Title: All In Time
Chapter 3-
Kagome lay on the bed along time after the doctor and nurse left the room, not moving, not believing. "Mom, dead," She thought to herself. She just kept repeating it like a mantra, more desperation in mind each time. "All the family I have. I'm an orphan, I'm..." Those were her last thoughts as she drifted into a fitful night of sleep.
The next morning, a nurse came into the room. "Good morning Kagome. How are you this morning?" She was trying to sound cheerful and radiate a feeling of calm. Dr. Tashio had warned her that, after all the girl had been through, she would most likely wake up confused, frighted,
and/or depressed. From the looks of it, he had been right. Kagome simply stared at her unblinkingly with listless eyes, then, with a wince and a sigh, turned her back to the nurse.
"Breakfast will come in soon dear, is there anything in particular you like or dislike." She was trying to be nice, though truth be told hospital food didn't really vary for one patient unless special orders were given due to diet, allergies or the doctor gave specific instructions. Kagome,
however, just lay there, unmoving.
At that moment, another nurse came in with a food try and set it on the roll-away bedside table.
As she walked back out, the doctor came in. "How's our patient today," he asked the nurse as he looked at the figure on the bed. He was worried about her. He had checked on he throughout the night and had seen how she didn't fall asleep until late and then hadn't slept well. He was thinking that it may have been a mistake to tell her about her mom so soon after waking up, but he honestly hadn't thought. He had seen, just after she woke up, that she had strength and life in the way she had immediately tried to get up. He had also seen, after he had said that he mom was gone, that the life just vanished to leave an empty shell.
"Well," he said to Kagome's back, "what's for breakfast this morning? Looks like scrambled eggs, grits, some toast, bacon, and jello. What do you think Kagome, sound good?" He was trying to make ut sound appealing, though he didn't think much of the watery grit, or anything else either for that matter.
Kagome didn't even respond. In fact, had he not known she was alive by the machines and such that she was hooked up to, he would have sworn she was dead.
Kagome felt dead, she didn't want to eat, she wanted to die. Her head hurt from the knock it had taken and she was covered with various cuts from all the glass from the car. Then, there was an extra deep gash on the upper front of her left arm. She was in pain and she wanted to be left alone. Why wouldn't they just leave?
During the time since breakfast had arrived, the nurse from earlier had gone out, now she came back with a fruit smoothie thinking, perhaps, since the girl obviously didn't want the food already before her, perhaps she could stand a more liquid sustenance. She held the straw to Kagome's lips but Kagome merely turned her head. The nurse shook her head and looked at the doctor. "Let her rest." He said, but she heard the worried undertones in his voice. She hadn't eaten in over four days now. Soon they would have to insert a feeding tube if things didn't change.
Things didn't change much the rest of the day. Any meal that came to Kagome, she simply ignored, she never spoke to anyone and at the end of the day, she wasn't looking too well.
"What are we going to do with her?" Dr. Tashio asked as he was getting off duty. "The medicine won't work it's wonders if she is malnutritioned and she refuses to eat. I hate to force feed her"
He looked at the nurse but she just shrugged. He shook his head and walled towards the elevator,
stopping at the desk to tell the night nurse to keep an eye on Kagome.
While driving home, Dr. Tashio wondered what he was going to do with the girl. He couldn't keep her in the hospital forever and she had no place to go. She wouldn't talk to anyone and she was refusing to eat. Something had to be done.
One he arrived, he went into his relatively large house and was met by a whirlwind of fighting across the room. This was followed by a large crash as Shesshomaru and Inuyasha entered a stall mate-each with the others hands around his neck. Their father just shook his head and looked up as his wife came into view. "Hello dear," she called to her husband, walking over to give him a hug. "There's a plate of food left in the kitchen for you."
"Thanks, sorry I was late, I'm worried over a patient and was hoping she might change while I was there." He shook his head and his wife heard the sadness in his voice.
"What's wrong with her?" His wife asked.
"She was in a car accident, a rather bad one from what I have heard, and her mother died. She will be in the hospital for a few more weeks, but there's no one to take her in when she is released. Add to that that she won't talk, and won't eat and is in a self imposed state of depression and you've got Kagome." While all this was being said, the Tashio brothers had stopped their fighting, listening to what their father had to say.
The name Kagome had struck something in Inuyasha. Some hidden memory that didn't seem willing to come to mind. He vaguely remembered someone, a girl, who had been his best friend in Tokyo. Then he had moved to Kyoto and left his best friend behind. The thought that there was even a possibility that the girl his father had just described was her disturbed him. He had not had any romantic feelings for her but he had seen her as a sort of sister. He asked his father,
"Could I meet her?" He asked this in a strange voice.
His father turned back from where he was heading to the kitchen and stared at his son. This was very uncharacteristic for Inuyasha. Then his mind was off on what this might mean. If Kagome had a friend, she might come out of her depression. She migh eat, she might recover. It was a lot of 'if's' but it might work. And he was running out of options.
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