Expectations of Approval
Chapter Twenty-eight: Some Form of Understanding
As the healers flood the room Percy is thankful for Bill's interruption. It would have been very embarrassing explaining that to all of the medical staff later, not to mention that for some reason gossip about him just seems to garner special attention. He composes himself and starts to give out orders to the newly arrived Healer and janitors.
In the middle of the mod of healers they make their way to the testing center.
"Percy you need to get tested too, not to mention change, look at you! Your going to get sick, you run yourself ragged as it is. Yuu get Percy and the patient some dry robes-"
"Karen! Really, I'll be fine" Percy insist.
"Honey no, I've already sent him and I have every right to test you, beside you're a pure blood you should be taking extra care" Karen the head of the testing department tells Percy. "Now sit tight while I arrange for a room."
Percy raises an eyebrow.
"Well honey I'm running low on rooms, and as happy it makes me to know the people in them are still surviving I need to cut corners here and there. Besides it's just procedure and you two are friends" Karen says innocently.
"Why don't I believe you?"
Oliver just sits at watch this interaction as a Healer takes samples of his blood, and another one randomly takes a hair sample.
"I don't know sweetheart,"
"I think I know, maybe it's all those times you try to set him up with other gorgeous patients in the same way" Says the Healer that had taken Oliver's blood sample.
"Karen just wave the comment away. "I've never done such a thing on purpose, Now sit Percy. Yuu should be back soon"
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"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure, I checked twice Hone, I know he's a friend of yours" Karen tells Percy as she hands him Oliver's file.
Percy takes the file from Karen. Percy looks down at the file, he knows all the numbers by heart. For some one like Oliver there isn't much of a chance to develop traits. Percy remembers Hiiro, the numbers were as they are now, 23 chance of traits. Just today in the brief the notice is out, Hikari Yamamoto, a patient of the first waves of infections,a patient that has only develop one trait, is now suffering from magic poisoning in about a month she will die.
"As you thought, your fine, nothing out of the ordinary" Karen tells Percy, "but I recommend a day off, you're not getting enough sleep and you're under too much stress"
Percy nods. "Thank you Karen, I'll think about it"
"That's what you always say . . . his in room 1935"
Percy says his goodbye and heads over to Oliver's room. 'I knew it.'
'We were so close, he was going to tell us, but then Fred, and now Oliver is-'
'It's not that simple-"
'It doesn't matter'
'He didn't mean it'
'It's done, there is nothing we can do, we -'
'Fred he'
'There isn't going to be another miracle'
'I need to work harder'
'Oliver'
'I need to do something'
'Merlin, not Oliver'
'There needs to be something'
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Oliver sits up in his bed. He pulls on his large hospital gown, feeling uncomfortable in the stiff fabric.
Oliver's room is painted completely white, occupied with only his bed, an empty bed, presumably Percy's bed, a night table, two chairs, a couch and a table.
Oliver looks down at his hands. He looks vacantly at them. He can't see any changes in them or any were on him. He knows that there is a chance he is not infected and even if he is, traits show up a couple of days after infection. Oliver huffs.
He tilts his head to the side. 'Maybe on my face?"
Oliver looks at the table, it holds a sad potted plant, water and glasses on it's other wise clear surface. No mirror. For a moment he contemplates getting a glass of water. He looks down at his feet, which are under the thin white sheets. He knows he isn't wearing any shoes and he can't see any in the room. He decides not to leave his bed.
Oliver sighs and looks at the night table that his bed and the empty bed share. There are two remotes there. They are large and rectangular remotes with many buttons in different shapes and sizes. Oliver tilts his head and looks around the room again. He turn to the remote again. He reaches out to grad it.
There is a soft knock at the door before it opens. Oliver jumps slightly at the sound, he quickly turns to see who has come to visit.
It's Percy. He holds a tan folder to his chest tightly, his knuckles turned white. His face, his whole manner is exudes misery. As Percy closes the door behind him Oliver notices that the red head is now dressed in a short and very flimsy looking pale blue wizard- possibly witches' robe.
Percy looks up at Oliver, eyes shining in panic. Oliver ignores this. He eyes Percy suspiciously. "Is that really what you wear to work?" He teases trying to lighten the mood.
Percy blushes bright red. He tries to pull down the robe a little to cover a bit more of his legs but in so doing this he exposes his shoulders. He blushes a darker shade of red as he frowns at the causal robe Karen lent him, she had said she had nothing else he could use but he doubts that. "There isn't time for me to go to my dorm, so I just have to wait till my clothing is dried."
He can't help the small chuckle that escapes his lips at Percy's reaction. He quiets his chuckle and nodes his understanding. He stops mid nod as a thought strikes him. "Does that mean your not wearing any-"
"Oliver!" Percy stops his best friend from finishing his question, ear and face burring with embarrassment.
Oliver smiles, deciding to let the question go, feeling that he might be embarrassing Percy a little too much. Besides he has already gotten his answer.
Oliver watches as Percy fumbles with one of the chairs. Oliver knows that Percy is trying to be gentle with the new but he already knows. Oliver can read Percy like a book. His earlier mood and his frustration with moving a chair let him know. Oliver can feel his heart grow heavy but he gets up from the bed careful not to loosen the only string on the back he had been able to tie.
As he makes his way over to Percy one thought repeats over and over in his head. 'I might die soon' He knows now isn't the best time but he feels the need to do something and he just cant wait any longer.
He grads the folder from Percy's hands and puts in down on the table, successfully gaining all of the healer's attention, the chair forgotten as Percy turns to face him. Percy begins to protest Oliver's action but stops when he looks Oliver in the eyes.
"I can still touch you, Right? No traits yet"
Percy opens his mouth to argue against Oliver's assumption but he can't. So Percy closes his mouth and nods in reply to Oliver's question. Percy wonders how he could have forgotten that Oliver can read him so well.
Oliver reaches out then, placing one hand on Percy's exposed shoulder holding him close and the other to rest in Percy's red curls.
"Oliver-"
His closest friend just shakes his head and continues to run his had through Percy's hair. They stay that way for a while, until Oliver stops his right hand from it's travels and rest it on Percy's left cheek. Softly he strokes Percy's cheek with his thumb.
"I have to tell you this. Percy I- I need you to, to answer me honestly" Oliver says as he lets left hand fall from it's place on Percy's shoulder fearing that he might squeeze him too tightly. "I understand if you can't respond to them, it's not something you need to feel obligated to do. I just don't want to regret- I don't want to regret not telling you"
Percy frowns, he can feel his heart beat pick up but won't admit it. "Oliver, I don't understand"
Oliver give a half sob half chuckle to Percy's words as he warps his left arm around Percy's slim waist. He needs the nearness, and as horrible as it felt to admit it he wanted to take as much advantage as he could. He tilts up Percy's chin with his right hand. He looks down at Percy, meetings his eyes, staring into them, looking for some form of understanding. As Percy's eyes search Oliver's face for an answer Oliver sees confusion, fear, trust . . . and hope?
Oliver smiles, bring himself nose to nose with Percy. "Percy I love you, more than I have ever loved anyone and more than I could ever love anyone else"
A/n: Ok, sorry about ending it here but I needed to post it, I'm just happy I made it in time for this one today, cause it looks like DoECR will have to wait till tomorrow.
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