Well for those of you who love long chapters at least this is longer than all the others. Thanks again to all the reviews, you have no idea how much I love to read your comments.

Xanpluto

I'm the owner of this story, but not Digimon itself. (tear, sniffle, tear)

Chapter 18: How he's doing

Kari entered the waiting room to see all the digidestineds crowed around Tai, who was apparently having an anxiety attack.

"I lost her again—again I lost her—she's lost—I lost her—she's gone again—ahhhh" He rambled in between panicked breaths.

Sora tried to comfort him by rubbing his back and shushing into his ear, "Tai, it's ok. She couldn't have gone far, she'll be back."

Tai only half listened while digging his face further into his hands. "She's distraught—she's shocked—and scared—she's probably at her wits end—she won't come back—"

Kari took a few more steps into the room, which immediately caught a few of the digidestineds attention. Instead of shouting or announcing her presence they simply parted an isle for which Kari could walk through to get to her brother.

She silently made her way forward and stopped right before Tai. She simply stood there, not making a sound or moving an inch. In fact, she made no indication at all that she was even there.

Eventually, Tai noticed the sudden quiet and raised his head upward causing him to lock eyes with his sister. After a second of searching in each other's eyes he leaped up and wrapped her in a big hug. But, it didn't end there, he was so excited to see her that he lifted her up and spun her in a circle, from which many digidestineds had to back away from to avoid being kicked.

"Kari you didn't leave me, you're here." Tai chirped while a few tears of joy ran down his cheek. "Where'd you go?"

Kari stared at him with a huge grin on her face and a sparkle in her eye, yet she chose not to say anything.

"Did you see Tk?" Matt asked while pushing a few others out of the way so he could get a good look at her face.

Kari nodded her head.

"How is he?" Davis yelled while he, too, tried to get closer to Kari.

"Is he alright?" Chorused Yolie while she clenched Ken's hand.

Kari nodded her head.

"Please Kari," Matt stated seriously while grabbing onto her shoulders, "won't you talk to us."

Kari opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out. The others stared at her impatiently, she couldn't talk to all of them. She made a motion for Sora to come closer.

Sora obliged and swiftly bent down so that Kari could whisper into her ear. After a few seconds of listening she abruptly shouted, "Wolf?"

"WHAT?" Matt yelled at the two.

Kari nodded her head and continued whispering as the eager digidestineds watched. After a few more moments Sora stood up, "Kari says that he's got bandages covering up the wolf scratches, and also one that she doesn't know the cause of," Sora looked at Kari to make sure she had gotten everything right, Kari nodded therefore she continued, "He's hooked up to an oxygen tank and a few other things that she doesn't know the purpose of. Overall she says he looks like a—" Sora gave a tiny giggle, "like a sleeping angel."

Kari turned a little pink of which the others didn't notice because of their giant sighs of relief.

"Maybe I can get a doctor to fill me in on more of the details now?" Matt stated as a huge smile grew across his face.

"Just a second," the tattered doctor shooed as he read over the clipboard he was just handed. A second later he looked up, "Ok so what can I help you with?"

"I want to know about what happened to my brother." Matt stated eagerly.

The doctor looked him over then asked, "I see a lot of people in here kid, which one is your brother?"

"Takeru Takaishi, he had some black and pussy wolf scratches on his chest."

The Doctor immediately remembered the boy but didn't look like he was going to tell Matt anything, "Where are your parents?"

Matt sighed, "They're in Odiba."

"Are they going to be arriving anytime soon?"

"I—I'm not sure when they're getting here." Matt stuttered nervously.

"Well, when they do get here please have them come find me and I'll fill them in," the doctor said ending the conversation.

"But, please sir, I just want to know how my brother is and if I can see him." Matt put on his saddest face and looked at the kind doctor, who he hoped was feeling very sympathetic at the moment.

The doctor gave him a quick sweep and then began talking, "Your brother gained a nasty infection from the scratches from which a fever was originated. The fever and infection together caused the heart to stop beating, meaning we had to perform emergency surgery after he didn't respond to CPR."

"oooh," was all Matt managed to say as the shock sunk in.

"The surgery went well but he will have to stay in the hospital for a week or longer so that we can monitor his condition."

"So, can I see him?" Matt asked excitedly.

The doctor gave a slight frown, "You will have to check with the floor nurse about that for now, but I must warn you that he will not be aware you are there."

"Ok, thanks!" Matt called back as he ran down the hallway to tell the others obviously not listening to the doctor's last comment.

He ran into the room and was quickly bombarded with questions, of which he ignored and instead recited everything the doctor had said.

"So, did you ask the floor nurse yet?" Mimi questioned excitedly.

"No, I thought I should tell you guys the good news first. But, I'll go ask now."

"We'll all come, too!" Davis shouted while walking over to the exit.

"Davis."

Davis looked around at Ken who had just uttered is name is a slightly degrading manor. "What?"

"Do you really think that they are going to let all eleven of us go see him?"

"Well why not?"

This comment caused a few others to slap their foreheads out of exhaustion. "They just don't allow it." Izzy informed the spiky haired brunette.

"It's probably just family," Joe added.

"Ok, fine. Just tell us how he is, Matt, and tell him we're all worried but expect him to make a full recovery."

Matt nodded his head and headed out the door to find the floor nurse. He was quite impressed with Davis; he seemed to be sharing a different side of himself lately. Sure he was still talking before thinking, but at least now when he talked it was out of concern.

Matt walked in Tk's room and rushed over to his side. As Kari had said he looked like a sleeping angel. He pulled up a chair and sat down. He didn't know if Tk could hear him, but it didn't matter he had promised Davis he would tell Tk they all cared.

"Hey Teeks, how ya doing?" Matt paused a second and thought about what he had just said, "Ok stupid question. But anyways…um, I guess I need to say I'm sorry. You have no idea how freaked Tai and I were when we noticed you and Kari were gone. And everyone else too, they were worried like crazy, even Davis." Matt gave a small chuckle, "You'd be surprised to know how much he has actually cared, but I guess under all that fighting you two are good friends…"

Matt dragged off his last sentence not knowing what else to say but after a minute of silence he began talking once again.

"So, Kari's been a little freaked out which has made Tai freaked out. In fact she didn't even talk to us at first and still hasn't for that matter, except to Sora. She said something to Sora but none of us know what it was. Tai's gone crazy over the matter; you need to get better soon so that Kari will start talking making Tai take a chill pill and relax. But that's not the only reason you should get better…we all care about you so much and I don't—we don't want to lose you. I'm sure you're going to—"

A knocking at the door interupted Matt and he looked up as a nurse walked in, "Hey sweetie, I need to change his bandages."

"Does that mean I have to leave?" Matt asked sadly.

The nurse gave a sympathetic nod.

The blond turned his attention back to Tk, "Well Teeks, I'll be back and you better be here waiting for me." Then he released Tk's hand and stood up. As Matt walked out of the room a load of tension was lifted off his shoulders, sure Tk wasn't out of the park yet, but he had full faith that he'd be fine.