Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ As Long As She's Happy ❯ Shattered Hopes and dreams ( Chapter 2 )
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By: moose_of_doom 
Davis awakes in Hospital...
Anime/Manga: Digimon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 07.11.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 743 | Status: Completed
Davis awakes in Hospital...
Anime/Manga: Digimon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 07.11.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 743 | Status: Completed
Chapter 2
Shattered hopes and dreams.
Davis felt like he was swimming in an ocean of darkness. He swam along, his senses blurred by the water. He could sense some kind of wall ahead of him, and he knew that something important was behind it, but he didn't know what. He tried to will his body to stop, but he kept going. Any second now he was going to crash into the wall.
"Davis?"
I know that voice.
"Can you hear me Davis?"
Kari. What is she doing here?
"Come back to us Davis."
TK too. Have they come swimming with me? I remember.
(The windscreen shattering in front of me, Yolei's scream, praying that her seat-belt held, the wall rushing up, Twisting to avoid it hitting my head, Yolei's screaming getting louder, Ken shouting now too, Veemon jumping over the seats to get to me, hitting the wall, Yolei, screaming, Yolei, Yolei.)
"Yolei!"
Kari leapt back.
"You're awake!"
Davis ignored her comment.
"Where's Yolei? Is she okay? What about Ken? And Veemon? Are they all."
TK held up his hand.
"Calm down Davis, you took a heavy hit. Relax a bit 'kay?"
Davis ignored him and tried to get up. Pain shot through both his legs.
"SHIT!" He settled down again, and the nurse from the hall dashed into the room.
"Are you okay Davis?" June looked down at her brother with concern in her eyes. The young man settled back into the bed.
"Are my friends okay?"
His sister nodded.
" A few cuts and bruises, but nothing more serious than that. They were lucky that you're a better driver than you let on. Veemon's outside, if you want him to come in?"
Davis nodded, and the small blue Digimon leapt through the door and onto the chair at his side.
June looked at Kari and TK.
"5 minutes. No more. The doctor will be here in a little while."
They nodded, and then sat on the Windowsill by his bed. TK put a possessive arm around Kari's waist.
Davis felt sick.
"Are you going to be okay?" Kari asked.
The man in the bed grinned and nodded.
"Somehow I don't think I'll be playing any soccer for a while. How long have you guys been here? What time is it?"
"It's about 3 in the afternoon. We were only here for a few minutes before you woke up. You've been in here overnight." Said TK.
"We were really worried. June called us when you were brought in, and we rushed here as soon we could."
The door opened.
"I thought the nurse gave you a five minute warning. I'm afraid you'll have to leave now."
Kari and TK got up to go. As they went through the door, Kari turned.
"I'm glad your okay, Davis."
Then she was gone.
Davis noticed the doctor giving him a strange look.
"Cute girl. She your girlfriend?"
Davis paused before answering, His eyes staring at the door.
"No. Nothing like that."
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Kari sat with her arms folded in tightly around herself in the passenger seat of TK's car. The rain was still pouring down outside, as it had been doing since the school dance.
Kari didn't like seeing her friends get hurt. but, was she even sure she could still count Davis as a friend. She had hardly spoken to him since she started going out with TK. She could still remember the day they had announced it.
"You're brooding." TK said from beside her.
"Am not."
"Are too. Your mouth gets that little pucker when you're brooding."
"My mouth was not puckered." She paused "okay, maybe I was brooding."
"Davis?"
She nodded.
"I don't like seeing anyone hurt, least of all my friends."
TK nodded sombrely.
"It was one hell of a shock wasn't it? I never thought anything would keep Davis still that long."
"That's not funny TK."
He sighed.
"I know. But I couldn't think of anything else to say. Sorry."
They pulled up outside her apartment building. Kari climbed out of the car.
"Are you sure you'll be okay?" TK asked.
Kari lent into the car and kissed him.
"What do you think?"
He laughed, and pulled away from the kerb.
Kari made her way up to her apartment. She turned her key in the lock and walked in. The empty apartment seemed like the perfect place to be right now, quiet and secluded. Just her and.
"Kari?"
Gatomon padded out of Kari's bedroom, where she had obviously been sleeping. Her tail ring shone in the dull grey light that came through the window. Kari didn't reply, she didn't have to. The young woman went and sat in a chair facing the balcony windows. Her Digimon came and leapt up onto the armrest.
"How is he?" Gatomon asked.
Kari shook her head.
"He woke up, just before we had to go. He had two broken legs. He wanted to become a pro soccer player, you know? He probably wont be able to do that now. I could see in his eyes, he knew. His dream, shattered, just like that."
She sat back in her chair.
"And do you know what? The first thing he said was asking whether Yolei and Ken were okay, he didn't even think about himself."
Gatomon grinned. "From what I remember, Davis never was big on thinking."
But Kari didn't answer, her face had a faraway look on it, and Gatomon knew that she was lost in her own memory. The Digimon jumped off of the chair's arm, and went to fix some tea.
Kari remembered, the day she and TK had made their little announcement.
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"Everybody, me and Kari have something to say." TK's voice rang out loud in the classroom
All the eyes in the room turned to look at the Seventeen year old, all of the Tokyo Digidestined were there and their Digimon also turned to look.
TK seemed to dry up suddenly, and looked to Kari for help. She raised her eyes to the ceiling, and looked at everyone.
"Well.me and TK are going out together. That okay with everyone?"
Everyone in the room broke out in grins, but one seemed fixed in place, frozen in time.
"ABOUT TIME TOO!" Mimi's voice yelled, and everyone in the room burst out laughing.
The Digidestined all rushed forward at once to congratulate the couple, and no one noticed Davis slip quietly from the room.
No one except Kari.
She disengaged herself from her friends, and walked out into the hallway.
Davis was a little way ahead of her. Walking away, his shoulders slumped forward as he absently kicked along an empty coke can. She jogged to catch up with him.
"Davis?" He jumped when she spoke; he had obviously been so wrapped up in his own thoughts that he hadn't heard her coming. He regained his composure quickly.
"Kari." He turned and started walking again, Veemon at his side, quiet for the first time in Kari's memory.
"Aren't you gonna say anything? You know, congratulate me?"
He turned back to her, and there was a coldness in his eyes, that was unlike anything she had ever seen before. It was something she would never have associated with Davis, the guy who was always so boisterous.
"Congratulations Kari."
He turned again. She caught his arm. As he looked at her, the coldness she had seen a second ago faded, and he gave a small smile. He stopped her before she could speak again.
"As long as you're happy Kari, I wont say anything. I hope you made the right decision." He looked back up the hallway. "He's a lucky guy."
Davis gently disengaged her hand from his arm, and walked away, before she could see the tears that welled up at the back of his eyes.
That was a year ago, and she had hardly spoken to him since.
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Davis absorbed everything the doctor said with a poker face.
Broken legs.
Damaged vertebrae.
Lucky to get off this lightly.
He just lay there, and thought about what might have been. He was going into physiotherapy in a few hours.
"Should have you back on your feet in a couple of months. I've arranged for the hospital psychiatrist to do some tests for shock."
A voice came from the door.
"I wouldn't bother, doc, he's a hopeless case."
Cody, Joe and Izzy were stood at the door, large grins on their faces and parcels under their arms. Their Digimon stood at their feet, and rushed in to talk excitedly with Veemon. The doctor grinned.
"I'll leave you guys to it."
He left the room, and the three Digidestined at the door sat around Davis's bed. He indicated their parcels.
"Those had better contain food."
Cody grinned, and looked at the bowl of porridge on the nightstand.
"Why should they, when they're feeding you that quality stuff?"
Davis glanced at his bowl.
"Are you kidding, even Veemon wouldn't touch this stuff."
Joe looked at him suspiciously.
"Are you sure? Let me try."
Before anyone could protest, he had grabbed the bowl and eaten a spoonful. His facial features locked into a fixed grin.
"Interesting. texture."
Davis smiled politely.
"Bathrooms across the hall. You might just make it."
Joe stood in a hurry, and left. A smirking Izzy handed Davis his laptop.
"Thought you might like to take a look into the digital world. I stopped by at the impound to check on your jeep. The cop told me to give you this, with his condolences."
He held out Davis's D3.
"Thanks. It might do Veemon some good to get into the digital world for a while, even if the doctors wont let me go. Did you know the cop?"
Izzy shook his head. Davis grinned.
"Seems fame does have its benefits, doesn't it?" he looked at his watch.
"I've gotta go for my physiotherapy session now. I'll catch you guys later, okay?"
Davis levered himself out of bed, into the wheelchair that was at his side.
"When are you getting out of here?" Cody asked.
"Tomorrow. They said there's no point in keeping me around, except to annoy June, which everyone seems to take great delight in. it's nice to know its not just me. See ya later."
He wheeled himself out into the hallway. Cody followed him.
"I stopped in to see Yolei and Ken on the way here. Yolei said to give you a message:
The next time she asks you for a ride, say NO!"
Davis laughed.
"That figures, but I don't have a car at the moment. Can you do me a favour?"
"Name it."
"Can you take Veemon back to my Mom's place? I'm gonna be staying there for a while. She wants to keep an eye on me." Davis pulled a face.
"Okay. Don't do anything stupid."
"Why DOES everyone say that."
Cody fixed him with a baleful stare.
"I can't think."
He walked back to Davis's room. Davis grinned after him, and rolled in the opposite direction.
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Shattered hopes and dreams.
Davis felt like he was swimming in an ocean of darkness. He swam along, his senses blurred by the water. He could sense some kind of wall ahead of him, and he knew that something important was behind it, but he didn't know what. He tried to will his body to stop, but he kept going. Any second now he was going to crash into the wall.
"Davis?"
I know that voice.
"Can you hear me Davis?"
Kari. What is she doing here?
"Come back to us Davis."
TK too. Have they come swimming with me? I remember.
(The windscreen shattering in front of me, Yolei's scream, praying that her seat-belt held, the wall rushing up, Twisting to avoid it hitting my head, Yolei's screaming getting louder, Ken shouting now too, Veemon jumping over the seats to get to me, hitting the wall, Yolei, screaming, Yolei, Yolei.)
"Yolei!"
Kari leapt back.
"You're awake!"
Davis ignored her comment.
"Where's Yolei? Is she okay? What about Ken? And Veemon? Are they all."
TK held up his hand.
"Calm down Davis, you took a heavy hit. Relax a bit 'kay?"
Davis ignored him and tried to get up. Pain shot through both his legs.
"SHIT!" He settled down again, and the nurse from the hall dashed into the room.
"Are you okay Davis?" June looked down at her brother with concern in her eyes. The young man settled back into the bed.
"Are my friends okay?"
His sister nodded.
" A few cuts and bruises, but nothing more serious than that. They were lucky that you're a better driver than you let on. Veemon's outside, if you want him to come in?"
Davis nodded, and the small blue Digimon leapt through the door and onto the chair at his side.
June looked at Kari and TK.
"5 minutes. No more. The doctor will be here in a little while."
They nodded, and then sat on the Windowsill by his bed. TK put a possessive arm around Kari's waist.
Davis felt sick.
"Are you going to be okay?" Kari asked.
The man in the bed grinned and nodded.
"Somehow I don't think I'll be playing any soccer for a while. How long have you guys been here? What time is it?"
"It's about 3 in the afternoon. We were only here for a few minutes before you woke up. You've been in here overnight." Said TK.
"We were really worried. June called us when you were brought in, and we rushed here as soon we could."
The door opened.
"I thought the nurse gave you a five minute warning. I'm afraid you'll have to leave now."
Kari and TK got up to go. As they went through the door, Kari turned.
"I'm glad your okay, Davis."
Then she was gone.
Davis noticed the doctor giving him a strange look.
"Cute girl. She your girlfriend?"
Davis paused before answering, His eyes staring at the door.
"No. Nothing like that."
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Kari sat with her arms folded in tightly around herself in the passenger seat of TK's car. The rain was still pouring down outside, as it had been doing since the school dance.
Kari didn't like seeing her friends get hurt. but, was she even sure she could still count Davis as a friend. She had hardly spoken to him since she started going out with TK. She could still remember the day they had announced it.
"You're brooding." TK said from beside her.
"Am not."
"Are too. Your mouth gets that little pucker when you're brooding."
"My mouth was not puckered." She paused "okay, maybe I was brooding."
"Davis?"
She nodded.
"I don't like seeing anyone hurt, least of all my friends."
TK nodded sombrely.
"It was one hell of a shock wasn't it? I never thought anything would keep Davis still that long."
"That's not funny TK."
He sighed.
"I know. But I couldn't think of anything else to say. Sorry."
They pulled up outside her apartment building. Kari climbed out of the car.
"Are you sure you'll be okay?" TK asked.
Kari lent into the car and kissed him.
"What do you think?"
He laughed, and pulled away from the kerb.
Kari made her way up to her apartment. She turned her key in the lock and walked in. The empty apartment seemed like the perfect place to be right now, quiet and secluded. Just her and.
"Kari?"
Gatomon padded out of Kari's bedroom, where she had obviously been sleeping. Her tail ring shone in the dull grey light that came through the window. Kari didn't reply, she didn't have to. The young woman went and sat in a chair facing the balcony windows. Her Digimon came and leapt up onto the armrest.
"How is he?" Gatomon asked.
Kari shook her head.
"He woke up, just before we had to go. He had two broken legs. He wanted to become a pro soccer player, you know? He probably wont be able to do that now. I could see in his eyes, he knew. His dream, shattered, just like that."
She sat back in her chair.
"And do you know what? The first thing he said was asking whether Yolei and Ken were okay, he didn't even think about himself."
Gatomon grinned. "From what I remember, Davis never was big on thinking."
But Kari didn't answer, her face had a faraway look on it, and Gatomon knew that she was lost in her own memory. The Digimon jumped off of the chair's arm, and went to fix some tea.
Kari remembered, the day she and TK had made their little announcement.
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"Everybody, me and Kari have something to say." TK's voice rang out loud in the classroom
All the eyes in the room turned to look at the Seventeen year old, all of the Tokyo Digidestined were there and their Digimon also turned to look.
TK seemed to dry up suddenly, and looked to Kari for help. She raised her eyes to the ceiling, and looked at everyone.
"Well.me and TK are going out together. That okay with everyone?"
Everyone in the room broke out in grins, but one seemed fixed in place, frozen in time.
"ABOUT TIME TOO!" Mimi's voice yelled, and everyone in the room burst out laughing.
The Digidestined all rushed forward at once to congratulate the couple, and no one noticed Davis slip quietly from the room.
No one except Kari.
She disengaged herself from her friends, and walked out into the hallway.
Davis was a little way ahead of her. Walking away, his shoulders slumped forward as he absently kicked along an empty coke can. She jogged to catch up with him.
"Davis?" He jumped when she spoke; he had obviously been so wrapped up in his own thoughts that he hadn't heard her coming. He regained his composure quickly.
"Kari." He turned and started walking again, Veemon at his side, quiet for the first time in Kari's memory.
"Aren't you gonna say anything? You know, congratulate me?"
He turned back to her, and there was a coldness in his eyes, that was unlike anything she had ever seen before. It was something she would never have associated with Davis, the guy who was always so boisterous.
"Congratulations Kari."
He turned again. She caught his arm. As he looked at her, the coldness she had seen a second ago faded, and he gave a small smile. He stopped her before she could speak again.
"As long as you're happy Kari, I wont say anything. I hope you made the right decision." He looked back up the hallway. "He's a lucky guy."
Davis gently disengaged her hand from his arm, and walked away, before she could see the tears that welled up at the back of his eyes.
That was a year ago, and she had hardly spoken to him since.
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Davis absorbed everything the doctor said with a poker face.
Broken legs.
Damaged vertebrae.
Lucky to get off this lightly.
He just lay there, and thought about what might have been. He was going into physiotherapy in a few hours.
"Should have you back on your feet in a couple of months. I've arranged for the hospital psychiatrist to do some tests for shock."
A voice came from the door.
"I wouldn't bother, doc, he's a hopeless case."
Cody, Joe and Izzy were stood at the door, large grins on their faces and parcels under their arms. Their Digimon stood at their feet, and rushed in to talk excitedly with Veemon. The doctor grinned.
"I'll leave you guys to it."
He left the room, and the three Digidestined at the door sat around Davis's bed. He indicated their parcels.
"Those had better contain food."
Cody grinned, and looked at the bowl of porridge on the nightstand.
"Why should they, when they're feeding you that quality stuff?"
Davis glanced at his bowl.
"Are you kidding, even Veemon wouldn't touch this stuff."
Joe looked at him suspiciously.
"Are you sure? Let me try."
Before anyone could protest, he had grabbed the bowl and eaten a spoonful. His facial features locked into a fixed grin.
"Interesting. texture."
Davis smiled politely.
"Bathrooms across the hall. You might just make it."
Joe stood in a hurry, and left. A smirking Izzy handed Davis his laptop.
"Thought you might like to take a look into the digital world. I stopped by at the impound to check on your jeep. The cop told me to give you this, with his condolences."
He held out Davis's D3.
"Thanks. It might do Veemon some good to get into the digital world for a while, even if the doctors wont let me go. Did you know the cop?"
Izzy shook his head. Davis grinned.
"Seems fame does have its benefits, doesn't it?" he looked at his watch.
"I've gotta go for my physiotherapy session now. I'll catch you guys later, okay?"
Davis levered himself out of bed, into the wheelchair that was at his side.
"When are you getting out of here?" Cody asked.
"Tomorrow. They said there's no point in keeping me around, except to annoy June, which everyone seems to take great delight in. it's nice to know its not just me. See ya later."
He wheeled himself out into the hallway. Cody followed him.
"I stopped in to see Yolei and Ken on the way here. Yolei said to give you a message:
The next time she asks you for a ride, say NO!"
Davis laughed.
"That figures, but I don't have a car at the moment. Can you do me a favour?"
"Name it."
"Can you take Veemon back to my Mom's place? I'm gonna be staying there for a while. She wants to keep an eye on me." Davis pulled a face.
"Okay. Don't do anything stupid."
"Why DOES everyone say that."
Cody fixed him with a baleful stare.
"I can't think."
He walked back to Davis's room. Davis grinned after him, and rolled in the opposite direction.
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