InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Pages of My Life ❯ Hostage Situation ( Chapter 5 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

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If you stare in the mirror long enough you start to question your own reflection. `Is that really me?' I've often found myself thinking in a strange mood. I couldn't recreate myself any better, and I'm not the type to bother changing my image drastically. But just every once in awhile, I don't feel like myself even in my own body.

This is one of those cases, when I wake up to find I'm trapped behind foreign eyes. I know I must be dreaming, although it would be more like a nightmare. Frantically I looked around trying to wake up but all I could see was a limp body lying in a hospital bed. Everything beeped and breathed around what I was being held hostage in.

I was getting more panicked by the minute, this seemed too real, and why wasn't I waking up? My thoughts screeched to a halt when I heard someone walk in the room, and I fell still on a frightened animal instinct.

“Ms. Higurashi I'm glad to see you're awake, we were worried you really were going to fall into a coma.”

My blood stopped in its veins and flowed backwards reversing completely causing my heart to sort of spasm. What was going on, I didn't want to be here anymore, and this needed to end now. I closed my eyes tightly waiting to shoot up in my dark bedroom sweating and panting heavily.

It never came.

“Ms. Higurashi? I'm going to check your vitals and ask you some questions ok?”

The doctor looking at me had kind eyes. Staring widely with the eyes I was beginning to realize were my own I searched for my voice but found only dry air.

“It's ok Miss; you really shouldn't try to talk just yet. Maybe you don't remember all the details of your coming here, I'm sorry let me explain. And please, try to stay calm, its imperative to your condition.”

I listened carefully to every word he said absorbing every detail, and when he was done speaking I did something completely out of the ordinary. My eyes rolled back and for the first time in my life I fainted.

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I didn't know her, I'd never seen her, never met her, and certainly never had a vision of her eyes or her face. Things of that sort didn't happen to me. And yet…it pained me to see her hurting. In the deep sorrowful way I hadn't truly felt since my mother had died so long ago.

I had called Miroku, despite how much I did NOT want to tell him about what happened. He seemed completely unfazed like it was a normal first day on the job experience. But I just kept my mouth shut and was thankful.

The girl's office was my last stop and the closest so Miroku just drove out and grabbed the deposit bags I had collected. I forgot completely that I had dropped them and just left then sitting on the sidewalk like an idiot. There wasn't anything but checks in them anyway but it was still stupid of me. The other office employees recognized what they were and took them inside apparently. I couldn't believe I hadn't been fired on the spot.

I was still inside the hospital mostly for lack of transportation to get anywhere else until after five when Miroku said he'd come by and drive me back to my car. He reassured me, “I'll just tell the others you were doing some first day training I thought would be good for you, and have one of the other flunkies pick up your afternoon rounds.”

I didn't understand why he was doing so much just to help me out, and he was kind of creepily nice, but I could use all the friends I could get. He was the first so far in this new city, and that was more than I usually had. I'm guessing the girl I put here wouldn't make new friend number two but I still wanted to make sure I hadn't permanently damaged her or anything on accident.

It was so unlike me to even care about shit like this. I scoffed feeling somewhat foolish and pushed my feet out far in front of me stretching in the awkward waiting room chair. My arms rose up behind me and I weaved my fingers through the back of my hair taking up as much space as possible in that tiny room. It was then that the nurse walked in, when my eyes were closed.

“You've been waiting a long time but your girlfriend finally woke up I just heard. You can go see her now if you want.” She paused obviously confused by the glare I was issuing.

“She's not my girlfriend, but take me to her room anyway.”

Nodding with a gulp I followed after her mousey steps trying to walk slowly and keep at her slow pace. I dismissed her in my normal rude routine of not saying anything, and moved past her once I could see the room we were headed for, walking in on my own.

It had one bed in the middle of the room that was surrounded with monitors and machines. Drapes were partly closed keeping the afternoon sun out of the single window and a lifeless TV was hanging off the wall. I remembered why I hated hospitals all over again. The only things interrupting the stale air were the occasional different beep tones and clicks.

“What gives?! I thought you said she was awake!” I hissed at the nurse who stood halfway in the door. She backed further out in the hallway shielding herself at my tone.

`Shit…I'm not that scary am I?'

“I'm sorry; she was just a second ago! Let me find her do-” but before she could spin around a middle age man had joined her side.

“Sorry for the confusion, I think she was overwhelmed by the situation. I explained what happened to her and she looked at me like I was insane then fainted.”

“Isn't she not supposed to go back to sleep?!” I demanded growing angry with his casual attitude.

“No her vitals have stabilized now and she's just in shock, forcing her to wake could do more damage than good. She'll have to stay in the hospital to be monitored for at least another 24 hours to make sure she doesn't relapse from the concussion. But as of now she's looking very good. That head injury will be there for quite some time though, poor girl.” He frowned slightly and I regretted snapping at him a bit. I was partially to blame for her state after all.

“Oh, sorry…So when will she wake up again?”

“Whenever she feels like it, she needs the rest so it's nothing to worry yourself about. Feel free to stay as long as you like ok?” He nodded to the nurse who was gripping her chart tightly against her chest. She took another glance at me then headed back the way we came with the doctor behind her.

For what seemed like the millionth time that day I felt really awkward again. Staring down at some passed out girl like a pervert or something. I sighed more inwardly than literally and sat down in the chair next to her. I had waited all day for her to stabilize, not even really to see her just to know she would be ok but now what was I to do? They had just assumed I wanted to be shoved in here and left alone with her.

`You could always walk out and wait for Miroku in the lobby' I thought. But long after deciding that was the right action to take, I still sat motionless except for my breathing. I hated hospitals, my entire body was telling me go wait outside, go wait in the lobby, be anywhere but in this stuffy sterile room. But I still didn't move. Something had rooted me to the spot just staring at this girl in one of those dazed expressionless ways. Maybe it was guilt I don't know.

They had put one of those hospital bands around her wrist, the kind you have to cut off. It read `Kagome Higurashi'. One mystery down I guess, so that's her name.

“Kagome…” I hadn't even realized I actually said it out loud and immediately blushed at the connotation of my tone. But what startled me even more is when she stirred and opened her eyes.

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