For the record, I don't own this great show. I hate saying that.
Melfina and Jim were still in the taxi, trying to find out if Harry or Gene had survived the attack and crash of their ships. They told the taxi to pull towards the crash scene. As they were getting closer, they saw a countless amount of rescue crews surrounding both ships, after all, it was hard to miss two burning ships that crashed near the edge of the city. Jim grabbed the umbrella that they had brought with them and got ready to open the car door when the taxi has stopped.
"Melfina," Jim said, "Just wait here. I'll go find out what happened, okay?"
"O ... o ... okay." Melfina still said through her slight sobs. Jim quickly jumped out of the car and ran to what looked like a paramedic. Melfina watched as Jim talked to him, trying to find out if they were dead or not. Jim quickly gave a wave to the man and ran back to the car as quickly as he could, closing up his umbrealla on his way back. Jim opened the door and jumped back into his seat next to Melfina.
"Heifong Hospital, sir!" Jim quickly blurted out to the taxi driver.
"You got it," he said back as he began turning around and taking them there.
"What happened, Jim? Is Harry okay?" Melfina asked, still worried.
"I don't know exactly. He said that they found two guys that matched their descriptions in the ships and they got taken to the hospital. We'll have to go there and ask." Melfina gave a sad moan and looked down at her feet.
"Oh, I hope they're okay, Jim," she said with such grief.
"I'm sure they are, Melfina," Jim said in an attempted to lift her spirits. "I mean, come on. Look at all Harry's been through and he's still alive. Don't worry." Jim leaned over to Melfina and gave her a small hug. "They'll both be okay and we can all go home soon."
"I hope you're right, Jim. I don't know if I could go on if Harry was dead."
About an hour later, the taxi pulled up to the Heifong Hospital. Jim and Melfina got out of the car and ran inside under their umbrella, because it was still raining heavily. Just then, Jim's cell phone went off. He answered it.
"Hello?" Jim asked.
"Jim! Where the hell are you!" Aisha blurted out over the other end of the phone. "Me and Suze have been home FOREVER and you guys aren't here! Are you bringing food or something?"
"No, Aisha!" Jim screamed, obviously annoyed at Aisha's constant whining over food. "Me and Melfina are at Heifing Hospital. We got into a serious fight with someone and we think Harry and Gene might be here. You guys should get down here as well." Jim could hear Aisha grumbling on the other line.
"Fine. But me and Suze ... huh? Oh, fine! Me and Suzuka will be there after we get something to eat. I'm starving," Aisha said in her usual whining manner.
"Whatever," Jim said discouragingly as he turned his phone off. "Melfina, let's go ask someone if they know where Gene and Harry ... are?" Melfina had already disappeared from Jim and was asking the girl at the front desk for any information as calmly as she could, though she was still tense and nervous.
"Please. He's got long, light blue hair, um ... he usually wears purple jeans and a black tank top." Melfina stopped for a second to wipe her still flowing tears from her eyes. "Um ... he always wears a purple bow in his hair." The receptionist stopped to think if she had seen anyone like that pass through there.
"No, I'm sorry," she replied. "I haven't seen anyone like that." Melfina's tears started to come back as Jim made his way to her side. "But if he's as hurt as you say he might be, then they probably bought him in at the other side of the building in the emergency care area. I'd ask someone over there cause they probably would know more than me."
"Okay. Thank you," Melfina quickly said as she turned around and began sprinting for the other side of the hospital. Jim started following her in a sprint as well, though at the speed Melfina was running it was hard for anyone to keep up with her. Melfina panted loudly for air as she finally made it to the other end of the hospital about ten mintues later. Jim slowed down and followed her to the help desk. "Ma'am," Melfina said to a nurse behind a desk, "I'm looking for someone here. Do you think you could help us find him?"
"Well, is he in one of the rooms?" the nurse asked back.
"We don't know. That's what we were wondering if you could help us with."
"Well, Ms. ...um ..."
"Oh! My name's Melfina."
"Okay, Ms. Melfina, if the person you're looking for is unconscious then most likely we haven't gotten things like their name on record. If you give me this person's name I'll look them up for you."
"Okay. We're looking for someone named Harry and someone named Gene," Jim said. After a few minutes of looking through the computer, the nurse turned the screen to Jim and Melfina to show them pictures of all the patients with those names.
"Are any of these people the ones you're looking for?" the nurse asked Melfina and Jim. Melfina's face only grew more saddened as she couldn't find Harry or Gene anywhere on the screen.
"No," Jim said, trying to make sure Melfina didn't have the stress of answering all of these questions in the state she was in. "None of them are the ones we're looking for."
"I'm sorry," the nurse sadly replied. "Wait! I do see nearly everyone come in through this hallway. Just give me their descriptions and I can tell you if I've seen them."
"Sure!" Melfina said eagerly. "Harry's got long, light blue hair, violet eyes, is slightly thin, he has a very light skin color, and always wears a purple bow in his hair." The nurse thought to herself for a few seconds whether or not she had seen someone that unique come through there.
"I'm sorry. I haven't seen anyone like that come through here. What does the other guy look like?"
"Well," Jim said, "He's got scruffy red hair, kinda tan, tall, has lots of scars on him, ..."
"And one hell of a headache, too." Jim turned around to see a bandaged Gene behind him on crutches, limping his way towards him and Melfina.
"Gene!" both Jim and Melfina screamed in joy as they made their way over to him. "What happened?" Jim asked anxiously.
"Well, I ended up here in a hospital is what happened." Gene said while holding the left side of his head in pain.
"Jim means what happened in space with you and Harry?" Melfina said, still worried about Harry.
"Oh! That. Um, it wasn't exactly textbook, that's for sure"
"Harry! Try to get to his other side!" Gene told Harry from the Outlaw Star. The ship that was attacking them was obviously winning this fight and both ships were in danger of being torn apart. Jim had already escaped in the escape pod with one of Gillium's pods to keep his memory intact in case the ship was destroyed.
"I'm trying! God!" Harry screamed. Harry piloted his ship around to the left side of the ship that was attacking it and bombarded it with missles to its engines. "There," Harry told Gene, "You wanna try blowing this thing up now? My ship's getting close to tearing apart."
"Okay. Firing everything I got ... NOW!" Gene said.
"Launching Halcyon missle!" Harry said as he pushed the button to fire it. Missles poured from the Outlaw Star's sides as the Halcyon missle emerged from Harry's ship's underside. Both the Outlaw Star's missles and Harry's Halcyon missle began closing in on the ship in the center which obviously wasn't going anywhere. Then, out of nowhere, the enemy disappeared into thin air, probably thanks to a Tao magic spell. With no target inbetween the missles and the ship's, there was only one place the artillary could go.
"Shit!" Gene screamed as he saw all of his missles fly in a crescent formation around the Halcyon missle and toward Harry's cockpit and the Halcyon fly straight for him. Gene immediatly jumped out of his seat and began running full speed for the other end of the ship. About ten seconds after he had jumped out of his seat the missle hit the nose of the ship, spreading it to give it a mushroom appearance. Gene was knocked off of his feet and launched through a door and into a wall, where he suffered his broken leg, some cuts, and that headache after denting and partially breaking the wall.
"After that, I went unconcious and I guess the ships just fell to the planet," Gene said, finishing his story.
"So, you don't know if Harry's okay?" Melfina sadly asked.
"Oh! Yeah, I saw Harry," Gene said.
"What?" Melfina went wide-eyed and gasped as she spoke. "Where did you see him, Gene?"
"Um, at the crash site. I woke up when someone moved my leg and it hurt a lot. When they started carrying me out on the stretcher, I looked over towards Harry's ship, cause it had crashed near mine. I saw them carrying him out on a stretcher, too. I think he was in the room next to mine."
"Where was that!" Melfina asked quickly.
"Down that hall and to the left. It's room K-5." Melfina wasted no time. She ran as fast as she could down the hallway and took the turn. It still was a long run to the room Gene was talking about. All Melfina could think about was what if Harry's injuries were so severe that he could die. She was so worried about him that she couldn't take one more second of not knowing if he was in pain, unconscious, or worse. Finally, she made it to the room Gene had told her to go to. She tried to open the door, but it was locked for some reason. Then she noticed a sign was lit in red above the door. It read "Operation in progress". Melfina put her hands over her mouth and gasped. She then began knocking on the door as she looked through the small window near the upper-middle of the door. She could see a white sheet was hanging in front of the door, blocking the bed and anyone who was in there from view, though she could see sillouettes of a doctor and what looked like a lot of nurses helping him with the procedure. Suddenly, she heard a faint scream come from the room as the patient began moving wildly, as if the pain was too much for him. Melfina now began banging on the door .
"Hello! Someone please answer the door!" she shouted. Finally, she saw a nurse come from around the curtain after the patient had calmed down and was resting. The nurse opened the door and greeted Melfina.
"Um, hello? Can I help you?" she asked.
"Yes," Melfina said, trying to gain her breath from all of the running, crying, and screaming she had been doing. "I'm looking for someone who's supposed to be in this room."
"Um, okay," the nurse said puzzled. "We haven't gotten this patient's name yet, but ... well, what's the person's name who you're looking for?"
"Harry. I just need to know if he's okay. I'm so worried about him."
"Okay. I'll ask." The nurse turned around and began speaking to whoever was behind the curtain. "Excuse me, sir," she called out. "Is your name 'Harry'?"
"Yes! Now for God's sake, please do something to stop this pain," Harry said in a moan from behind the curtain. Melfina became overcome with excitement and adrenaline then.
"Oooh! Can I talk to him? Please!" she begged to the nurse.
"I'm sorry, Ma'am, but we just gave him a sedetive which should put him to sleep for a few hours. He's been through a lot and if he doesn't get rest, then he won't recover as quickly." Melfina, once again, grew saddened.
"Oh. I understand. But can you at least ..." Melfina's sentence was cut short by the doctor, who appeared behind the nurse and asked her if she could talk with him for a few moments about some tests they were running.
"I'm sorry," the nurse said. "I have to take care of this."
"Oh. Okay." Melfina turned around and walked back down the hall discouraged yet happy at the same time. She was sad that she didn't know anything about Harry's condition or what had happened to him, but was so happy that he was at least alive and close to her again. As she looked up, Melfina saw Jim and Gene, who had gotten rid of the crutches and decided to use a vacant wheelchair, making their way towards her.
"Melfina," Jim said, "Did you find him?"
"Yeah, but they won't let me see him right now."
"I'm sorry," Jim said, trying to console her. "Um, they cleared Gene to go home now. Are you gonna stay here and look after Harry?"
"Yes, Jim," Melfina replied sweetly. "I wanna be the first one he sees when he wakes up. You guys can go home if you want. I'll be fine by myself."
"You sure?" Gene asked. "I mean, you don't think you'll need us here?"
"I'm sure. And besides, you need rest. Jim can look after you while I look after Harry," Melfina said beaming at Gene.
"That's easier said then done," Jim said while looking at Gene through the corner of his eye. "Not to mention that Aisha's gonna kill me when she finds out that she doesn't have to come here after all. Well, we'll see you later, Melfina."
"Okay, bye guys," she said waving at them as they made their way down the hall.
"Bye, Melfina," Jim and Gene said. "Call us to let us know how you are," Gene said.
"Okay," Melfina said as she turned around and found a seat near Harry's room door. Melfina thought to herself as she waited for hours to see her love. Harry, I hope your getting some great rest. Oh. I've missed you so much. Melfina smiled and continued dreaming about when Harry would get home.
Hours later, Melfina had fallen asleep in her chair, still waiting to go in to see Harry. While she was sleeping, Harry's room door opened and the lone nurse that was still in there grabbed a clipboard from the door and left down the hall. In a few minutes, Melfina slightly rubbed her eyes as she woke up from her rest. She got out of the chair and walked to the door window to see if anyone was in there. The first thing she saw as she looked into the window was her prince, Harry, lying in sleep in his bed. Melfina couldn't help but smile. She looked around in the window and noticed that no one was in there, so she opened the door and walked in. Melfina found a chair near the bed and took her seat in it next to Harry. She could see that Harry had a massive cast over his left foot and on his right arm. He had a few scratches on his face and had bandages around the top of his head, possibly to stop the bleeding from a large cut. Melfina grabbed his left hand, which had an IV inserted in it, and stroked it gently with her hands.
"Oh, Harry," Melfina sighed, "I've missed you so much. I'm so glad that you're back, but I didn't want you to come home like this. Not with you hurt." Melfina looked up to see his heart monitor beating normally and hear its steady beeping. Melfina sighed again. "You look so cute and peaceful just lying here." She moved his hand to her face and rubbed his palm to her cheek as she closed her eyes. Harry, almost subconsciously knowing that he was touching his angel, smiled in his sleep. Melfina went back to caressing his hand as she looked at him more. She noticed that his bow was missing and that his long hair was flowing around the pillow behind. Suddenly, Melfina noticed that the door to Harry's room was opening. Suddenly, a nurse walked in and saw Melfina.
"Hey!" the nurse said loudly, "What are you doing in here?"
"Oh!" Melfina said, obviously caught off-guard. "I was just ..."
"You know, you can't be in here," the nurse rudly said as she grabbed Melfina by the arm and began leading Melfina out of the room as Melfina struggled to stay in there. "The only visitors patients can have are family members, now come on."
"But, please! I really want to ..." Melfina and the nurse stopped struggling and argueing when they noticed someone standing in front of them in the doorway. Melfina looked up at the man, who had to have been at least 6' 6''. He was wearing a long, brown trenchcoat, had long black, hair tied behind his head, and very tan skin. The nurse, though she was definitly intimidated by the ominous man, got the courage to say something.
"Um, and who are you?" the nurse shyly asked.
"Me?" the man replied, very calmly. "I'm his brother, and you just happen to be throwing his wife out of the door right now. Now, if you don't mind, we'd like to see our beloved family member, please." The nurse was suddenly taken aback.
"Um, yes! Of course." She quickly let go of Melfina's arm and began making her way out of the room as she apologized to Melfina. Melfina looked like she had seen a ghost as the man made his way into the room and handed Melfina a small vase with flowers in it.
"Give these to him. I know he'll love them," the man said as Melfina looked at the purple flowers she had recieved. "Oh, I'm sorry," he then said smiling at her. "Where are my manners? Hi, I'm Ron. Ron MacDougall. And you must be Melfina."
"Um, uh, yes," Melfina timidly said as she shook his hand. "Um, are you Harry's brother?"
"Yeah. I'm that guy."
"Okay. Harry talks about you a lot. Oh, and ... we aren't married."
"Huh? Oh, well. You still got in to see him," Ron said smiling as he made his way over to Harry. Ron then flicked Harry on his nose sharply, causing Harry to twitch and start to wake up.
"Um, shouldn't we let him sleep?" Melfina asked Ron.
"Nah. He's slept enough when he was around me." Harry started to groan as he shifted in his bed and started to wake up.
"Agh! What the hell!" Harry said groggily as he opened his eyes and noticed Ron's figure right next to him. "Ron?"
"Wake up, sunshine. You got a visitor, and it's not me," he said, pointing to Melfina. Harry turned to Melfina and grew wide-eyed as he saw his angel.
"Melfina!" Harry said as he sat up in his bed, oblivious to his pain. Melfina screamed in joy and ran over to him and gave him a big hug. Harry sighed in such happiness as he held his love tighter, but not to where it hurt her. Melfina pulled back and looked and Harry, beginning to have more tears come from her eyes. Harry pulled herclose again and began kissing her intensely. Melfina only responded by mirroring Harry's emotion and kissed him just as feverishly.
"Well, looks like you two have gotten pretty close, huh?" Ron said jokingly at Harry and Melfina. Harry only replied by giving Ron the finger while continuing to kiss Melfina more. Ron just laughed and shook his head. "Yep. Same old Harry." Melfina finally pulled away from Harry and rubbed her hand across his cheek.
"I've missed you so much Harry," she said with a soft smile.
"Me too, Mel. Me too." Harry then turned to Ron. "And Ron? What are you doing here? Aren't you still on that job?"
"Yep. But I was supposed to come back to Heifong to get some stuff I needed for the job. Right after I left the space port, I saw two streaks of light coming from the sky, so I went to where they landed and one was the Outlaw Star. Some guy said that he pulled a blue-haired guy out of the wreakage so I knew it had to be you. I came here and, well, found you."
"Oh, um, wow!" Harry said surprised. "So, how have both of you been?"
"I've been good," Ron answered. "Just doing what we MacDougall's do best, right?"
"Yeah," Harry said laughing. "How have you been, Mel?"
"Oh, I've been well. I just missed you so bad." Melfina then threw her arms around Harry and held onto him tightly. Harry held her close as well and savored his first time in nearly a month of having Melfina close to him. Melfina pulled away again and brushed some of Harry's blue hair out of his eyes. "So, do you know what happened up in space? Like who attacked you or anything?"
"Not really," Harry answered. "All I remember is that I started runnning when I saw that Gene's missles were gonna hit my cockpit and when they did hit me, I got blown into a wall and my right arm got crushed between me and the wall. I don't even remember how my leg broke."
"Wait!" Ron said, "Gene fired on you!"
"Not on purpose. The ship in front of us just disappeared. Both of our missles had nowhere to go except into each other."
"Disappeared, eh?" Ron said inquisitivly. "That seems like an old Tao spell I've seen used a couple of times."
"So they were pirates after all?" Melfina asked.
"Maybe," Ron answered, grabbing a seat next to Harry. "Either that or they sure knew how to use Tao magic to pull off a spell that powerful. Only elites in the pirate's ranks could pull off something like that. I'm not even sure Hazanko knew a spell that big."
"Wow. Well, what do you think they went after us for?" Harry asked.
"Um, let's see," Ron said. "Well, you are hanging out with Gene Starwind, the Kei Pirate's number one target. Maybe that's a reason that they just happened to try to take you out."
"Oh yeah," Harry replied blandly, as if to imply that Ron's statement was pure insult. "You think it could have something to do with Mel?" he said as he looked and her and ran his hand through her hair.
"Maybe. Melfina, do you know if the Leyline still exists after all that happened when we all were there last?"
"Yes, it does," Melfina answered. "But it's location is moved. If they found it, then I know they wouldn't stop to try to use it again."
"Well, don't worry. I'm not going to let them take you from me, sweetheart," Harry said assuringly to her.
"I know. You'll take care of me. But don't you need your rest, Harry?"
"I am a little tired," Harry said as he yawned. "But I'd much rather spend time with you." Melfina smiled and held his left hand carefully. Just then, the nurse that had originally tired to take Melfina out of the room before came back in.
"Um, I'm sorry, you two," she said much more timidly, "But visiting hours are over. The patient needs his rest."
"Oh, sure," Melfina said to her. She turned back to Harry. "Do you want me to stay here and wait for you, Harry?"
"Nah. You go and get some sleep. You look like you've been through a lot. Besides, hospitals aren't the best places to stay. I'd rather have you be somewhere where you're safe."
"Okay, I'll be back tomorrow, though," Melfina said.
"Oh, he'll be released by tomorrow morning," the nurse said. "He needs to stay overnight, though, so the doctor can run some tests and he can stay on his IV to prevent any infection he might have from cuts."
"Great!" Melfina chirpped in joy. "So, I'll be here to pick you up in the morning, Okay, Harry?"
"Sure, Mel," he said as he gave her one last kiss before she left the room. "I'll see ya soon, Ron."
"See ya, Harry. I'll call you tomorrow morning," Ron said as he started to leave the room. "Best wishes."
"Yeah." Harry said in a laugh as he saw Ron leave. Harry got comfortable in his bad again and quickly dozed off as the nurse contined checking the machines around him. When she saw that he had dozed off, she removed the IV that was hanging next to him and inserted a new IV that she pulled from her uniform. After attaching the new, green-colored IV, she left the room and walked down the empty hall. As she was walking down the hall, the nurse whispered something to herself and disappeared into thin air, leaving the hallway as quiet as it could be.
Ooooooooooooooooh! Stuff's happening now, huh? Oh yeah! It's getting interesting. Sorry that this took so long to post on here and that it is remarkably shorter than my other chapters. I'm getting around to it, though. And as for lemons if you're getting mad at me about that (XD), I'm getting there. Anyways, keep reading, keep reviewing.