Ok guys I have a few things to say, since I forgot to mention it before this is how old everyone is. Sakura and Tomoyo are almost 22 and Syaoran and Eriol are 23. (I know it's a little young but work with me here!)

When I said there was a 90 chance of him dying I had meant 90 percent but the little sign didn't show I guess. And I know they're a little OOC but I'm working on it! I'm an amateur writer you can't expect perfection from me!

After returning to the house they were greeted by the police. Apparently they had seen everything through the cameras in the house but they couldn't contact them because the storm had cut the phone lines. And they couldn't get there because of road damage.

The police had searched all around the river but didn't find James's body.

Tomoyo and Sakura had huddled on the couch with coffee, while Bob was talking to Eriol and Syaoran.

"What do you think happened to him?" Tomoyo asked her best friend.

"I don't know but I really hope he's gone for good. I wasn't actually taking any of this seriously until now. I never thought he was capable of hurting someone! I didn't.... I thought the police was just exaggerating it." Sakura's eyes filled with tears for the hundredth time as she thought about what he had almost done to Tomoyo and her.

Tomoyo put her arm around her and put her head on her shoulder. "It's going to be ok, Sakura."

"How do you know that?"

"I-" Tomoyo started but was interrupted by Bob.

"Because we aren't going to stop searching for him until he is found. Dead or alive." He looked at the two shaken girls and added, "I am sorry for what happened. We have no idea how he had been able to track down your location." Eriol and Syaoran walked up behind him and joined them.

"I'm sorry," they both said.

Sakura just nodded at them and lowered her head.

A guy with blonde hair and blue eyes, one of the police officers, walked up to the guys. "Excuse me, sir? We found something that might interest you."

Everyone turned their attention to the man talking. "A little farther away in the jungle, we found a van. We think it belonged to Mr. Mann. (James's last name) We have found all kinds of photos of Miss Kinomoto in there."

"What?!" Sakura exclaimed while standing up.

"Yes. And some of them are quite personal." A faint blush came on to the guys cheeks.

"WHAT?!" She yelled, causing everyone who was in the house looking for fingerprints and clues to look at her.

Tomoyo stood up and pulled her down by her shoulders. "Sakura calm down."

"Calm down? I just found out somebody's been taking private pictures of me without my knowing! And you want me to calm down?!" She turned back to the police officer. "You did burn those photos right?!" When he looked down she started hyperventilating and freaking out. "What is your problem?! Why didn't you burn them?!"

"We are looking for clues."

"Clues to what?!"

"I- uh- I-I don't know! Ok?! I'm just here to deliver a message!" With that he stormed out of the room. Everyone was still looking at her. She gave them a death glare, kind of like the one Syaoran always gives everyone, and they went back to their business.

"Bob!? am NOT comfortable with them using those pictures as 'clues'." She air quoted the 'clues'.

Bob nodded "I'll take care of it," and walked away.

Syaoran looked at her and walked into the kitchen. Eriol followed him.

"What's wrong?" Eriol asked.

"I failed. I was suppose to protect her and I failed. I let my guard down. This is what happens when you get emotionally involved with a case."

"Sakura is not a case! She's a human being!" Then after a pause he asked, "When did you become emotionally involved with her?!"

"I- uh- I don't know."

"So what are you going to do now?"

"What do you mean what am I going to do? There's nothing to do! After they find his body we'll go back to our normal lives."

"That's it? You're just going to get over her like that?"

"Well I was never under her to get over her!" he exclaimed then stayed quiet as he went over the words he just said in his head. "That sounded wrong."

"Yes it did."

"But you know what I meant."

"No I don't."

"Eriol, don't start playing games with me!"

"Ok, ok fine! But how do you even know he's dead? It just sounds too easy to me."

"He has to be dead."

"And if he's not?"

"Why are you asking me! I'm not the chief of police!"

"I want to know what you're going to do if he's still alive and Sakura's still in danger."

"Well what do you freakin' want me to do?!" He yelled as he stormed out of the house slamming the door behind him.

Tomoyo walked into the kitchen and looked at Eriol. "What was that about?"

"You know, I have no idea."

Syaoran walked around the beach looking at the moon letting the soothing sounds of the ocean and the night filling him with serenity. He stopped and picked up a seashell from the ground. He looked it over and threw it in the ocean. He just stood there admiring the scene before him.

"I can't get emotionally involved with her. I can't. She's just a case. Just. A. Case." He said to himself. Sighing, he closed his eyes and let all his nerves calm down.

"She almost got hurt because I let my guard down. I can't let that happen again. I'll just stay away from her. Let someone else protect her."

Sakura had been sitting on the couch for hours just staring at the cold cup of coffee in her hands, thinking. 'I can't believe he would actually hurt me. I can't believe he would actually hurt Tomoyo. I though he was this sweet guy but boy was I wrong. Why was it, that when he put that knife against my neck, I felt a sort of deja vu feeling. Like maybe that wasn't the first time something like that had happened to me. But it was. Wasn't it?'

Just then she remembered that she never found out what had happened on her 21st birthday from Tomoyo. She looked up but didn't see Tomoyo anywhere. She got up and walked out of the house and saw her standing next to Bob and Eriol. She walked up to her and asked, "Can I talk to you? In private?" Tomoyo nodded and followed her as she went back inside the house and into the kitchen.

"What's on your mind?"

"Well you never did tell me what happened on my 21st birthday."

Tomoyo's face immediately fell. "I- I don't want to talk about that ok?"

"But I need to know what happened and from the way you're acting I can tell it's something important. So please? Tell me what it is."

Tomoyo looked at her best friend as she mentally debated whether she should tell her or not. "Ok," she decided. "I'll tell you. But you're not going to like it."

"I had a feeling I wouldn't."

"On you're birthday, when we were at the bar, we had both gotten kinda drunk but I guess you were more drunk since you don't remember any of this. Anyway you went outside the get some fresh air and when you didn't come back after a few minutes I decided to come and look for you. And when I came out I saw this guy and he had you pinned against the wall and you were struggling to get away. Everything happened so fast. I freaked and started yelling. He looked over at me and all I saw were his dark, haunting eyes 'cause his face was in the shadows. Some guys from the bar came outside from the noise and as soon as he saw them he ran away."

Sakura's face was filled with shock and anger.

She was angry because she didn't remember this.

She was angry because she had not been able to fight off that guy.

She was angry because she had not been able to fight off James. She was angry at herself for being so weak.

Tears began to race down her cheek. Tomoyo quickly hugged her. "I'm so sorry! When I found out the next day that you didn't remember any of it I was very glad so I decided not to tell you."

"This is why I felt so weird when James was threatening me. Like somehow the feeling was familiar. I guess that's what it was. The feeling of helplessness I must've felt when that guy had me pinned was the same feeling when James was...." She trailed off and started sobbing hard. "I am so weak! Why does this always happen to me?!"

"Oh Sakura! You're not weak."

"Yes! Yes I am! I can't take care of myself. That's why I'm in this mess. I couldn't tell that James was a bad person. I couldn't protect myself when he was trying to kill me. Heck, I couldn't protect myself when that guy had me.... If it hadn't been for Syaoran and Eriol and you I would've been killed today. That's how powerless I am!" Her knees gave away and she fell to the floor leaning against the refrigerator. Tomoyo sat next to her and comforted her.

Syaoran returned to the villa and saw that most of the police cars had left but there were still some police officers walking around. He walked in the house and saw Sakura and Tomoyo sleep on the couch and Eriol was sitting on another couch doing some paper-works. He sat on another one and took one of the papers on the table and looked at it. "What is this?"

"Meaningless paper-work."

"So any news?"

Eriol looked up from the paper for the first time. "If you mean James, then no. They still haven't found his body and Sakura's having a mental break-down."

"What?"

"She blames herself for being too weak."

"It's not her fault! It's the fault of that crazy psycho who tried to kill them!"

"Syaoran! Lower your voice. Poor girl seems to constantly attract psychos."

"What do you mean?"

"I guess they finally cleared the whole 'What I did on my birthday' thing."

"Well?"

"I think it's a little personal to tell."

"Then how'd you find out?"

"She told me when I was trying to calm her down."

"Oh." Syaoran suddenly felt bad that he hadn't been there to comfort her but he had promised himself that he would stay away from her for her own good. He looked at her petite form sleeping with her head on her best friend's shoulder. She looked beautiful even though she had tear marks on her face. "She deserves better. Much better."

"I couldn't agree more."

Sakura stirred causing Tomoyo to wake up. She looked at Syaoran then at Eriol and she smiled. He smiled back at her. Syaoran felt a ping of jealousy. Was it because he was jealous of Eriol? Of the way he and Tomoyo were looking at each other? He sighed and put his face in his hands. Tomoyo looked at him sympathetically and then looked back at Eriol for an explanation but he just sighed and shrugged.

….

The next morning while it was still a little dark Bob walked in to find all four of them sleep. Sakura and Tomoyo were still on the big couch and Syaoran and Eriol were sleeping on the single couches. He cleared his throat. They started to slowly wake up.

"Mornin' Bob" Sakura said coldly.

"Good morning Sakura, Tomoyo, Guys," He nodded at them all. "I'm afraid I don't have any news. It seems as though he's disappeared off the faced of the earth. But don't worry we have the entire place surrounded there's no way he can get out of here. Now all we have to do is get you away from here as soon as possible."

"What then?" asked Sakura who was still angry but was showing no emotion.

"Well, we're going to get you guys to some safe-house until he's found. And then-"

"No." Sakura interrupted him.

"No?" he asked

"No," she repeated.

"Would you care to explain that?"

"No," she said again. "You're just going to get us back to our place and I'll handle the rest." Sakura had a calm yet stern face on which scared Tomoyo.

"Uh... Sakura? Can I talk to you?" Tomoyo asked.

"There's nothing to talk about."

"How exactly do you plan to handle it?"

"Well like Bob here said, they have the whole place surrounded and there is no possible way that even if he is alive he could get out. So there's nothing to really worry about it there?" She said with a sarcastic tone with a too innocent smile on her face. She got up and walked up the stairs to pack.

When she was out of ear shot Bob turned to the others. "She seems a little different."

"Yeah, this new attitude of hers is scaring me quite a lot." Tomoyo said.

"Well, you know she's been through a lot and it's only natural that she's acting a little distant. Give her a little time." Bob explained.

"I hope you're right." Tomoyo said as she got up and walked up the stairs to pack too.

…..

After packing, the girls went outside and waited for Bob's orders. Eriol walked up to Tomoyo and pulled her away from Sakura. "Any chance we'll see each other again?"

"I hope so," Tomoyo said sweetly.

"Good." Eriol leaned forward and placed a kiss on her lips. "Farewell, my fair maiden."

"I much prefer that to 'damsel in distress'," she said. They both laughed at that. They hugged and Tomoyo walked back to find Sakura already seated in the back of a black van. She got in and the car was on its way.

He stood there on top of the hill with his hands in his pockets looking down at the fading car. "This is not over. In fact, it's just beginning."

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