A/N: OK. I was all-creative this weekend and finished 2 and a half chapters on this story. I figured I'd give you guys another update on here. I was so creative that I even wrote two chapters on Devil's Angels, so Chapter One will be coming out soon. ( I'm so happy. Thanks for all the reviews and Damia: HEHE! Of course he's intelligent. And Thanks!

Chapter 7

Last Time:
"Very well. She seems to be recovering at an unearthly pace. The operation took four hours because we had to remove four bullets. One from her thigh, one from her right shoulder blade, one from just below her left breast and one from her abdominal area. As you can tell, we had to be very careful with the three in her upper body, or else we would have killed her, thus making us take hours in removing these. She is going to be asleep until sometime tomorrow afternoon, so I suggest that you all go home and rest for now. At a normal healing pace, she should be out of here in a couple of weeks, But at the rate she's going, it may only take a week for her to be ready to go. Now, shoo all of you, and rest up. Come back tomorrow afternoon and you can see her." The doctor explained Hotaru's condition. The others were more then happy to 'shoo' and sleep. It was now 3:30 AM and although Heero could stay up all hours of the night, the rest could not.

As they were about to leave, Duo turned back to the doctor. "Did you say four bullets?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?"

This Time:

"Yes, I did. Why?" The doctor looked at Duo.

"I didn't think she was shot four times... There was only seven gun shotswere only seven gunshots and two guys took two bullets each. That's four. Seven minus four is three..." Before Duo could say anything else, Wufei smirked. "Oh, look. The baka knows how to do math."

"Wait! The fourth one must have been the first one..."

"Duo, speak sense, please." Quatra was not in the mood to listen and figure out riddles at this late hour. Duo looked at Quatra and rolled his eyes. "If you guys would let me finish, I might 'speak sense'. When we were dancing, I thought I heard something that sounded like a gunshot, but I wasn't sure. Hotaru yelled in pain, remember? May be she was shot then..."

"Can we talk about this in the morning? I'd like to get some sleep so I can get back here early enough so that I'm here when she wakes up. She shouldn't have to wake up by herself, you know." Relena was dropping and worried about Hotaru.

"Fine." Everyone left and went back to the school. At the main doors Lady Une asked Quatra to sleep on the pull out couch in Relena and Hotaru's dorm. She didn't want anything more to happen this night. Quatra agreed and Relena went to the boys' suit to wait for Quatra to get ready. Lady Une and Zechs went their separate ways, wondering what was going to happen now. Relena's bodyguard was in the hospital and the boys can't stand to be around her.

**~** The Next Day **~**

Relena and Quatra woke up early. Relena quickly showered as Quatra made breakfast. 'Miss Relena is a nice person, if you really get to know her, I guess. I'm glad she's made friends with Miss Hotaru. I wonder if the others are right in suspecting Miss Hotaru..." he thought to himself just before someone began banging on the door.

Relena had just come out of the bathroom and went to answer the door. Quatra motioned for her to go into the kitchen and let him open the door. He was pretty sure he knew who was there, but didn't want to take any chances. Pulling out his gun, he moved to the door. He swung the door open, his gun raised and pointed at the person on the other side. "Whoa! Q-Man! Did I do something that made you hate me, or is this 'Everyone Pick On Duo Day'?!?!?!" Duo began to pout.

Quatra lowered the gun and Relena came out of the kitchen, eating some of the scrambled eggs Quatra had made. "No, Duo, you didn't do anything to make me hate you, and what are you talking about 'Everyone Pick On Duo Day'?" Quatra asked, motioning for the braided boy to come in.

"Well, I got up and tried making breakfast for everyone. It kinda didn't work and Wufei got mad at me and chased me around. Heero and Trowa came out. I asked Heero to save me and he pointed his gun at me and threatened me and Trowa just leaned against the wall and smirked. You Weren't There To Save Me!!!! And then Trowa saw the mess in the kitchen and got mad at me too. I ran here as fast as I could. Do you think they'll come after me?!?!?!?"

"Just eat here Duo. You can come to the hospital with me a Quatra later. I bet the others won't even want to come with us." Relena indicated all the eggs and bacon that Quatra had cooked.

As soon as Duo had finished eating, him and Relena wanted to go to the hospital. Quatra wanted to as well, but he didn't show them. He made them sit down in the living room and play a game of Scrabble. No one was really paying attention to the game, and, after about an hour of playing, Duo was actually winning. They were all relieved when a knock came on the door. They all rushed to it to find the other G-boys and Lady Une standing there. "Ready to go check on Hotaru? I figured you guys would all ready be there though... It IS 10." Lady Une asked.

"What are we waiting for?!?!?!" Relena, Duo and Quatra took off down the hall. Lady Une chuckled and the others followed after them.

When they arrived at the hospital, they instantly went to the nurse's station and asked if they could see Hotaru. They were told that only one person could go in at a time, and that Hotaru had not yet woken up. Relena went in and sat beside Hotaru's bed, much to everyone's disapproval. Now there was no one in there protecting Relena. The nurses agreed to leave the door ajar so that the inside of the room could be monitored. Duo and Quatra took up their activity from last night, pacing. Lady Une quietly talked to the doctor at the far end of the corridor. Heero and Trowa leaned against the wall and Wufei sat in the most uncomfortable chair ever. (A/N: Those sets of plastic chairs connected by a metal bar set up in the corridors of hospitals.... sit on them too long and your bum goes numb....)

After about an hour or so later Hotaru stirred. 'What the hell happened? Did I get hit by a bus?' She asked herself, shaking her head a bit, making it pound. Turning her head to the right, she noticed Relena sitting there. "Hi."

Relena jumped at the sound of Hotaru's voice and smiled brightly at her. "I'm glad you're awake. How are you? The doctor said that you'd be out until later on this afternoon."

"Doctor?! Well... yeah... I'm felling great for someone who was shot four times last night. I could use some Advil... Are you here by yourself? You'd better not be!"

Relena laughed. "I'll call the nurse. Don't worry about me."
"It's my job to worry about you, and you know it."

"Well the guys and Lady Une is here with me, so you can stop worrying." Hotaru's bed was on the other side of the room so the guys outside couldn't understand their conversation. Relena pushed the nurse's call button and almost immediately a nurse appeared. The G-boys tried to follow but she would not allow them inside. She told them that it was not appropriate right at the moment because she had no idea what was wanted. They could come in after, she said.

"Can I please sit up?" Hotaru asked as soon as the nurse came in, "I'm very uncomfortable. And these bandages... Why do I have them? They're uncomfortable too."

The nurse set the bed in a sitting position and helped her get as comfortable as possible. "It's good to see you awake. You were brought in unconscious last night, with four bullet wounds. The bullets had to be removed, that's why you have those bandages. Although you look better then anyone else in you situation would. Oh, There are some very anxious young men outside that would like to see you. Can I let them in?"

"Sure, but can I get some Advil please? My head kinda hurts."

The nurse said she would be right back with some Advil and the guys. After she left, Relena helped Hotaru to look as presentable as possible by brushing her hair and pulling the covers up around her waist. Hotaru wasn't too pleased about this but she didn't say anything. The nurse reappeared with 2 Advil, a glass of water, the G-Boys and Lady Une. Hotaru smiled politely at the nurse and commented "Two isn't really enough. Six would be better. Can I please have six?"

Duo and Quatra gaped at her. 4 Advil was enough to knock the two boys out for 12 hours. The nurse shook her head. "I'm afraid that's not possible. That would be way too many. It'll make your condition worse."

"I think you'd better give her the six, nurse." Lady Une spoke up. The nurse looked at her sternly. "It's against hospital protocol. She can only have two."

"Whatever." Lady Une pulled a bottle out of her pocket. Opening it, she carefully counted out six pills. Taking the glass of water from the stunned nurse, she handed it and the pills to Hotaru. Hotaru gave her a small smile and quickly took the pills. "Ahhh, that's good. Now. Hi Quatra. Did you have fun last night?" The G-Boys just looked at her.

"Hello. I thought I said that only one person in here at a time." The doctor from last night entered the room to find it crowded, "You're going to wake up Miss Tomoe."

"She's awake, Doctor Felix. Although I'm not sure for how long, she just had six Advil." The nurse said, shooting dirty looks at Lady Une.

"WHAT?!?!??! SIX?!?!?!??! You know, nurse, that she is only permitted two at a time, unless otherwise specified!!"

"It WAS otherwise specified." Lady Une told him, "Now, if you could just do whatever it is that you came here to do, then I'm sure these people would be more then happy to hear about her condition and when she can come back to school."

"Whatever. Can we please get this over with? I'm ready to go home now, and these beds are really bad on the back. Can I sit over in that really comfy looking chair?" Hotaru's voice was laced with impatience, irritation, and anger.

"You won't be going anywhere for at least a week Miss Tomoe. Let's look at your bandages and stitches." The doctor informed her and began checking on the wounds. When he was finished, he looked at her sharply, "What are you?"

Hotaru looked at the doctor. "What do you mean?" she asked innocently.

"You're all healed, like you were never shot. I know better then that, I preformed the surgery on you last night to remove the bullets. You had six Advil over a half hour ago. Most people would be out cold 5 minutes after they had them, but here you are, wide awakewide-awake. Which is surprising in itself, but you were not even supposed to wake up until at least late this afternoon."

"I guess I'm a fast healer then. As for the Advil, I can't explain that one. I always had to take a lot to even dull the pain where most people only needed two. If you think you've got some freak experiment, or radical discovery here, then you're sadly mistaken. I've been like this my whole life, and no one has ever been able to explain it." Hotaru became thoughtful, "May be I'm a Mutant, like the X-Men or something..."

"Or one of those genetically enhanced humans from Manticore, Like missy from Dark Angel..." Duo put in.

Well, by this time, the doctor was looking at those two like they were people escaped from some Mental Asylum. "Well I don't know what to say to that, other then you two really need help and you really need to stop watching so much tvTV. I guess that you can go home anytime Miss Tomoe." The doctor left shaking his head, with the nurse following after him.

Hotaru began to laugh. Everyone turned to her. This was the first time she had ever laughed in public. "That was a good one, Duo! I never even thought of it!" She said between laughs.

Relena, Quatra, Duo and Lady Une gaped at her. "Uh... Thanks... I guess." Duo finally got out. This was the first time she was nice to Duo, and she just complimented him!

Hotaru got out of bed and stood up. Looking down at her revealing hospital gown, she asked "No one happened to bring me clothes or anything did they?"

"Nope. Sorry." Duo said. Relena hit him and turned back to Hotaru to explain. "The doctor said you wouldn't be able to go anywhere for at least a week, so I only brought in the bare necessities."

Hotaru shrugged. "That's ok. My dress from last night should be around here somewhere." Then she looked at her thigh and ripped off her bandage. There was a row of 15 stitches there. Grumbling to herself "Great! They never left me any scissors to cut these off with. Idiots!". She hit the call button and a nurse rushed in. "What are you doing up?!?! Let me get a doctor!"

"Onna! Shut Up!" Wufei yelled at her. The nurse turned to him and began to ask who the Hell he thought he was when Hotaru asked "Can I get some scissors or something? I need to get rid of these stitches, before I scar."

The nurse turned to gape at Hotaru, and just then, the doctor from this morning came back in the room with some supplies to remove the stitches. He walked over to Hotaru and began to pull up her gown. Hotaru ripped it out of his hands and yelled "What The Hell Do You Think You're Doing Perv?!?!?!?!?! Give Me Those!" she took the stitch removing supplies from him, "Now Get Lost!!!!"

Lady Une picked the doctor up off the floor by his shirt collar and threw him out of the room. He landed on his ass with a loud thud. "This is a hospital, NOT a whore house. You Can't Just Undress Her Like That!!" She yelled at him and turned around to find everyone just looking at her. "What? You think I was just going to stand there and watch that Perv do that? He'll be reported and fired as soon as Hotaru is finished and ready to go. Let's go out here and let her have her privacy."

Relena laid Hotaru's dress and things on the bed and they all filed out of the room. In five minutes flat, Hotaru had all the stitches removed and walked out of the room. Lady Une had already reported the doctor and they left. On the way back to the school, Lady Une announced "Extra measures have to be taken for Miss Relena's safety. I want Hotaru and Relena to move into the boy's dorm room first thing tomorrow morning. Quatra and Trowa have already agreed to share a room, So Quatra's things have been moved out and his old room is being redecorated for the girls. And there will be no arguments to this." when she said the last bit, she gave a look to Duo and Wufei, cutting them off in their complaints.