UPDATE!! Yay!! I'm so bored...can't sleep...school sucks...and to top it all off I'm sick, erg...but anyways...I'm sure you don't wanna hear my complaints, so...here's more of my story! ^_^

~Chapter 12~

After two days Serena was still out and everyone had been taking turns watching over her. At the time it was Duo's turn, he sat at a chair next to her bed and stared at her as if she would disappear at any moment. He saw her eyes move and was immediately brought back to the real world. Serena groaned and opened her eyes slowly.

Duo jumped up quickly, ran to the door, opened it and yelled, "SERENA'S AWAKE!!!"

Serena winced.

"How are you? You hungry? You need anything..."

"Duo," Serena interrupted.

"Yeah?"

"Shut up, I've got a huge headache."

Duo laughed a little bit before apologizing.

"S'ok. How long have I been out?"

"About two days," Selene answered from the door.

"That long huh? That sucks..."

"Yeah, do you want anything to eat?"

"Sure, but not a whole lot...I don't think I could keep much down right now."

"Ok, I'll be back in a little bit."

"How do you feel?" Quatre asked.

"Can people die from a headache?"

"I don't think so..."

"It feels like it."

They all laughed a little. Rei, Mina, and Hotaru all sat around her on her bed and started a small conversation with their friend.

"You know...Shields is going to want to kill me. He'll probably never rest until he makes sure I'm dead."

"We won't let him get you though, isn't that right guys?" Duo looked around at everyone.

"Yeah, no way is that jerk going to get to you," Rei said.

"Definitely, you're safe with us," Mina said and winked.

"There's no chance in hell he's going to get the chance to kill you," Hotaru said.

"We'll kill him first," Selene added carrying food in for Serena.

"We'll all protect you," Quatre agreed.

Trowa nodded his head and Wufei just stood there, not voicing his opinion, but he would protect her also.

"Hn," came from Heero.

"See, even trigger-happy Heero will protect ya," Duo said happily.

Serena smiled at all of them and took the food from her sister. There was soup and some bread, along with orange juice ((A.N. very good for when ur sick)) and some pain-killers. Serena grimaced at the food and looked at her sister.

"I said not a lot of food, but I didn't mean this little," Serena said.

"That's all I think you can eat, and you probably won't even be able to finish that," Selene retorted.

"Bite me," Serena grumbled as she took the medicine and started to eat.

As Selene said, Serena wasn't able to finish all of the food that was given to her.

"If you all don't mind, I need to go take a shower," Serena said getting out of bed.

When she stood up she got dizzy and started to fall over. Duo caught her and steadied her so that the petite blonde wouldn't fall over. She was also having problems standing on her right leg, when she tried she winced in pain and decided against that idea.

"Could someone help me out here?"

Selene walked over to her sister and helped her to get to the bathroom. Selene walked out of the bathroom after being certain that Serena wouldn't kill herself trying to get into the shower. They heard the water running not long after and began talking.

"How do we keep an eye on Serena all the time?" Mina asked.

"Well, we could take turns spending time with her and watching out for her," Hotaru suggested.

"That would work if it wouldn't make Serena angry with us," Selene said.

"Why would it make her mad?" Duo asked.

Selene sighed before explaining, "She hates people treating her like a helpless child. If we follow her around that's exactly how she'll feel. She hates relying on others to protect her, she feels as if she can take care of herself. Actually, she can...well, she would be able to if she didn't have an injured leg."

"Couldn't we just explain to her that we need to. Explain that it's not that we feel as if she cannot protect herself, but it'd make us feel better. Also, that she's not as capable of protecting herself when she can pretty much not use one of her legs," Hotaru suggested.

"Yes, that could probably work. At least, I hope it will..." Selene was interrupted as they heard a crash come from the bathroom.

Selene ran to the bathroom with the others close behind. Before she opened the door, she turned to the guys and asked, "Do you mind? I'm sure she wouldn't want a bunch of guys to see her naked."

Duo and Quatre turned beet red, while Wufei blushed slightly, and Trowa and Heero showed no emotion to what she said, but quickly turned and walked away from the door. Everyone else followed suit and Selene walked in to check on her sister. When she walked in, her sister had passed out in the shower. She turned off the water and grabbed a robe.

As she was putting the robe on, she noticed that her sister was burning up. She took a look at the wound on Serena's leg and saw that it was infected. 'Damn...how could we have let that happen?'

Selene walked out and asked someone to help her carry Serena. Duo went into the bathroom and picked her up.

"She's burning up," Duo said to everyone in the room.

"Her wound is infected," Selene informed.

"What? How? We kept it clean and made sure that it wouldn't get infected."

"Sometimes injuries can get infected even when taken care of," Quatre explained and took a look at the infection. "We need to get her to a hospital. It looks like blood poisoning."

Hehe...me and my short chapters ^_^. This is longer than most of em though...you should be proud of me...*silence*...or not ^_^;;. I've noticed something, medicine doesn't take away my pain, like a headache or something, it just makes me act goofy and disoriented...hmm...ah well. Please review! Thanx!

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