Sakura in Paris
Part Sixteen: Heart Attacks

Raye: Ameoba Boy, get dressed or something....
Ameoba Boy: Fine! (Wraps a giant yellow and pink blanket around himself.)
Psycho: Sorry to tell you this Raye, but I hear a sawing noise.
Sakura: Me too!
Raye: God help me,....What now?
(Raye, Ameoba Boy, Psycho, and Sakura walk into Raye's brother's room, who is the original "Brat".)
Raye: Max, where did you get that jigsaw?
Max: It was in the shed. Hold it still Heaven! You don't want you hamburger to be uneven do ya?
Heaven: Hurry up! I'm starving!
(Everyone sweat drops as Max finishes sawing away at a hamburger drawing on the wall of the room. The piece of brown wood breaks away from the wall, and Heaven scoops it up.)
Heaven: Yum! It's not McDonalds, but it'll do! (Tries to take a bite out of it, but Max snatches it away.)
Max: I get the first bite! (Chomps down on the wood.)
Max: AHHHH!!!!! SPLINTERS! SPLINTERS IN MY TONGUE!!! HURTING! HURTS, HURTING!!!
(Raye unplugs the jigsaw and sighs.)
Raye: We're gonna spend the next hour or so pulling splinters from Ms. Max I'm-An-Idiot's tongue......
Max: OWWW! OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!


{Disclaimer}
I don't own Cardcaptors. Clamp does.
Have to say it so I don't get sued.
Getting sued is bad.
Bad.
Very bad.
Bad.
Don't wanna get sued.
Nope.
Don't wanna get sued.
Nope.
Don't wanna get sued...
Heaven: This'll take a while. Join us in an hour or so.


"Madame` Marie? Are you sure you're feeling okay? You don't look too well." Jacque asked worriedly as he handed the glass of seltzer water and Marie's medication to the elderly woman.
She sighed and swallowed the pills. "I'm fine Jacque. Just feeling a little peckish lately...."
"Madame` Marie, I'm most sorry to bother you like this, but I 'ave a request to make!" Ranea said angrily as she stomped up, her maid's cap askew and her apron rumpled.
Marie hid a smile. "And what is your request, Ranea?"
"Tell that jerk Tom to stop calling on Chere`! 'E's getting out of 'and! You and I both know that Sakura 'as no interest in 'im, not with 'er and Li together, and 'e poses a threat to them both! If you don't stop 'im now, I'm afraid 'e'll get violent! 'E's tried to force 'is way in three time now!" Ranea cried out in one breath.
Marie chuckled dryly and nodded. "I will tell 'is father to talk to 'im. Thank you for your concerns, Ranea. You may return to your duties now."
Ranea stomped off, still very angry with "that jerk Tom".
Marie sighed and reached over to her bed-side table to set her glass of seltzer water down when a fit of racking coughs overtook her.
"Are you okay, Madame`?" Jacque asked in a very concerned way as she gripped the bed's edges for support. She regained her breath and managed a small smile as she reached up to her heart with a whithered hand.
"I'll be fine....."

Sakura sighed happily and leaned her head against Li's shoulder. They were both sitting in her bed, and Li was reading her an old fairy tale.
Li blushed slightly and shut the book. "Are you sure you want me to read this to you?"
Sakura nodded sleepily. "I like it when you read to me. And Cinderella's my favorite fairy tale."
Li smiled softly and reopened the book.
Sakura's heart was beating faster and faster. Being so close to Li often had that effect on her, and she was starting to like it. Like it a lot....
Li's heart was beating as well, skipping beats often when he looked down at Sakura's peaceful face. She looked like a sweet doll right there.
Sakura drifted off to sleep, her heart and Li's beating in rythm with each other.

Sakura awoke with a start. Something wasn't right....
She swung her legs out of bed and reached for her crutch, being careful to not wake Li, who was sleeping quietly in his cot.
Sakura hobbled downstairs, the large house silent. It was so early, not even Cooky or Jacque were awake yet.
A faint light shone from Grannie Marie's room. Sakura frowned. What's she doing awake this early? She needs her rest.
Sakura knocked gently on the door-frame. "Grannie Marie? Are you okay? Grannie-" Sakura gasped.
Grannie Marie was crumpled on the floor, her heart-medication bottle clutched in a frail hand, pills spilled all around her.
"Grannie!!!"

Li awoke at Sakura's scream. "Sakura!"
He raced downstairs to find an awful scene.
"Grannie! Grannie! Wake up! For God's sake, wake up!" Sakura cried as she hugged her barely-breathing grandmother to her.
"What's going on?!" Jacque asked breathlessly as he entered the room.
Li looked up from the tearful Sakura.
"Call an ambulance! Grannie's had a heart attack!!"


Raye: You can close your mouth now, Fluffy.
Max: It till hurths too much.
Ameoba Boy: Then you shouldn't try to eat dry-wall again.
(Max gives Ameoba Boy The Glare.)
Ameoba Boy: Shutting up now.
Psycho: Good idea....
Raye: So we're sure there's no food in the entire house?
Heaven: There isn't unless you've a hidden freezer somewhere...
Raye: How did all my food disappear like that?
Max (Wearing spectacles with her hair in a bun, dressed like a teacher and holding a pointer. A screen and blackboard appear out of nowhere, and everyone falls into strange chairs. Max coughs.):Ahem, well, you see, Raye, my research has shown that this house is badly infected with mice, ants, and walking potatoes. All of those organisms have to consume food and nutrients to survive, and your ample supply of chips, cheese, and bread were perfect for their appetitites.
Raye: Let me get this straight.....Mice and bugs and stuff ate all my food?
Max (Looking down the bridge of her nose at Raye): That is what my research suggests. That, and the possibility that Psycho and Sakura just had a major urge for the munchies...
(Everyone turns on a nervously giggling Sakura and Psycho.)
Sakura: Ha ha, that's a good one, Fluffy. Like we'd eat all that food....
Li: It is possible....
Psycho: Um, well, who's up for a game of Scrabble?
(Everyone advances menacingly on a gulping Psycho and Sakura....)