku.
"Hey, don't look so down." Rikku nudged him in the shoulder. "If Riku can try to be happy, then you can too."
"That wasn't the problem." Sora moaned.
"Oh?" She questioned.
"Don't worry bout it. Say, isn't your mom going to be wondering where you are?"
"Oh! Shit! You're right." Rikku yelled as she took off down the street running towards the house.
Sora looked around and noticed he was alone.
"Hey! Don't leave me hear! I might get catnapped!"
Meanwhile Cloud was sitting in a chair next to Leon's bed thinking about things. He moved his left leg and he heard a clanking sound in his jacket pocket. Not thinking about the clank he stayed in his thoughts.
'I wonder if I could stay here over night?' He pondered. Cloud looked over at the clock on the wall and noticed it was going on 7:30. 'Well, obviously they let me stay seeing that visiting hours have long been over' Now that he got that out of the way, he began to think about his relationship between Aeris and Leon. And somewhere between the two he dozed off.
Leon wrinkled his nose as the smell of something very intoxicating invaded his nostrils. Steadily opening one eye, he flinched at the bright light. 'What happened? Where am I?' He thought. Looking across the room he saw it was 8:00.
"Well good morning, sleepy." Cloud said to him playfully.
Leon's eyes shot over to the source of the voice. Not only was it the direction of the voice but the smell too.
"Cloud?"
"The one and only." Cloud answered while doing something . . .
"What are you doing here?" He yawned
Cloud stopped what he was doing and looked at Leon.
"What do you think? You where shot."
At that moment Leon realized how much his arm hurt. Flinching he looked over at it to see that it was bandaged up. He then looked at his other one and noticed that he had IV needles in it. His gazed traveled down his arm then stopped on his hand, which was under Cloud. Leon frowned at it and Cloud sheepishly pulled his hands away. When he did, Leon frowned even deeper. Cloud's hands on his wasn't that problem. In fact that felt rather nice but it was something else on his hands. Raising his hand slowly Leon's eyes widened.
"Cloud . . ."
Cloud shrunk back a little bit.
"Um, yes, Leon?"
"What. The. HELL did you do to my fingers!?" Leon hissed looking at his fingernails.
"Well you see, you were still sleep and I got bored so I um ..."
"You painted my fucking fingernails!?"
And yes indeed, Cloud had painted Leon's fingernails. After Cloud had awakened from dozing off he thought about the clanking sound in his pocket and checked it to find a bottle of 'Hot Red' nail polish. So since there was nothing to do, he painted Leon's fingernails 'Hot Red.'
"Red!?" Leon continued. "You know I'll never forgive you for this!"
Cloud sighed and looked Leon straight in the eye. Leon looked at him back forgetting his hand and getting lost in Cloud's blue eyes like when they first met. They seemed to stare at each other for the longest both slowly drifting towards each other until their lips were barley touching.
"Cloud." Leon said looking at him a little unsure. "If you and Aeris still have something going on then . . ."
'What are you doing!?' Leon fought with himself. 'Didn't you want to take Cloud away from Aeris? Why are you basically asking his permission!? Take him!' And with that Cloud moved in. Leon was a bit shocked. He was supposed to be the one to make the first move. Well all the self-loathing could come later. Right now Leon was going to enjoy the feel of Cloud's lips on his.
Riku, Sora, Irvine, and yes Rikku were walking down a familiar street to get to the hospital. Since they didn't spend the night at the hospital, they were planning to go first thing in the morning.
"I can't believe you didn't call your mom!" Sora shouted at Rikku. "Don't you think she'll be worried? You've been gone quite a while."
"Well yeah I would have thought she'd come looking for me by now but think about it this way. If I had called her I would have had to explain to her why I was at some strange boys house and then that would somehow escalate into me telling her your dirty little secret. And then you know that if she knows, your mom will find out. And you don't want your parents to come down here and take you home and then you'll never see Riku again and it'll be some sad Romeo and Juliet scenario and--"
"Ok! I get your point!" Sora rolled his eyes.
"I thought you would." Rikku grinned.
"Well we're here." Riku said as he sighed and walked through the hospital entrance. They walked down to the hall towards the visitor's waiting room when Riku accidentally bumped into a doctor's arm causing him to drop his clipboard.
"Oh! Sorry!" Riku said as he stumbled and turned around.
"Damn kids." The doctor muttered as he turned to face Riku. When the two made eye contact, they immediately froze. Riku almost started shaking from fear.
"You . . ." He growled as his fear turned to anger.
"You. . . ." The doctor said as he narrowed his eyes.
"Um, is there something we missed?" Rikku asked.
"What are you doing here?" Riku asked the raven-haired man disregarding Rikku's question.
"Well I am a doctor." He sarcastically replied.
"Vincent you bastard." Riku yelled at him.
"No need to call me names. It's not my fault your parents died."
"What the hell is your problem!? Why do you have to say things like that!?"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." He mumbled. "I really need a smoke."
"Good god man! You're a doctor! Why are you acting so cold?" Irvine asked.
"I just do my job. No one ever told me I had to be nice and give some kid a Lollypop every time they lost a family member. If I did that all the kids I ever saw would have rotten teeth and the world would be out of Lollypops!"
"Fuck you!" Riku yelled at him.
"Ditto." He said and turned around.
"Man, what crawled up his ass and died?" Irvine asked as they watched 'Vincent' walk away.
Riku turned around with a deep frown on his face. Some people were really were a pain in the ass. They continued walking until they reached the visitor's waiting room.
"Well shouldn't we just walk up to his room?" Sora asked.
"I don't think so." Riku said walking over to a nurse.
"Um, excuse me." He said as he tapped on her shoulder.
"Um yes!" She yelped as she turned around very startled.
"Sorry to scare you but I was wondering if my friends and I could go visit my brother. He's in room 265."
"Oh I'm sorry, visiting hours aren't until 9:00. You'll have to wait."
"Oh, I see. Thank you." He said turning to walked away.
"So what'd she say?" Sora asked once Riku had reached them
"She said that visiting hours aren't until 9:00"
"So what do we do till then?"
"We wait I guess."
Sora sighed and walked over next to Riku a put his head on his shoulder.
"Aw." Rikku sighed. "You two looked so cute together!"
Sora chuckled and blushed a little. Irvine on the other hand just hmphed and crossed his arms. Although he hated to admit it, Sora and Riku did look cute together. But he refused to say that. He wanted Riku for himself. All four decided to walk over to the chairs and take a seat in the waiting room; they had a whole hour to go.
Cloud pulled away from Leon breathless at the long kiss that they had just shared.
"What was that for?" Leon asked him a little dazed.
Cloud brought his hand really far back and then released it delivering a hard blow to Leon's face.
After a shocked reaction Leon brought a hand up to his darkened cheek.
"What the hell were you thinking!? You could have been killed you bastard!" Cloud scolded.
Leon didn't respond. He just lay there holding his cheek.
Cloud was silent for a little while just staring into Leon's eyes. After a few moments his angered expression began to soften.
"Look Leon, I have something to tell you."
Leon looked at Cloud and nodded.
"I know that you think I'm in love with Aeris and for a while I even thought I was in love with her. She was my first love and that can never change but . . ." Cloud looked down at his hands. "I think I may love someone else more now. And . . ."
"Stop trying to be romantic and just say what the hell you have to say, Cloud!" Leon snapped at him. He wasn't the most romantic person alive and truthfully he didn't really need Cloud to give him a long sappy speech on how he loved him. Of course Cloud loved him! How could anyone not love Leon!?
Cloud looked back at him and started to laugh lightly.
"I didn't think you were the romantic type."
Cloud moved back in and they began to make out again.
"How long has it been?" Rikku asked getting bored.
"Ten minutes." Sora answered.
"That's it!? Aw man!" She moaned. Standing up she walked over to the snack machine and put in a few quarters.
Sitting up in his seat Riku turned to face Sora.
"Hey Sora, you know what would pass the time?"
"Hmm—"Sora said turning around and as soon as he did Riku captured his lips. Moaning slightly at the contact Sora began to kiss back.
'Damn this sucks!' Irvine thought to himself. 'What am I supposed to do to pass the time!? Rikku's at the vending machine and Sora and MY Riku are making out. Leon's on the hospital bed while Cloud's in there doing god knows what to him and here I am just sitting here. Man I wish someone else were here like Seifer or somebody!'
And just as Irvine thought that a familiar voice rang out.
"Where the hell is Leon!?" A blonde-haired teen yelled storming down the hall followed by Quistis and Aeris.
"Well speak of the devil." Irvine whispered under his breath.
Seifer walked up to Irvine and put his hands on his hips.
"Where the hell is Leonhart!?"
Riku stopped making out with Sora and turned to the enraged blonde.
"Well look who's here." Irvine grinned. "I was just thinking about you dear."
"Cool it Girly! I'm not in the mood!"
"What!? Come on don't be like that. Let's say you and me have fifteen minutes in the bathroom?"
"Do you ever stop thinking about sex!? I'm not interested Irvine! I suggest you become close friends with your hand for a while!"
"Please?"
"I did have a girlfriend. Ding, ding, ding, doesn't that kinda say I'm straight?"
"You won' t be if you give me a chance."
"I will not be your 50 cent fuck!"
"How about for free?"
Seifer growled and turned to Riku. There was no way to get away from Irvine.
"Where is he?" he asked Riku.
"He's in one of the rooms but—"
"What the hell was he thinking!?" Seifer said cutting Riku off. "What was he thinking hijacking a bus? He almost gave me a heart attack! I thought he might have been killed!"
"Well, he did get shot in the arm. But—"
"What room is he in!?"
"I think it's room 265 but—"
Seifer stormed off without letting Riku finish.
"Excuse me sir but where do you think you're going!?" A doctor yelled after him and began to follow.
"Where are you going!?" Riku exclaimed as he stood up and ran after Siefer leaving the others in bewilderment.
"Hey Sora!" Aeris smiled at him. "I came because I figured Cloud would be here. Do you know where he is?"
"Oh! Um well you see." Sora said lightly laughing and scratching the back of his head. He had told himself he wasn't going to get into Cloud's little love affair but Aeris had to find out the truth someday.
"He's in room 265 with Leon." Rikku smiled at her.
"Ok thank you!" Aeris smiled and walked off towards the room.
"Rikku!" Sora scolded her.
"What!? Maybe Cloud would stop being a dick head and tell Aeris how he feels about Leon."
Sora sighed and took off after her. Rikku, Irvine, and Quistis all looked at each other and sighed in unison.
"Well I guess we better follow them. I don't want to miss it when Seifer jumps on the bed and Strangles Leon." Irvine joked and they all walked to the room.
Cloud and Leon continued to moan and groan at the friction between their lips when the door busted open. Both parted instantly from shock. Cloud was so startled that he almost fell out his chair. Leon looked towards to door to find an infuriated, heaving Seifer.
"What the hell are you doing Almasy!?" Leon said glaring at Seifer. He was very upset at him for interrupting his very intimate moment with Cloud.
"What the hell and I doing!? What the hell were you doing!? You could have gotten killed!"
"You're not my mother Almasy!"
"Yeah well your mother needed to teach you how to avoid being shot!"
"Yeah, well it sure as hell didn't hurt as bad as when you chucked those scissors at my face in 4th grade!"
"I told you that was an accident and you threw them back!"
"You did it on purpose you show off!"
"I came all this way to the hospital to see if my 'best friend since childhood' was ok and here you are calling me names!"
"You started it and since when have we been best of best friends you bum!?"
Seifer put a hand over his heat dramatically and walked over next to Leon.
"I see the way you are." Seifer faked a sniff as he held a finger under his eye to wipe away an imaginary tear.
After a moment of silence the two began to share a little laugh.
"Um did I miss something!?" Cloud asked feeling a little left out.
"You are not supposed to be in here!" The doctor that had been following Seifer yelled out of breath at the doorframe.
"Well, looked who finally caught up." Seifer joked.
"Hey did you kill Leon yet!?" Riku yelled stumbling through the door and knocking the doctor over.
"Ah!" The doctor yelled as he fell and knocked his head on the edge of the bed, knocking him out.
Riku looked to see Leon awake and laughing. Well it was somewhat like laughing; it was a Leon type laugh, which wasn't very big.
"Leon!" Riku exclaimed as he ran over to the bed to stand next to him. He managed to trample over the doctor on his way over. Once next to him Riku bent down and gently hugged his brother. After he pulled away he looked over to Cloud who was sitting in the chair looking the two.
"So did you tell him yet?" Riku asked Cloud.
Cloud didn't get to respond when Sora, Rikku, Irvine, Aeris, and Quistis came barging in.
"I think it's getting a little crowded in here." Leon said, as he looked at all the faces surrounding him.
"Are you ok?" Aeris asked him politely.
Leon looked up at her and remembered that she was the one who was trying to take his Cloud away.
"Yeah." He replied looking away.
"Well that's good." She walked away from him and stood next to Cloud. Leon watched her as she tried to make her move on his territory. "I was beginning to think that you were causing my Cloudy-woudy to worry."
'Bitch!' Leon spat in his mind. 'I would give my left arm to see her trip and fall down some steps. I hope she'd break her neck too. Then I would take my left arm and beat her with it!'
"Hey dear." Aeris smiled while moving in to give him a kiss on the lips. She closed her eyes and made contact with something but it wasn't Cloud's lips. She opened her eyes to see his hand instead.
"Stop being silly." She teased
She tried to give him a kiss again but ended up kissing air instead.
"Cloud, what are you doing?" the green-eyed girl asked him confused
"Areis." He said standing up. "I have something to tell you."
Everyone in the room turned their attention to Cloud. Even Leon halfway sat up, propping himself on his good arm.
I am evil and I am horrible and I am stopping right about there. I know it probably wasn't my best chapter but in the next one Aeris gets bashed! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! R&R
Revisions 11/12/04
I shouldn't have any comments . . . and I don't. I can't find any words to describe this chapter. It may have been a little weird and different from the beginning of the story. I can't say it was bad but I really can't say it was good. I think I'll just leave all opinions to my reviewers. LOL