A/N I AM SO SORRY SO VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY SORRY!!!!!! begs for forgiveness I have been so busy, i know 2 months without and update is a reeeeeealy long time, but I have been busy with exams and stuff, its not an excuse mind you, just a reason. Again, its not very long and again its not very good, it needs some improvement but I'm going on holiday tomorrow and I figured I'd taken long enough already. Hope it will do for you...here goes....

Disclaimer: before I forget i don't own dbz or anything remotely related to it...'cept my vegeta doll of course...

Vegeta doll: I AM AN ACTION FIGURE!!!!!

Krillen sat beside the bed, blocking out all distractions, focusing all of his thoughts onto what lay before him. He had been there for almost 12 hours now, leaving 18's side only once when Bulma had insisted that he ate something, no... he never wanted to leave her...

It was almost like torture, watching her in this state, like a fallen lion, a once proud, mighty creature brought to its knees, but at the same time he couldn't leave, he absolutely had to be there when she woke up....if she woke up...

"Krillen?", Bulma popped her head around the door, "The doctors think they have figured out what happened, doctor Ramna would like to speak to you....if you don't want to I could tell her to,"

"No," Krillen interrupted, "I want to know, I need to know what's wrong."

"Okay, come on then."

He followed Bulma outside into the corridor where the tall, thin doctor was waiting, "Mr...I'm sorry, I didn't catch your last name...the young woman's chart just says 18."

"Her last name? It's err...Roshi," he lied quickly, "and you can just call me Krillen."

"Are you her partner?"

"Yeah....something like that."

"Well Krillen, I'm sure you'd like to know what's been going on," Krillen nodded in response, "well, we've run some tests and it would seem that when she was being modified, becoming an android," Krillen's face slowly formed an expression of both shock and horror, "don't worry sir, I'm the only person to have been informed, Ms Briefs only told me because she felt it was necessary for me to know...her secret is quite safe." Krillen appeared to be comforted slightly by this, the doctor continued, "Well it would seem that a microchip was implanted into the lining of her stomach, which is what gave her an unlimited energy supply, well this chip seems to have become damaged in some way causing her to collapse...we hope she will recover, but under the circumstances its really quite difficult to say, I'm so sorry."

"It's okay, Thank you Doctor." Krillen said quietly, before turning his back and returning to 18's room.

He sat back down on the hard plastic chair next to the bed, Bulma had brought him a more comfortable chair hours ago, but while he had accepted it and thanked her, he was afraid that if he sat on something comfortable he would collapse from the sheer exhaustion of the previous evening... and he couldn't let that happen...

Bulma popped her head round the door into the room once more, "Will you be okay?" she asked, a sad smile gracing her lips, "Stupid question I guess huh?"

"Yea...kinda"

"Just take care of yourself okay? I know you want to look after 18, but we're all here to help with that...I'm just starting to wonder who's looking after you..."

"I'll be fine, you should go home Bulma, your family are probably missing you."

"They can feed themselves for a couple of hours. Right now I'm here for you Krillen."

"Thanks Bulma, but really, I'll be okay, right now I think I just need to be on my own."

"Okay then, just remember, you're still human, you need food and sleep, make sure you get it." And with that Bulma turned and left the small room.

Krillen turned his head and looked down at his sleeping angel, even in this state she was the most gorgeous thing he's ever layed eyes on. He stroked a few strands of hair away from her face to reveal a purple smudge on her forehead, 'She must have hit her head as she fell," Krillen mused to himself, he yawned and shook his head, "This is mad....maybe Bulma's right, I should get some sleep."

He stumbled to his feet and lightly brushed a kiss onto 18's cheek before turning to leave the room, he knew Bulma had made arrangements for some of his clothes to be brought over and a bed to be set aside for him, he'd just head over to reception and ask where to go.

Just as he was about to leave he heard a groan, ' Snap out of it man your just sleep deprived.'

He continued to make his way out the door when he heard, "Uhh...Krillen? Krillen don't leave me..."

"18?" He whispered, barely daring to say her name. He turned back to her to see her eyelids fluttering open..."18!" He rushed over to her and wrapped his arms around her, as well as he could with her lying down, inhaling deeply the scent of her hair and cherishing the soft feeling of her skin against his...

"I love you too Krillen."

A/N Well that's it, I plan to write my next chapter by the pool so hopefully it should only be a couple of weeks before I update this time...but I think by now we all know not to trust me and my estimates of when I'll update...anyway as always, review review review!!!