Chapter two
Depression had struck. Though she carried on with her work, her heart wasn't in it. Sure she was helping them to live, but what type of life? Their loved ones are lost and they might never see outside the hospital walls again. She walked up to a room with thick white doors. She took the clip- board with the patients information on it, with a shake of her head she walked into the room. "Hey there. How are you today?" nothing but silence was her answer. "Fine Kagome and you?" she asked herself in a mock baritone voice. "So- so. I've had better days." she said as she walked to open the window. "What's wrong." she asked in the baritone voice. "My brother is..." she couldn't finish the sentence. She sat on the window sill and held her arm out. A little blue bird flew upon it. She stared at it for awhile before she stroked it and released it back into the wild. She got up, closing the window behind her, and walked over to the bed. There laying on the bed was a man who appeared to be sleeping. She smiled as she gently stroked his abused face. That smile soon turned into an evil grin and her hand slid from his face down to his shoulder. "Wake up, wake up, wake up! Evacuate the building, come on!" His eyes opened with a start. "What the hell is your problem woman?!" he yelled. "Aren't you supposed to be a doctor? Don't you know that could give me a heart attack?" she rolled her eyes and walked over to the sink. "Whatever. Your not here because you have a weak heart. And I knew you were awake." she said as she opened the cup boards and pulled out a pair of latex gloves. "Okay sit up so we can get this check over." he laid motion-less on the bed. She stood there, just looking at his. "Well?" then it hit her. He was paralyzed from the waist down. "Sorry." It was an awkward silence. "Did you know every awkward silence a gay baby is born?" she said trying to lighten the mood. "As a doctor do you honestly believe that?" he asked, skeptically. "Yes I do." she walked over to him and helped him up. "Okay, what do you want to do first? We could practice walking or do your daily check-up and blood test. You can eat if your hungry, or are you thirsty?" she said as she poked places in his side. He did not reply so she chose for him. "Okay Dr. Higurashi, first I want to do my check-up, then eat, and after that we can practice walking." she said in her mock voice. "Okay then, if that's what you want." she said answering herself. "Make some sort of a sound if I touch somewhere you can feel." she kept on poking and he never made a sound. She wrote down everything she did on the clip board. "Well, your not dying, but the exercises aren't working as fast as I want them to." She walked over to a cart and pulled it next to the bed. She opened a drawer and roamed around it, after finding what she desired she closed the drawer and got closer to him. "Hold out your right arm." He did what he was told and she wiped his arm with a sanitary wipe. She got her needle out after tying a plastic arm band on him. She searched for a vein and finding one she stuck the needle in, drawing blood. She pulled the needle out, put a cotton swab over it, and then bandaged it up. She repeated this five times. "Okay are you hungry? I could get the nurse to bring you some food. Or maybe we could-"
"No"
"Go outside to eat-"
"No."
"I think that would be lovely."
"I said no!" he yelled. She looked up. "Why not? It's a perfectly good day. The sun is shinning. Or maybe your not a sunny person, I'll just call the nurse." She walked over to the intercom and was about to press the button. "No! I said no are you to incompetent to understand that I don't want anything to eat, nor do I want your help or conversations! I don't want you around me!" She turned around slowly. "I'm sorry. I just thought you would want something to eat." she said. "Why must you assume?! Leave! And don't come back." He said, furry in his voice. "But we still have to do your walking exercises." she said with a hurt expression. "That's what I mean. Take a hint. No, actually, we are past hints. I flat out told you I do not want your company, that I don't like you, but you don't understand. Leave, now." she stood still for a moment, then turned her back to him. She walked to the door and put her hand on the handle. "I new it. I can't trust anyone. You get too close and they burn you. You say you don't want me around, fine. I won't make you suffer my intolerable presents. Have a nice day Mr. Tsukatara (Sue- ka- tarra)."
I know it's short, but I didn't want to give away what happens next. A new character is coming into the mix and tension is rising. Read to find out what happens next. And, again, I'm sorry for the shortness of this chapter.