lostmoonchild: Oh no! The dreaded third to last chapter is here! I'm going to miss working on this story but never fear: a sequal is in consideration! Thanks to everybody who reviewed! Oh yeah, I don't own Code: Lyoko or any of the songs unless I say otherwise. I do own the characters who aren't part of Code: Lyoko and a few of the songs so don't sue.
Chapter Sixteen
It was nerve wrecking.
Yumi sat with her friends in the waiting room, waiting for any news on her cousin's condition. A couple doctors had come into the room but they weren't Morgan's doctors, they were simply looking for another patient's family. "Will she be alright?" Aelita asked nervously. She hated the smell of hospitals since, to her, it smelt too clean.
"I don't know. Her life is in Fate's hands now." Yumi whispered a tear rolling down her face. She knew that there was a very slim chance of her cousin surviving. She alone understood what Morgan had asked for before she was loaded into the ambulance.
"Are you Miss Kaze's family?" A doctor asked.
They stood up and nodded before Odd asked, "How bad is she?"
The doctor sighed and said, "In pretty bad shape. It'll be a miracle if she even survives tonight."
"What do you mean?" Ulrich asked. "There's a severe chance she could die?"
"Lets just say that she has a five to ten percent chance of surviving." The doctor said. "She has a severe concussion, fractured skull, broken jaw, broken cheek bone, seven teeth were knocked out, fractured collar bone, three broken ribs, one lung collapsed, her heart was on the verge of just stopping, fractured spinal cord, broken pelvis, dislocated hips, her arms are both broken to the point surgery will be required, her legs are both either fractured or broken, and her feet are broken. To be honest, I've never seen an abuse case this severe."
"Most people never have and never will." Yumi said looking worried. "So where is she now?"
"We've getting the O.R. ready for her. I just need to ask a few questions, if you don't mind."
"Go ahead." Yumi siad sitting down.
"Is she pregnant?"
They looked at Odd who shook her head. "No, if she was I'd know since I'd probably be the father." Odd said calmly.
"Is she allergic to anything?"
"Not that we're aware of."
The doctor nodded and handed Yumi some papers. "These are forms stating that you won't hold the hospital responsible incase of her death." The doctor said as Yumi read the papers.
Yumi read through the papers and said, "I'm not eighteen yet. Run this by the school since they're taking care of Ami at the moment."
"Oh, you look about eighteen." The doctor said calmly.
"I'll pretend that was a compliment." Yumi muttered under her breath.
The doctor left and they sat in the waiting room, each of them not wanting to believe what they had just heard. "Odd, it wasn't your fault." Yumi said gently when Odd broke down and started crying a little. "Nobody could have known that.."
"She wanted help and I just let him hurt her!" Odd said tears rolling down his face.
Yumi made Odd look at her and she said sternly, "Odd, you did not let him hurt her. There was a sort of darkness she was trapped in and you did the opposite of hurting her. You helped her out of that darkness."
"Anybody could have." Odd whispered.
"No, you managed to get past her defenses somehow and pulled her out." Yumi said. "I couldn't even though I was the only one who knew about how bad she had gotten hurt."
"I'm gonna get something to drink then go outside for a while." Ulrich announced. "I hate waiting in hospitals. For some reason it makes me nervous."
"We'll go with you." Jeremy and Aelita said at the same time. They didn't like hospitals either, it made them sick to know that somebody in the hospital was dying and they felt afraid that their friend would be one of the people waiting to die.
"Get some fresh air, Odd." Yumi said gently. "It'll do you good."
"I should wait for any news..."
"I'll tell you if there's any changes. I proimse."
Odd nodded and allowed himself to be led away. Yumi sighed and got up to find a pay phone. Putting in a coin, she dialled a number and said, "I'd like to place a collect call to Tokyo, Japan please. Kitsune Hotel... Ji-chan? This is Yumi... listen, Ami's been in an accident..."
After nearly twelve hours the doctor came back and saw the five teens sound asleep. He considered for a minute whether to wake them up and nearly jumped when one of them opened their eyes. "How's she doing?" Odd asked sounding woried.
The doctor smiled and said, "Well, her surgeries were a success. She might have to have surgery later in her life because we couldn't completely fix her back. She'll be able to do what she did before what happened yesterday except I suggest keeping an eye on her incase her back goes out on her."
"Don't worry, we'll keep an eye on her." Odd said waking his friends up. "Her surgeries were a success."
They smiled and noticed that the doctor had a sober look on his face. "But there was a complication during surgery to repair the fractures on her skull." The doctor said clamly. "She slipped into a coma during the surgery which we had no choice but to put her on life support since she's completely unable to breathe on her own."
"Oh my God." Yumi whispered looking worried. "Will she wake up?"
"We expect she'll wake up in about a month or two." The doctor said before looking as if he just remembered something. "Oh yes, we had to do a little surgery to get a bullet that had lodged itself near her heart and while we were doing that we found a bullet that had wedged itself between two ribs. We can't get the bullet out without risking her lung being punctured by the broken ribs."
"she's not going through anymore surgery." Yumi said sternly holding onto Ulrich's hand. "She's had that bullet in her since she was little and I know for a fact that she wants to keep the bullet in her even though it sets off alarms in airports. It has some sedimental value to her."
The doctor nodded and said, "You all can see her now if you'd like to. I'll take you to her room."
They followed the doctor and stared in shock at the person lying in a bed, hooked up to several machines. "Oh my God, Ami-chan." Yumi whispered rushing over to her cousin.
Odd felt his heart breaking as he looked into his girlfriend's face. She looked so vulnerable right now and extrememly frail. He watched as her chest rose up and down, a machine pushing air in and out of her body. "Morgan, can you hear us?" Aelita asked sounding afraid.
Ulrich put a hand on Odd's shoulder before comforting Yumi who had broken down and was crying. After fifteen minutes, Odd had worked up the nerve to ask Yumi a question. "Yumi, can you sing a song for her? So she knows we're waiting for her?" Odd asked.
Yumi nodded and said, "I know one that she used to sing all the time."
She took a deep breath and sang gently:
The day when that fragment of white fluttered down
was the beginning of everything, wasn't it?
even my thoughts are unreliable
I'm cast adrift by the warmth.
You spread your little wings and gradually gave to me
the secret feathers which began that healing magic
Dear my angel, keep shining; always let me see your smile
no matter what kind of distance parts us, I feel like I'm near you
On that rainy night when I first noticed
your shoulders' slenderness
it made me think you were like an abandoned kitten
without letting me turn my eyes away
In order to put healing magic into
the various wounds hidden beneath that smile, lets kiss
Dear my angel, do you notice? I can see you!
your back's dazzling is a pure white treasure
Dear my angel, both of us have a number of wounds carried in our arms
with only that much to bear, you can slowly fly to that distance
Dear my angel, keep shining; always let me see your smile;
never forget, no matter when, I'll be near supporting you; I love you
She stopped singing and stared at her cousin's face, seeing a look of peacefulness that was rarely ever seen. "Do you think she knows we're waiting for her to wake up?" Aelita asked looking up at Jeremy.
"I'm sure she does." Jeremy answered watching as Odd carefully touched Morgan's face. "Careful, Odd."
"I am." Odd answered watching for any signs that might show that his girlfriend was waking up.
"Excuse me, but you all have to leave the room. We need to take her vitals."A nurse said coming into the room, "I feel sorry for her, to be like this now. She's almost like an infant in a way. Completely helpless."
"Why you.." Yumi heard Morgan mutter.
"Shut up, Ami. Then talk to your boyfriend since he's already had a break down!" Yumi shot looking at her cousin. "I don't think she's completely helplelss. She's fighting her way to survive."
"Personally, miss, I'm surprised she's alive still."
"Lets go before somebody ends up doing something." Yumi said referring to how Odd was trying to keep from yelling at the nurse.
They left the room and Yumi gave Odd a warning look. "What? She was insulting my girlfriend!" Odd said looking furious. "She doesn't know what Ami's been through the night she ran away from her house."
Yumi sighed and said, "Odd, I know you're pissed off but now is not the time to start yelling at people. Listen, I know what happened that night, she let me see the memory."
Odd fell silent and watched as the nurse recorded Morgan's heartbeats and everything else. "I don't want her to be afraid anymore." Odd whispered watching his girlfriend's face.
"She'll always be afraid, Odd." Ulrich said quietly. "There's no stopping her being afraid."
"I'll help her not be afraid." Odd said suddenly.
Yumi sighed again and put a hand on Odd's shoulder. "Odd, a small part of her will always be afraid. In her mind, a dark part of her mind, she'll always be a little kid being beaten. As much as she wants to, she can't let it go since its the only thing she knows."
Odd frowned slightly and said, "I've shown her a different world."
"You may have pulled her into the world we know, Odd, but she's a stranger. She's spent all her life knowing things about abuse and very little about love."
"her mother cared for her wounds the night she ran away." Odd said.
Yumi sighed and said, "True, her mother did care for her wounds. But her mother didn't love her."
"What?"
"Ami and Jason's mother didn't want to be hit. Her being pregnant was the only thing that kept her FROM being hit so when Jason and Ami were born, she offered to allow her children to be beaten. Jason was beaten first then Ami since she tried to keep her brother from being killed which resulted in her being thrown into Jason's world." Yumi said sadly. "They were only kept alive because their mother needed them alive if she didn't want to be beaten."
They were silent after hearing the story behind what had actually happened. "I thought that he hit them because he knew that they weren't his children." Odd said softly.
"They unfortunately are his children. Jason's eyes prove it just as Morgan's ability to speak other languages without any problems proves it." Yumi said as the nurse the room. "C'mon, somebody wants to have a little chat."
Confused, they walked back into the room and Yumi started telling Morgan they were back. "About fucking time!" Morgan shouted telepathically at them. "God, that damn nurse was about to make me blow something up."
"Don't you dare blow up that life support." Ulrich said giving Morgan a warning glare.
"Stern, my eyes are shut and I'm safe in a forest of my own creation until I choose to wake up or rather, until my body chooses to wake up." Morgan said sounding unhappy. "I couldn't blow anything up unless I wanted to risk doing more damage to my body than my bastard father has already done. Which reminds me, somebody PLEASE shout at a doctor for testing me for being raped. I wasn't raped, my clothes were still on."
"Can you feel anything?" Aelita asked. "I mean, what's it feel like?"
"Let me put it this way, Princess, remember how we all felt in Lyoko? No air to breathe, no touch, to smell?"
"yes."
"Well, its sorta like that except I'm more of a ghost that's bound to flesh still."
"That sucks." Odd said. "So what'cha going to do for the next couple months?"
"I'm smiling now, Odd." Morgan informed them. "I think I'm going to be a total bitch and entertain myself by 'haunting' the school for a while. You realize that there's a ghost in the school?"
"You're not haunting the school." Yumi said calmly.
"I'd be going to classes and insulting Sissy without her knowing." Morgan said sounding completely innocent. "can you blame me for wanting to keep up my education?"
"Now by 'education' do you mean checking Odd out during classes and whenever you please without him knowing or do you mean 'education' as in dealing with school?" Yumi asked with a knowing look.
"Thought so."
They started laughing quietly since a doctor had come in to see how she was doing. "How's she doing so far?" The doctor asked. "Hmm.. everything seems to be alright."
"I should hope so! Its my body we're talking about!" Morgan shouted at the doctor. "I hate telepathy. Not everybody can hear it unless they're not thinking of anything serious at the time and my body happens to.. HEY! WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO STICK THAT?"
"its a blood thinner to keep clots from forming." The doctor explained when he saw the teenagers' confused looks.
"CLOTS! NOBODY IN MY FAMILY THAT I KNOW OF SUFFERED FROM CLOTS!" Morgan screamed.
"Settle down or else you're going to be needing a tranquilizer." Yumi muttered under her breath.
"Bitch." Morgan muttered before falling silent.
The doctor smiled and said, "I'm amazed that she's still alive. She must have some will to survive."
"Believe us, you have no idea." Jeremy said putting an arm around Aelita's waist.
"We're still going to keep an eye on her at all times. Just incase her heart tries failing on her."
They watched as the doctor left the room before turning their attention to the Japanese girl. "I hate hospitals." Morgan moaned. "Yumi-chan, as soon as I wake up will you get me out of here? Please?"
"Sorry, sweetheart, but you can't leave until the doctors give you permission to leave."
"They're going to see if I'm mentally ready to go out into the world, I just know it."
"If they do that we all know you're gonna be here a while." Ulrich said attempting to make a joke.
"Be thankful of two things, Stern. One: you're my friend. Two: I can't move my body or else I'd have socked you about now." Morgan said before they heard a yawn. "Now if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to sleep for a while. This is complete mental strain and a little bit of strain on my body. Good night!"
They smiled and promised they'd be back again soon before turning to leave the room. "Odd, you coming?" Aelita asked.
Odd nodded and gently kissed Morgan on the forehead. "I love you." Odd whispered before they all left the room leaving the unconcious girl alone.
lostmoonchild: somebody's probably gonna flame me for this chapter or ask how could I stand doing this to my own character. Well to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure. All I know is that the next chapter is going to be used to put a couple of certain cruel hearted parents on the spotlight. Read and review, flames will be used in an attempt to make me feel not so sick. Ja ne for now!