As planned they were able to keep the Kai in the dark about finding his father until after the trial was over. It was decided that Mr. Dickinson would have full and permanent custody of Kai and that his grandfather's money would be placed in a trust fund until Kai became of age. On the case of his grandfather and Boris, they were to be sent to prison without chance of parole until it could be decided if they would be put to death.
"You would think after a week I would have thought of an idea of how to tell him." Mr. Dickinson said sipping his tea with Bruce while the boys were outside practicing.
"Don't beat yourself up so much." Bruce replied, "Its not like this is a normal situation."
"It might be easier if I knew how Kai was going to react." Mr. Dickinson stated.
"How Kai was going to react to what?" the voice of Tyson asked from the door way, causing Mr. Dickinson to chock on his tea and Bruce to go white.
All of the boys had come back inside and were now standing in the doorway and had heard the last part of the conversation. If there was ever a moment in Mr. Dickinson's life where he said "Oh, sh**" it was now.
"Boys get in here and close the door." Bruce took the lead.
Everyone filed in with worried looks, excepted Kai who was standing in the corner being normal Kai.
"Well, Mr. Dickinson, your Kai's guardian you should explain." now throwing his boss under the bus Bruce looked at him and motioned for him to start.
Cast a hard glare towards Bruce and making a mental note to fire him later, the older man began.
"I met with the police a week ago after they had finished clearing out the abbey and well," Mr. Dickinson adjusted his hat, even though it didn't need it and looked at Kai, who had yet to move. "They ran a few tests and they think that they, well, they say they found Kai's father."
"Oh, so they found his body?" Tyson spoke up, in his normal no tact way.
"No, no." Mr. Dickson said trying to regain himself. Kai looked at his new guardian, interest now showing clearly on his face. "What I mean is, they found him and he's alive."
"So, then where is he?" Max asked tilting his head to the side.
"He's in the hospital at the moment. The doctors say he'll recover but they have yet to figure out the extent of what was done to him." it was getting easier for Mr. Dickinson to talk about this, but Kai had yet to say anything and that was causing him even more anxiety.
"Kai isn't that awesome?!" Tyson yelled getting to his feet, "We should go see him!"
"Now hold on, the doctors will only let Kai and Mr. Dickinson in because he isn't responding to anyone." Bruce finally stepped in stoping his son from dragging Kai out the door.
"Besides its up to Kai of he wants to go see his father or not." Rei stated as matter of factually.
Tyson looked confused for a moment but then asked Kai "So do you want to?" the way he stated it caused Kenny to blush, Max to face palm and Rei to look broody.
"Whatever." Kai answered unfazed by Tyson's suggestive question.
"Great, I'll call the hospital and see if its a good time or not." Mr. Dickinson said relieved that it was over.
Later at the hospital
The doctor said that it was fine if Kai came right now, if he wanted to. So, soon Kai and the Blade Breakers, along with Bruce and Mr. Dickinson were in the hospital.
The boys and Bruce took seats in the closest waiting room they could find to the room and Kai and Mr. Dickson went with the doctor.
"You may be surprised at the state he is in." the doctor warned when they got outside the room, "He may not even say anything. Call me if you need anything." with that he left.
"You don't have to do this now." Mr. Dickinson said, the teen had rare expression on his face, fear. "We can wait." he put a comforting hand on Kai's shoulder.
"No, I want to." Kai stated turning the door knob.
Going inside Kai pushed past the closed curtain and stared.
The man he was being told was his father was sleeping soundly on his side facing the door. The blankets were pulled up to his shoulders and his right arm, which had the IV in it, was laid straight out.
"You look just like him, even his eyes are red." Mr. Dickinson stated after he closed the door to give them some privacy. "Are you alright?" Kai's eyes were filled with unshed tears and his face was paler then the walls, but he nodded nonetheless.
The other set of red eyes opened slowly, freezing his visitors in their places. He set up and pushed the stray strands of light blue hair away from his slim face.
"Hello, do you remember me?" Mr. Dickinson asked trying to break the suffocating silence. "We spoke about a week ago." a small nod from the other man encouraged him to go on, "Well, Kai wanted to see you and today was the first day he could." it was a bit of a lie but no one corrected him.
"What's your name?" Kai asked his voice strained.
"Kamali." he whispered his answer. "Thats what they called me."
You could have knocked Mr. Dickson over with a leaf, he spoke to Kai and he was moving, for Kai!
"Mr. Dickinson, could you leave us for a minute?" Kai asked without looking at his guardian.
"S-sure." the two bluenettes waited for the older man to leave before moving.
When the door closed Kai moved closer to Kamali and pocked him in the face with his index finger.
"So you are real then." Kai muttered as if he couldn't believe it. "I was always told you were dead, and you were under the abbey this whole time?" Kai's voice began to crack. He didn't really know what to make of this, everything in his head was moving a million miles a minute and he couldn't ring them back in.
Kamali wrapped his arms around Kai's waist and pulled him onto the bed and put his head on Kai's shoulder, letting his son cry. It didn't take long for Kai to latch onto Kamali's shoulders. He held on for dear life, as if Kamali would disappear if he let go.
When Kai finally pulled away he looked Kamali in the eye and demanded, "Tell me what happened. Tell me, how we wound up in the abbey."
Kamali nodded while cleaning off Kai's face with his blanket, staining them blue.
"Boris found me when I was young, I was homeless at the time and I was wondering the streets, he took me in and for a time he was kind. He made sure I was healthy and took care of me, but he began to get violent asking me to do things, when I said no, he got very mad and I was locked away in that cell. You were born in the abbey, I delivered you myself, you were such a small thing." Kamali smiled sadly and took ahold of Kai's hands.
"And my mother?" Kai asked in hope.
Kamali looked away and said "dead".
Kai nodded but asked another question, "How are you not mad?"
"Mad?" Kamali looked back at Kai confued.
"Crazy I mean, what they must of done..." he trailed off.
"Oh, that, no I learned early on how to shut myself off. It when I just go away to my own little world for awhile, it was to protect myself from the pain and cold. I have spent so much time in my own head it took me awhile before I realized that I was really out of the cell." he chuckled humorlessly. "Now you, tell me about your life." Kamali smiled sweetly.
They talked for over an hour, Kai telling his father everything about the last year including the dark bladders and the ice incident.
"Do you like the one named Max?" Kamali asked outright.
"W-w-what?" Kai's face flushed pink.
"You lit up during the parts with Max in it." Kamali pointed out.
Kai was about to respond when a knock cut him off.
"We should let him rest Kai." Mr. Dickinson entered the room.
Kai looked at Kamali alarmed.
"It's ok, go ahead." Kamali nodded just before Kai launched himself into his father's arms as a good-bye.
No one mentioned his lack of face paint. But everyone was interested in what their team caption's father was like.