Ok, here's the next chapter although I shouldn't be posting it seeing as I only got 1 review!

Thanks to:

KPKrazy400: Thanks for being my awesome reviewer! hehe (BTW, thanks for test reading the last scene in the chapter.) And you already know what's going to happen in this chapter! MWHAHAHA! *hears Kim's mom yell at her for the sinister laughter* Ok, did Kim's mom ever remember why she called the police? I still think I'm going to sue her for hitting me! MWHAHAHAHA! Oh yeah, have you seen Quin's videotape that she taped that whole scene on? I've gotta break it yet! MWHAHAHA! *sees everyone looking at her funny.* lol.

If you want to know what I'm talking about, read "One Silly Conversation" by both of us. It's quite funny, at least I think it is. And if you read, REVIEW (just no flames)!

Ok, I think I'll stop being weird *hears Liz say 'yeah right'. starts chasing her. comes back when the readers wonder where she went.*

I think I should introduce this chapter before I chase Liz.

Here's the next chapter that shouldn't be posted yet. And next chapter I really WON'T post unless I get at least two reviews (c'mon that's really not alot!). So, read and REVIEW! It's really not that hard! *chases Liz again*

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Everything was quiet. She could remember hearing Ron, but now she didn't think anybody was in the room. She kept her eyes closed as she let her ears adjust and see if she could hear anything - but she couldn't.

Slowly, ever so slowly, she opened one eye, then the other. No one was in the room. The walls were white - no color to them at all. As her eyes adjusted, she saw machines all over - and every single one was hook up to her.

Quin jerked her head. She was in the hospital.

She tried to speak, but no sound came out of her voice. Where was everyone?

Footsteps down the hall . . . who was it?

Ron walked into the room, looking down at a sheet of paper. When he got about half way into the room, he looked up.

"Quin?" he asked as he walked toward her, not sure if this was just his imagination running away with him again or if she was really laying there awake. "Quin?" he asked again, only a little louder that time.

"R - Ron?" Quin said as she forced the words out of her mouth.

"Quin! You're okay!" he said as he reached the bed and put the paper aside. He wanted to hug her right at that moment, but remembered how he had only grabbed her hand - and it had bruised her.

She gave him a small smile. "W - well, I've felt better." she said. As she finished, her cheek twitched a little.

But Ron didn't notice. "I'll be right back!" he exclaimed as he ran out of the room.

Quin watched him go, then looked around at the different machines that she was hooked up to.

That's when she felt something tickling her nose.

She moved a hand up to feel what was there and, after a moment, she realized that they were supplying her with oxygen. She looked at her hands and saw tubes running from the back of them up to an object that was next to her bedside.

\\Those gotta be the IVs.// she thought to herself. She looked at the other things, but couldn't tell what was what - and she didn't try to figure it out. She was way too tired for that.

Quin turned when she heard Ron come back into the room. Kim, a doctor, and Quin's adoptive mother followed behind him.

"Quin!" her mother exclaimed as she ran up to the bedside. "Oh, I'm so glad you're all right."

"Yeah. You gave us quite a scare there." Kim remarked.

Quin gave a small smile - that was about all she was capable of at that moment.

The doctor walked up to her and took out his stethoscope and listened to her lungs and heart. He did a numerous other tests before he looked at the people in the room.

"Well, it seems like we got the antidote in time for it to work." he said. Ron cheered. "However, the other medication did its job - only a little different."

"What do you mean?" Sarah asked.

"Well, this drug, if it's taken in the right amount according to our experiments, will help dull the pain in certain internal organs. However, every time we gave an overdoes, it shut down the organs the least needed at a time - like a kidney. The funny thing was that this went straight to Quin's lungs and attacked them first." the doctor explained. "It could have been that something else got mixed with it or something. All we know is that her lungs aren't very strong."

"Will that go away with time?" Quin asked.

"Maybe. Most likely, no. You could get asthma or some other respiratory problem, or you could even need an oxygen tank to help you breath." the doctor replied.

"Oh no. I'm not going to haul one of those things around." Quin wheezed.

The doctor shook his head. "It might be necessary. But I think your lungs will heal fine. You just won't be able to do a lot of physical activity that involves making her lungs work harder - or at least not at first."

"But I like to do physical exercise!" Quin protested.

"I'm afraid that if you overdo yourself, you'll damage your lungs. Not instantly though. All the coughing that too much physical activity will make you do will do it over time." the doctor replied. "However, you can work yourself up to being able to get back into shape. You'd have to take things very slowly and it could take over a year to get about as half as good as you used to be."

Quin nodded. "Will I ever be able to get all the way back like I used to be?"

The doctor shook his head. "Probably not. Your lungs just won't be strong enough. But if you take it slow and keep with it, you could get pretty close."

Quin nodded again as she looked up at the ceiling overhead.

\\Not being able to do what I used to?// she thought. \\But I'm the kind of person that needs to be active! I'm going to hurt Shego and Drakken for this!// she vowed.

She blocked out what the doctor said next. She didn't want to hear anymore. She would do the things she used to do!

"Quin? Are you alright?" Ron asked, breaking into her thoughts.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm fine." Quin replied as she looked around. The doctor had already left the room and only Ron and Kim were there now. "Where'd everyone go?"

"Didn't you hear your mother?" Kim asked. Quin shook her head. "You're getting worse than Ron." she joked. "Anyway, your mom went home for a while to rest - well, we kind of had to force her to go home."

"She's just worried." Quin said.

"Yeah." Kim agreed. "Why don't you try and get some sleep. I have to be getting home as well."

"Alright." Quin replied. "Bye Kim."

"See ya." Kim replied. "And make sure you get some rest. It'll help you a lot."

"Okay." Quin replied as Kim walked out of the room. She turned to Ron who still sat by her bedside. "Ron, don't you have to be going as well?"

"Nah. I think I'll stay here for a little while." Ron replied as he sat in the chair next to her bed.

"Alright." Quin replied. She looked over at him. "You know, I heard you."

"What?" Ron asked, confused.

"When I was out. You told me to keep fighting even though you weren't sure. You know, if you hadn't said it to me, I might have given up." Quin replied.

"Really? You mean I helped you?" Ron asked.

"Why do you sound so surprised?" Quin asked.

"Well, I've never really helped someone before." Ron replied.

"What are you talking about? You help Kim all the time." Quin replied.

"No I don't. And usually when we get captured, it's my fault." Ron replied sadly.

"Yeah right Ron." Quin replied. "You've help so much. I mean, you've saved my life more times than I have ever done for someone else except my own."

Ron looked at her. "Do you mean that?"

"Of course I do." Quin replied. "Why wouldn't I?"

Ron shrugged and smiled at her. "I think I'll leave you alone to get some rest."

Quin smiled. "Alright."

Ron walked out of the room as Quin let her eyes fall closed.

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Something woke Quin up in the middle of the night. She looked around and saw nothing there that could make any noise.

\\Then what woke me up?// Quin thought.

She looked toward a corner and at first saw nothing. But as Quin kept staring that way, she saw something shift in the shadows.

"W-who's there?" she asked shakily.

The shadow began to move toward Quin's bed. Quin's eyes went wide when she saw who it was.

Shego.

Quin took a deep breath in to let out a scream, but her lungs weren't strong enough to hold all the air and Quin erupted in a coughing fit.

After a few moments, she stopped and looked at Shego. "W-what are you doing here?"

Shego stood over her bed menacingly.

Quin moved her hand to touch a button to page the doctors, but Shego saw the movement and quickly grabbed her hand.

Quin's arm began to bruise.

"Quin don't even try." Shego hissed.

\\I'm going to die this time.// Quin thought. \\There's no escape.//

"T - t- this isn't a fair f-f-fight, Shego." Quin studdered.

Shego rolled her eyes. "Who said I came here to fight you?"

\\ . . . yeah, she's just come here to kill me.// Quin thought. "W-why else would you come?" Quin retorted. "Well, besides to kill me."

Shego shook her head. "Listen Quin." she started angrily. "I didn't actually want to kill you you know!"

Quin looked up at her, both shocked and confused. "Well it seemed that way to me."

"I was following orders." Shego replied as she let go of Quin's hand. "I wasn't actually going to kill you two! Do you like I'd be stupid enough not to tie that hairless rodent up if I were?"

Poor Quin didn't know what to think. "Well, then, if you didn't want to kill us, why did you stab me with the syringe?" Quin retorted.

"You got me mad." Shego replied. "I've got a bad temper and kicking me in the back of the knee practically in the same spot you got me before wasn't such a great idea."

"So you're saying that if I hadn't kicked you, I'd be home right now?" Quin asked.

Shego nodded. "Pretty much."

Quin gave a snort of disbelief. "Yeah right." she said sarcastically.

Shego glared at her. "I'm telling the truth! I'm not that heartless you know!"

Quin looked up at her. "Could have fooled me." Shego started to get mad. Quin knew that she was pushing her limits and decided to quit while she was ahead. "Sorry. I didn't mean for it to sound like that, but I can't trust you you know."

"I know." Shego replied as she walked over to the window. "And if you tell anyone about this night, you will regret this."

Quin looked at Shego. "Wait. Before you go. So, when I was in league with you and Drakken, and every time you found me and said that I was lucky you didn't tell Drakken, were you actually helping me?"

Shego looked at her. "I guess you could say that."

"Why?" Quin asked.

Shego looked around. "It's a fault I have." she replied.

"What are you talking about?" Quin asked.

Shego sighed angrily. "If I tell you this you can never ever repeat it although Stoppable and Possible know."

"Alright." Quin replied, interested in what Shego was going to say next.

"I used to be good." Shego replied.

Quin looked shocked. "You? Good? I thought I'd never hear those two words in the same sentence."

"Yeah, well, you have." Shego snapped. "And if you or Possible or Stoppable tell, I will get you for it." she threatened.

"Okay." Quin replied as Shego disappeared through the window. Quin's mind raced. Shego? A good guy . . . well, girl? That didn't seem possible.

But after being friends with Kim for a while, Quin knew that she should expect anything.

Quin fell back into a peaceful sleep.

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