The next day, Noodle awoke with a start. 2D's mother had opened up the shades in the hospital room, letting the light from the window hit Noodle in the face.
"Toochi!" The girl exclaimed when she realized her hand was still bound tightly in his.
She looked up at the monitor the singer had been hooked up to and realized his vital signs had gone back to normal.
With another glance, the axe princess noticed 2D was now breathing on his own.
He was now sleeping.
The expression on his face was as hard to describe as it was hard to look at.
It looked pained, as if something was hurting him. It looked sad as though he felt some sort of regret. It looked angry, as though he was mad with himself. It looked happy, as if he was happy to be alive, or simply he thought he was dead. It looked cold, as if he selfishly cared only for himself in this situation. Finally, it looked relieve, as though some heavy weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
Noodle watched the boy toss and turn in his sleep. She wanted to help wanted to wake him up and take all the pain away. But, this was a task she would be unable to do.
She knew of 2D's physical scars, having watched Murdoc inflict them on the poor singer, but his mental scars, she hardly knew of.
Some times at night, she'd hear the singer whimper in his sleep about a girl named Paula, sometimes, she heard the name 'Rachel'. She would hear him talk about how Murdoc had hurt him, and why he looked the way he did, but because of the language barrier, this was as much as the Asian girl would ever know.
Noodle was ripped away from her thoughts when the hand that held her own suddenly tightened its grip.
2D was having a nightmare.
Noodle looked around quickly, maybe for someone who could help her calm the frontman down, but all the adults had gone for coffee.
In a feeble attempt to wake her friend, Noodle tried waking him, but when that didn't work, she took a new approach.
"I-I...It's go-nn-a be...ookay, i..i-it gon-na be...al-rig...h-ht." Noodle cooed, rubbing her friend's hand soothingly.
"I-t's go-n-na be ookay, Toochi." Noodle whispered as tears slid down her face.
Did she really just lie to her best friend?