Promise ME (leopika fanfic)

Waking up

It seemed that I laid there forever eloped in my own thoughts of death and fear, I had always hated the dark. It was dark the day that everyone I loved and cared about died, and I knew that the dark stood for evil that was waiting for the right moment to strike. Leorio promised that he would be there when I woke up but I didn't know if that wanted me to wake up or just lay her and pretend to still be asleep. I stopped as my heart skipped a beat and my eye lids slowly fluttered open to look at a white ceiling, and the smell of meds burned my nose. My bangs hung over my eyes as my hands were clutching the sheet as if I was having a nightmare but I felt calm as I looked around. The room was empty, which meant that Leorio lied to me, but I guess I couldn't be surprised because he must have better things to do. I slowly tried to sit up but winced as I placed a hand on my chest before looking down at the thick bandages.

Melody would be worried if I didn't call her to tell her I was okay, but I couldn't go to work in this condition either... I would just have to use healing chain to get out of this place. I closed my eyes as I tried to focus on using my nein, but stopped as I felt a sharp pain in my head making me dig my nails into the sheet. My heart raced as tears gathered in my eyes trying to hold back a scream that was stuck in the back of my throat. I slowly allowed my pillow to fall against the pillow so I could lay there panting with sweat slowly covering my face that looked grey. I couldn't use my nein, without my nein I was helpless to the staff of this hospital and anyone else who bothered to touch me. I closed my eyes at the painful realization that I was helpless for the first time in so long and I didn't like the sinking feeling that followed with it.

"God... damn it," I said in between pants to myself but stopped as I heard the sliding glass door open and turned my head to see Leorio's back as he slowly closed the door. His hair was spiked up in its usual style but he wore a white button down and black jeans instead of his usual suit and tie. He slowly looked over his shoulder at me in somewhat shock to see me glaring right back at him with little to no satisfaction to see him again. It was hard to feel grateful or happy when I couldn't even move my toes without wincing or crying out in pain. He had circles under his eyes that were the color of old meat and his eyes looked so tired as he pulled up a metal chair next to me. "You really didn't take the tranquillizer well. Most people would still be out for another five hours but they had to put you down twice as much. Stubborn like always aren't we?," he said we a small hint of humor on his voice but I wasn't in any way, shape, or form amused by it.

"When will you let me out Leorio? I have to go to work and you know as well as I do that me being in a public place like this for treatment is unsafe. Me being here puts everyone... and you at risk of being attacked by a number of dangerous gangs," I said with as much concern as I could but my eyelids were beginning to feel heavy again and my body was numb from the shoulders down. It wasn't the fact that I was stubborn that allowed me to fight off the drugs but it was much rather the fact that my body didn't take easily to the foreign drugs of these hospitals. They did work eventually off and on but I didn't want to pass out when I was trying to protect Leorio and everyone else in this hospital. They wouldn't be able to protect themselves from any gang that was even remotely close to that of the Phantom Troupe, and me not being able to use nein... I winced at the thought of how useless I have proven to be.

"I'm not letting you go Kurapika," he said in a harsh tone that made my cheeks heat up as I listened to the words he said. Why did he have to word it like that? I looked away to try and hide my burning cheeks but he was so tall I knew that he could see me perfectly well. I couldn't explain exactly what kind of relationship we had because I wouldn't know if we even had a "Relationship". We used to fight constantly and now it seemed that he knew every button to push to get what he wanted, and for some reason I found our arguments amusing whenever he tried to fight me. When it came to decisions I was always right but there were a few times that Leorio would step up and challenge my word. "You're very sick and you know it. If you leave now you could get an infection and if that happens you will be laying in your death bed, and I won't allow that to happen."