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Chapter 15: Faults and Feelings

"Tai! Tai, wake up!"

"huh?" Tai heard the far off calling of his name, he groggily wiped his eyes and looked around. He was still in the same plain and spacious waiting room as before. Looking around he saw no one besides Matt, Kari, and himself, but then who was calling his name?

As he sat in thought for a few more minutes he glimpsed Matt's eyes flash open. "You alright, bud?"

Matt looked up into Tai's caring face, "No." He uttered this one simple word in a very non-Matt way. He didn't sound angry or hateful of himself, he just said the truth in a simple and completely open manor. He then sat up from his slumped position in the chair and gazed at his feet.

"You wanna talk about it?" Tai tried to offer a supportive smile that turned out a little dry.

"What is there to say, you've heard it all before. I screwed up and Tk's the one to pay. I should have been there, that's it, nothing more."

Tai finally realized what this new side of Matt was, it was complete sadness and loss of hope. "I was thinking earlier about how I would react if it was Kari."

"And?"

"I realized I would turn into a complete mental case."

Matt gave a small 'humph' of amusement, "So, do you think I'm a mental case?"

Tai ponder the question for a moment before replying, "Yes."

"Thanks," Matt said in a sarcastic voice.

"I'm not done: You are a man whose destroying himself by blaming every thing on something he did, but face it, Matt, Tk needs you."

Matt's head turned and stared down Tai with a hopeless expression," What do you mean 'you'?"

Tai tried to chose his words carefully, "You protect him from getting hurt, yet when he does get hurt you melt down. Tell me, what's Tk's crest?"

Matt raised his eyebrows in confusion, "Um, hope."

"So, don't you think that you're wasting your time beating yourself up when you should be hoping with all your heart that he'll be ok? He needs you and your hope not your self destruction."

Matt opened his mouth to deny but then it hit, it finally hit him. "Shit, you're right. I've been spending all my time blaming myself that he's hurt that I forgot to keep faith that he'll be ok. I'm going to go bug the nurse, I'll be back."

Tai watched as Matt walked away with way more confidence in himself then he'd seen in a long time. Then Tai looked down at Kari. No doubt she was blaming herself, too. But why? What happened out there?

"Tai! Tai!"

Tai looked around feverishly, he heard the same voice as before, the one that had told him to wake up. He thought he recognized it from somewhere, but where? He needed to get some fresh air, but what about Kari? He looked down at his sister's sleeping face. "She'll be ok for a minute; she looks like she's in a deep, dreamless sleep." He said to himself before walking out of the waiting room and outside into some fresh air.

"Tai! Tai!"

Tai smacked his face, "Not again, why won't it stop!"

"TAI!!!"

Tai turned around at the even louder scream of his name, to his surprise he saw Sora sprinting towards him followed by the other digidestineds.

"Sora! Izzy! Everyone!" He screamed at the vastly approaching group. Sora was the closest and soon embraced him in a warm hug, of which she didn't let go.

"I—We were so worried about you." She said into his shirt.

Tai resounded quite naturally and wrapped his hands around her as everyone else approached. Without letting go of Sora he quickly filled them in on the details.

"Is she okay!?!" Yolie interrupted at the mention of Kari's lack of talk while gripping onto Ken's hand with a great deal of strength.

"She's…she's…well, I don't know how she is. She won't talk to me." Tai said with appropriate sadness.

Sora released her hug and backed up a few steps, both immediately missing the warmth, "I'll talk to her."

"Huh?" They all said in confusion.

"I have the crest of love, I might understand her better than anyone else." Sora said confidently.

Tai looked a little shocked then warmed up to the idea, "Thanks Sora," he leaned down and gave her a kiss on the cheek from which he turned red after the realization hit him. Before he could notice her reaction she was jogging into the hospital, but a few bystanders did make note of the cute jogging girl with the wide smile plastered on her face.

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