RoboticCity, Poetic Love
Chapter 14: "Daddy, Mommy, Don't leave me!"
Toboe's knees go weak and he falls to the ground. Kiba screams, "Toboe!"
Toboe's face is turning white and his lips are green. Kiba hugs Toboe tight and keeps calling to the boy, but Toboe can't hear anything. Toboe is in shock. All Toboe can see are his parents dying in front of him. Li laughs and says, "do you remember now? Do you remember how your mommy dearest shuddered in pain? Do you remember the sound of her screaming? Do you remember the smell of her blood?"
Toboe remembers it all. All the frightening memories that the little boy blocked out are now coming back. Toboe now remember everything that happened during the death of his parents. It was a special night, the night of Toboe's parents 15 years anniversary, and Toboe's parents took Toboe out for dinner after they finished working at Future Tech.
Toboe and his parents went to an Irish Pub to have corned beef for dinner. The whole family had a good time. The waitress even gave Toboe a 4-leaves clover as a souvenir. Toboe's parents were gonna take Toboe to have apple pie at the restaurant on top Future City Tower after dinner.
"Let's go. The sun is still up. If we can get to the restaurant before sunset, we can see the city lights up." Toboe's father said. Every night when the sun set, the whole Future City will turns on their colourful bright lights together. It's a very amazing sight and Toboe had always loved to see it. They always worked until after sunset and Toboe didn't get to see the lighting of the city much.
Toboe was following his parents when kitty jumped out of Toboe's hand and ran toward a candy vending machine. Toboe shouted, "kitty!"
Toboe's father laughed and said, "go on, hurry up or we will miss the lighting of the city."
Toboe went to get some candies for kitty at the vending machine. The young boy then went back to his parents. He arrives at the alley where his parents parked their car when he saw the most horrible sight.
A robot was holding onto Toboe's parents while Li stubbed them, over and over again. Li was laughing the whole time, as if he was playing a game in the arcade. Soon, Toboe's parents fell to the ground and Li walked away. Toboe ran to his parents.
It was a horrific sight. The knife was still sticking out from the chest of Toboe's father. Toboe left the knife in there. Pulling it out would kill his father at once. Toboe checked both his parents. They were both unconscious. There were many wounds on his parents' body, all of them deep and wide opened. Both his parents were dying from loss of blood.
Toboe tried desperately to stop both his parents form bleeding to death while calling the ambulance. Toboe went frantically between his parents, stopping numerous wounds from opening. When Toboe stopped one of the wound from bleeding, the other one opened up again.
"Daddy! Mommy! Wake up! You have to stay awake." Toboe shouted. Slowly, the bleedings were under control and Toboe's parents got their pulse back. They started breathing and opened their eyes to look at Toboe.
"Daddy! Mommy!" Toboe smiled.
"Son…" They called to him.
"Don't talk. It's gonna be okay. The ambulance is coming." Toboe says.
"Good thing I forgot my knife and come back to get it. There is still one more." Someone said. Toboe looked up and saw Li stood there. Li walked toward Toboe.
"Toboe, run!" Toboe's parents said to Toboe.
"You did a good job saving your parents. I bet you helped them with their research too, right? Well, kid, it's time to die." Li said as he walked over Toboe's parents and headed toward Toboe.
"Leave Toboe alone!" Toboe's mother shouted. Li laughed and pulled the knife out of the chest of Toboe's father.
Toboe screamed, "NO!!!!!" Toboe's father screamed in pain and coughed blood. Pulling the knife out had damaged Toboe's father deeply. His father fell unconscious.
"Daddy!" Toboe screamed.
"Don't worry, little boy. You would be joining him really soon." Li said. The robot stubbed Toboe in the stomach. Toboe never felt pain so sharp and excruciating. He screamed on top of his lung.
"Toboe…" Toboe's mom cries before she closed her eyes. Without Toboe next to her stopping her bleeding, she started losing blood again. The blood lost were just too much for Toboe's mom to stay alive.
"Mommy…" Toboe called to his mom.
"I like you, boy. I am going to give you a quick death so you don't have to suffer. I would just stub you in your heart and sent you to your parents." Li said.
Toboe didn't care anymore. He just wanted to die and get it over with. The pain was too great for the little boy to bear. Li raised his knife and aimed it at Toboe's heart. Toboe closed his eyes and awaited his death.
But nothing happened. Toboe opened his eyes and saw that Li was gone. Toboe fell to the ground. He had lost too much blood and the pain was too much for his little body. The ambulance arrived and the paramedic checked Toboe.
"The boy is still alive! How about the adults?" One of the paramedic asked. The other paramedic shook his head. Toboe was too weak to even cry at that time. The paramedic took Toboe to the hospital.
Seeing Li again; watching Li shoots Tsume in the alley and then trying to save Tsume; all those things remind Toboe of that day a year ago. The day when Li attacked Toboe's family and Toboe tried to save his parents. All the memories force their way into Toboe's head like a wave of wasps. Toboe can't suppress those memories anymore. The young boy just keep crying and rocking his shaking body.
"Toboe! Snap out of it, please!" Kiba shouts as he shakes onto Toboe, trying to get the young boy out of the horror. But it's useless; Toboe is still shaking and crying. He can't see or hear anything other than his parents dying and screaming of pain.
"You must feel really guilty, letting your parents die like that. You failed to save your parents that day." Li says to Toboe. Toboe face is white as ghost, Kiba can feels Toboe's body is ice-cold, too. The poor little boy is going in shock.
"Shut up! Stop torturing him!" Kiba shouts to Li. The robot laughs.
Kiba hugs Toboe and says, "Toboe, I know you can hear me. It must be really scary for you, to watch someone murder your parents right in front of you. But you don't have to face your fear alone, Toboe. I'm here for you. I will help you. Please, Toboe, come back to me. We can deal with your pain together, let me help you."
Kiba kisses Toboe on the forehead and says, "Toboe. I Love You." Toboe looks at Kiba
Kiba brushes the hair away from Toboe's eyes. He looks deep into Toboe's eyes and says to the boy, "I love you, Toboe."
Toboe's tears stop falling. Li claps his hands and says, "Oh, that is so touching..."
Kiba stands in front of Toboe and says to Li, "I will not let you hurt him!"
"Oh, if I want to hurt him, you think he will still be alive? Do you know why we didn't kill you that day, Toboe? I could have easily finished you off there, you messed up our plans and we need to elimate you. But then I received order to let you stay alive because you can be useful to us." Li says as he pulls out a knife.
Toboe looks at the knife and hides behind Kiba. Li laughs and says, "you remember this knife, do you? your parents blood is still on it...your blood is still on it. Yes, Toboe. This is the knife I used to stub your parents and you that night. Sure bring back memories, does it? Does your stomach still hurt?"
Toboe looks away from the knife.
"Hey, I watched you sleep earlier. You have nightmares, do you? You dream of the times when you failed to save your parents and let them die. You were shaking so bad I can feel the vibration on the floor. Even if you can supress those bad memories in the daylight, you can't stop them from your dreams every night, can you? You might not remember it when you wake up in the morning, but you still see them at night. Nightmare is such a powerful thing. It shows you what you fear most even if you don't want to see it." Li says, playing with the knife.
Three robots run in. Two of them grap Kiba while one hold onto Toboe. Kiba shouts, 'Toboe!"
"Toboe, you see the death of your parents every night, do you? That's scary, but not scary enough, is it? You can learn to deal with that... What will be so scary that you can never deal with? What will be your ultimate mightmare?!" Li says as he walks up to Kiba.
Toboe watches in fear as Li stubs Kiba in the stomach. Kiba screams in pain.
"You remember how painful it is, do you? This is your ultimate nightmare, Toboe, watching Kiba die. You'll see it every night for the rest of you life. I know you have no problem saving him, Toboe. You're the most amazing doctor in Future City. Hell, you're the most amazing doctor in the whole world. I will let you save Kiba if you can do something for me." Li says to Toboe.
Toboe follows Li into a lab. In the middle of the lab there is a monkey lying there. The monkey looks very sick and it is moaning in pain. Li says to Toboe, "This monkey's body is deterating in a abnormal rate. If you can save this monkey, then I will let you save Kiba. Judging from Kiba's physical conditions, he can only last about an hour. Go to work, Toboe. Don't let Kiba die."
Kiba moans in pain. Toboe gets up to the computer and starts checking the vitals of the monkey. Li stands there and watches Toboe work.
'Kiba's life is in your hand, Toboe. Don't fail Kiba like you fail your parents, boy."
Back in the hospital, Tsume is lying there trying to rest; but sleep just will not come to him. It's not the pain of the cuts, bruises and broken bones that keep him up. Tsume wants to know what's going on out there. Tsume wants to know if Kiba is safe. He hates to see anything happen to Kiba. Kiba is a very good man; the guy risk his life to get Tsume and Toboe out of trouble.
"Toboe..." Tusme mutters. Tsume never see anyone like Toboe. The boy has the most beautiful eyes, the cutiest nose and the loviest lips. When Kiba kicks Toboe into Tsume's arms, Toboe's sandy red hair lightly touches Tsume's face. Those hair are so soft and it smells like green apple. Tsume takes a deep breathe. He wonders what does it feels like to run his hand down those soft red hair, and then pulls Toboe up close and kisses Toboe on the lips. Those lips must be really soft; they might taste like candy too.
"Candies???" Tusme yells at himself. Tusme will kick himself if it ain't for the fact that his leg is broken into three places and he can't move. How can he thinks about things like that about the boy. It's obvious that Toboe is with Kiba. Tsume should be sent to hell for having such thoughts of the lover of someone who just saved his life an hour ago.
Tsume shakes his head to get his mind off Toboe. He sighs and says, "maybe I can go and talk to the officer who is watching me. He should know something about Kiba."
Tusme gets off the bed and tries to not displace anything inside his body when he moves. he is going to open the door to talk to the office when he hears the cell phone of the police office rings. the officer answers the phones, 'hello? Yes, sir. Yes, sir, she is on her way there. yes, sir."
Tsume can hear another officer asks, "who called you on the phone?"
The officer who just talked on the phone says, "oh, it's Commissioner Jean-Pierre. He just want to know if Detective Blue left for the scene yet. he wanted to tell her he is sending a team there."
Tsume frowns.
'I'm going to check if the guy need anything to eat." One of the police office says as he opens the door to Tsume's room, The officer shouts, "he is gone!"
"What?" The other police office looks into the room and sees that it's empty. The hospital clothes are on the bed, and all Kiba's clothes and other belongings are gone.
Hige and Blue arrive at the crime scene where Kiba and Toboe are suppose to be captured. Aya's car stops behind them. "Where is the police? how come they are not here?" Aya asks Blue.
"I don't know. They should have been here by now." Blue says, she calls the station again. "Hello, Inspector Jean-Pierre? Where are the backups? Those people's life might be in danger!"
"The back up is coming. Just wait a little longer." the Inspector says.
"He says the backup is coming." Blue says.
The others arrive too. Quatre looks at the building and rubs his tempo. "Something is wrong. Toboe is really scared, and Kiba is in great pain." Quatre says.
"Where is the police? We can't wait anymore." Omi says agrrivated.
"Kiba is really weak, I can hardly sense him. He isn't gonna last." Quatre says.
"We're going in. Quatre and Omi, you two wait in the car. Someone stay behind to watch them in case something happen" Aya says.
"We'll stay with them." Heroo and Duo says.
"Wait. You guys need protection. " Heroo says as he pops up his trunk. There are over 20 guns inside. Heroo gives guns to Aya.
"Alright, let's go." Aya says after he passes out the gun.
"Be careful." Quatre says to Trowa.
"Don't worry. I will get your friend back." Trowa says before getting into the
building.
Omi sighs, "Oh, I can't believe I am standing here waiting again. I have been doing nothing but waiting. When can I see Toboe-chan again?"
"Come on, let's wait in my car." Heroo says.
TBC...