Chapter Two: Keep it To Myself
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Beep…
Beep…
"Satoshi?"
Beep…
Beep…
…Go away…and take the pain with you…
(("Wake up. Now."))
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Satoshi's eyes flickered lightly before struggling open against the blinding light that hanged overhead. Where was he…? Snatches of memory came back to him. The library, the books, that, that light…
"Satoshi?"
Daisuke appeared somewhere to the side of his blurred vision, the picture of concern.
"What happened?" Asked Satoshi, his throat sore. He sort of remembered people, doctors, with needles and tubes, and shuddered at the memory. He hated hospitals.
"You're in the hospital," began Daisuke. "You've been unconscious for nearly three days now, ever since…well, I don't know what happened. I remember noticing this aura around those books, and then Dark shouted something, then there was that light…the next thing I knew, you'd been thrown across the other side of the room. This is the first time you've properly woken up since, I was so worried…" he trailed off, biting his lip and Satoshi noticed the stitches on his temple, and his left arm was bandaged.
"You're hurt," he said, struggling to sit up against the burning pain in his side.
"So are you, don't try and sit up like that, you could rip your stitches out! You've got a nasty cut on your side; I think it was from one of the broken bookcases."
"Broken…?"
Daisuke looked at the floor. "Yeah, when I came round after that blast, the place was a wreck. All the books and everything…I'm sorry."
Satoshi shut his eyes. The library that his mother had so lovingly tended to before her death, all gone...It had contained all the knowledge of the Hikari generations, and he had once believed that if he was ever going to find a cure for the curse that he carried, the answer would be in one of those ancient volumes. When he had found nothing, Satoshi had given up hope, and had left the great room locked up, until the day that Daisuke had decided that they open it. All gone.
But something else was bothering him…Those strange books that had started all this, he had never seen them before. He was certain that he had checked every book in the vast library, but was it possible that he had over-looked these…
Satoshi turned to say something to Daisuke about it, but then he saw the tears that were streaming down the other's cheeks.
"Daisuke, what's wrong?"
"I-I didn't know what was going to happen," he sobbed "When you weren't waking up, I was so scared…so scared that I had lost you…If I had, I don't think I could bear it."
"Daisuke, what do you mean? I'm awake now, and I'm not going anywhere in a hurry." He attempted a smile, but Daisuke continued crying.
"I couldn't bear to lose you," he continued. "Because…because I love you!"
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/"I'm such an idiot…"
/"Yup. You're an idiot."\
/"I can't believe I did that…"
/"I can't believe it either. I mean, what is the point of telling someone you love them, then doing a runner before they answer!""\
/"…Leave me alone…"
/"Look, Daisuke, why don't you try and get some sleep. You'll feel better after a nap."\
/"Can't sleep. Don't want to sleep."
/"Dai, go to sleep!"\
/"Why?"
/"Because I want you to go to sleep…"\
/"Why?"
/"…"\
/"Dark?"
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The ward was dark and corridors empty now, visiting hours were over, and Daisuke had run out long ago, leaving Satoshi alone with his thoughts. He should have said something, done something, to make him stay, to tell him that he felt the same...But now, more news had hindered his plans for love and, as the X-ray on the lit wall reflected, had shadowed his heart...
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End of chapter. Thanks for the reviews, I'll try and reply to all signed ones. The next chapters will be longer, so please don't flame me! I just really wanted to get to writing chapter 3 onwards 'cos now the plot starts getting better, I swear.
lia