"Happy Holloween"

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"Room 46S. 46S. 46S–ah room 46S!"

Room 46S
John Ashton Rivers
Dr. Abegail Pine

The duo burst in the room immediately setting their eyes on the boy on the bed, JiJi on a chair beside him holding on to his hand with tears streaming down her face. Mika gasped upon seeing John's state. He was beaten up badly. He has scratches all on his arms and face, his right eye and left cheek were swollen, his lip was busted, he had a bandage wrapped around his head and a patch on his left collarbone. He was out cold and looked fine and peaceful, just a bit bruised but what Mika feared the most was what's happening on the inside.

"Jim." Ryan breathed out upon seeing the girl who was a mess.

"Ry." She cried out reaching for him. The boy took long strides and immediately went to her side and gave her a hug, letting her cry even more harder. "Hey you gotta calm down, catch your breath, let's not get you checked in here too."

JiJi listened and let in a big breath in, Mika offered her a handkerchief and she gratefully took it and cleaned herself up a bit and let out a big breath. She paused for a bit then started tearing up and bursted in tears again. "It was terrifying, Ry. He came to the apartment and literally almost killed him! I had to call the police, I just had to! They said a rib punctured a lung and he literally flatlined when he got here!"

Ryan teared up as well and Mika gasped the 5th time that morning. She also then just realized JiJi's left arm and neck were wrapped in bandages and she also had a patch on her left cheek.

'He? Who did she mean by he? John's uncle?'

"Are you okay?" Ryan's question snapped Mika out of her panicked reverie. She looked at him to see him looking at her with slightly red eyes already waiting for an answer. He still had an arm around a slowly calming down JiJi.

"Y-yeah." Her eyes flickered down to JiJi. "I-is she a-alright?"

"She's a bit hurt as you can see but she'll be fine. Can you stay with her so I can go look for the doctor and talk about what's going on?" He whispered.

"Y-yeah, sure." Mika quietly agreed. She went to get another chair from across the room as Ryan crouched down to JiJi's level, whispering to her to calm down and he'll be back in a bit. In which the girl timidly nodded to and gave him a hug before he stood up to leave. "I'll be back in a bit." He whispered to Mika, giving her hand a squeeze and she squeezed back giving her a small, sad smile.

"Hey." Mika sat beside JiJi who was quiet and still held on to John's limp hand, careful with the needle lodged in it. JiJi looked at her with puffy eyes and such a broken expression. "Aww, JiJi. Come here." Mika hugged her as JiJi let a few tears fell.

"I thought I was going to lose him." Came JiJi's quiet voice after a minute in quiet. "He flatlined, Mika. He died! He died for 2 minutes!"

"Hey, hey, sshh, calm down." Mika tries, she heard what Ryan said to her when they got here and assumed that the girl has health problems with breathing. "He's fine, he's right there. Look, you're holding his hand, isn't it warm? His heart is beating, hear that loud monitor? He's going to be fine. All because you were there."

With just little knowledge she had from JiJi's outburst a few minutes ago she tried to put the pieces together to try and comfort the broken girl in her arms. She looked at John's patch on his chest, assuming the worst injury and she internally shiver. "You called the police, he'll finally get what he deserves. He'll pay for what he did to John and that is a long time in jail. You're so brave JiJi, you did your best and with that John is going to be fine."

It was quiet for a moment and Mika looked at how JiJi was rubbing her thumb on John's hand. She was also tense about something. Her body language was enough for Mika to ask her. "You want to lay down beside him?"

A pause, then came through a quiet "Yes, please."

Mika smiled sadly and gently persuaded her to let go of his hand for a minute so she can move him a bit. JiJi quietly climbed on the bed and laid beside the unconscious boy, closing her eyes, letting a few final tears down as the fatigue immediately succumb her to sleep. Mika gazed down with a look of concern before sitting down. An hour passed when she heard the door quietly open and then close behind her and she turned to asked what took him so long only to see Ryan with a grim look. He was on the verge of breaking down and Mika stood up, grabbed his hand to lead him out of the room again. "Hey, what's wrong?"

Ryan finally let the tears down but kept a composure. "I'm sure she told you but yeah, he really did flatline for 2.47 minutes. He was just out of surgery before we both got here for his punctured lung, his has a mild concussion and very bruised ribs, a couple broken ones too. He was also stabbed on his collarbone with a small pocket knife and was dragged for a good 3 inches making the wound ridiculously bad and deep.

"I not only talked to the doctor but I talked to a few police officers as well. They told me they already questioned JiJi and so they decided to fill me in. Apparently John's uncle broke in to our apartment this morning after I left for school, leaving JiJi to care for John after he was just beaten by him the night before. After he broke in, the two locked themselves in our room and JiJi managed to call the police before he came in. They told me when they got to the place, everything was wrecked in the living room and kitchen, the mirror in our room was smashed to pieces, JiJi covered in all it's glass and had a bad arm wound. And John was just there on the ground getting stabbed by his own uncle.

"A trial is going to happen next week, enough for John to at least recover to stay awake and talk. I don't know what to do, everything is so messed up, I don't even know where to get money for all the payments piling up."

"Hey, calm down, I'll tell my mum what happened and we'll help you."

"Mika no, you can't, that's ridiculous." Ryan shook his head profusely. "This is--"

"Ryan Evans." The boy pursed his lips. "I want to help and I'm sure my mum would too. Let me."