Modo laid Rain on her couch and grabbed the cover that had been folded over the back of the couch and used it to cover Rain so that she wouldn't get cold now that she no longer had his body heat to keep her warm and straightened his spine and walked over to her TV and turned it off.

The movie he had put in when Rain had first dozed off had ended several hours ago.

But because Modo had been so reluctant to leave, he's re-watched the same movie over and over and over and over again before he had started to get hungry. And with Rain sleeping so soundly, he felt comfortable enough to leave her side. Just long enough to fix something for them both to eat and call the bar to let them know that Rain wouldn't be coming in tonight. And to call the garage to tell Charley that he might not go back to the score board until sometime in the early morning hours.

He was still worried about leaving Rain alone after hurting her.

He walked out of the living room and looked around the hall way for a second, wondering where the kitchen was before he started wandering through the apartment until he found the kitchen. He had a quick look around the room, noting the phone sitting on the counter, the pots, pans, silverware, plates and bowls in the dish rack.

He walked over to the fridge and went through it and the freezer to see what he could make for the two of them to eat and decided on fixing some chicken and a broth based soup with a salad after coming across the vegetables in the fridge.

He pulled a medium sized thing of chicken thighs and legs out of the freezer and laid it on the counter so that he could go through her cooking spices and see what he could use to flavor the chicken and the soup he was planning to make.

He had to taste test a few things since they smelled a little iffy but in the end he found some stuff that he could use and set the spices aside then put the rest away and put the chicken in the sink and turned on the hot water to thaw out the meat a little bit while he pulled vegetables out of the fridge and set them on the counter. Then grabbed the cutting board that was hanging on the wall next to the stove and set it down then went through several of the drawers until he finally found a sharp knife that he could use to cut the vegetables up.

He washed the red onions, the yellow and red peppers, the lettuce, and three carrots. He dug a descent sized bowl out of the cabinet next to the place where she kept her plates and then started to cut up the lettuce and put it in the bowl then started to scrape the skin off of one of the carrots until he had nothing but a tiny orange nub in his hand.

He set the remains of the mangled carrot aside and picked up the onion and peeled the first layer off and then glanced almost absent mindedly towards the sink to gauge the water level and after deeming the sink full enough turned off the water then shifted his attention back to the onion and cut it in half.

He cut several thin strips from the onion and then set the first few pieces aside for the soup then cut a few more and added them to the lettuce and carrot in the bowl.

He spent several more minutes cutting up the peppers and added another carrot before setting some of the red pepper aside for the soup then put everything else away and cleaned up the mess that he had made.

Next he grabbed a frying pan and some olive oil and poured some oil into the pan and set it on the stove and turned the eye on low and then fished the chicken out of the sink and tore open the package and laid the chicken out in the pan and sprinkled it with a little bit of salt and pepper then turned the eye up to medium. Then went to find a pot to make the soup in and went through her cabinets again to find some chicken broth.

Once he had the chicken broth, onion slices, peppers, and carrot in the broth he set it on one of the back eyes on the stove and turned it on simmer then wiped his hands on a towel that he found laying on her counter then moved to see what was going on with her phone.

He tried dialing it first to call the club and was just a little bit taken aback by the fact that there was no dial tone. It struck him as a little odd that her phone didn't seem to be working, especially since he was fairly certain that she took her responsibilities seriously. He tinkered with it a little bit then found out why it wasn't working.

It was unplugged.

His one eye twitched a little bit in annoyance as he plugged the phone back into the wall and tested it for a dial tone and made a soft sound and dialed the bar and after a quick talk with Micheal, was assured that Rain wouldn't have to show up for work that night or the night after just to be on the safe side. Modo thanked Micheal and hung up then called the garage.

Charley picked up. "Hello."

"Charley."

"Hey Modo. Where have you been all day? Throttle came back a few hours ago to see if you were okay."

"I-I'm at a friend's place. There was sort of an accident-"

He could hear the automatic change in her voice. The joking tone seemed colder to him as she asked, "Are you alright?"

"Uh...I-I'm fine. But my friend on the other hand..."

"What happened?"

"A freak accident. Don't worry about it Charley-girl. I was just calling to see if you'd tell Throttle and Vinny not to expect me home until really late in the morning. I want to stay here and make sure that my friend doesn't have any broken ribs that could puncture her lungs."

Charley was quiet for a second and he could almost swear that he could see the amused smile that crossed her face when she answered him. "Sure thing big guy. Just do one thing for me."

"Okay."

"Make sure that you give her a good night kiss before you leave." Charley said and laughed a little bit when she heard him make a choking sound before he stuttered a hasty goodbye and hung up.

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Rain had been sleeping for hours.

A testament to how exhausted she really was considering that she hadn't slept the night before. She remembered dozing off in Modo's arms, listening to the comforting sound of his heart beat. And when she woke up...

The living room was dark except for the dim light from some candles that had been lit. She blinked her eyes twice and looked around the room.

Wondering what it was exactly that had woken her and noticed immediately that Modo wasn't in the room with her like he had been earlier. She pushed herself up onto one elbow and swore at the sharp pain that she felt in her stomach and sub consciously curled her body to ease the pain before she slowly lay back down and rubbed the spot on her stomach that hurt while wondering where Modo was.