sliceitwithwind | Kiddie AU

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Kiddie AU - Eyes and scars

Aya was the emergency contact on both men's files, which is why she was the one called after they were brought in. Nobody had sorted out what, exactly, had happened although the word riot was used more than once.

The hospital staff didn't really care, they had fifteen people in need of being patched up, and four in need of surgery. By the time Aya got there, her boys had been in the surgery rooms for over an hour, and they weren't sure how much longer it would take.

Elcy was in the waiting room, white as a sheet and gripping her husband's hand as though letting go would mean letting her children go.

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She stayed watching him, wincing whenever he did but not leaving. She didn't even really wince when she got scrubbed down and tied into a gown. It was necessary after all. "Kitten? I can stay if you want." It would be up to him if she dashed off long enough to tell Elcy and Yinsi.

Else-wise she'd pace his bed on the way up.

"Le' mom an' dad know what room. So Braig gets the same." Dilan insisted painfully. Breathing was painful to him, "Come up...later?"

"Okay, I'll do that. You stay calm okay? Braig and I will both be along shortly, I promise. Don't wait up if you need to sleep though." She kissed his nose and gave his cheek a last pat before heading out to the adults to tell them where Dilan was going.

Dilan nodded and stayed quiet while they transferred him to another bed to get him upstairs. One of the nurses gave her the room number, promising, "We'll make sure his friend is in the same room."

Elcy and Yinsi were still pretty much frozen where they'd been when Aya left, although Yinsi said; "They'll be moving Braig soon. How's Dilan?"

"He's stitched." Aya announced, eyes still trailing to the doors the boys were behind instead of anywhere else. "And painkillers would be really good. I should get bandaged before I go up. Dilan is in your 14B, or he will be soon. We can get Braig there right? Think I can get in there?" After all she was dressed in scrubs.

Elcy finally reached out, taking Aya's arm, "You probably need stitches too." she said, a little bit more like herself. After all, bites were something she'd gotten used to. "I don't think they'll let you in with Braig. He's under, and they've got a lot of people working on him...the eye is the worst, but he got...he got really hurt. My baby is really hurt."

Yinsi pulled Elcy into a hug, and one of the nurses came over at the word stitches, "If you'll come with me, miss? We can get you taken care of, then take you upstairs."

"Ecy..." Aya swallowed at the lump in her throat that had almost made her say 'Mom'. "Elcy, Braig's a lot stronger than he looks, and he looks damn strong. He'll be okay. I won't sneak in if you think it's a really bad idea, but he'll be okay." Because he had to be. She wouldn't accept any other reality.

Blink.

"he didn't bite that hard." Stitches it was though? She guessed? "Is someone going to get Katzu painkillers?"

Elcy nodded and patted Aya's cheek, "You're a good girl, Aya. You're such a good girl."

"Healing Heart Medical has some, there's someone running for them. He should be here any minute." the nurse said, expertly putting in the three stitches needed for the worst of the cuts, "Lucky for you that Katzu mouths are relatively clean, you won't need a shot."

Aya blinked away tears at Elcy's patting then nodded. "Good, he hurts. He hurts a lot." Never mind her. Three stitches was nothing to an eye and the mess Dilan's stomach had been. "I should...I should go up then? If I can't go see Braig." At least she could be with one of the boys that way?

And resist sneaking in to see the other?

"Yes." Yinsi agreed, "Go on up and sit with Dilan. We'll be there when Braig is out. Take care of our kitten." All of ours.

"Okay, I'll do that." Aya blinked and fussed at the nurse who was now wrapping an ace bandage over the soft bandage on her stitches, then ended up hiccup-snarling and taking the end clips to do herself on the way up. "Fourteen-B, don't forget okay?" Not that she though they would it just...

...gave her something to say until the elevator doors closed.

"We won't." Yinsi said, giving Aya a wave and then kissing his wife's hair.

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Upstairs, Dilan was in a sort of fugue-state. They didn't have drugs strong enough to put him under, but he didn't care very much. "Monkey-girl."

Well, those drugs were on their way.

Aya slipped into the room and went to perch on the chair by his bed. "Told you I'd be back kitten. Braig will be up soon, promise."

A tear dripped from one lovely violet eye, "I couldn't save his eye." he admitted, as though it was his fault, "I tried. Can't regrow what's lost."

"Hey hey hey now." She leaned forward to lay her hands on his cheek, just below that dripping eye. "I heard the doctors and nurses. A riot Dilan, one that left bodies. You kept him alive, and didn't die yourself."

"Should have saved him." he said miserably, "Don't even know where it came from...out of nowhere."

About then came the sound of other people in the hall, and then a completely unconscious Braig was wheeled in, followed by his parents. Everyone was shooed over to where Aya was so that they could hook Braig up to all the monitors.

"You did kitten. Never, EVER say otherwise. You saved him." That said she left her hand on his cheek but shifted enough to watch Braig's bed coming in.

Oh elements he looked like hell.

But breathing hell.

In, out. In, out. Steady and drugged. Okay, that was good. That was as good as it got right now.

"I'm proud of you."

He did look like hell. Pale, and with bandages over half his face, and hooked up to things that went beep and blip and dripped into his arm.

Dilan was hooked up to a couple of things as well, monitors and an IV of saline because they didn't have any of his blood type on hand. Something that several of the doctors were determined to fix. Soon. Dilan's hand turned over to grip Aya's as tightly as he could - which wasn't much.

Elcy and Yinsi moved over to kiss his forehead and brush his hair back.

She could freak out and cry later about how both the boys looked and how weak Dilan's grip was...later. When the boys were both unconscious and she could convince herself to step into the hall.

As it was right now she was kind of afraid to blink.

Ah, but what she could do was slip her shoes off and prop her feet carefully on Braig's bed across the way so she could at least touch him too. "It's okay kitten, you can close your eyes and rest. I'm watching."

"Hurts." Dilan said with a whimper. Dilan's eyes fluttered closed, but he didn't loosen his grip on Aya's hand.

Yinsi sat on Dilan's other side, and Elcy on Braig's. They'd switch later. Neither of them tried to move Aya, however.

"I know kitten. Medicine for you is on the way. I think this hospital will never be short on katzu safe meds again after this." Because not having a way to help really, REALLY hit them hard.

And no, Aya wouldn't have moved anyway. It was just important she touch them right now, that was all.

It was another half hour before someone came in with a needle for Dilan's IV, and a couple of bags of blood to hook up to him. The medication in the needle was run by Elcy for a second opinion before they actually gave him the pain medication.

There wasn't anything that Braig's parents could do for them, for any of them. Eventually Yinsi said; "I'm going to get coffee. Aya, love, what do you want?"

"Coffee, black, three sugars." said the woman holding her son's pale hand.

Dilemma. Caffeine may just help shake her apart right now...but that also meant she'd be awake to keep her promise of watching over the boys...and...

...maybe something to cushion the coffee?

"Sandwich with protein and black?"

"Will do." Yinsi said, making a mental note to get food for himself and Elcy while he was out.

Elcy wasn't a religious woman, never had been and this didn't change her mind. So where other women might pray, she simply sat and told Aya stories about the boys before she'd met them; how Braig was like when he was learning to speak ("His first word was `Mine`"), Dilan's first baby-steps, the expression on Braig's face the first time the little violet-eyed baby smiled up at him. After fifteen minutes or so she moved to Dilan's side instead and held his hand.

Yinsi was back soon after that, three sandwiches in a bag, and three cups of coffee in a little tray.

Aya, in turn, shared her favorite stories, giving them like an offering against danger. Against the night. And yes, the hamster made an appearance as a matter of course.

It was evidence of her much touch comfort was ingrained in her that when Yinsi returned she ate and rank one handed, keeping the boys connected. Hours later she sighed and eyed her foot on Braig's wrist. "We'll need to push the beds together soon." eventually anyway.

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