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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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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.