Timeless |Tanjiro x Muichiro|

waiting room

Muichiro had never speeded this much in his life, but by some miracle, he managed to not get pulled over during the ten minute drive.

He carried Tanjiro out of the car, something he usually wouldn't have been able to do, as he was quite slender and Tanjiro was half muscle. The adrenaline from fear must have given him super strength because he picked Tanjiro up bridal style and ran inside the hospital.

Everything after that was a blur. He had run up to the front desk and said something along the lines of "my boyfriend was coughing up a lot of blood and then he passed out. PLEASE HELP ME!" before Tanjiro was taken away on a crash cart. After that he waited in the waiting room, staring at the wall, assuming the worst.

He'd gone to the bathroom several times, once after noticing there was blood on his hands, and the other times, after realizing there was specks of blood on his arms as well. It seemed like a few days had gone by when a doctor finally came out of Tanjiro's room to talk to him, even though it had only been around three hours.

"Hello sir. You are the one who brought the red headed man correct?" A young looking doctor said. She looked to be around thirty years old, had raven hair, violet eyes, and a butterfly pin in her hair that was visible under her hair covering.

"Yeah that was me. His name is Tanjiro. And I'm Muichiro, his boyfriend. Is he ok?" Muichiro asked, somewhat quiet. He seemed to still be lost in his downward spiral of thoughts even though he was also trying to pay attention to this woman.

"Yes, right now he is stable. I'm not sure how long we can keep him this way though. I had two other patients that came in with the same symptoms as your boyfriend. They had suddenly started coughing up blood, one of them already had a fever at that point. Then they came into the hospital and we tried to treat them....the first one passed away from extreme fever four nights later...and then other one passed away from the same thing only two nights later" She said, getting softer towards the end.

Muichiro's eyes widened in panic. "You don't know how to fix it?! There's nothing you can do? How about fever medicine? An ice bath?" Muichiro started to tear up.

"We've tried medicating, but this disease is something we've never seen before. We don't know if it's contagious or not, let alone how those people got it. They passed away too quickly for us to be able to study the disease, and there haven't been enough cases to confirm anything. I can't say for sure if Tanjiro even has that disease, but he presents the same way... I'm so sorry. He might be conscious throughout the next few days. We will continue to monitor him, but for now, spend as much time as you can with him, is my advice to you." 

Suddenly, an alarm rang through the building and a light was flashing in another room. A monotone voice kept repeating Code Blue Code Blue, and it was clear another patient was having an emergency. 

The doctor's eyes widened in alarm. "I have to go check on another one of my patients. You can visit Tanjiro right now but I think he is still unconscious." With that she ran away, grabbing some gloves from the nearest box before she entered the other patients room where the alarm was ringing, leaving Muichiro to his panicked thoughts once more.