The night had been a long one. Most of T.K's friends found it hard to sleep. However one of his friends was up all night looking after him. Joe had stayed overtime to look after T.K him and Gomamon had stayed with him from the moment Kari and Matt had left. A good eight hours had passed since then. But for Joe the eight hours seemed much longer. He was waiting in the room with Tai and Matt.
Eight hours ago, just after Kari and Matt left
T.K was laying there in his bed in a coma. Joe sat down next to T.K and Gomamon went the other side of T.K, Gomamon then looked at Joe.
"So how long do you think T.K will be in this coma?" Gomamon asked as he looked up at Joe. His eyes showed he was worried.
"Hopefully not for too long, I just wish I knew what was starting all of these coma's we've had about twenty in the last few months. I just hope T.K's ends well. I don't want him dying like the others did." Joe said he then put his hands behind his head.
"Joe why don't you take a nap in case?" Gomamon asked as he looked down at T.K.
"Since if I do then I know it's just going to go wrong if I leave." Joe replied, he then took his glasses off and started to clean them.
"Joe you're putting too much strain on yourself, if you don't rest then you won't be able to help your friend." Gomamon said. Someone then walked in; she had a tray full of objects.
"These are all the objects that were found on this patient." The person said as she put the tray on a table. She then walked out.
"Joe could you check the tray for T.K?" Patamon asked as he remained in T.K's arm.
"Ok I guess." Joe said as he got up. He seemed so tired. He walked over to the tray.
"Is there a black box on there?" Patamon asked. He sounded worried.
"Yeah there is. It has the name Kari written on it." Joe confirmed. He then realised what it is.
"What's the matter Joe?" Gomamon asked as he jumped over and walked over to Joe.
"T.K was going to... See for yourself Gomamon." Joe replied he then opened the box and showed it to Gomamon. It had a ring in and the ring had a huge diamond in the middle of it.
"Wow that diamonds huge." Gomamon said. Joe then put the box back on the tray.
"Kari can't learn about it. If she does it'll ruin his surprise." Patamon said. Joe looked at the box which he had put on the tray.
"I'm not allowed to take it, otherwise I could be in big trouble." Joe said Gomamon then looked up at him. Joe then sat back down and Gomamon then jumped onto Joe and then jumped onto his head.
It had been half an hour and Joe had started dosing off. Suddenly one the heart rate monitoring started doing a high pitched noise. This meant that T.K's heart had stopped. Joe quickly got up and pressed a button in the room. Suddenly a load of nurses ran in with several different machines. Joe was pushed out of the room. He put his hands behind his head and looked into the room. The doctor who went in there then came out and started speaking to Joe.
"Thank the lord you pressed that button. Otherwise he would have been out of this Earth before you know it. Nice job Dr. Kido." The doctor said as he walked off. T.K was then taken out of the room by several different nurses. Joe walked up to one of the nurses and walked aside her.
"Where are you taking T.K?" Joe asked as he walked beside them.
"He's going for a MRI scan, the doctor believes he has a tumour in his brain." The nurse said. Joe then stopped and the doctor who did the diagnoses for T.K recently came up behind.
"Don't beat yourself up over this. Most doctors wouldn't have noticed it." The doctor said. He then patted Joe's back. Joe looked like he was about to burst into tears.
"It's not your fault Joe." Gomamon said as he walked over to him.
"You did the best you could that's all T.K would want." Patamon said as he flew over.
"I'm going to go check down near the MRI machine to see if T.K is ok." Joe said. He then started walking away.
"I think Joe is overworking himself." Patamon said Gomamon just looked up and nodded.
Joe was waiting outside of the room, about half an hour later T.K had been moved to the surgery list he had a large brain tumour. The doctor came out and confirmed this with Joe. Joe then went down to the reception after talking to Patamon and Gomamon. He now had to phone anyone close to T.K. Joe picked up the phone. The first on his list was Matt. Joe dialled Matt's number. He got the answering machine.
"Hey Matt, it's Joe, I'm just phoning you to say that T.K went into cardiac arrest earlier. He's alive but we've learnt he has a brain tumour. He is going into surgery soon. He's being prepared for it at the moment. Please contact me as soon as possible." Joe said. He then put the phone down. Someone came behind him.
"Are you ok, do you want me to make the calls?" The person behind him asked. Gomamon then picked up the phone and passed it to Joe. Gomamon then dialled the numbers.
"I've got this. Hello Kari its Joe." Joe said down the phone.
"Joe, what's the matter?" Kari asked. She sounded worried.
"I'm afraid I've got some news about T.K." Joe said. His voice sounded weak.
"What, what happened, he didn't die did he?" Kari screamed out. Joe could hear doors opening after a couple of seconds.
"He hasn't died, but if I hadn't of been with him earlier then there is a large chance he would've." Joe said. He could hear Kari away from the phone crying.
"Hey Joe this is Tai, what happened?" Tai asked. He sounded worried.
"T.K went into cardiac arrest however after that he had an MRI done we've at least found the cause of his coma." Joe said. He sounded very worried.
"Wait so he's going to survive?" Tai asked. Kari's cries in the background disappeared.
"He's about to go into surgery. There is a small chance that there could be a bad result." Joe said down the phone.
"Thank you for informing us Joe, we'll make sure Kari doesn't come in tonight." Tai said. He then hung up.
"This is so hard!" Shouted Joe as he threw the phone onto the table, Gomamon and Patamon looked over at him.
"Joe you can relax if you want." Gomamon said as he patted Joe's shoulder. Joe then quickly got up.
"I've got to go check T.K." Joe said as he walked off. Gomamon then looked over at Patamon.
"Joe's going to die here if he isn't careful." Gomamon said. Patamon just nodded.
Joe walked up stairs and sat next to T.K, T.K had been prepared for surgery. All of his hair had been shaved off on his head. The doctors then came in and took him away. Joe remained sitting in the chair. As Joe sat there he thought of all of the people that have been in the room. This room that T.K had been in for two days had most the people who came in here upset. First of all there was Kari who was unbelievably upset and didn't want to leave him. Matt who had left his tour to look after his little brother. Tai who had felt anger and rage in here, Patamon who had stayed by T.K's side nearly all the time, Joe then saw everyone who had worried about T.K in the room with him. They weren't there in reality but were all there in spirit. Joe then fell to sleep.
Several hours had passed and Joe was woken up by someone nudging him on the arm. Joe opened his eyes to see Gomamon and Patamon in his arms. He looked up to see Matt.
"Thank you for the message Joe. I came as soon as I got it." Matt said as he sat down in the other chair.
"Matt hopefully your brother will be ok." Joe said. He slowly got out of his chair. A doctor then came in and put his arms behind his arms. Joe then got up.
"The surgery has been a success. T.K should be back here in about half an hour." The doctor said. He then walked out of the room.
"Joe when does your shift start?" Matt asked as he looked over at his tired friend.
"In about two hours. I had to look after TK though." Joe replied Gomamon then looked over at Matt.
"He's been doing a lot of work you know. In fact that sleep was the first sleep he's had all day." Gomamon said. Matt then saw the black box that had been left on the tray earlier.
"What's this?" Matt asked as he picked the black box up.
"It's for Kari. Don't do anything to it!" Yelled Patamon as he flew over to Matt, Matt stopped and put it down.
"Ok then what is inside?" Matt asked he then looked back at the box.
"T.K was going to propose last night but he got attacked by Davis." Patamon said as he flew to the ground.
"I thought he already had. Maybe he just didn't want to say he hadn't." Matt said. Matt then sat down on a chair.
"I saw him talking to Tai a lot at your gig the other night... Maybe he asked for his permission?" Joe said, he sounded confused however. Tai the walked into the room, and looked at Joe and Matt.
"Wow this place is sure a lot of fun to be in." Tai said as he sat on the floor leaning on the wall. He sounded upset and bored.
"Tai what are you doing here?" Joe asked. He then saw that Tai was writing something down.
"What are you writing Tai?" Matt asked. He tried to take a look at what Tai was writing but he couldn't make sense of it.
"The other night T.K asked me if he could marry my sister. I told him he could since they have been going out for years. But then it occurred to me, what if T.K can't remember what he was going to say. So here it is ready for him to write." Tai explained as he continued to write. A nurse then walked in and gave Joe a chart. It confirmed that T.K wasn't in a coma it had been much worse. His brain tumour was massive. If he had been left any longer the he would've died. Matt looked over to Joe and Tai stopped writing and looked up at Joe as well.
"What is it Joe?" Tai asked. Joe then looked away from the both of them.
"What's the matter Joe?" Gomamon asked as he tried to read the chart.
"If T.K were to be left the way he was he would be dead." Joe said. Tears started to drop from his eyes.
"Joe please don't cry about it." Gomamon said as he tried to cheer his friend up.
"I made the first diagnosis and from that he would've died." Joe said. He then started hitting his head against the wall. Each time hitting it harder, Tai and Matt quickly got up and restrained him.
"Joe stop it, T.K is alright the other doctor said so!" Tai demanded. He had never seen Joe like this before.
"Joe listen you may have made the wrong diagnosis but you're the main reason he is still alive!" Matt shouted. They then sat Joe in the chair.
"Think about it Joe. It's like an after affect, you may have made the wrong diagnosis but you were here when he went into cardiac arrest and because if you the doctor then put him on the MRI!" Gomamon shouted.
"What are you saying Gomamon?" Joe asked looking over at him.
"You were the only person who stayed in the hospital the entire time. Damn it Joe do I have to say this to you bluntly. If you hadn't of stayed here then he would be dead. You pressed the button sure the nurses saved him but they would've been unaware if you hadn't. Then you phoned up everyone close to him and told them about the surgery. If you were a normal person then you damn well wouldn't have done that for him!" Gomamon shouted at him. Joe just sat there with tears in his eyes.
"I never saw it like that." Joe said. He then started wiping the tears away.
Several hours had passed it was now eight o'clock in the morning and the three guys were asleep in the room. Unaware that T.K was now in there with them. The doctor who had treated T.K then walked into the room. The three of them woke up and all of the Digimon with them.
"Dr. Kido, you've done an outstanding job tonight. Not only have you saved your friends life but because of your actions we now have a clue to what these comas may be. Takeru has come back up safe and sound. He has already woken up once but we reckon in about two hours he will wake up. That means get your friends here for ten o'clock my friend." The doctor said. He then left the room. Joe had a smile on his face.
"Well let's get everybody here then!" Joe commanded. They all got up and started moving around frantically. The next two hours flew by. The two hours had now passed by and all of the gang were there. Even some who didn't make it before, T.K started to open his eyes he then saw all of his friends in front of him. Matt, Kari, Tai, Joe, Cody, Ken, Yolei, Izzy, Mimi, Sora, Agumon, Patamon, Gatomon, Armadillomon, Gomamon, Palmon, Tentomon, Wormmon, Biyomon, Hawkmon and Gabumon were all there for him.
"Where am I?" T.K asked as he looked around. Kari ran up to him and hugged him.
"T.K you're back." Kari said as she hugged him tears were coming down from her eyes. Joe then sat next to him.
"T.K you've been gone for the whole night. Now that may not seem like much but you've got to take everything slowly." Joe told T.K. Matt then walked forward.
"T.K they found a brain tumour in your brain. They believe it has something to do with stress." Matt said. Tai then walked over and looked down at T.K.
"You've been on one hell of an adventure dude." Tai said. Kari then put his head on his chest.
"Thank you for coming all of you. Joe thank you for staying with me all of that time, I was aware you were there the whole time." T.K said, he still sounded weak.