Akaashi eyes the hospital room he was near. Bokuto was in there and he knew that but his sisters were in the doorway and so was someone he thought he might know. He looked like an old client.
Akaashi took a deep breath. His safety was a big deal but Bokuto had texted him. He had needed him and he begged for Akaashi to see if he could come see him.
Safety was a little less of a big deal.
Maybe. That man still looked like an old client.
He took slow steps towards the room. His heart pounded hard against his chest with a quickening pace. His medicine was wearing off too so his anxiety was slightly worse.
The man looked over and gasped. "Akaashi?!"
Akaashi's heart nearly stopped. This was a client. This man knew where he worked. He could schedule something and hurt him.
"Hey, how are you man? Bo told me you were really nice to him too."
Akaashi tilted his head. "Hm?"
"Oh you know at-"
"Kashi?"
Akaashi looked in the room and saw Bokuto laying on his side, pillow between his legs. "Kotarou... how are you feeling?"
"Really bad." Bokuto held out his hand. "C'mere."
Akaashi walked past his baffled sisters. He sat by the bed and held his hand. "Do you know what's happening or are they being useless?"
"I apparently need an ultrasound but they don't believe that it hurts. I literally fainted in the waiting room." Bokuto's eyes closed shut. His voice dropped to a whisper. "I had to out myself to my friend over there too and he took it okay."
"Second part is good. But you should get that ultrasound to check your stomach." Akaashi ran his thumb over his hand, slow and careful. "Have they not given you any medicine?"
"No..."
"Sorry to ruin the moment but am I missing something?" Kiri questioned.
Bokuto waved her off. "Leave him alone."
Kenji frowned. "You already knew him, didn't you?"
Bokuto looked to Akaashi. He knew that Akaashi didn't want to expose their secret. He knew Akaashi had a lot of safety issues surrounding being a sex worker, including telling people. "Guys please, not right now. I literally feel like I'm dying."
Kuroo stepped into the room fully and went over to Bokuto. "Okay so does this always happen?"
"I've never been to the hospital for my cycle."
"Ah, okay."
Bokuto clung to the large pillow he'd been given. His lower stomach was burning with pain. It was odd that no one believed him about his pain including workers but he did pass incredibly well and they were judging him for the organ he hated most.
Akaashi spotted pens and pencils and got up, grapping a pen. "Uncover your ear."
Bokuto did so and Akaashi tried to fix the cramping as he had done before. After three minutes Bokuto eased his hand away. "It didn't work."
Akaashi sighed. "I'm sorry about this."
Bokuto shook his head. "It'll be fine."
Akaashi rubbed his hair behind his ear, just watching. Bokuto kept wincing and clinging to his pillow in pain and not a single nurse came in to check on him for twenty minutes. Kenji finally got tired of waiting and pressed the call button on the bed.
A nurse hurried in and Bokuto looked up. "Can I get that ultrasound?"
"Of course, we shouldn't be too much longer."
Bokuto clung to his pillow again. It was unbearable to just lay here and suffer. "O-okay."
"We've been waiting thirty minutes, he's in way too much pain to just stay here." Kiri stepped forward. "Please hurry up."
That was one thing Bokuto hated about his sisters, they were impatient. He could live with this pain for another hour if needed plus there were likely other patients that needed help.
But as usual result from bickering, the ultrasound machine was brought into his room. Akaashi saw the nervous look on Bokuto's face as he was asked to remove his pants and stepped forward. "Do you mind if I'm close to him? He doesn't enjoy being touched."
Bokuto's sisters sent Akaashi looks of near disapproval. Who was he to be talking like that and not even know their brother? He surely didn't know how it felt for Bokuto.
Bokuto ignored them and pulled his pants down as much as needed, gripping Akaashi's hand tightly. Kuroo looked away to give him privacy, worried that he might make him uncomfortable.
Bokuto looked away as the ultrasound gel was put on his lower stomach. This reminded him of too much and it felt too bad to look. Akaashi had touched him there but it felt safe. This felt so wrong in so many ways he couldn't explain.
"Kotarou. Take a deep breath. It's just like when I do it, nothing is going to hurt you."
Bokuto nodded. "I just don't like this."
Akaashi hummed softly.
The nurse looked over. "Tel me if anything hurts, okay?"
"Okay." Bokuto looked to the little screen of black and white and stared as his stomach was messed with. The picture didn't make any sense at all but it was still pretty interesting.
Bokuto flinched as the technician pressed a little too hard in an area towards his lower stomach. "That hurt."
The technician eased up on pressing. He looked towards the screen again, brows furrowed. "Excuse me, but were you born intersex?"
"No. I was born as a female." Bokuto took a deep breath as he pressed again. "That hurt."
"That would make sense for what you're experiencing."
"What?"
The technician pointed to a circle on the screen. "This around this are aversion cysts."
Bokuto relaxed. That was pretty normal. Ovarian cysts happened in most people with ovaries during their cycles. "That's all?"
"From what I can see there's a large one that ruptured that's causing pain. Ruptured cysts are pretty common though so it shouldn't be bad."
"Can I at least have something to help the pain?"
"We can see if we have Midol."
"I can't take Midol."
"Why?"
"It messes with my testosterone shots for some reason."
"We have Tylenol and Ibuprofen."
Bokuto shook his head. "Those don't usually do anything. Anything stronger?"
The technician gave him a disapproving look. "The pain won't be too bad in thirty minutes so you shouldn't need morphine or anything similar."
Akaashi realized what he meant and felt his heart drop. He thought Bokuto was trying to get morphine to get high. Bokuto of all people.
"He's never gone through a ruptured cyst before and is in a lot of pain. Could you please just get him a low dose of morphine to help him? He's already been in pain all week and it would be nice to have a break from that."
Bokuto felt himself start to cramp and gasped. Akaashi looked down at him worriedly.
"Is everything okay?"
"Hurts." Bokuto tried not to squirm, eyes shut tight. "It hurts!"
Akaashi looked to the technician. "Please?"
"Fine." He gave Bokuto a washcloth. "Wipe the fell off of your stomach. A nurse will come in with the medicine."
Bokuto nodded. "Can you ask for pads for me please? I think I'm going to overflow soon."
"Mhmm."
When the technician left Kuroo turned to Bokuto as he wiped off his stomach. "I don't think he likes you."
"Most doctors don't. Hence why my personal doctor specializes in trans patients." Bokuto took a deep breath. He set the washcloth down and worked on sitting up. As he bent more and more pain started up. Then he felt almost as if he would puke, laying back down immediately. His stomach felt like it was being absolutely torn apart inside again. "Get a nurse!"
Kuroo went into the hallway and he got another ultrasound. Another cyst had ruptured and the pain was steadily increasing again. They got him hooked up to Morphine and gave him water, worried. The whole time, Bokuto could not relax at all as his favorite people watched him suffer through being mistreated and having his body hurt him over and over again.