Hitmantale

Chapter 3: Harmony & Tranquility

A cool hand brushed Pax's bangs out of his eyes.  The hand didn't feel fleshy--it felt like...smooth plastic or something...

"...Child...you cannot stop here...not yet..."

A deep voice murmured.  Static filled the air as Pax tried to crack his eyes open, but the hand moved up to cover his eyes.

"Child.....rest." The voice softened. "You have been through much pain......rest, please."

Pax wasn't sure if he was awake, dreaming or dead.  But shut his eyes and drifted once more.

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"Uncle Ed?  Are you here?"

7 year-old Pax pushed his parent-figure's office door open with his tiny hands.  He peeked into the room before sliding in, shutting the door behind him.

The brunet walked further into the room before finding Edward hunched over his desk, mumbling under his breath and scribbling notes or something...

"...Uncle Ed?"

The doctor jumped in his seat, whipping his head around as he smiled nervously.

"P-Paxton, my boy!" The doctor awkwardly shoved the papers in his hands to the corner of his desk, uncaring that he knocked a few pens and pencils to the ground. "I didn't hear you come in...!"

"Uncle Edward?" Pax felt an uncomfortable churning in his gut. "What's...wrong?"

The man bit his lower lip in response--but only for a moment.  Soon the man but on a bright smile, getting up from his seat to usher the brunet from the room.

"Haha, Paxton, my boy, I think it's lunchtime now."

"But--"

"Now, now...!  I'm sure Frisk is hungry too!"

As they began to leave the room, Pax noticed the x-rays that were displayed on a wall.  The child blinked in slight recognition.  He had gotten an x-ray check up just yesterday and his Hyper Intuition told him that those were his results.

But something...something was wrong with the pictures...

Pax then found himself outside of Edward's office, the door closing and cutting his sight off.  Edward gently took Pax's hand and he smiled at the child, murmuring softly.

"Let's go now, Paxton."

Pax lifted his gaze to stare up into green eyes.  There was so much pain in sorrow in those irises.  But that wasn't what startled Pax the most.

Edward always had that look in his eyes when he knew....

...That his patient was beyond saving.

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Orange eyes slid open to stare up at a beige-colored ceiling.  Pax waited as his vision cleared before he turned his head slightly to the right to see Frisk with their head in their arms, top-half of their body on the bed, apparently sleeping at the moment with a blanket draped over their small shoulders.

Pax turned his head to the left and he was mildly surprised to see glowing, hazel eyes stare back at him.  Kuri sat up from where he was, folding his wings in as he went closer to the bed.  The monster sat down again, lifting a large paw up to settle on the edge of the bed.  Pax swallowed as he stared into those eyes.