"Agent Elle? Are you in here?" X called as he knocked on the door of her room. He had followed the trail of blood from the site where he found the "card" to her door. At least the trail had gotten lighter, the closer he got to her room, he had noticed. Hopefully that was a good sign. When she didn't answer the door right away, he pushed on it, opening it and stepping inside.
"What are you doing here?" Elle demanded as she came out of her bedroom dressed in a clean black skirt, white shirt and jacket.
"Where have you been?" X asked. He was relieved that she seemed to be her usual annoying self with no visible signs of injury. He wasn't going to let her know about that, though.
"Where else was I going to go after your greeting card attacked me?! Back to the infirmary for the flowers to finish me off?" Elle demanded. "Could I ask why in the world you decided to give me a lethal get well card? That kind of goes against the general idea behind get well cards, you know."
"How was I to know that something like that would happen? Wait a minute. What did happen?" X asked her.
"What happened? What happened is that I opened the greeting card you left and this weird card, it looked like a tarot card only it had the oddest name, fell out. I had just read the name on it, The Shot, when the thing started to glow and the next thing I knew, I was being chased through the halls by something that was firing these blasts at me! I should have been suspicious when I saw the flowers!"
"Well, you don't have to worry about that thing that attacked you anymore. The girls who have been giving Agent Jay such a hard time showed up and one of them dealt with the thing somehow, don't ask me how," X said. "Wait a minute. Why should you have been suspicious when you saw the flowers?"
"Because the were red roses," When Elle noticed the confused expression on X's face she asked, "Don't you know what giving someone red roses means?"
"No. Should I?"
"I thought you were trained in Earth customs," Elle muttered. "Although I can understand if they skipped telling you about this one. Probably figured you wouldn't ever need to know it with that personality of yours. Red roses are a symbol of love here."
"What?!!" X cried when he heard that. Now he understood why everyone had been snickering at him. Why didn't the humans label these things? He started to back towards the door quickly. He had to get away from there right away. "When you're through dressing, you should come down to Zed's office. That teddy bear that Agent Jay saw is down there," he informed her as he darted out. He really needed to get a book on Earth customs fast before he made anymore mistakes like that!