Three weeks later...
Gohan walked through the door to Alex's room.
"Gohan, you have got to get me outta here. This place is boring me to death." Alex said as soon as he seen Gohan.
Alex has been trying to get Gohan to get him out of the hospital for two weeks now.
"He's healed so fast." Gohan thought without answering Alex.
"Gohan? You there? Hellooo" Alex said after Gohan didn't answer.
"What, sorry Alex, just thinking." Gohan said as he sat down in a chair beside of Alex's bed.
"You going to get me out of here or what? Alex asked Gohan even though he already knew the answer.
"No, Alex I can't get you out of here until the doctor says you can go. I told you the same thing yesterday right before I left, remember." Gohan said.
"Yeah, I know but you haven't eaten hospital food for three weeks and you get to train whenever you want to. I on the other hand, have to wait until four in the morning to do some push-ups or the nurse gets all freaked out and starts yelling at me about opening up wounds or something." Alex told Gohan.
"You have just begun to heal so if you put yourself through any strenuous exercises you would probably tear open the stitches. Gohan told Alex in a matter-of- fact voice.
"Whatever. When does the doctor say I'm going to get out of here" Alex asked Gohan.
"Tomorrow." said a nurse that was just entering the room.
"I can finally relaxed again, can't wait." said the nurse as she handed Alex his lunch.
"You mean you can gossip about which doctor you would like to date." Alex said sarcastically as he looked down at his food in disgust.
"You know you have been the biggest trouble here since that man, seven or eight years ago was here. Kept wanting to train, said something about fightingsayians, whatever that is." Said the nurse as she walked across the room and out the door.
"Well, at least youhave a hot nurse." Gohan said,truning his head back around fromwatching thenurse leave.
"What canI say,the women love me." Alex replied as Gohan brought out a brown bag from under his shirt.
"Here eat this." He handed Alex thebag, which he took with a slightly puzzled look on his face.
"Steak! I love steak, thanks Gohan." Alex said gratefully as he pulled out the contents of the bag, the hospital food pushed to the side.
"Where are you going to stay when you get out?" Gohan asked.
"I guess I'll go back to my place, if it hasn't been burnt down by now." Alex said in between mouthfuls.
"Where do you live" Gohan asked. "In a abandoned building on the outskirts of the east side." Alex said through a mouthful of steak.
"In a abandoned building? Why" Gohan asked.
"Because all the money I made as an assassin was given to me through the Kaurai Syndicate, I only gota couple hundred a month, most of which I spent on food." Alex said still shoveling food into his mouth.
"How long did you work for the Kaurai syndicate" Gohan asked Alex finished his lunch and set it aside before answering.
"I'm not sure - since I was seven or eight. I think. My uncle is the boss and when my mother and father died, he took me in." There was clearly more to the story, but Gohan figured that Alex would tell him when he was ready.
A few moments of silence past.
"Actually," Alex said sadly, "he killed them. I don't know why though." He was close to tears.
Gohan didn't know what to say, so he sat beside Alex on his bed and put his arms around him. Doing his best to comfort him.
"He set fire to the house and took me, but I got him. I killed him the night I got put in here.Toni and Eddie didn't know," Alex smiled sadly, "they know by now."
He couldn't hold back the tears any longer; they fell silently down his cheeks. Gohan held him close as he cried into his shoulder.
Chapter five: A true friend
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