There were screams, screaming, screaming, screaming...
...Mommy said screaming means bad things are happening. So does that mean bad things are out there, Kai wondered.
Hana, Jackson, and Mommy weren't back yet. ...But he and his sister had been told to run if bad things happen...
Sounds of heavy things falling just outside his hospital room door were the only other sounds he heard besides the machines' beeping. Tsubasa had accidentally shut the door when she left, and maybe it had been a good thing after all...? But not long after Kai first heard the sounds of cutting, footsteps and falling, the hall suddenly went quiet.
Quiet. That means the bad has passed, right? But it was a bad moon tonight, he remembered, so he wasn't sure.
'When were they coming back?' Kai wondered about his family. He began growing worried. It wasn't a good idea that he, Mommy, Hana and Jackson were all separated on the bad moon night.
A scream pierced the hall outside and Kai jumped. The scream was suddenly cut short and sudden followed by the sound of someone gurgling. Then, there was a heavy thump of something falling on his hospital door and the sound of heavy footsteps, like boots, walked pasted. Kai could feel his insides turn cold and for the longest time, he couldn't move.
His little body trembled. There was something wrong here at the hospital, something definitely wrong. Kai was getting something, feeling something that was weird and not like anything felt before. It wasn't fear—do not get that wrong—Kai Hanekawa-Stilinski has never in his short life felt fear. He is incapable of feeling so. This is because when others would feel this, he would feel something different, almost as if it were floating in the air. It was something that has led him being about to tell if something was good or bad, what someone's intentions were beforehand, know that Jackson was a kanima, and know about the bad moon night. And the feeling he got now, it wasn't good and he didn't like it. Heavy, dark and heavy was all he could describe it as. He didn't like the feeling one bit.
He had to get everyone back together. The bad moon, the bad moon was on the rise.
The bad moon was already here.
Kai looked to the machines on his right and then down to the IV cords connected to him. The machines were too big too move, but he had to find some way...
Hana squirmed in Jackson's arms. The hospital room they had squeezed into was packed wall-to-wall and he struggled to keep her in his arm. He had also resolved to holding his hand over her mouth after protests from the others to keep her quiet as the footsteps outside had neared.
Still, Hana called for her brother's name.
This, of her squirming and calling, with the rough nudges and glares from the others in the room, had been going on for minutes now. And having enough of it, Jackson squeezed thru the crowd until he found the room's small private bathroom. Once he shut the door behind him, Jackson halled her from his shoulder. Hana stumbled but lost her balance and fell on her bottom on the cold tile.
Jackson stood over her with his hands on his hips. He was breathing heavily and she knew he was angry. "What is your problem?! If you are any louder, you'd have us all killed! Is that what you want!?" He did all but yell himself.
He glared at her for a while until kneeling to her level.
The child stared up at him with wide eyes. She didn't speak.
"You saw what those things did," he gestured to the closed bathroom door but she knew that he was talking about the tall men in black just moments ago. "They were...hurting those people. Badly!"
Tsubasa doesn't like the 'k-word' used around the twins, so, hurt was substituted for killed.
Jackson lunged into her face. "Do you want that to be us next! Do you want them to come after us!"
Hana cowered away.
He paused, seeing her reaction. The way she looked up at him, wide brown eyes and positioned to scoot backward, made him stop. The look in her eyes was similar to a sarcastic, currently demented former classmate of his.
Jackson backed away and stood slowly, wiping his mouth nervously, realizing his mistake. He stammered, "H-Hana, I'm sorry." He took a step backwards. "I'm sorry." He hoisted her up.
She hesitated before curling her small fingers around his and Jackson pulled her into a hug. He apologized for yelling, a rule that Tsubasa made him go by to prevent the twins from developing a fear of them.
"I was just..." He swallowed his pride once more in front of the child. "I just didn't know what to do and didn't want them to find us."
He then picked her up, holding her close to him, and exited the bathroom. He ignored the sympathetic looks of mainly women he received and knew that they all must have heard him. Jackson made sure to hold Hana close in his arms as they all stood rather awkwardly in the room. But it wasn't until Jackson relaxed his grip and a man beside them strike up a conversation that Hana whispered, all too clearly for her young age, into his shoulder:
"Kaito knows what to do."
Her speech was so clear that it froze him. And by the time Jackson collected himself, Hana had already went limp, slipped from his grasp, and was running into the hall.
Jackson screamed, but the door was already closing behind her. He wanted to scream in anger but knew it was useless and that she was just as stubborn as her parents.