"We just came in here to give him the check and he was just... just... that..." Meilin pointed at the body hanging from the ceiling by a rope tied around the dead man's neck.

"Ok let's get him down." Jerry said as he motioned for Bob to follow him. They got on the kitchen counters and slowly removed the neck of the man from the noose. Two other agents slowly grabbed the body and lowered it to the floor. "Who is he?"

"That's Lee, the caterer," Sakura said as she hid her face in Syaoran's chest. Meilin put a comforting hand on her back.

Bob saw a note in Lee's shirt pocket and took it out. He read it out loud, "I loved you and you rejected me, now you will pay the price!" His gaze flew to Sakura. Her eyes became wide and her feet gave away but Syaoran caught her. Tears started to run down her cheeks as she shut out the mumbling of the crowd behind her.

Meilin took the note from Bob and read it over again. Then she look back at Sakura. "I wouldn't exactly call this nothing, Sakura."

"I have a feeling he wasn't the one who wrote that," Bob said.

"What do you mean?" Meilin asked as her eyes went from Bob to Sakura and then back to Bob.

Sakura started to explain everything to her but she was cut off by Jerry yelling, "He's alive!"

Gasps filled the room as Bob bent down to check Lee's pulse. "You're right! I guess his neck didn't break."

"Can somebody please tell me what's going on here?!" Meilin exclaimed.

"Later Meilin. Right now we have to evacuate everyone. Call an ambulance, Jerry. Syaoran, I don't want you to let Sakura out of your sight. He's probably still here and this time we can't let him get away." Bob walked out of the room to give the orders to the other officers that were there.

Meilin rushed towards Sakura and Syaoran. "Who exactly was that 'he' Bob was talking about?"

"My ex-boyfriend," Sakura said. Her voice was barely above a whisper. She didn't look up from Lee's body. "I don't understand how someone can be so heartless."

"Wait! Your ex? As in the same ex that was trying to kill you which was why you were in the protection program in the first place?" Meilin gasped. "I thought he fell off a cliff and died!" She pulled Sakura into her and hugged her. "Oh sweetie it's going to be all right. He's here and we're going to catch him, I promise. He won't go free tonight."

"That's right Sakura. We'll stop him once and for all." Syaoran put a comforting hand on her shoulder.

By then Sakura had lost all expression on her face. She had also lost all reason in her head. She wanted to face James. She wanted to look him in the face and tell him to stop messing up her life. She wanted to be the one to stop him tonight. She needed to be the one to stop him.

The sounds of the ambulance came from out side and a few seconds later two paramedics rushed into the kitchen. It was then that Sakura noticed that the police had evacuated everyone from the kitchen and the whole building.

One of the paramedics was checking Lee's neck for injuries while the other was taking a blood sample.

"His pulse is very weak but I think he'll be all right if we can get him to the hospital in time. I don't think there are any injuries on him," said the paramedic that was checking his neck. Then another paramedic came to help them carry Lee back to the ambulance.

Meilin looked at Sakura's miserable face and then to the paramedics. "If you want I could go with them to make sure he's all right."

Sakura forced a smile at her and whispered "Thank you."

Meilin touched her arm sympathetically and walked away.

"I won't let him hurt you. I won't let anyone hurt you Sakura." Syaoran looked at her with a serious face.

"You can't be with me all the time Syaoran. And if I'm so helpless that I need you to protect me 24 hours a day 7 days a week, then in a way he's already hurting me!" Her eyes started to tear and she ran out of the kitchen.

"Sakura!" Syaoran ran after her.

Sakura ran through the reception hall to the door that led to the dressing room. She ran in the bathroom and locked the door. She put her forehead against the door and sank to her feet as she started crying.

"Oh baby, who hurt you?" came an eerie voice that stopped Sakura's heart.

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Syaoran ran into the dressing room and found the place empty. He assumed Sakura was in the bathroom. He walked up to the door and knocked. "Sakura are you in there?"

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Sakura heard Syaoran's voice from the other side of the door and wanted to yell out for help but her voice was gone. She slowly got up and turned away from the door and saw the face of the person who had haunted her for so many months. "James."

"Aww I'm so honored that you still remember me!" He took one step towards her.

She pressed her back completely toward the door to put as much space between him and her as possible.

"Like I could ever forget you. You destroyed my life."

"Now how can you say your life is destroyed? After all you have three men begging for your love!" He smirked. "Well two now."

Sakura gasped. "How could you do that to Lee?!"

"Well excuse me but I thought you were with the secret agent. I mean you did leave with him last night. So what do you care what happened to the other one?!"

"I care because I considered him at least a friend and even if I didn't I would never have wanted that to happen to him!"

"Well you don't always get what you want in life, honey! Deal with it!" he roared as he took another step towards her. Anger flashed in his eyes. His hands came up in an attempt to strangle her as he took another step forward.

Then a figure came crashing in through the window and pushed him away.

"Syaoran!" Sakura exclaimed.

Syaoran took out his gun and pointed it at James. "Don't move or I'll shoot!"

James smirked and backed up against the wall. In about a millisecond his hand flew to the wall and hit the light switch surrounding them all with darkness.

Syaoran heard Sakura's muffled scream but didn't risk using his gun in the dark in fear of hitting Sakura by accident. He ran towards the wall to try and find the switch. He hit it and the lights came on. He turned around and saw that he was the only one in the bathroom. James had escaped through the broken window and he had taken Sakura with him.

Syaoran cussed as he jumped back out the window. He listened for a second and he heard Sakura scream. Without a moment's hesitation he took off in the direction of the scream.

James grabbed her hand harder and pulled her up from off the ground. She had tripped over a rock and had fallen down. "Why are you doing this?!" Skaura yelled at him.

"Why? Because I can!" he growled under his breath as he lead her deep into the park.

The reception hall Tomoyo had chosen for her wedding was located in the middle of a park with lots of trees, practically a jungle.

"What are you going to do to me?" She asked as she looked back to see if anyone was following them but she couldn't concentrate on anything.

James laughed and said, "You'll see soon enough my dear." He turned and gave a grin that made her stomach churn. She took a deep breath and screamed with all her might, "Help!"

Syaoran heard Sakura's cry for help and realized that James must've changed directions because the sound came from his right instead of in front of him. He turned and followed in that direction while he took out his cell phone to call for back up.

James pushed her into a tree and covered her mouth harshly with his hand. "Not another peep!" he growled. He took out a handkerchief from his pocket and gagged her with it.

Tears were spilling out of her eyes uncontrollably. He led her deep into the trees and they suddenly came to a clearing and there was a car parked there. He opened the passenger's door and took out a syringe with yellow liquid inside. Sakura's eyes widened. She started to back away but he grabbed her hand and was about to inject it into her armwhen he was knocked into the ground by an unknown force.

"We gotta stop meeting like this." Syaoran, who was the onethat knocked James off his feet, got to his feet and kicked James across the face.

James just grinned as he threw the syringe at him. Syaoran didn't figure out what it was until it hit him in the shoulder. His eye sight started to blur and he lost his balance. He fell to his knees. James got off his feet and walked over to him. He took his hand in his face and said, "I'm gonna enjoy torturing your girlfriend."

Sakura couldn't believe herself. Why was this happening? And why wasn't she doing anything to stop it? It wasn't like she was helpless. After all she did take many martial arts classes after the whole Angelic Cove fiasco for self defense in case anything like that ever happened again. And here it was happening all over again. She had to do something. She had to face him. She had to face James and beat him other wise he would torment her for the rest of her life. She had made up her choice. If she was going to go down, she was going to go down fighting!

She took off the handkerchief out of her mouth and threw it on the ground. James was still talking to Syaoran. He didn't seem to care that Sakura could free herself and run away. Maybe because he knew she wouldn't leave Syaoran or was it because he thought she was just useless and incapable of protecting herself.

Syaoran's body finally went limp and fell on the floor. James smirked and said, "Well now that we got rid of your boyfriend, let's start the real fun huh?" He got up and turned around to face Sakura but he came face to face with a big rock. Sakura slammed the rock that was as big as a pineapple into his face.

James went momentarily blind from the impact. He started laughing. "You'll have to try better than that if you want to stop me, sweet heart." He opened his eyes just before Sakura sent a back kick to his face.

"Like that?" She asked with sarcasm. "And I'm not your sweet heart. I'm not your anything! I have had it with you. You are no longer a part of my life, James. You mean nothing to me! I'm not scared of you."

James got up from the ground. He was now seriously pissed off. "Oh really? Then maybe you should be!" He came running towards her and she stood there waiting and when he was close enough she brought her hands back in front of her and threw the big rock at his face again. James fell on the ground but was still conscious. He started laughing like the maniac he was. "You know you are so beautiful when you're angry. And all this rage and violence, it's making you a goddess in my eyes."

"You need help, James,"she said with sympathy. Sakura kept her distance from him.

He sat up and looked at her. A hint of sadness in his eyes. "I know."

Right then groups of police officers came running at them. They arrested James and surprisingly he didn't even try to fight back. Bob put him in a police car and then went to check on Sakura.

Sakura was sitting next to Syaoran, slowly caressing his face. The paramedics came and took him away, not letting Sakura get in the ambulance with him.

Bob walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "He's going to be fine. He's a fighter."

"I know." She turned around and faced him. "What's going to happen to James?"

Bob looked at her and smiled a sad smile. "He won't bother you any more, you can be sure of that."

He didn't say it but Sakura knew, they were going to put him on death row. "Can I talk to him?"

Bob seemed shocked at her request but nodded and lead her towards the police car.

The back window was rolled down and she could see James' head. He was looking down at his feet. He looked up at her and smiled. His smile was so sweet and innocent that Sakura almost smiled back. She was looking at him and instead of seeing the lunatic that had tried to kill her, she saw the person that she had thought he was back when they first met. She felt sorry for him. "Why?" She asked on the verge of tears.

He had a sad look in his eyes. "I don't know, Sakura. I honestly don't know. I do know that I'm real sorry but that won't make anything better. It won't change the fact that I've tried to hurt you and the people you love, and it won't bring your friend back to life."

She didn't know what he meant by that at first but then she realized he must be talking about Lee. "He's not dead."

He looked up at her and she could've sworn he saw a hint of happiness in his eyes. "He's not huh? Well that's good to hear."

Bob who had been watching the conversation from a safe distance, cleared his throat indicating that it was time to leave.

James looked at Sakura and said in the sincerest tone possible, "I wish you a happy life, Sakura."

Sakura gave him a half smiled and thanked him. The car that James was in drove away. Sakura watched it fade into the horizon, then felt Bob walk up next to her.

"I think I should take you back home."

Sakura shook her head. "No. I want to go to the hospital. I need to see if they're all right."

Bob put a hand on her shoulder and looked her in the eyes. "Lee's fine. He was poisoned but thankfully the doctors pumped it out of his system in time. Syaoran was just drugged. He's going to be unconscious for 24 hours. So, you can go home, get some sleep and go visit him in the morning. How about that?"

"I don't think after all that's happened tonight I could possibly sleep."

"Try. Now come on. I'll drive you there." Bob lead her to the car and drove her back to her apartment.

Before she got out, Sakura said to Bob, "Don't call Tomoyo and Eriol and tell them about this. Let them enjoy their honeymoon."

Bob smiled at her and said, "You got it. Good night."

"Good night."

He watched her walk inside the apartment then drove away.

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Sakura was under the hot water in the shower. She put her hands and forehead on the wall and sighed. What an eventful day, she thought to herself. Tomoyo was now married and she would be living with Eriol when she came back so she was all alone in the apartment and it felt lonely.

Lee almost died because he like her and that made her a little scared. What if it had been Syaoran who had gotten hurt? He always said he didn't want to get together because he was afraid that I would be the one who got hurt but maybe it was the other way around. Maybe she was cursed and everyone who liked her would doomed to get hurt or be a lunatic. Was it really safe for her to have a relationship with Syaoran? She really liked him- no she loved him and she couldn't stand the thought of him getting hurt.

She turned off the shower and wrapped a white towel around her body. She walked out of the shower and into her room. She lay down in her bed, thinking for a few minutes then got up and started writing a letter.

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Sakura walked into the hospital. It was around 9 in the morning. She hadn't gotten a wink of sleep the night before and she was exhausted. She walked up to the nurse working at the information desk to ask her for Syaoran's room number when Meilin called her. "Sakura! Over here!"

Sakura turned and saw Meilin running to her. She smiled at her, "Hey."

Meilin ran to her and hugged her with such force that she almost fell over. "Oh I heard all about what happened last night! I was shocked! I wanted to call you and come see you right away but Bob said you were resting. How are you?"

"I'm good. Well actually I'm exhausted. Yesterday was stressful enough just being Tomoyo's wedding but with everything else that happened and the fact that I didn't get to sleep last night, it's just made me a whole of lot crankier than I usually am in the mornings. But for the first time in a long time I have a sense of security and I wouldn't trade that in for anything."

"Yeah I heard all about how you took him on all by yourself! You go girl!" Meilin exclaimed.

"Shh!" a nurse came out of a nearby room and shushed them.

Sakura and Meilin giggled and started walking to the elevator. "So how are they?" They stopped to wait for the elevator.

"Well Lee woke up a few hours ago and he's doing great. It turns out James had poisoned him and then hung him when he was unconscious to make it look like a suicide."

"He didn't want to make it look like a suicide. He put that note in Lee's pocket to let me know it was him."

Meilin smiled at her sympathetically and went on. "Well Syoaran's going to be out for a few more hours but he's going to be fine too."

"Good." Sakura smiled at her. "You seem to be in an unusually good mood this morning. What's up?"

Meilin looked away from her. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Sakura noticed the tint of red in her cheeks and gasped. "You met a guy?!"

Meilin shushed her and pushed her into the elevator as soon as the door opened and before the nurse had a chance to shush them again.

"Well who is he? Is it one of the doctors?" Sakura started to interrogate her.

"Uh no. Actually it's Lee." Meilin looked down.

"What?!" Sakura exclaimed. First she was shocked, then she started laughing so hard that she collapsed on the floor of the elevator.

"Why is that so funny?" she asked.

"I don't know! It's just after all that I've been through in the last few months, this was the last thing I expected!" She finally calmed down enough to get up the floor and then the elevator doors opened and they walked outside.

"So you're not mad?" Meilin looked at Sakura to make sure the answer she gave was the truth.

"Of course not! I told you we were just friends." Sakura patted her shoulder. "I hope it works out between you two."

"Thanks. We started talking when he first woke up this morning and he's really a great guy."

"He is."

"But apparently not as good as my cousin huh?" Meilin smirked at her. Sakura smiled and playfully slapped her arm. "I'm glad he found a great girl like you Sakura."

"What's so great about me? He's in the hospital because of me. He deserves better."

Meilin stopped her. "Sakura, he cares about you so much that he would risk his life any day to save yours."

"I know, Meilin, but that's his job." Sakura started walking again but Meilin stopped her.

"No. Look he chose this job knowing that with it comes pain and possibly death. We all did. But you know something Sakura, most of the things in life that make it worthwhile are those that have such high risks. If it wasn't for the bad stuff then the good stuff wouldn't mean as much. The reason why he would be willing to die to save your life is not because it's his job. It's because he loves you. When you're in the field that we're in, you get to see a lot of bad things and Syaoran has seen his share of bad things which was why he was willing to risk pain of death over losing the one good thing that had come into his life in a long time, and that's you!"

Sakura was stunned. Meilin looked at her and smiled.

"Well I can tell you need some time to think about all this so why don't you go do that?" Meilin nodded towards the door behind Sakura. She turned around and saw Syaoran lying down in a bed, resting.

Sakura turned to Meilin and hugged her. "Thank you."

Meilin smiled back at her and pushed her in the door.

Sakura walked in and sat in the seat next to Syaoran's bed. It was a small private room with a fireplace. Flames. When she saw that she took out the letter she had written last night and threw it in the flames.

She looked at Syaoran and remembered Meilin's words; 'he loves you'. Does he really? She thought to herself.

She then took out another piece of paper and a pen and started writing another letter.

Dearest Syaoran,

I don't know if you'll approve of my decision but it is something that I have to do for myself. I promise you will understand all in due time. In the meantime just live your life. Please don't worry and please don't try to come find me.

Sakura.

Well this is it! I'm sorry I haven't updated in a long time, I was just being lazy.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed and thanks to cool aya for complaining about my lack of updates which was what finally got me working on this chapter!

There's only ONE more chapter left of this story!!! tear I know I know It's sad! lol

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