A/N: Sorry for taking so long. Like I said before, I run out of ideas really quickly. This chapter is mostly dedicated to why Kaede is in the position she is in today.

Disclaimer: I don't own Chobits or Angelic Layer.

Chapter 3

" Well Kaede, as long as you stay calm and stay away from stressful situations you should be okay. But if you do stagnate again, it will be longer than for three days. The more you stagnate, the longer you'll stay under." The doctor explained to his patient. Kaede stared curiously at the x-rays of her skull. Dark blotches contaminated the insides of the skull.

" But, doctor. By stagnating, I can remember my past. I can remember…my brother." She protested. She was wearing the newly bought glasses Minoru had paid for. They were the same thin wired-framed glasses that covered the tops of her smiling cheeks.

" Kaede, stagnating is what got you here." He said slipping off his own glasses and ruffling his hair in thought. He sighed and replaced the glasses back on his thin cheeks. " When your father was chasing you, you were so scared that you blanked out."

" How do you know that?" She asked. The doctor held up files that had the word 'confidential' stamped on it with red ink.

" I know your psychiatrist." He answered, smiled, and threw the files onto his desk. Kaede rolled her eyes but smiled anyway. " So have you figured anything else out?" He asked. The doctor clicked his pen, sat down, and leaned back in his roller chair with his leg propped up against the other; the files open in his lap.

" Well, I haven't purposely stagnated since I've been in the hospital. I can vaguely remember my brother's face. It was sorta round, y'know in a cute little boyish way." She said glowing as she reminisced about his features. The doctor nodded uninterested in the unimportant details. " He had dark hair, like my father's, and glasses." Kaede listed counting off his features on her hand.

" So the reason you couldn't stay with him was because of your disease? Your family couldn't afford the money, so they drove you from your own house." He said flipping through the notes that had been taken during sessions.

" I really should be talking with my psychiatrist about this." Kaede said reluctant to give him any more information. Her shoulders drooped indicating that she couldn't hold anything from him. " Not my family. My father." She explained softly. She wore a frown as she turned her back to the doctor.

" What about your mother?" He asked already knowing the answer from the notes.

" She died when my brother and I were younger." Kaede whispered slightly squeezing her fists. She held in her tears for her unknown mother. The doctor, noticing her pain, propped up in his chair. He quickly grabbed her shoulders and looked her straight in her eyes.

" Calm down Kaede. If you continue like this, you'll stagnate. Though the environment would be perfect for it, us being in a doctor's office and all, I'd rather you not." The doctor rubbed her shoulders assuring her physically that everything would be okay.

" Okay…I'm okay now." She said wiping away the invisible tears. " It's just that my mother left us with an uncaring father. I don't like to blame people, but if I could blame it on someone, I would blame it on her." Kaede said breathing heavily. She new an attack was coming on, but she did not want to give in to her weakness; her disease.

" You were right. This isn't my place." The doctor resumed. He put the files back in his desk. He went back to her and rubbed the top of her head. " You'll be okay, kid. I hope you can find your brother without stagnating."

" Doctor…" Kaede whispered hoarsely.

" What is it Kaede?" He asked kindly.

" I really need to talk about this now. I can't wait for the next appointment. Please doctor. Please listen to me." She said gingerly taking his hand off her head and rubbing it between her two palms. He smiled softly and sat back down in his chair.

" Okay Kaede." He agreed. He grabbed a pen ready for anything.

" My father…didn't want a daughter. He wanted a son to play ball with. He was a conventional father." She said and smiled. " But my brother kept to himself in his room. All he ever did was read and study for school. I enjoyed sitting with him on a big bean bag chair telling him stories that I had just read in school." Her smile faded slowly. " My father got really angry with him and started to ignore my brother completely. After my mother died, he cut us off completely. The only time I would see him would be at the dinner table." Kaede paused and brought her hands to her chest. " But then we started seeing him a lot more. He lost his job. All he did was lay around the house, depressed. There was no money coming in. All I could do was convince my brother to get odd jobs. I knew he hated…but I still made him do it." Kaede murmured. Real tears fell from her eyes. The doctor started to stand but Kaede held out her hand signaling to stop. " And one day, the medical bill came. We didn't have enough money to pay for it. I hid it in my room from my father and brother. He found it, rather my father found it." Kaede ducked her head as the tears trickled down her cheeks and plummeted to the cheaply carpeted floor. " That's when he chased me from the house." She looked up slowly at the doctor before shutting her eyes and dropping to the ground.

" Kaede!" The doctor exclaimed. He rushed to her side and put her head on his lap. He placed his cheek over her mouth. " Still breathing…" He muttered hastily. He grabbed her wrist to find a rushed heart beat. " Dammit I told you to stay calm." The doctor swore under his breath. " Someone get in hear and call an ambulance!" He yelled for his assistance. The rushing of feet could be heard on the other side before it burst open with three or four nurses curiously worried about the situation. " Get me her medicine!" He strictly ordered. Two of them rushed from the room and the other sat down next to the doctor.

" What happened?" She asked worriedly.

" She fainted; hopefully from exhaustion." The doctor explained.

The red lights of an ambulance flashed through the window as the doctor lifted Kaede on the stretcher.

" Here's her medicine." A fatigued nurse said thrusting the medicine into his hands.

" Tilt her head." He commanded. The doctor unscrewed the top of the medicine and poured an unmeasured amount of liquid medicine into her mouth. She swallowed all of it without choking. Her heavy breathing slowed as it turned into a normal pace. " Get her out of here." The doctor uttered his last order before sitting, exhausted, in his rolling chair. He placed his glasses on in a professional manner and leaned back in his chair once again. He clicked the pen and scribbled a small note in the files.

(All of this just to find a stupid brother.) He thought and sighed. The doctor looked at the dark spots in her brain before shaking his head and getting back to his business.

A/N: I hope you liked it! Please stick with me because I will not abandon this fic!