Blinking with his dark eyes, Goku was shoved aside by Trunks, who was joining the hasty doctors inside. He tried getting into the room, but after several tries he figured out that the only way to do that was to blast everyone aside. And since they were taking care of Vegeta, he quickly dismissed the thought of doing so. And just at that moment a serious looking man stepped in front of him.
'Sir, I'd like to ask you to leave.'
'But I have to know what is happening! How is he doing?'
'We cant tell yet, we have to wait for the other doctors to finish their reports. But please leave, you're in the way of our work!'
'Please! I have to know!'
'We'll tell you as soon as we know, now please leave!'
'Whats the problem?'
'Mr. President sir, this man refuses to leave us work. He is only in our way like this.' The man replies with a sigh, nudging his head to the nurses running towrds them with a bed, intending to take Vegeta to the x-ray division.
'Please Goku, the sooner we are ready with him, the sooner we can tell you how he is. The only thing I can say about him now is that he's very weak and babbling. So about whats going to happen, he is going to rest, get some medicins and some scans. Now, please..'
Goku lets out a large sigh, knowing that Trunks is right.
'Okay.. I'll be right aorund the corner if something happens okay?'
'I know. I'll tell you as soon as I can.'
'Okay, good.. um.. You go do what you;re good in and then I'll do what I've been doing for the past few days, waiting.'
Sitting himself down on the nearest chair to the door he can find, the door slams open, with a slender hand pushing Goten outside too. Looking at his father, Goten shrugged and sat next to him. Not saying a word to eachother, Goten finally fell asleep, leaving Goku alone in his thoughts.
And so hours passed, only broken by a walk to the watermachine and back. And again. And again. Every second that passed made Goku look at the clock hanging over the door leading to the section where Vegeta was. One part in his heart was aboslutely thrilled that Vegeta was awake again, how that happened still being a bit of a mystery to him. When he saw Vegeta in his mind, like a dream, he thought it was just that, a dream. But seeing Vegeta suddenly open his eyes like that, it couldnt be that he had actually talked to him had he? But if he indeed had spoken to him, in real, with his mind, then how could that possibly be?
But these thoughts were strange enough just a tiny part of what he was thinking about all that time. The thing that worried hime most was simply wanting to know how Vegeta was doing. Was he alright? When could he see him again? it felt strange to him that all that time he cared so much about wanting to know what had happened to Vegeta that he now only wished to be with him. Just to see him again. trying to feel not so worried, comforting himself a bit, he laid his head against the wall and closed his eyes, trying to recall that moment that he could look into the obsidian eyes again, staring at him filled with confusion.
Slowly the sun sank behind the horizon and a restless sleep swept over him. he almost jumped out of his chair when a loud thud was heard, coming from a large iron door being slammed against the wall in front of him. Wiping a small strand of lavender hair out of his face, Trunks walked first out of the door, followed by several heavily debating doctors, arms filled with papers. Trunks walked to Goku sitting down and letting out a heavy sigh. Apparently he had been very busy, his clothes were all ruffled and his voice all harsh from talking.
'Oki..'
'So how is he?'
'Well, looking at the circumstances he's doing quite well.'
'That means?'
'He keeps on talking about lots of things, every sentence he warned me not to tell you anything so I wont do that. But I can tell you this, he's really out of it. Its so weird, when he was out there was absolutely no reaction at all. Suddenly he is awake, Kami knows why.. and now his body is going into hypermode. I dont get it.
'So that means?'
'That means he's acting crazy and has to stay here till we find out what is wrong and then we can make him better okay?'
'Ah yeah, I understand that.'
'Well, thats the short short version.'
'Can I go see him?'
'The long tail of the story is off course that we have to find out what exactly happened to him...'
'Yeah, yeah... when can I go see him?'
'Off course, if we know the cause of his state like this we can probaly easily find a cure for him as well. That is if we are right, if we are wrong howevere we'd have to start all over again and that would..'
Annoyed by his waiting, Goku grabbed the collar of Trunks' labcoat and let out a snarl.
'It all sounds so interesting Trunks but what I want to know is this, when can I go see him!!'
'Um... you cant, not yet.'
'What!?'
'You cant go see him yet!' Trunks says, gripping Goku's hands trying to make him let go of his collar. 'Now please let go! Sheesh.. it wont help anything if you're trying to kill me.'
'I'm sorry..' Goku replies, letting go.
'Its okay..'
'I just... Why cant I go see him?'
'Lets just say that if you would see him, it would only make him go worse. He is already talking till his voice goes sore and harsh about you and some other things.. We are afraid that if he would see you, his mind will completely go crazy.'
'I see.'
'Its not that he wants to, itsjust that we want to be carefull.'
'Oh.. So when do you think I can?'
'Well, we dont know actually.'
'Dont know?'
'Till now we are concentrating to calm him down and making him get back to his old self before we do anything rash. So it may take a week, but it can also take months till he is ready enough.'
'Damn.. Just now when he is awake.'
'I know.. I'm sorry, but there is nothing much we can do but wait.'
'So there is nothing I can do?'
'No, I'm sorry, I know how much you want to but that cant be done.'
'Hm..'
'Come on, go on home and get some rest. The past few days have been very heavy, you'll need your sleep. Well, I do anyway..'
'Yeah, thats probably best.'
Taking his coat off and throwing it in a large coat-filled cart in a corner, Trunks sank to his knees in front of Goten, who was sleeping on two chairs. Giving the sleeping young men a small kiss on his nose, Trunks whispered to him, telling him to wake up and go home with him. Still drowsy, Goten waved goodnight to his dad and followed Trunks.
Rubbing his eyes, Goku also stood up and sighed deeply. He looked at the large metal doors, he knew Vegeta was there, so close to him. that feeling of being unable to see him made him unbearably sad. If he wanted, he could just go through those doors to Vegeta, holding him, talking to him. Just to see how he was. Just to see his face and hear his voice. When his hands snaked out to the handle, wanting to open the heavy door, he hesitated. No. He couldn't see him now. Vegeta needed his rest. It would be better for him if he waited. Putting his hands in his pockets, he slowly started walking off. Once outside, he took off to his house, his mind only on Vegeta.
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