Chapter Two

Beeping sounds could be heard coming from a small, two bedded room at HQ's medical wing. In the small white room, there was a long blue curtain dividing the room into two halves. On one side, the side closest to the door, was a man lying in bed. From his waist down, he was in a hardened white cast. The man had a heart monitor going, an IV line in his left arm, and he was sound asleep. He was in his early fifties, a strong man who worked at STN-J. He was Chief Kosaka. He had recently fallen down he stairs at the STN-j base and broken his leg and fractured his hip in three places. HQ hospitalized him at their medical wing because he was a long time employee and deserved the best of care.

But Kosaka wasn't the reason the STN-J members were at the hospital wing today. The reason was on the other side of the curtain. Amon, Sakaki, Karasuma, Dojima, and Michael were standing outside of the room when a nurse in a short white dress approached them. "I'm sorry, but you can't see her right now. We need to transport her to another room on a different floor. Her condition is far worse then we thought. If you come back tomorrow, you can see her there." The nurse bowed slightly, entered the small room, and then closed the door, shutting the STN-J out.

The STN-J were furious but they were much to upset about the events that just took place to argue, so they left.

Later that night, Amon was lying in bed staring at the ceiling think about Robin. It was quiet in his apartment. Robin wasn't listening to her radio in the room next to his. He had gotten used to falling asleep to the sound of Italian opera playing through his bedroom walls. Now with the consent sound of quiet, he was having a hard time sleeping. He thought about going into her room and turning the CD player on, but knew Robin would kill him if she ever found out he was in her room, even if it is his apartment. That's when it hit him, what if she never found out? What if she never woke up? What if she…no. He couldn't make himself think it. He cared to much for her. Everyone he ever cared for got hurt. He cursed under his breath and rolled over and faced the window. He night skyline lit up with streetlights and stars. First his mother turning into a witch right in front of him when he was only a child, then it was Touko getting shot while Amon and Robin were escaping then he broke her heart by loving Robin and not her. And now Robin. How could one lone hunter bear the weight of all of this? Within a few minutes, Amon had thought himself to sleep, reawaking to the sound of his cell phone ringing around 630am the next day.

"Amon." Amon answered his cell phone, which was on his kitchen table. "Hey, it's Dojima. I just got word from Michael that they have moved Robin to her new room and they are allowing visitors. Well, only authorized HQ visitors. We qualify being STN-J and all. Karasuma and Sakaki said they will meet us over there. Michael said he'll go visit after work and headed into base to keep an eye on the scanners for any more wild ones." Dojima sounded tired and scared. She didn't get much sleep last night, and neither did any of the other STN-J members. They were all scared for Robin's sake.

Amon was showered, fed, and dressed in matter of minutes. Well maybe not fed. He grabbed a piece of toast on his way out the door and ate with one hand while driving down to HQ. Just as he arrived, so did his co-workers. They parked and headed up to the medical wing. The nurse at the front counter was giving them a hard time saying Robin was too unstable and visitors might make her worse. Robin's doctor approached from around a corner and told the nurse to allow the hunters to see her. "Nurse Sakura, let them see her. It's the least we can do. At least they will get to se her at lest once while she is still alive. Robin may not have much time left with us." The doctor tried to smile, but couldn't, so he lead the hunters to Robin's room.

Robin's new room was smaller then the last. It had one bed and a pink curtain encircled the bed. A beeping could be heard from the monitoring system that Robin was hooked up to. The doctor left the hunters alone with Robin and closed the door. They split up, Amon and Karasuma were on one side of the bed, and Dojima and Sakaki were on the other, the curtain was pulled to the foot of the bed so passers by in the hall still couldn't see Robin, but the hunters could.

Robin was pale and ill looking. She wasn't bleeding anymore which was a good sign, but her heart monitor was showing that she wasn't in very god condition. Three IV lines were going into her arms, one in the right and two in the left, and they each had some strange fluid. Another nurse in the same type of white dress entered the room to run a test on Robin, and Dojima decided to ask a few questions "Excuse me, nurse…Ming? Um, I was wondering, what's wrong with Robin?" Dojima looked over at the nurse, as did the other hunters.

The nurse looked up from hr clipboard as she was taking Robin's pulse. "She's very ill, ma'am." The nurse smiled and went back to her routine. "I believe what my friend here is asking is what is her diagnosis?" Karasuma said sounding a little pissed that the nurses was treating them like morons. "Oh…I'm sorry, I can't release any information to anyone but family." The nurse finished her tests and left the room.

Now more pissed then ever, Amon followed the nurse out of the room and went to seek out Robin's doctor. The other hunters stayed behind and just watched Robin. They found some chairs in the corner of the room and pulled them up to the bed. "Besides being pale and all, she looks kind of peaceful." Sakaki tried to lighten the mood, but failed. "Yah, if your definition of peaceful involved constant monitor beeping, and 1000 IV lines connected to you, then yah, she looks very peaceful." Dojima sarcastically responded just as Amon returned. He had a clipboard in his hand and was flipping threw some papers attached to it. He entered the room and closed the door, locking it. Robin's doctor came up to the door and banged his fist on the window. "Give that back. Only family is allowed to get patent information." His muffled voice could be heard from the other side of the door. Amon pulled down the curtain that was on the door window and walked over to Karasuma. "What did you do?" Karasuma asked with a slight chuckle in her voice. "Nothing. Just walked up to him, saw it had Robin's name, and grabbed it." Amon replied as he flipped through a few more paged, the doctor could still be heard banging on the door. "Can you make heads of this" He handed her the board. She flipped through the first few pages.

The first pages were Robin's basic information. Name, age, gender, weight, race, etc. Then there were some papers written in Italian. She figured it was medical history from when Robin was living in Italy. Finally, Karasuma found a new page. She pulled it out of the back of the pile and dropped the clipboard onto the bed. "Here it is. Robin's test results from yesterday" She stood up and started to pace the room while slowly translating the medical information. "It says…'Ms. Robin Sena was brought into the medical wing of HQ barely breathing and bleeding from the mouth. Her STN-J co-workers claimed that after a hunt, she looked pale and within a mater of seconds, collapsed. She was pale to look at and her skin was icy cold. Her fellow hunters called for medical help and within minutes a HQ medical assistance van arrived and took Ms. Sena to HQ Medical wing. Upon further tests at HQ that same day, we have come to conclusion that Ms. Sena was poisoned…" Karasuma stopped reading. Dojima gasped and it was now Sakaki's turn to go pale. Amon walked over to Karasuma and leaned over her shoulder and looked at the paper work.

He did a quick scan with his eyes then he too froze up when his dark eyes fell onto the poison. "What kind of poison?" Sakaki dared to ask. "She was poisoned with…orbo." Amon answered Sakaki as he read over the lab report with Karasuma. Karasuma covered her mouth and fell to her knees clutching the paper work in her hands. "Who would do such a thing…and why?" She asked to herself out loud as Dojima leaned into Sakaki for support and Amon just stared over at the motionless body of Robin lying on the bed.

In his mind, Amon had a sick feeling he knew who could have done this, but that person was dead. Robin killed him during the fall of factory. Who else could have had access to orbo and now that orb could easily harm Robin. Amon's eyes widened for a minute then his face turned cold once again. He knew. He knew the one person who would do this. The only person in the world that would want to harm Robin. If it wasn't Zaizen, it could only be his daughter,...Touko!

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