Time-travelers

Chapter 8

Paul was worried and didn't even know why. He knew that he was worried about Dawn but didn't know why he was worried about her. 'Do I even like her?' he thought to himself. He then found himself in front of the only hospital located in Hearthome City. "What am I doing here?" he asked himself angrily and was about to turn around but something inside him stopped him. "I just came here to see how hurt she is. Just that, I'm not worrying about her or anything." He told himself while entering the main gate.

He went to the counter. "Welcome to Hearthome Hospital. Do you need anything?" asked the nurse on the counter. "Well, I'm here to see Dawn von Viette, she's a patient here." He said. "Wait a minute sir." The nurse said as she typed into her computer. "I'm so sorry to say but no one is allowed to meet her unless you are her guardian." The nurse said apologizing. "But, I'm sure there are someone else than her guardian who's meeting her!" said Paul, who obviously thought that the guardians are her parents. "Whom are you saying?" The nurse asked. "There are two girls." He said. "Oh, they are her guardian. And please don't speak loudly, this is hospital." Paul turned around and left the hospital immediately.

Paul stomped all the way to his home. Mad. Furious. When he got to his home, Reggie was surprised. "What happened? Did someone insulted you or something?" He asked. "NO! Don't talk to me, I'm not in a mood." Paul replied, rudely, and roughly and walked upstairs. Raphael and Vee returned home right then. "I heard Paul in his get-the-hell-away-from-me voice. Is something wrong?" Raph asked. All Reggie did was to shrug. "I don't know. He doesn't speak about it, just mad." Reggie said. Vee walked upstairs to find Paul.

She knocked the door. "GO AWAY!" Paul said. "Geez, do you really think that's a way to speak to lady?" She retorted. "You are not a lady. You are just a little girl." Vee crossed her arms. "Is this about Dawn?" Vee asked with a crossed voice. No answer came back. Vee smiled, "I knew it. I can let you meet her." Silence, but the door slowly opened. "How? You are not her guardian." Paul asked. "We have the same last name. I can full the nurses that she and I are family and let you in as well." Vee replied as matter of factly. Paul stepped out of the door and told her that he will see her tomorrow. Vee shrugged, "Okay. I will see you tomorrow." Vee said as she ran downstairs.

Drew and Hilbert weren't in a good mood just because Paul left them without telling them. "How could he? I mean, it's not just him who is worried about the beautiful blunette." Hilbert complained and Drew agreed. But he wasn't furious about it, he rather wanted to ask the girls about what happened. "Let's go to the girls' apartment. Maybe we can see Hilda and May and ask about Dawn." Drew said. "Yeah, we should. Without Paul." Hilbert said stubbornly. "I was planning to do that anyway." Drew replied with sly smile.

When they reached the apartment, only May was there, too bad for Hilbert. "May, can we enter?" Drew asked as he knocked the door. "No." she said, who just locked the door when she spotted them. "Come on May. We just want a talk." Hilbert pleaded. "No. I said No. No means No." May said stubbornly and kept the door locked. The boys looked at each other and kept knocking. "Please, just 5 minutes. Can't you even spare five minutes?" Drew pleaded. "Why isn't Hilda here." The boys could hear May's complain and the door clicked open. "Five minutes starts now." May said as she clicked on the stopwatch. The boys quickly sat on the sofa and so did May.

"What happened to Dawn? Paul isn't having such a great time these days." Drew said quickly. "An accident that you will never be able to find out. Next question?" May said. "Why aren't you letting anyone into the hospital?" Hilbert asked, who just got a text message from Paul about it. "Just in case. I'm not going in for the details. Anything more? Only a minute and a half left." May said glancing at the stopwatch. Drew took a look and shook his head and they were kicked out of the apartment. It isn't an exaggeration when I say they were kicked out of it, they literally were.

"Geez, what a manner." Drew said as he rubbed his bottom. "What did we got? Nothing! The only thing we got is a kick in our butt." Hilbert agreed with a frown. "And we also figured out that they are keeping a secret that we aren't supposed to know." Drew said, walking down the stairway. "I don't think they want to talk about something very important to the people whom they've only known for a month. I mean, would you?" Hilbert asked, he had a point. "But, we are close friends. Talking to us may bring them solution." Drew retorted. "Let's just wait until they can trust us more." Hilbert said with a sigh.

3 months later

It became cold, and Dawn was getting colder as well. "Do you think she will wake up?" May asked Hilda. "Of course. Remember what Mr. von Viette fed us once an every year." Hilda said. Mr. von Viette, their boss, fed them a pill full of nano medic robots just in case they get hurt. But in Dawn's case-serious injure that had almost take away her life- they know that it will take a long time even for the robots. "Stupid robots." May murmured as she kicked the wall lightly, but their lightly is different than ours, since it left a small dent.

"Let me in!" Hilda stood up as a voice came from outside the door. She opened the door, finding Paul, held by two security guards, but Paul was strong enough to push them away. Unlucky for him new guards came to grab him. "What are you doing here?" Hilda asked, she remembered that she didn't allowed him and Vee to see Dawn about 3 months ago. "I have to see Dawn, please Hilda." Paul pleaded, his eyes were filled with anxiety. Hilda looked up at him sadly. She turned around to May, who nodded. "Let him in." She told the guards, who immediately released him. Paul dusted himself and followed the brown haired girl inside.

There, he saw the girl with long blue hairs, set like a fan above her head. She was beautiful but looked like she was dead, except that the machine next to her showed that her heart was still beating and she was still breathing, although she was using oxygen mask. He walked over to her and held her hands. Hilda and May stayed and watched Paul and Dawn. "Wake up Dawn. I'm sorry for losing you and give up right away. Please say you are okay, please say you are going to wake up." Hilda couldn't decide if his lines were because he liked her or because he is just worrying about his friend. Hilda then noticed that the heart was beating rather faster. "Oh my." Hilda heard May's gasp, meaning that she noticed it as well.

Hilda walked over to Dawn quickly and grabbed her hand, sitting down. "Dawn, can you hear me? It's me, Hilda. Please wake up. Paul's here too. And so is May. Dawn, please wake up." Hilda glanced at Paul. "You are the only one who knows exactly how he looks like. Wake up." Hilda said, this time in a commanding tone, similar to Mr. von Viette's. The beating sped up and one of her fingers twitched. The beating sped up even more, returning to normal. Her eyes shot open, surprising all three of them. "I'll go get the doctors." May said. Dawn blinked, looked at Hilda, then Paul. She looked around to see that she was in hospital, her body covered in bandages. "I saw him. He told me to give up. He told me that Father will be harmed if I don't give up." Dawn said really quickly. Paul was about to ask something to her but Hilda took his chance away. "Shh, Dawn relax. Now tell me, what exactly did he looked like?" Hilda asked.

Dawn blinked. After few seconds later, "I'm sorry. I am confused right now. I mean, he was a he, but he looked more like a female, wait, male, no, female…. I can't really tell. Long hair, purple long hair, and had same eyes. Purple. They were the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. They were sad as well. No, wait, one was sad but one was furious." Dawn said, recalling her memory of 3 months ago. "It's okay, don't get too excited." Hilda said and before Dawn started again May returned with the doctor. He examined her. "You will have to stay for a week more for examinations. Then you will be free to go." He said with a kind smile. Dawn nodded and looked at Paul, who looked completely puzzled.

After the doctor left, "What was that?" Paul asked the girls. "What was what?" Hilda asked. "The man. He's the offender, right?" Paul asked. Hilda regretted that she'd let him in but it was too late. "Ignore it. It's none of your business." She said. "Hey! I have some right to know!" Paul yelled, frustrated. "This is hospital, keep it quiet." May said. "May, you stay here with Dawn. I will talk to Paul." Hilda said as she grabbed the plum head's wrist, dragging him out.

She dragged him out to the lobby of the hospital. "What you've just heard, ignore it all. Okay?" She asked. "Why should I?" He asked, crossing his arms and looking down at Hilda. "You just have to. If you tell anyone in this world about the conversation you heard, you will be sorry that you were born. And don't you dare think that you and Dawn can be lovers. She deserves someone better than you." Hilda spat the words and stormed away, leaving Paul even more confused. He knew that she cannot kill him but her words felt genuine. He felt chill and plodded away.

He called his friends to meet up at his house. About a half an hour later two boys came to his house. "What is it?" Hilbert asked. "Dawn woke up." Paul said. Drew and Hilbert's faces lit up. "And they were talking about something. I can't tell you but I think they are hiding something." Drew smirked, "I knew it! See Hilbert! I knew they were hiding something." Drew said, somehow glad that he was right. "Yeah yeah, blah blah blah." Hilbert said sarcastically. "Paul, I think we need to find it out, right?" Drew asked with a sly smile. "Of course." Paul said. Paul thought that he has to find out their secret and the offender to gain Dawn's, I mean, their trust. He needs to. He doesn't know why but he has to find out.

IE(me): Yay, I'm done!

Paul: you seems so happy.

IE: Umm, duh? I'm always happy when I'm done with chapters!

Dawn: I was out for 3 months? Is that even possible?

IE: Umm, some people are out for 3 years.

May: I will kill you if you do that to Dawn.

Hilda: Totally, and will burn your corpse.

IE: Wait, I was going to donate my body as cadaver! And my boyfriend is going to be very sad.

All of the main characters: Don't care

IE: Meanies.

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