I didn't have good dreams for long. After a short while my dreams turned to nightmares and memories of my father. I relived the moment when I saw my grandfather not moving on his bed and when he stabbed my mother through the heart. I relived the memories of him beating me. I tried to stop the dreams from coming, I tried to wake up but I couldn't wake up. Why can't I wake up?
The last nightmare I had was when my father rushed at me the first time and tried to stab me. I remembered when the knife collided with my side and missed my heart. I remember the pain he had caused me and finally I woke up when I saw my father stab my stomach.
I shot up in bed, panting and crying. It was all a dream but it was all true. He had done so much to me and had caused me so much pain. Speaking of pain, I felt it shoot through my body causing me to slump down back onto the bed panting from the nightmares and from the pain.
"Yugi! Yugi what wrong? Are you alright? Nurse come in here! Please!" Yami was holding me gently and he tried to wipe my tears away. The nurse ran in and saw me. She ran out and found some more sleeping medication and ran over to the tubes leading to my arm.
"No! Please don't send me back there again! Please don't make me sleep anymore!" I was crying frantically, I couldn't bear to live through that again.
She nodded and walked out of the room again. She came back a few minutes later with another doctor and she looked relieved that I had calmed down a little bit before she had come back.
"Hello Yugi," the new doctor said. He was tall and had slightly tanned skin. He had short black hair and a face wrinkled from years of smiling. He seemed kind and gentle. "My name is Doctor Charles Nagoy. I wanted to meet you sooner but you were asleep. Now can you please tell me why you do not want to go back to sleep?" he smiled and he seemed genuinely concerned about me.
I clutched Yami tightly not wanting to slip back into the horror show I was forced to watch over and over again. I looked at him a few more seconds and then I answered, "I'm sorry for scarring you all," I mentally whimpered at the pain I was feeling from talking, but I had to tell them. "I have been having terrible nightmares the entire time I was asleep and I don't want to see them again. They are just too painful to watch."
Everyone in the room looked at me with concern and Yami kissed my forehead, "it's okay Yugi," Doctor Nagoy said, "you don't have to go back to sleep, we can change your medication to something that will numb the pain but it won't force you to go back to sleep."
I smiled and said "thank you so much" I snuggled into yam's embrace a little more and I heard him leave with the kind nurse from before.
A few minutes later I saw her come back and smile as she explained to me the drug I would be taking instead. I didn't really care what it was as long as it stopped the pain and kept me awake. She inserted it into the tube and left the room.
I instantly felt better, the medicine made me feel a little dizzy but otherwise I felt fine. This was much better than what I had before.
Yami held me there for a long time using soothing words to help calm me down and stop me from crying. I relaxed into his embrace and finally I let him lay me back down on the bed.
He adjusted the bed for me so that I could sit up and then he asked me "Yugi, what did you dream about? Please I want to help and sometimes it's better to talk to someone so that you can feel better."
He looked so sad and concerned I couldn't bear to not tell him. I told him everything. I told him what happened exactly to me when my father showed up, I told him what happened in the operating room, and I told him about the nightmares. I told him everything. Well almost everything, no one will ever know the entire story aside from me and my grandfather, who died last year.
When I was talking I felt a little better but I was still scared of falling asleep and I was still upset about everything I had relived in the past few hours…. Or days. I had no idea what day it was right now.
"Yami, I have a question." I said
He looked up and said, "yes, hikari?"
"What day is it? How long was I unconscious?"
He smiled at me and said, "Today is March 25. You have been asleep for the past 4 days. They wanted to keep you asleep as long as possible so that you would feel as little pain as possible. We had no idea that it would cause you to have so many bad dreams and memories flood your subconscious."
I was shocked; I was asleep for 4 days? 4 entire days? It felt like I was asleep for 4 hours not 4 days!
The kind nurse came into my room just then and smiled at me, I smiled back and she finally introduced herself, "hello again, Yugi and Yami. Yami, we have already met but Yugi you probably have no idea who I am. My name is Doctor Lily Black and I have been with you since you arrived at the hospital, remember?"
I nodded, she really was nice. "Yugi, you are going to have to stay here until tomorrow night and then you can go home, okay?"
I was excited to go home but I was also dreading it. I would have to go home and clean up the mess I made and then I would have to go back to school and catch up on all of my work. All the while I would have to pretend that everything as fine when in reality I would be jumpy and scarred until my father showed up again...
"But first, there are some people here who want to see you." I didn't know what she was talking about but then I heard a few familiar voices behind the door. I smiled; this could only be one group of people.