Chapter 4. Thank you all for the reviews, keep em coming! Lol.
NOTE! Ray's not in the coma on this chapter, I though I'd explain a few things about Lee's condition. Enjoy.
Later on that day, Teira entered Ray's room to find the Neko Jin lying down on his back.
"Ray?" She moved cautiously over to his side. The Chinese teen suppressed a groan before moving over to his other side, avoiding Teira completely.
"Ray…I—are you ok?"
"Do I look ok?" Ray tugged onto the sheets wearily.
"Well, you're pale." She admitted, "I was just checking on you—"
"I'm never going back there…you can't make me." Teira blinked in astonishment. "Ray…I won't make you." she sighed. Ray looked up at the girl with depressed amber orbs, "He tried to kill my again…like burning my house down wasn't enough." Teira sat down on the bed, now confused.
"He did what?" Ray moved up in the covers until him and Teira where face to face. Using one hand to gingerly swipe back his silk sleeve, Teira stared down at his other arm. A red burn scar had been placed over the teen's left arm.
"He wanted me dead, so he burnt the place down…while I was asleep." Teira slapped a hand to her mouth, "R-Ray you should have—"
"Have what? Told you?" He growled, looking down at the bedding, "What use would that have been? I didn't want to see him to begin with…but I did because I knew you wanted to. The guy tried to kill me—I want nothing to do with him."
"Ray, he was brainwashed into doing all those things…it wasn't him—it was someone else."
"I know, but I still have to look at the person who set the fire." Ray whispered, "I still have that picture in my head. I don't see the person that did that to Lee, I see Lee!"
Without hesitation, Teira threw her arms around the older teen's neck, pulling him into a hug. Ray set his head on top of Teira's and sighed, letting the younger girl nuzzle into his chest. "Teira, whats wrong with me? Is it ok to want somebody dead…is it ok to want that?" he clutched the girl tighter.
"…Ray—don't say that."
"Something in me still wants to get things right, but the other part hates him…I can't decide." Teira let her face drop down to Rays shoulder, running her fingers over his red silk shirt.
"Never go with hate. You'll never forgive yourself if you just leave him lying in that hospital bed, Ray; you're his best friend…get revenge for him." Teira replied, rather fiercely. "Find out who did this to him."
As Teira broke away from the Chinese teen, Ray gathered an idea. Grabbing a coat, his shoes, and his cell phone, he ran over to his latest destination. Tokyo Hospital.
"Mr. Chow, please cooperate…Mr. Chow!" The nurse was beginning to loose patience with the Neko Jin, when the door slammed open. Lee stopped in his tracks and threw the covers back over his head. The nurse sighed wearily and slumped back in her chair, "Mr. Kon…what can I do for you?"
Ray looked around the room, tacking in all of the medical equipment for the second time. He watched the heart monitor beat slowly and the figure under the covers shift with the passing silence.
"I—uh need to talk to Lee. Privately." The nurse jumped out of the chair at the opportunity to escape the room and swept by Ray, "Gladly. The doctor will be in shortly for another dose of his meds, umm…be careful." And the nurse left the room, leaving Ray alone with his former team mate. Lee shifted under the covers once more, "Leave me alone…traitor." Lee hissed, peeping one eyed out from under the white linen. Ray ignored the comment and sat down on the same wicker chair that the nurse had.
"Lee…you can talk to me." Ray started, through clenched teeth, "I need to know who did this to you."
"…"
Ray sighed gently and pulled out a few pieces of paper he had brought in his coat, "I'm not playing games, Lee. You're making me do this to you." he folded one of the papers in half and came closer to Lee's bed side. The Neko Jin pulled away from the older teen and huddled up in the farthest corner. Ray came closer and knelt down beside him, unraveling the paper to show Lee the face of the glaring man. Once the picture caught Lee's eye, he clawed up against the wall and cried out as if someone had slapped him. Ray tore the picture into half and then fourths, throwing it down on the ground.
"Lee, he's not here…but I need you to tell me, is that who hurt you?" Lee suppressed a tiny nod before breaking down into sobs. He curled his legs up to his chest and wept loudly. Ray watched the boy cry, remembering everything he knew about the man. Lee's father was always abusive and short of temper…and he had never like Ray. He was the one who had brainwashed Lee. He had turned his best friend against him; Lee's own father.
"Lee…" Ray patted the teen on the shoulder and came closer to him, "He's gone…I'll find him and make sure he never goes near you again." Lee sniffed a few tears away and looked up at Ray with water stained eyes.
"He'll find me…Ray; he'll find me like he did. Y-you can stop him!"
"Um…am I interrupting something?" a man's voice called from behind the two teens. Ray stood up to look the doctor in the eyes. "I'm here for Mr. Chow's meds." The doctor clarified.
"Call him Lee." Ray growled, "You'll sound to foreign to him if you call him Mr. Chow." The doctor nodded and held out a hand, "I'm Dr. Carnet. I suppose you understood that Lee had to be moved here from China because of his condition."
"Condition? Is it that bad?" Carnet looked Ray strait in the eyes.
"I'm not going to lie to you. Being forced overdoses of an illegal drug for a month strait…the odds aren't good." He looked back over at Lee who had stopped crying long enough to put the covers back over his head. "What relation do you have with him? Brother? Cousin—?"
"I'm his best friend." Ray clarified, "I live in the area." Carnet nodded and went over to the cabinets pulling out a new IV needle. Ray fumbled around with a water bottle and tried to collect all of the information he had just discovered.
"Is—will he die?" Ray stood up strait, letting the bottle roll onto the ground.
"Uh…there's a possible chance, but we're doing everything we can to help your friend." The doctor smiled encouragingly, "He's in good hands."
"Yeah…" Ray faded away. "What did the drugs do to him?"
"Well, sense it is illegal, we've sent out a sample of his blood stream to our investigators, we have yet to receive the results. But we do know that it harmed the nerves that surround his brain; it affected the movement in his left leg, for some reason; though that will heal. But this drug really works on your mind; the way you look at things. If an average person just decided to hop on this drug and take it strait for a month…" Carnet paused for words. "You couldn't stop yourself from doing the things you know are wrong—it's a fight against your own body, for lack of a better word."
"Oh—wow…" Ray inhaled.
"Yes. It's quite a situation your friend is in…he needs all the moral support he can get, everything else is up to God." Ray nodded and sat back down in the wicker chair. As the doctor neared over to Lee's bed, Ray watched the sleeping form.
"I'm asking you personally, do you think Lee will survive this?" Ray questioned, not taking his eyes off the bed. Carnet turned around and pocketed the syringe.
"It's a 50/60 percentage. His body is used to the drug, now, if your body is used to something and totally losses it, lots of things can happen. We're not absolutely sure that he can make it without it. But the high toxicity of it will eventually kill him if he takes anymore. His heart is uneven in its core paces, what we're trying to do now is put in good substitute meds that can help his body recover from the drug, and even out his heart paces." Carnet paused for a moment before continuing, "in short, Lee's recovery is really up to Lee and Lee alone."
NEXT chapter: I'm debating on Ray going into the coma on this one or the next, what do you think? But if I don't do the coma it'll be more like this: Ray returns home to have another talk with Teira. Little do they know they will soon have a visitor known as— read the next chap to figure it out!