Yami was soon joined outside those ominous doors by Seto; he wrapped an arm around Yami's shoulders and gently pulled him away. Yami followed him, silently, waging war in his head as he fought to keep from crying. They sat down outside in the freakishly pale colored waiting room, and Yami couldn't help but hold onto Seto.
"I couldn't help him," he said pitifully, his voice cracking slightly.
"It's going to be okay Yami, Yugi will get through this," Seto replied holding Yami and stroking he side of his head.
"What if they can't get his heart started?" Yami asked him burying his head into Seto's shoulder.
"Don't think about that Yami," Seto replied as he felt something wet hit his chest; he looked down at his former lover to see tears silently making their way down his cheek. Even he could tell that Yami loved Yugi as much as was humanly possible and it hurt to see him this way. They sat there like that for what seemed like hours until it was dark outside, when a doctor came through the door.
"Is there anyone here for a Yugi Mouto?" he asked taking of his mask.
"Here!" Yami said his voice still hoarse and cracking from crying so much.
"What's your relation to him?" he asked quirking an eyebrow at the sight of the man in front of him.
"fiance'," Yami choked out.
"One of those, well I have good news and bad news, the good news is he survived, the bad news out weighs the good he now has a pacemaker, if you hadn't gotten him here as fast as you did he probably would have died from blood loss or cardiac arrest and we found a very peculiar burn on his back, we will continue to monitor him through the night on all of it he is now in a comatose-like state due to the anesthetic," he told them looking down at the clipboard in his hands.
"C-can I see him?" Yami asked standing with Seto as a support.
"Sure, he probably won't be awake for a few hours, but I guess its okay," he said.
"He's in room number fifteen," he told them walking off, Seto helped Yami along as they went to Yugi's room. Yami's hand shook as he reached for the door of the room and Seto guided him towards it.
"Thank you Seto,"Yami said looking up sadly at him. Yami opened the door and looked inside, he just about broke down again, there Yugi was laying on the bed with more wires and tubes stuck into him that one could count, an oxygen mask was over his face and tubes into his nose to help him breath.
"Yugi," Yami said mournfully, shifting into the room, Seto following him. Yami sat down in the chair next to the bed,
"It's all my fault," Yami moaned looking at Yugi.
"Sh, Yami you'll wake him," Seto told him taking the other side of the bed,
"And it is not your fault," he added.
"Yes it is, if I had been watching closer I would have noticed that that was Bakura instead of you," Yami muttered reaching over and stroking the back of his little koi's hand. When Yugi let out a tiny moan Yami gasped, Yugi was awake all ready. Yugi just barely opened one of his eyes taking in a rattling breath, the little machine next to him began to beep faster and then died down again to a very slow beep; Yami noticed a glazed look cross the little one's features before his eyes opened a little wider and he tensed, a small grimace appeared on his face and he let out a tiny cry from the back of his throat.
"What's wrong Yugi?" Yami asked Seto got up and left the room to get the doctor. Yugi tried to lift his hand but just couldn't find the strength to do it, "ow," was all he could manage to whisper out.
"Shhh, my little one Seto's gone to get someone," Yami told him brushing the bangs out of the small vampire's face. Yami took Yugi's hand in his and gave it a gentle reassuring squeeze, he smiled softly at him, the doctor hurried through the door with Seto behind him.
"How did he wake up so soon, he was supposed to be out for at least two or three hours," he said looking at Yugi who stared back up at him with a tiny smile.
"He just woke up sir, he looks like he's in pain," Yami told him still holding Yugi's hand.
"Well lets just take a listen to whats going on Yugi," he said smiling at him, he sat down in the chair Seto had been sitting earlier. He carefully took the mask off his face, being careful of the tubes still in his nose and sat him up slowly, using pillows to keep him there. Yugi tried to cover his chest and hold the area over his heart, but he couldn't even lift his arms.
"What is you name sir?" Seto asked wanting to get a name to go with a face.
"Dr. Ikaru," he replied sliding his hand under the hospital shirt with the end of the stethoscope Yugi wore, making the little one look at him alarmed.
"It's okay Yugi he just wants to listen to your heart," Yami told him rubbing his back between the shoulders.
"He's still sort of nervous Dr. Ikaru," Yami said looking over at the man.
"That's all right, okay, Yugi I want you to take a deep breath for me," Yugi took in a slow shallow breath, but succeeded this time, unlike before he had had the surgery.
"Good, let it out," he said switching sides of his chest he did the same thing; Yami noticed when he went to the side with his heart there was a long row of stitches there.
"Do you think you could swallow something for me?" he asked kindly, Yugi nodded slightly and the doctor stood and went to one of the cabinets in the room he brought out two bottles of pills and returned.
"Yugi you have what is called an arrhythmia, it means your heart is going too slow, you have a pacemaker now and you are going to have to take these as needed if your heart begins to hurt, okay?" Yugi nodded again and so did Yami, he was hanging on every word the doctor was saying, from the sound of this this problem was permanent no matter what he was vampire or not. Ikaru held up the other bottle it was full of pills about the size of your average Tylenol caplet.
"Take one of these every day, these stop your system from rejecting the pacemaker, got it?" he asked opening the bottle and shaking out one of the pills, he gave it to Yugi, the little one looked at it before he put it in his mouth and swallowed, he had become used to taking pills like Tylenol and Aspirin when he had lived with his dad.
"There, now just take it easy, don't stress yourself, get some sleep if you want," he said patting him on the shoulder.
"A nurse will be by to unhook a few of these wires for you in a little bit," he added standing, leaving the medicine with Seto, he left the room. Yami helped his little koi to lay down again and kissed him on the cheek.
"I love you," he told him finally.
"I love you t-t-t-to Yami," Yugi replied in a small raspy voice smiling slightly. Yami looked out the window it was still dark out,
"Yugi why don't you get some sleep, I'll stay right here with you and Seto will go home and get you some of the blood out of the freezer, would you like that?" he asked Yugi nodded again licking his lips a bit.
"Huh?" Seto said looking up from the medicine bottles in his hand upon hearing his name.
"Seto, could you please go home and get some blood for us?" he asked him.
"Yeah, sure, does it matter what kind?" he asked putting the bottles down and heading towards the door.
"No," Yami said settling down in his chair. Seto left as well, leaving the two short vampires alone. Yugi was drifting off to the steady beeping of the heart monitor he looked over at Yami.
"Stay with me," he said quietly.
"Forever Yugi," Yami told him running a hand over his cheek. With that the little vampire finally closed his eyes and alowed his aching body to fall asleep. When he awoke it was to the face of a pretty lady, he opened his eyes a little to look up at her, she was working with some of the things attached to his chest.
"Good morning little guy," she said as he blinked sleepily up at her.
"Your fiance over there is still sleeping, I had to give him some sedatives to get him to go to sleep," she said pointing to Yami who was still sitting next to him he had a blanket over his body and his head tilted forward as he slept.
"Yami?" Yugi said trying to see if that could wake him. He slowly reached over and touched Yami's arm the vampire's eyes shot open.
"Sir, yes sir," he said tiredly,
"Oh good morning Yugi, sleep well?" he said blinking away the sleep.
"I feel better," he replied flinching slightly when the nurse took out a needle stuck in his arm.
"that's a good sign," Yami replied sitting up with his back cracking slightly.
"hospital chairs are not ment to be slept in," Yami said as a note-to-self. the nurse finished and left them alone smiling as she left at the cute little patient.
"Did I miss the blood Seto brought in?" he asked sounding sad that he hadn't been awake for it.
"No he brought by enough for both of us," Yami said reaching down next to the bed he brought up a back pack; he took out a coke bottle the old glass kind, it was completely full and capped, it looked almost exactly like real coke, but Yami got the cap off and the smell of blood drifted from the bottle.
"Here, Seto put it in that so they wouldn't go off thinking we were a bunch of sanguinarians," Yami told him helping Yugi with the bottle.
"A what?" Yugi asked.
"Sanguinarian, its a person who likes the taste, smell, even feel of blood, but they don't need it like we do, they just do it for the pleasure," Yami told him Yugi brought the bottle away from his lips to speak.
"How did you get all that blood in the freezer then?" he asked for the first time wondering that question.
"We order it, you wouldn't believe how many places there are on the Internet that sell blood for people like sanguinarians,other vampires do the same thing, its way too hard to steal from blood banks," Yami said rolling his eyes at the stupidity of the thought. Yugi took another drink off the bottle, Yami watched him, he could see Yugi's throat moving as he swallowed; the little vampire soon finished the bottle though and set it down.
"Thank you Yami," he said licking his lips as Yami got up to throw the bottle in the trash.
"Can we go home?" Yugi asked,
"I don't like hospitals," he added.
"I don't know when they'll let you go," Yami replied coming back to him.
"Why wouldn't you like it here anyway? there's nothing bad here," Yami said naively never having been in a modern day hospital.
"The food is horrible, and I've been here at least over twenty times in the past three years," Yugi said trying to scratch the back of his neck but stoping when the tube for his IV was pulled.
"Oh, sorry," Yami said feeling bad that his little lover had been here so many times, most likely because of his father.
"It's okay, I have you and the others now," he said smiling Yami leaned in and have him a kiss right on the lips.
"I just love you so much," he said kissing him again.
"Yami-i-i," Yugi squeaked giggling lightly as Yami continued with light pecks all over his face.
"What?" Yami asked smiling at his little lover.
"I see you're feeling better," Ikaru said from the door. Yami backed away and Yugi blushed a deep red,
"So any problems this morning?" he asked smiling a bit and approaching Yugi.
"No," Yugi said looking down.
"Okay, that's good, I just need to check your back and then I can discharge you and you can go home with, erm, Yami right?" he told them sitting down; Yami nodded frowning a bit though. Ikaru helped Yugi sit up and lean forward; Yugi coughed a bit at the new position, but other than that sat still. Dr. Ikaru carefully took off the bandages on Yugi's back and gasped, Yugi tried to look back over his shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Yugi asked looking out of the corner of his eye.
"It's gone, well not totally gone, but all there is left is a scratch, barely even bleeding, h-how?" he said arching an eyebrow.
"He almost bled to death from that wound, there's no possible way you could have healed that fast, I should know I've been taking care of you since you were six," He added completely taking the bandages off.
"What's this miracle cure you've found?" he asked looking at Yugi.
"Yami? Should I tell him?" Yugi whispered only loud enough for Yami to hear.
"Dr.Ikaru, how many times is Yugi going to have to come back here for his heart?" Yami asked suddenly making the doctor look up at him.
"At least every month, why do you ask?" he said.
"Can you make a promise to be Yugi's doctor whenever he comes in?" Yami asked again.
"I think I could rearrange that," he replied.
"Okay, Yugi you can tell him," Yami said.
"Dr. Ikaru, um me and Yami are more than just, well you know, we're-" Yugi gulped nervously,
"Vampires," he finished ducking his head out of instinct to avoid a hit.
"Vampires? Yugi you and I both know there is no such thing as vampires," he said chuckling; Yami noticed the sad look on Yugi's face and decided to draw Ikaru's attention.
"Sir, excuse me you're talking to the ancient pharaoh's lover," he said showing off his fangs in a wide smile. Ikaru looked up at him and noticed the fangs.
"These are attached," he said reaching up and pulling on one of his own fangs. Dr. Ikaru sat up staring at Yami with wide eyes.
"Yugi you have those too?" he said making Yugi turn to him.
"No, mine are shorter, Yami's older than me by a few millennia," Yugi said pushing up a lip to show him his own smaller thin fangs.
"Please don't tell anyone else," Yugi requested leaning back on the pillows.
"I won't, you know I won't, have I ever let you down before?" he said.
"No," Yugi said smiling slightly.
"I guess you don't need that IV any more either, then, I'll let Yami decide that, I don't know how much blood it takes to make you stable," he said chuckling and ruffling Yugi's hair.
"About enough to fill a wine bottle," Yami told him looking off towards the trash where the bottle Yugi had just drank was.
"You're probably fine then, after all the blood we pumped into you after your surgery," he said reaching over and shutting off the flow through the IV Yugi flinched again when the needle was taken out, but other than that it was practically painless.
"There's just one more thing I need to do before I let you go," Ikaru said,
"And that's taking out the stiches," he told him reaching into his pocket and pulling out a tiny pair of sicors ment for the act. Yami helped Yugi take off his shirt and the little one laid back again; for the first time Yami got to see stiches, let alone the ones on his koi's chest.
"That doesn't hurt does it?" he asked very tempted to touch.
"No, Yami, they don't hurt, you haven't had stitches before?" Yugi said looking up at Yami, grinning.
"Yugi I've never been hurt long enough to need them and I was born long before the things even existed, so no, that and they just look like a miniature way to torture someone," Yami said looking uneasily at him when the doctor began to carefully snip them away and pull them out.
"They really don't hurt at all Yami, I've had worse than this before, how many stitches did it take for this one Dr. Ikaru?" he asked pointing to the long dark scar from his shoulder to his hip.
"I think you had close to fifty on that one, I'm not sure though its been so long," he said sniping the last little stitch and taking it out.
"There, now, just get dressed and you can go check out at the front desk, if you have any trouble with your pacemaker don't be afraid to call, remember don't stress yourself too much," he said smiling he got up and left.
"Please say Seto packed me some clothes," Yugi said getting up and sitting with his legs hanging off the side of the bed.
"Yes, Yugi, you really don't think Seto would forget do you?" Yami said taking out Yugi's clothes and giving Yugi a kiss on the cheek as he gave them to him. Yugi slipped on his shirt easily, but when it got to the pants he stood and drew the curtain next to the bed cutting off Yami from seeing him naked.
"Yugi!" he whined.
"What Yami?" Yugi replied getting into his boxers.
"Why the curtains?"he asked trying to draw them back only to get his hand patted away by Yugi on the other side.
"I don't like being watched while I dress," Yugi replied drawing the curtains back, now that he was dressed.
"You're too modest,"Yami purred standing and pulling Yugi into him burying his face in the little vampire's shoulder, kissing lightly. They walked out of the room; Yugi was a bit wobbly at first but was fine, he checked himself out at the desk, smiling when the lady did a double take realizing that it had been the same boy from the night before that was about to die.
"Lets go home Yugi, Jou and co. are probably worried out of their skulls," Yami said smiling as he thought of what he was going to do with Yugi when they got home.
notes: okay not too many notes, um, for Yugi's doctors name I was very tempted to put in my eye doctors name (I wear glasses and I only go to the hospital once a year totally different story there) but you readers would have been laughing every time I mentioned his name, Dr. Whocter. and the number for Yugi's room, almost any number I use in this story has a specific significance to me, my life, or my family if you can guess what this one is for I'd be amazed.
Gruzzee: awww, good Yugi turned out okay course now he has a pace maker and has to take pills every day for eternity or until they find a cure for what he's got but other than that I think he did okay
Cazi: yeah so now Yugi should be fine right?
Gruzzee:...
Cazi: right aibou! oh well all you readers please R&R and come back for more