A/N- I'm so hyped! Yesterday it was surprise day (it's a sort of festival that comes once a year on a random day) and almost all classes were cancelled, today is mostly just presentations, tomorrow there's no class (I don't know why and I don't care) and then on Monday…again…no classes! So yeah I'm hyped! Sorry if you don't like my attempt at comic relief in the following dream sequence but I'm to pumped to write anything to serious.

Chapter 13- Serena of New York

Zack pov

One-hundred-twenty-eight tiles, one-hundred-twenty-nine tiles, one-hundred-thirty tiles, one-hundred-thirty…..oh for the love of God…..if the person wasn't insane when they went into the asylum they were when they came out. There was nothing to do. Here I was, just laying in a room counting the tile and that was actually the most interesting thing I had done all day. Once in a while Hodgins would bring me equations or sometimes I'd get a letter. If I was lucky a visitor would come but other then that I had nothing to do.

It was rather boring actually and it gave me to much time to think, to much time to wonder….to much time to worry. I had been here for nearly a year and yet I still worried that someone would be waiting in my room when I woke up….that I'd die sometime in the morning. It was a ridiculous thought…but it had been my greatest fear. I had been so distracted by my own thoughts that I didn't even notice another person had entered the room until she had tapped me on the forehead. I looked up to see blue eyes staring at me with an amused expression.

"Zack?" said the blond women. "I see you're counting the tiles…that's the sixth time this week! If you're really this bored we could play some chess again….I swear to you I'll beat you eventually!"

I laughed to myself as I swung my legs over the edge of the bed to sit up. The one nurse who 'did not' use a sickly sweet tone with me and actually recognized my intellect, had just entered the room. "Hello Serena…..did you get any better or will I win within ten minutes like last time?"

She puffed out her cheeks in a comical manner as she spoke, "First of all you know for a fact that if the older nurses hear you calling me by my given name then we're both in trouble. Secondly I have been working on my game! I was playing with Manisha and I beat her."

I rolled my eyes as I recalled the Indian woman who had followed her to work one day. It was awkward to meet her but I had to admit the girl had been quite the conversationalist and she was only in town for a week so there wasn't much to worry about, "Fine…Ms. Rendrag…happy!….may I guess on something though?"

"Sure," Serena said with a little confusion.

"Did you beat her or did the clock just run out before she could say checkmate?"

She turned bright red before muttering, "It still counts!"

I openly laughed at the comment, "Is there any actual reason you're here or did you just come to pester me?"

She seemed to perk up for a moment but then became quite deflated, "Well there's some good news…..and some bad news….which do you want first?"

"Bad news? I guess we should just start there," My eyes scanned over her carefully. "Why do you look so sad?"

The girl started to Sniffle, "Well….it's just that….*sigh* I'm sorry….I'm just acting stupid as per usual! pay no mind to me…just…I shouldn't be bothering you with this….you have worse things to worry about."

I frowned deeply, "It's no trouble at all….what's wrong?"

She hesitated for a moment, "…..I'm….transferring…down to New York actually…..it wasn't my choice. You see a couple friends of mine live down there and they ran into some money trouble and you know how I told you about how my Grandfather left me that house….well I was going to let them use it but in the old farts will he said at least one Rendrag had to be living there if anyone else was to do the same. Neither of my sisters would dare set foot in that hellhole so I have to go out there and do it myself….I wouldn't want them living on the streets."

"Oh…." I was at a lost for words. It was going to be strange being here without the hyper girl around.

"Yeah….." She whispered. "This is actually my last day here."

It was a moment or two before anyone spoke, "Do you want to know the good news?"

I nodded my head stiffly. She handed me her cell phone, "That Shuichi kid's on the line….still don't know how he got the number but (shrug) he did. Put him on speaker I think it's adorable when you two speak with eachother!"

I did what I was told to do only to have my ears blown out by the sudden volume. He must have been on the entire time and Serena had nearly forget to tell me, "HELLLLO! HELLO HELLO HELLO! ANYONE THERE….HELLO!"

"God Shu….as loud as ever I see," I said in a monotone voice. "I'm on no need to shout."

"HI ZACK-KUN!" Shuichi yelled, ignoring my pervious comment. I shoot my head….a man with his IQ should have been the quiet thoughtful type but then again who was I to tell him to stick to the statue quo. I Had been the apprentice to a serial killer….something that no one had suspected. "ZACK-KUN, ZACK-KUN, ZACK-KUNNNNNNNN!"

"Are you going to yell my name the entire time or are you actually going to say something important?" I asked with feigned anger. My voice took on a teasing quality. "Are you this loud with that guy of yours….Yuki was it? How can he stand it!"

"Meany! And to think I was going to ask you to come visit me!"

I took a deep breath, "You know as well as I do that I can't do that."

"…..I know….but you told me that you snuck out once and they didn't get mad….can't you do it again?"

"They didn't get mad? That's because the other helped cover for me. I actually got a lot of grief over it."

"Come on! Please!"

"I said no!"

His voice took on a tone that I hadn't heard him use in years. Not sense the day everyone had found him in an ally way covered in bruises, nearly unconscious. Fear? "Please…I….just please. Some strange things have been happening….I don't know what to do….it…it's not good…and I don't know but you always were the one who could figure out how to make things all better. You have to come….I need you."

"Shu…." Sorrow filled my eyes. "I'll….I guess I'll try."

I knew tell he was smiling even if I couldn't see it, "Thanks Zack….gotta go….love you like a brother, bud…."

"Yeah….love you to." Shu didn't notice the slight alteration I had made to the words but Serena had. She lips thinned out and the side twitched a bit. The call ended and I handed the phone back to her. She stared at me for a moment before opening the door to my holding cell and stepping away. The girl swung her leg and kick the wall hard.

She grabbed her foot and started to hop around the room, "What are you doing?"

"Oww oww oww! Well…oww…I won't get in so much trouble…owwww! If they think that you stomped on my foot and ran off…..owww! I'll say you over powered me." She hopped over to the bed and sat down. "Now come on and run out of the room owww owwww! Those friends of yours are going there anyway so why not convince them to let you come along owww!"

"…but I can't let you get involved with this," I said getting ready shut the door as I got up.

I turned around to face her and then something interesting happened. She had jumped off the bed and wrapped her arms around my neck. Our lips locked. Through my own confusion I didn't know what to do and then just as quickly as it had started the kiss ended.

Serena pulled away and looked me straight in the eyes, smiling a sad smile, "Sorry about that…I just….want to help you Zack…now stop being an idiot, go out there, and help your….friend."

The last word was said with a sad undertone but she never stopped smiling at me. I nodded my head weakly and walked out of the room. She collapsed onto the bed as I left and began to massage her foot, "That was probably the stupidest thing I've ever done."

My senses slowly came back to me and I realized that I was no longer on the roof but in a soft bed. The sharp pain that I had been feeling was now just a dull throb that I barely noticed. My eyes opened to come face to face with my savor….and his golden eyes met mine with little interest. Yuki had saved me.

I tried to get up but the pain returned to what it had been when the knife had pierced my skin. Arms pushed me back down, "You were bleeding to death a couple hours ago….I don't need a repeat if the wound reopens…."

I nodded my head and laid back, "Right…"

He took out a cigarette and started to smoke it, "Hey?"

"What?"

"You talk in your sleep?"

"Do I?"

"Yeah."

"….."

"Is there a reason that you were dreaming of my Lover?"

My cheeks burned with embarrassment, "I'm a friend of his….He said he keeps my picture in his wallet…have you seen it?"

The man nodded his head, "Yeah…..so?"

The silence that followed was awkward, "Where's Tohma….he wasn't there when we found you…?"

"…Tohma?…..he's the one that did that to me."

2 A/N- Well I don't cheat others and so I'm gonna do what I thought I was going to do last chapter but forgot to do (sorry for that by the way)….Iyosana-Hari has two finished stories. A One-shot with Guakuen Alice (a different universe)- It nearly made me laugh out loud which I don't do often, and a Hetalia - Axis Powers (Germany's Dream) one-shot which….in all thruth scared me a little….but it held my interest and it is a side-story to Whose your daddy? An unfinished work. Go check them out!