Sweet Dreams

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He lay there in Ro's bed slowly letting memories flood his mind. He lay there thinking of nothing but thoughts of the girl that lied beside him.

He watched her, Rosalie Rowen. She just told him she had found her family. He admitted he was shock. He knew she was looking but wasn't too sure she would even ever find them. He hadn't even known she was looking at the time. He had wondered what she was doing while he was gone some times. He knew she was looking for them in secret. She seemed afraid to tell him. She seemed afraid to go. She had found her family. He never got to ask why she was afraid. He thought nothing scarred her. She was so strong.

The feeling of guilt never went away as he watched her that night. She was sleeping in the queen size bed the hotel room had. There were two of them and she was one the one that was fartherest from the balcony and closest to the bathroom.

The night before had been a rough one. Over the course of the year he became more and more protective of her. She only seemed to get more and more annoyed with his sense of protectiveness. They both were running from the feds again. They were on foot and the feds through a device that was supposed to hit Zeta but it hit a car. The car was parked luckily. Zeta was at least twenty feet from then car but Ro was only about five. Standing there watching for the Fed's next move.

Soon everything passed him in an almost slow motion kind of way. There was mere seconds between an explosion. The feds running after him and stopping to back away from the explosion. The stopped everything they were doing to watch.

A car flipped over in the row of parked cars. Ro was standing there her back to turn to see the car flipping towards her. She placed her arms over herself trying to protect herself. He extended his hand out to her automatically hoping he could pull her out of the way. She was yanked back and brought up to his chest. He scooped her up in his arms not having time to say or do anything but run.

They got away once more. Just barely escaping the fire. They hadn't said a word till they were resting in the hotel. She was looking away at the wall not looking over in his direction where he was watching a television report of the accident they were in.

She stood up grabbing her coat. "Zee I'm going out for a walk."

"No Ro it's too dangerous."

"Don't be ridiculious Zee."

"I'm NOT being ridiculious when it comes to your life. You almost died today. Do you know what that would of done to me if you died?"

"Zee stop being so dang protective. I can take care of myself."

"You couldn't when that car about flipped over and smashed you into the street."

"Zeta I'm going to a groundwire alright. I'll look to see if I can find anything on Dr. Selig. I'll be careful but it only seems I'm in danger when you're around." Zee was ataken back by this. She left slamming the door. Leaving him in the room alone.

He thought she was right. She was always okay by herself but together they seemed to find trouble around every corner. He would apologize to her later. He sat there as she came back two hours later. She took her shoes off calmly and stood up placing her coat in the closet.

She pulled back the covers and flopped down on the bed. She pulled the covers closely to her and went to sleep before Zee had a chance to speak to her. He tried talking to her all day but she wouldn't listen to him. He grew more and more fustrated. He never got a chance to tell her how sorry he was.He turned away and walked out to the balcony. He wasn't sure what was bothering him at the moment. His thoughts all crashed together. Ro had often stepped out for fresh air when she said she needed to think.

He sat out there for a while not knowing how much time had pasted by not even caring for once. He wasn't sure if he wanted Bennett to show up and perhaps delay Ro's going home. It may have been the first time he wished Bennett to come and keep them on the run.

He was suddenly surprised when he saw a pale hand covering his right hand that rested on the railing. He looked to see Ro looking out at the beach view lighted by the moons silvery white light. "Zee I'm going to miss you."

"You should be resting. You're going to need it." He said changing the subject not wanting to talk about her going away.

"Zee don't worry a few hours of missed sleep are going to be made up on the plane ride."

"Ro please go to sleep."

"No, I want to remember these last few hours." She covered up a yawn. Zee shook his head picking her up. She gasped in surprise. He walked back in the hotel room.

"Lay down Ro. You need to go to sleep." He said placing her on the bed but she insisted on sitting up.

"Stubborn." She said annoyed with.

"Go. To. Sleep." Ro shook her head. He pushed her down. She struggled against him. He only smiled as she pouted giving up.

He fast forwarded his flashback to when he was looking out a window from the airport. He could see her sitting in the plane looking out the window sadly. He felt something he thought would feel like sadness filling him as he turned walking away. His best friend had found what she was looking for all along. She was leaving without him on the rest of her journey but he was sure he would met her again.

He looked at Ro lying beside him. She snuggled up close to him. It was the closeness to her that comforts him the most at the moment. She used to or maybe still thought she wasn't worth anything. She was worth something to him. She was worth more to him than anything else he decided.

He knew what the both of them where going to be honored for in a few months. He still hadn't told her. So many people where interested in his story. He told Dr. Selig he had to make sure a few things where still okay and alive. Reporters and other people like that had tried tracking him down but he used a different hologram than his Zee form till he got here.

He touched her hair. He wished he could feel how it felt between his fingers. It was so much longer than it used to be. But it was still the same yellow golden color he remembered it to be. He looked at her pajamas. They were shiny blue tie-dye fabric. He could tell the material was a silk like material. He wondered which was softer her hair or the material of her pajamas.

She sighed. "Zee…" She whispered into the dark of the night. The only light was the moon light floating through the window beside the head of her bed.

"Ro I'm right here." She nuzzled his arm with her head. Her eyes open slightly. She had a soft smile on her face before falling back to a deeper sleep.

He hugged her just for a second. He remembering those first weeks being without her. He never felt so bad in his life. It seemed that running faster and faster helped the memories go away. He knew he was running from his problems but he didn't know how else he could solve them. If there was a way he would try it.

He never thought a simple girl would have so much of an effect on him. No, he shook his head. Ro wasn't simple in anyway. She was the most complicated human he had yet to meet. She was… He didn't know what she was.

What was she to him? He cared for her more than anything else at the time. He would give up everything to guarantee her safety. She had gone through so much for him. He remembers every single serious injury she had gotten over the time they traveled together.

He remembered one time he swore he was going to forget everything he said and destroy another human for what they had done to Ro. Both of them were in a city called Frasive. She was walking beside him. They heard the shouts of several teenagers.

There was a gang fight he tried disarming them but one shot was shot past him to the left. The guy missed him. How he wished he didn't. He disarmed the young man who shot at him. He heard a soft gasp. The police where arriving already.

"Someone call an ambulance." He wondered why, no one appeared to be hurt seriously. He turned having a fear grip him. He turned to see Ro have a blank look across her face. Her eyes were lifeless and glossy. He ran over and held her tightly.

"Ro stay here don't leave me." He could hear the police sirens and ambulance coming this way. He hoped Bennett wouldn't show up. He didn't want it to end this way. She was slowly dying. The paramedics picked her up on a stretcher

"Are you her brother?" One of them asked quickly.

"Yes."

"You can come along." He rode in the ambulance watching the paramedics give her oxygen and trying to stop the bleeding. She was rushed to the emergency room. They operated on her. He stayed watching for any signs of the police or Agent Bennett.

The operation took forever. It was eleven hours before a doctor stepped out. He walked over to him. "Zee Smith?"

"Yes. How is she?"

"The bullet she received did extensive damage. It rickshaded off the collarbone went through the left lung nicked the cardiac muscle and I removed it from the spine."

"Will she make it?"

"I'm not sure." Zee was hoping that it would have been a positive response. "The next twelve hours are critical."

"Thank you doctor." He nodded giving him some privacy with the patient.

"Ro I'm sorry I shouldn't have dragged you into this. I can't let you take anymore risks. Each time it gets more and more risky. I'm not sure if you know but you're the best thing that's happened to me yet." He held her hand. He had remembered see her like this when IU7 attacked them. She looked so beautiful like an angel.

She had recovered after a night that he thought would have killed him if he were human. He had so many regrets that floated around in his mind. He made her promise to be more careful and he would be more careful as well.

He looked down at her. She still had a scar over the area. He touched it lightly remembering how she would always keep it covered at all times. Now it seemed just a whiter part of the skin. He notice she was shivering lightly. He raised his body temperature and carefully wrapped the blanket around her tighter.

He would go to sleep leaving his hologram on turning down the volume of his snoring to as light as it could get since he still hadn't figured how to turn it off. He placed himself in a sleep mode instead of a shutdown mode so Ro could wake him up easily if she needed to.

Ro's mother checked in on her oldest daughter. She smiled as she turned on a small lamp. She had just gotten Ro's softball uniform. She smiled at her daughter and her friend Zee. They looked so cute together.

She liked this Zee. She had seen the flowers that she suspected he had gotten for Ro. She was sure that him being here would be the best thing for Ro in a long time. They both looked like small children sleeping like that. She walked back taking in the image of them together. She was wondering how long he planned staying. She hoped he planned staying for a while to cheer up Ro.

"Zee thank you for taking care of my child while she was lost even if it was only a short time." She turned closing the door slowly. "Goodnight Ro. Goodnight Zee have sweet dreams."

Author Note: I suppose you can sort of call that Zee angst. But I hoped you liked the ending. On to writing the next chapter. Sorry if it's a little confusing. Please don't hurt me.