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Kari sat on the floor intently watching her big brother. She saw his face, so pale and distant. His eyes completely closed. He passed out when Joe and her carried him to the apartment. Always strong and alive, now lying there lifelessly. It was amazingly out of character for Tai.
"Hey," Joe walked over with two mugs of a steaming substance, he sat down beside Kari. "Just some camomile tea. Relaxes the mind and body. I always have it before an exam. But I guess it'll help here too." Joe gave an encouragingly smile.
"Thanks." Kari mumbled, her eyes still fixed on her brother. Joe looked around the apartment trying to avoid her eyes.
It was very small and was only three rooms altogether. One the bedroom where he studied constantly, the other a bathroom and the last a living area with a section for the kitchen. There was only enough room for a couch, a coffee table and an extremely small television. But Joe was humble so he didn't really find that enclosing. He looked at Kari again.
Her eyes were still transfixed on her motionless brother. "Hey Kari why don't you go and ring your mum. You know tell her where you are." Joe motioned to the hall way which led up a step and by the main door. Kari nodded slowly and stood up, still following Tai with her eyes. She stopped after a few steps.
"Joe can you look over him again?" Kari asked quietly.
"No problem." Joe grinned and Kari gave a weak smile and walked off.
Joe took in a deep breath. He could do this. Examining someone wasn't hard. He'd done it before hundreds of times. Just not to a best friend. He looked at Tai's still figure and sucked in some more air quickly. "Here goes nothing!" He whispered and shuffled towards the sofa which Joe kindly gave up for him.
He slowly edged Joe's back forward. Go for something easier first, he rubbed his fingertips up and down slowly to see if their were any broken vertebrates or large bumps that can be quite painful to anyone.
Just below Tai's shoulders Joe felt a large bump, it was protruding and somehow… sharp. He pushed his fingers slowly across to the other side. Another bump, exactly the same as the other. Joe pushed Tai back and examined the facial marks. A couple of cuts and bruises, he opened his eyes carefully to see if they were focused and not dilated in any way. But what he saw was even more peculiar, Tai's eyes had gone completely grey. Not brown any more. Just… grey.
Joe pondered this for a few seconds then remembered the bumps on the back. How could they be there. Bruises were normally more swollen and rounded, but these were sharp and just so different to what he'd ever felt. Maybe they were broken bones… He would have to investigate further but first finish examining elsewhere. He felt the arms carefully to check broken bones and the down to the legs and then to the bit he feared the most. The torso.
It wasn't that he was inexperienced it was just slightly embarrassing.
Joe took another deep breath. Ok… I'm just going to get it over with! Joe slowly edged his hand towards to Tai's chest.
"Joe what are you doing?" Kari's voice rang in Joe's eyes. Joe felt the shivers coming on. He turned slowly and carefully. Kari's face had a happy expression rather happy rather than shocked.
"Umm, examining! That's it!" Joe laughed nervously.
"You know I could help if you needed it." Kari smiled. She walked over with her mug covered with both hands.
"Umm, sure!" then a thought passed Joe's mind. "Yeah can you do one thing for me?" he asked more comfortably.
"Ok," Kari took another gulp of camomile tea. "What is it?"
"Um can you examine Tai's chest?" Joe asked more carefully now, wincing immediately after prepared to get yelled at for being a pervert.
"Ok." Kari walked over quickly and placed her mug on Joe's coffee table. "What do I look for?" she asked rubbing her hands together.
"Just bumps, indents, rough patches could mean scabs or scratches." Joe counted the injuries off on his fingers.
"Ok then," She grimaced, although she had lived with Tai for many many years this was still an uncomfortable situation and she could understand why Joe was so nervous about it. She slowly pushed her hand up Tai's shirt and felt around as carefully and softly as possible. So not to wake him and so not to hurt him either. She really really didn't want Tai to wake up at that exact moment.
"Kari… What are you doing?" a soft groany voice murmured. Joe jumped so did Kari causing her to scratch Tai. "Hey! Ow!"
"Oh my gosh!" Kari pulled her hands away. And covered her mouth controlling her urge to laugh and then go extremely red. "Sorry!"
"She was examining for injuries!" Joe pitched in the explanation.
"Where am I?" Tai looked around confusedly.
"My home." Joe sighed.
"Oh good." Tai's face suddenly cropped a smile. "Gee Kari, I never knew you felt that way."
"Shut up!" Kari snapped. "I was helping!" she added quickly sticking her tongue out.
"Yeah well really I feel great, so Dr J can I leave." Tai laughed and began to sit up.
"No." Joe replied quickly. "I still have to examine something."
"What now? My penis?" Tai suddenly grimaced at the thought.
"God no!" Kari shuddered.
"No! Your back!" Joe said above everything else.
"Oh ok." Tai shrugged. "Would you like a feel around or shall I just take my shirt off?" Tai grinned.
"Tai!" Kari snapped again. He was being way to cocky and rude too.
"Actually yeah," Joe said calmly.
"Ok… are you sure?" Tai suddenly seemed slightly concerned.
"Yeah." Joe smiled, his mind screaming saying "You idiot! You probably sound like a right pervert!" he blocked it out with piano music as quickly as humanly possible.
"I mean I don't have to you know." Tai quickly added getting slightly nervous.
"Oh come on Tai. Imagine you're in front of Sora." Kari joked suddenly. Her mood suddenly uplifted as her brother awoke. She felt a lot more confident that Tai was ok. And maybe that was one last thing to worry about. Now only T.K, Mimi, Matt, Izzy and Sora left and she would be hunky-dory.
"Fine!" Tai snorted unimpressed. He sat up carefully. "Turn around! This is embarrassing enough without two people staring." Tai demanded. This was really peeing off his pride. Did he really have to undress in front of his friends. Kari and Joe looked away immediately as he feebly attacked the first button.
"Ok you can look now." Tai sighed after a couple of minutes tackling tiny buttons with weak fingers. Joe and Kari turned around. Tai grimaced as Kari's face went scarlet and Joe felt his need to look away again. Why was he so unpleasant to look at? He had a well sculpted chest with a couple of packs and did work out regularly to keep them that way… Oh maybe Joe was jealous. Tai giggled at the thought. Well they were bloody brilliant though.
"Tai turn around." Joe said quickly.
"Why? Jealous?" Tai couldn't resist he had to ask.
"No! The reason why I told you to take your top off was because I need to look at your back." Joe clarified.
Tai sighed and turned around and looked towards the extremely small kitchen cabinets.
There was a sudden gasp. Tai guessed it was Kari.
"What?" He asked a little worried.
"Tai! You've… g-g-got… w-wings!" Kari stuttered.
Prosperine looked carefully into the box. "Marvellous isn't it." She sighed impressed with her work. "Last time it worked this well I got banished to another world. But I clawed my way out." Prosperine laughed nostalgically. Good times.
"Prosperine. This is too slow." the man growled. He was impatient by nature and this wasn't helping his desperate urge to kill that girl of Light!
"Oh tisk tisk! Patience my dear friend!"
"Every time you say that the closer they could be to finding the virtues."
"For the last time!" Prosperine was now loosing her patience. "Verrine! You may be the demon of impatience but I am not! Now you came to me Verrine and fact is you will wait as long as it takes to kill the digi-destined." Prosperine showed Verrine the reason he came to her. The determination of being the destroyer. He loved that about her. The heartless cruelty. But she always used slow and painful methods rather than mindless killing. That was probably a reason why he came to her…
"Just make it work faster." Verrine snarled.
Davis watched the television mindlessly every now and again grabbing a handful chips from the bowl in front of him. This was boring. He stared at all those lucky people who got to look beautiful and be noticed every day of their lives. It must really suck. Davis laughed at their misfortune. But it wasn't exactly very nice to laugh out loud so he just snickered instead.
School also sucked. But that wasn't surprising, the teachers hated him, he had hardly any friends… Well Ken was there but he was always in higher classes and was loved by the teacher and amazingly very popular. Davis really was proud of him. It was good that he was getting out and meeting new people.
Davis looked back at the television and saw something weird on it. It was all fussed up and there was this huge fat guy sitting there. He had a huge pot belly and a long beard. He wore a small pair of pants but that was it. And to make him look even weirder than he was, he had horns on either side of his head… Davis looked at the strange figure in amazement. The guy had almost red eyes. Or were they just blood shot… He looked at Davis lazily.
Davis looked around in amazement but the guy still looked at him directly. Davis scrambled for the tv remote and tried to change the channel but when it did change it was exactly the same. The guys horns glowed a light violet. Davis continued to stare and the fat guy just stared at him. Davis saw the purple things glow even brighter. He looked at them carefully. He walked over.
He wondered why they got bigger as he got closer… Then they hit him…