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Who: Isaka Shinkurou, Okumura Rin, Ratchet, Onizuka Haku
What: Waking up after an ordeal
When: February 20th
Where: Neon General Hospital

Isaka checked the two patients' vital signs and made notes in their charts. Both of them were a welcome change from his normal fare, but for different reasons.

The strange creature named "Ratchet" was definitely interesting from a biological standpoint, although treating him was a bit complicated without a proper baseline. Fortunately, there was already some information on file for him, along with instructions that he be restrained while undergoing treatment, apparently after an earlier escape.

The other patient, Okumura Rin, was a different story. Isaka set the chart down on the bedside table and unwrapped one of the bandages. Rin appeared mostly human (with the jarring exception of a tail of all things), but after his long experience with Dopants, Isaka could sense the well of power within him. It wasn't a Gaia Memory - he'd already checked for a port - but something innate. His tongue darted out to lick his lips quickly. He would have to find out as much as he could while Rin was here. He continued his examination, taking his time as he went. It was unfortunate that he couldn't perform a vivisection on the boy.

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Rin was the first to wake, a groan indicating his rousing. His fingers curled in to a loose fist at his side as if he were trying to hold on to something. That something was the red-cased sword that was leaning against his bed, but at that moment he couldn't see it.

His head was spinning. Everything ached worse than he had ever hurt before. His chest felt heavy and breathing was difficult. There was something over his face, but he didn't know what, and the white ceiling above him looked like an expanse of nothingness to his half-open eyes.

Bleary memories came filtering back. Snow, a half-frozen boy, Ratchet...

"Ra...tchet..." he managed to say under the oxygen mask, voice weak and crackly.

Oh. He was awake now. Isaka hid his disappointment and stopped his examination, moving into Rin's field of view.

"Ratchet is alive." His voice was the professional voice of a doctor, likely to be forgotten once Rin's hospital stay was over. "As are you. How do you feel?"

Rin blinked slowly, several times, trying to clear his vision. The calm voice over him, the way he was feeling, it made him vaguely recall one of the few times he was ill as child, ill enough to pass out at school even, and he had woken to Shiro's voice asking him how he felt. This doctor had the same calm, relaxing voice.

He rolled his head over to look at the man, vivid blue eyes still some what bleary and unfocused.

"Like hell..." he finally answered tiredly, "Where... are we? How did we get here... ?"

Isaka gave him a polite smile.

"That is to be expected, considering the condition you were in when you arrived. You are in Neon General Hospital. Your brother and a young woman brought you in." He removed another bandage to check on the wound underneath. "I must say, you are recovering remarkably quickly."

The wounds that had been left behind from the battle were the worst that he had received, but even those were starting to fade finally. What had been deep gashes and even a few broken bones were nearly down to little more than bruises and scratches now.

"Yeah... that happens..." he muttered about his wounds healing.

"Neon... ?" he added after a second, looking up at the ceiling again. They had been in Meria when they'd stumbled across the boy and his partner, and.. that was the last thing Rin could remember.

Wait. The boy. Rin couldn't see him from where he lay.

"Alecsander-kun? Where... is he okay... ?"

Edited 2012-03-05 01:39 (UTC)

Fascinating. I wonder how this ability would fare against Trial? Would it be able to keep up with the damage?

Isaka continued checking under the bandages to confirm the speed of Rin's recovery.

"There was no one else brought to me. It is possible that another physician here is caring for him."

That worried Rin, more than he wanted to admit, but he tried to reason that he had to be taken care of some where. There was no way he could have died...

At least that's what he WANTED to believe.

He went quiet at that, simply rolling his head to the side to stare at Ratchet silently.

Speaking of the Lombax, he slowly began to stir in his bed. Green eyes slowly opened and stared up at the ceiling above him. He looked around, not moving his head much out of fear it would start swimming again. He kind of recognized this place but his frazzled foggy mind just couldn't place it.

"W-Where am I...?"

Isaka moved over to Ratchet's side when he spoke, bending over to enter Ratchet's field of vision with a polite smile.

"You are in Neon General Hospital, as is Okumura-san. How do you feel?"

Unlike Rin, he was expecting to have to prescribe Ratchet painkillers.

Seeing Ratchet move was at least one relief amongst a whole list of worries, but he didn't look any better than when Rin had started dragging him through Meria. He had no way to regenerate after injuries, and he was lucky to be alive after the whomping Daemon had laid down on them.

Rin remained quiet, just watching as the doctor looked over Ratchet, his tail swaying over the edge of the bed slowly.

Unfortunately for both Isaka and Ratchet, the Lombax only really caught part of his sentence. The polite smile was otherwise disregarded, especially when he heard the word 'Hospital.' The furry alien shot up in his bed, only for his arms to be stopped by the restraints and that didn't help matters. He began to thrash in his bed, pulling at the straps that connected his arms to the rails of his bed over and over again, a frantic look in his eyes.

"LET ME GO! LET ME GO DAMMIT!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, though it didn't come out very loud thanks to the pneumonia and injuries. He started to cough, loud raspy hacks as the illness disagreed with the sudden movement and the screaming. This was not a kind awakening at all.

Isaka didn't actually jump at Ratchet's sudden movement. He jerked away to avoid Ratchet hitting him in the face with his head, but he didn't show any actual surprise, though Rin wasn't likely to notice with Ratchet now the center of attention. He straightened up and frowned slightly.

"Please do not struggle. I will have to sedate you before you injure yourself further if you do, and I would rather you be able to tell me about your body and where you are in pain. Treating someone without knowing what their normal heart and respiratory rates are is not ideal."

Well that was something he wasn't expecting. At all. He had a vague memory of Haku bringing up that Ratcheted seemed to have a severe dislike of hospitals, but damned if he could remember the reason why, or how Haku knew this specifically.

Unfortunately not knowing that was going on just made Rin more worried, and he sat up as quickly as his spinning head would let him.

"Ratchet! Calm down!" he barked, hoping to get the Lombax's attention. If he didn't like hospitals that much then chances were he wasn't going to listen to the doctor.

Ratchet's stuggling slowly came to an end as the coughing took over. He clutched his chest, the pain shooting through his ribs. Okay, this sucked. He was injured, sick, trapped in a hospital, and too weak to escape. Fuck all kinds of duck.

"I...want...out of...here..." He wheezed and looked up at the doctor with a weak glare. Why the hell was he here? Who brought him here? He was going to kick someones ass for this.

"I am afraid that you are in no condition to leave. In fact you are fortunate to be alive. If we hadn't been able to stop your internal bleeding when we did you would be dead by now; we don't have any compatible blood for a transfusion. You also appear to have pneumonia, or at least your species' version of it, which will require medication. We think you may have a concussion as well, which will require monitoring to ensure that it does not result in permanent brain damage. This is not counting multiple fractured ribs, severe lacerations and incisions that required stitches, as well as frostbite. As it stands now you will need to stay here for several weeks at minimum, followed by minimal exertion for several more weeks once you leave."

Rin stared at the doctor as he went through the lengthy list of Ratchet's injuries and illness. Guilt already weighed on him for not being able to help Ratchet more, but hearing that... he could only hang his head and clench his teeth in anger at the whole damn situation.

"Ratchet..." a female voice said from the doorway. Rin looked up to see a very worried Haku Onizuka standing there, hand on the door frame and a bag in her other hand. She had heard the doctor speaking to him as well, and the long list made her heart sink as well. She knew he was made. She had known he was going to be mad as soon as she brought him and Ratchet there. But there was nothing she else she could do.

She slipped in to the room and went to the other side of his bed, sitting down on the edge of it so she could take his hand comfortably.

"I'm sorry. I know you're mad, but you would have died if I hadn't brought you here... no one is going to hurt you here, though. We're only trying to help."

Ratchet looked up at Haku and for a moment, he seemed relieved. She would get him out of here. She knew how much he hated this place. His tail weakly began to move when she got close but when she started to speak it came to a halt. She brought him here? He felt his anger start to flare up again. He glared at her for a moment but he was too tired for another outburst. He groaned and just looked down with his eyes closed.

"Whatever. Fine." He laid back and looked up at the doctor. "You win this time." Even he couldn't argue with the logic that was used against him. Well he could but he didn't want to. That would be admitting something he had been trying to hide and he wasn't that dump to just spill it here in front of Rin and Haku.

Isaka nodded to Haku as she came in, then at Ratchet as he caved. "The more rest you get the faster you will heal. Please do not exert yourself." He looked over Ratchet's chart. "If you are able to give me any medical information it would make your treatment easier. Your normal blood pressure and heart rate, for example, as well as any allergies you may have. I am able to make some assumptions about the correct ranges based on your previous stay here, but any additional information you are able to give me would be helpful."

Haku winced and recoiled at Ratchet's look and tone, hurt that he had turned on her so quickly. She really was just trying to look out for him.

"... maybe when you're a little better we can take you home, Ratchet..." she said quietly, though her voice was practically a whisper and easily drowned out by the doctor speaking.

Ratchet sighed and rattled off the information Isaka wanted. He knew what most of those things were...their ranges anyway. He didn't mind going to the hospital at one time.

"And no anesthesia. Gives me nightmares." He finished and closed his eyes again. This place sucked so much. He looked up at Haku and just stared for a moment before nodding. "Yeah. I'd like that."

Isaka wrote down the information, then looked back up at Ratchet with the same polite smile.

"Thank you, this is very helpful. Assuming nothing out of the ordinary occurs, I don't anticipate any need for further anesthesia, so you have nothing to worry about in that regard." He returned the chart to the foot of the bed. "Do either of you need me to increase your painkillers?"

"I'll see what I can do then," Haku offered quietly with a smile, squeezing Ratchet's hand loosely.

Rin sat back in his bed with a sigh, already feeling annoyance at being stuck there.

"No, I'm fine," he said, fidgeting absently with his IV.

Ratchet nodded to Haku and looked back to Isaka. "I could use more. I feel like I have a Wargrok standing on my chest and have a jackhammer going in my head."

Isaka nodded and made some adjustments to Ratchet's IV. Ratchet would feel a slight improvement, but it wouldn't be nearly enough.

"I believe it will be safe to give you a morphine drip, although I will need to monitor it to ensure that you do not have an adverse reaction. It should prove much more effective than your current medication. I will make the arrangements. You should not be waiting long." He stopped at the door and gave a slight bow before leaving.

Haku and Rin both bowed back to the doctor as much as they could from where they were sitting. Silence settled over the room, save for the beeping of machinery, until Haku spoke quietly.

"Why did you two leave?"

"I wasn't just going to stand around doing nothing, Onizuka-san," came Rin's answer, no hesitation in his words at all. He knew Haku and Yukio and probably Bon even were upset with his actions, but he didn't regret what he'd done.

"You could have stayed and helped at the Hyperion! Both of you!"

"Yukio was needed there more than I was."

"... you still should have told him."

Rin just grunted at that, looking away. Yukio wouldn't have let him go. They both knew that.

Ratchet stayed quiet while he let the two talk. It really was an obvious mistake but one he knew him and Rin would make again if they had the chance.

"You wouldn't have let me go and Yukio wouldn't have let Rin go. We wanted to protect everyone by taking on the main threat." The Lombax spoke, his eyes staring up at the ceiling. It was less awkward for him this way.

"... we were worried..."

Haku looked at her hands, remembering how insane it had been in Neon City, and how much she wanted to protect everyone but she couldn't. Rin and Ratchet had taken that one step further and gone to the source.

She'd be lying if she said she would have if she had any way of helping.

"I was worried."

"We're not proud for worrying you guys but we did what we thought was best. That's all there is to it." He paused for a moment before looking to Haku. He tried to give her a smile but it was small and didn't quite reach his eyes.

"Thank you for worrying though."

"I'm just glad you're both okay..."

She sighed, tugging on her hair, running her fingers through it over her shoulder.

"And... as upset as we were... it was really brave, what you two did."

"... brave and stupid."

"Guys are good at that sort of thing."

"I'm the reckless type, what can I say?" Ratchet shrugged and actually gave a chuckle. This was becoming a nice conversation, rather than a depressing one like he thought it might have become.

"Is everyone okay?" Rin asked Haku, getting an affirmative nod from her.

"Good..."

He really didn't want to go through the end of the damn world just to find out some one had wound up dead, or in a coma or severely injured.

"... are you okay?"

"... me? ... well aside from losing my leg and winding up on a roof in Axyori..."

"You lost your whole LEG?"

Haku laughed nervously, scratching the back of her head.

"Yup. Just... poof. Gone. I mean it was ripped off before that but when I landed in Axoryi after the reset it wasn't there."

Now that got Ratchet to laugh until he winced and held his sides. "Oh-oh wow. Really? Your leg just went poof? Gone? Damn tree has a bad sense of humor." He chuckled and and just shook his head.

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