Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Alecto's Run ❯ An Unexpected Turn ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2: An Unexpected Turn

Chapter finished Feb. 22,2004

(There will be a small review in the beginning of each chapter, like a small summary done in the beginning of the live action version ep)

Usagi: There was this new girl who transferred to our class a couple of days ago. All of us noticed that she looked really sad, not to mention that some other girls were mean to her. At lunch all of us decided to talk to her. Yuri didn't really want to talk or become our friend, but when she saw how nice we were she became our friend. We all went to sing karaoke after school, but she had to leave since her parents didn't know where she was. Then Luna calls all of us telling us there was a monster. We all left the karaoke place and went running to find the monster. We find the monster and it has Yuri cornered. What are we going to do about this?

What is it with this day, Yuri asked herself trying to figure what to do next. With a possible injured ankle there was very little she could do to get away. She didn't know what the monster was planning on doing to her, but she wasn't ready to find out.

"Machinasai." a figure said in the distance. Two figures, on either side, appeared next to the first figure. The five stepped forward into the street light. Two of girls ran over to Yuri and helped her to her feet.

"Are you okay? We saw you fall." one of the senshi asked.

Yuri glanced at each girl, "I should be fine. I just tripped and hurt my ankle. Are all of you the sailor senshi who protect the city?"

"Yep and pleased to be helping you." the sailor senshi in green replied.

The other three senshi were having a stand off with the youma. Just sharing stares wondering who had the guts to make the first move. Yuri looked at the two senshi who had helped her then at the other three. She had a feeling she knew who they were, but didn't know from where. She winced, which caused some concern with the two senshi helping her, at the pain in her head. A pattern was slowly becoming apparent with when the headaches, every time the sailor senshi were in battle she would get a huge migraine. She got other minor headaches other times, but the major ones dealt with when the senshi would battle.

"Kino-san, Aino-san?" she asked glancing at them while she asked their names.

The two of them looked at her with surprise. None of them had figured out the other's identity without them finding out a little while later that they were a senshi as well.

"Yuri, how did you know?" Jupiter asked, "No one has figured out in the years we've fought."

"I just knew it was all of you. Then over there is Tsukino-san and Mizuno-san, but I don't know that other girl. All of you still somewhat look the same." she slowly put her left foot down and put a little weight on it. It hurt a little, but she could stand it.

"Yuri you shouldn't be putting any weight on the ankle." Venus cautioned.

"I'm fine. Besides I need to get away before that youma has a chance to realize I'm gone."

"Nothing will happen to you with us around. The youma shouldn't have even come after you. There's no reason for it to."

The youma looked back at Yuri then at Moon, Mercury, and Mars. Perhaps pausing wondering what it should do. It jumped about 15 feet into the air and disappeared.

"It got away." Mars said with some disappointment.

"Sorry for causing this type of trouble. Normally I wouldn't want to bother any of you, but thank you." Yuri said picking up her bag. She then closed the front flap to hide her medication.

A small purple cat watched as Yuri interacted with the senshi. There was no doubt that something was coming from that girl, but it wasn't quite a sailor senshi's energy wave. The cat had never felt the wave coming from Yuri before. She knew that one day soon that Yuri's destiny with the senshi would be revealed.

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Yuri bowed to the senshi and continued on her walk home. The five senshi stood there and watched their friend walk with some sadness in her walk. Moon stepped forward wanting to help her new friend, but the senshi code was never to reveal one's identity. Jupiter glanced at Mercury, sharing the glance for a second, but each knew what the other was thinking. The little cat came walking up and stood right in front of Moon.

"Luna. Why are you here?" she asked looking down.

"There's some energy wave coming from that girl." the cat answered looking back.

"Is she a sailor senshi?" Mars asked with some interest.

"I'm not sure. There is something coming from her, but it's not the same as the energy wave I felt from all of you."

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As Yuri walked in the door of her house, the headache worsened. She dropped her bag and kneeled down on the ground. She started to whimper a little at the pain.

Her mother heard something by the door and came walking out from the kitchen. She ran when she saw Yuri on the floor, "Yuri, Yuri what's wrong? Another one of those headaches?"

She nodded her head yes with a soft whimper.

"Come on let's get you to your room."

She gently helped her daughter up and led her down to her room. It felt like Yuri had been walking for ten minutes, when it was more like one minute. She had never had a headache this bad before. Some were close, but this was by far the worse. Her mom had her sit down on her bed and put her head down.

"Did you take the medication that the doctor told you to take?" her mom asked with some pain in her voice, seeing her daughter suffer through something that she was powerless to help.

"I did, but it isn't working like it normally does." she started to cry at the amount of pain, "I just want this to stop."

"I know. I know." her mom said gently rubbing Yuri's back trying to somewhat comfort her.

"Why does this happen to me? I just want to be normal and be like everyone else, but something always holds me back." she said crying even harder making it harder for her to breathe.

Her mother left the room and went to call the doctor to see what she should do about Yuri's obvious bad condition. She fumbled through the file folder that kept all of her daughter's medical history as well as the doctor information. It was not uncommon for the doctor to receive a phone call once every two weeks over concern about his young patient's condition. In all the years the doctor had practiced he had never seen someone get such bad headaches, with no obvious brain dysfunction or trauma, and medication did next to nothing most of the time. She dialed the number that the doctor had given her and her husband to call in case of an emergency.

She patiently waited for someone to pick up, when she heard a click, "Hello. This is Mrs. Kawa."

He heard some weariness in her voice, "Is there anything wrong?"

"It's Yuri. She's has a really bad headache and the medication has done nothing and she took it over 20 minutes ago. Normally it would have taken affect by now, but it hasn't. She can't even stand cause she's in so much pain. I did not mean to call you, but I'm very concerned."

He rubbed his forehead, "No, don't be sorry you had to call. This is why I gave you this number. Take her to the emergency room and I will meet you there. Yuri may have to stay over night so I can monitor her brain activity."

"I suppose that will be best. I will meet you at the hospital in 20 minutes. Again I am sorry to have disturbed you."

"It's okay. I'm very concerned about her condition. When you get to the hospital ask for my colleague Dr. Mizuno. She will care for Yuri until I can get to the hospital."

She nodded yes and hung up the phone. This would not be the first time she had to take her daughter to the hospital for overnight observation. The last time she had to take her daughter in for observation was about two months before. She walked back into her daughter's room and Yuri hadn't moved an inch since she had left, "Yuri, your doctor said to take you to the hospital for some observation."

"I don't want to go there again." she answered coldly.

"Yuri you're in a lot of pain and the doctor will be able to give you something at the hospital. If he doesn't think it's real bad, you can probably come home later tonight."

She stood up trying to her strength, "I don't want to go. He'll make me stay the night like he always does."

Her mother payed not attention since her daughter was being stubborn. She pulled out a bag from the closet and started to pack some clothes for Yuri. Yuri walked over to mom and grabbed her wrist, "I am not going. This will pass."

"I will not hear anymore from you until we get to the hospital. I can call your father and have him drag you the hospital if I have to." She gave her daughter a stern look, "You need to be checked to make sure that nothing is seriously wrong."

Yuri backed off and sat down on her bed. She was in pain, but she wasn't about to let herself get hospitalized and miss another day of school right after she had transferred. It would make it look like Mana and her friends had won in scaring her off. Besides no one would believe that a headache could put her into a hospital for a night. They would all think that she was just trying to make excuses to avoid why she really didn't come. Yuri was hoping that she would be checked out and sent home. She knew the doctors knew nothing about her condition which made it all the more frustrating when she had to stay overnight.

"I only packed a few things. Come on the doctor will be meeting us at the hospital." her mother said zipping the bag and heading out of the room.

Yuri got up and followed her mom. She grabbed her slippers that she kept in her room and walked down the hall. She was still in a tremendous amount of pain, but it was slowly going away. However that would not be enough to get her out of the trip.

The two of them put their shoes on and walked over to the car. Yuri took her bag from her mom and tossed it in the backseat and got in. She leaned all of her body weight against the door. She rolled down the window all the way and just let the cool breeze hit her face. Her mom drove a little fast on the way to the hospital. They were about two blocks away from the hospital when the headache all of sudden got worse. She was careful not to show any sign that the pain has gotten worse.

Her mom pulled into one of the parking spaces that was reserved for the ER and turned off the car. Her mom stepped out and walked into the hospital leaving Yuri in the car. Normally her mom would have waited but she was very anxious about the condition of her daughter. Yuri grabbed the bag and slowly got out of the car. The parking lot lights hit her face and sent a shot of pain through her entire head. She searched through the back seat for her sunglasses. She grabbed her head with her right hand and supported her body weight with her left. She slipped the glasses on then started to walk towards the hospital entrance. She reached the doors of the hospital and collapsed to her knees. There was someone or something in the hospital that was triggering the pain. A doctor came running out when she saw Yuri collapse. The doctor tried to help her up but Yuri just hit her hand away.

"Kawa-chan." a familiar voice said helping her to her feet.

Yuri looked above the rims of the glasses, "Ami. What are you doing here?"

There was a worried look on Ami's face but she put on a smile for Yuri's sake, "I was dropping off some dinner for my mom and was heading out when I saw you fall. Why are you here?"

She glanced up since she was wondering if she could trust Ami to keep a secret, "I have very bad headaches and the pain medication didn't work tonight." She slowly gained her footing, "So my mom called my physician because the medication wasn't working. Since the doctor doesn't know what causes these headaches, he makes me come puts me on some strong medication and monitor my brain waves."

"More than likely you'll end up staying the night. My mom is the doctor on duty right now and I know she'll take good care of you."

Both Yuri's mom and Ami's mom came running when they saw the two of them. Ami's mom had brought a wheelchair so that Yuri could get off of her feet. She wheeled Yuri into the room that she had been instructed to bring her in by Yuri's physician over the phone. Poor Yuri was now embarrassed beyond belief by running into Ami.

"Now Yuri, sit down on the bed and I'll get the medication your doctor wants me to give to you since he has not arrived yet." Ami's mom said leaving the room.

Yuri threw her bag hard against the wall as she got out of the wheelchair. She climbed up on the bed and started to cry. This was the last place she wanted to be. She grabbed the pillow and started to cry into it, muffling her crying. She heard the door open but didn't so much as look up to see who had come in.

"Yuri your mother tells me that you have a very bad headache and that the medication I prescribed did nothing to help." she her physician explain, "Has the medication taken effect yet?"

She briefly looked out from her pillow showing her red face covered with tears. She put her face back into the pillow and was silent.

The doctor sighed and set up the IV bag which had a strong pain medication already mixed in. He was reluctant to keep her in the hospital like he normally did since she was obviously very upset on having to come to the hospital. He put on a set of latex gloves and pried Yuri's right hand away from the pillow she had been holding on to. When she felt his hand she smacked it away and threw the pillow at him.

"Yuri, please this will make the pain go away and you can get some sleep tonight." he pleaded picking the pillow up from the floor, "As soon as this bag empties I promise you can go home. I won't keep you. Now can I please have your hand so I can put the IV in. The sooner this goes in the sooner you can go home."

She sniffled a little, "I'm sick of being in pain and having to come here. I don't want the medication anymore. No one knows what's wrong with me. No one knows why this happens when there's nothing physically wrong with me." she started to cry again, "If no one knows what's wrong I don't want to keep taking medication."

He had never seen her like this. She was in a lot of pain and having to come to the hospital was only making her emotional state worse. He set the pillow back on the bed, "Yuri I won't give you this unless you want me to. You're old enough to decide what medical attention you want. However you know that your mother will worry if you do not have this medication given to you. She cares for you a lot and doesn't like seeing you like this, I don't like seeing you like this."

"Get out." she said in a low voice, "I want you out of here and don't come back in."

He respected her wish and left the room. He didn't know what he could do. If her mother told him to administer the medication he'd have no choice but to give it to Yuri. If she was just a year older she could say no and her parents could do nothing about it. He walked over to Yuri's mom and Dr. Mizuno. Ami knew it had to be serious or something had happened.

Ami slowly opened the door and almost got hit with the pillow.

"I told you get out and stay out!" Yuri yelled having her back to the door.

"Yuri-chan, it's only me. I saw the doctor come out..." she noticed that the IV had not been given, "Why don't you have the IV he brought?"

She sat up slowly but kept her back turned, "I didn't want another round of powerful pain medication. He has morphine in there and it always makes me sick after I receive it. He doesn't know what's wrong with me, no doctor does. However he has figured out what pain medications help make the headaches go away, but as time has gone on he has had to up the dose just so the medication is effective. I'm sick of having all of that put in my bloodstream. I just told him no and I didn't want it."

"You need this so you can feel better. Please do this one more time and then next time you can tell them you don't want it. You had to have been in a lot of pain for your mom to bring you here. Please just take it one more time and think about it."

Yuri turned a quarter of the way around and saw the concerned look of her new friend, "Fine. Tell him I'll have it."

Ami left the room and walked up to the adults who were in a heated discussion. She pressed her lips together and took a deep breath, "Excuse me."

"Ami I thought you went on home." her mother yelled.

"Yuri said she's willing to have the IV put in." All thee adults looked at Ami surprised, "All I did was talk to her and told her how worried everyone seemed."

All four walked back into Yuri's room and saw that she had calmed down quite a bit since she had arrived. Her doctor walked over and wiped the top of her right hand with a disinfectant. He looked at his patient and saw no emotion whatsoever. He took the cap off of the needle and gently put the needle into the vein. Normally she'd show some sign that the needle hurt, but there was nothing like that this time. He then taped the needle down and started the drip.

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A few hours passed and the IV eventually emptied. When the doctor came back in to check on his patient, he found her sound asleep. He gently took the needle out and covered the hole with a cotton ball and a bandage. By now her father had come and when he received the go ahead to take his daughter home he picked her up and carried her to the car, trying not to wake her. She was placed in the front seat, which has been placed in a reclined position, and buckled in. The doctor had followed the two out to the car.

"Mr. Kawa I'm very concerned that she is becoming immune to the powerful pain medications I have to give her each time she has to come into the hospital. She has also begun to refuse the medication I want to give her so that the pain will stop. If she feels like this the next time she comes in I do not want to have to tie her down and force the medication into her. She knows that I can't do anything to help her anymore."

He looked at his daughter before looking at the doctor, "I know she's realizing that. She just wants answers that no one can give her right now. Perhaps she should be allowed to decide if she gets the medication or not." he closed his eyes and let out a heavy sigh, "Thank you for treating her so late into the night."

"Not a problem. I just wish I could find an answer for her about her condition. If she does not wish to go to school in the morning do not force her to go. I put something in the IV to make sure she got some much needed rest. I heard she recently had to change schools."

"Yes. We did not want to move, but I was transferred and had no choice but to transfer her to another school."

"I understand that well. This headache could have been brought on by a lot of stress and anxiety that she has not shown. Just let her rest tomorrow and if she shows any signs of distress tomorrow please bring her in again. I have never given her such a high dose of medication before and I'm not sure how her body will react. So keep an eye on her tonight and into tomorrow." the doctor weakly smiled, "Now go home and get some rest yourself."

"I will. Thank you again doctor." he said shaking the doctor's hand. He walked around and got in the car trying to be very quiet. He drove home and kept glancing over at his daughter. He rolled down his window a tiny bit just to get some fresh air circulating in the car.

When he reached the house he got out and went over to the passenger side of the car and unbuckled her seat belt. She opened her eyes heavily and looked at her dad, "Where am I?"

"You're home now." he carefully picked her up, "All you need to do is get some sleep."

She closed her eyes and rested her head on his shoulder as he walked into the house. Her mother had fallen asleep in the kitchen waiting for their return. He walked down the hall and into his daughter's room. A small light was left on; just enough light to dimly light the room. He gently set her down on her bed and covered her with a thin blue blanket. He left the light on, so that should she wake up in the middle of night she could see where she was.

He slid the door shut and went into the kitchen and put his hands on his wife's shoulders. She woke up when she felt his touch.

"How is she? Is she going to be okay?" she asked right away.

"She's sleeping right now. The doctor said to keep an eye on her just in case her body didn't like the high dose of pain medication." he kissed her on the forehead, "You need some sleep yourself. I can watch her tonight. Go on and get ready for bed and get some sleep."

"But you had a full day of work and now this." she objected.

"I'll be fine. I'll take a day off tomorrow." he placed two fingers over his wife's soft mouth, "It'll be alright."

She got up from the table and went to get ready for bed. He went to the fridge and poured himself a glass of orange juice. He then walked back down the hall to his daughter's room and sat in her desk chair and watched her sleep.