Disclaimer: I don't own Sasami, or any of the Tenchi gang.

There was no need for words as Sasami laid down on the bench. Ryo-Ohki curled up on Sasami's stomach and quickly went to sleep, listening to her heartbeat. Sasami looked up into the sky, thinking about all the things that had happened to her. She remembered Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Mihoshi, Kiyone... all the happy times they had together. Almost as soon as they had come, they were replaced by the stinging memories of crying in her room with the cabbit once again in her lap. Though her tears would soak Ryo-Ohki's fur, the cabbit never left her side. "I wish things could just go back to how they were..." she thought, as she gazed at a passing cloud.

"Tenchi..." A single tear started to fall down her cheek and into her ear, but she quickly pushed the thoughts from her mind. "Ryo-Ohki, I'm so glad you're here..." she smiled, as she started to pat the cabbit.

Ryo-Ohki awoke to Sasami patting her on the head, and she curled up into a ball again. Sasami sighed in relief. She felt like a ton of bricks had just been lifted off of her chest. She could finally breathe again. The feeling was short lived and her pulse quickened as she heard footsteps approaching her from her blind spot.

Ryo-Ohki immediately woke up, sensing that Sasami's heart-rate had drastically changed. The little cabbit sprang up on all fours on her chest, and stood there with her ears back, watching the stranger approach.

Sasami looked in the reflection on Ryo-Ohki's tag, and saw that someone was slowly walking up behind her. She sprang up off the bench and grabbed Ryo-Ohki all in an amazingly fluid moment.

"You again..." Sasami growled as she noticed that the person was the cop that had broken her arm, arrested her, and ... saved her life... 'I guess I should give him a chance.' she thought. 'He was just doing his job.'

"What do you want?" She asked him as he continued to approach her. Sasami began to get nervous, and started backing up. Ryo-Ohki sat calmly in her hands, knowing that Sasami could take care of herself.

"You shouldn't be out here. How did you get out? How did you get the casts off? Why the hell would you even take the casts off?? How are you even standing up on your ankle???" He pounded her with questions as he gazed at her with piercing brown eyes.

"It's a long story." Sasami sighed, as she calmed down slightly. "Jeez. Don't you have anything better to do on your time off than look for a runaway?"

"It doesn't matter." he said to her, looking confused and slightly embarrassed. "You need to come with me. I'll take you back to the hospital. We can get those re-casted, and you can go home, and everything will be all right. Nobody's going to hurt you."

"Yeah, right." Sasami said sarcastically, as she remembered the sound that her arm had made when it broke. "I'm not going with you... I don't want to go back there...."

"Running away from your problems isn't going to solve anything. You need to face them upfront." He said, trying to inch closer to grab her.

"In this case, running away has solved them. You're my only problem now. Can't you see that I don't want to go back? Can't you tell that if I had anything to go back to, I'd be more than happy to go back? No one cares about me at home. The only one who ever did was Ryo-Ohki, and she's here now, so now there's really no reason." Sasami started to cry, thinking about all the nothings that she had left behind.

The cop stopped moving, and thought about what she was saying. How could she solve her problems by running away from them? It just doesn't make any sense. In fact, nothing to do with her for awhile now had made sense. Finally, he said, "I still have to do my job. Until you're 18, you're a runaway, and need to be returned home. You don't have sensible judgement until you're 18, according to the courts. You need to come with me." he said, once again walking towards her.

This time, however, Sasami didn't move. 'If I have the power to do anything I want, why wouldn't I be able to escape from him?' She could just leave whenever she wanted to, and it might be fun to yank his chain and mess around with him just to piss him off. "Fine." Sasami said, innocently, sadly, and secretly evilly.

"I'm glad you came to your senses." He smiled as he held onto her wrist. "Everything will be fine."

Ryo-Ohki growled, and sat on Sasami's shoulder as they walked back to his police car. Too afraid of the growling beast to touch it, the cop decided to let the girl keep her pet until later. If it was less traumatizing for her to keep it for now, it would be good. And that way, he wouldn't have to touch it, either.

Sasami smiled slightly as she noticed that he was looking at Ryo-Ohki cautiously. She got into the car, and he slammed the door behind her. Ryo-Ohki hopped off her shoulder and nested in Sasami's lap again. Sasami stroked the cabbit silently as she listened to the radio squawk, and as the ignored the questions the cop was asking her.

Frustrated, he finally stopped trying to talk to her, and focused on driving. Now that he had her, he had no idea what to do. His first thought was to take her back to the station, but he remembered how injured she had been previously. He furrowed his brow in curiosity and tried to think of how she was able to rip the fiberglass casts off, and be able to walk on a sprained ankle.

'Who knows?' He thought, as he pulled into the parking lot of the hospital.

'This is going to be really interesting.' Sasami thought, as she shook Ryo-Ohki slightly. She jumped back onto Sasami's shoulder, as she tensed up. The cop opened the door, and she got out. He held onto her wrist while he closed the door, and they walked up to the entrance, Ryo-Ohki sitting on Sasami's shoulder and giving the cop the evil eye the entire way there.

I know it's been awhile. It just seems like I can't write when I'm not in the right mood. I'm sorry. I really hope you'll keep reading! -RyoOhki020