Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ A Change of Fate ❯ Pulling Through (couldn't think of anything better...) ( Chapter 11 )

Standard disclaimer. Sailor Moon is not mine, the idea and the show belong to people much richer than I. Please don't sue!

Dimmer however is mine.. of course if someone wants to use him or any of his transformations for ANY reason "thbbt" go ahead. You have my complete and total permission. I only request you tell me… Hell, I don't care if you do it without my permission, it's not like I could find out anyway.

Warning: mild language, and this is my first fic. Maybe lime sometime in the far future, but I seriously doubt it.

"Rei!" Serena ran toward the drenched girl.

"Rei! It's Dimmer. I … I seen them take him in there." She gestured towards the hospital emergency door. "Rei did they call you ? Did they tell you what happened to him? He… he… he looked so different…so quiet."

"Yes, Serena." Rei hugged her friend and tried to comfort her. "He has been hurt. Its serious." She hugged Serena a little closer as Serena sobbed into her shoulder. Just standing there, letting Serena pour herself out. Serena seen two people hurt today, where normally the first would have her near crushed. She could only wonder how Dimmer's injury would effect her. She smiled a little, by holding Serena, she gained a little comfort herself. Serena just seemed to radiate it sometimes. Kind of the opposite of Dimmer really. She helped others by helping herself. The way she did things, she never hid any part of herself. She'd show you what you should do by doing it her self openly. Dimmer, as said did things differently, he made himself happy by working to make others happy.

Lita looked up toward the two hugging friends from her seat by the emergency door. She was worried. Rei hadn't told them what happened so whatever it was she didn't think Serena could handle it. Lita looked back towards the emergency door and worried. She didn't know Dimmer as well as her friends, but he treated her as close as he did everyone else. Lita sighed and looked back to her friends. It was bad enough with Greg and now this. Serena was balling, and Rei looked … emotionless… Lita sighed again. Rei was going to have to learn how to express herself in front others, she wouldn't even let herself go in front of her best friends.

Amy walked into the main entranceway. She woke up to a room alone with Greg, and she was more than a little disturbed by what he had told her.

"Amy… Amy wake up… please Amy."

Amy awoke to the whispers of a pleading Greg. He couldn't get up or move his arm very much. The black energy in his wounds seemed to have paralyzed much, much more than just his arm.

"Oh no Greg. Are you alright? Are you okay?"

"I'll be fine Amy, I have seen it. More clear than ever before…" Greg whispered hoarsely. This prediction he knew could not be wrong. "Amy some one important to you has been hurt. Badly."

Amy looked around already knowing her friends weren't around her. "What? Who do you mean Greg?"

"I am not certain…"

Amy could see he was struggling to stay awake.

"Shh… it's okay Greg. Sleep you need your rest"

"Amy… your friends… find…" Greg was asleep before the last words could come out. (that was soooo cliché)*

This lead to Amy wandering the halls of the hospital alone looking for her friends, they weren't at the vending machine. Greg's words had her nervous. Who had been hurt? Where were they? Certainly they'd wake her up if they were leaving. Did Talenite capture them? What happened? All these questions and more ran through Amy's mind... She invented new scenarios in her mind each one worse than the last. Proof genius holds a curse to it.

As she walked in she saw the receptionist talking to two familiar and very distraught police officers.

"His only known name is Dimmer Miss. He's under police protection give him all the help you can. Is this information correct? 3rd degree burns all over his body, almost half of his bone mass broken?"

"Yes sir, they believe he fell off the tower, was struck by lightning, than fell the rest of the way down."

" Did you give this report to anyone else?"

"Only a priestess that came in a while ago, they must have called her in, it would take a miracle to save him now."

John looked at Pidge, Pidge just shook his head. They both thought the same thing, his friend, the priest's daughter. He was about to turn and yell at the receptionist when he seen Amy with a very… very pale look on her face. He quickly pushed past his partner and caught her before she fainted.

Pidge shook his head once again. "You do something with her, John, I'll go see where the priests daughter got to."

"You do that, some help Mam?"

"Oh yes sir" the receptionist answered quickly.

Pidge left and walked toward the room where Dimmer was undergoing surgery. To his surprise he found three girls where he was expecting one.

"Word gets around quickly here. Hello girls. I trust you know what's going on here?"

"Not really." Rei spoke for the other two. "They don't seem to know very much of anything and I only know what the receptionist told me." Rei looked straight into his knowing eyes daring him to tell what Dimmer's true situation was to the teary eyed girl she was holding.

Pidge took the hint well. "Alright than, I assume you had them call me and my partner than Miss? That was good thinking. He's the key witness in the Sailor Scout's case, and our only link to what's going on in my city. It's obvious we can't afford to lose him because of insurance reasons. Truth be told, the boys down the station have gotten rather fond of him hanging around when he has the time. That's not the only case he's helped out on you know. Here I'll tell you a few of them, well after we get some chairs around here." He turned to walk back out into the reception area to ask where he could find a few seats that weren't nailed down.

Lita got up, this would probably be her only chance at getting the whole story for awhile. "I'll help. Besides someone's got to tell Amy."

Pidge gave the teenage brunette the once over before nodding his head. "Sure kid."

They walked in silence to the receptionist, who called for some chairs to be brought down. He looked out at the storm, and remembered the soaking wet teenager comforting her friend. She must have walked all the way from her temple. That must have been quite a trek in this stuff. There wasn't even a tear streak on her face. That one is as hard as stone he thought to himself. He than remembered driving through the same storm at high speeds with his partner at the wheel. The other three girls were completely dry, yet it hit them, obviously, just as hard. Even the one standing beside him in silent thought. She just didn't know it yet. 5…4…3…2…question time.

"Please tell me what Dimmer's real situation is in there sir. I don't know him as well as the other people here do, but I still count him as my friend."

Right on cue he thought. "Okay I'll tell you on one condition."

"And that is?"

"You tell me your name."

"Oh yeah, Sorry." She forgot these police officers were some of Dimmers best friends. Of course they'd at least want to introduce themselves to someone else who cared about Dimmer's well being. She broke out of her space out, "Oh! Yes of course. My name's Lita."

"Delighted. I'm Pidge, my partner, who'll be here shortly is John. We were the officers that got stuck with trying to figure out Dimmer's point of origin, and as of late the Sailor Scout's case. I think I seen you with Dimmer and friends in the park by Dimmer's bench yesterday?

"Yes," Lita remembered all too clearly the heart attack she near had when Dimmer said he knew who the scouts were. "That was me, but about Dimmer's injuries?"

"Ha! Straight to the point huh? Alright but first you might want to take a seat in one of the chairs over here." He didn't want what happened to Amy to happen to another of Dimmer's friends.

Lita took a seat in the main waiting room, and looked up at Pidge expectantly.

Pidge just sighed, "Dimmer has seem to got himself pretty badly off. He's suffering from third degree burns, and over half of his bone mass in broken, his right arm, and legs are completely shattered. Most of the rest of his bones got away with minor fractures."

Lita continued to stare up at him. He moved to the right to find she was still staring at the spot to the left of him. He sighed. This was not going to be a fun night.

John walked into the room looked at Lita than to his partner. Pidge shrugged. John turned around to go get another nurse.

Pidge looked back down at the brunette. This is going to be a reeeeally long night. It's like telling family about a loved one, all his friends cared about him so much. In a way, Dimmer was a very lucky young man.

"May he live to realize it."

He walked down the hall to see Serena and smiling, with obvious tears of joy. Rei was talking with one of the doctors, while the rest of the nurses and doctors were walking up the hallway talking. Most using words like miracle, and amazing.

"He survived?" Pidge was dumbfounded.

Serena looked up to John and waved her hand in front of his face, he didn't show any sign of noticing. She shrugged, and went back to thanking one doctor to the next shaking a hand for less than two seconds before spouting 2 hours worth of thank you's in each two seconds she had to shake their hands.

"Serena, they're allowing us in to see him."

Serena blew by Rei as fast as she was shaking hands a second ago. She stopped upon entry to his room and immediately covered her hands with her mouth. Rei walked in uncertain of what Dimmer would look like. She quickly put her hands over her mouth as Serena had. She was expecting him to look so quiet, in silent pain just as Greg looked earlier, but he didn't. He looked so… so… she smiled trying to hold back her laughter, … soooo Dimmer. . Serena just broke, she couldn't hold the laughter in any longer.

Dimmer's right arm was up in the air being hung by a sling from the ceiling, his legs were in the same predicament. He was wrapped up completely in gauss except for his eyes and a few messed up tufts of hair sticking out.

If Dimmer ever was put in the hospital, this is exactly what Rei felt she should have expected to see. Serena finally stopped laughing... mostly… and walked over to him. The sleeping Dimmer was a real sight for sore eyes to her. Serena wasn't stupid when it came to first aid and injuries. It was one of her high marks. She knew from the way the doctors and Rei were talking, Dimmer shouldn't be breathing in front of her like he was now. She watched the long drifts of black hair, as his bangs fell over his eyes.

"Thank you Dimmer." She said in a rare moment of quiet for her.

Rei looked out the door to see Lita run by a still statue-like John. Lita looked to Rei than to Dimmer. Rei just nodded.

Lita walked over beside Serena. "Hey Dimmer? How you doing? I feel foolish telling you this when you're asleep, but thanks for staying around."

Rei was smart enough to move the hell outta the way when she seen Amy bolting down the hall. Too bad for Serena and Lita who didn't get out of the way on time. They were both twitching in pain on the floor, with footsteps on their faces from being trampled.

"Dimmer, oh jeez Dimmer! What have you gotten yourself into this time, you idiot." Amy said it all with a smile and a hug. She was the first to find him, she taught him her language, sent him off to school, and fed him when he needed food. She cared and worried about him more than anyone else.

"You're constantly getting into trouble. They say you still maybe paralyzed, you nutball. (she also hung around him too much) I don't know what happened to you, but you're going to get better you got that?" Amy was in tears with a mixture of joy and scolding.

"Really now. What were you doing up there in the first place? One of these days something's gonna happen to you Dimmer, and you won't come back from it. This could still be that time, Dimmer… You just don't give up alright? I'll always be here for you alright?" The girls (after picking themselves up) were really touched by Amy's open display of affection. It was obvious she cared very deeply about him.

Amy got up to look at the other girls. She quickly straightened herself up and blushed. "Uh sorry."

Lita was first to answer "Don't worry about Amy, we all know how you feel."

"Sure thing Amy, Dimmer's a friend to all."

Rei thought about it. It was true, the only one he seemed to even have a problem with was Darien. And that really doesn't count he only met the guy once.

It was than that the receptionist came in from the front counter. "I'm sorry, but Dimmer is going to need his rest, I'm afraid I'll have to ask all but Miss Hino here to leave."

"Huh? Why Rei?" Serena (as usual) was confused.

"They're living under the same roof is my understanding. That sounds like the closest thing to family this young man has, so please everyone else?" She gestured to the doorway.

"But…" Rei was a little reluctant. Especially after the show Amy just put on.

Serena looked to Dimmer than to Rei than back to Dimmer again. She got a crooked smile on her face.

"The woman got a point Rei! Besiiides, you never got to say anything to him yet have you?"

"Hey don't look at me! He hardly knows me." Lita was saying.

Amy pretty much stopped any hope of Rei going back home. "Could you please stay with him Rei? I'm looking after Greg upstairs already, and someone should be by Dimmer's side. I imagine you two have gotten along okay haven't you?"

Rei sweatdropped. How was she to know? He treated her like he treated anyone else. How do you know if you're close to him or not? Well Amy would know, wouldn't she? After all he pretty much tells her everything.

"Sure I'll stay. Don't want Serena getting any more behind at her schoolwork anyway."

"Hey!"

"Thank you Rei."

"See ya tomorrow." The girls were let outside.

The receptionist turned to watch them go, than turned back to Rei.

"The chair and extra blanket are beside the bed, if you need anything just give me a call alright?"

"I will, thank you"

She smiled and left, shutting the door behind her.

"Well Dimmer. Its just you and me now." Rei sat in the chair up beside his head, and moved the bangs Serena noticed earlier out of his eyes. "Jeez Dimmer. You fell from the sky and never got a scratch. You'd think falling off the tower wouldn't be that big a deal. Are you just trying to make everyone worried about you? Even I worry about you sometimes you know."

She stopped to sense his aura. "You're going to be fine. Of course you are a super hero aren't you? Guess I shouldn't expect anything else. So how does it feel to know that I'm nothing but Serena's sidekick? You know who I am, who we are. Do you still see me the same way Dimmer? Or am I now just that sidekick to you?"

His bangs fell back down into his eyes for response. She sighed and pushed them back up. Without meaning to, her fingers ran alongside his cheek. She blushed and pushed the offending piece of hair behind his ear where he usually kept it.

She looked around to make sure no one was watching as she got up to shut off the light. She smiled at the sleeping Dimmer. "Well at least now I know how to get you to get your proper sleep." She sat down and fell a sleep after wrapping the blanket around herself.

Alone in the room with Rei, Dimmer slept peacefully and silently, the casts and bandages wouldn't allow him to move a muscle whether awake or not. Even his mouth and face were covered by the bandages. There, to stop the burns from being exposed to the air. And the I.V. sticking out of his left arm. The only thing it seemed unwrapped were the long tufts of bangs, and eyes. He would be able to see when he awoke but not much else. He slept peacefully as the moon lit the night and the small hospital room. And in the silence that was the night Dimmer dreamed. He dreamed of things forgotten for months. He dreamed of things to come, and of his past. Nothing was hidden in his dreams he remembered who he was, he knew his family, and what happened. He knew of the things that he longed to remember about his friends of the past and he knew of the things that he longed to forget.

Despite all that went on in the mind of the young man, it was expressed by the street light out in front of the hospital that flashed a couple of times and turned off, darkening the street around it. Not even awake, Dimmer winced. All the frustration that was his and all the solitude he had known for years before finding himself in a crater came rushing back to him. The only outward symbol of the tragedy he found his life to be was made by the silent action of one lone strand of hair falling into his eyes, as if blinding him from all that was good. Outside yet two more streetlights winked out. Dimmer had finally remembered. The true Dimmer had finally awoke, but for now the world gave him a few moments rest for the hard times he knew would come. And the search for a home he hated would have to begin.

THE NEXT DAY

The sun crept into the window to the hospital, it's light spread across the small room creeping over the mummy look alike. Yet he lie still, breath even, and fast asleep. Though the sun try, it could not reach his eyes past the loose strands of hair that kept them hidden from the light. It smiled though for their was another in the room that had use of its light. It's light crept past the sleeping man to the woman beside him.

Huddled in the chair, Rei felt the warmth of the sun washing over her. The sign of the sun coming up, and the bright sunny day ahead of them. She stretched her arms up, arcing her back forwards feeling her joints snap back into place. She looked to the person she was tending to, to find that his hair was once again had fallen into his eyes. She smiled. Dimmer lived such a busy life, that it seemed even in sleep he could find no peace. She brushed the hair out and behind his ear again. She wondered if there was anything she could do about that for him. The sun finally crept into the eyes of the one called Dimmer. He awoke.

Rei was ecstatic. Dimmer was awake after one nights sleep, the doctor said it might take weeks. Her excitement quickly flickered out as he looked over towards the I.V. in his arm and fell back into a state of unconsciousness.

Rei still thought it a good sign. "Well, Dimmer, with you, I won't surprised if you're up by the end of the day doing training exorcises with Chad. CHAD?! OH my God! Grandpa! Chad! I didn't tell them anything! I have to call them now. You don't mind do you Dimmer?"

Dimmer's steady breathing was his only response.

"I didn't think so." Rei ran out to the payphones to call her grandfather.

"Hello?"

"Hello Chad."

"Yes Chad, it's me."

"Yes I know, I'm sorry I made you and Grandpa worry."

"Yes, he's here with me now."

"No, I'm afraid he can't speak, there's been an accident."

"Yes I'm alright, but Dimmer's been hurt."

"I'm at the hospital."

"You'll be here soon? Okay. Just ask the receptionist. I'm going back to the room to look after him."

"You want to know how bad he's hurt? Well ummm… it's hard to explain. You'll see when you get here."

"Alright, I'll see you soon."

"Chad!"

"You BETTER be only kidding!"

Rei slammed the phone down quickly. "Stupid Chad. Exactly what did he mean by "nursing him" any way?!" She stood there and fumed at the phone. "I swear sometimes he can be such a hentai that I could just… just…! Ooh!"

As if that said it all for her, she walked back into Dimmer's room to find the nurse cleaning things up a bit. She was folding the blanket Rei had slept in and laying it on the chair.

She pulled out the I.V. to put a new one in. After she pulled it out Rei noticed, Dimmer's eyes opened.

Dimmer looked up, he could see Rei standing in the doorway. He couldn't move anything but his eyes. It was a hard full body cast they had him in, but at least he didn't feel any pain. He would've at least tried to say something if it his jawbone wasn't wired together and gauss wasn't put over his mouth. Instead he let out a polite "Mmph".

The nurse was startled as she looked down to her patient who made the noise.

"Well, well, well Mr. Dimmer. I see you're awake."

He smiled as well as he could and looked up at the nurse. His eyes turned to the needle in her hand and his hair fell over his eyes. The nurse pushed the hair behind his ear to find he was asleep. She shrugged, "Oh well you must be tired."

His only response was hair falling back into his eyes.

"Oh dear, that hair is going to be irritating you. We'll have to cut it after. I'll bring the scissors next time I come up. Oh there you are." She just noticed Rei in the doorway. "I was wondering where you wandered off to." She stuck in the new I.V. wire. "Dimmer's situation has improved dramatically. He is a real miracle to the medical world I hear. They're now studying his recovery progress. You're very lucky you know? He shouldn't have made it last night, and now he already shows signs of waking up. The day after!"

"Yes I know. Umm… I don't think he'd appreciate the haircut though."

"Really? Oh dear, we'll just have to think of something won't we? Well I'll be back in a little while did you want some breakfast? I was going out anyway."

"Yes please. Nurse…" Rei just realized she didn't know the nurse's name.

"Oh dear, I'm sorry. I didn't even introduce myself did I? My name is Kala. I'll be Dimmer's nurse"

"Mine is Rei, it's nice to meet you. Dimmer and I are friends. He stays at my grandfather's temple. Grandfather and another resident of the temple named Chad will be coming over soon. Do you mind if I ask when visiting hours are?"

"Usually, around 2:00 to 6:00pm. But in Dimmer's case I can make an exception. Listen. There is a rumor spreading around." Kala crept up to say it into Rei's ear. "They say this is the same person who fell from the sky awhile ago."

Rei sweatdropped. She scratched the back of her head and said nervously "Really? Who says? I haven't noticed anything strange about him"

The nurse arched her eyebrow up suspiciously.

"I mean other than his fast recovery rate. Nope, nothing can keep him down, heh heh heh." She was sweating buckets; she was never very good at lying to people.

Kala seemed to accept this. "Don't worry, I knew it had to be just a stupid rumor anyway."

"Really why is that?"

"Rumors about the guy that came from the crater say he was near six feet high and didn't have a scratch despite his fall from beyond the clouds. He is supposed to be a monster of a man. No offense to your friend but…" she gestured to the whole body cast and hospital bed and …maaaybe fifteen year old.

Rei smiled, Kala gave her a way out of it, and trying not to laugh at the image Dimmer six feet tall and making girls swoon by walking by, Rei continued. "Yeah, I see your point. Besides wasn't that guy supposed to also have the blackest of hair? When you can see most of it, Dimmer is slightly more towards dark brown, and he's waaaay too lanky." Rei sighed. She was pretty sure his hair was black, but it might get the nurse to leave it at that.

"Ha! I knew it all along. Tokyo tower would be a small leap for a guy like that, but still it was a miracle a normal boy like your friend managed to survive the fall. Oh dear, I must be going. I have to finish my rounds. See you later Rei!"

"By~ye!" Rei's smile turned to a smirk as Kala walked off down the hallway. That ought to throw her off. A rumormonger, her and Serena would get along great. But she had a good point. If Dimmer could easily survive the fall from the sky than… She closed Dimmer's door and walked over to him. She narrowed her eyes…

Endnotes: *sniff* he survived! Woot! Well of course he survived! What a stupid way it would have been for him to go out ^^

I hope you enjoyed it. I can't really tell cause I haven't gotten any reviews since like chapter 6 or 7… ah well, what can I do?

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Sorry this update is late. Fanfiction.net was down when I went to upload it. It will be updated next week twice but I don't know how soon after that, because I'm in the middle of a move. It just depends on how long it takes for me to get my computer unpacked, and to get the internet up and running.

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