Taking So Much
Chapter Two: Insanity is sanity
"If we see what we dream, then are we really always dreaming?"
Me five seconds ago… .
The morning mingle.
It was Kagome's third day in the institution and now she was being subjected to mingling with the other not really dangerous patients.
She was led into a large room filling with people with gowns matching her own. Once released, she started to wander over to a less crowded area of the room, primly seating herself on the straight-backed chair.
It wasn't long before another patient sat down in the chair directly in front of her and stared at her blankly.
She fidgeted under the patients gaze as she had her head turned, trying to ignore the golden gaze.
After nearly twenty minutes Kagome snapped at the other patient, "Why are you staring at me? Am I just so interesting that you must stare at me constantly?"
The golden-eyed man blinked a few times before uttering a single word, "Kikyo…"
When she heard the soft utterance, Kagome turned her head slowly toward the man. She saw the resemblance and cursed. "Oh hell…InuYasha…"
It scared her.
The golden-eyed man blinked again and started to reach for Kagome while speaking softly, as in a chant.
It scared her to see him like this. Her once strong friend.
"Kikyo…Kikyo…"
Reduced to this.
Kagome practically jumped out of her chair, fumbling over it backwards. With a frantic look in her eye, she tried to flee the horrible room. But she was only to come across the door with two guards in front of it.
She pleaded with the guards just to let her go back to her room. Just to get away from the people in here.
One of the guards raised an eyebrow at her pleas, "Listen girl, you will have to stay in here for the rest of the hour, just like the rest of the crazy's." He told her sardonically.
Kagome felt her anger rise, she had to get out. There was no way that she could keep her mind if she were stuck in a place where people weren't sane!
But who would believe her?
There was no hope of her getting out. They all believed her to be insane because of the real things that had happened to her in the Feudal Era.
Yet…she knew they were real, he family was supposed to know that it was real. They had even met InuYasha!
The sad thing was…the more time she had to spend in this awful place. The more she started to doubt herself…and her reality.
Kagome turned her head to glance back over to where she was sitting before, to the man who was the physical shell of what one of her closest friends was. He was now leaned back in the chair, staring at her now vacant chair; muttering to himself.
She knew what he was chanting.
Kikyo.
But how was it possible for some of her friends, even enemies to be here?
There was no possible explanation for it, Kagome was feeling herself spiral into utter confusion.
Kagura was a nurse here too.
None of this was making much sense to her, how did this happen unless her friends and enemies were all reincarnated to be around at the same time…in the same work place?
There was just something fishy about it all. But Kagome couldn't think about it for much longer because she felt a hand grasp her arm firmly and shove her into a chair.
"Get out of the way and sit down before we have to knock you down." One of the guards snapped at her viciously. Kagome hadn't even realized that she had been standing in front of the guards, spacing out in deep thought.
"Oh really?" A note of defiance in her tone, "Just what about the no abuse policy? Losing your jobs, ne?"
Kagome thought that this tactic might work; she knew what she was talking about. Even Kouga had said it to them.
One guard narrowed his eyes and brought his face down to her ear, "And just who would care…just who would hear you scream?" The guard's hand started to close around her arm slowly.
The other guard had a malicious smirk on his face as the other's statement made Kagome's eyes widen a fraction.
With a flirtatious looking smile, Kagome replied in a sultry voice, "Well…then I guess I'll just have to…give you a few KICKS!" She yelled the last part angrily as she wrenched her arm away from the guards' grasp; kneeing him in his groin.
It finally hit Kagome on what she had just did when she leapt over the fallen guard; sprinting down hall trying to shut out the angry yells after her.
'Shit, shit, shit, shit!' The girl's thoughts repeated as she turned a corner sharply, dodging a nurse carting some equipment.
An alarm, to Kagome's chagrin, started to go off. As well as a man on the P. A. System telling that a patient was loose.
'Remind me to rid the world of those damn P. A. Systems…" Kagome's last thoughts were before her right foot slide out from under her.
The scrub coverings that counted as makeshift shoes in the hospital where the cause of her fall; yet she did not just fall.
She crashed.
Into Dr. Okami.
She struggled to get out of his grip as he balanced her.
But the only thing she could hear as she looked into confused blue eyes was the deafening footfalls of the staff.
Again she struggled, pleaded with the doctor to let her go, she had to get out. She didn't belong here.
She wasn't insane.
But if she stayed here…she would be.
'Nooooooooooooooooo! Dammit, Why! Someone…anyone…please…help me…Kouga-' Were Kagome's last broken thoughts as she felt the sedative from the dart that was shot into her back flow through her bloodstream.
She started at Kouga, into his eyes. Into his very soul as she passed out from the drugs and limp in the pitying man's arms…
Kouga was furious.
He couldn't believe that the staff actually shot her.
Could they not see that she was detained already? If not just by him holding her?
He paced his office.
Kagome had been taken back to her room to sleep off the sedative. She would be alright…physically.
Kouga was afraid that this experience…that this place might break her.
Never before had he held such passion, nonetheless compassion for anyone of his patients. Not so very quickly.
It scared him.
It scared him to think that he was developing feelings for a girl that was not even in her right mind…or was she?
The doctor shook his head. He was 27 years old. A year out of residency. He had graduated early from his high-school years; testing out of them.
Therefore he proceeded to medical school. When he decided to study psychiatry it was his third year of medical school.
His dear friend of fifteen years had committed suicide.
So Kouga decided to help his friend, and their experience by helping other's in their same situation.
But never before…never before had he faced someone like this.
Someone with so much life in one instant, then so much depression in next truly amazed him.
But the thing that got to him the most was that the life that he saw in her was invoked by his presence.
Of course this made him scoff. The doctor was a full ten years older than her; practically cradle robbing!
Kouga once again tried to shake his head of these thoughts.
He shouldn't even be considering the prospect of becoming involved with the girl, she was his patient; and she was here for a reason.
That is what he kept telling himself over and over at least.
What would he do when she woke up?
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