Chapter. 5: thank you again for the reviews, hope you like the chapter! Enjoy!
NOTE: just to clear something up, there is no yaoi in this fic, if anything, it's just a friendship one, but there might be a relationship between Teira and Ray later, maybe if I feel like it.
When Ray woke up the next morning, he was still in the wicker chair he had been in the former day. Glancing around groggily, he saw Lee still in bed, snoozing loudly. He glanced around the other part of the room, and to his surprise, Teira had also taken refuge in another wicker chair off to the corner. She was awake and staring at him with her honey eyes. Ray uneasily slipped out of his chair and stood up.
"Er, Teira?"
"Yup." She didn't even manage to blink but continued staring. Ray's eyes shifted down to the ground, not sure of what was going on. "I wasn't planning on you coming." He murmured.
"Neither was I." she replied. "But I thought this would be the only place you would be, even though you begged me to drag you back here." Ray blinked. Is she getting at something? Teira finally stood up and wandered over to Lee's side, "how is he?"
"Not good…turns out the doctors don't know about the brainwash."
"Should they?"
"It's not going to help; just saying the situation was worse a few weeks ago isn't going to help the recovery." Teira nodded and looked down at Lee. "I feel sorry for him…no one knows who did this to him—"
Ray crossed his arms across his chest and sighed angrily, "His father." Teira looked up, unsure of what she had heard.
"—father? Lee's father?"
"Yes. He never liked or trusted me and I have my doubts that he ever really liked Lee, either." Teira blinked, flabbergasted. Ray continued, "He was abusive in more ways than one, he eventually left the village for some reason. I had no idea he had returned." Teira nodded, distracted by yet another voice that was speaking rather roughly to a nurse outside of Lee's door. Ray had taken notice on the voice too, leaning up closer to the closed door.
"Sir, please. We already have visitors."
"Let me see him! I've traveled too long—!"
"But the room is full! If we have too many visitors the patient can get frantic."
Then came a laugh, "Oh, sure…wouldn't want him to get frantic." Then there was a pause, "Can you tell the visitors that Lee's father would like to see him now…it is quite urgent."
Ray let everything else go numb as he tried to comprehend what he had just heard. Teira turned to him, helplessly. "What are we going to do?" she mouthed. Ray shrugged angrily, his eyes darting around the room wildly. Suddenly the door opened and both the teens flinched, expecting the gruesome man. But instead another nurse popped in, looking rather tired and frustrated, "Um, Mr. Chow's father would like to see him, can you please leave the roo—"
"NO! Get him out of here!" Ray darted forward, past the nurse and out to the hall. Teira ran past the nurse as well, in pursuit of Ray. "Ray!" she shouted as he darted towards the man waiting in the hallway. The confused nurse turned around to the hall way, and stared out at the three people.
The Neko Jin stopped short of the older man, flinching his muscles and tightening his fists. "Y-you!" He shouted. The man glared at Ray and started to laugh, "Ah, Raymond, how could I forget you!" he sneered.
"Y-you almost killed him! You made him try to kill me!"
Lee's father narrowed his eyes, "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Stop lying! He's your son! How could you do that to him?" Ray hollered. Suddenly nurses and doctors stepped out into the hallway to try and understand what the commotion was about. A few patients looked in on the chaos. Teira edged closer to Ray, grabbing hold of his arm, "Ray—this isn't the best place." Teira whispered, looking over at a patient who was giving her a dirty look.
"Don't you see!" Ray growled, looking from the man to Teira and back, "he's the one that did this to Lee! He injected him with the drugs; he tried to kill his own son—!"
"That's preposterous, Ray!" The man sighed.
"Shut up! You tried to kill him and me!"
"Your obviously hysterical, Ray! I had nothing to do with anything!"
"A-and you brainwashed him…" Ray glared ahead. As the man's anger tumbled over, he reached down into his coat pocket grabbing a hand gun and thrusting it ahead. Ray's eyes went microscopic as the whole hallway gasped with horror. Nothing moved for about a minute, until Lee's father spoke up. "You are ahead of your lead, Raymond. You have no idea who you are dealing with…so I suggest you shut up while you still can." Ray stood motionless as the man moved his finger over the trigger. Teira had inched closer and closer to Ray, trying to grab hold of his shoulder.
"R-ray…m—move, please!" she begged, tears starting to stream as she watched the gun being pointed at her team mate.
And as the doctors got closer and closer to Lee's father, a more determined look appeared on his face. He was determined to kill Ray.
"No…" Teira breathed, still watching the man in horror.
The older man made his last move, clamping down on the gun, "Drop dead, Kon!" the shot rang out through the entire hospital, echoing in and out along with Teira's scream. Before the doctors could grab onto Lee's father, Ray had dropped to the ground.
sniff ;-; poor Ray…I hate Lee's father so much, he reminds me off Boris in a way. I thought the shot added more tragic and angst. It went well with all the torture and stuff, if you have any questions, you can write a review or email me. Thank ya for all the reviews, you guys. I'm very happy that you like it.
Next chapter! Lee is showing signs of improvement, but is Ray? Will there be tension between the two former team mates, or will the slate be set clean? Ps. Next chapter will be last, so I can begin some more fics.