Pain with every step (Ty again XD)

[Tyler Ryonas]

Ty sped up as he saw Cass seemed to be getting worse. "Hang on, everything's going to be fine," he reassured her as the car barreled down the empty streets and pulled into the hospital parking lot.

Ty parked and helped Cass inside and up to the desk in the Emergency room. He didn't know who'd done this to his mom, but Ty was feeling a very intense hatred to whoever these guys were...

[Cass Old Account]

Soon Cass and Ty were at the hospital and at the front desk. In ten minutes, they were with a doctor, and he had her standing, arms outstretched. He felt her back and she winced every single time. She fought the urge to hit him.

Finally the doctor hit a sore spot. "Would you QUIT poking me?!" She was surprised at herself. She never yelled...and here she was yelling. "Okay, I'm done." He looked at the chart. "Just what I feared..."

[Tyler Ryonas]

Ty sat in the room with Cass and the doctor, watching anxiously. They had actually requested, no, insisted that he sit in the waiting room, but he would have none of that. He was worried, and NO ONE was going to keep him from being with his mom when she needed him.

He jumped when Cass started yelling. She NEVER yells...man this is bad... His face dropped, proving his theory when the doctor said "Just what I feared..."

Ty stood up. "What is it? What's wrong with her?" He demanded. "Come on, just get to it already!"

[Cass Old Account]

The doctor seemed to ignore Ty as he called for an X-ray and began to leave the room. Cass, of course, would have none of that, pain or not. She grabbed his arm, falling off the examination table but landing on her feet. "Ow.." she muttered. "What in fresh hell is it?! You're beginning to piss me off..." No one ignored her son and got away with it.

The doctor looked at her and said sternly, "First we need to find out if you need surgery or not." Then he actually did leave. "S-S-S-Surgery?!" She grabbed for something to balance herself when she tried to get back to the table.

[Tyler Ryonas]

Ty started to do something, but Cass beat him to it. That doctor was really starting to get at him, though. "Surgery?" he repeated as the doctor left.

Then, he ran over and steadied Cass, helping her back to the examination table. For a second, he glared at the door. He had a few choice words for that doctor, but wasn't sure if he should use such a vocabulary with his mom present.

[Cass Old Account]

Ty helped Cass get back to the examination table and she smiled a weak smile. "I'm sorry." She really wanted the doctor to hurry with the x-rays and be done with it now, but she knew that she had to go to the x-ray room or whatever.

The doctor came back and said, "The x-ray is ready for you, Ms. Ryonas. If you'd come with me..." he turned to Ty. "I'm sorry, but this one you have to wait out here for. It shouldn't be long." He turned back to Cass. "You ready?" He helped her on her feet.

[Tyler Ryonas]

"It's okay," he whispered, smiling back. "Man, why are doctors such jackasses?" he muttered, then hoped Cass didn't hear him. He kissed her cheek. "It's gonna be fine."

Ty scowled when the doctor came in. "Fine," he grumbled, leaving. "You better pray nothing goes wrong, you sorry bastard. Because if anything happens to her in there, I'll show you an interesting new use for that stethoscope," he hissed before slowly yet angrily making his way to the waiting room and sitting down.

[Cass Old Account]

Cass watched as Ty left the room and sighed. She really didn't want to be alone. Oh well...She followed the doctor to the back where they went into the next room. She expected to see x-rays and other machines. She was far from it.

Cass opened her mouth to speak and turned to the doctor. The doctor hit her back with his knee, and she fell, but not before she could scream both in fear and in pain. Tears fell freely now. She almost couldn't breath. Then the doctor picked her up by the throat and threw her against the wall, choking her. "Get Nrasa 425 in her ear, now!" Already Cass felt like she was passing out but her mind had a mind of it's own...it focused on the snow leopard...

[Tyler Ryonas]

Ty was sitting in the waiting room, reading a magazine, anxious. It was then when he heard his Mom scream. His ears could pick up that scream even if everyone in the room had been screaming. He thew down the magazine, and ran down the hall.

Doctors tried to stop him, but to no avail. And they didn't mess with him because he was halfway morphed into the white Siberian tiger. He barged into the room and saw his Mom up against the wall, doctor's hand at her throat as his morph finished.

<What did I tell you?> He asked the doc, letting out a roar, then he noticed something. His mom was morphing. He didn't say anything at the moment. He was focused on tearing into some doctors and protecting his mom.

[Cass Old Account]

Cass felt herself being dropped on the ground and one last surge of pain on her back. She went to yell out, but it came in a cat roar instead. <What the-?!> She looked at herself and then at Ty. <Tyler?!> Of course a doctor chose then to try and get anesthetics into her.

Cass gnawed a the doctor's arm before she pulled away. Suddenly it seemed as the doctor and some of the coworkers decided to run away and she watched them leave...Turning to Ty, she asked, <How did you get the morphing power?> She was focused on asking that question that she didn't notice until too late that a doctor had come up behind her and used the anesthetic needle on her neck.

[Tyler Ryonas]

<Well, it all started-> he was cut short when he felt a sharp pain in his back. Some doctor got the bright idea to stab him with a scalpel. He roared in pain before taking down the guy and tossing him across the room.

<MOM!> Ty yelled when the doc stuck the needle in the leopard's neck. He felt a cold, bitter hatred, similar to that when he'd heard about his dad. Then he pounced on the doctor before pulling the needle out with his teeth. <Mom...demorph...you have to now...You'll be okay.> After tossing the other doctors out into the hall, he lay in the doorway to protect his Mom while she demorphed.

[Cass Old Account]

Cass felt woozy as her snow leopard body slumped onto the ground. <Demorph...yeah...I'll do...that...> She sounded out of focus. She forced herself to concentrate.

A couple minutes later, Cass was human again. She took a couple of deep breaths and then said, "Tyler? I want to get out of here..." the tone in her voice was barely recognizable...it was fear....She shouldn't be sounding afraid in front of her son. She shook her thoughts and started remorphing.

[Tyler Ryonas]

Ty demorphed and remorphed after he remembered he'd been stabbed. <Yeah, let's.> He said once fully morphed again. The tiger's confidence and inner strength was powerful, but Ty still felt uneasy.

In his mom's voice....fear? She never showed fear. Ty got lost in the fearlessness of the tiger. <Sure thing. Let's get outta here. I'm right beside you.> With that, they started out the door.

[Cass Old Account]

Cass ran beside Ty all the way out to the car and they were then sure that no one followed them. <That is one hospital visit I never want to remember again...> she said, though she meant to think it, not say it out loud.

She demorphed and kept staring at the hospital. "They...tried to infest me or kill me or...or..." She was really shaken at what happened, but she quickly shook herself out of it. "You ready, honey?"

[Tyler Ryonas]

<I'll say,> Ty responded, demorphing. He was shaking a little, knowing that he could have very easily lost his Mom today. If he hadn't had the ability to morph....Ty shook his head, not wanting to think about that.

"Definitely," Ty responded, climbing into the driver's seat and starting the car. "So...you can morph?" he asked casually.