After All

Chapter 2

Hospital

Randy

Not even 5 minutes from exiting Ray's room, he already sees the doctor and nurses running towards it while he was exiting out of the hospital. Time slowed as he looked behind him while the door was closing, the flatline of the machine echoed through the halls while the doctor and nurses were attempting to save her. He walks back, deciding to stay for a little longer but Nancy stops him.

"Randy, I'm sorry but visiting hours are over."

"Nancy please...I don't want to leave and lose her in the same minute I walk away." She sighs.

"I can only give you 15 more minutes okay?"

"Thank you."

Yuno walks out of the room and you can tell how exhausted he was, no mask, no helmet, just a face of someone who doesn't know what to do next.

"FUCK!" Yuno cries out, punching the wall. And that's how Randy knew that a breaking point was reached. He's not one to show anger nor does he ever use profanity.

Max comes up to Yuno with a folder filled with documents, "Ray asked me to give this to you in case something happens to her. I didn't know exactly what she meant by it at the time but..." he hands it to him. 

As Yuno reads the paper, Randy looks over to Max, watching him and his body language.

~How did he know to go to the hospital, as well as have this paper with him without even Pillbot or any doctor contacting him? He thought.

At least none that he knew of. After 20 minutes of waiting, the doctor and nurses finally came out. Nancy was about to let Randy know his minutes were up but she saw both him and Yuno already having a harder time and thought to just let him be.

"Her vitals have returned back to normal, but we will keep her under close observation tonight." Yuno was still reading the directive, Randy stepped in and thanked them.

"Yuno, can I go inside the room and talk to her for a sec?" He gives him a small, almost pity smile and nods.

Even with what happened a few hours ago, Randy admires Yuno for his composure. He's supposed to be angry at the gang, and yet he lets him, April, and Ramee stay. Randy had his hand on the knob for a few seconds before taking a deep breath and going inside. The beeping stopped bothering him the first hour they were in her room. He took the chair, placed it on her bedside, and sat next to her.

"'Sup Raymundo, how's it going? What chu doin'? How's life?" He doesn't know what else he's supposed to say or should be saying. He never thought that this was something that would happen, and a part of him feels that this was part of her plan, hence why it frustrates him to see that she didn't value her life.

"You can't just give up! That's the weakest thing you've ever done, you're better than that! Why did you put your life on the line!?" He takes a deep breath trying to control his temper. He wasn't really mad at her...he was mad at himself for not being able to save her from this hurt.

"I'm sorry...I didn't mean to lecture you while you're laying there. I guess I was just expecting that if you can hear me and I push you enough...you'd be fighting back right now telling me to shut up, calling me a fuck. I'm not barking for you by the way, I know I promised I would if your life was on the line." He didn't realize how hard his grip was on her when he brought her to the car earlier. The bruising was starting to show around her wrist. He holds her hand the way she held his earlier that night, caressing her wrist with his thumb. He was being gentle, afraid that even with the slightest touch that he'd break her, but the truth was she broke him.