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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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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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