After returning his borrowed doctor's uniform, Drakken sadly made his way back to the hospital waiting room. Hego was waiting for him there.
"Doctor Drakken? Are you ready to go back to the Go Tower with us?" Hego asked in his soft deep voice, sensing Drakken's sadness. Drakken just nodded slowly, still dazed from what had just happened, and followed Hego out of the hospital.
Back at the Go Tower, Drakken took a long hot shower and changed into clean clothes, another one of Hego's blue shirts and a pair of his jeans that he didn't wear much anymore. After that, he went to lay down on the couch, and after much tossing and turning, finally fell asleep.
At about six in the morning, before any of the Go Team was awake yet, Drakken decided he would call a cab to drive him to the hospital. He thought about calling one of his henchmen, but then decided that they had probably all deserted him by now, since none of them had come looking for him. In fact if it wasn't for Shego's brothers, Drakken thought suddenly, Shego and I would probably still be on the island right now.
"Shego..." Drakken muttered her name out loud and it sent chills throughout his body. He loved her so much. Without thinking for another second, Drakken grabbed the phone off the hook on the wall and dialed the number for the only place he knew that had hire cars; Henchco.
"Hello? Welcome to Henchco what would you like today?" Said a man's voice on the the other end.
"Yes, um this is Doctor Drakken. I would like a car out here as soon as possible."
"OK Doctor, where do you live?"
"Pick me up at Go Tower, right in the middle of Go city."
"Alright, that will be one hundred and fifty dollars to get a cab out there and then an extra 5 bucks per mile." Said the man calmly.
"A HUNDRED AND FIFTY?" Drakken exploded, "WHAT THE HELL? DO YOU THINK I AM MADE OF MONEY?"
"That's our lowest price sir." The man's nervous voice shook as he spoke.
"Oh...fine! Just hurry up and get it here alright?" Drakken snapped slamming the phone down hard.
After an hour of nervous waiting and hunting around the tower for money, Drakken heard the car pull up outside and he hurried to it. The driver was a short stubby, bald man, dressed in a Henchco suit. He was so short that he could barely see out the window.
Drakken handed the man a paper with directions on how to get to the hospital because the hospital was many miles away. The driver took one look at it, crumpled the paper up, spit on it, and threw it out the window.
"I know how to get to the damn Hospital!" He growled fiercely at Drakken and then lit a cigar. "All you had to do was tell me where you wanted to go and I would have taken you there."
"Sorry, I didn't know." Drakken managed to say, between coughs. The whole car had filled with smoke.
"Do you think maybe you could open a window?" Asked Drakken, who was now choking on smoke.
"I'm the driver. I get to decide when we open the window."
The drive to the hospital was like hell to Drakken. When they finally got there, he tumbled out of the car, surprised he was still alive. He hesitantly payed the driver what he owed him, giving no tip for such lousy service, then ran into the hospital as fast as he could.
"Hello, I'm here to visit someone." Drakken said to the nurse at the front desk.
"Welcome, I'm nurse Lucy. So, do you have an appointment to see this 'someone'?"
"Well, no...but I have to see her now! I just have to!" Drakken burst out loudly, nearly in tears remembering the events of yesterday.
"Sorry sir we cannot allow you to see this lady if you did not set an appointment and confirm it with the patient 24 hours before your visit."
"I HAVE TO SEE HER!" Drakken felt like he was in some horrible nightmare, he couldn't control himself at all, he felt like he couldn't carry on living and breathing unless he was with Shego. He had to find out where she was!
Without even stopping to think Drakken turned and raced down the the nearest hallway.
"Catch that mad man!" Nurse Lucy screamed before she fainted right there behind her desk.
'Where could Shego be?' Drakken wondered desperately. Then he came to two doors. They were labeled ROOM 717 and further down the hallway, ROOM 718. "Room 717!" He yelled aloud, "I was here yesterday!"
People were running down the hallway trying to catch him. They were nearing, coming closer, yelling things like "Get the mad man!" and "Call the police!"
ROOM 717 was his only hope. He pushed the door open slowly, praying Shego would be in there. Closing the door behind him, Drakken dared to look at who was in the hospital bed of ROOM 717...
Black hair, slim figure, long claw like nails...IT WAS SHEGO!
Drakken ran to her bed side and sat down on a stool that was next to the bed, running his hands through Shego's tangled hair.
Her emerald green eyes were closed.
"Shego?" Drakken whispered softly in her ear. Her eyelids fluttered. "Shego?" Drakken asked, louder this time, just as the door to ROOM 717 swung open and four angry looking doctors strode up to him and grabbed his arms.
"You are coming with us sir." A tall, muscular doctor said in a deep unpleasant voice, as Shego's eyes fully opened.
The four doctors were dragging Drakken out of the room when Shego called out, "Drakken!" In a quiet weak voice, but loud enough to be heard. The doctors stopped in their tracks.
"Let him go!" Shego managed to say, quite loudly in fact, for just being through a major operation.
The doctors slowly let go of Drakken's arms and backed away. Drakken ran back to Shego's side and kissed her on the cheek.
"Do you think you could give us some privacy for a moment?" Drakken asked the doctors, who still stood there, refusing to leave.
"LEAVE!" Shego snapped at the men making them decide right away to get out of ROOM 717 immediately.
Drakken laughed as they left. "You're still your old self, Shego."
"No, not really." She said in a whisper.
"What do you mean?" Drakken asked, worried of what the answer would be.
"I'm a mother. I had three kids out of wedlock at once and lost everything the night I made them with Junior." She spoke his name with pure hate. "I'm not the same Drakken. I'll be scarred for life."
Drakken was silent. He didn't know what to say. At last he asked, "Have you seen your children yet?" Drakken bit his lip, he knew the answer to where two of the were.
"Two of them are dead." Shego spoke, as if in denial. "But I don't care."
"Shego! How can you say that? They are part of you. It doesn't matter if Junior helped make them because you carried them inside you for many months. You did all the work."
Shego rolled her eyes then sighed softly. "The nurse is bringing in my living baby at 4:00. They told me this when I woke up from the operation and then I fell asleep until well, now." She held her hand out to Drakken and he took it in his, stoking it softly.
All of a sudden, Shego began to cry.
"Shego? What's the matter?" Drakken asked, kissing her tender hand and gently caressing her cheek, wiping her tears away.
"I do care about my babies...I do! They were just innocent little lives and it's all my fault it is!"
"Shh...Shego, It's not your fault. Things like this just happen." Drakken wiped away the rest of her tears and kissed her again.
"Shut up and listen Drakken!" Shego sobbed, her whole body shaking furiously, "It is my fault! I knew the risk of getting pregnant when I had unprotected sex with that whore and I knew that triplets ran in my family! I should have been more careful!"
"Wait a second..." Drakken was suddenly confused, "There are no triplets in your family. The Wegos are twins."
"The Wegos are triplets." Shego said softly, too tired to cry and yell anymore. "Wego three died when he was only five. Aviarius killed him on our first mission."
"Oh Shego, I'm so sorry."
Drakken had never realized how rough Shego's life had been. He had always been so hard on her, and now for once he was noticing how much troubles her family had had.
"Dr.D?" Shego whispered, closing her eyes.
"Yes Shego?"
"I love you."
"I love you too, Shego."
After hearing Drakken say those comforting words, Shego fell into a peaceful slumber.
TO BE CONTINUED...