In Safe Hands (PuzzleShipping)

Chapter 47

"Well, fantastic." The other, girl, said, "We decided to speak with you on what we should do next. He has no trace of close family or friends, so the next step is to go to a few people he works with."

The boy nodded in agreement.

"We have been thinking about this for a while." He said, "and we have been monitoring his health levels these last few days."

His voice fell and he looked over at the girl.

"He...He isn't getting better." She said, she herself saddened by this very fact, "He is only getting worse. His quality of life is disintegrating and we had been wondering where to go from here."

Yugi listened, wanting to beg that this wasn't true. He wanted hear Yami burst into a fit of giggles and say "YOU FELL FOR IT!! HAAAA! That was so funny!"

...but that didn't happen. This was reality, not Yugi's imagination.

"Let's take a look here." The boy began flipping through papers again, "His blood pressure has been extremely low, and his pulse has been almost nonexistent since he has come here. He has had to be intubated a few times over. He went into cardiac arrest when he came in, was resuscitated and was put on the ventilator, where he never came off.

"His digits have been amputated several times over. He has not been responding to any of the pain killers we are providing. He has blood pooling in his lungs that make it hard for him to breathe, making it worse. He heart rate is the lowest we have ever seen, and..

"..over all it is basically as though he is hanging on to life by the skin of his teeth.

Yugi paled with every word.

They said it how it was.

Which broke Yugi's heart.

Yami had stolen all of his heart, and now the Angel of Death had come to steal Yami from him.

Yugi looked down.

"We got with the board today and discussed." The girl spoke up, me listening to her without looking at her, "We have come up with a single plan. If we keep those tubes in his throat for too long, it could result in infection, which could quickly kill him."

"So, we have a solution." The boy finished, sliding a form into Yugi's lap, "We will give the young man one more night. He needs to wake up by then. If he doesn't...he is scheduled for relief.

"And the selected people to do it are...you group of people. The head, Yugi, will be the one to instruct the relief. That is the rule."

A hush swept through the entire room.

Yugi felt his skin go cold.

No..

No. It can't be! IT CAN'T BE SO!!!

He couldn't do that to Yami. It wasn't right at all!! It just wasn't right at all! He couldn't have the strength to do that! He didn't have the will to do what he had to.

He just didn't!

He looked down at the sheet of paper that had been given to him. He was heartbroken. At the top in bold letters, it said:

"Yami Sennen, scheduled for relief by lethal injection."

L-Lethal INJECTION???

No...

No no no!!!

Yugi couldn't accept any of this. He just couldn't. It was too much. And the fact that HE, OF ALL PEOPLE, had to do it was gut wrenching.

"I understand this must be a lot to take in." The girl said, still pacing, "Believe me. I do."

"But, this young man is in no condition to get out of the hospital sooner than death gets a grip on him." The boy muttered for them to hear, slightly pained by his words, "The longer we hold off the inevitable, the more his quality of life diminishes."

Yugi was stunned.

"We'll give him a night." The two said together, "If he doesn't wake up by then, it is our relief to occur. Nothing about it."

And they left, the surgeon team stunned, heartbroken, saddened, angered, and over all, frightened. They didn't want to do that.

Especially that of Yugi.

Yami was one of them. They all at one point laughed at one of his jokes, served with his entertaining self, and got to know him.

Yugi prayed that this wasn't happening. He prayed that this was nothing but a long nightmare that was drawing itself to a close, and once he did wake up, Yami would be there ready for him. And they would smile at each other.

He prayed that that was real. That it wasn't over.

But now, all of that was over.