I don't own Xiaolin Showdown
Ted saw Meg's head leaning back. "No, no, no," he said as he quickly put two fingers on the side of her neck, "please don't be dead!" when he found her pulse, he felt it beating. Blowing a sigh of relief, he looked up at Raimundo, Kimiko, and Dojo. "She's okay," he said to them with a weak smile.
"Oh thank God," Kimiko said as she hugged Raimundo and he hugged her back.
"It's good to have her back," Dojo said as he wiped his forehead with the back of his hand.
Ted picked her up bridal-style and carried her back to the apartment. He walked up the long flight of stairs, with Kimiko, Raimundo, and Dojo following right behing him. There was an old bed resting in a small room and he carefully put Meg's body there. "Can you get a bucket of cold water and a cloth please?" he asked Kimiko and Raimundo.
"Sure," Raimundo said, "I'll get the water."
"I'll get the cloth," Kimiko said, "you keep her in good hands." She whirled around and walked out of the doorway.
Ted took Meg's hand in and squeezed it. He was more than happy that she was back. Losing her felt like he was losing part of his life. Praise the Lord that there was a shen gong wu that bought the people you loved back to life.
"I got the water!" Raimundo yelled as he ran in with a bucket of cold water and Kimiko that was holding a long piece of cloth.
"Thanks," Ted said as he took the cloth in his hands. He plunged the cloth in the cold water and then wrug it out. He put the cloth on Meg's forehead to wipe the dirt off of her face. He did tht a few more times to bring her back. After the fourth attempt, Meg closed her eyes some more and made a tiny stretch.
"She's waking up," Raimundo whispered.
Meg finally opened her fawn-like eyes and looked up at the ceiling. "What happened?" she weakly asked. Her voice was hoarse and scratchy. She felt the back of Ted's warm hand on her forehead. She found it and put her hands on his.
"Um," Kimiko said, "we'll leave you two guys alone."
"Yeah," Raimundo nodded as he grabbed Dojo and Kimiko's hand and they walked out of the room, slowly closing the door behind them.
Meg made the attempt of getting up into a sitting position. Ted reached out behind her and bought the pillow up so she could rest her back on it. He grabbed Meg under her armpit and bought her close to the pillow, so her back rested on it.
"Hey," he said to her as he gave her one of his cute smiles.
"Hey," she said as she smileed back to him. "What happened?"
"What was the last thing that you remember?" Ted asked her. He wanted to tell her this as gently as possible so she wouldn't freak out.
Meg looked up at the ceiling to look for answers. "Ooh," she said as she quickly leaned forward and bumped her forehead with Ted. "OW!" she said as she put her hand on her forehead Ted did that same. "That must've bought my memory back," she rubbed her hand on the spot where she collided with Ted. "Anyway, I remembered a blond girl with a big knife starting to slice my neck. Trust me, it hurt like the fires of hell. Its a wonder how I didn't die."
"You did die," Ted told her.
"Huh?" Meg said absently.
"You did die," Ted repeated.
"How?" Meg asked.
"When that girl cut your neck, you did die but in Germany a shen gong wu revealed itself and I used it to bring you back to life."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, and hug bg fat freakin' whoa!" Meg said as she held her hands up in the air. "Okay, I died and then all of a sudden you guys happened to be in Germany where a shen gong wu revealed itself and you used it to bring me back to life?"
Ted nodded. "Well, they went there because that girl made a deal with Kimiko that she wouldn't hurt you if Kimiko told her where her father was. Kimiko said where he was and she ended up killing you anyway. Raimundo and Kimiko flew to Germany and I came here to get you only to find you dead," he shivered when the image of Meg being dead haunted him. "I buried you and-"
"Hold on," Meg interrupted, "you buried me?"
Ted nodded, "I couldn't just leave you like that. I belive in respect of the dead."
"Okay," Meg nodded, "go on."
"And when I arrived in Germany with Dojo, I found Kimiko and Raimundo along with Jack and his girlfriend and Kimiko's father. I swear, I wanted to kill her a thousand times so I could be satisfied."
"Why?" Meg asked him, "a bullet in the brain is enough to kill one person."
"I shot her in the back," Ted said as he looked at the ground, "but I beat her at first."
"Wow," Meg said with her eyes wide-open.
"What?" Ted smiles when he lookd at her expression.
"It just sounds so bizarre that you would beat the crap out of a girl that killed me and then kill her with a gun. Like what the hell? You look like the type of kid that wouldn't hurt a fly, which I'm scared of by the way."
"I know," Ted nodded.
"Not to mention you have always threated me that you would knock some sense into me with my stupidity," Meg laughed.
Ted expression changed into sadness. Had he said that to her? He couldn't believe it. Why would he say something so barbaric to a girl that he would give his heart and soul to? "I'm sorry," he apologized.
"Dude," Meg said, "we're friends, we always joke around," she said as she lightly gave him a punch on his uninjured arm.
"Friends?" Ted asked her. "We're just friends?"
"Yeah. No," Meg said as her expression changed into seriousness, "I don't know. I mean I remember you kissing me and me kissing you. I also rememberr wanting to say something to you when I was in the restroom at that cafe."
"What's that?" Ted asked her.
"Please don't laugh at me when I tell you this. It might sound out of character from me," she said.
"Have I ever laughed out you before?" Ted asked her.
"When that car almost tore my scalp off when I looked up from the manhole," Meg reminded him.
Again, he felt terrible. Why had he done so much horrible things to her? "I'm sorry," he said again.
"Again," Meg said, "we were friends back then."
"But are we friends now?" Ted asked her.
"Absolutely not," Meg said as she shook her head, "We should be more than that."
Ted looked in her eyes. Is she joking or is this real? he asked himself. "What-" his question was silenced as Meg took his face in his hands and gave him a long, juicy, and a kiss full of meaning on his lips. What seemed like seconds to him, Meg fianlly pulled away.
"I love you, Ted," she finally said. She had been meaning to say that to him before she was killed. "I've been meaning to say that to you before I was killed."
Ted leaned forward and took her body in his and gave her a warm, and tight hug, not wanting to let her go. He felt Meg's hand go around his back and she gave him a squeeze in return. "I love you too," he said as put his hand on the back of her head and dug his fingers in her hair.
From the outside of the apartment Kimiko and Raimundo were resting on the footsteps. "What an adventure," Raimundo said as he looked up to the sky.
"I know," Kimiko said, "I'm so glad that its over, that we can go home now. Papa's safe, Meg's back, a shen gong wu revealed itself and now, everyone is happy."
Raimundo nodded at her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Kimiko kissed him smack on the mouth.
From the trees, something moved. Kimiko looked up from Raimundo to the rustling of the leaves in the tree.
"What the matter?" Raimundo asked as he got up and walked over at Kimiko that was looking at the tree.
"I saw something move in there," Kimiko said as she pointed to the tree.
"Maybe it was a squirrel," Raimundo said as he patted her on the shoulder.
Kimiko looked at him. "You're right," she said as she shook her head, "I'm just being paranoid."
"I don't blame you," Raimundo told her. "After what you went through."
"But I'll be able to get over it. Papa is in good hands."
Suddenly, Ted and Meg opened the door and they walked out of the apartment. "Meg!" Kimiko happily yelled as she ran and gave her a huge, bear hug. Raimundo ran and did that same. "Oh my God, thank God you're alive."
"Me too," Meg said as she smiled back at her friends. "I'm just curious to see how this shen gong wu looks like," she said.
"Oh it looks like this," Raimundo said as he bought up the trumpet-like shen gong wu in front of her. Meg looked at it and touched its smoot surface. "Its lovely," she said. Suddenly a quick balck movement lashed out and grabbed the shen gong wu out of Raimundo's hands.
"YO!" Meg said as she regained her balance as she held onto Ted's arm.
"What the hell was that?" Ted asked as he looked up at the sky.
"Later Losers," Jack Spicer's voice came from the sky as he flew away from them.
"Its Jack Spicer," Kimiko said.
"And he got the shen gong wu thing," Meg said as she pointed to the flying Jack, "I wonder what he's going to do with it."
"Probably bring his girlfriend back to life," Dojo said.
Raimundo, Kimiko, Meg, and Ted looked at him.
"What?" Dojo asked.
"Fly us to Germany," Kimiko said.
"Ohh," Dojo whined as he transformed into his big self and they hopped on. He flew to the skies and went back to Germany.