This Life of Gray
PART 2
Pulling up outside of the hospital I spot Renji being rolled in on the stretcher. "Excuse me, excuse me, miss hello!" I almost scream into the reception window in the lobby. "Yes ma'am what's your hurry?" I look at this woman in disgust, it's a hospital there could be many different reasons. "They just brought a man in on a stretcher about ten minutes ago, any word on how he's doing?" The woman types something on the computer lazily. "Well honey you can't go back to see him your not family. Have a seat and when he wakes up I'll ask for you, thanks." The woman slams the glass down and smiles ignorantly. "Not family! Not family!" I say angrily inside my head. I take a seat and twiddle my thumbs. An hour or so later I'm dozing off in a very uncomfortable little chair and a doctor comes out from behind the locked doors. "Is there someone here for an Abarai Renji-San?" My eyes get big and I'm practically jumping out of my seat.
"I'm here, what's going on he had so many cuts and he was bleeding very badly." My voices cracks and my eyes water, "Step into my office." I fallow left hanging in suspense for the moment. "Well, as you do know, Renji has lost a very large amount of blood. Also, we had to take him into surgery; he had a very large piece of glass embedded in his thigh. Where it was embedded was very close to his Femoral Artery, it missed it by just a few centimeters." My eyes begin to water even more until tears of saltwater run down my face. "So s-so, he's ok right?" I quickly dry my tears and lean in for the answer, all hope relies on this. "He should be ok, but he's still asleep from the anesthesia we had to give him for the surgery. You can go back and see him now, if you would like that is." I nod and blow my nose, and then I fallow the doctor back into a small corner room. "Ok well visiting hours are over in about twenty five minutes so keep your eye on the clock dear." After the warning was giving he leaves me to Renji.
My keys drop to the floor, he looks so weak and frail, just laying there in those white sheets. I pull over the chair and place it beside his bed. There were so many wires and he was being giving blood, I guess for the amount he had lost. "Oh Renji-Sama, your so reckless, that was so stupid of you." I place my other hand on his face and run it down to his chin once or twice. "K-k…k-iki; I'm sorry..." Renji trails off having some side-effects from the anesthesia. "Shhh…Renji it's all gonna be ok. We'll get through it I promise." Renji moves his arm a little, then he tries again; he takes my hand and slowly takes it to his mouth before kissing it. "Thank you for not letting me hurt me." I smile and tear up again, "No problem Renji, you're always there for me, so it was my turn." He smirks and lets out a sigh. "How bad was it?" I pause before stating what was said to me. "Well, you know the artery that's in your leg the big one; you were very close to cutting that." He grips my hand tighter.
"And the doctor said that they had to take you into surgery to remove a big piece of glass." Now his thumb is rubbing my hand, can he feel my heart racing over the thought of him not being here anymore, could he possibly? "Well I'm still here and I'm really tired, so I', going to go to sleep, will you stay until I fall asleep?" He hasn't asked me that in so long. The last time he asked that was when his mom had passed away from cancer. "I will sweetie, get some rest." I kiss his forehead and sit back down in the chair. As Renji drifts back off into his rest he whispers, "I love you……. KiKi." I blush and stand to leave. I pick my keys up off the floor where they were dropped twenty some minutes ago. I walk out into the dimly lit parking lot and start my car. The next thing I can remember is my head hitting my pillow at home and wishing that this night could have never happened. What if I had said no I'll do the dishes, or no go watch TV or something? I nod off, by body sore from all the stress from today.
Five o'clock in the morning and my phone goes off right next to my head. I rub my eyes, grab the handheld and press talk. "Hello Abarai and Shields residence?" There was a small pause, "K-KiKi, it's me Renji, uhm, can you maybe come down here." "Yeah I can Renji what's wrong?" Another small pause, "I need you to be here, please…" With that he hung up the phone. I grab my shoes and throw them on. I pull up in front of the hospital thirty minutes later and go inside. "RENJI—SAN; what are you doing out of bed?!" I rush over. "They're letting me come home; can you please take me home?" Renji's acting very different today, what's gotten into him? "Yeah, yeah, sure sweetie, sit down before you fall over please." I walk up to the counter to be greeted by the same pointless woman from yesterday. "Oh your back, how can I help you Hun?" I let out a big sigh, and then I sit and begin to fill out all of the release forms. "Thank you ma'am, Have a nice day." I roll my eyes and stand up.
I finally manage to get Renji out to the car; I have to tell him about Rukia's death eventually. "Hey Renji, sweetie?" He takes my hand in his, "Yeah?" "This is going to be extremely hard on you considering what alls happened yesterday afternoon. But before I came to check on you yesterday, you soul cell rang. Oh Renji, well I picked it up and read it, and honey Rukia's dead." I look at his face; his grip tightens on my hand, his thumb, rubs faster across my skin.
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