Seeing without Light: It was only Temporary
The afternoon sunlight entered the white-gray hospital room that burns through Leon's skin. The heat woke him up. He opens his eyes and the first sight he sees is the celieng fan working, he turns to his right and finds Kaya, quietly sitting next to him. She had the faintest smile from what he remembers.
She bats her eyes at him and reaches out for his hand. "Hey there."
"Kaya...what--what'w wrong with your eye?" he questions after the sight of an eye-patch over her right eye. It was a well made leather patch coloured black and sown down with gold coloured strings. She catches him staring at it so she went on and explains, "They finally took it out. Nasty old thing; giving me false hopes and what not."
He doesn't really gets what she meant by that because from what he can recall in the previous theraphies they've been to, the right eye was slowly progressing, giving back her sight. "Hehe, your stupid head has been asleep for 2 days now. You gave us all a scare. But I knew you wouldn't die."
Leon tries to chuckle, "Oh, really?"
"Yeah. Because you're a very stubborn bastard with demon's blood! You can't be killed easily, or maybe not at all even!" she stated.
They share this good laugh. Then Summer enters the room with the Leon's attending nurse. "Here she is, miss. I couldn't control her any longer! A really sweet but jumpy dog she is!" the short woman said as she let go of Summer's collar grip. The faithful pet settles her grip into Kaya's hand.
"It is getting rather late, and Summer needs to eat properly!" Kaya tells Leon which he takes as a shy before goodbyes.
If she still needed Summer, then she must still be struggling with blindness. "See you later, Leon...or not. Hehe, feel you around."
"Don't go running away, Miss Morales."
"Likewise, Mister Stormcast." and she walks out.
A few more days and the hospital approved of Leon's discharge, finding him competent to both enter back to his civilian life, as well as his duties to the public, but with a lot of precautions of course.
He checks out with his attending doctor, Doctor Queef. He gives Leon a pat on the back for surviving two major surgeries in sequence to the other. "You're very lucky to have survived that terrible accident without getting your brain severly damaged! And let's not forget your strong bonds of friendship!"
Leon squints his eyes and wrinkles his forehead at his claims, "What do you mean friendship?" he asks curiously.
"Well you'd just have to look into the mirror and find out."
As Leon arrives at his apartment, still pondering on the doctor's strange inclination. "Look into the mirror, huh?" he tells himself. He sighs and sighs and looks around his empty flat before finally deciding to check the mirror for himself.
The hot water was running as he catches most of it to wash off his dead white face. Staying at the hospital can certainly do things to you.
"What's in the mirror? Nothing's new. Nothing's--" he stops at shock at his discovery which he felt he should never have bothered to acquaint himself with. But he was bound to find out sooner or later, wasn't he? "Kaya! You idiot!"
He runs out, without forgetting to lock up and escapes his little uptown apartment to find the woman whom he just called out to be dowb right stupid. And because of close relations and months of spending time together, he knows where to find her on a Thursday evening, at the Golden Park with her dog.
Leon draws near as Summer tugged on Kaya's peach sweater thrice for identification. "Leon?" she calls out of the air. A steps later and he was standing in front of the neatly seated woman on the bench, behind the lampost and tree.
"Who gave you the right to just sign off your body parts like that?"
Kaya closes her fists tightly after placing them on her lap. He's found out at last. It would have been better if she did run away like she planned to and ultimately avoided this confrontation. "I did it because I wanted to. I don't have to check everything I do with you."
"You can't--the doctor said, if I continued using them, they'll eventually die out too like my other eye. But with you, they can regain everything and even be able until the day you run yourself out."
He starts crying with two eyes, one of his and one of Kaya's. There wasn't anything different from crying out two different eyes, but the feeling felt absolutely horrible. He felt like a thief. He bends down on his knees like a boy who's had his parents whom he truly loved, killed right in front of him.
"I never gave them to you so you could cry. I gave them so you can still look after me when I'm with you, to look for me when I'm gone, to see the world for me."
She lifts up his head and wipes away his tears with her small thumbs. "And I'm very okay with all this, because the last person I saw was you."
He kept on weeping, with blue and brown eyes.