There are Days Like This Too.
Author: Irish Kaoru
Rating: T possible M by stories end
Disclaimer: You know the drill XD
A/N: Once again you have managed to astound me with the kind words and wonderful reviews that you have given me in less than a full day! I love you all. I am still ahead on my other FAKE story "All's Fair in Love and War" which I am writing for NaNoWriMo and thought that I needed to take a step out of the battle mode that I am in because of the story and enter a realm that it a little nicer even if it's slightly more angst filled at this point.
Chapter eleven
Yesteryears
Ryo's POV
I know that it was my fault that he left, I did after all tell him to get out. But, why did he listen to me? All I needed right now was his support and understanding, I knew I wasn't privileged enough to have the later because of my newly formed past but that didn't mean that I didn't need it all the same.
Now I am left here in a cold and unfamiliar place by myself and I am not ashamed to say that it's scary. I broke down into tears that I thought had run dry. I had been crying so much today it made me feel pathetic. How could a grown man like me feel nothing but self pity? It was something that was beyond uncharacteristic of me.
I curled up in a ball on my bed and just cried till the tears stopped coming even if my body was still shaking uncontrollably. I really had to be insane. Here I was acting like a mental case while sitting in the loony bin crying over my lover who I told to get out but really wanted him to stay. Could things really get any worse?
Of course they could. As if god was playing a mean trick on me the door opened and in walked a man wearing a white lab coat. Great now even the doctor was going to see the mess that I was and lock me up for good.
"Hello Ryo." The man smiled at me and for some reason I wanted to smack him for him for it. But I was nice enough and just gave him a polite smile. I cringed at the fact that he was calling me Ryo and not Randy or Mr. McLean like the doctors normally do. "Looks like you don't remember who I am." He laughed a little but stopped when he looked at me, although, I am not sure if it was the murderous look in my eye or the feigned embarrassment that made it happen.
"I am sorry am I supposed to know you form somewhere?" I did the best that I could to keep my voice even. I had no clue why I was so on edge, why did I not like this guy when I don't even know him?
"Perhaps I do look a little different, my name is Danny Fuller." The name sounded familiar to me. Fuller, Fuller, Fuller…and then it clicked.
"Danny Fuller, the right wing for our high school soccer team?" His smile got larger and I knew that I had gotten it right. "Oh my, how have you been?" he laughed not so much at me but in happiness that I remembered him, or so I was assuming.
"As well as I can be." He said brightly. "I just came to get some vitals from you seeing as how the drug that you were under should be just about completely gone by now. " We spoke about the past as he set about his tasks. It was the routine stuff, blood pressure, temperature, reflexes, and the like.
"Sorry you have to see me like this." I whispered, I don't really know why I felt so guilty about it. I should have been more embarrassed than anything but guilt was an emotion that lately I had felt more comfortable with.
Danny's POV
This was perfect. He had no clue that I was the one that was causing him some of his pain let alone the fact that I would be causing him so much more in the future. He was, just as he was back in our school days, naive.
"You remember Greg Keri?" He nodded. It was hard to forget Greg as he was our vice captain for two years. "You heard that he died right?" of course I knew that he had no clue, the man had died all of three days ago and the police were keeping it under wraps. I shouldn't be telling a patient of mine this, especially if he was in the psych ward, but Ryo was a special patient. One who would require, how shall I say, special treatment.
"What did he really?" Ryo sounded just as surprised as I thought he would. He and Greg were close friends. They had grown apart when they went separate ways after school, Greg had gone to become a lit major while Ryo joined the police academy. I knew that they still met up for coffee about once a month. That's why it had to be him.
"Yeah they said that someone had murdered him when he was at home, although the odd thing about it was that there was no struggle. At first they thought it was suicide but that was only because his wrist had been cut wide open. But later on during the autopsy the found traces of a drug called Phylimitocen (1) which makes your body unable to move." I studied him for a reaction knowing that by now they would have found Mr. Connell. He looked almost white as he realized that that's possibly what was used on the poor teacher. I laughed inwardly. "Oh I am sorry, I shouldn't have said anything." I said quickly acting like I was surprised. Ryo bought it and shook his head to let me know that it was ok.
"Well I really should get going. I do have other patents to see and stuff. I'll be back later. "Oh and Dee's a good man Ryo." I smiled at him. I had heard Ryo yelling at him earlier, I couldn't let them fall apart, not till I got done what I needed to get done. "He was really worried about you. I think he made a hole in the waiting room floor while we had you in surgery. Take care of him; you don't get many like him now a days." With that I walked out and left Ryo to his thoughts.
I walked back to my office and closed and locked the door. All the offices came with this handy little noise maker that when turned on drowned all noise that was coming from in the office to prying ears on the outside. I flipped mine on and picked up the receiver hitting number seven on the speed dial. It rung a few times before anyone picked up.
"Hey Karina, it's Danny. Did you find that girl I was talking to you about?" I smiled at her answer, "Good, good, here is what I need you to do…."
A/N OMG I am evil. And there you have it winry you have made an appearance as Karina. Although it wasn't all that big and more like a cameo right now you will turn into a larger character soon.
I should be able to devote more time to this fic starting around the next week or so. I am at the time of this posting at 33,861 words which is 13,857 words past where I had to be. The other story is really hard to write but a lot of fun. I should start posting it by the end of December beginning of January but the latest will be the end of January.
The story so far is still in it's infant stages and is already twenty chapters long so be prepared for a massive story… AKA don't be surprised if it is somewhere between forty to fifty chapters long…. If any of you would really stay that long Oo
(1) I made up the name of the drug so don't go looking it up… it's not real and I was to lazy to do the research!
I love you all and am sorry about the cliff hanger and shortness of the chapter I just have a lot about WWII on my mind right now. SOOO Excited about the other story!
Irish Kaoru