An hour later, Kairi, Hurky, Alexa, and Ryo joined Riku at the emergency room. Hurky, Ryo, and Alexa were silent, but Kairi was in tears. She ran to Riku and wrapped her arms around him.

"Is he going to be okay?" sobbed Kairi.

"I don't know." said Riku. Kairi let go of him. "Nobody's given me any news yet."

They all sat down and waited...and waited...and waited. Finally, Sora's parents walked out. All the teenagers stood up.

"Well?" asked Riku.

Sora's father sighed. "The good news is that Sora will be just fine." he began. "But the bad news is that he hasn't woken up since getting hit by the car, he suffered a major gash on his back, he has a broken wrist, a broken rib, and he suffered from a concussion. But other than that, he only has a few other cuts and scrapes on him, but he'll be here for a while."

Sora's mother wiped her eyes. Sora's father put his arm around his wife.

"You can all go see him now." continued Mr. Hart. "Me and his mother are going home."

The couple walked out of the ER waiting room. Riku, Kairi, Ryo, Alexa, and Hurky all turned to each other with a look on all their faces, saying "Let's go see him."

They went to the desk, asked to see Sora, was directed to Room 4-23, and stepped into an elevator. No one said anything during the whole elevator ride. It took about 30 seconds to get there, but they all felt that the elevator ride took half an hour. When the doors opened again when it reached the fourth floor, everyone walked out and went to look for room 23. They walked in to find Sora, lying in a bed, asleep. He had a bandages all over, including on his forehead. He wore no shirt, because his chest was taped up all around his chest and his back to hold the big gauze covering the wound on his back, and his left wrist was in a cast. He was also given oxygen through small tubes in his nose.

Seeing the wound on Sora's back, Riku looked down at his hands and saw that the blood on them was still there. He went to the bathroom and washed his hands.

"This is crazy." said Hurky. She was always saying that everything was crazy.

"Whatever happened to the driver?" asked Alexa.

"Nobody knows." said Riku. "They think it was a hit and run."

"Is he even alive?" asked Ryo, just staring at Sora's lifeless body.

"You can see that he's alive because of the heart monitor." said Kairi.

She was right. The monitor was beeping in the rhythm of Sora's heart.

All five of them sat there in silence, mourning for their friend, even though he wasn't dead.

Two hours later, Riku came home from the hospital. He went to his room and sat on his bed to think. Who did this to Sora? he thought. And why? He didn't even do anything!

Riku had a feeling that someone did this on purpose. He knew that a lot of people wanted Sora dead, like Ansem, The Organization, and all the other bad guys he dealt with when he went to their worlds. But some of them probably didn't even know how to drive. The only people who wanted Sora dead and who possibly drove a car were Ansem and the Organization. But Riku knew that Axel and Marluxia both have had a history of DUIs, parking tickets, and had their licenses revoked, so they might not have been the ones, unless they disobeyed their orders from the DMV and drove without their licenses. He only knew this because Sora's parents were friends with Axel's parents and they spoke of their son's driving record.

As Riku sat there and thought, Rep walked in, eating an apple.

"Whatcha doing?" he asked.

"Thinking." replied Riku. "Now get out of my room or I'll have to use force." When he referred to using force, he was talking about using his Soul Eater. He only got to use it once on Rep.

"How's Sora?" asked Rep. He took a bite from the apple.

"He's in pretty bad shape," said Riku. "A broken wrist and a rib, a concussion, a gash on his back, et cetera..."

Rep bit into the apple again. Then something occurred to Riku.

"Hey, wait a minute! Since when do you want to know how Sora is? You didn't even call him Sore-ass for once." he pointed out.

"I'm just concerned for my little bro's best friend." said Rep. "Is there anything wrong with that?"

Riku sighed and shook his head. "Rep, just leave!" he said, pointing out the door.

"Fine." said Rep. He finished his apple and tossed it into the garbage can.

The next day, Sora finally woke up. He didn't even know what happened to him until he woke up, lying in a hospital bed with his back hurting and his wrist in a cast. Riku and Kairi came to see him that day and found him awake.

"SORA!" squealed Kairi. "You're alive!"

"What do you mean, 'alive?'" asked Sora weakly and sleepily. "What happened to me, Riku? I just remember you going into the house and..." he trailed off.

"You were hit by a car and now you're here." explained Riku.

Sora tried to sit up, only to feel pain in his back, like he was getting stabbed.

"Ow..." said Sora, falling back into his pillows. "Why does my back hurt?"

"You got a pretty bad wound there." said Kairi. "When Riku picked you up, your blood had soaked through your clothes and got on his hands. That's how Riku learned that you were hurt on your back."

"It's like someone took a knife and stabbed it into my back." said Sora.

"The doctors said that if the gash went in more further, you would have been paralyzed." said Riku.

"Then it's a relief I'm not paralyzed!" joked Sora.

The three laughed...

Hurky: The story's getting good. I still have lots more to write!

Sora: Hurky, sometimes I wonder what goes on in that head of yours.

Hurky: A lot of weird stuff. Like what's going to happen next in my other stories. I'll see you all later and don't forget to review!

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