Duo's Secret
"I'm FINE, Wufei." Duo protested as he collapsed into a chair at
the hospital.
"You are *NOT*." Wufei insisted. "People who are fine don't pass
out into their cereal bowls at breakfast."
"I was up all night." Duo countered.
"Snoring?!" Wufei practically accused. "We all heard you."
"That was a recording. I snuck out and went partying all over
the colonies."
"Sure you did." Wufei knew better.
Duo sighed. "Look, I'm fine."
"We'll let the doctor decide."
"I don't want to see..."
"Duo Maxwell?" A doctor asked, it wasn't the one Wufei had
contacted. "You're here early, aren't you?"
"Um..."
"He's your patient?" Wufei asked, wondering where he'd seen the
woman.
"Yes." the doctor replied. "He's too young and fragile for the
normal course of treatment, so he's been seeing me."
"Normal course of treatment?" Wufei blinked at Duo. "What's she
talking about, Maxwell?" he asked, sternly.
"It's nothing." Duo told him. "Don't worry about it."
"Does it have any relationship to you passing out thist
morning?"
"None."
"He passed out?" The doctor seemed concerned.
"Yes." Wufei nodded. "He was..."
There was a noise and they turned to see Duo lying on the floor,
unconscious.
"I'll be right back. I'm just going to get a doctor."
"But you're a doctor, aren't you?" Wufei was confused.
"I'm only licensed to practice herbal medicine and other similar
treatments, like acupuncture." she explained as she hurried off,
returning moments later with some other doctors who brought a
stretcher and rushed Duo into the ICU, leaving a stunned Wufei
standing there alone in the crowded waiting room.
"How is he?" Wufei asked, when the doctor who'd first spoken to
Duo came out some time later.
"We're sending him home." the doctor told him. "If you have any
plans for this evening, strongly suggest you cancel them. You
need to be with him tonight."
Once they arrived at the safehouse, Wufei insisted that Duo go
to bed.
"I know I saw her before." Wufei told himself out loud. "But
where?"
"Dr. Isha you mean?" Duo asked, weakly, as he closed his eyes
and became ominously still.
"Yeah. Dr. Isha. That name is familiar to. Where have I...?"
Wufei suddenly remembered and when he did, his world was ripped
out from under him and shattered into a million pieces.he'd seen
newspaper clips of her at various mecial lectures, giving
speaches ahout varioud diseases. She worked with cancer patients
at various hospitals who had various reasons the were not
qualified for chemotheraphy.
"Duo," Wufei could barely see through his tears as he kissed him
one last time, "why didn't you tell us?"
-----TBC-----