Message #148020

[The Losers]

KG: sweet...

Kid said but he was so soft and Trine was so far away that he doubted she heard him. He turned back to the door and stood there. Now that she had gone he realized just how tired, weak, and scared he had been all this time. The door felt like it weighed as much as a small moon. Kid didn't even want to try and push it open because nothing good layon the other side of it.

but...after a minute of standing at the door...he walked inside.


The room was deathly quiet...not that there wasn't sound. The machines that kept Tony breath whirred and buzzed. His heart rate monitor beeped at a steady rhythm. But every room that Tony was in always seemed to just be erupting with life but now...it was just the machines...so patterned...so dull...

KG: hey dude...

Kid said walking and closing the door behind him. Tony didn't move, he didn't blink, he didn't twitch his hand or shift in anyway. His face was a big bruise with surgery scars and tubes sticking out of it. His hair was gone and his bright colorful clothes had been replaced with the hospital gowns they gave everyone. At least, KG had thought, they were had little green dots on them...Tony
s' favorite color was green. He had said it was pink for awhile...back when Rayven had kept her hair like that but...KG had always known it was still green.

Kid walked over fighting the urge to openly sob on the unmoving body of his best friend. He sat down in one of the three chairs in the room. He didn't want to touch Tony at all...it would be...to much. So instead he sat close to him and locked his fingers together.

KG: So...that was my mom on the phone...she says she...um she loves you and she's gonna come up to see you as soon as she can.

Kid waited a second for the mom joke that would never come. The machines beeped and whirred. Tony stayed still.

KG: Yeah so..*cough* i'm flying her out here soon. Your parents will be here tomorrow so.....

He didn't know what he wanted to say. He didn't want to think about Tony's poor parents. He didn't want to think about how he was going to have to tell them their son hadn't opened his eyes in two days.

KG: hey man...um...Trine is here. She is getting some food but...*cough* she's going to be in here real soon to see you...

Kid fought back the lump in his throat but he lost and he began to cry. He hung his head and the tears returned again. He lifted his head up and managed a smile that shook ever so slightly from the sobs making his chest jump.

KG: If you just move your hand...just a finger man...i...i'll ask if she wants to switch places with that nurse that's been doing the sponge bath. I won't even be mad dude...i promise...just...please...don't...just move your hand.

Kid looked at his friend as he lay still in the bed. there was no movement or even the semblance of something Kid could pretend was movement. Kid hung his head again and let the sobs take over for a minute before sitting back up in his chair and wiping the tears away from his eyes.