Van sat silently and patiently besides Fiona's bedside waiting for any sort of news like if she would be ok or not. Fiona had been brought in and stitched up but even the doctors weren't completely sure if she would make it or not. That was what worried Van the most. Losing her to death would be worse than losing her if she was alive.
The constant beeping of the machines was giving him hope that she would live but he feared that the beeping would suddenly stop and he would actually lose Fiona forever. She has become more to him than he ever thought. He just didn't know what he would do if she died.
She had been in the hospital wing all night. She had yet to move and it also looked like she wasn't breathing but she was with very small breaths. Her skin was extremely pale and her hands felt like they had been on ice. Sometimes it seemed as if she was going to get better but then things might take a turn for the worse only to turn around again. This has happened several times, which only made Van even more worried.
Van felt tired and wanted to go to sleep but he feared that if he did that something terrible would happen to Fiona. So he ended up just trying his best to stay awake for now and be by Fiona's side when she needed him.
Rubbing his tired eyes, Van almost hardly noticed as one of the doctors entered the room. He only noticed the doctor when he stepped up to Van and stopped right in front of him before lightly shaking Van's shoulder.
"Huh?" asked Van letting out a small yawn. He looked up and saw the doctor's serious face and had a gut feeling that he had nothing good to say. Although he didn't want to know, he found himself asking the one thing he tried to stop him from saying. "What is it?" he asked with another yawn.
"We have some news on the woman's condition if you would like to hear it," said the doctor in a quiet yet solemn voice. He saw Van nod hesitantly. "You might want to come with me," he said pointing to the door.
Now Van knew instinctively that he didn't have any good news to tell. He was scared yet followed the doctor's instructions. He stood up and slowly walked out of the room following after the doctor.
The two of them seemed to walk for a minute or so until the doctor came to a stop by some windows. The hall was empty which was what Van guessed the doctor had in mind when he said he wanted to talk. "What is going to happen? Please tell me that she is going to live," Van spoke in a voice filled with grief.
"That is one of the things that I just can't tell you as of yet. She is in a critical stage and I will be honest that she might not have much of a chance of living. Even if she does live then there is no guarantee that she will come out of her coma," he said while looking out the window. He hated giving bad news. "The bullet did some serious damage. Even if she survives and wakes up, the child won't. It didn't survive. I'm sorry," he continued sadly.
Van was in shock. There was very little chance that Fiona could live and even less that she could wake up. The child was dead as well. Whether or not it was his child, Van felt that even it deserved to live and not die the way that it did. His anger was boiling up within him. 'Damn that bastard,' thought Van with his teeth clenched.
Before another word could be spoken between. Sirens shot off all throughout the medical wing. 'Fiona!' thought Van turning and running down the halls as fast as he could to get back to her room. He just knew that it had to do with her. He was right too. When he got to her room he saw them wheeling her out of there.
"Fiona!" yelled Van but several doctors blocked him off. "Let me go. I need to get to her!" he yelled while trying to squeeze through them but they refused to allow him to get through.
"Please sir! You really need to calm down. She is hemorrhaging very badly and needs to get some immediately treatment!" the doctor that was trying to hold Van back said while struggling just to keep Van in place. All that Van could do then was watch helplessly as they wheeled the love of his life away from him with the chance he wouldn't see her again.
The doctor finally let go of Van and started to move in the direction that they took Fiona in. Van followed closely but the doctor went into a room and the door shut blocking Van from getting in.
All that Van could do now was watch through a small window as they did everything that they could to get Fiona stabilized. He watched with wide eyes when he heard the machine suddenly stopped beeping and flat lined. The pain in his heart expanded. He felt something slipping away from him and it wasn't only his heart.
Irvine quickly came into the hanger of the base and hopped out of the blade liger. He had recently left to pick something up but when he heard about what happened to Fiona, he immediately turned around and came straight back.
Irvine ran as fast as he could down towards the halls to the medical wing. He came t a stop very quickly when he saw Van walking in his direction with his eyes focused towards the ground. 'I was sure that with happening to Fiona that Van would be by her side,' Irvine thought looking curiously at Van. Van almost walked right by before Irvine grabbed his shoulder. "Where are you going Van? Don't you need to be with Fiona now?" he asked seriously.
"She's dead Irvine. They say she was hemorrhaging she died when they tried to help her," said Van in an eerily calm voice that sent shivers down everyone's spine. "That bastard shot her and left her alone for her to get here by herself," said Van and he noticed Irvine's eyes widen at this new revelation.
Irvine's eyes widened when he heard that the girl he thought of as a sister was dead. Suddenly he realized what Van was doing. It was the exact same thing he did when he went crazy before and Irvine was willing to bet that it has once again happened. "You need to calm down Van. You can't go after him right now. We don't know where he is," said Irvine but was stopped when he felt a fist slam into his gut. "Not... again," he managed to sputter out before blacking out. His body fell motionless to the floor with a slight thud and Van just walked right past him.
Last time something like this happened to Fiona. He could only feel the sorrow and pain that accompanied it. He didn't do anything for weeks and that took Fiona away from him. This time he knew he had to do something. Fiona was really dead and he sure as hell wouldn't allow that bastard to get away with it.
Van immediately got into his blade liger without listening to anyone. His hardened eyes only focused on what was ahead of him. He had one target and one target only; to find Zack and kill him. He would do it for Fiona. To avenge all that she had given up for everyone.
His cobalt eyes hardened dangerously with the hatred he was feeling for Zack. Something deep within him told him that he knew where it was that he had to go in order to find the bastard that hurt Fiona so badly. 'You will die!' Van screamed into his head.
The doctors had pretty much given up since they just couldn't revive Fiona. Moonbay was balling her eyes out. She had lost her best friend and her younger sister yet again. Something suddenly caught her eye. She looked and noticed that there seemed to be a light glow emanating off of Fiona.
The doctors seemed to notice it as well. They seemed to back up a little looking kind of fearful. They had never seen anything like this before and weren't sure what to make out of it.
What became shocking to all of them was when Fiona's eyes suddenly shot open. She screamed out one word at the top of her lungs. "VAN!" she screamed shocking everyone in the room because they thought that she was dead.
Moonbay immediately raced into the room and stood right by. "Fiona calm down. Lay back down, you need to rest," said Moonbay to the frantic Fiona. She just couldn't keep Fiona still.
Fiona suddenly calmed down and looked at Moonbay breathing heavily. "V-Van. You need to stop him Moonbay," she said with her breath coming out in short gasps. "Please Moonbay," she said in desperate.
"You need to settle down Fiona. You just died. As happy as I am that you are alive, you really need to lie down and rest so that you can get better. Besides, Van is right..." she stopped when she turned around to point to where Van was only a few minutes ago. It was only then that she realized that he was nowhere in sight. 'That is odd,' she thought. She would have figured that Van would have been happy to stay alive.
"Moonbay. Please go and stop him," she spoke softly with tears falling from her eyes. She had no idea how she could be alive either. She felt something dangerous though and knew that Van was in trouble. That was when she woke up from what was supposed to her deathbed. She was stopped from saying anything when Irvine walked into the room holding his stomach. "Irvine," said Fiona confused.
Irvine looked up and smiled when he saw that Fiona was alive. "Good to see you alive Fiona. Van thought you were dead," he said with a smile before it turned into a frown. "We have a serious problem," he said with a grim look on his face. "Van has gone nuts. He plans to go after and kill Zack," he said grimacing taking a seat upon a chair in the room.
Moonbay gasped because she realized that was what Fiona was talking about. "It is just like last time," she said quietly remembering when Fiona and Kristi were taken prisoner and Van went completely nuts and started to destroy everything.
"No, there was something different. It seemed a little worse but a little more controlled. I just can't explain what it was that I saw in him," he said cringing when he touched his side.
"Where did he go Fiona?" Moonbay asked hoping that they might be able to get to Van before he tried to take on Zack. Even she knew that Van couldn't win unless he was in a clearer state of mind. But with Van it was sometimes hard to tell.
Before Fiona could answer them, the doctors were forced to push the two of them out of the room so they could do a few tests on Fiona. It was a few minutes later and Moonbay and Irvine just stayed there so that they could ask Fiona about Van's whereabouts.
The doctors came out after a while and returned Fiona to her room with the two of them following close behind. "Now can you tell us anything Fiona?" asked Moonbay softly taking a seat next to the bed.
"Last time I saw him, he was in the closest village to this base. He wanted me to marry him in return for your safety," she said and saw Moonbay and Irvine looking at her sadly. "I went there but I wasn't about to agree to him. I wanted to get rid of him before he could do anything but it went wrong and I got shot," she said not wanting to think about it. The doctors already told her the result of the incident and it saddened her because she would never know if it was Van's child or not.
"Come on Irvine. We have to go find him before he does some serious damage. He was lucky to get off without too bad of a punishment last time. So we better stop him now!" Moonbay yelled grabbing Irvine and running to the door. Moonbay suddenly stopped right by the door. "By the, get some rest Fiona and I will bring him back for you," she spoke with a smile on her face before running away.
Fiona just watched them leave. "Please do," she whispered. She was very worried for Van. She knew something about Zack that the rest of them didn't and that could very well cause Van to lose his life if they were to battle. 'Please bring Van back to me alive,' she pleaded while a tear slipped down her face. Her eyes felt heavy and soon they shut sending her to sleep hoping that when she woke up that Van would be there.
Zack had no idea why it was that he was there. It was as if he were waiting for Fiona to change her mind and come right back to him. 'I gave her a good enough reason as to why she should come back to me. She just needs time to accept that we were meant for each other. She is carrying my child, not Flyheights,' he thought with a smirk.
A sound from behind him caught his attention. He smirked because he figured that it was Fiona coming back for him. "I knew that you would come. I hope you are feeling better Fiona," he said without turning around. With her injured, it wouldn't be hard for him to take her with him.
"Hate to tell you this but Fiona isn't coming," came a very low, very dangerous voice that Zack knew as Vans. "Because of you, she is dead. She won't be coming back to anyone," Van said angrily.
Zack was angry. He turned around to face Van and saw the look of pure hatred in his eyes. "How dare you!" he growled out. He refused to admit that it was his fault that Fiona was gone. "It is all your fault!" he said in an even lower tone of voice if it was possible.
"Get over yourself and admit that it was your fault. You were the one that shot her and left her alone in her injured state. You are the one that started all this mess that eventually led to her death!" Van yelled his eyes darkening even more.
Zack eyes suddenly softened as he straightened up with a smirk plastered onto his face. "You know Van, we really aren't all that different. We both want the same woman," he said staring at Van without anger or fear. "I love Fiona but you are getting in the way. You may think that you like her but you are wrong," said Zack with a smirk when suddenly the knife that belonged to Van's father soared through the air and hit the wall directly next to Zack's head. "You almost hit me!" he yelled with wide eyes.
"Damnit, I missed," said Van with a growl. "You are very wrong with what you said. We are nothing alike. I love Fiona from the bottom of my heart. You only lust after her. If you really loved Fiona then you wouldn't put her through some of the things that you have. You have ruined both her life as well as my own. It is your fault that I will never again see her smile, hear her voice, or just be with her again. I have never hated anyone in my life more than I hate you now!" Van yelled charging straight at him but Zack moved to the side causing Van to punch a hole into the brick wall.
Zack was completely stunned because he never realized that Van could have that much power. He hadn't even begun to show his own as of yet however. "You can't win against me Flyheight. Up until now I have only shown you a portion of the power that I actually possess. I don't usually need to use it but I think that I will make an exception just for you," he said before seemingly disappearing and reappearing right in front of Van before slamming his fist hard against Van's face.
Van went flying back and hit the wall hard. Most would have probably given up at seeing just that small show of power but he kept going out of sheer force of will to avenge Fiona. He wouldn't give up even if it killed him.
"Come on Van. You are the first person that I have ever shown this power to so at least put up a fight," he said with a smirk before kicking Van hard in the gut sending him right back to the ground and coughing up a bit of blood. He grabbed Van by the collar of his shirt and started to punch him senseless. "You are pathetic," he said looking at Van's already bloodied face. He spotted something and smirked. He dropped Van to the ground and walked over to the wall where Van's father's dagger was still in. "This ought to be interesting," Zack said pulling it out and walking towards Van. "Going to be killed by your own weapon. Very similar to Fiona when she thought she could stand up to me," he said with a smirk raising the knife up.
A shot came out of nowhere. It missed Zack but it did skim his hand a little causing him to gasp a little and drop the dagger. "You won't do anything," came Irvine's voice pointing the gun towards Zack. He would have shot another bullet but Zack suddenly disappeared and never reappeared.
Irvine lowered his gun and immediately ran to Van side. Van was hurt very badly and not just physically but mentally as well. "I couldn't do anything. I couldn't avenge Fiona or even protect her. She is gone now and I will never see her again," said Van weakly staring out into no specific place.
"Van, Fiona isn't dead. It is true that she did die for a short amount of time but somehow she managed to come back to us. She is still alive Van," said Irvine hoping that Van would be happy to hear this.
Van was quiet for a few seconds unable to take what he was hearing. Irvine held out a hand for him and Van took it before he was pulled to his feet and supported by Irvine. Moonbay came a few moments later and didn't seem to surprised to see Van the way that he was. "Take me to her Irvine," he said in a weak and tired voice.
Irvine just nodded his head to Van and with a little help, Van managed to walk long enough to the gustav. The lightning saix and the blade liger were already on it. 'I really need to see her,' her thought taking a seat and closing his eyes to get a little sleep before he got back.