Running Blind
A/N: Okay, Chapter 3! We meet Solstice Fane!
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Chapter 3
Going Blind
Solstice Fane stared at her patient with an angry glair, what had possessed him to wait so long!
Dr. Fane walked across the small patients' room and picked up her clip board from the counter before sitting on stool in the center of the room.
She could tell he was nervous, constantly fidgeting and pulling at the hem of the patients' gown he was wearing.
"Well?" He asked as she had been sitting in front of him for several minutes without saying a word.
"How bad is it?"
"Flynn. . ." She began, making sure she had his full attention.
"What possessed you to wait so long? Have you any idea how bad this is?"
She yelled with fury in her eyes.
"No I don't know how bad it is, that's why I came to you!" Flynn countered.
Solstice took several deep breaths, calming herself before continuing.
"I have the results from the eye tests, but I would like to think that there inaccurate, after all this is still an experimental device. . ."
"You're going to do a manual exam?" Asked Flynn.
"No, I'm just going to ask you some questions; they should tell me everything I need to know."
"Alright. . ." Flynn said nervously.
"Okay, just five questions, first, have you seen flashing lights in your vision?"
Flynn looked away "Sometimes. . ."
Solstice wrote the information down on her clipboard. Alright, have you experienced distorted vision?"
"Yes. . ." Said Flynn in that same defeated tone.
Solstice marked her clipboard with a grim expression.
"How about blind spots or blurred vision?"
Flynn merely nodded.
Dr. Fane sighed. "What about floaters?" She asked.
"Floaters?" Flynn repeated confused.
"What are those?"
"There small shapes of light that seem to float in front of your vision." She explained
"Oh. . ." Said Flynn looking at the ground.
"Do you?" She asked again.
"Maybe." Said Flynn trying to avoid the question.
"How often?" She asked probing.
"I don't know . . . sometimes I guess."
Solstice watched how his eyes darted as if trying to clear something from their vision.
"You can see floaters right now, can't you?"
Flynn gave no response.
"I see. . ."She said sadly.
"Flynn, I don't how to tell you this . . . if you had come sooner we could have at least performed surgery, but now. . ."
"Please, just tell me Solstice." Said Flynn looking toward her.
"Flynn. . ." Solstice put down her clipboard, walking over she gently grabbed his hands crouching so that she was at his level she looked up at him with motherly love and sadness.
"Honey . . . you're going blind. . ."
She saw an immediate look of panic cross his face.
"W-what did you say?" he asked fearfully, his voice laced with panic.
"You're going blind sweetie. . ." she said, gently rubbing his hands as if trying to rub away to evil thing that was stealing his sight.
"I see. . ." He finally said.
"How long?"
"Five, maybe six months . . . Not long I'm afraid."
"I'll have to make arrangements then, before . . ."
Flynn cut himself off getting up from table to dress.
Solstice watched him silently, he was putting on a brave front but she knew him too well for that, he'll put on this front for everyone to see, and then when he was alone in the comfort of his room he would cry until he fell into sleep, he had been that way as a child as well, usually due to the loss of his father, he would always wipe away the tears and you could almost believe that he had never been crying. . .
"Oh, Flynn?" Solstice called over her shoulder.
"Yes?"
"Could you send Yuri in here? I haven't given that boy a check-up in sometime. . . You know how he is."
Flynn did his best to smile "Alright, I'll wait for him outside.
As Flynn left the room Solstice began to organize the side counter, her mind obviously elsewhere until she heard the door open and close behind her.
"Hello Yuri." She greeted turning around.
"Someone mind telling me what's going on? Flynn walked out of here as if he was told that he only had a week to live!"
"It's not that bad . . . but bad enough." She stated grimly.
"Alright Solstice, talk." Said Yuri leaning against the wall.
"You may wish to sit down and here this."
Yuri didn't budge.
Solstice sighed.
"You don't sit down, do you?"
"I just like being on my feet is all." Yuri stated.
"Because if corrupted knights of Leviathan's claw come through that door you want to be able to run that much faster." She stated.
"What can I say? You know me too well."
Solstice smiled at him for a moment before a look deep worry came over her face.
"Yuri . . . Flynn, He's going blind . . ."
Yuri looked at her with a shocked expression.
"Going blind? Why? What's causing it?" He had known that something was wrong, but he didn't think it was that serious!
"There's nothing causing it Yuri, it's something that happened naturally, you know the Scifo family have eye problems in their history. His father was going blind in his left eye when he joined the knights, heh, didn't stop him though."
"Yeah I guess not, the old man was a piece of work that's for sure, broke Flynn's heart when he didn't come home."
"And yours as well." Solstice noted.
Me? Nah, I didn't care much for the guy." Said Yuri.
"Liar." Said Solstice with a smile, Yuri didn't deny it.
"Well, I better go see how Flynn's doing." Said Yuri Heading for the door.
"Oh, Yuri?"
""Yeah?"
"There is one more thing I need to tell you, I'm about to send the notification of Flynn's condition and my recommendations for him . . . Yuri he can't stay in the knights, it's too dangerous with his condition."
"But Solstice . . . it'll break his heart, being a knight is everything Flynn ever wanted for himself."
"I know, and that made my recommendations that much harder to live with . . . But if I do nothing, and they send him out there to fight, and he gets killed I would never be able to forgive myself. As painful as it is . . . At least he's alive."
Yuri looked down at the ground, a look of anger and pain flashed across his face as Solstice walked toward him.
"Flynn's going to need you more than ever, please be there for him, you're the closest thing he has to a brother after all."
Yuri nodded; slowly he walked toward the door stealing himself for what was to come, could he really help Flynn learn to live with the changes that would come with the loss of his sight? Could he live with the changes that would come with the loss of his best friend's sight? Yuri shook away the Uncertainty, Flynn needed him to be stronger than that, that's all that mattered now, with a new sense of determination, Yuri turned the knob and walked out the door.
A/N: So we met Solstice, Saw a slightly softer side of Yuri, and had a small history lesson. Sorry if the chapters are kind of slow I promise to get a little more exciting soon! R&R please!
P.S. Information on symptoms of going blind from the article: /?expert=Tim_Harwood
Beta: Amy Rose