Inner Trinity (11/?)
By Max Ikari
They traveled by night back to Tokyo. After Omi had knocked Aya out
with the dart they had gone to his apartment and packed some things
for him and get rid of telling evidence. They were actually
surprised
at how easily Aya had gone on with his life.
"He is still out, how much did you put in that dart Omi?" asked Ken
smiling.
" I was afraid he would wake up and disappear again," said Omi
looking
shamefaced.
" It's ok kiddo, don't worry about it," said Yohji smiling and
touching Omi in the shoulder.
" What are we going to do?" asked Omi quietly, " We can't take him
home with us."
"I know, we will have to put him in a hospital," said Yohji not
meeting Omi's eyes.
Omi and Ken understood only to well the pain this was going to cause
him.
"Get off me, let me go!," screamed Ryo as they were dragging him to
the doctor's room. He had regained consciousness about 5 minutes ago
and was acting crazy. "Please don't let them take me!"
Omi was waiting behind not daring to come any closer; he looked like
he was about to start crying. Ken put a comforting arm around him;
Yohji could not look at Aya thrasing like a wild beast.
"Please! Please don't!" screamed Ryo locking gazes with Yohji. Yohji
stepped up and put a hand reassuringly on his forehead.
"Shhh, Ryo it will all be ok,"' said Yohji trying not to seem
bothered
by the pleading eyes that looked up at him.
"Please, please don't let them take me Yohji, I promise, I promise I
will be good, I promise," said Ryo whispering at Yohji.
"I-I can't Ryo, I just can't," said Yohji quietly and the doctors
started dragging Ryo again.
"Noooo!, nooooo, she will take me to hell, I know she will, she will
take me to hell!!! screamed Ryo and the doctors locked the door while
they subdued him.
"Well, we have subdued him and he has been switching personalities
like turning on and off a light," said the doctor Tagashi
"So, what is going to happen to Aya-kun?" asked Omi quietly.
" We have to keep him here for observation, we have to determine the
catalyst that made his personalities emerge, sometimes some have them
for years but something triggers them. We have to find what acted
like the trigger for this," said the doctor Tagashi.
"Can we see him, is he going to be okay?" asked Ken white faced. Ken
had tried that he wasn't afraid for Aya but he was, you could see it
written on his face.
" You can see him but I really doubt you will get anything out of
him,
he is heavily sedated and we had to strap him, he was a risk to
himself," said doctor Tagashi, " please follow me."
The room was all white, padded walls like a nut.
thought Yohji
"I will give you guys time with him, if you need anybody we will be
right outside," said doctor Tagashi stepping out.
They were left in the room with Aya. Aya was strapped into the bed
by
his arms and legs, he had a blue sweat suit, pants and a v-necked
shirt, his face was pasty white and he was moaning. Maybe dreaming.
Omi gave a faint whimper behind Yohji. Yohji felt the exact same
way.
Ken was the first to approach the bed.
"Aya, Aya can you hear me?" asked Ken quietly, " he is to doped up."
"No shit," said Yohji angry. What in the hell had possessed him to
bring Aya here, he wouldn't know.
"Aya-kun?" said Omi brokenly. The boy was openly crying now, trying
to get any reaction from Aya by shaking him lightly.
Aya turned to see them but his eyes were not focusing. He looked at
them for about three second before his eyes rolled in their sockets.
"He's out," said Ken stroking Omi's back to stop him form crying.
"We
will go outside, come on Omi let's get you a drink."
"Poor Aya-kun," said Omi in between tears.
When Ken and Omi had left, Yohji kneeled beside Aya's bed taking
Aya's
fingers and kissing them lightly.
" I am so sorry, I hope one day you can forgive me," said Yohji
burying his face in Aya's chest. "You have to get better, better for
me. I can't live without you, I love you, please come back to me. I
can't deal with being alone again. Please."
"Ummm," moaned Aya and started mumbling something. Yohji leaned in
to
hear what Aya was saying.
"Hell…please…don't…please mama…please," mumbled Aya.
Tears started to
slip from Yohji's eyes. "Please Aya get better for me," said Yohji
and he leaned to kiss Aya on the lips.
Aya opened his eyes and stared at Yohji. " Aya?" asked Yohji hopeful
that Aya had regained some kind of consciousness. However, Aya's
eyes
closed again.
The next day Aya did not wake up. When Yohji asked why, the doctor
said that it was shock, Aya had retreated again. The three of them
stayed in the clinic most of the day but then the doctor told them to
go home, they could do nothing for Aya there. However, he said that
if something happened he would contact them as soon as possible.
When they were driving home Omi said, " I don't like the idea of
Aya-kun alone in that clinic. Those walls and tied to a bed are
bound
to make anybody crazy."
" I know," said Yohji gripping the steering wheel hard making his
knuckles white.
Ken had fallen asleep in the car. They stopped to pick up some
groceries and when they arrived home nobody was hungry so they all
went to bed. They slept the last two hours of the day and most of
the
next day, emotionally drained.
At around 5pm the phone rang, Omi who was up picked up.
"Ohayo, this is Omi," said Omi trying to put some cheer into his
voice.
" Tsukiyono, Omi? This is doctor Tagashi from the clinic," said the
voice on the line
"Doctor?" asked Omi becoming scared, what happened? " What's wrong
doctor? Is something wrong?"
" Could you please come by the clinic as quickly as possible?" said
doctor Tagashi.
Yohji did not remember the drive to the clinic; the only thing he
remembered was getting in the car and then nothing. He must have
been
driving on automatic pilot. When he arrived at the clinic, Yohji
basically jumped out of the car running into the building. Doctor
Tagashi was waiting for them.
"What's wrong?" asked Yohji a little out of breath.
"There seems to have been a problem while we were in therapy," said
doctor Tagashi.
"What kind of problem?" asked Ken seriously
"He is gone, he has retreated completely, I am sorry," said Doctor
Tagashi quietly.
TBC