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It was three in the morning. Kai sat in the hotel room staring at the empty bed beside him. He hated not having Rei with him, especially when he was so vulnerable. Kai wished he had showed Rei how much he cared earlier. Kai thought back to the first time he really remembered beginning to show Rei he cared.
Flashback
Rei was in the emergency room holding his broken arm.
"I'm sorry Rei!" Max repeated for the umpteenth time.
Rei shook his head whilst biting his lip. Kai studied the boy, he was trembling and his breathing was slightly laboured and I could tell it wasn't just from the pain in his arm.
"Are you ok?" He asked, hoping not to sound too concerned.
Rei shook his head again.
Kai looked at the long line of people waiting for treatment, "Max, keep our place in line, Rei come with me." Kai walked out the hospital door with Rei in tow.
They sat down on the bench and Kai looked at Rei expectantly.
"I hate hospitals." Rei said quietly.
"Why's that?" Kai asked.
Rei shifted uncomfortably, "when I was younger my mother was very sick so my father bought her to the hospital. I remember sitting in the waiting room chair for what felt like an eternity before anyone told us anything. And when they did come, all they told me was that my mother would not be coming home anymore" A single tear made its way down Rei's cheek.
Kai reached out and took the Neko-Jin's trembling hand.
"I'm sorry Rei." Kai said stroking Rei's hand with his thumb.
"That's why I'm scared of hospitals. You never know if someone's going to come back or not."
End Flashback
Rei's voice echoed in his mind. What if this was one of the times when they didn't return? What if Rei, like his mother, never came back?
No!
I mentally yelled at myself for thinking such things, of course Rei was going to be ok. He would be back soon and insisting on making all their meals and tidying up after Tyson.
Kai got out of bed and got in the shower. He hadn't slept at all but he knew he wasn't going to be able to sleep any time soon. He then dressed and crept out the room and past the others rooms silently. He had become a pro at this as he often couldn't sleep or woke in the early hours of the morning and he never wanted to wake Rei.
Kai walked out of the hotel and into the parking lot. He reached into his pocket and pulled out Dranzer. Practicing often helped clear his mind. He launched Dranzer and tried to manoeuvre him through the obstacle course of cars and rubbish but the movements were weak and Dranzer had often stopped before even reaching the third obstacle.
"Dranzer feels your distress and worry, that's why he isn't performing well."
Kai turns his head a fraction to look at Tyson for a second before looking back at Dranzer, "I never thought I'd see the day Tyson was up at," he glanced at his watch, " 4 am willingly."
"Yeah, trust me, neither did I." Tyson replied, moving to stand next to Kai and launching Dragoon, "have you even slept?"
Kai shook his head.
"Yeah, me either really." Tyson said.
Kai picked up Dranzer and then sat on the tarmac with a shaky, worried sigh.
Tyson retrieved Dragoon and sat next to him and looked up. "You see that there?"
"No, what am I looking at?" Kai asked.
Tyson pointed, "All those stars there."
"Yes, I see them."
"That's the big dipper." Tyson told him, tracing it with his finger.
"How is it a dipper?" Kai asked.
Tyson took Kai's hand and traced it again, "see?"
"Oh yes, so it is." Kai replied, dropping his hand back into his lap.
Tyson sighed, "You heard what the doctor said, right? Rei's going to be ok."
"I know, but that still doesn't stop me worrying that he might not be there when we go to see him later."
"Of course he'll be there! Probably be sitting up and talking and everything." Tyson tried to reassure the leader.
"Hmm, I hope so." Kai replied, staring off into the distance, biting his lip.
Tyson studied his leader for a while.
"You really love him, don't you?" He said.
Kai turned to look Tyson in the eye, "Yes, I love him with all my heart."
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