HEY HEY HEY!!! Ms. Vicky has finally returned this next chapter for your veiwing pleasure. Ok along with much love to my lovely Vicky, cuz she is just so awesome!, 2 reviewers to call out for their awesomeness this time.

IrishShamrock86.....I think you will LOVE the imaginative result your ONE review from so long ago had. I hope you ENJOY!!

and Freaya I loved a comment you left in your review as well so I used it here.....anyone wanna scavenger hunt for it? Only i wont have a prize for you if you find it (plus i marked it so i could give credit where much credit is due so there really is no point lol)

Those who geussed correctly as to WHO hit Raph: JMS529 Michelle W.

Sadly, until you read this, no one except me and beta no WHERE Raph was beaten so read on people!

Ok so no on with the story, depending on how the next one flows and comes to be, the next chapter may be the last...we are almost done here people!!

Disclaimer: yata, yata, yata, not mine, blah, blah, blah....

The adreneline that got Mary off the bed was now winding down and as she looked up toward Marshall, she knew she had to put herself to the side for just a minute. She was beginning to hurt like hell but she had to ignore it or she would soon have to visit a jail cell to see Marshall anytime soon.

Using the last of her energy, she pushed herself up further and over towards her VERY pissed off partner.

"Marshall", she said, trying to get his attention. The problem was - he didn't seem to hear her.

Marshall Mann was beyond livid.

"How dare he give Mary such an ultimatum.", he thought.

To hell with decorum, to hell with the law. He was going to kill this asshole. As he went in for more, however, he felt a hand take his arm in a vice grip. He looked over to find the owner of the offending appendage and breath caught in his throat. His anger died.

Mary

"Marshall, enough." Mary whispered, for that was all her body would allow. As her pain grew - so did her grip on her partner's arm. She needed to lay down - now.

Marshall looked at his partner, and saw how much pain she was in. He immediately changed course.

"When the hell did she get out of bed? How?" he wondered.

"Mare!" he panicked, as she started to fall. "What the hell! Why are you out of bed?" he demanded to know.

She waited until he, very gently, helped her back into the bed to answer him.

"No sense in going back to work if I don't have a partner." She explained softly, all the while looking anywhere but him. "Aside from him derserving a shot from me, you kill him, you go to jail, and then I am just screwed.", she finished.

A little slow on the uptake at the moment, Marshall hadn't quite followed his partner line of thought that well this time.

"Mary you'd get another partner." he said, without really thinking.

Mary looked at him for a second, not really sure what to make of his comment.

"Does he know what he just said to me?!" she thought, more than just a little hurt.

But then she saw that he was barely able to pay attention right now. He was so concerned about her and her injuries since she had gotten out of bed, that it occured to her that he hadn't heard her underlining meaning in her words this time. She figured he might need a little help to center his mind for the moment.

She gently grabbed his chin and turned his face so as to meet his eyes. She took notice, as his attention came back into place, just how beautiful his eyes really were, such an amazing, vibrant blue. It stunned her. She had never taken notice before and now to see all that worry and concern, and... "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph".....the love in his bright blue eyes.

Marshall loved her!

"What the hell has been cooking his brain lately?" she mentally questioned. What the hell could Marshall find in her to love?

But she was off track, and now she had her partners attention it seemed.

"No sense for me, in going back without my partner Marshall." she specified quietly. Now she really had his attention and she knew it.

Mary had his undivided attention alright. She was looking him sqaure in the eyes, and he figured out exactly what she meant by her original statement. "No sense in going back without you." That thought only furthered to calm him, but at the same time awakened his sense of guilt. She got up, when she was supposed to be resting, went after her fiance, and stayed up, all in order to stop him from losing his temper. Because she was afraid of losing him. Though he was guilty for being partly the cause of her pain, his heart warmed of the thought of him meaning so much to her......for all of about 5 seconds before his mind backtracked over what she said and what he just thought.

WAIT!....YOU hit Raph too?" he blurted out stupidly. It had nothing to do with the very intimate confession she had unthinkingly just made to him but still....it had to be addressed.

His slow, and slightly backwards thought process made Mary chuckle. Instead of answering him though, she mearly pointed down at her rediculous choice in a boyfriend who was still trying to ward off his pain enough to stand.

Marshall looked at the patheitc excuse for a man and noticed something he had not in his angry tirade that on any other day, even Mary would have been proud of. The side of Rapael face was already starting to bruise. Marshall had hit a real nerve apparantly because said contusion was spread over nearly the entirety of the left side of his face. However, he also noticed that position the man held himself in. He was lying on the floor on his right side in what could amount to the "fetal position". As he wondered what would make the asshole curl in on himself like that, he notice out of the corner of his eye, the smirk on his parnter's face that quickly reminded him of the "that cat that caught the canary.". Knowing Mary as he did, he easily deciphered the cause of her fiance's agony.

Mary noticed with a sick satisfaction, the all out grin that lit up her partner's face, and she knew that he had figured out what she had done and therefor why she had gotten out of bed.

He looked over at her, with what attempted to be a scolding look, but she caught the laughter in his stunning blue eyes.

"Mary," he started to scold, trying hard to keep a straight face. "That wasn't very nice, you know he may never have children now." he informed her.

"Thank God for that!" she exlaimed. She easily caught on to their banter that he was ensuing and she was thrilled about it.

Marshall saw the laughter in her beautiful green eyes, and knew that she was feeling better. They were laughing again and both were taking part in the banter they had perfected a long time ago. He knew then that, no matter how anyone tried to change her, he was right all along. No one could change Mary Shannon except herself and only if that was what she truly wanted. He couldn't wait to see her back in action again, but first she had to heal.

Unfortunately their peaceful moment was disturbed by the asshole that apprantly got a few too many baseballs to the head.*

He had managed to stand somehow and was facing the two of them, his gaze was one of utter distaste. He stupidly opted to speak...again.

"Mary, you see how he treats those that are a part of your life, you can't -" he started to rant, but Mary wasn't having it this time.

"Marshal" she stated simply.

"What" Both men let out, both completely lost. Raph had no clue what spurred her outbust and Marshall was confused while wondering what it was that she needed him to do.

"Marshall" she stated again. "You told me to choose, 'You or Marshall', that's my choice. Marshall."

And for once in their lives, two men who could not stand each other or the other's presence in Mary Shannon's life were left on equal ground.

Marshall Mann and Rapael Ramirez were equally....stunned.

*Credit for the line goes to Freaya, she left it in a review and this was just another line I COULD NOT get out of my head.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! I know it IS mean to just leave it like that, but it's just so......perfect! plus I can just imagine the looks on all your faces.....priceless. ok well that little button down their in the middle is waiting so go ahead and leave me review! PLEEEEEEEAASSSSEEE!!?!?!?!?!!