Chapter 4, Goodbye Adrian, Hello Forest

After Adri- I mean Forest was finally well enough to get up without cursing like a drunk sailor, he was able to get up and stretch. Mostly he complained on not being able to get a frap while he was in there.

"I told you Forest, you couldn't go to Starbucks in that condition," said Doctor Aki, who both Arthur and Forest so fondly remembered as the woman who threatened everyone to leave or face the wrath of her trusty rusty scalpel.

"Yeah but, you guys could have bought it for me," he whined, walking around the room with the cane. As came with the physical therapy of being stabbed. Though, normally, patients would stick to crutches.

"Hey, i'm not the one who called the physical therapist to, I quote, 'Burn in the the thousand hells of the world'. I honestly get the insult but the nurse didn't, so you just had to add on, 'Just go the fuck away you heartless bitch from hell'. Seriously, what the fuck man?" she said, scolding him.

"Well it's not my fault that the crazy bitch let me fall on my fucking face when I was in therapy, and what's her excuse? You aren't supposed to be even limping. What the fuck, the point of physical therapy is actually fix the damn problem, not fucking stall it," he responded. Still walking around the hospital with a cane, it was the deal. In exchange of not seeing the crazy ass bitch of therapy, he would walk around with a cane, with Doctor Aki. He personally thought that the constant conversational jabs from the doctor was much more comfortable than the therapist from hell.

"You should fire the damn lady," he mumbled, "she was gossiping on the radio while I was doing my own damn therapy".

"Oh, I know, i'm waiting for the right moment. She's rich as hell, and a absolute snob who relies on Daddy dearest for money and power. Trust me, I have something in mind," she said, pushing up her glasses and smirking. The light caught her glasses and made the scene even more devious.

"...Doc, I don't even. Geeze, you're a sociopath aren't you?"

The good doctor nodded all to happily to the statement. Then she proceeded to wave to someone at the front desk,

"Arthur! Sleep well?"

"Are you sure this idiot," Arthur motioned, "won't kneel over and die anytime soon? He shouldn't even be standing".

"Blame the physical therapist, and my aversion of sitting still for a long period of time," stated Forest. The doctor nodded in response,

"Agreed, your as stubborn as I am".

"Fuck your lazy ass Aki," stated Trick, who was in regular clothes. Probably because it was her day off, "I have enough trouble getting you to stay home when you have a damn fever. And you sir, is not supposed to be walking around. At all".

"The only way to get normal, is to be acting normal," stated both Forest, and Adrian.

"Ugh," said both Arthur and Trick at the same time.

"Artie! Black haired..guy who got stabbed!"

The two said people turned to see Allistor, Sean, and Dylan walking in. Arthur crossed his arms,

"Alright, what do you three trouble makers want?"

The doctor squinted at the three more carefully, "Well fucking shit. You guys are the trio who always get in, drunk and injured. Here I thought it was just a coincidence that you guys looked familiar".

"Ah, so that's what you meant when you said you've been here before," stated Forest. Then he had tug back the hospital gown, which was starting to fall off.

"We want to apologize".

At that, Forest began walking again to another side of the hospital deciding to give the brothers some alone time, Dr. Aki was called up in the upper office to deal with a gun shot. Whom he could have sworn to have heard her muttering,

"Stupid CEO never sitting the fuck down in that tower in Japan of his, asshole".

Trick saw him starring at the grumbling doctor, who was putting her glasses back on and taking a elevator he had seen nobody use.

"He's her boss. She makes the story lines and designs, he turns them into games. On various occasions she has to drag her ass to Japan to make sure the bastard eats three meals a day and sleeps eight hours at night".

"I know," he stated smiling, "he's also her younger brother; I read her last name as well as her real first name".

"Perceptive are you?"

"We both know that's just a nice way of saying paranoid," said Forest, but then he continued whispering quietly, "But then again, we were paid to be paranoid".

He shook his head and looked at the confused nurse, "Just go make sure the poor guy doesn't get his ears hurt will you? I need to ponder in my thoughts for a while, i'll be in the garden".

"Okay, just don't kneel over and die suddenly, paperwork will be a bitch if that happened".

He laughed and waved her off, proceeding to half limp to the garden. The garden was a place that deserved to be a natural reserve. Pine trees grew everywhere, orchids of all kinds lined up row to row to make a sort of path way. Roses of various colors were decorated everywhere, irises, lilies. It was a wonderful sight, he saw it this morning when he snuck out of his room. The good doctor was tending to the entire garden by herself, saying something about her aunt having a green thumb.

He sat down at one of the various chairs that were cushioned and cleaned, then leaned his head back.

"Angel and Angelo Yan. Famous for their combined efforts of making and continuing games without a hiccup of each sequel. Has a bit of brushing with the mafia in ireland, but does not pose a threat to the general underworld society if left alone. Angel Yan is a fairly known anonymous writer, writing books and manga under the name of Aki. Mostly BL otherwise known as Yaoi. Personal opinion: very good. Sometimes plays the latest video games for fun. Angelo Yan, CEO of Phantom Corp. famous video game developer. Works with Aki in story lines, and sometimes over sees the programming stage of the process. Also younger brother of Angel Yan".

He stated this quietly to himself, he had heard of the famous dynamic duo down the vine, and he had heard of the threat they could pose to the underworld society if they wanted to. Rumors say that once Angelo Yan was kidnapped at the peak of Phantom Corp. Later, Aki had disappeared off the face of the earth for two days, coming back after the second day with her brother. Who didn't have even the slightest hint of injuries. The kidnappers were never heard from again.

Later, the sister was holding the fort for the brother when there was an attempted robbery of the story plans for the new video game. There was ten men, all armed to the teeth, and special trained. They were hired by a competing company's CEO who had used it to get earn his prophets before.

10 minutes after the attempted robbery, the ten men who had attempted to do the said robbery was found with various bones broken, and stating that the grappling hook they had used to get the floor where the plans, and the sister of the CEO, were had malfunctioned and drop them all. 20 feet of the ground, they were bleeding from the fall. A minute later the stocks of the company of the CEO who hired the team was suddenly dropped to zero, and all of the bank accounts that the CEO had were cleaned out. His safe containing 12,000 dollars was clean, and his houses was foreclosed. Officially, he was bankrupt and in poverty. Labeled as a sexual predator in all 50 states, and under the interpol's list of terrorists.

They were never bothered again.

His mind had labeled and catalogued this info right before his next information drop meeting, when he and his friends were ambushed. It was the information he was about to give to the british government, who had thought that the Yan siblings could be possible essential allies. How ironic that the sister the information was talking about was the one treating him.

"Fucking shit," he sighed, "this town's digging up things of my past like it was a damn archaeological dig".

"Tch," he stated after a while, leaning his head to the side for a nap.

On the other side of the hospital, with Arthur. The elder brothers were sweating as Arthur looked at them pointedly, oh no. Arthur wasn't mad with them, occasionally annoyed yes. Mad? No. He just liked to see them squirm a little.

"Ah, Arthur," said Allistor, uncomfortable with the whole situation all together. Arthur raised his eye brow in questioning. Both Sean and Dylan was shifting their feet as well. When Arthur had enough, he sighed,

"All right look. I understand you were mad, but seriously, I understand you reasoning. I just don't know what brought this whole thing on".

He didn't, he figured that he and Adri- er Forest would have to deal with this sooner or later, but he didn't think it would be now.

"It was actually a talk with the insane man in the forest that brought this on," Allistor muttered. Arthur raised an eyebrow at the answer he gave,

"Excuse me, an insane man?"

Allistor shrugged and smiled slightly, the kind of look that just said, 'Yeah, I know it sounds insane'. Oh the irony. Dylan and Sean had an ass whopping from Allistor as he explain the possibilities that could have happened had this got on for much longer.

Arthur smiled and nodded, "Well, i'm going to tell you this now. Enough with the bloody guilt, your creeping me out to the level of the Weeping Angels. It's about time any way, i've been forced to use the money we got from Mum and Dad to pay for the bills".

"Wait what? Why would you use the-"

Sean was interrupted by Allistor's pointed look.

"Incase you haven't noticed, we haven't been exactly workin lads," said Allistor.

"Yes, drunk off your ass is what you were. Everyday. So I had to get it paid somehow," said Arthur shrugging, "and I'm too young to work".

"Oi!" Yelled the doctor who just came down from the elevator, "Where the fuck is Forest?"

"Er," he said looking around to see if the guy was near by.

"GARDEN!" Yelled Trick.

"Shit, that place is like a maze, wait no. It is a maze," Aki muttered, taking of for the garden. Followed by Arthur, later fallowed by Allistor, Dylan, and Sean.

Now the garden was indeed that, a garden, on the first floor of the hospital. However, the garden was very large too, large enough to hold a maze with bushes. (Aki opened them every Halloween hiding candy everywhere, as well as eggs during Easter) So when the group saw that the black haired, green high lighted, teenager was no where in the visible sight, Aki said what everyone (minus Allistor) thought,

"Oh shit".

Forest finally woke and yawned sleepily, blinking awake as he stared around himself, "Oh shit, where the bloody fucking hell did I limp to?"

He was in fact, on a nice bench. Surrounded by hedges, that was to high to look over, and there was no way he was going to jump to see where he was. That risks tearing the stitches and staying longer. He didn't think that he could take that much hospital food. Never the less, his mind was calculating how the hell he was supposed to get out of this maze. Although he wasn't exactly 'Adrian' any more, he was in fact, a more calculating version. Personally, he didn't know how to describe it either, how we're you supposed to revaluate your own sanity? Anyway, let's shift back to our four brothers and insane doctor yes? Who knows, maybe they know.

"So, i'm guessing your've noticed yes?" said Aki as she walked around the maze. Honestly, she didn't know how the hell the garden became so big, it just. Happened. Poof, there's a maze.

"Noticed what exactly?" Said Arthur as he tried to hop over the bushes, which failed. Since the bushes were, in fact, taller.

"That Forest isn't exactly mentally stable?" She answered, turning her head to look at Arthur.

"Mentally stable?" Asked Allistor. At this, she shrugged looking in between bushes to see if she can see the other side, surprise, surprise. She couldn't.

"If I had to guess at the top of my head, multiple personality disorder. Maybe even a warped version of PTSD, hell both of them might be warped," she said shrugging.

"Warped? Never exactly heard of a mental condition being 'warped' Doc," said Dylan, and although he didn't know this 'Adrian/Forest' he did know his fair share of phycology.

"Well, how do I put this," she said stopping and tapping her chin in thought. Then she let out an 'Aha!' and proceeded to walk in a one particular direction, saying what she had put together in that chaotic mind of hers.

"Now, i'm not a physiologic M.D. however, I do know my fair share of insaneness in case you haven't noticed. In which case, your pretty fucking dense if you didn't notice, but whatever. When I mean warped, I mean like. PTSD is usually gained on the battle field right? And what those usually cause is a flashback of a particularly bad time, which is usually triggered by some sort of remembrance of it. Now in this case, I mean it's sort of not like any ordinary PTSD. Like it's not cause by being in the battle field I suspect. Cause he wouldn't really be hearing you, but Arthur said that he seemed to be in something like it right?"

Arthur nodded in confirmation, it was a little hard to follow, but they all got the gist of it.

"And as for the multiple personality disorder, I watched him when he thought he was alone in the room. He was talking to himself, but not exactly. Each voice was different than the others, but they all had personality. There was one in there that was really different, and it was weird," she said, turning left and right every now and then.

"Different how?" asked Sean, Arthur looked back at the rambling doctor for an answer.

"Like it was a mix of all personalities, yet not. Like it has all the traits of all of them, but it's blank and monotone at the same time? I'm not sure how that works, but it's enough to catch my eye. Like something so bad happened, that he had split himself up in attempt to bury himself?"

"Like splitting his own soul to protect himself?" Said Allistor, who had stayed quiet throughout the whole conversation. She nodded in response and smacked her own head.

"What is it?" Asked Dylan.

"I...I forgot I put a tracker on his clothes in case he tried to bail his room, he likes to go up in the roof as we learned like, three hours ago. Before you guys came," she said sheepishly pulling out her phone and pressed an app that then showed the pinging of the one person they were looking for.

"You...injected a tracker in him?"

"What? No!" She stated looking at Sean with raised eyebrows, "I gave him an iphone that I could track, see? Now come on, it's a good thing I got bored and made a map of this place, or we could be ramming into bushes".

Silence.

She rolled her eyes at the response, "I do weird things when I'm bored, deal with it. Now come on".

Allistor had taken the phone as the doctor had to go back to the hospital to kick out a raging, yelling, Alfred F. Jones and a angry conquistador mode Antonio Carriedo. At one point they all saw her grumbling as she pulled out a hunting knife and muttering something along the lines of,

"Fucking assholes, it's not a rusty scalpel but it'll do".

Again, how did she become a medical doctor?

So that led to this, Allistor leading the way as they walked through a pretty dense part of the maze. It was creepy, and how the hell did the doctor have time to make a maze in the first place? Also, how could a teenager with a stab wound forced to use a cane walk this far? Maybe it was true that he could break the laws of physics, or maybe he was just really stubborn. Who knew?

Then Allistor blinked in surprise as he bumped into something that later fell and yelled,

"FUCKING BLOODY HELL, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK".

The cane that was holding up said person fell with a loud clang and said person fell on his back continuing to curse. Surprise, surprise, said person was in fact, Forest. Who was laying on his back and continuing to glare acid at the chuckling scotsman and his brothers.

"Fuck you," was all he said. Then winced a little when he felt something loosen on his side.

"Um guys?" The brothers stopped chuckling as they spotted a growing carmine colored spot on his light grey and blue spotted gown. He smiled sheepishly at the look the brothers gave him, ignoring the growing pain and odd feeling of wetness on that side.

"Er, I think I tore my stitches".

On the other hand, Forest was internally thinking, 'Well, shit'.

It was nothing short of amazing as the brothers were in total sync in getting Forest back in the hospital. As they were in the middle of the damn maze, it wasn't exactly as easy as turning around and walking in.

So Arthur took hold of the phone and started running, Allistor carried Forest bridal style, as even though he wasn't the oldest, he was one of the strongest therefore will not be hindered while running with a full grown teenager in his arms (the other being Arthur as he did have to tackle all three brothers at once) and he was sort of shit when following the map. (If it was left to him, he would have just cut through the hedges, and they didn't want to see how the doctor would react if she found man sized holes in her hedges, she did admit she was insane after all) Sean had took the cane in which Dylan followed and started running with them after Arthur and Allistor. With all their occasional arguing (Although it seemed to be more playful and out of habit now) and fairly different personalities you really wouldn't have expected this from the brothers.

Forest on the other hand was both trying to avoid thinking that he was being carried like a bride, and no matter what mental state he was in, it was still annoying, and ignoring the pain in his side. Oh, let's not forget the blood loss too.

He looked distastefully at the spot, which was growing on Allistor's light green button down shirt. He was wearing a tie too. 'Must of got back from a job or something. Or maybe Arthur had made him wear it? You never know'. Despite the whip lash he was getting from the running, he soon fell asleep, because damn it, it was safe, warm, and comfortable. Like riding in a car, he liked cars. Then that was it, he fell asleep. They must have took it as him fainting from blood loss because they all started sprinting.

Bursting in the hospital back doors, Aki instantly ran up to them carried him back to the ER and began restitching the wound. She didn't even make a remark as she carried him away by hand.

"...The lass is stronger than she looks, and her surprises still scare me," Allistor commented in attempt to lighten the mood. To which Arthur chuckled dryly,

"No offense brother, but your shit at lightening the mood".

Then out of the corner of his eye, they saw Feliciano and Lovino running toward them. Almost as fast when their running away out of fear, because those two scared and running can set olympic records.

"What happened? Vee~" said Feliciano weakly.

Lovino gulped and had looked pale as he explained, "We saw Dr. Aki carrying a bleeding Adrian- I mean, Forest".

From Prussia and Ludwig, they both learned the nickname the black haired male had asked them to call him.

"He tore his stitches," said Arthur. Causing Feliciano to whimper and latch himself on to Arthur's arm, which in turn, caused Arthur to absentmindedly raise his arm and pat his head. Despite the situation, Feliciano smirked inwardly.

Then all present turned to look at Aki as she came out of the door she walked in, and they all waited for the verdict.

"He'll be fine, though he'll probably be complaining about staying longer than needed, but he'll be fine. As stubborn as he appears to be, he refused morphine stating that, 'I don't want to degrade myself to such antics, no matter how funny it might be' and such. So I just gave him painkillers," then with a pause, she added, "You can go see him now".

Then they watched as she proceeded to walk away, muttering to herself once again as she was soon followed by Trick.

"Er, did she just give her a knife?" asked Arthur as he watched the exchange.

"Aye, which is why we better not anger the woman," Stated Allistor, who had seen what happens when you disobey direct orders from the doctor; it wasn't pretty. Feliciano and Lovino shivered in fear a bit, as they were there when said doctor had been laughing maniacally and then suddenly glaring at them as she chased them out with a scalpel. 'That crazy lady has issues,' Lovino had thought.

They all walked in (Feliciano had detached himself from Arthur at the glare of Lovino) and they saw Forest laying down calmly reading a book he had picked up somewhere.

"I just realized something," said Dylan.

"What?" Asked both Arthur and Allistor at the same time.

"How the bloody fucking hell did we missed that he was right in front of us? Shouldn't we have seen it?"

"Because I think I dropped the phone somewhere as I limped there," stated Forest without looking up from what he was reading. Then he looked back up at them, "Good talk I suppose?"

"Yeah, except you know. You tearing your stitches," said Arthur.

Forest shrugged, "Is the others still trying to get in here? Where's Vash? I miss my homemade swiss chocolate".

Lovino made an 'Oh!' sound and began searching in Feliciano's bag, in which got Forest thinking how long he had been staying in this hospital, then stopped as he finally grabbed a box and tossed it to Forest. Who had reacted fast and swiftly snatched the box out of the air.

The next thing they new a balled up wrapper was being thrown in the trash and the sounds of chocolate being eaten filled the room.

"Eh, you do know you fainted of blood loss right?" Said Allistor. Forest halted his eating and raised an eye brow at him,

"Fainted? No, I fell asleep; it was like being in a car, and that makes me sleep easily".

And so he continued eating his chocolate.

"...Does it taste good?" Asked Arthur out of no where, in which Forest simply responded by lifting the box to his face. Prompting him to get one and eat it. In which Forest had moved on, motioning for everyone in the room to get one.

"Now this dear friends," he stated, a mouth full of chocolate, "Is the mortal version of ambrosia".

"I was wondering why the bastard had told us to give it to you, but now I know why." said Lovino, eating a chocolate.

"Vee~"

Arthur hummed in agreement, this was delicious. He was suspicious of Feliciano though, he had something else in that bag.

"Vee~ I brought pasta!~"

Oh, so that was it.

Said pasta was in fact chicken alfredo, and made Forest make grabby motions at the plate and bowl. The brothers couldn't really deny that the scent slowly filling the room was delicious.

Aki and Trick had walked in with a raised eye brow as they brought a lunch basket filled with cans of soda and garlic bread.

After questioning Aki, she simply said, "You can't have chicken alfredo without garlic bread and soda. Picnic in the hospital fuckers, deal with it".

They all just laughed and proceeded to eat their dinner, as Forest had noticed it was already evening by the time they all gathered around to eat. Even Ludwig and Prussia joined a bit later, in which Aki had magically summoned baked potatoes and wurst. (As he later found out that she had foreseen the visit and had ordered it ahead of time, but he wasn't complaining because he got a hold of some delicious potato soup and steak.) So he proceeded to do what he saw Aki was doing and dunk his whole piece of steak and eat it. It was fatty and unhealthy as fuck but he didn't give a flying shit.

"Where the fuck did you get this steak?" he questioned, "It's good".

She smiled a bit as she winked at me with an elvish smirk, "Two words my friend. My. Secret".

And so, Arthur, Allistor, Sean, Dylan, and Trick snorted with laughter as Forest let out a huff of frustration. Which sound like a snort combined with a sigh, not sure how that works out, but it happened.

"The hell? What sound did you make?!" laughed Gilbert as Ludwig his a smile, and annoyed as he was, the corners of his lips lifted a bit when everyone had given up and went to a fool blown laugh. Then, a knock at the door.

"Whosa dere?" Said Aki she sat in a crouch in the roller chair.

"We came to say sorry dude!"

"The annoying Alfred?" Said Forest without thinking.

"Annoying? What? No, HAHAHAHA, i'm more like the hero- OW. Hey, who hit me with a hockey stick?! Oh yeah, Matt, I forgot you were there-" The he continued to ramble on, completely forgetting what he was here for.

Forest leaned to the side and whispered into Aki's ear, "Let Matthew stay, but I think Alfred's gonna disturb the patients".

"I agree," said Arthur as he was also called over with this discussion. Allistor grinned a bit as he heard the conversation.

"Leave it ta me," he said as he smiled in a way that promises he wasn't being as innocent about as commonly thought.

"Be my guest," chimed both Forest and Aki.

As he went out the door, sounds of pain sounded through the door, then a fast passed sprinting rang through the hall. Then, he went back and sat down, facing the stacks of empty take out boxes.

"Done," he said smirking and taking out a cigarette.

Both Aki and Forest made a face and covered their nose with a fabric, in which Forest told him, "Your going to live a lot longer by quitting those fowl tasting things".

He laughed, but finally took one last drag and put it out when Aki's glare was starting to burn. He had refused not to smoke within her presence before, needless to say his groin still hurts from the lashing he got from the wrath of the wee doctor. He couldn't sit properly for a week, and going by the stare Forest was giving him. It was gonna happen again, times two if he didn't put the thing down now, and so he did.

The two settled back to calm as the smoke circulated it's way to the window. It was one of the awkwardest moments the other brothers have ever seen, because Allistor never put out his cigarette for anybody. Mostly because they weren't there when it happened, but boy was it an event. Trick could still remember the poor guy limping away from the hospital room.

There was a conferrable silence that followed as peace was restored to the ever hectic hospital. It wasn't the best of silences, but hey. It happened.

Soon enough everyone went back to their respectful houses except for Arthur, who had stayed, and slept.

Are they going to have a peaceful morning?

Hahahaha, no.

What are the chances of that when the room is surrounded by a French man, a energetic American, a rather yandere Russian, and a rather angry chinese man there will be peace?

Somewhere, in that very same hospital room, both Arthur and Forest groaned in their sleep, and in one of those dreams, one muttered,

"Oh for fucks sake".

Yeah, better prepare for morning, there will be blood.

A/n: Hey, sorry this is much later than usual, I couldn't really do the amount of words I wanted, but I wanted to bring this to you guys because I know some of you wait around and continuously refresh the page for updates (I do it too sometimes) so I wanted to get this out as fast as possible. Also, school started for me and I was just lucky enough to get one of the hardest teachers in the school (notice the sarcasm please) so I may not be able update as much as I want to because of that, so sorry if this dampers your day however, I will try to update again as soon as I can, but right now it's really hectic with all the stuff that slammed into us head first, so chances are I will be too tired to get to the computer, so again sorry if that dampers your day. However, I'd say you guys will be seeing William again fairly soon, even some jelly human countries, with how fast things are currently going down, but then yeah. So hope you have a nice day/night. Until next time!

Disclaimer: All characters but Forest/Adrian and Aki belong to me, Trick belongs to herself, and the rest are owned by their respective owners. I also only own the story line and the story it self other than Forest/Adrian and Aki.