TITLE: Living On My Own
AUTHOR: Blue Demon
RATING: PG13
DISCLAIMER: I don't own BeyBlade. I do however own Wanda, Demazla and Jimmy. So ha!
ACK'MENT: To my wonderful muse!
NOTES: Lemony.....
SUMMERY: Kia takes Wanda to a wonderful place called a hospital! What will happen to the two friends? Will Wanda go back to Jimmy? (Even though he is a fat bastard?)

Chapter 4

They were in a hospital, Kia didn't know where the nearest doctors office was, so he chose this place instead. There weren't a lot of people in, at the moment, Wanda was seen to five minutes later. She was given cream and a bandage was put on the wounds, the doctor wanted to speak to Kia.

'What happend?' He asked Kia.

'What did she tell you?' Kia asked him, knowing that the doctor might think he did it.

'She said she fell. But those are whip marks, how could she get that if she fell?' The doctor asked him.

'Good question. And why is she still covering for him,' Kia said and walked away to Wanda.

'We can go now?' Wanda asked him.

'Yea,' Kia said, and once they were outside he said; 'Why are you still covering for him?'

'Kia.....' Wanda started to say.

'Look, I know you feel he's the only family you have left, but what about Rita? She's written to me twice, asking why you never write back to her,' Kia said, he was calm on the outside, but inside he wanted to shake her, and he knew that wasn't the right way to go.

'I never got any letters, dad always picks up the mail,' Wanda told him.

'That explains it,' Kia said, seeing her eyes water he pulled her closer; 'You can use my address for a letter,'

'I know this sound stupid, especially to you...... But... I'm scared,' Wanda said, but never looked at him.

'If you don't report him, I will,' Kia threatend, trying to make her see sense.

'But he isn't like this all the time,' Wanda pointed out.

'He shouldn't be like this, period. You want a safe place to be, my grandfather is out of town for the moment, you can stay with me,' Kia told her. He knew if his grandfather found out, and he most likely would, he would be in serious trouble.

'Thank you' Wanda said softly.


Wanda entered Kia's home, feeling unnerved that it was so big. She felt low, even lower than before.

'I never what it was like in here,' Wanda said, taking in the house.

'You never asked,' Kia informed her and she nodded; 'Besides, we rarely spoke about that,'

'There's so much space.......' Wanda said, still in awe at the size of the mansion.

'I guess,' Kia didn't take much notice of it before.

'Sorry,' Wanda snapped out of it and looked at him; 'Where to?'

Kia showed her the room she'd stay in, where she dumped her bag on a nearby chair and walked out again.

'You've already unpacked?' Kia was surprised.

'No. I'm only here for one night, remember?' Wanda reminded him.

For the first time since they joined forces did they both feel odd about being alone together. Both put it down to not seeing each other for a long time, and the fact that Kia had opened up more.... In a way. Both were wrong.
Kia managed to get rid of the servents, who, even though she tried not to make it obvious, made Wanda nervious. Once they went to bed, neither could sleep.

She's just down the hallway. Kia thought to himself, seeing Wanda's face floating into his mind. Why am I thinking like this? If my grandfather finds out I....... I care about her.............. It must be me. No way would she care about me in anyway, apart from a friend, she's probably too scared of guy's now, after what Jimmy did to her. Maybe I should check and see if she's all right. Kia got out of his bed and walked towards Wanda's room. As he knew where the squeaky floor boards were, he could avoid them. He opened Wanda's door and saw her laying on the bed, a thin sheet covering her. She looked so relaxed and peaceful now. She looked even more beautiful, in Kia's opinion, when her hair was down and spread over the pillow. He moved closer, seeing her red tatoo over her eye. He learned the story to that, and was angry to what happend to her because of Jimmy, but she was fine with it, now.
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'How can you not be mad at him for what he did?' Kia asked her, they sat on the wearhouse roof one night.
'It doesn't bother me that much, if I didn't have it, I might never have joined you lot. I might be six feet under if it weren't for you guy's,' Wanda told him with a smile.
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Kia unconsciencely touched the tatoo that she had, then his own. They were an 'odd pair' as Wanda put it. He did something that he probably shouldn't have done, kissed her lips softly, then left the room as quietly as he came.
Unknown to him, Wanda was half awake, but kept her eyes closed, she knew she most likely wouldn't remember what happend, or if she did, would think of it as a dream.
Kia, why would you do that? Are you toying with my emotions? Or are you serious about caring for me? I hope its the latter. Your the first and only person that I've told about the full extent of Jimmy's torture. Because of him, I am wery about most guy's, but not you, or any of the BladeSharks........... Hum, I hope you don't think I'm scared of you Kia, because you'll find I prefer to be direct, and I'll question you in the morrow. If I can remember what happend. Wanda added and fell back into a wonderful dream world of beyblades and bit beasts, and for an odd reason, dancing tomatos.


The next morning Kia was up, bright and early to train, by himself. He didn't want to face Wanda just yet, even though he knew she was asleep. But he decided that if Wanda asked, he'd tell her that he wanted her to have a lie-in, which was true. He knew for a fact that Wanda had never actually experinced a lie-in before.
Wanda woke up an hour later, she fell out of bed, Kia heard it and decided to see what was wrong.

'Are you all.....' Kia started and he saw Wanda on the floor, laughing; 'Wanda?' He came up to her, crouched down and looked at her.

'I forgot I was sleeping in a bed,' She said, inbetween laughs.

'Oh. Your not hurt are you?' Kia asked her.

'No. I'm fine,' Wanda said and stood up, finally she had stopped laughing; 'Where is the bathroom?'

Kia pointed in the direction and she walked away. Kia then realised that she'd never laughed so much infront of him before, he begain to wonder if she had ever laughed like that before.


Wanda looked into the mirror, her hair wasn't a complete mess, sure it had the odd hair in the wrong place, but other than that it was fine. She had a shower and washed her hair, a nice treat for someone like herself.
Kia walked passed and heard the shower on, he smiled to himself, Wanda is loving this. He shook his head of the thought, knowing that if he said it out loud it could be taken in the wrong way. Wanda had told him about how much she enjoyed baths and showers, they were not common in her parts, living with Jimmy or not.
Wanda used one towel to wipe off the water on her skin, and that on her hair. She moved quickly to get to her room, without Kia seeing her. She brushed her hair straight and got changed.


Kia was downstairs, eatting. He looked up and was surprised. Wanda's hair no longer looked dark purple, it looked black, and it wasn't tied back either.

'What?' Wanda looked confused; 'I'm not gonna walk around, making my hair toxic,'

'That wasn't it. I just didn't expect you to have your hair down, or the change of colour,' Kia told her.

'If I tie it up it would drip and annoy me,' Wanda told him.

The hair colour was a mystery to Kia, Max and Judy were blondes, Max's father was red, so why did Wanda have purple hair? The question started to annoy Kia.

'We're training today, aren't we?' Wanda asked, she kept her voice indifferent, so not to show disappointment or excitement, which ever one she might be feeling on that day.

'We'll take a day off,' Kia decided and saw Wanda smile; 'What do you plan on doing?' He asked her.

'I don't know, its a mystery,' Wanda joked.

'What?' Kia asked, not understanding.

'A Magical Mystery Tour. Or, a wander round and see if there's anything to do,' Wanda said with a slight nod.

'Humph,' Kia said, not what heÕd been wanting to hear.

'Why? You want to come?' She asked him.

'Sure,' Kia said, his usual 'I don't really care' voice. Inside he was happy. Now he'd get Wanda alone, or at least be with her.