Darkness.....
The darkness seemed endless....
It filled the room....It filled his eyesight...or what he took for his sight....
It filled his consciousness....
Something tugged at his mind...visions.....faces he hadn't seen in years....
What had happened?
Something was definitely not right....
SHE was here...
He pushed the image away....it was too much to bear....
Yet another took it's place....and his mind began to sift through the mist encompassing his thoughts...
What had happened?
Suddenly...
What is that?...
A voice....distant...indistinguishable....yet noticable...
He tried to speak....
"Who's there?"
Did they even hear him? Did his lips move or did he merely think the words in his mind? And to whom was he speaking anyway?
"Dammit..."
There it was again...
In and out it faded....he distinguished a phrase..
"....gonna be ok?..." "He sustained several..."
It faded back out..
"Who the hell are they talking about??"
A flash of light...
An ambulance??
HIROSHI...
"Son of a..."
He had gone to the ring...it began to come back slowly...
Something had gone wrong....the arena.....the fans....
Everything....spinning....
Chad??
He thought he remembered Dupree...then....
Sharp pains bolted through his neck...something felt heavy on his head...a bandage perhaps....
And the voices came through once more...
"I'm gonna sit with him a while."
"Sir, visiting hours ended over an hour..."
"I'm staying..."
A pause...
"Ok, but just for a few moments..."
Something familiar about that voice...
Slowly his eyes opened...coming into focus...
COBB
WHAT IN THE HELL....
He tensed up involuntarily...then realized there was nothing he could do...
"Are you here to finish what Kin started??"
"How's the head?"
"What do you care?"
Cobb smiled...
"I don't know...call me a softy..."
His eyes narrowed, then slammed shut in response to the pain...
"You look like sh!t...the little bastard must've really done a number on you...."
"When I get my hands on that little son of a bi!ch....."
He never finished the sentence....unconsciousness took over...and he fell into a deep..dark...sleep.....
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The nurse had left moments before, but Randy Cobb heard her come back now..
"Is he in a lot of pain?"
"He may be, but this should help.."
She crossed to the other side and connected a new bag of fluid to his IV, then gave Cobb a look...
"Just a few more minutes and I'll be going", he said..
She left and he turned to face him one more time..
His brows furrowed....
What in the hell was he even doing here after all that had transpired?
The anger...did it matter anymore? The bitterness...was it even a question any longer?
Truth be told....they were the closest thing either of them had to family on this Earth.
Truth be told...
None of that other sh!t seemed to matter anymore...
They had been made weak by all of the in-fighting...he saw that now.
It was time to right a few wrongs...
The darkness seemed endless....
It filled the room....It filled his eyesight...or what he took for his sight....
It filled his consciousness....
Something tugged at his mind...visions.....faces he hadn't seen in years....
What had happened?
Something was definitely not right....
SHE was here...
He pushed the image away....it was too much to bear....
Yet another took it's place....and his mind began to sift through the mist encompassing his thoughts...
What had happened?
Suddenly...
What is that?...
A voice....distant...indistinguishable....yet noticable...
He tried to speak....
"Who's there?"
Did they even hear him? Did his lips move or did he merely think the words in his mind? And to whom was he speaking anyway?
"Dammit..."
There it was again...
In and out it faded....he distinguished a phrase..
"....gonna be ok?..." "He sustained several..."
It faded back out..
"Who the hell are they talking about??"
A flash of light...
An ambulance??
HIROSHI...
"Son of a..."
He had gone to the ring...it began to come back slowly...
Something had gone wrong....the arena.....the fans....
Everything....spinning....
Chad??
He thought he remembered Dupree...then....
Sharp pains bolted through his neck...something felt heavy on his head...a bandage perhaps....
And the voices came through once more...
"I'm gonna sit with him a while."
"Sir, visiting hours ended over an hour..."
"I'm staying..."
A pause...
"Ok, but just for a few moments..."
Something familiar about that voice...
Slowly his eyes opened...coming into focus...
COBB
WHAT IN THE HELL....
He tensed up involuntarily...then realized there was nothing he could do...
"Are you here to finish what Kin started??"
"How's the head?"
"What do you care?"
Cobb smiled...
"I don't know...call me a softy..."
His eyes narrowed, then slammed shut in response to the pain...
"You look like sh!t...the little bastard must've really done a number on you...."
"When I get my hands on that little son of a bi!ch....."
He never finished the sentence....unconsciousness took over...and he fell into a deep..dark...sleep.....
-----------
The nurse had left moments before, but Randy Cobb heard her come back now..
"Is he in a lot of pain?"
"He may be, but this should help.."
She crossed to the other side and connected a new bag of fluid to his IV, then gave Cobb a look...
"Just a few more minutes and I'll be going", he said..
She left and he turned to face him one more time..
His brows furrowed....
What in the hell was he even doing here after all that had transpired?
The anger...did it matter anymore? The bitterness...was it even a question any longer?
Truth be told....they were the closest thing either of them had to family on this Earth.
Truth be told...
None of that other sh!t seemed to matter anymore...
They had been made weak by all of the in-fighting...he saw that now.
It was time to right a few wrongs...