I See It in Your Eyes (you'll be alright) 》SaTzu✔

chapter 16.

Sachi held on tightly to Sana's hand the entire way to the NICU whilst Tzuyu walked along behind them pushing Sana through the large hospital hallways. It smelled strongly of disinfectant and the walls were lined with large tubs of hand sanitizer that smelled so strongly it almost resembled gasoline. Sachi insisted on stopping and squirting some into her hands every single time that they passed one, and Sana was sure that her kid had the cleanest hands in the whole entire world by the time the three of them reached the NICU.

"Hey, they told me that you guys would be heading down here." one of the nurses appeared as they all entered the ward through the large double doors. "I hear congratulations are in order." she smiled as she bent down to Sachi's level and extended a hand out to shake hers. "Congratulations on being a big sister, I'm sure you'll do an amazing job."

"I will! I'll be so good I'll read her stories and she can have some of my toys, but not the jigsaw puzzles just in case she loses any pieces, that wouldn't be good. She can even share my glitter pens!!" Sachi exclaimed excitedly as they all laughed.

"Well, that sounds like a pretty awesome big sister to me." the nurse told her happily before standing up and turning her attention to Sana and Tzuyu. "If it's okay with you guys, we usually brief the younger kids before we take them inside just to give them a better idea of what to expect so that they don't get frightened or upset by all of the wires and machines and everything attached to the baby."

"Oh yeah that's fine." Tzuyu told her as she wrapped an arm around Sachi and they all followed the nurse through to a little side room.

Tzuyu rolled Sana over beside the seat that she herself was going to sit on and Sachi clambered onto her lap with commentary from Tzuyu, reminding her to be very careful and gentle. The nurse spent a little time talking Sachi through a couple of different things in simpler terms so that she would be able to understand it all, she even had little cards with cartoon pictures on them so that Sachi could visualize what she was saying and Sana felt extremely relieved by the end of it all. She hadn't even considered half of the things that the nurse was saying until she said it, she didn't realize how seemingly scary the NICU could be for a little kid, if she was being honest she herself found it a little intimidating, but she was beyond confident that Sachi would handle it all like a complete champ.

Once she was successfully prepped and the nurse was confident that she was ready to meet the baby, Tzuyu took Sachi to wash her hands, not that it was exactly necessary considering the amount of hand sanitizer that she had used on the way here, but Sana figured they were better safe than sorry. When the two of them returned, Sana, with a little of Tzuyu's help, slowly climbed out of the wheelchair so that the three of them could walk into Sei's room altogether.

It was still painful for her, but she was heavily encouraged by her doctors and nurses to walk around as much as she possibly could to help aid her recovery so Sana did as she was told, willing to try whatever it took to get her back to a place where she was able to function somewhat normally again. Sachi held on super tightly to her hand, encouraging her every few steps as she tried to guide Sana down the hallway.

"Careful mommy, careful. Not too fast, careful. Good mommy, that's good." she mumbled as her brows furrowed in concentration, putting all of her focus into Sana's every move as they walked while everyone suppressed giggles.

When they arrived outside Sei's room, Tzuyu gently opened the door, holding it open for Sana and Sachi to step inside first before closing it again behind her. Sana's stomach was in knots as she made her way fully into the room and settled down in one of the big leather chairs beside Sei's incubator as Sachi followed right behind her, suddenly closing in on herself a little as she all but buried herself into Sana's side the second that she was sitting down.