1-Answers

The slow beeping of the heart machine was the only noise in the room. No one spoke a word, only kept thier eyes fixed on the girl in the hospital bed.

Courtney was still unconcious. It had been a full week and no improvment on her condition. The nurses had her hooked up to life machine. It was the only thing keep her breathing through the nights.

"Maybe we should just let her go..." Leah suggested, resting her head on her uncles shoulder. Nigel and Duncan had stayed with Courtney for the full week, only moving to use the bathroom facilitys.

"I'd rather not." Duncan whispered in reply, seeing Nigel upset enough as it was. Leah wasn't good at subtleness. She wasn't afraid to hurt others feelings, and never thought before she opened her mouth.

"She been out for a week." Taylor said, wrapping her arms around Duncan's waist. She rarely showed any affection towards her couisn, but this was a special case. Duncan and Nigel needed all the support they could get from family and friends.

"Shouldn't make a difference, should it?" Nigel whispered.

"Uncle Nigel, we just want what's best for Courtney." Leah said, sliding her hand into her uncle's. She wanted Courtney alive as much as the next person, but there was very little chance for survival. She was supposed to be dead, but no one had told the hospital that.

"You can't hold onto her forever." Trent mumbled, not meaning it in a bad way, but hoping that Duncan would understand. He hated seeing everyone so upset, so depressed. But he doubted it would get any better if Courtney was gone, either.

"We do not want to hold on forever, just until it's her time to go." Arianna spoke up for the first time in days. "But it is not now." She had also stayed by Courtney's side for most of the week, but the Princess was on a tight schedule. She had long changed back to her Princessy ways, with puffy dresses and her tiara on her head. When she had first been at the hospital, no one had recognizd her all dressed up. She looked completely different.

"When it's your time to go, it's your time to go." Trent told Arianna.

"And, like I said, it is not now." Arianna's eyes were slightly misty through the pushed back tears. She hadn;t known Courtney for very long, and, in the little time they had been together, they had fought a lot. All Arianna wanted was a chance to get to know her cousin a bit better. Her cousin, her only remaining blood relative...If Courtney died, Arianna would truely be orphaned.

"Where am I?" A tiny voice asked. Everyone's eyes moved to Courtney, she was still lying down, but was staring up at the bleached white ceiling. Duncan was the first to pull his girlfriend into a hug. Nigel was next, not even waiting for Duncan to move. Courtney was instantly squished between the two people who cared for her the most in the world.

"Where am I?" Courtney repeated, letting Duncan pull her up in bed, so she was sitting up right. Everyone had a big grin on thier faces, no one, and I mean no one, had expected her to survive.

"You're on the vampire ward at St. Maria's hospital." Duncan told her, trying to blink away the tears he had held back for so long.

"Why can't you let me die in peace?" Courtney asked, folding her arms across her chest. Of course she was joking, who would want to die?

"You're not dying anymore." Nigel told her, stroking her hand with his. Courtney looked at him as if he was an escaped mental patient.

"Didn't the rules say that if we win, I die?...Didn't we win?" Courtney asked, looking around everyone's faces. She knew she hadn't dreamt the whole thing up and was in hospital because she took a serious injury, right?

"Yes, we won." Taylor smiled at Courtney.

"You've broken this many rules, I don't think it matters if you break one more." Nigel told his daughter, kissing her head.

"What rules have I broken?" Courtney asked, starting to get even more confused than before.

"Hello, Miss Black." A nurse appeared at her beside, clipboard in hand. She had dark brown eyes and light brown hair. The nurse was wearing a white dress, with a red cross on the chest, and a white headband, with the same symbol in the middle. It was a standard nurse outfit to wear in the hospital. "I'm nurse Kelly,how are you feeling today?" She asked in her cheery voice.

"A little dizzy." Courtney replied. Nurse Kelly smile down at her clipboard as she flipped through the documents, presumably Courtney's notes.

"Yes, you may feel dizziness and, or sickness for a few hours." The kind nurse told her. Courtney nodded her head, but it didn't help the dizziness at all.

"What happened to me?" Courtney asked, wondering if anyone had told anyone else the truth about her.

"You collapsed due to low blood levels. We did almost lose you." Nurse Kelly did sound a little fightened, almost as if she knew Courtney well enough to not want her to die. "Luckily, you're friends brought you here straight away, otherwise we probably would have lost you." Courtney tried her best not to smile, smirk, giggle or laugh.

"Okay..." She mumbled, trying to show that she was thinking things over in her, spinning around in circles, head.

"Okay." Nurse Kelly repeated. "If you have any questions, please, let me know." The young nurse walked away with her clipbopard, leaving Courtney completely baffled about what was going on.

"Question number one." Courtney smiled. "Why am I on the vampire ward?" That had only just struck her. She wasn't a vampire, but Duncan had told her she was on the vapire ward.

"Because they don't have a living dead ward." Trent shurgged. Courtney couldn't tell if he was joking or being serious, so she just let it slide.

"Question two, what really happened?" Her mind was all hazy. Courtney was having trouble remembering what had gone on, on the battle field with the Trackers. That was why she didn't even know if they had won or not. That was why she needed the details from the people who were sitting at her, momentarily ago, death bed.

"We were all happy we won, next thing we know, you're on the floor." Leah said bluntly. She really wasn't good at expressing her emotions. "Luckily Kaly and Arianna saved you."

"Question three, going comepletely off the subject, what's an adapted power?"

"It's a power that someone has developed over time." Nigel told his daughter. "It's more common with humans who are around people with powers a lot. But, a person with powers can also develop a power if they are around a person who has that power for a very long time, why do you ask?"

"Just because I was unconious, it doesn't mean I couldn;t hear a word any of you were saying." Courtney replied, moving her eyes to Leah and narrowing them down sharply. Leah just smiled smugly at her cousin. "That would include Arianna arguing with you all."

"I like arguing." Arianna said, staring off into the distance, as if she wasn't in her body at all.

"My turn to ask a question." Duncan said.

"Go ahead." Courtney told him, wriggeling around in the bed, trying to get comfortable again.

"Princess A," Arianna snapped back to reality with the calling of her name, "before, when Courtney collapsed, what happened to you eyes?" Arianna then cast her eyes down at the floor. She had been hoping no one had noticed her eyes change in color, but, obviously, Duncan had.

"W-What do you mean?" Arianna whispered in reply. Nigel wrapped an arm around his niece's waist, making sure she was okay.

"Your eyes, they turned red." Duncan told her, not comforting her at all.

"The only time I've ever seen anything like that is with a vampire." Leah said, leaning forward and looking across Nigel's lap at Arianna.

"I can assure you, I am one hundred percent human." Arianna rold Leah, leaning forward and looking back at her. Nigel pushed both of his nieces back, not wanting a full out cat fight by Courtney's hospital bed. "Beacuse of my adapted power, my body finds it difficult to cope." The Princess sighed. "My emotions show through my eyes...When they are red, I am angry. When they are blue, I am upset. When they are black...It could meam anything. And, apparently, if they are pink, I am in love...But I have not come across that one yet."

"Seems reasonable to me." Courtney yawned. She had finally decided on the comfiest position; lying down. She shut her eyes and tried to drift off to sleep, she was completely knackered after a long day of, well, sleep.

A/N: You didn't honestly think that I'd kill my favorite character twice, did you? ;) LOL! That, however, does not mean I won't kill off a lesser favorite character ;)

I do hope you all liked this chapter :)

I tried my best on it to kick off season four...This one won't be like the rest...I think? LOL! I have no idea what I'm doing, do I?...LOL!

Thank you to those who revoewed on the final chappie :) That made my day :) Only...we were 4 short of 200...FOUR SHORT! How could you people do that to me? LOL! JK! I love you guys, really ;)

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Okay...I need to ask you guys a serious question. No joking for a moent, this is serious to me. Please, answer truthfully. Please.

Do you think I could become an author?

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