The Death That Follows

Awake

TW: Grief, Panic Attack(s)

 Technoblade

The door opened silently, and the first thing I saw were the doctors.

Lots of them, rushing around the room, yelling about something.

"What is going on here?" I bellowed, and a nurse ushered us in, closing the door.

"He woke up moments before you got here and started screaming, alerting his doctor to see what was wrong. But when he got too close. . . um." The blonde nurse trailed off, and I could see Niki getting more and more panicked.

"Just tell us, Woman. What happened?" I yelled over the many bustling doctors.

"Well. He sorta, uh, bit the doctor." The nurse said, and, for a good minute, I just stared at her. Right before bursting into raucous laughter, making the other nurses in the room glare at me.

"He bit the doctor? Like, with his mouth?" Niki asked, and the nurse nodded.

"It didn't break through the skin, and he was laughing about it, but Mr. Soot started getting very violent, and we had to get people in to sedate him. Of course, the drugs didn't work for some reason, so we brought in something. . . stronger." She trailed off, and I tried to get a good look at my baby brother.

"Move!" I yelled, and a couple of the more flighty nurses scampered away, giving me a clear view. Wil was thrashing in the bed, strapped to the side, while the doctors were furiously pumping fluid into the IV.

"Techno!" He wailed gaspily, eyes unable to focus on me.

"Get away from my brother." I snarled.

"But sir. The state he is in right now, he could be potentially dangerous." One of them said, and I wanted to make heads roll. And he could probably tell, as he quickly ushered everyone except a surly face nurse who was supposedly here for 'my safety.'

Wil, once the strange people had left, immediately quieted down, still breathing hard.

"What are you waiting for?" I asked the guard/overweight nurse, and he scowled at me before reaching to untie Wil.

"Wilbur!" Niki sobbed, moving forward so she could brush a strand of sweat dampened hair from his face.

"Niki, Techno." He said drowsily. "I feel terrible. What is going on?" He asked, and I shot Niki an uneasy look.

"What do you remember?" She asked, and Wilbur's face screwed up in pain.

"Pain, mostly. I remember XD had everyone together, and he was fighting Dream. He woke me up for a bit, and I remember. . ." He touched his bandaged ribs subconsciously, and I winced, remembering hearing the snap as each of his ribs broke under XD's weight. "I think I passed out after that." He said, looking around. He winced slightly, and Niki leaned forward, looking for something she could do to help. "Where is dad, and Tom?" He asked, and I heard Niki suck in a wavering breath.

"I thought they would be here to see me. How long was I even out?" Wilbur asked, and, even though he was already in pain, I really didn't want to trample the last bit of sanity that remained in him.

"Wilbur. We need to talk about that, actually." I said quietly, and he looked up at me with his one working eye.

"What happened?" He asked worriedly.

"Dream killed XD. But, right after, a rift opened up, allowing me to come home. And then, right after me, dad, and Sapnap came back, it blew up." I said, and I could see the panic in his eyes.