AN: Hiya to all of you that review the second… I know, if I want more reviews I should wait a while but I wanna decide what happens to Li and I'm sure that you guys reading this won't mind that I'm writing it quickly hee hee… sorry, I kinda wrote this about a week ago… and never got the time to post it until now… damn parents making me move… grr… sorry

Vegeta Lover: I'm not sure if I will put Melin in the story… at least, not yet, I never really liked her but that may be because she was really weird in the English version of CCS. She was probably a better character in the Japanese show ne? Sorry, just to let you know, if I throw a few Japanese words in it's not because I'm Japanese, I just study it J Anyway, on with the story.

Oh, BTW, rather than calling them doctors or nurses, I'm gonna borrow the characters from ER… so if you know the show, you know where they came from, and if not, you know they're not mine so I'm not taking credit… just don't ask who's they are cos I haven't the slightest idea. (Blushes)

"Sakura, stop pacing, you're making me nervous," Madison said as Sakura proceeded to wear a hole in the carpet near the waiting area. The three kids were on the third floor, waiting for the verdict. Eli was calmly reading a book; he had been on his way to the library along with his other errands. Madison was sitting with her video camera; having had it in her bag as she always did now with all the strange happenings that popped up without warning. She was taping the hospital, and had gotten the whole drama in the ambulance on tape…

-Flash Back to the ambulance –

"Oh God! What's wrong with him!" Sakura cried out as the medic in the back swore loudly and pounded a button on the sidewall, turning on an intercom with the driver.

"Put the foot down or we're gonna lose this kid!"

Sakura started crying while Madison left the camera that she had pulled out leaning over the back of the seat, unable to look as it were. Eli, who was sitting between the two, put a comforting arm around them both as Sakura sobbed onto his shoulder.

In the back, the first medic had already put Li on a drip while the second had wrapped him in the special blankets used on hypothermia victims and had put him on oxygen to help his ragged breathing. Now, Li had stopped breathing all together. This was a bad thing. The first medic shouted orders at the second as they tried to save him.

"Damn it Kate, what's the heart rate?"

"It's low and falling, get him breathing!"

Sakura couldn't bear to listen and she buried her head into Eli's shoulder. Eli, to his credit as a friend then put his hand up to cradle her head as the ambulance sped on, sirens wailing.

Sakura couldn't remember when they had pulled up at the hospital, she just remembered three guys in white coats and green jumpsuits rush out and take Li into the hospital, a bald one with glasses conferring with the two medics while a tall black haired man with a heavy Russian or German accent spoke to another black haired man, who was at that time, compressing a bag to help Li breath.

"Carter, we're going into trauma 2," the Russian said.

"Righto, Green, trauma 2!" Carter called to the bald man, who ran after then, yelling at the staff on the way to get back to their own jobs.

A kind faced blonde woman called Dr Lewis took them to a waiting room and left them there.

-End flash back to the waiting room-

Madison gave up watching Sakura pacing.

"At least she's not crying," Eli pointed out to her. He smiled in the strange way that he does and returned to his book.

"It's a good thing Li had Wei's number on his mobile, and a good thing he was carrying it too."

Sakura fell over from shock as two doctors walked in, both looking tired. Sakura looked absently at the clock on the wall and gasped. It had been 11 when they'd arrived and it was now 3 in the afternoon!

"Hello, I'm Dr Kovac, and this is Dr Lewis. We have some news about you're friend." It was the Russian doctor that they had seen in the morning with Li.

Sakura sat down and started playing with the seams of her skirt, twisting it around her fist again and again as Eli and Madison listened intently to the two doctors.

"Kids, we have some good news for you and some bad news," Dr Lewis said kindly. "Your friend, Li wasn't it? he's just fine at the moment, he's sick but he's going to be just fine soon enough, with plenty of TLC."

"The bad news is that the police want to know how he got into such bad shape," Dr Kovac said grimly.

They all nodded in understanding. They had known that this was coming.

"Can we see him miss?" Sakura pleaded, wanting to know with all her heart if he was all right. The doctors nodded and Dr Lewis took her hand before leading her to a darkened room down the hall. Sakura ran in and saw Li on a bed. Dr Lewis left her as she surveyed her friend and tried her best not to cry again.

Li was lying there; pale as the sheets of the bed. There was the IV and his head was partly wrapped in bandages, as was his left shoulder. Sakura couldn't see the rest of the bandages as the sheets hid him. She wove her way past the heart monitor machine and, careful not to crush the lead running to the oxygen mask that covered Li's nose and mouth hugged him as best she could. She didn't hear Eli come in and pull her up a chair while Madison stayed outside and talked to the Doctors about what had happened. Sakura listened with half an ear, sitting down in the chair Eli offered her and holding Li's unbandaged hand and stroking his hair as he stirred a little.

"Now kids, he won't wake up for a while because we had to operate on him to fix him up. He's a brave boy and he has a lot of stitches and is very weak. He won't be able to talk because he broke his jaw. You can stay with him for a while but you guys have to ring your parents first ok," Dr Lewis told them, Dr Kovac having been called away.

Eli thought fast, he wanted to know what was wrong with Li before this Dr Lewis went away leaving him with so little information. He reached out as she turned to leave them after showing Madison where there was a phone available.

"Dr, I um… my mother is a doctor back home in England… and I know that this isn't the whole story… what did you guys have to do to him anyway?" Eli asked.

He was feeling really guilty now as you can imagine after the fight had gotten loose. He'd thought that as Li was such a strong fighter and so protective that he'd be no match for Fight and she would have been over powered in no time flat. He was very unhappy that he had been wrong for obvious reasons.

Dr Lewis looked at him and figured that, as they looked so alike in some ways, that Li and Eli must be related in some way (AN: sorry, just had to do that with the cute little descendant thing hee hee). She nodded reluctantly, knowing that he wouldn't stop bugging her if she didn't. She didn't know how, but she just knew it. She led him off to another room as Madison called her mother and told her what had happened.

"Yes mother, I'm alright, I wasn't the one that got hurt…. Yes mother, Sakura is fine, she's with Li, he's the one that got hurt…mother, you know Li…. Thank you mother, yes, can you come in and pick us up as soon as you can, we're on the third floor, at room… 3051. See you soon, bye." Madison looked in on Sakura, who was still holding Li's hand, watching his pained face as the machines beeped every couple of seconds.

Madison called into the room, startling Sakura a little but not too much.

"Would you like me to ring you're father Sakura?"

"No thanks," Sakura shook her head hurriedly and stood up, stroking Li's cheek. "I'll do it."

She stood up and hurried out to phone her father, but Tori picked up.

"Hello"

"Tori, it's Sakura, Li got hurt and we're at the hospital with him… can I stay with him please? I don't want to leave him all alone and confused…" Sakura trailed off as Tori called for their dad.

"Sakura? What happened?"

"Li fell where Tori did last year and he's in the hospital… he was out in the rain all night because we all thought he'd gone home but he hadn't and … oh dad, please can I stay with him? He'll be so scared and confused when he wakes up!"

"Ok Sakura, you can stay, I'll come and check on you first though ok."
"Thanks Dad," Sakura gave him the details and hung up, running back into the room where Li was, grabbing his hand and telling him that she was still there and wouldn't leave his side all night.

AN: okay, okay, I know it was probably a lousy chapter… but give me a bit of credit, I need to set the scene here, that way you know what's going on…

Two choices from here onto chapter 4… if you want to hear what Dr Lewis tells Eli and what they do as they wait and Sakura chews herself out… or we can visit Li in la la land and see what's happening there.

Tell me in the reviews or I'll just decide myself and you can be bored … or not…

Amalthea