Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ New Life ❯ Remembrance ( Chapter 9 )

Warnings: I don't know if there are any new ones for this chapter yet. I need to write it. Okay, I'm going back to warnings now that I've written the chapter. There is sign language, so stuff that's surrounded by apostrophes instead of quotation marks is something being said in SL. Now read!

New Life

Chapter 9: Remembrance

"What's wrong Matt?" Taichi asked as he walked up to the blonde.

"Shizuma's attorney asked if I was dating him. How could anyone actually think that I'd date that fucking bastard?! I'm not even gay! Or bi!" Yamato grabbed his hair and growled in frustration. "I just wish they'd get this over with and realize that he deserves to be in jail, instead of asking stupid questions that won't do anything!"

The blonde flopped down on the stairs to the courthouse and rested his head in his hands. Hoping to comfort his best friend, Taichi sat down and started rubbing Yamato's back. "It'll be okay. He'll probably get life in jail, so don't think about it so much. Why don't we go see how TK's doing to get your mind off all this? The doctors did say he'll probably wake up soon."

"Okay."

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As Yamato and Taichi walked down the hallway to Takeru's room there was a huge crashing sound. They quickly ran down the corridor and rounded the corner to see a nurse running out of the younger Ishida's room, trying to avoid the objects being thrown at her. Suddenly the shower of medical instruments stopped, but there was an obvious struggle going on in the hospital room. The nurse stepped back into the room and was promptly followed by the curious teenagers.

They were shocked by what they saw: two large doctors were holding down the struggling Takeru, who was trying to get away from the nurse with a syringe. Every time the nurse would move the needle close to the blonde's arm he'd start struggling again, making it impossible for the nurse to hit her target.

Yamato ran over to the bed and shoved the nurse out of the way. The smaller blonde leaped away from the doctors and into his brother's arms, tears streaming down his face as he hugged Yamato tightly.

"What were you trying to do?! Kill him?!"

"No-I was just doing what I was told to do."

"Didn't anybody read his records?! He doesn't get shots without a friend or family member with him!"

"But-"

"No! There's no buts! He's afraid of needles and he has to have somebody with him or he'll virtually have a heart attack!" Yamato directed his attention to the blonde in his arms. "It's okay. I'm here now. They won't stick that thing in you until you're ready, okay?" The blonde nodded into Yamato's shirt and the older Ishida kissed the top of his brother's head.

"I didn't know. But we had to do something. When he woke up he was trying to pull the stitches out of his neck, and he was trying to scream-and he pulled out his breathing tube and his IVs. I was told to sedate him before he could do any more damage. He was bleeding quite heavily from where the IVs were pulled out. We had no choice!"

"You did too have a choice! You could have called somebody! You could have stopped when he started fighting! You could have done anything other than what you did!"

"But I-"

"Get out! Now!"

The nurse was shocked by the blonde's harsh tone but did as she was asked, leaving the room quietly with the other doctors following behind her.

"Are you okay?" Takeru shook his head, but dried his eyes on his brother's shirt and sat up. He started doing sign language and Yamato nodded. "Don't worry-you'll be able to talk again soon. But right now you can't strain your throat or it could tear the stitches."

"You guys know sign language?" Taichi asked curiously. "How? Where did you learn it from?"

"One of our cousins was deaf for a few years because of something-I don't remember what anymore-but our whole family learned sign language so she could understand stuff. Now our grandma is losing her hearing and we're using the sign language again. But you can't have a private conversation around our cousin anymore-she got really good at reading lips and she's constantly eaves dropping." Takeru tried to laugh at his brother's comment, but it didn't work out so well. He at least had his brother's attention and signed something to him.

`She only eaves drops on your conversations. Especially when you talk about Sora.'

"That's what you think. She knows everything about you and Kari. She tells me when she sees something new from you."

`Don't you mean hears?'

"No, `cause technically she's not hearing it."

`Shut up. If I could talk right now I'd be yelling at you. Of course, if I could talk right now, we wouldn't have gotten on the subject in the first place.'

"Yeah, you're probably right."

"Um, guys?" Taichi cut in. "Do I get to know what you're talking about or not?"

Yamato laughed. "Later. First I've gotta call one of my parents so we can get TK out of here."

"But the doctors won't let him out so soon."

"Screw the doctors! If they wanna keep him here they're gonna have to put me in jail first! You stay with TK and I'll be back in a minute, okay?"

Both boys nodded yes and Yamato left the room.

"TK? Can I tell you something?" The blonde shrugged and stared at the brunette. "Okay. It's about Matt, but you can't let anyone know. Sora already knows, and so does Kari, so once you get your voice back you can talk to them about it, but nobody else, okay?" Takeru nodded, sighing and rolling his eyes. "You're gonna think this is crazy, but I remembered some stuff about an alternate life that me and Matt had." The blonde leaned forward, obviously eager to hear what Taichi had to say. "Well-I was a cop . . ."

Taichi told the story of what he remembered as quick as he could, trying to finish before Yamato got back. ". . . So, you see, I have to find a way to make Matt remember, too, but I don't know how. Sora broke up with Matt so I could get him to remember, `cause she says we seem right for each other. She said she kinda remembers too, but she said I shouldn't just go up and tell Matt that we were in love in some strange, parallel universe; I mean, what would he say to that?" Takeru shrugged and tapped the side of his head. "Huh? Are you saying you remember too?" The blonde held his hand out palm down and tipped it side to side. "Kinda? Okay. Well . . . that's gonna help some. I think."

TBC

Okay! Review now! And I lied-I didn't get this chapter up over the weekend, but I did get it up! And Tai remembers! You get to find out how he remembered in the next chapter! Happy holidays everybody! Or as everyone at my school has been saying: Happy Christmahanakkwanzaadan! In case you can't tell, that's Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Ramadan. And I'm going to be posting a new fic soon! It'll be a one-shot, probably pg-13, but it'll be hilarious. And eat lots of food! That's my holiday tip for everyone!