CHAPTER 7. THE NIGHTMARES END.

Chance slowly regained consciousness and squinted as the light hit his eyes, he was in his bed striped down to only his boxers with a single sheet covering him. He felt something ice cold and damp on his forehead, he reached up and found it was a washcloth.

Chance sat up and glanced around the room and spotted Kairi's human form leaning forward in a chair with her head and arms resting on his bed, sleeping soundly. He saw Jake leaning against his doorframe smiling.

"She's been up all night caring for you." Jake whispered. "I'll leave you two to talk."

With that, the chocolate tom closed the door and went back to the garage. Chance tapped the young girl's shoulder and she slowly woke up.

"Hey you're awake." Kairi said.

"How long was I out?" Chance asked.

"All night and all morning. You were sick with a really bad fever, you were so stressed out and nerve rattled that your immune system must have dropped its guard. The fever was so high that I was here all night trying to bring it down, and I'm glad to see it paid off. How you feeling now?"

"I'm feeling a little better. What happened to all that poison anyhow?"

"The Vacu-Ball I've been working on, it's designed to suck in and contain any poisonous fumes in its leak proof container core. Lucky for you the poison didn't kill you because you didn't inhale large amounts of it."

"And I suppose Feral showed up and gave you crap?"

"Yeah, but I told him off. He can go fuck himself because I don't give two shits about what he thinks of you and neither does anyone else in Megakat City."

Chance chuckled at that comment; it was defiantly 100 percent true.

"But there's one thing about you and Jake that only I know and it's not just your identities." Kairi said. "You two are devoted heroes who are hardcore and serious on the outside, but are kindhearted and caring on the inside, and Commander shit for brains is too idiotic to even think of seeing that."

They both laughed at the last fact. Kairi got up and walked over to the door.

"You take the day off and sleep, you need your rest. I'll help Jake with the cars."

Chance nodded in acceptance. A crash was heard in the garage followed by Jake dropping the F bomb. Kairi turned her face to the burly tabby and smiled and shut the door behind her.

"Jake! If you've broken that jack, I'll give you the worst concussion of your life!" He heard her yell.

Chance sighed positively and fell into a deep slumber. He completely forgot about the whole Pastmaster thing and the nightmares stopped after that. Chance now realized that he couldn't protect Kairi from anything that would happen unexpectedly, but he knew that she'd never let herself get beaten and would never get put out of the game without a fight.

The end…for now.