I was in the room with him when he awoke. His eyes fluttered open and he groaned. I had been sitting in a corner chair, dozing, but my head snapped up quickly at the sound. I rushed to his side.
"Yugi! You're awake!" His voice was soft and weak.
"Y… Yami? What's going on? Whe-…"
"Shh… it's all right. You're in the hospital. You collapsed. Don't you remember?" A few moments of silence followed before he spoke again.
"I remember now. Yami, we need to go home." My face must have taken on a strange look, because Yugi suddenly started laughing. It felt so good to hear him laugh…
"Don't look so surprised Yami. I can't explain it right now, maybe not at all, but the doctors can't help me."
"What? Yugi, doctors these days can cure almost an-… Wait a second. You mean, you know what's wrong with you? Why haven't you told me aibou?"
Just then the doctor came in. (Ha…I rhymed.) "Ah… you're awake! Wonderful!" The doctor made me leave the room while he checked him. I didn't want to, but Yugi assured me he'd be fine. (puppy dog eyes- arrgh!) I practically pounced on the door once the doctor told said I could go back in. Yugi seemed to be sleeping again, but when I walked back in, he opened his eyes. "Yami…"
"Don't you start. I know what you're going to say and no, you are not going home. You need to stay here so you can get better." I then went into a small rant, not noticing Yugi, who was smiling the whole time. I finally noticed, and was annoyed.
"And what are you smiling about?" I asked him, not the least bit amused.
"Nothing." He was still smiling. "It's just… I was just remembering something."
"And what's that?" I returned to my chair, which I had left while on my mini rant.
"I was just thinking about-…" He had gotten no further when the doctor walked in again. Annoying doctors! He finally got to tell me later what he was going to say. A memory of another time Yugi was sick, and I cared for him. Of course then, I was not yet accustomed to modern technology, so I messed up every thing. I laughed at the memory as well, and now look back on it fondly. For that's all I hold now, memories…
Yugi stayed two more days in the hospital. Doctors were confounded for, as Yugi predicted, the doctors found nothing wrong with him. I couldn't understand this, and fought for them to keep him a little longer, but with nothing wrong with him they couldn't, and sent him home. Over the next week I kept a close eye on him, monitoring him and disturbing even his very patient nerves. I then backed off- a little. But I still kept a very close watch. Yugi soon became too weak to get up, so he finally had to resign to bed rest. He didn't seem to mind- much. He still seemed to take it well, like… like he knew what was going to happen. But how? Finally, at the end of myself, late one afternoon, I asked him. His reply astounded me.
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