"Please Kai just calm down."
Kai merely struggled more violently in the doctor's grip. Infuriated that this total stranger was not only calling him by his first name, but also acting as if this guy was much more mature than Kai. He was acting as if he could be trusted but he hadn't yet proved that to Kai. So he shouldn't be acting like that.
"No, I have to see her" Why wouldn't they just listen. It had been literally hours since they had taken Rage away. Now this doctor guy just waltzes into the check up room where Kai had been told to wait. And he wouldn't give him the slightest useful information about her, only that she was stable.
In fact if anything it was the doctor who was asking Kai for information about Rage. Kai's teammates were just staring at him like he'd gone crazy or something. He needed to see Rage, to make sure that she was all right. Then this doctor person, a doctor Giles according to his name badge. Says that he wants to give Kai a check up, whatever that meant. It sure didn't mean anything good when he was at the abbey. When the doctors there said check up, they really meant needles and pain.
"Have to make sure she's OK" Kai growled, trying once again to get off the medical table. Every time he tried he always seemed to get pushed back on. His feet weren't reaching the floor, so it was hard to gain a foothold to help him. Was he even saying proper words anymore? He had lost track of what he was saying a while back. Why wouldn't anyone listen to him? Didn't they know that that creep Bathos could show up any minute? Its not like the security at the hospital was very challenging or anything.
"Why?"
Kai stopped struggling abruptly, startled that Ray could get so close to him without him noticing. The doctor stood back to regain his composure, and Ray took over by placing his hands firmly on Kai's shoulders to make sure he wouldn't try to get away again. His amber eyes stared right into his crimson ones.
Kai glared at him warily, he felt so awkward with someone so close to him. But Ray was his friend he wouldn't hurt him, right? So, why was he feeling so afraid then?
"Kai, why do you have make sure she's OK?" Ray asked. His voice was calm and his grip wasn't too tight, almost like he knew that Kai wasn't going to fight him. Kai couldn't fight him; he was his friend he had to trust him like they were always telling him to.
Kai stared at him confused for a minute, before he remembered what he had said. The reasons Kai had to protect her were so many; all were hidden in the dark depths of his past. Of their past, in that abbey. There was one reason that stood out beyond all the others though.
"Because I promised," Kai blurted out before he could stop himself. Feeling ashamed, he turned his gaze to stare at the suddenly very interesting floor.
"I don't want to break my promise again," he whispered so quietly that only Ray heard him. In reality he was talking to himself, he didn't want to admit it but he had lost a bit of his valued self-control with these people wanting to be in such close proximity of him. It made him uncomfortable, afraid even. Although he didn't allow that fact to show on his face.
He hated hospitals for good reason. They had had medical rooms in the abbey, the exact same rooms as the scientists carried out their painful experiments. The problem was that the scientists were the same people as the doctors. The rooms were the same, the lack of painkillers were the same. The screaming that travelled down the winding hallways of the abbey were the same.
You could never tell whether what they injected into you was antibiotics or a newly developed serum that would keep you up all night with a fever so bad that you felt you were burning from the inside out. Rage, she hated hospitals almost as much as he did and she was on her own here somewhere.
He felt someone squeeze his shoulder reassuringly. He looked up at Ray and realised that he had allowed his emotionless mask to fall for a second. Ray had seen a hint of all the emotions fighting inside of him and had been worried. Kai forced the dark thoughts to the back of his mind, and retrieved his usual calm.
The doctor, now fully recovered from his disagreement stepped forward to be the adult in this situation. The angry glares from Kai certainly weren't helping his job much though.
"Kai, if you just remove your shirt then I can inspect your wounds. Then I promise I'll take you to see your friend."
Ray stepped back, leaving Kai to the mercy of doctor Giles. Kai felt a tiny twinge of fear go off inside of him, he had trusted Ray but he didn't trust this doctor. He ignored the urge to run out of this foul smelling room. He wouldn't allow himself to lose his control in front of his team again. He frowned at the doctor, while pulling his legs toward himself. So that he was sitting cross-legged on the cool metal examining table.
"I'm fine," he said cautiously knowing that his words wouldn't convince him. The offer of seeing Rage was tempting, but he didn't want to take his shirt off. He had gotten away this long without showing his team the reason he always had his top half covered. It was the reason he didn't go swimming with them, because wearing a t-shirt in the water would raise too many questions.
"Please Kai" the doctor tried again, why did he always call him by his first name. If it was supposed to have a calming effect, it wasn't working. It just made Kai more on edge than before.
"I'll be quick, but Mr Dickinson insisted that you have a check up. The quicker it's over with, the quicker you get to see your friend." Giles talked to him like Kai was a small child, and Giles was tempting him with the promise of a lollypop afterwards.
Kai sighed; this guy was really getting on his nerves. Almost as much as Tyson, and that was saying something. He frowned when he saw that Ray was actually finding it amusing watching him get wound up. A smile was pulling at the neko-jin's lips, even though he was fighting to suppress it.
At least if he got it over with, then he could see Rage. Make sure that she was all right; make sure that he kept his promise this time. Kai looked at the floor again as he unwound his scarf, placing it next to him on the table. Then he removed his shirt, exposing his hidden scars to the air. He placed the shirt by the scarf, aware of the eerie silence that had fallen in the room.
He chanced a glance at his team. Ray wasn't smiling anymore, none of them were. He turned his head away, not able to meet their eyes. He just stared uncomfortably into space, waiting for it to be over. The bruises from the fight with Bathos were scarce and insignificant compared with what had caught all their stares, the scars from his past.
"Kai, how did you get these?" Kai suppressed a shudder as the doctor moved behind him. He was examining the slash like scars on his back, there were many of them. They covered his back from the base of his neck right down to disappear under the top of his trousers.
"I had a…active childhood" Kai replied in a monotone. He couldn't help but shiver as Giles traced a finger over some of the more vivid scars. Kai lowered his head slightly, trying to remain in a calm mood. No one was going to hurt him, his friends trusted this doctor so he should too. Still, he couldn't stop his shoulders tensing at the touch. He hated people touching him.
"Kai, these are whip marks," the doctor said, moving around to face him. "And these" he said pointing at the marred looking patches of skin on his chest. "Are burn marks, and these are stab wounds" he continued, gesturing at the scar tissue that spoilt his otherwise well defined chest.
"And this if I'm not very much mistaken is a bullet wound" the doctor gasped, examining Kai's right shoulder. Kai covered his shoulder instinctively; his eyes were hard and cold. That scar brought back his need to see Rage full force. When he had thought her dead, that scar had been the reminder that had always stayed with him. Even when he had forgotten where he had got it from.
"If you're finished gawking," Kai said in a voice overflowing with sarcasm. "Can I see Rage now?"
"Yes, of course" Doctor Giles said, while anxiously scribbling down notes on his clipboard. Kai didn't like to think of what Mr Dickinson would say when Doctor Giles told him how the check-up went.
"You seem to have only suffered some bruising, which should heal up fine in about a week. Your friend is in room 414, just out the door and to your left."
"Oh" the doctor added as Kai pulled his shirt back on again and began retying his scarf. "The police would like to talk to you and her soon about the man who tried to take your friend. They'll arrange when its best to talk to you through Mr Dickinson."
Kai nodded and exited the room, turning left, as the doctor had said. After a moment of hesitation, the rest of the blade breakers followed.
"Yo Kai!" Tyson yelled catching up with him. "Why didn't you just tell us about….well, you know" he trailed off, still shocked at what he had seen.
"You never asked" Kai replied, not taking his attention off the task of finding the room. It was a long hallway.
"Well it's not exactually something that you ask about, is it Kai?" Max argued. "Is this why you always refuse to go swimming with us?"
Silence followed his question. "You could have just told us Kai" Max continued sadly "We would have understood."
"Kai" Ray said quietly walking beside him. "Scars like that take years to make, that means that you must of just been a kid when…" Ray drew a deep breath and asked the question he really wanted to say.
"Are they from the abbey?"
"Quit while you're ahead Ray" Kai warned. This feline like blader was just too curious for his own good.
Ray gave a small nod. "I have another question I want to ask" Ray said getting no response from Kai.
"Why do you call her Rage?" he asked, his head tilted slightly in a curious puppy look.
"If you're ever unlucky enough to see her angry, then you'll understand." Was Kai's vague answer.
Ray frowned, and was about to ask for a clearer explanation when they heard a crash. A nurse flew out of a door ahead of them, hitting the wall opposite with a loud thump. She looked around groggily with her back against the wall. Then a large needle flew out of the room after her, imbedding itself in the wall right by the nurse's head. The nurse took one look at the vibrating needle, and immediately fainted.
Kai did something very unexpected. He covered his face with his hands for a moment, as if he was embarrassed about something. He sighed, shaking his head as he walked to the room that the nurse had just been thrown from. His whole expression was saying 'not again'.
Ray looked at the door Kai was heading to and understood. The room number was 414.
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