Kaouthara, thanks for reviewing and letting me taking my time with the Heavy Rain Fanfics. Have you read my two-shot story of Ethan and Madison's ending, it's called A Year Without Rain?

Chapter Three~Still Doll

Monday

8:31 pm

It was a horrible night for the Mars' clan. The eldest child of the Mars' is being hospitalized for alcohol poisoning. Ethan never knew that his daughter Harumi Grace Mars was drinking his beer behind his back, while doing self injury to her arms as well. This wasn't the girl he knew for sixteen years. This girl happens to be… a monster.

Gemstone Hospital

9:45 pm

Ethan and Shaun arrived at the hospital while tailing behind the ambulance that had Harumi in the back of the truck. She was placed into a stretcher while having an oxygen mask over her mouth. As they rolled her into the emergency section of the hospital, Ethan wasn't able to be by her daughter's side due to fact that she was having stomach problems. It was so traumatizing to him and also to his ten year old son, Shaun. All they can do is pray and hope that Harumi's recovery will go smoothly overnight.

Ethan waited in the waiting room while walking back and forth and all around. The architect father was watching the doors of the infirmary, before looking at his son who happened to be worried about his eldest sister as well.

"Dad… I'm tired." Shaun yawned, before slowly closing his tired brown eyes, until his father help by rested his head on his lap. He checked his iPhone for the time.

"It's way past your bedtime." Ethan whispered to him.

"I know, Dad." He said before the father heard the light snore of his son. He reached down to kiss his brown hair before whispering him goodnight. Ethan was about to rest his head on his hand while his arm was resting on one the chair handle, until he heard the sliding doors of the emergency section.

"Where's my daughter, Ethan?!" The voice of Grace Mars. Or happened to be Grace Garner since she and Ethan have been divorced for six months. The mother was looking at her ex-husband with her shocked light green eyes and her auburn hair still look the same. Being short and also in a loose ponytail.

Ethan and Shaun opened their eyes to see her shocked face. "Where is she? Is she alright?!" Grace asked the questions once more, until he removed Shaun's head from his lap. He stood up and walked towards her.

"She's… something bad has happened to her, so we're waiting for the doctor to return." Ethan said. He didn't know how to break it to his ex-wife and the mother of his oldest child that she was suffering from alcohol poisoning and doing self injury to herself.

"Ethan, what's wrong with her?" She asked her ex-husband once more, until her light green eyes looked at her son's tired brown ones. "Shaun, do you know what happened to your sister?" All three of them stand in silence until a nurse with blonde hair in a ponytail wearing hospital scrubs came out the doors of the emergency section.

"Harumi Mars' father?" She called out all of them looked at the nurse. Ethan walked up to the nurse as he a concern look on his face.

"How is she?" He whispered to the nurse.

She looked at her clipboard before answering to the architect father. "She's in her room now and she been put on an IV to improve her hydration and we gave her a sedative to make her fall asleep." The nurse explained while Grace was walking closer to her ex-husband behind him. "And we wrapped her wrists up with bandages to hold the bleeding down."

"Hold the bleeding down and an IV in her?" Grace finally asked the nurse, before Ethan and the nurse face her. "What do you mean?" Ethan walked to the room where Harumi is while the nurse explained what happened to her daughter. He can hear Grace crying in fear as he walked away from her.

Once the architect father reached the room, he opened the door slowly to hear a heart monitor going on, as she breathe slowly in and out. He walked towards the bed as she watched his daughter rising and falling chest. He pulled a chair up next to left side of the bed, as he examines his sleeping daughter.

Ethan heard the door opening as he noticed Shaun walking in while his mother closed the door. Once she noticed her daughter, she started to cry her green eyes out, without sobbing loudly. Grace walked towards Harumi without her pale green eyes leaving her sleeping form.

"Is Harumi going to be ok, Mom?" Shaun asked. Grace didn't know how to respond so her son turned to his father. "Dad?"

Ethan looked at his son for a second before responding to him. "Of course she is. She will be better overnight. That's what the doctor told me."

Grace looked up at her lying ex-husband, as she wiped her crying eyes with her arms. "Ethan, can I talk to you for a minute, outside?" The architect father nodded before leaving Shaun alone in the room with his sleeping sister, following his ex-wife out the room.

Once Ethan close the door, Grace was walking around the hospital hallway before turning around to face the man she once knew as her husband. "Ethan, what happened? How could you let this happen to Harumi?"

"Grace, I know how upset you are, but I didn't know what was going on with our daughter." Ethan explained. "All I know is that she got sent home today from being in a fight and Shaun just explain to me that she's been smoking, drinking, and-" Grace held up her hand for Ethan to stop talking for a second.

"She was in a fight today?" Grace asked. "Why didn't you even bother telling me?! She is my daughter, Ethan. She came out of my body and into the world and you didn't even bother to tell me what is going on in our daughter's school life?!"

Ethan sighed before answering. "Grace, I am trying my best to be close to our kids, but Shaun is distant and Harumi is more distant with an attitude, calling me by my first name instead of Dad or Daddy."

Grace covered her face, before showing how much she was feeling now. "Ethan, your job is to be a father and protect Harumi and Shaun from danger. What will happen if Harumi got raped or Shaun ran away from home? What are you going to do if something like that happened?"

Ethan didn't know how to respond to that either. He turned around not facing his ex-wife, as he covered her eyes with his hand.

"Ethan, say something?" Grace was about to cry once again, until she finally reaches her last straw. This was her final attempt to try and make her ex-husband talk. "Listen to me Ethan, if this happens again or if something happens to Shaun, after all we been though the past two years… I'm going to get a court order and have full custody on our kids."

Ethan turned to face his ex-wife before answering. "You're not taking away my daughter and son. They need me and I need them. I love them more than anything in the world, ever since they were brought into the world and also into our arms." Ethan started crying at this point, as his blizzard blue eyes were watery. "You can't take them away from me…"

The two parents were paying any attention until they heard someone walking into the room where Harumi and Shaun were still in. Ethan was the first person to open the door and he and Grace noticed someone who was around Harumi's age with blonde but messy bed hair, hazel brown eyes, and he was wearing a black leather jacket and underneath was a red hoodie. He was putting white roses into a glass vase on the nightstand, before turning around to Harumi's parents looking confused.

"Excuse me, but who are you?" Grace asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean to walk in without introduce myself." He walked up to Ethan and Grace before holding up his left hand. "I'm James Izumi. I'm Harumi's senpai."

"Senpai?" Ethan and Grace asked confused.

"Oh, I mean, Harumi's friend plus upperclassman." He started to shake Grace's and Ethan's hand firmly. "I was in music classes with her last year and we suddenly became friends, Mr. Mars and Miss. Garner."

"Well, it's nice to meet you, James, but how did you know that my daughter was in the hospital?" Ethan asked.

"Shaun texted me through Harumi's phone and I immediately drove my truck over here, before stopping at the flower shop to buy her some flowers."

"Oh, that was quite thoughtful of you, James, but…" Grace looked on her iPhone for the time. "Aren't you supposed to be at home? Don't you have a mother and father that's worry about you on a school night?"

James places his hands into his leather jacket pockets before answering. "My mother is dead and my father works late, so he doesn't mind. As long as I'm home before he does."

"Yeah, Mom and Dad." Shaun replied. "He only has a father who works late at the police station and barely sees him. So, whenever Harumi babysits me at the house, he comes over to see Harumi and play with me."

Grace nodded. "Ok, but James, Shaun, you two know that Harumi wasn't allowed to have people over, whenever I'm out for a bit."

"I know ma'am."

"I have a question I want to ask you, Mr. Izumi-" Ethan said, before walking closer to him, leaving Grace behind him.

"Uh, It's James, Mr Mars. Just James Izumi, sir."

"Are you dating my daughter?"

"Ethan!" Grace snapped.

"Dad!" Shaun snapped as well.

"Mr. Mars, I'm not dating her-"

"Do you want to date her?"

"Ethan Daisuke Mars, what the hell?!"

"Mr. Mars, I'm just Harumi's friend." He turned to look over at the sleeping teenager. "She's a nice girl with a sweet personality."

"Wait, are you talking about my daughter?" Ethan asked and James nodded. "My daughter isn't nice when she's at home with me. She a really difficult child to raise now."

"Mr. Mars, you need to try and let her open up more for her to talk. She talks to Miss. Garner about her problems, but give her some time and she'll open up to you, when she feels confident enough." James felt his phone vibrating in his leather jacket and it was text message from his father. He stare at the phone for a second before placing it back into his pocket. "I'm sorry, but I have to go now. My father will be home soon."

James walked to the right side of Harumi's hospital bed, before he ran his hand over her long but messy brown hair. He places a kiss on the top of her head.

"I hope Harumi feel better. I'll see you soon, Mr. Mars, Miss Garner." James walked out the room, until Ethan decided to follow him and Grace grabbed the back of his brown leather jacket to make him stop.

"If you thinking about stopping him, Ethan." Grace said. "We have a daughter to pray about for her to feel better. Just remember, Ethan it will happen." Grace still went on her word about having full custody of Shaun and Harumi one day, if Ethan messes up once more.

Ethan never wanted to be alone without his kids by his side. All he had left was them. Jason was in heaven watching over his sickly eldest sister and melancholy youngest brother. Harumi was sedated for her to stay asleep to make the pain go away, while having an IV and oxygen mask over her mouth and nose. Shaun was thinking about his sister's health and how he could have ask for help early, instead of her being in the hospital. Grace was hoping and praying that her daughter will ok. Ethan was doing the same as well. He hope that Harumi will better and get help at the same time, hoping his precious daughter will come back to him.

As minutes roll by and it was turned into hours, Ethan and Grace was awaking by a doctor telling them that visiting hours were over. Ethan tries to convince the doctor that this was his daughter and she can't be awake knowing that she was left alone. So, the doctor said that only one person can stay and watch over her. That person happened to her mother, Grace. Ethan has to leave the hospital with Shaun, because it was almost time for school and he will have to come back later when visiting hours has started.

Once Ethan arrive back at the house, Shaun started waking up in his father's arms, before looking around with his tired brown eyes.

"Dad, where's Harumi? Is she safe?" Shaun asked, tiredly.

"Yes, Shaun, she's safe." Ethan replied. "She's still in the hospital." He climbed up the stairs and walked towards his room, laying him down on his bed in the corner. "Now, go back to sleep, now. You started school in three more hours from now."

Ethan kisses his son's forehead before he stood up from his small bed, hearing his son calling for him.

"Yeah?"

"Why do you look so sad?" Shaun asked. "Is it because of Harumi?"

"Yeah, I'm worried about your sister's health." Ethan replied, before showing a melancholy face. "And I need some time. To get back to way things were."

"You know Dad, what happened to Jason and Harumi, wasn't your fault."

Ethan smiled at son. "Get some sleep, Shaun."

Shaun closes his brown eyes, before clutching onto his teddy bear. Ethan covered him with his blanket, before kissing his forehead once again.

Once he closed the door to his son's room, he walked into Harumi's bedroom, ignoring her warning sign on her door. Her room was really small for a teen, even though that it was an office. Her twin sized bed was in the corner, where the window was. There was so many posters on the walls of rock bands and some anime and TV shows that she and him watched sometimes. He sat down on her bed, until he noticed on the nightstand that Harumi's pack of menthol cigarettes was laying there, waiting to be used next to her black lighter.

On her pillow of her bed, was a few music sheets that she collect, but he was wondering why she needs this out even though she hasn't played her cello in a long time and she also not in music class anymore.

There was two letters that was addressed to her, so he decided to break her privacy and open the letters.

Harumi Mars,

It's been so long since I have you in my music class. I am here to inform you that we have a fall music show coming up and we want you to do two to three songs for our show coming up. You were been selected randomly from my music class that the class has put a vote on. You were one of my best students in my class for playing on your cello and I wish you won't reject this letter because we need your help and we need your help now. Please come by the auditorium by 12:15 to be here to audition for a song that you will be able to sing and perform. The songs can be from our class pieces or you have created as well or one of your favorite songs.

Yours Truly, The Music Teacher of Seiko High School.

Ethan smiled at the letter as he places it down on his lap, before opening the other letter.

When the parents came home from church all their children were gone. They searched and called for them they cried and beg. But it was all to no avail. The children have never been seen again.

Ethan was shocked as he was reading this letter. It was the same letter that he read today, when he got it in the mailbox. Was Harumi and Ethan being stalked? Or was this a high school prank for Harumi to be scared of? Ethan wasn't going to take this joke. He will be showing up at Harumi's school tomorrow and report this letter to the principal of the school.

Well, well… it looks like Ethan and Grace met one of Harumi's friends, James Izumi. I wonder who his father could be? It won't be revealed until in the future chapters….sorry… but if you have a guess on who his father might be, I'm willing to know… but I'm not spoiling it.

I gave Harumi a middle name, even though it's her mother's first name as well. Ethan still has a pretend middle name from my other Heavy Rain Fanfiction. In the next chapter, we will be back with Harumi once again, but will she make it to her audition in time and will Ethan get her the help she need.

I name this chapter after the Vampire Knight ending song, Still Doll by Kanon Wakeshima. She's a awesome cellist to listen to!