At the hospital Yugi laid in the hospital bed tossing and turning from a terrible nightmare. Yugi kept going back to the moment when his father was beating him then tying him up and hanging him leaving him for dead, but coming back moments later to finish the job causing Yugi to jolt up in his bed at the last minute in a cold sweat screaming in terror.
"Yugi! Yugi it's okay you are safe here you don't have to be scared anymore." Yugi looked up at the nurse only to cover his mouth feeling the remains of his last meal, that was nearly a week ago, come up.
"Okay easy use this to throw up in." The nurse handed Yugi a bed pan allowing him to finally throw up. The nurse took the bed pan and gasped at how little Yugi had thrown up. "Sweetie when was the last time you ate something?"
Yugi took the wash cloth the nurse handed to him and cleaned his mouth. "Last week maybe even two weeks ago." Yugi coughed when his throat started to hurt. The nurse covered her mouth in shock amazed that Yugi was up and moving around.
"I'm going to go and get you some food. You try and get some more rest." Yugi nodded after taking a sip of water. The nurse made her way to the cafeteria when she met up with Max, Mable, Yami, and Grandpa. "Excuse me Miss, but we are looking for Yugi Motus room."
The nurse gasped and looked down the hall towards Yugis room. "Can you please wait and let me go get him some food then I'll take you to him. It will only take me a few minutes to get him some food." The officers looked down to Grandpa who nodded allowing the nurse to go and get Yugi some food.
Just like she said she was back within minutes with two trays of food to take to Yugi. "I have to warn you. You might not like what you see. So please don't be alarmed at what you see." Yami looked down to Grandpa with a worried look.
The nurse lead everyone to Yugis room having difficulty trying to carry both trays of food and open the door. "Here let me take one of those from you." The nurse smiled as Yami took a tray of food from her.
"Thank you. You are just like Yugi, sweet and cute." Yami blushed when the nurse called him cute. As the door opened the nurse could hear a gasp and then a door shut. Everyone entered the room only to find it empty. "I thought that you said that Yugi was in this room."
The nurse nodded taking the tray from Yami and placing both on a nearby table. "He is. Yugi please come out of the bathroom you have visitors and you have nothing to be scared of." There was a sound of the door unlocking and the knob turning as Yugi barely opened the door to the bathroom.
Yami stepped forward with a worried look on his face. "Yugi?" Yugi opened the door more to reveal the truth causing everyone to gasp in horror. The small, always happy boy that they use to know was now thin, frail, and hurt.
"Oh...Yugi." Yugi stepped out of the bathroom only to burst into tears and run into Yamis arms. "Please...sniff...please don't make me go back to that place. I don't want to be around that terrible man anymore...sniff.
I want to stay with you and Grandpa." Yami took Yugi in his arms and hugged him tightly, but not too tight to hurt the frail boy. A sudden knock at the door caused Yugi to jump and yelp out in pain.
"Easy Yugi it's just someone at the door." The nurse made her way over to the door and opened it revealing the source of the knock. "Oh hello there Dr. Manwell. Are you here to check up on Yugi?"
Dr. Manwell, a short chubby man a bit taller than Grandpa, nodded and entered the room with a clipboard in hand. "Hello there Yugi. As you know my name is Dr. Arthur Manwell I will be tending to you until you get back on your feet."
Yugi nodded as Yami helped him onto the bed. "Well I have the results of your X-rays and from what I found you have a hair line fracture in your wrist, hip, and collarbone. You have three cracked ribs and severe lacerations over 75% of your body. Not to mention that you are very malnourished.
When was the last time you ate something?" Yugi was about to speak when the nurse stepped up to answer for him. "He said that the last time he ate something was almost 2 weeks ago.
I had brought him some food to eat before you came in." Dr. Manwell noticed the two trays of food and nodded. "Well let me do a quick checkup and then I'll let you eat." Yugi nodded, but as Dr. Manwell stepped forward extending his hands Yugi started to get nervous and back away nearly falling off the bed.
"Please Yugi let the doctor do his checkup." Yugi gulped down his fear and allowed Dr. Manwell to do the checkup. "Well looks like everything is okay. You are very lucky that nothing was more serious.
Now if you would excuse me I have other patients to tend to." Dr. Manwell stepped out allowing the nurse to help Yugi. "Here you go Yugi I brought you some food to help fill you up." The nurse placed a tray of food in front of Yugi so that he could eat.
Yugi stared at his food wanting to eat, but he used his last bit of strength to run into the bathroom. So he was too weak to pick up the spoon to feed himself. "Yugi didn't you hear her eat up. You'll need your strength to get better."
Yugi nodded and tried to pick up his arm, but it felt so heavy to him that once he barely had it up it fell onto the tray nearly causing it to flip out of his lap. " Easy I guess you don't have the energy to feed yourself. Don't you worry I'll help feed you."
The nurse took the spoon and started to feed Yugi who happily ate the food savoring every bite.