Syaoran gazed at what would have been Chloes' head if it hadn't had been for the covers over her head. She had been this way ever since he found her. What had happened? Syaoran thought. He just found her collapsing on the floor looking at, well an empty pathway, she was clutching her side as if she'd been cut, and there had been a small 'scar' if you could call it that, but it had disappeared yesterday. But he hadn't seen any blood on her clothes.

He had called one of the ladies from next door in to change her and put her to bed, and they said they could see no cuts or bruises on her. So what had happened?

Chloe had been asleep or unconscious, Syaoran wasn't sure which because she was always so quiet, for two days now. He was starting to get worried, and tired. He hadn't left the stool by her bed since she had been put there. He just prayed she was well and wondered whether what Eriol had said had been true.

"Come on Nonaka. Be okay. Wake up" He muttered. His amber eyes had none of the fire that they used to have, they had dark rings under them and his lids were half shut. His eyes were red and misty. But almost as if his wish had been granted she started to move beneath the blankets.

"Nonaka!" Syaoran gasped when he finally realised this and almost instantaneously woke up. The covers were forced back by a hand with long slender fingers and he came face to face with someone who he had almost forgotten.

Her eyes opened and landed on his face. Her green orbs searched his face as though trying to decide whether he was a mirage or not. Her golden brown hair was matted over her face, which was ghostly white.

"Syaoran-Kun? Is that you?" She whispered

"Are you okay?"

Chloe sat up shakily and gazed at him. She tilted her head but her shaky focus stayed on him. When she finally seamed to decide it was really him, a tear fell from her eye.

Syaoran didn't know what to think. Was she still out of it? He didn't know how to comfort her. He looked down to his hands as if searching for an answer there when he felt a light touch on his cheek. He looked up and she was looking straight into his eyes.

"You look so ill. What happened? How did you find me?"

"It's a long story"

She shuffled herself to the edge of the bed and slowly swung her legs out of it.

"I'll make you breakfast." She told him attempting to stand but stumbling and falling only to be caught by Syaoran.

"Your too weak" He told her matter of factly, furrowing his eyebrows.

"I'm fine" she told him stubbornly "I don't know what you're talking about" she pushed herself away from him but only ended up landing in a heap on the floor. Syaoran knelt down in front her and found that she was crying.

"Are you hurt?" he asked wanting to reach out to her and comfort her but something was holding him back. She fell forward into his arm and cried against his chest leaving him in shock.

"I was so alone." She sobbed "but no-one came. No one came. I just don't want to be alone anymore."

Syaoran looked down onto the top of her head. He shakily placed a hand on her golden hair holding her cautiously with the other and whispered "Its all right now."

* * * * *

When Chloe woke up the next morning her eyes felt sore as if she had been crying. She remembered crying but couldn't have been, because Syaoran had been there but he was in Japan, with Sakura. Happy most likely. Why would he care about her when he was so in love with Sakura?

"You awake?" a voice came from behind her. She opened her eyes but saw nothing but wall until she turned her head and her eyes met the most beautiful sight she had seen in a whole year.

"Sya- Li-Kun?"

Syaoran seamed to be taken back by the sudden formality but just looked at her with those beautiful Amber crystals that were his eyes "Are you feeling better?"

"Yeah think"

"You had me worried yesterday."

"Why are you in England?" She asked him sitting up and leaning against the backrest of the bed pulling the covers all the way up to her neck so he couldn't see her pyjamas. She just stared at him wondering what the answer would be and at the same time hoping that it was 'because I missed you'.

Syaoran looked at his feet for a second then back at her.

"I was told you were in trouble."

"By-" 'Who' would have been her second word but she figured it out and suddenly panicked. "Hiiragizawa-Kun told you! He did didn't he"

"Told me what? Only that he felt a dangerous power rising and worried you were in trouble." Chloe seemed relieved for some reason that Syaoran couldn't figure out.

"And you. Why did you come? Why did you leave Sakura, you need to keep working on that relationship thing."

"Don't I know it" Syaoran muttered sarcastically. Chloe suddenly looked very shocked or worried, or even confused, Syaoran couldn't really tell which. Oh No she better find out! He thought. But her hand just shot out and touched his forehead gently.

"You're not hot so you're not ill. So then where did that sarcasm come from, are you by any chance turning less defensive?" she said with a small mischievous smile on her face, reminding him of the Chloe he once spent his childhood with.

"No" Syaoran stated plainly and started to try to scowl, but somehow couldn't manage to keep it, well. scowly looking. "Do you want breakfast?"

"Sure!" Chloe said smiling but putting her head back onto the pillow, and pulling the covers over her head.

"Oh no you don't" Syaoran said dragging her up and out of bed. "If you had been in Hong Kong you would have been up at four"

"Four! You've been getting up earlier! When do you sleep!?!" Chloe almost shouted with shock but fell over in the process. And into Syaorans arms. again. She mentally cursed herself for always doing that. She could feel herself blushing profusely while Syaoran helped stabilise her. She'd forgotten how strong he was he held her almost as if she weighed nothing. She looked up into his eyes and felt her blush redden.

She saw what could possibly have been a small smile on his face before he let her go and turned toward the kitchen. Leaving her to stand their staring back at him. He stopped at the door and turned his head slightly.

"I missed you. You know?" he said. Chloe felt her heart skip almost a lifetime of beats before she smiled and replied.

"I missed you too"

* * * * *

Later in the day Chloe had decided to actually get changed and was sat down reading. Syaoran was watching the television but with no success.

"I can't understand a word!" he told Chloe.

"Or course you can't its English" she replied only in English making him look more confused. "Opps" she said and then told him in Chinese.

"I know its English but. " Syaoran trailed off as though he was going to say something and then started flicking through the channels.

"On Monday night two people were found dead in Heathergreen Park." the newsreader said. Chloes head snapped up, she'd been there on Monday night with two people but she couldn't recall whom and then. that's strange, she thought, I can't remember.

"Anyone who knows anything about this or had seen anyone within that area is asked to go to Queen Street police station and pass on the information they have-" the TV was turned off and Chloe stood up.

"What's wrong?" Syaoran asked

"I was there. Monday night"

"Yes that's where I found you"

"Sorry?"

"In that park. Did you know the two people who were err. dead. They must have been only a few meters away from you."

"I don't know but I think I do. I just can't remember much from that evening" but she was going to try.

Chloe closed her eyes and concentrated, and soon enough images of that evening were replayed in her mind. She had been at work when an old friend had come in. Kitty and Marcus. They were the people she was with that evening. Images speeded past her, they'd been out, and were arranging to meet again, they had been in the park, she was about to go home when.

Images of their bodies on the floor staring up at the cold sky passed in front of her eyes and then.

"Children suffer for their ancestors mistakes Chloe. Don't you know that?"

She opened her eyes and Syaoran was knelt in front of her in panic.

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!" He shouted "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING! YOU'RE DOING STUFF THAT'S TOO POWERFUL FOR YOU DO YOU WANT TO GET HURT!"

"Kitty and Marcus." She said. She could feel her body almost drain completely of feeling and tears tried to force their way to her eyes again. But she wouldn't cry, not in front of Syaoran. Not again. "And. Him"

"Him?" Syaoran said confused and worried at the same time.

"Hey when did I sit down?" Chloe asked looking down on herself sitting in a chair.

"You didn't" he told her and Chloe raised an eyebrow in confusion "You collapsed. again"

* * * * *

"When?" Syaoran said down the phone in a hushed voice "I don't think she's safe here Hiiragizawa, and she's trying magiks I think are too powerful for her."

"But what can we do about it? I'll be there in a week. I can't get there any earlier. I'm sorry."

"Then don't come"

"Sorry?"

"I'll explain later"

* * * * *

Chloe finished her song and went behind the bar. But her performance hadn't been the same as it had been. Every one could tell something was on her mind.

"Hey Cherry!" Amber called from the back room.

Chloe looked up and when she saw no sign of Amber in the doorway she got up and walked into the back room.

"Visitor for you" Amber said as she bumped into Chloe in the doorway and shut the door behind her as Chloe entered the room.

"Nonaka."

"Li-San! How did you find me here!?" she said in a panic. He'll be so disappointed with me, she thought.

Syaoran was scowling like he almost always did and just lifted his Lasin board up a little.

"Oh. I suppose your disappointed with me, working in a place like this." She said and turned he eyes to the floor. But Syaoran lifted her head with his hand. He had been so quiet getting to her, and quick too. Another thing she had forgotten about him.

"You sang that night we met Sakura in that club didn't you" he asked. Chloe just smiled weakly and nodded once. "Thank you" Syaoran said. She couldn't then help but stare at his face in shock at what he had said. She stopped breathing for a second and could feel herself begin to blush.

"I-I-I I just wanted you to be with the one you loved. I thought maybe it would help." She stammered.

"It did." He told her.

Why is he staring at me like that? She thought. The closeness of the two of them made her feel a little nervous.

"Look Li-"

"Why did you stop using your cards?"

"How did you-?"

"And why have you become so formal with me. We're friends from way back Chloe-San."

"What did you-?"

"I used your first name. As you can mine like you used to."

"Who are you and what have you done with Li Syaoran?" She asked looking very suspicious of him, but sounding joke-ish at the same time.

"A few things changed while I was in Japan." He told her. "Anyway. I want you to come back to Hong Kong with me."

"I-"

"Cant? I've talked with your. 'Manager' and she said that it is fine. They all miss you Chloe-San. Come home."

Chloe just blinked. He kept using her first name, he had been sarcastic yesterday morning, he changed so much yet so little, and she was staring to think she didn't know him anymore. I guess a lot can change in a year, she thought before she replied.

"Fine"

* * * * *

Syaorans Bags were packed the by the end of the next week and he was ready to go home for Christmas. It'd be better than last Christmas because he would be home and Chloe would be there this year.

"Come on Nonaka we'll be late for our plane!"

"What plane?" Chloe shouted back from the bathroom, which was where she had been for the last half-hour. She came with her hair and body wrapped in long towels smelling of Strawberry shower gel.

"The plane that's taking us back to Hong Kong."

"I'm not going"

Syaoran stopped dead in his tracks and turned to face her, but turned back round blushing when he saw her in the towels. Chloe rolled her eyes and started to remove her old nail polish. While Syaoran began to become short tempered.

"You said you'd come home"

"I am home"

Syaoran couldn't help but turn round now and he looked infuriated.

"Pardon."

"I am home. England is my home now. It has been for the last year. And anyway I want to look my parents up I'm not going back to Hong Kong Li-Kun. You go you'll miss your flight"

"Your coming with me" Syaoran told her

"I'm not." Chloe snapped back sealing the nail varnish remover lid with a little more force than necessary. " I've lived here for the last year and frankly no one gave a damn about me, and your are not going to just come here and start telling me what to do as if you own me. Now go and catch your flight." Chloe turned back around and started applying base coat to her nails.

Syaoran was in shock. This wasn't the same carefree girl he had known. She'd grown into someone he wasn't sure he liked very much at the moment. Picking up his bags and opening the door he did the only thing he could have, and said to her in a voice that was full of disappointment and a little sorrow;

"Fine"

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