Title: All In Time
Chapter 6-
"Son can I talk to you for a minute?" Dr. Tashio asked his son.
"Sure Father, go ahead but I'm not going to leave her." Sesshomaru stated, not quite sure why he
was so intent on helping her but knowing that, for some reason, he was never going to leave her,
especially in her condition, around people she didn't really trust. He got up, gently laying
Kagome back against the pillows, and went to the door.
Once outside, his father looked him straight in the eye. "Sesshomaru, I appreciate what you're doing here. You have no idea how much. But you can't stay with her in examination."
"Father it's not an option. I don't know what it is about her, about me, but I need to be there for her, and she needs me to be."
"Son, I sure hope you know what you're getting into. You have no idea how happy I am that you
are spending time here, and helping out kagome, but some one in her condition, going through
what she has, she is very likely to become emotionally attached to you. I've seen it before, some
one breaks through a barrier, and then something happens to the person, and it kills the patient.
Literally. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anything is going to happen to you, but if you
stay with her now, and then leave her later, you may have done irreparable damage.
"It's all going to work out father, trust me."
"Sesshomaru I hope you know what you're doing, I'll make the exception for now but keep in mind this won't last forever."
"I appreciate your concession, now, what can I do to help?"
"Keep her calm, stay out of the way. Some x-rays have to be taken and I have a feeling she isn't going to like the machine, nothing for it though, has to be done. I will not be the only doctor in the room so I can't say what exactly is going to happen."
"Alright, does she need to go now?"
"We'll roll her bed out."
"Well then lets get on with it, I get the feeling that the sooner that this is over, the better for everyone involved." With that said the two men walked into the room. "Kagome," Sesshomaru said gently, "I'm staying with you, no one is going to hurt you okay." She stared at him.
They rolled her out into the hallway, until that moment Sesshomaru hadn't realized that her room
hadn't had that much sound or such bright lights. He looked down at Kagome to see her reaction,
although she looked pale and her eyes were closed she seemed alright. He gripped her hand
briefly and then stood aside so they could get to the door. Once he walked in he could already tell
there was going to be a problem. The machine for the x-rays was large and covering, if she was
claustrophobic in the least she would most likely fight it.
Sure enough, two nurses were about to lift her onto the contraption when Kagome started thrashing. He was immediately by her side leaning down to her. Motioning the nurses away he talked calmly, "It's ok, hey no one's going to hurt you, they have to make sure you're ok, no internal bleeding or anything alright. I'll be right beside you." He kept up the gentle talk, keeping eye contact while he was lifting her up and putting her under the machine.
"Alright son, move away and we'll start, just stand at her head if your need to." He spoke quietly so as not to startle the girl. And so the examination started.
Surprisingly it lasted about an hour and a half. When Kagome was returned back to her room everyone was exhausted. Kagome had been x-rayed, poked, prodded, given shots, had wounds re-bandaged. The last of which involved the removal of some articles of clothing and Sesshomaru had seen tears in the flesh from twisted metal and some bruises he might have reacted to had they been poking at him the way they were her. Kagome, however, didn't react at all, she kept an eye on him and that was it after the initial panicking.
Once everyone had left them alone again he looked down at the McDonald's bag holding the food that was probably cold now. "You know, you probably don't want cold food and I'm betting you wouldn't willingly eat the hospital's excuse for food but you need to eat. Let's see, what about...Life Savers, I almost always have some in my pocket, you could just suck on it and I could tell my father you ate something." He thought he saw the slightest of nods from her. He reached into his pocket and opened the pack, getting one out he held it to her lips which remained together. Sesshomaru put a bit of pressure on her lips with the candy and she let it go into her mouth. "See, not so bad is it?" He smiled a bit. Then it occurred to him, he was tired from earlier and all he had done was stand there, she should be exhausted. Taking a closer look he could see that her eyes were drooping with the want of sleep and he could just as clearly see that she was flat out refusing to sleep. Then it occurred to him why.
'I'm not going to sleep period.'
'You have to you need to rest.'
'I need a lot of things. The last time I went to 'sleep' I woke up to find out someone I trusted was dead. Now I've found someone else to trust and you won't disappear if I don't sleep again.'
Once again they were communicating in the strange way and still Sesshomaru had no idea how,
still, 'I won't go away, I'll be right here when you wake up.'
'Well, that's only part of the problem.'
'And what's the other half?'
'I...I keep reliving everything, and random cars keep appearing, trying to hit me, I can never wake up from them.'
'I'll be here to chase away the nightmares if you like.'
'You don't even know me, how can you be this nice.'
He avoided the question, he didn't know the answer himself. Instead he simply pulled the cord to turn out the light over her head. 'I'm not going anywhere and you need to sleep. I swear to you that I will be here when you wake up okay.' To his amazement he saw the smallest of smiles and a true nod come from her, then she closed her eyes to go to sleep.
AN- Alrighty, another chapter ready to go up. (Listens for applause..lol) I was hopping to make it
longer but updates have been requested and I have decided to comply. I will say in my defense
that I fried my desktop and my laptop will no longer link to the internet wirelessly plus I have
three AP classes, tennis after school sometimes two hours, homework, and college applications.
That doesn't excuse chores either then shower and my bed time, yes I still have one its 10 pm. I
wake up at 4:45 in the morning so a little leeway is in order I believe. I thought this was a good
place to stop and will start working on the next one now. I believe this is a turning point for
Kagome don't you, but what's going to happen when she has to go on with her life and
Sesshomaru has to go home?
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Wow guys so sorry. I thought I had posted this already! I swear I'm working on a new update now. I have to go out of town tomorrow but I'm taking my computer with me so expect an upday by Monday. Promise!