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Theme: Volunteer

The rhythmic beeping of a heart rate monitor echoed throughout the room interrupted solely but not muffled by the loud, annoying sounds the blond haired girl made as she slurped on her lollypop. Usagi Tsukino, a seventeen year old high school student plucked the pink, cotton candy flavored lollypop from her mouth. Never once did she notice that her teeth as well as her entire mouth were now stained pink by the confectionery treat.

She sat with her legs crossed dressed in a typical Candy Stripper uniform with a manga comic lying in her lap. 'What a way to spend an afternoon,' She thought as she popped the lollypop back into her mouth, pushing it into her cheek.

"Now where were we?" She asked not expecting to receive an answer as opened the manga and started flipping through it. "Ah, now I remember, the last time we left off was when Yura had just confessed her love to Q-ta." It wasn't as if Usagi actually thought he was listening, but still she continued reading her comedic romance manga without worrying over the fact that she had read that chapter to him over six times that week.

Over the years Usagi had read him so many mangas that they all seemed to have blended together.

Though, who he was she was never quite sure of. Lying in the hospital bed in front of her was a man hooked up to over a dozen monitors. To her it just appeared as if he was sleeping, a sleep that he just didn't want to awake from. At the foot of his bed there was a chart marked Doe, Vegeta and in it, it stated that he'd been in a coma for seven years already. 'That's a long nap,' Usagi had thought the first time she had read it, looking down at him with curiosity dancing in her blue orbs.

Although Usagi had been his personal Candy Stripper since the tender age of fourteen she had to confess she didn't know anything about him. Nothing concrete that is.

It was her friend Ami who had convinced her, or rather one should say used guilt to make her want to volunteer as a Candy Stripper. Ami's mother was the head doctor at this hospital and one summer three years ago they had been overpopulated and understaffed. So being the good daughter that she was Ami had convinced all her friends into volunteering at the hospital to help out her mother.

When the girls had been signed up they has all been assigned to stations where the staff as well as Ami thought they would be most likely to excel. Rei and Ami has been both assigned to the geriatrics department, where Ami held a chess tournament while Rei read everyone's fortunes. Meanwhile Minako and Makoto were assigned to the children's wing. Minako dazzled them with a one woman sock puppet show and Makoto delighted them all with homemade healthy but delicious treats.

It was well known that Ami loved her somewhat fearless leader Usagi wholeheartedly but she didn't quite trust her not to get herself or someone else in trouble during her hospital visit, so she assigned her to the easiest job she could find. Babysitting and reading to a man in a coma seemed like the best place where Usagi could do the least damage. It wasn't like she could annoy him or even hurt him while he was sleeping.

When the nurse had first shown Usagi Vegeta's room she had dipped low and whispered in the girl's ear. "He's a hero." She stated simply, "He saved a woman and a child from a youma but-" She inclined her head towards his sleeping form. "He ended up like this in the process."

'Hero?' Usagi mentally questioned while staring wide-eyed at the man.

His heroism, although led to a tragic ending was something that she could respect considering she spent most of her nights leaping over tall buildings, saving the world one youma at a time. Knowing that he couldn't possibly be listening to her she had ended up pouring her soul out to him, telling him her every fear on the battle field and needless facts that she couldn't share with any of her friends.

Originally her and the girl's volunteer services were only suppose to last a week and while her friends hand discontinued their services Usagi kept on coming back to see Vegeta. It had now been three years since she had first started visiting him. While in the beginning her visits would only come four times a month now they had escalated to every day. She never knew why but she always found visiting Vegeta to be somewhat therapeutic and had come when the anxiety of being Sailor Moon and boyfriend issues had come up.

It had only taken Usagi three months after she began dating Chiba Mamoru for her to realize that the feelings Serenity had for Endymion didn't translate over to her new reincarnated form. Guilt over ruining their future and as well as the world's had kept her bound to him but now that he'd moved to America for college the young girl felt truly alive.

Now she could even visit Vegeta whenever she pleased, it felt strange to say out loud but sometimes Usagi felt as if she was having a secret affair with him. Usagi couldn't help but feel attracted him, he was more handsome than Mamoru could ever hope to be and although he'd been in coma for seven years his muscles hadn't demised a bit.

Usagi ripped the now empty white stick from her mouth before sighing and slumping forward to rest her head on one of Vegeta's legs. "What should I do?" She absently questioned while running her nails down his shin.

"Stop being such a baby and leave that dolt," A gruff voice replied making Usagi shoot up in her seat, frightened. Wide-eyed and shocked she turned her head to see Vegeta now awake and staring back at her with his onyx eyes as he sat up. "You obviously don't care about him and frankly I'm sick and tired of being subjected to your whining."

Usagi's jaw unceremoniously dropped, "W-what? You were actually listening?"

"No, I was just lying here and ignoring your silly babble." He replied sarcastically. "Of course I was listening you idiot, not like I had a choice in the matter."

"Holy crap," Usagi replied dumbfounded.

Vegeta narrowed his eyes on her, "And don't think I missed all those times you peeked in on my family jewels while giving me a bath." He smirked when her face lit up like a tomato. "Did you like looking at it that much, woman?"

Suddenly Usagi shot up in her seat and ran for the door, "You know the doctors will want to know that you're awake so I better go get one." She stated while looking at the floor, completely and utterly embarrassed.

Vegeta grunted, "And find me a pair of pants while you're at it." He paused for a second, "Do yourself a favor woman and don't live by other's expectations. Do want you desire."

Usagi nodded, his words echoing inside her brain. After fetching a doctor to go and take a look at Vegeta, she had left the hospital and made her way home. Two hours later she had finally built up the courage she needed to make an international phone call to America to break up with her boyfriend.

There were no tears; no harsh words just a clean break from each other.

And even though Mamoru vowed to win her back she already knew that her heart solely belonged to one man.

A man, a hero who'd she vowed to take care of and look after for eternity.

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