Chapter 171 - Makai – What Happens Next

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Makai

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When I walked back into the room, I saw that Ocean had been stripped down to his speedo. I had nearly forgotten that he had been unable to get into his locker earlier and therefore had to put the clothes that he borrowed over it. Well, the doctors just cut those clothes off of him, so I don't think he will be able to return them to the rightful owners. Oh well, the important thing now was that Ocean was giving the entire hospital room a view of his impressive package as it was perfectly displayed in the speedo.

Other than having Ocean there on the bed, practically naked, I could tell that the doctor, Malachi, was checking the severity of the damage that Justin had done to my boyfriend's body. I looked on as well, feeling the anger well up inside me.

"I want everyone except for the boyfriend out of the room, now." Dr. Malachi growled out his orders in that firm voice of his. I heard the nurses scoff at his command, but they left without saying anything.

After a few moments, it was just me, Ocean and Dr. Malachi in the room. I was wondering what was going on, but I didn't really pay much attention. I was focused on the dark purple bruising that was covering Ocean's chest and stomach and I knew that was probably where Justin had hit him with a desk.

"Do you see what I see, Makai?" The doctor spoke directly to me, and I barely understood what he had said.

"Huh?" I shook my head, tore my eyes from the bruises and looked at the doctor with a little bit of embarrassment on my face.

"Do you see what I see? Can you tell what happened to your mate?" So, mom told him that we were mated. Well, I guess if he was like us, then he knew what that meant for us.

"You mean the injuries? Yeah, I can see them. I can see that he was hit in the chest with one of the desks, I only know that because they had been thrown across the room. I see bruises on Ocean's arms that show that Justin had held him down by pushing all of his body weight onto him. That had probably been after Ocean had already received the other injuries. I haven't seen the back of his head, but I have seen the blood and I know that he hit that pretty hard."

"Good, so you have a good grasp on what is going on with him. Now, do you notice that, while, yes, he might heal quicker than a human, it's significantly slower than other shifters?"

I looked at Ocean then and thought about what Dr. Malachi was saying. He was right. If that had been me, I probably would never have ended up in the hospital in the first place. I would have just healed it by now. Ocean, on the other hand,  was having trouble.

"D..do you think this is because he is a male Siren? Do you think that this has something to do with what he is and why he is that way?" My heart was racing. I didn't think that Ocean was going to be in this much trouble. I thought that now that he was an adult, now that he had come into his full power, he would have no trouble healing and that he would be just fine.

"I guess that is something that I am going to have to research about him now, isn't it?"

Wait a minute! He was talking about turning my boyfriend into his research project. That wasn't right. Was it? I mean, what would Ocean have to say about that? And, well, I think it would be better if we did know what it was that was different about him, but what if Ocean didn't want to be studied by this man.

"I..I think that we need you to have Ocean's permission before you can start to do any research on him. What if he doesn't want it?" Dr. Malachi smirked at me and my words. Did he plan on doing it anyway? That would just piss me off.

"You love him, don't you? I can tell. That's good. You two need each other. Now, I need to document all of Ocean's injuries because I am sure that the person responsible is going to be held accountable. To do that, we need to detail them and photograph them. Also, just in case Ocean were to start to recover quicker than he is now, I didn't want the others to see it. That is one of the reasons I sent them away."

"Only one of the reasons?" I tilted my head and looked at Dr. Malachi. "What are the others?

"I wanted to be able to talk to you freely. I can't ask you about Ocean if the others are in here." I saw the ghost of a smile on his lips. It was such a faint smile that I wondered for a moment if the man even knew how to actually smile.

"What do you want to know?" I was weary of this man, even though he was helping my Ocean.

"I need to know about his previous head injuries. The chart from the paramedic says he has had other head injuries. I know about the one from September, I was actually the one to help to make sure that there were no information leaks with that. Thankfully, no one looked too closely at his blood, they just checked the basics and that allowed him to go unnoticed. But what other injuries has he received since then?" This man was truly trying to keep our secret for us. He was a good man, at least I hoped that he was.

"Just one other injury. It happened three days ago, on Friday. Justin, the same person that attacked him today, slammed him against a locker twice. The second time was hard enough to draw blood, but it wasn't much. We didn't think that he needed to see someone over it." I hung my head in shame. What if it was a lot worse than either me or Ocean had thought that it was? What if we had made things worse by not getting it checked out?

"No, that doesn't really sound like something that needed to be checked out by someone, not like this one. I'm guessing that when Ocean hit his head today, he hit it a lot harder than the other day. Actually, from what I could see, it looked like he hit his head on the corner of something hard."

"The teacher's desk. Justin tackled Ocean into a classroom, and they fell into the desk. Ocean hit it head first." I did my best to explain to him what had happened as it repeated in my head.

"Yeah, that would explain it." I watched as Dr. Malachi took photographs of Ocean's chest, face, and the back of his head, all the while thinking about something.

After a little while, he finally looked at me before speaking.

"Look, Makai, I am going to level with you. It's dangerous for Ocean to be in here. If things were to be discovered about him, it would be hard to keep our world a secret for very much longer. So, because of that, there are some things that we need to discuss." I know that Dr. Malachi was right. I knew that what he was saying made sense, but I didn't know what to do about it.

"OK." That was all that I could think to say about it all.

"We need to do the basics here, make sure that Ocean is out of the woods and well enough to leave the hospital. Then, he needs to go back to your place where I will continue his care there. We all need to work together to make sure that this all stays hidden from the humans."

"Got it." I nodded in agreement. He was right. That was a good plan. Ocean could recover at home much easier than in the hospital anyway, as long as someone was making sure that he was doing OK.

"We will work out the logistics of it all later, but as long as you all agree to that, then I think that we are good to go. I will keep a close eye on all of his test results while he is here, so just relax, also you should insist on following along with him wherever he goes." I nodded again, not even bothering to say anything this time.

Now that it was all settled, Dr. Malachi started getting back to work. Apparently, the next step in all of this was doing a scan on Ocean's head and some x-rays of his chest and the spot on his upper arm that looked like he had been hit by one of the desks as well. It was all going to take a little while, but I was allowed to go with him as he went to the various parts of the hospital. I couldn't be in the room when they were doing the scans or the x-rays, but Dr. Malachi went with him.

"Hey Dr. M, why are you paying so much attention to this one patient?" The man running the CT asked him as he went to go inside.

"Let's just say that this boy is connected to some deep pockets." He grinned at the man and winked at me, clearly telling me that he was placating the man as best as he could.

"Must be some pretty deep ones to tie you up all day." The man just shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything else.

Well, Dr. Malachi wasn't wrong. Ocean was connected to a wealthy family. My family had been amassing its fortune for generations so there was a lot of money floating around. Still, I hoped he wasn't really doing this for the money.

When the tests were all done, Ocean and I were taken to a private room. Obviously, Ocean was being admitted for the time being, and he was being given VIP treatment.

Waiting in the room when we got there were Ocean's parents. They had obviously rushed over but Ocean had already been taken up for testing.

"Makai!?" Mrs. Shores ran over to me and wrapped her arms around me the moment that we were in the room. "What happened? No one will explain it all to me properly. All I got was your brief explanation. And how is my baby doing now?" At that moment, Dr. Malachi came in.

"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Shores, I am Dr. Malachi, I am taking care of Ocean right now." I noticed the hesitation on Mrs. Shore's face, she was nervous about the secret.

"He's one of us." I told her with a smile so that she could relax.

"Oh, thank goodness." She sighed. "Phineas and I aren't, we are human, but we know the necessity of the secret."

After the introductions were all done and over with, it was time to get on with the explanations. Mostly, it was time for the doc to tell us what was wrong with Ocean.

"Well, he has a concussion, and there is a slight amount of fluid build up around his brain. I want to have that removed as soon as possible which is why I am glad you are here. Ocean needs a lot of special care right now, but we need to do this in a way that won't amass much suspicion. Now, while he was having his scans done, I took the liberty of having his blood typed, and just as I suspected, he can't take donor blood form the hospital, that means that he will need to have someone else provide it for him."

"I will." I immediately offered. "If I am able to, then I will share my blood with him." The doctor smiled like he knew that was going to happen.

"I will test you, Makai, so that we can see if you match him or not. If so, then you need to donate enough for Ocean to have the surgery and you can't leave his side at all, in case we need to do something else as well."

"I don't care." I spoke firmly. "I am going to marry him this summer, I will do anything I can for him." A gasp behind me reminded me of the fact that we hadn't yet told his parents, or mine for that matter."

"Oh my goodness, Makai!" That started a whole new conversation that I knew was going to last a long time.

"I will be right back Makai, so that I can type your blood."

I spent the next five minutes explaining to Ocean's parents how we had agreed to get married over the summer after what happened on Christmas. Following that, I was found to be a match for Ocean, thankfully, there were fewer blood types for us sea creatures and we tended to match each other pretty easily.. Now, we could prepare for the surgery and get Ocean on the track to recovery.