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Chapter seven
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Kana smiled as she entered the Gundam pilot's room. The two of them were doing remarkably well considering the substantial amount of severe injuries they sustained.
"Ohayo, Kana." Quatre whispered tiredly, his eyes glazed over and half closed, from his propped up position in the hospital bed.
"Good morning, Quatre." Kana placed a thermometer under the blonde's tongue, "Good morning, Trowa." The banged boy nodded in her direction, grimacing at the movement. Quatre mimicked his discomfort. "You still hurt?"
"Hai." Trowa whispered.
She took out the thermometer. 104o f. She frowned. "I'm worried about this, Quatre." She shook her head, "You're temperature won't go down." She ran a gentle hand across his forehead, "I'll get you both some more pain meds.and you need to drink more. I don't want you to get dehydrated even more than you already are. I think I'll start you on an I.V., Quatre . we have to get your fluids replenished."
The blonde young man, blinked several times, trying to swallow with his dry throat. "H.Hai." he whispered in a raspy voice.
Trowa peered over at his koi from across the room, "Quatre.?"
"He needs rest, Trowa." Kana said pulling on the curtain divider and shutting the blonde in. "I'll have a nurse bring in some ice chips along with the painkillers.Trowa, how's you're temperature today?"
The banged boy raised the back of his hand to his forehead, "Not normal." He muttered, "I'd say, 102o."
Kana smiled and placed the thermometer under his tongue as well. "We'll just see." Trowa took a deep breath and closed his eyes until it beeped. Kana examined it, "You were close. 101.9o." The young man shrugged and winced, the boy in the next bed over whimpered. "I'll be back." She said leaving the room.
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Trowa strained to sit up, leaning against the elbow that wasn't in a cast, ignoring the agony that ensued. "Quatre?"
"I'm here, Trowa." Came the weak response, laced with pain.
"Koi.You're still linked to me?"
Quatre was having a difficult time breathing. Trowa could feel his own chest constricting, "H.Hai."
"Quatre, Koi, you need to disconnect it." Trowa frowned. "You'll never get better if you're trying to cope with both of our pain."
"I.I can't, Trowa.I've tried."
Trowa frowned, "What do you mean you can't?"
"I don't know.how." The boy gasped out.
"Quatre, you must!"
Tears welled in the boy's eyes, "Gomen, koi. but I don't .know how we got connected.in the first place." The boy's fingers raked the sweat soaked sheets, trying to find some relief from his misery.
"Quatre." Trowa murmured, at a lost of what he could do for his love.
"Trowa." He whispered.
"Hn?"
"Ai shiteru."
Trowa smiled softly, "Ai shiteru, Quatre." He settled himself back against the pillows. "Sleep, Little One, it'll help you get well."
"Hmm." Quatre agreed quietly. After a few minutes, Trowa thought that sleep had finally claimed his koi, until the tired voice spoke again. "Trowa.?"
"Yes, Quatre?" The banged boy could feel his own fatigue creeping up on him.
"Have you heard. how Miss Relena is doing?"
"She's doing fine, Quatre. Hiiro checks up on her frequently."
"Oh." The blonde whispered. "Okay."
Trowa frowned, "Something wrong, Koi?"
"No. just tired."
"Then go to sleep." Trowa smirked.
"I'll try."
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Emerald eyes scanned the shelves of prescriptions. Finally, Dr. Soma found the one she was looking for. Signing it out in the log, she turned and headed towards the nurse's station. 'This should give Quatre some comfort.' She thought before a blunt force slammed her against the wall and she lost consciousness. The drug rolled under a nearby cart.
"Come now, Kana. you have an appointment that you can't miss."
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Duo stood in the bathroom, leaning against the sink. He had been vomiting for the last half hour, and he didn't understand why. He didn't feel sick. He hadn't overeaten, as if that were even possible. He hadn't seen anything gross or disturbing. He had just vomited.
/"Are you going to play with me?"/ A voice asked, as the braided boy felt a tugging on his shirt.
"Huh?" He frowned, looking around for the troublemaker.
/"I want to play Peter Pan!"/ A child's bright eyes peered up at him from under the sink. Duo shook his head and rubbed his eyes. The child was a little girl. She was wearing a pink ruffled dress. Her blonde curls were bouncy and were tied out of her face with yellow ribbons, /"You can be Peter. I'll be Wendy."/ She laughed. The girl stood up, brushing off her dress. She smiled sweetly, /"I like playing Peter Pan.you get to fly."/
"Y.You shouldn't be in here." Duo frowned, backing away from the kid. "This is the men's restroom."
The girl giggled and took his hand, /"Come on! This way! This way!"/ the child pulled at his hand.
"MATTE!" Duo protested. 'Something's not right!' His mind screamed as the child pulled him towards the window.
/"You're going to play with me? We'll go flying."/ The girl grinned, not letting go, nor letting up on her persistent tugging. /"It'll be fun!"/
"Kid! I can't go with you!" Duo frowned pulling back on his hand, and fell back onto his but. "That was weird." the braided boy shook as he looked from his hand to the little girl who was studying her own hand. "You didn't let go." He lost his train of thought as he realized he was staring through the girl.
/"That wasn't nice."/ The girl pouted, her lip quivering, /"Does this mean you won't play with me?"/
Duo swallowed the lump in his throat, "Who are you?"
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Hiiro stepped into the hall and quietly closed Relena's door. The Vice Foreign Minister still remained in a coma, but all of her vitals were stable. "Relena." He mumbled, "I will find who did this to you."
"GET AWAY!"
Hiiro's head whipped up, 'That sounded like.' "DUO?"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!!"
Hiiro took off down the hall following the sound of his friend's frightened voice till it lead him to the men's bathroom. He pulled out his gun, and removed the safety. Then he burst through the door ready to kill anyone who was trying to harm Duo.
"LET GO!"
Hiiro frowned, he couldn't see Duo anywhere in the room. In fact as far as he could see he was the only one in the bathroom. "DUO?"
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"DUO?" A familiar voice called, "Where are you?"
"HIIIRO!" He called out desperately clinging to the edge of the window sill, "HIIIIIIRO!"
/"Come fly with me." The little girl was pleading, "It'll be fun! You won't have to worry about anything ever again! Please, come fly with me." /
"HIIIIIIIIIIIIROOO, HELP ME!" He screamed.
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The Japanese boy listened, trying to discern from where Duo's voice was coming from. 'If I didn't know any better. I'd think it was from.' ".Outside! DUO!" He ran to the open window. Below, the braided boy was kicking at something Hiiro couldn't see. The amethyst eyes looked up. They were filled with fright.
"HIIRO!"
"Give me you're hand, Duo." he ordered climbing on the sill and leaning down to reach for his friend.
"I can't HIIRO!" The boy violently denied, "I can't!"
"Duo, I'll pull you up, just give me your hand." Hiiro scowled. "Don't tell me you can't, just do it!"
The braided boy's body jolted as if something had yanked on it, pulling him down towards a fall of thirty-four stories and an unpleasant death. "Hiiro." Duo pleaded, his breath coming in quick panicked pants.
"Duo, do you trust me?" Hiiro frowned, his hand still reaching for his friend.
"Y.Yes." The boy grimaced as his grip began to slip.
/"I want to go flying!"/ The girl pouted, pulling on the braided one's leg.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Duo kicked at the girl. His grip slipped further.
Hiiro leaned as far as he could without loosing his balance, "DUO, you HAVE to give me your hand NOW! I don't want lose you!"
The braided boy looked up, "Hiiro." He took a deep breath and swung his arm up towards the window and into Hiiro's waiting hand.
The Japanese boy sighed in relief as he pulled the American to safety and back into the bathroom. "There. you're safe now."
Duo shook his head and backed away from the window. His entire body shook with terror.
/"I want to fly! You said you'd fly with me!"/ The girl looked angry as she./floated/.back into the bathroom.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Duo screamed, "GET A WAY FROM ME!"
Hiiro looked around the room. "Duo, who won't leave you alone? Is it me?"
"No, Hiiro.no." Duo was now pressed against the wall opposite of the window, he was trapped and she was coming closer.
"Duo, there is no one here besides you and me." Hiiro took a tentative step towards his frightened friend. "Duo, there's no one here."
"I can see her, Hiiro." Duo whispered. Sweat caked his skin making it cold and clammy. "She won't go a way."
/"You said you'd go flying with me!"/
Hiiro looked around the bathroom again, "Where Duo? Where? I can't see anyone other than you."
"H.Hiiro." the boy sunk to the floor, hugging himself against whatever he thought he saw.
"Duo." Hiiro knelt in front of him, his hands firmly on the boy's shaking form. "Look at me." Slowly, the amethyst eyes locked onto cerulean eyes, "What ever you're afraid of, it's okay. I'm not going to let anything happen to you."
"Hiiro." Duo whispered before passing out into the Japanese boy's arms.
"I promise, Duo." Hiiro whispered, brushing back some of the boy's chestnut bangs. He then picked up the unconscious boy and took him away from that bathroom.
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To Be Continued. . .
Chapter seven
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Kana smiled as she entered the Gundam pilot's room. The two of them were doing remarkably well considering the substantial amount of severe injuries they sustained.
"Ohayo, Kana." Quatre whispered tiredly, his eyes glazed over and half closed, from his propped up position in the hospital bed.
"Good morning, Quatre." Kana placed a thermometer under the blonde's tongue, "Good morning, Trowa." The banged boy nodded in her direction, grimacing at the movement. Quatre mimicked his discomfort. "You still hurt?"
"Hai." Trowa whispered.
She took out the thermometer. 104o f. She frowned. "I'm worried about this, Quatre." She shook her head, "You're temperature won't go down." She ran a gentle hand across his forehead, "I'll get you both some more pain meds.and you need to drink more. I don't want you to get dehydrated even more than you already are. I think I'll start you on an I.V., Quatre . we have to get your fluids replenished."
The blonde young man, blinked several times, trying to swallow with his dry throat. "H.Hai." he whispered in a raspy voice.
Trowa peered over at his koi from across the room, "Quatre.?"
"He needs rest, Trowa." Kana said pulling on the curtain divider and shutting the blonde in. "I'll have a nurse bring in some ice chips along with the painkillers.Trowa, how's you're temperature today?"
The banged boy raised the back of his hand to his forehead, "Not normal." He muttered, "I'd say, 102o."
Kana smiled and placed the thermometer under his tongue as well. "We'll just see." Trowa took a deep breath and closed his eyes until it beeped. Kana examined it, "You were close. 101.9o." The young man shrugged and winced, the boy in the next bed over whimpered. "I'll be back." She said leaving the room.
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Trowa strained to sit up, leaning against the elbow that wasn't in a cast, ignoring the agony that ensued. "Quatre?"
"I'm here, Trowa." Came the weak response, laced with pain.
"Koi.You're still linked to me?"
Quatre was having a difficult time breathing. Trowa could feel his own chest constricting, "H.Hai."
"Quatre, Koi, you need to disconnect it." Trowa frowned. "You'll never get better if you're trying to cope with both of our pain."
"I.I can't, Trowa.I've tried."
Trowa frowned, "What do you mean you can't?"
"I don't know.how." The boy gasped out.
"Quatre, you must!"
Tears welled in the boy's eyes, "Gomen, koi. but I don't .know how we got connected.in the first place." The boy's fingers raked the sweat soaked sheets, trying to find some relief from his misery.
"Quatre." Trowa murmured, at a lost of what he could do for his love.
"Trowa." He whispered.
"Hn?"
"Ai shiteru."
Trowa smiled softly, "Ai shiteru, Quatre." He settled himself back against the pillows. "Sleep, Little One, it'll help you get well."
"Hmm." Quatre agreed quietly. After a few minutes, Trowa thought that sleep had finally claimed his koi, until the tired voice spoke again. "Trowa.?"
"Yes, Quatre?" The banged boy could feel his own fatigue creeping up on him.
"Have you heard. how Miss Relena is doing?"
"She's doing fine, Quatre. Hiiro checks up on her frequently."
"Oh." The blonde whispered. "Okay."
Trowa frowned, "Something wrong, Koi?"
"No. just tired."
"Then go to sleep." Trowa smirked.
"I'll try."
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Emerald eyes scanned the shelves of prescriptions. Finally, Dr. Soma found the one she was looking for. Signing it out in the log, she turned and headed towards the nurse's station. 'This should give Quatre some comfort.' She thought before a blunt force slammed her against the wall and she lost consciousness. The drug rolled under a nearby cart.
"Come now, Kana. you have an appointment that you can't miss."
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Duo stood in the bathroom, leaning against the sink. He had been vomiting for the last half hour, and he didn't understand why. He didn't feel sick. He hadn't overeaten, as if that were even possible. He hadn't seen anything gross or disturbing. He had just vomited.
/"Are you going to play with me?"/ A voice asked, as the braided boy felt a tugging on his shirt.
"Huh?" He frowned, looking around for the troublemaker.
/"I want to play Peter Pan!"/ A child's bright eyes peered up at him from under the sink. Duo shook his head and rubbed his eyes. The child was a little girl. She was wearing a pink ruffled dress. Her blonde curls were bouncy and were tied out of her face with yellow ribbons, /"You can be Peter. I'll be Wendy."/ She laughed. The girl stood up, brushing off her dress. She smiled sweetly, /"I like playing Peter Pan.you get to fly."/
"Y.You shouldn't be in here." Duo frowned, backing away from the kid. "This is the men's restroom."
The girl giggled and took his hand, /"Come on! This way! This way!"/ the child pulled at his hand.
"MATTE!" Duo protested. 'Something's not right!' His mind screamed as the child pulled him towards the window.
/"You're going to play with me? We'll go flying."/ The girl grinned, not letting go, nor letting up on her persistent tugging. /"It'll be fun!"/
"Kid! I can't go with you!" Duo frowned pulling back on his hand, and fell back onto his but. "That was weird." the braided boy shook as he looked from his hand to the little girl who was studying her own hand. "You didn't let go." He lost his train of thought as he realized he was staring through the girl.
/"That wasn't nice."/ The girl pouted, her lip quivering, /"Does this mean you won't play with me?"/
Duo swallowed the lump in his throat, "Who are you?"
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Hiiro stepped into the hall and quietly closed Relena's door. The Vice Foreign Minister still remained in a coma, but all of her vitals were stable. "Relena." He mumbled, "I will find who did this to you."
"GET AWAY!"
Hiiro's head whipped up, 'That sounded like.' "DUO?"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!!"
Hiiro took off down the hall following the sound of his friend's frightened voice till it lead him to the men's bathroom. He pulled out his gun, and removed the safety. Then he burst through the door ready to kill anyone who was trying to harm Duo.
"LET GO!"
Hiiro frowned, he couldn't see Duo anywhere in the room. In fact as far as he could see he was the only one in the bathroom. "DUO?"
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"DUO?" A familiar voice called, "Where are you?"
"HIIIRO!" He called out desperately clinging to the edge of the window sill, "HIIIIIIRO!"
/"Come fly with me." The little girl was pleading, "It'll be fun! You won't have to worry about anything ever again! Please, come fly with me." /
"HIIIIIIIIIIIIROOO, HELP ME!" He screamed.
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The Japanese boy listened, trying to discern from where Duo's voice was coming from. 'If I didn't know any better. I'd think it was from.' ".Outside! DUO!" He ran to the open window. Below, the braided boy was kicking at something Hiiro couldn't see. The amethyst eyes looked up. They were filled with fright.
"HIIRO!"
"Give me you're hand, Duo." he ordered climbing on the sill and leaning down to reach for his friend.
"I can't HIIRO!" The boy violently denied, "I can't!"
"Duo, I'll pull you up, just give me your hand." Hiiro scowled. "Don't tell me you can't, just do it!"
The braided boy's body jolted as if something had yanked on it, pulling him down towards a fall of thirty-four stories and an unpleasant death. "Hiiro." Duo pleaded, his breath coming in quick panicked pants.
"Duo, do you trust me?" Hiiro frowned, his hand still reaching for his friend.
"Y.Yes." The boy grimaced as his grip began to slip.
/"I want to go flying!"/ The girl pouted, pulling on the braided one's leg.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Duo kicked at the girl. His grip slipped further.
Hiiro leaned as far as he could without loosing his balance, "DUO, you HAVE to give me your hand NOW! I don't want lose you!"
The braided boy looked up, "Hiiro." He took a deep breath and swung his arm up towards the window and into Hiiro's waiting hand.
The Japanese boy sighed in relief as he pulled the American to safety and back into the bathroom. "There. you're safe now."
Duo shook his head and backed away from the window. His entire body shook with terror.
/"I want to fly! You said you'd fly with me!"/ The girl looked angry as she./floated/.back into the bathroom.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Duo screamed, "GET A WAY FROM ME!"
Hiiro looked around the room. "Duo, who won't leave you alone? Is it me?"
"No, Hiiro.no." Duo was now pressed against the wall opposite of the window, he was trapped and she was coming closer.
"Duo, there is no one here besides you and me." Hiiro took a tentative step towards his frightened friend. "Duo, there's no one here."
"I can see her, Hiiro." Duo whispered. Sweat caked his skin making it cold and clammy. "She won't go a way."
/"You said you'd go flying with me!"/
Hiiro looked around the bathroom again, "Where Duo? Where? I can't see anyone other than you."
"H.Hiiro." the boy sunk to the floor, hugging himself against whatever he thought he saw.
"Duo." Hiiro knelt in front of him, his hands firmly on the boy's shaking form. "Look at me." Slowly, the amethyst eyes locked onto cerulean eyes, "What ever you're afraid of, it's okay. I'm not going to let anything happen to you."
"Hiiro." Duo whispered before passing out into the Japanese boy's arms.
"I promise, Duo." Hiiro whispered, brushing back some of the boy's chestnut bangs. He then picked up the unconscious boy and took him away from that bathroom.
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To Be Continued. . .