"Hey, how'd the mission go?" Sei asked as Andre carried Jo into the trailer on his back.

"Shitty, I think Jo's gonna need stitches on her leg, it got cut when we jumped out the window when that damn RAPT squad showed up. Luckily Meg was outside watching or else we could have got caught" Andre wasn't the happiest in his debriefing.

"Andre, I'm fine, I could have walked back myself it you would have let me"

"No your not, look at your leg, your getting stitches and thats that." Andre snapped back, staring at her with his cold brown eyes.

Sei started in on him, "Your one to talk, your face is"

"Fine." He turned to her and gave her, still maintaining his cold demeanour. He got a gash above his left eyebrow as well.

'Somethings up. He's never this cold when they mess up a mission, or even when he has to save meg "pro bono".' Sei thought to herself

"I'm gonna be in my room if you wanna neg me about getting your employees cut up." Andre snapped as he threw his shirt on the floor and slammed his door.

"If he's gonna keep throwing his cloths around, can he at least make sure there not bloody?" Amy asked as Kyo went to go pick it up.

"Meg, can you go and try to get him stitched up, for some reason your the only one he'll let help him." Sei asked Meg as she got her medical kit out for Jo's leg.

"fine." Meg said disgruntled, she hated when he was like this.

She walked up to the door and opened it up to the smell of body spray and the sound of rock music, "Ok meat head, time for your stitches too!" She yelled at him, followed by the expected shoe flying past her head.

"Its pronounced Jarhead you idiot!" He scowlled back.

"Whatever!" She yelled as she slammed the door.

"Ya know, if i'm gonna stitch you up I need you to STOP DOING PULL UPS!" She yelled at him as he worked out his frustration.

"Fine!" He yelled back as he wrapped his knees from the bar and hung upside down.

She grabbed a chair and sat down so she could work on his wounds. "So whats your deal?"

His scowl fell to a frown. "Jo shouldn't have gotten hurt today." He let out quietly so the others wouldn't here him over the music.

"Hm, is that all" Meg tone became more of a compassionate one as she drenched a rag with alcohol and cleaned his forehead. "How do you figure?"

"I was the one that said we should go out the window, she wanted to go to the roof and jump over." Andre said off in deep thought of the moment.

He snapped back when she touched him with the rag. "Owe! Who taught you how to treat a wound?"

Meg chuckled "You did. And you know Jo, she'll be ok. She's tougher than you think."

"I know, but I just don't like seeing her hurt." he said, staring off to the side.

"Oh really?" She said with a condescending tone as she leaned over, looking into his eyes, "Is that so?"

"Hm." He closed his eyes. "Don't you have a job to be doing right now? Damn, are you my nurse or my councillor?"

"Ok, but just remember, I can make this feel alot more painful than it has to be if you don't tell me how you feel." She dangled the needle in front of his face.

"I feel like not talking, just make sure you get them straight this time." He snapped at her.

"Ok, but don't say a didn't warn you." The redhead smirked sadistically.

For about the next twenty minutes the 4 people in the kitchen had to listen to cranked up rock music, interrupted by the rhythmic yelps of pain coming from his room.

"Should we make sure he's ok?" Kyohei asked, looking at Sei as she patched up Jo.

"Yea, I thought you gave her a syringe full of morphine?" Jo asked. She had got it and couldn't feel a thing.

"He probably insulted her and she told him we're out." Sei responded, "Not like it would be the first time."

"Damnit Meg! Their crooked, AGAIN!" Andre yelled, looking at the mirror in his room/ the back of the hanger.

"Whatever, maybe if you didn't wiggle around so much they'd be straight." She smirked.

"Maybe if you gave me the morphine, I wouldn't feel it!" He was pissed about that.

"I told you we're out." She was proud of her decision. "So why won't you tell me that you like her."

"Why do you care? Its not like Jo likes me anyways, not after all the crap I put her through." Andre was digging in his mini fridge and pulled out a beer.

"Your wrong you know." The young girl said as she put her supplies back into their case and sat on his bed.

"Meg, don't even try, you suck at reading people, and if you try hooking us up, I'll have Kyo put sleeping pills in your food and I'll leave you in Shabuya."

"Shut up! I rock at reading people! Besides, Jo told me she felt funny around you." Andre took a sip of his beer.

"What a coincidence. I feel funny around you too. But love and wanting to choke someone are 2 totally different things." The smirk on Andre's face showed he was proud of his statement.

Meg just smiled. "She said that she feels warm inside when your around, and that you make her feel happy."

"Really?" Andre was shocked. He had thought about Jo like that before but he figured she had a one track mind, or that she just thought he was some guy that she worked with.

"Yea. So what are you gonna do?" Meg looked up at him.

"I don't know." He said, staring at his drink. Meg was obviously not impressed.

"Well then, I'll make the first move!" She wrapped her arm around his neck and pushed into his stitches with her finger. "Now get out there and apologize for making her jump! Suddle enough for you?"

"Your fucking crazy! let me go before you tear them out!" The 4 others heard as the door swung open.

"Now tell her before I rip 'em out!" She yelled at him as she grabbed onto a strand she purposely left on to use as a leash.

"Ow! Fuck you you psycho bitch!" He screamed as her in pain.

"That didn't sound like what I wanted to here!" She yelled back as the evil redhead tugged at the string.

"Ok, ok! Just let me go!" He was pleading, Meg knew how to hurt people, that much was fact.

"Then say it!" She yelled, wrapping the strand around her finger.

"OK! JUST DON"T DO IT!" Meg pushed his head straight at Jo.

"Jo," Andre began, "I'm sorry I made you jump, It was a stupid thing to do, if we would have listened to your idea, I wouldn't have a crazy teenager pulling me around by my forehead" Meg slapped him "Ow! And we both would be ok. But next time, be more careful, let me bust out the window, I don't care if I get stitches, but I don't like seeing you hurt."

Jo began to blush as everyone in the room was watching the show. "OK, sure." Jo responded, trying not to show that she liked him.

"Ok, thanks," Andre smiled, then looked up at Meg "you can let me go now."

As Meg let him go, Andre noticed a bottle on the table and picked it up. "Whats this?" Andre asked, looking at Sei.

"Its morphine." She said as she wrapped Jo's leg. "I gave Meg a saringe when I sent her to help you."

Andre turned to Meg who was trying to walk away quietly. "We had more morphine?" He said through his gritting teeth. "MEG! WHAT THE HELL!" He waived the bottle in her face.

"Um," All of the sudden she grabbed the string on Andre's forehead and pulled.
"OW! Fuck you Meg! I'm gonna inject some of this into your huge ass! Maybe then you'll stop eating everything in sight!"

"UH! My ass is cute! Now apologize!" Meg tugged the string tighter.

Andre saw kyohei cutting carrots on the corner of his eye and kicked the knife out of Kyo's hand and over Andre's head, cutting the string.

"Oh shit!" Meg yelled as she bolted out the door.

"Come back here! Your gonna pay!" Andre proclaimed as he followed hot on her heals.

"haha, ow!" Dante realized the memory had been jogged by Maria who was stitching up his eye.

"Well, that's what you get for trying to juggle knives!" Maria snapped at him, she hated it when he acted so childish.

"I was doing fine until Stanton knocked on the door. What did he want anyways?" Dante was pissed that he had the nerve visit their home.

"He wanted to drop off our pay for the job the other day." She said as she heated up the needle.

"Yea right, he probably just wanted to see you, fat piece of" He was interrupted when Maria jammed the needle into his wound.

"I really don't like it when you talk disrespectfully of our employer." She said as she forced the needle through.

"Well I don't like him ogling every women he sees like its a sale barn, so I guess we're even." Andre snapped back.

"All finished." Maria said, trying to avoid having another conversation about the morality of their work.

"Ok, I'm gonna go out for a bit." Dante said as he slipped on his coat.

"Where are you going?" Maria asked, afraid he might have a word for Robert.

"I'm gonna go visit a friends grave." He said as he walked out the door.

'A friends grave? I'll have to ask Robert to watch his GPS." Maria thought as she picked up her phone.

Jo was leaving the flower shop with a 4 roses, 4 blue Iris, and 4 white Iris for Andre's grave. 'He'd like this.' She thought to herself, happy of her purchase.

The young girl made her way to the cemetery and greeted the the older fellow that was the guard on duty.

"Hey Jo, bringing Sergeant Donner flowers again?" The guard was familiar with her ritual by this time.

"Yea, he deserves them." she said, staring at the arrangement.

"Well, I didn't know him, but if he's buried here, and has a pretty young thing like you bringing him such beautiful flowers, then he must have been a great man." The guard said while he smiled at Jo.

"He really was, I wish you could have known him."

Jo walked over to his grave and set the flowers down as she began to talk to him.

"Hey Andre, it's me again. I brought you by some flowers." She said as she sat down.

"I feel bad that I never told you how I felt when you were alive. I wish we could have had some time together like normal couples do. Everyone is doing great. Meg is at that club again, you know the one that you drug me out of." Jo rested her head in her knees. "That Josh guy is still bugging us all, but he hasn't said anything since someone took a few pot shots at him. I had to beat him up the other day for saying bad things about you." A tear ran down her face as she told the story. "He said that you were a bad agent because you died, and I just couldn't listen to it anymore. I wish you were still alive. You could show him once and for all."

Jo began weeping "Why didn't you jump with me Andre? Its really hard trying to go on without knowing. Just remember, I love you. And I'll always think of you." She wiped the tears from her face and smiled as she stood up. "I gotta get going. I'll visit again soon." Jo walked away, somehow knowing that he had heard everything.

"Jo, I love you too." A voice came from behind a tree. Jo turned to see nothing there.

"I'm even still hearing his voice." She said as she walked back towards the gate.

Dante walked out from behind the tree and back to the spot in the fence that he had hopped to get into the cemetery undetected.

As Jo left the cemetery, the guard stopped her. "Oh, maam, a young gentlemen came by earlier, and told me to give you this." The guard handed Jo a letter.

"What's this?" Jo asked as she opened it.

"I don't know. He just asked me to give it to a silver-haired girl with red eyes." The guard said.

"Thanks" Jo said as she walked back toward the harbor as she opened it.

"VE2ZAZ?" Jo read the letter out loud.

While wondering what it was she realized that she walked into an alley with a gang of guys in it, and her without her guns.

"Hey there girlie. Watchya got their?" One of the guys said to her as they surrounded her.

"Oh god, you picked a shitty night." Jo said as she cracked the first guy in the face while simultaneously roundhouse kicking one of the ones standing behind her.

A third ran up with a knife, only to get it shoved into his own side. After a few more minutes and several injured gang members, one of the men managed to nail Jo in the back of the head with a piece of wood, knocking her out.

"Ok boss, she's out what do you wanna do with her?" one of the gang members asked.

"How bout you let her go." A voice came from the end of the alley. A Dante stood there wearing a ski mask and smoking a cigarette. "Its hard to relay a message if your being held hostage by a group of idiots."

The remaining members weren't happy about the comment, and voiced it as Dante walked near. "Who the hell do you think you are? Walkin into our territory and trying to tell us what to do?" The closest member remarked.

The response he managed to get wasn't quite what he expected, as Dante ran up and kneed him in the jaw.

Before the others could respond, he managed to roundhouse kick the second member in the face, and punch the third in the throat, and burnt the fourth's forehead with his cigarette before slamming his head into the wall.

"Who else has questions?" Their were only 3 members remaining including their leader.

"Now," He grabbed the leader by the throat and lifted him off the ground. "Run along, or" Dante pulled out his desert eagle "Things are gonna get messy."

The group needed no more coaxing, as they ran off without asking another question.

'She's so cute, even when she's knocked out' He thought to himself as he folded up the letter and put it back in her coat pocket. 'Maybe one kiss.' He held her up and pressed his lips against hers as she regained consciousness.

'I guess you can awake a sleeping beauty with a kiss.' he thought as she got her bearings.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" she yelled as she pushed him away.

Dante took of running down the alley and into the building, up the stairs and began hopping roof to roof.

"Get back here, I'll kill you!" Jo proclaimed with passion, her head aching from the fight earlier.

"Ask Amy about the letter" Dante yelled in a muffled voice so she wouldn't recognize his voice.

The statement made Jo stumble and lose her momentum so she couldn't make the jump to the next building. Dante took the opportunity to keep moving and lose her.

"How did he know about the letter, and Amy?" Her head hurt and she was confused. She moved her tongue around in her mouth. "Ew, Swisher sweets? Only Someone as cheap as Andre would smoke those, I never noticed how gross they were."

Dante decided to head back down and walk home after going about 6 more house after losing Jo. He was exhausted.

'Damn, that girl can run.' He thought as he walked into his apartment.

"Why are you all sweaty?" Maria asked as he took his shoes off.

"I was running from a guard dog." Dante responded as he opened the fridge.

"Oh really?, Over rooftops?" She snapped back, turning the computer around to show the map of where he had been.

"So, you were watching my GPS, huh? Paranoid are we? Afraid I'm cheating?" He said as he sat down next to her.

"So, who were you running from?" Maria quizzed him.

"Takane, she saw me on the street and I had to cut through a building and jump from roof to roof to get away." He made up on the spot.

"Now, the question is," He took the laptop and began typing "Lets see where your GPS has been."

"What, don't trust me?" She asked him, knowing he wouldn't see nothing.

"No, but," Dante flipped the laptop around so she could see it. "It looks like Mr. Stanton doubled back here after I left, now do you feel like explaining that one to me?"

"I didn't know he had a GPS?" Maria said in shock.

"Neither does he. I had his taylor put on in his shoes. Now, why was he here?" Dante asked, trying to turn this on her.

"I had him give me your GPS frequency, I told him to give it to me over the phone, but he insisted that he deliver it himself." Maria was on the defensive.

Dante glared at her for a moment, before spinning the laptop back around. "I know, because he was only here for 2 minutes, 36 seconds. And knowing you, that doesn't even give him enough time for you to get your pants off. All he did was walk around the kitchen and then back out the door." Dante said, reading the data from the GPS, "But remember, trust is a 2 way street." He said as he slammed the laptop shut.

Maria let out a small laugh, "Once again, you've managed to outsmart me. Dante, you cease to amaze me"

"Hm, and don't you forget it. You try this again and I'm gonna cut that damn thing out and tape it to a squirrel." Dante said. "Now, lets go to bed."

"But i'm not tired." Maria said obliviously.

"Neither am I." Dante remarked with a smirk.

"Once again, you cease to amaze me." Maria said as she followed Dante to the bedroom.