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imaginedyou) wrote2006-11-29 11:11 am
imaginedyou) wrote2006-11-29 11:11 am
Sick With Worry [Rikkai pre-canon gen]
Sanada has to tell the team Yukimura's prognosis. 484 words, originally from here (LJ)/here (DW).
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Sick With Worry
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Walking into a training session he has almost completely missed is one of the hardest things Sanada has ever had to do. He has slapped people for just the same thing, and he wonders if that will be thrown back at him this time. And worse, he has to explain to the team what has happened to Yukimura, and he has to do it without getting himself upset, again.
"Sanada!" Yanagi exclaims as he walks in. Everyone's eyes fall upon their vice-captain, and Sanada wishes he could just disappear. The only thing on their faces is concern, though, and he knows he owes it to them as his teammates, if nothing else, to tell them what has happened.
"So this is serious?" Yanagi asks. "Yukimura is still in hospital?"
Sanada nods. "He'll be there for a while; they're going to try different kinds of treatment. It's this stupidly rare syndrome that, as long as the patient is carefully monitored by the hospital, can resolve itself in weeks... Or years."
"Years?!"
"And there's no way to tell which of those it might be?" Jackal asks. Sanada shakes his head.
"They think it's a good sign though, that Yukimura hasn't lost the use of his limbs so far. It's just his toes, and sometimes his fingers, that are playing him up. Some people are paralysed up to their lungs and have to be kept breathing by machines."
"My God, you make it sound so serious," Niou said, pulling a face. "They don't think that will happen to the captain, right?"
"Well, it's unlikely, they think, but not impossible." Sanada says sourly. "But he's in hospital; if anything happens... He's constantly monitored. Even people who get that bad recover completely. It's just something that happens that they can't really explain. Your body attacking itself."
"I suppose it's like anything," Yanagi says thoughtfully, "if you push yourself too hard and too fast, your body finds way to make itself slow down."
"Yukimura hasn't pushed himself too hard into anything!" Sanada bursts out. He grits his teeth and looks down at the floor. "I apologize, I didn't mean to yell."
"Hey, vice-captain, it's okay to be upset," Marui says more softly than is usual for him. "We've all been sick with worry, tell him Yagyuu."
"Marui couldn't even eat." Yagyuu says with a half-hearted smile.
Sanada can't smile back, but he understands the gesture. It suddenly hits him, hard, how much love the team really has for their captain. He is so used to the idea of authority and remaining untouchable when he is vice-captain that he forgets Yukimura can leave that behind, and outside of the club, be himself. One of them. And they love him for it. They love him for him, just as Sanada does. He wonders if Yukimura knows it too, and resolves to show him if he does not.
"I'll take you all to see him, soon." Sanada promises. "As soon as we can find a good time."
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Walking into a training session he has almost completely missed is one of the hardest things Sanada has ever had to do. He has slapped people for just the same thing, and he wonders if that will be thrown back at him this time. And worse, he has to explain to the team what has happened to Yukimura, and he has to do it without getting himself upset, again.
"Sanada!" Yanagi exclaims as he walks in. Everyone's eyes fall upon their vice-captain, and Sanada wishes he could just disappear. The only thing on their faces is concern, though, and he knows he owes it to them as his teammates, if nothing else, to tell them what has happened.
"So this is serious?" Yanagi asks. "Yukimura is still in hospital?"
Sanada nods. "He'll be there for a while; they're going to try different kinds of treatment. It's this stupidly rare syndrome that, as long as the patient is carefully monitored by the hospital, can resolve itself in weeks... Or years."
"Years?!"
"And there's no way to tell which of those it might be?" Jackal asks. Sanada shakes his head.
"They think it's a good sign though, that Yukimura hasn't lost the use of his limbs so far. It's just his toes, and sometimes his fingers, that are playing him up. Some people are paralysed up to their lungs and have to be kept breathing by machines."
"My God, you make it sound so serious," Niou said, pulling a face. "They don't think that will happen to the captain, right?"
"Well, it's unlikely, they think, but not impossible." Sanada says sourly. "But he's in hospital; if anything happens... He's constantly monitored. Even people who get that bad recover completely. It's just something that happens that they can't really explain. Your body attacking itself."
"I suppose it's like anything," Yanagi says thoughtfully, "if you push yourself too hard and too fast, your body finds way to make itself slow down."
"Yukimura hasn't pushed himself too hard into anything!" Sanada bursts out. He grits his teeth and looks down at the floor. "I apologize, I didn't mean to yell."
"Hey, vice-captain, it's okay to be upset," Marui says more softly than is usual for him. "We've all been sick with worry, tell him Yagyuu."
"Marui couldn't even eat." Yagyuu says with a half-hearted smile.
Sanada can't smile back, but he understands the gesture. It suddenly hits him, hard, how much love the team really has for their captain. He is so used to the idea of authority and remaining untouchable when he is vice-captain that he forgets Yukimura can leave that behind, and outside of the club, be himself. One of them. And they love him for it. They love him for him, just as Sanada does. He wonders if Yukimura knows it too, and resolves to show him if he does not.
"I'll take you all to see him, soon." Sanada promises. "As soon as we can find a good time."
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