A/N: And…the conclusion! Semi-happy, semi-sad, but it works out. Yes, the injury will never heal 100%, but the off-days have reduced from what they were, and for most days Kouichi will be perfectly fine. He's still recovering now; it's been about a month or so from the hospital, but as he continues to get better he might start going back to school and doing his regular things every other day. It sort of killed the theme when I put those drabbles in in my head-draft, so I omitted them. It's open-ended sort of self-explanatory though, and if I was going to go through all the repercussions, I'd have written a full length fic. This was touching on one particular thing…which I realised about five drabbles in wasn't so easy to put into words. :D
The Fragments I Catch of Dying Memories
31. We'll Always be Scared
'I don't think that fear will ever go away, that fear that I might lose you, or you might forget about me. Time moves on, but I still have nightmares about you dying, or forgetting me, and those shadowy demons you see but never really talk about still haven't gone away.
I guess those things won't ever go away, even when we have less memories, even when most days now we can almost forget you once hit your head…
Except it's always at the backs of our minds, and your mind. We could wait with baited breath forever for the other shoe to drop.'