"Kid, Kid can you hear me?" Kid managed to register that he was Stein's voice and so he started trying to open his eyes.
"I think he's coming round" Stein said and Kid knew it was Stein for his eyes were now open and looking around.
He registered that he was in the academy's infirmary, at his side he saw Liz and Patty looking concerned as well as Soul leaning on the wall at the other side of the room with Black Star. Maka and Tsubaki were standing by the door and then last but not least he registered his father standing in the door way.
"You know you're all standing completely unsymmetrical formation" he managed weakly.
His friends all sighed in relief.
"Kid I told you, you had broken leg, why didn't you listen to me?" screamed Liz but Stein broke in.
"In kid's defence his leg wasn't broken, that last jump in training is when completely snapped the bone"
"Well its broken now and there is no way you can get around it Kid!" she screamed.
Kid raised an eye brow
"I can try" this was when Kid realised that he wasn't in any pain. The Dr must have understood the look on Kid's face because he answered his internal question.
"You're not in any pain at the moment because of the amount of pain killers running through your blood stream. Unfortunately due to the fact your body contains a large amount of Grim reaper blood those pain killers won't last long. You'll soon start feeling the pain, so we had better get that leg straight before you start feeling completely again".
Kid was a bit confused about what he meant when he said "getting that leg straight again". But he wasn't confused for long as Stein formatted soul and Black star round him to hold him down.
Stein then took hold of Kid's left leg, the one Kid knew to be injured.
"Wait Stein is this really necessary?"
The Dr paused and then pulled and twisted Kid's leg.
Kid yelled out and realised why soul and Black Star had been asked to hold him down. The pain was unbearable. His reactions caused him to lurch forward.
Soul pulled him back.
Stein paused again, Kid lay there sweat on his brow and breathing heavily, Soul and Black Star removed their hands from his shoulders slightly but not completely this let Kid know that they weren't finished yet.
"You ok Kiddo?" Kid moved his eyes round to see his father.
"Why don't we break your leg and then you can find out!"
"Still mad at me I see, well I had better go" he paused to see if Kid would ask him to stay when he didn't he Maka and Tsubaki left the room, the two girls stay outside the room but Lord death went away as he said he would.
"Right Kid, you ready?" came Stein's voice through Kid's thoughts, Kid realised his friends hands were holding him down again and he knew what was coming.
"Yeh just do it" Stein pulled and twisted and once again the pain over took Kid only this time he could feel the blackness creeping over him again.
After a few seconds of pure agony there was a loud click and Stein finally stopped. Stein stood over Kid and checked his eyes.
Soul and Black Star looked at him and stood back.
"Kid" said Stein "stop fighting it" he then picked up and syringe of a clear liquid and injected it into Kid's arm. "Don't fight it Kid, just give in" he repeated and soon Kid's eyes cleared over and closed.
"Well?" said Soul
"I managed to straighten out his leg and I gave him some more pain killers"
"Did you really have to knock him out again though" said Black star
"I didn't, his body gave up on him and wanted to sleep but his mind was fighting it because of the pain, when I numbed the pain his mind gave in as well".
The door opened quietly as Maka and Tsubaki popped their heads around the door.
"Is he ok?" asked Maka
"Yes he should be fine" said Stein "Due to the fact he's a Grim reaper his body will heal faster than most, so I'll keep him here for a few days and on painkillers and then he should be free to go".
Patty and Liz who had gone into weapon mood so that no one would have seem them crying from hearing Kid's screams, returned to human form and came over to Stein.
"That's not all though is it Dr Stein" said Paddy
"No your right about that Patty, I'll have to keep an eye on his leg over the next few hours to make sure that it doesn't heal in the wrong place".
"What happens if it does?" asked Maka
"Then I'd have to re-break his leg and go through the whole things again" said Stein bluntly causing them also to take a step back.
"Poor Kid" said Liz as they all left so that Kid could rest.
The first thing Kid was aware of was the numb throbbing of his left leg and the small sharp pain in his right arm. Opening his eyes he turned his head slowly to his right and saw a IV needle in his arm that was linked up to a drip of clear liquid.
He then looked at his leg; it was in a vice which was keeping it straight. That would explain the throbbing. My body is trying to heal thought Kid.
He looked around the rest of the room and realised there was no one in there. He was glad of that, he was Death the Kid and didn't want people seeing him in this weakened state, even if those people were his friends.
He looked at the ceiling as he waiting for his head to stop spinning and then slowly, very slowly he tried to sit up.
At first the pain of moving his leg slightly caused the nausea to return but after waiting a little longer for it to pass Kid was able to prop himself up on his arms.
It wasn't exactly comfortable but it was enough so that he could take in the rest of his surroundings.
"Well your awake I see"
Kid's first thought that he was alone appeared to be wrong, because there was Stein sitting in his chair, his head tilted to the side.
"How you feeling?"
"Dizzy" admitted Kid, Stein laughed.
"Well I would say that was pretty normal considering the amount of drugs going into you"
Kid gave him a questioning look, as Stein checked his leg again.
"In order to let your leg heal straight, I kept it in this vice, every few hours I would loosen the vice to allow your leg to bend. The first time I did it the pain was so bad you had a fit. I very much doubt you remember that, poor Maka will though, poor girl walked in at the wrong time".
Kid looked at him with wide eyes; he didn't remember that at all. Poor Maka she must have been worried.
"And so after that I hooked you up to pain killers, we had to keep it on a constant stream because your grim reaper blood was burning it up so fast".
Again Stein laughed.
"How long was I unconscious?" asked Kid
"Only a day and a half" a frown appearing "I was hoping you would stay unconscious until the vice was off, but you're awake now so more fool you".
Kid was about to ask him what he meant when Stein released a catch on the vice and it release Kid's leg about a cm.
In that moment a few things happened for one Kid yelled out in pain and he fell back against the bed and at the same moment Soul and Maka had come to check on him again and they walked through the door.
Despite the pain killers, Kid was fully awake now and there was no masking the pain, his body started reacting on its own. Luckily Stein knew the signs now.
"Maka bring me that block, Soul get me that bottle and syringe, he's fitting again".
Kid could hear everything going on around him but he couldn't control his body, the darkness was taking over him again but he fought it he refused to fall asleep.
He felt Stein put the block between his teeth to stop him biting his tongue and he felt Maka and soul hold him down and most of all he felt the sharp pain as the needle in Stein's hand pierced the skin of his right leg.
After a moment or two Kid started to feel the control of his body returning, and the darkness back away from him. After taking a deep breath he opened his eyes again to see Maka's face with red rims around her eyes from crying, Soul too was looking concerned but Stein was simply staring.
"Well I think next time we'll increase the pain relief beforehand" he smiled
Kid simply stared back at the ceiling as Stein removed the block.
"I swear it shouldn't be this bad, Soul was almost sliced in half and this didn't happen".
"Soul isn't a grim reaper" said Stein "Your human body is fighting against your grim reaper blood, it does this on a daily basis and is normally fine, but now that your human body is injured your blood is trying to heal it and I'm not letting it which is messing up the balance of your internal working model".
Kid sighed and then turned his head over to Maka who was sat in a chair to his right with Soul behind her.
"You alright?" he asked her.
"Why are you asking if I'm alright? You're the one who just had a fit!" she said her voice slightly higher than normal from being distressed.
"But I'm not the one who had the fright of my life"
"He's right Maka, you did go through a lot of shock" said Stein.
Maka copied Kid's sigh and turned back to face him.
"Honestly Kid, I'm fine, just a little shaken, it's not every day you walk in and see you friend having a fit. Although it seems to be happening more regularly now" she smiled and Kid copied her weakly then he turned to Stein again.
"So what now, please tell me you're done with causing me pain"
Stein laughed
"Sorry Kid, the vice still has 5 cm's to go, that means another 10 hours, but look on the bright side after that you can go to sleep and then get up the next day".
Kid grimaced, the thought of going through that much pain made him feel sick. But not as sick as the memory of what he had said to his father did.
"Hey Soul you recon you and Maka could do me a favour?"
"Sure" said Soul
"Couldn't go and get my dad could you?" Kid didn't look at them when he asked this and Soul and Maka knew it was because he hated the idea of losing the argument between father and son.
And so Makka and Soul left, 30 minutes later Lord Death appeared and Stein left as well.
"You wanted to speak with me Kiddo?"
Kid took a deep breath and still staring straight ahead of the ceiling he said
"I'm sorry for what I said to you the other day"
"Hey it's ok Kid, I did kind of deserve it, and if I hadn't embarrassed you then you wouldn't be in this mess".
Kid sighed again, which he seemed to be doing a lot lately.
"No I deserved that as well" now he looked at his father "I shouldn't have doubted you, you've never done anything that wasn't in our best interest."
There was a moment's pause and then Lord Death spoke calmly.
"That wasn't really your fault either, after the confusion you felt over me not telling you about the monster beneath the school that was a small emotion that the madness obtained and made bigger. So you see it wasn't really your fault, like Stein you were being driven by the madness".
Kid let out a quite laugh.
"That makes sense"
After a while of just talking Death tilted his masked face to the side.
"You know Kiddo you really do look awful…"
"He's gonna look even worse in a minute" said Stein walking back into the room and over to Kid.
After checking the vice quickly he went over to the medical cabinet and came back with more painkillers.
"Let's try and have no drama this time" he said injecting the medication into Kid.
Kid was starting to shake, his brain was making links between the vice and pain, which was turning into fear despite Kid trying to control it.
Stein seemed to notice.
"Don't get yourself worked up Kid; it's very unlikely it will be as painful as last time"
But as his hands went towards the vice Kid could feel heart rate rising.
"Kid if you get yourself worked up you'll burn up the painkillers before i can even put them to effect".
Kid nodded gripping his hands into fists to try and keep control.
"ON the count of 3" said Stein "one" Kid gritted his teeth "Two…" after 2 Stein released the vice another cm.
A/N Hehe I'm glad some people are reading and liking my work. I hope the next chapter wasn't a disapointment. Thank you for reading and please review to tell me what you think.