Hey to all who reviewed! I was happy this chapter got more reviews than the last, please, let's keep 'em coming.

And no, to whom suggested I change the pairing, I cannot. I have worked too long to set up my characters as they are. To anyone whom was confused about Heero's kindness, he was simply doing this as a friend to help Ami and also t o make it up to Makoto, whom he is paired with as you've all probably noticed so far. With that said, enjoy!


Chapter 11

Everyone was seated back around the small table at the shrine, staring expectantly at Setsuna.

"So you say the weather changed," she said.

"Yes, and there was ice everywhere," said Michiru, picturing the scene in her mind over and over.

"I thought you sent us here to find some hidden strength. Well, isn't what Ami's showing enough to prove that," asked Quatre.

Setsuna sighed, relieved. "Yes, I'm just glad that you guys figured it out on your own."

"Hey," Usagi suddenly piped up, "remember the day we all went to the beach? The day we were attacked?"

Minako realized what she meant instantly.

"Yeah! When we returned, Rei was injured and Ami was sick," she said.

"Yeah, that was when Heero was attacked and Wufei almost drowned. Why was Ami sick?" Duo asked.

"Ami said thatwhen shegrabbedGreg out of the water, she was tired but okay, but when she went back for Wufei, she was exhausted and out of air,and could only make it back up halfway. She said she thought she was done for before this wierd blue light surrounded her, and she had this burst of strength. Before she knew it she had reched the surface and hadgotten Wufei onto the second jet ski before she wasexhausted again." Makot explained.

"Yes," Wufei said, rememberingwhat had happened when they had reached the shore, "she was overly tiredwhen we reached the shore. All I remember is waking up after she gave me CPR," he paused, and even Duo didn't snicker, "and then she collapsed onto the sand. A few minutes later, we all got up and came looking for you guys."

"Yes, she got better for a while, but after we arrived at the temple, Ami was exhausted and nearly passed out. She had a high fever. When it came time to leave, she nearly passed out again and had to spend the night here," Rei explained.

"And after showing a larger scale display of power today, out like a light," Haruka continued.

"Well, we'll have a lot of explaining to do when Ami wakes, she's probably mad," Mamoru said. After that, they chatted for a couple of minutes randomly, on Greg and other topics. A knock was heard on the sliding door near the main entrance. Rei stood up, a questioning glance on her face. Grandpa didn't have a class today. True, someone could have come to meditate, but she was ussually called ahead of time. And all of her friends were here.

Opening the door, she found the face of Lara, smiling brightly, with Josh giving a slight smirk.

"What's up?"

FLASHBACK:

"Master, so we are to watch Ami discreetly? What of our lives in Tokyo? Shall we then drop out of school. She will for sure tell her friends," Lara said.

"You are right. Lara, you and Josh must go to the temple where Ami always hangs out. The boys Siruto is now keeping an eye on may be with them. Go and finda way to knock them out, then search the temple for their wands, communicators, anything you can get. If we have there chance at using there powers, you may be able to keep your identities on earth for the meanwhile, they can be useful."

"Of course Master, brilliant Master," Josh said.

END OF FLASHBACK:

"Oh, nothing. We just wanted to see if you guys wanted to do something. Ami's not home, and oooh, everyone's here," Lara said, walking in without any invitation and entering the room her friends sat in. Rei sighed, and Josh walke din after giving Rei a small smile, which she returned, glad that one of them had manners.

"Well, we're really just sitting around, doing nothing, you know, looking for quiet in the serene atmosphere here," Rei said, hinting at the fact that they wanted to be alone.

"Oh," Lara looked slightly embarrassed and downcast.

"Er...but you guys can stay a bit if you like," Usagi said, feeling bad, Makoto and Minako chorusing.

"Mmm, okay," Lara said, plopping down on the sofa next to Usagi. Josh sat cross legged on the floor near her.

"Havewe met before," Setsuna asked, eyeing Lara and Josh suspiciously.

"I don't think so," Lara said, playing dumb.

"Well, I'll get everyone some tea," Rei said, not actually feeling like serving Lara or Josh one bit at the moment. She was too concerned with the topic at hand.

"I'll help you," Lara said, jumping to her feet.

"No, it's alright," Rei said, her voice a little less than friendly.

"No no," Lara said, undetered, "it's a lot to carry."

She followed Rei into the kitchen, and Rei began to biol some water. Walking to the other side of the kitchen, she began pulling out small cups for the tea, and setting the on a tray, counting her friends in her head and counting the cups she was setting down by two's. While Rei was busy with that, Lara stood by the stove as she had been before, and pulled out a small vile with clear liquid inside. Dumping it into the boiling water, she quickly tucked it back into her pocket and approached Rei as she set out the last cup.

"Go ask if anyone doesn't want tea," Rei asked, and Lara frowned, wanting everyone to want tea, and left.

As it was, only Wufei didn't want tea. She would just have to take care of him afterwards. Even if he realized she and Josh were up to something, Ami would eventually tell them all anyways. The point was that Ami and her friends could do nothing about she and Josh continuing with their lives if they had no powers, no way to transform.

Rei finished the tea and a few minutes later and Lara helped Rei carry the tea back, each one holding a tray. Everyone took tea.

Josh and Lara put the tea to their lips as if drinking it, but they really were not. No one was actually suspicious.

"Mmm, Rei, what herbs do you have in here, this is better than usual," Minako asked, and Rei began to name the extra ingredient she had added.

It took only a couple of minutes to happen, since everyone was drinking moderately, and a smile began to tug at the corner of Lara's mouth as Usagi suddenly stopped drinking. Then, simultaneously- they all dropped. One by one, tea cups rolling acroos the floor, clattering onto the table. Some fell forwards, others backwards, the point was that they were all unconsious. Wufei jumped to his feet, surprise evident on his face.

"What the-" Before he could say anything more, Lara had knocked him aside, across the room. He struggled to his feet, and a clattering noise from somewhere else in teh temple reached the room.

"What was that," Josh asked.

"I don't know, go check it out. I'll take care of him," Lara said, turning to smile at Wufei. Josh nodded and left the room.

"Weak onna, we should have known you two had something to do with this," Wufei said, defiantly standing his ground. Lara giggled slightly as she approached, walking around him and watching him closely.

"A tempermental one, aren't you? Yet for some reason I find myself drawn to you." She said this as she ran her finger down his face, Wufei standing stoically as she did so. From the doorway of the room, hidden Josh watched, wondering just why Lara had sent him to check out an insignificant noise in the house.

"Get away, onna," Wufei hissed, "before I rip your head from your body."

Lara laughed at this.

"Why Wufei? Don't you like me?" She had Wufei backing away from her slowly, and soon she had him cornered. She ran her hand down his chest as she reached her face up to kiss him, and Wufei simply stepped to the side, away from her grasp and the wall.

Meanwhile, Josh had left angrilly.

'Bitch,' he thought, walking down the hall, 'she always does this to me. I do a little harmless flirting, and she gets all pissed. Then, she's hanging all over that guy, trying to kiss him.' Still angered, he approached the one open doorway.

Ami lay on the ground, shaking her head and trying to get up.

Ami sighed as she continually attempted to get up. What had happned was that she had awoken to hear silence, but as soon as she had trie dto get out of her bed, she had been overcome with dizziness and had nearly passed out. She felt cold, feverish, nauseous, and disoriented. Everything hurt, just like that day after she had returned from the beach, only times three. A shadow loomed over her, and she managed to look up. In front of her stoody Josh, looking made.

He reached down and grabbed her up by her arm, horror quickly registering on herface.

He threw Ami across the room towardsRei's bed, and she smacked the wall and fell on to the bed with agroan.

Josh approached quickly.

"That bitch thinksshe can do that to me," he babbled, roughly turning Ami over, whomhad been laying face down on the bed. "She's wrong! I'll show her! I'll do something worth getting yelled at over!"

It didn't take a genius to figure out what Josh meant, and as soon as he reached for the buttons on the front of her blouse, Ami screamed.

"Shutup," he said, covering her mouth, "or I'll kill you, I will. Now when I remove my hand, don't scream." Ami gave a slight nod, and he removed his hand, giving Ami the chance to scream again, this time louder.

"Hey," Josh growled, grabbing Ami's face. "I told you NOT TO SCREAM!" He drew his fist back, and punched Ami as hard as he could in the stomach, which considering his power, was hard.

Ami instantly curcled up as he did so, leaning over the side of the bed to cough. He had knocked the wind right out of her. She looked at the palm she had coughed into, and saw droplets of blood on it. If Ami hadn't felt extremely sick before, she certainly did now.

Lara came running into the oom at this point, finally finding them. She saw Josh standing emotionlessly by the bed as Ami coughed.

"Josh no! Please! Nothing happened in there!" Wufei arrived in the doorway, limping. When he wouldn't cooperate with Lara, she had blasted him into the wall, and had attacked him. His back was hurt badly and his side was leaking a lot of blood. He gripped his side as he limped into the room, knowing that Ami was in there. Ami had knocked herself off the bed, away from the quarelling couple. She had stood and taken a few moments before once again nearly blacking out, falling to the floor and struggling to move her no longer cooperating body. Wufei limped over to her. The newly found to be insane couple were no longer fighting. They were holding each other as they stared into one another's eyes, unaware of nothing else.

"Stay with me," Wufei said, lightly smacking Ami's face as she drifted in and out of consiousness, "we have to get out of here."

He helped Ami stand and she almost instantly slumped to the ground, falling backwards and nearly bringing Wufei to the ground with her.

"Ami," he said, finally using her name, "please, I'm too injured to carry you." Hearing his words, Ami struggled to keep her eyes open as she and Wufei helped each other walk, limping out of the room. Lara and Josh had yet to move.

Ami and Wufei made it out of the hallway and into the room where there friends were, Ami's head spinning.

Because of their slow pace, Lara and Josh had easily caught up.

"Oh Joshie, these two almost broke us apart," Lara said.

"Yes, let's kill them now, and deal with master later. Who cares about Mizuno's strength," Josh said.

Wufei and Ami continued to try and escape, out the sliding door to the front. They made it past the trees approaching the steps. It was around seven o'clock, and it was cloudy and slightly drizziling.Ami shook as she tried to move at Wufei's pace. They were moving slow, but they had to move enough to have a chance of escape. She had no energy, nothing left to function on top of her other symptoms.

Lara and Josh ran at the two at full speed, and Wufei and Ami just barely turned to look before falling backwards on to the steps, not from clumsiness but mostly from Lara and Josh blasting them with a huge gust of wind. They fell and rolled down about half of the cememnt steps. Wufei stopped rolling on the break in the steps in the middle, and he held firmly to Ami's hand, who continued down the steps, stopping only because he held her there. Wufei tried to clear his foggy vision as he held tightly to Ami's hand. His vision soon cleared enough for him to see that Ami was laying back down on the steps, unmoving. He was on his stomach.

Lara and Josh both flew down to hover above the two, and Lara lowered herself slightly, stepping with her heel on Ami and Wufei's hands, causing Wufei to let go.

"Now it ends," she said, and before she could strike, a voice filled the air.

"Pathetic servents! You are ruining everything! Now come, before I kill you! You will not keep identities on earth, I don't even trust you for that anymore! It is not Mizuno's time to die!" Lara and Josh nodded, bowing to an invisible master.

"Forgive us, mighty one."

"Return."

"Yes Master."

The two departed in a small portal. Wufei groaned as he attempted to get to his knees. The rain was quickly turning from drizzle to an outright downpour.

He reached down and shook Ami's. Her eyes slowly opened.

"Come on, they're gone. We have to get back to the temple." Ami attempted to sit up, the freezing rain hitting her like knives, she and Wufei both only in pants and t-shirts.

As she did, Wufei knew what was coming as her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she fell back, Wufei catching her by the shoulders so that her head didn't hit the steps again.She opened and closed her eyes, attempting to stay alert.

"Try," Wufei said, "we can't stay out here anymore." Ami struggled to sit up again, turning herself off of her back, and using the steps as leverage. Wufei grabbed her arm to helpher. Ami was only energized to keep going knowing that Wufei'sinjuriedwere not light, and he would not be able to carry her, and wouldn'tleave her. She somehow knew.

As soon as he had helped her up, her head spun again, and she fell again, to her knees. It was then that Ami began to cry. She didn't quite know why she was crying. There were several different possible reasons: frustration, exhaustion, fear, Greg's death, Wufei's injuries, Lara and Josh's betrayal, and other problems she had been met with concerning school and senshi bussiness.

Wufei said nothing as she cried. He did not call her weak. He did not roll his eyes or shake his head. He silently took her arm again, and helped her stand, wrapping his arm around her waist to keep her up, as she wrapped her arm around his shoulder.

She continued to cry, the two struggling up the wet and slippery steps. On the last step, Wufei himself tired, and Ami held him steady this time. The two quietly made there way to the door. Wufei walked in first, moving the arm helping Ami closer to himself so that she faced him as he closed the screen door. There friends were still unconsious as Wufei and Ami almost instantly sank to the ground together. Wufei fell against the screen door in a leaned position, slightly sideways. Ami clung to him as she slipped as well, falling onto his chest as he sank, and the two falling unconsious that way.


Rei blinked a few times before finally opening her eyes. What had happened. A few of her friends were slowly waking around her, them being Haruka, Makoto, Trowa, Duo,and Mamoru.

"Ugh, what happened," groaned Makoto.

Quickly surveying the room, Rei responded.

"Lara and Josh happened."

"Where's Wufei," asked Trowa. Duo nodded and looked around.

Haruka suddenly stood up.

"They must have been the ones that attacked Ami! And we were unconsious while she was alone!"

Haruka headed quickly towards rei's room, before Mamoru called her over.

"Don't bother, Ami's here." Haruka turned to where the other four had gathered. Against the screen door, Wufei was half sitting, half laying against the door, Ami next to him but tipped slightly over so that she was sideways, slightly on him.

It would have been almost cute, Makoto decided, had it not been for the blood coming from underneath Wufei, and the ragged, wet appearance of the two.

As Haruka approached, Trowa picked Ami up and set her down away from Wufei, and Rei checked her pulse.

"She's okay, just unconsious now. Woah, she has a major fever," Rei said, reaching her hand over to touch Ami's face, "let's get her on thecouch." Rei moved her hand underneath Ami's head when Trowa picked her up again, and when he had a firm hold, she removed it, only to gasp at her own hand.

Blood. Everyone whom was checking on Wufei looked over.

"Her head must have hit something," Makoto said, walking over and checking on the back of Ami's head.

"Yeah, maybe we should get them to the hospital, we're really inexperienced in dealing with head injuries," Haruka said. Rei shook her head.

"No Haruka, the only reason us inner's take care of our injuries on our own is because we've been to the hospitals so many times that their light questioning about theyouma attackswas becoming serious interogation. We'll have to just wrap her head up, it'll close up over night," Rei said. Haruka nodded. Duo looked at them as if they were crazy.

"Are you nuts! That's a head injury! It needs to be stitched up!"

"Ami will be fine. If I recall, the injuries Siruto gave her were much worse, and she made it through that with justa first aid kit," Rei snapped back, standing up. Everyone sighed.

"Hey, I see where Wufei's majorly injured. His side, we should wrap that up immediately. His back is hurt pretty bad to- maybe we should take him to the hospital. After all, he doesn't have Ami's healing powers," Mamoru said.

Everyone debated, before they decided that was a bad idea as well.

After all, the hospital had been destroyed, and the residents had been moved to a hospital 30 minutes outside of Tokyo. It would be over crowded, under staffed, and a distance.

Makoto, Trowa,and Rei wrapped up Wufei's side and back, while the less squeemish Haruka and Mamoru set to work on Ami's head. Duo really couldn't do much without being in the way. So he sat quietly. When another of their friends would wake up, he would give them a brief explanation of what they knew, and they would join him.


Ami cracked open her eyes, and closed them again. What had happened? It all came rushing back, and her eyes flew open. It was all dark in the room she was in, besides one light in the center. The fire. Rei had obviously laid her out in the fire room. It must have been the middle of the night, because it was very quiet.

She was on a mat in the room, near the fire, but not too close. Her head was killing her, and she realized it had been extremely bad ever since she had fell on the steps. Reaching a shaking hand up, she felt what seemed like a cloth around her head, although she realized quickly it was not a cloth. So when she fell, she had hurt her head...

She dropped her hand to her side, breathing in deeply. She felt so sick. She must have still had a fever. Ami placed her hands on the floor, and used them to push herself up into a sitting position, painfully. Ami was still too weak to support herself and her hands slipped, falling limp again as she fell back onto her mat.

"Careful onna,"a voice said, "you'll hit your head again."

Ami weakly looked to the right of her. Wufei was on a mat about 10 feet from her.She had thought she was alone.

"Are you alright," she asked.

He nodded. "Yes. I woke up about an hour ago, and couldn't go back to sleep. The injury on my side should be a bit better in about a week. My back is alright."

"Good," Ami responded tiredly.

"You really sound like crappe. Maybe you should sleep." Ami sighed at his comment.

"I'm sure Hotaru can speed up your healing a bit," Ami said, coughing when she finished her statement.

Wufei didn't respond, he only looked at her. Ami hugged her blanket closer to herself, shivering, and turned away. Despite being so disoriented, she was still unnerved about his staring.

Wufei took that as a sign of goodnight, and turned away as well, trying to sleep. The onna had been muttering and turning in her sleep, that was what Wufei had been watching that hour.


"Maybe I should just stay home from school today, you know, to take care of the two of you," Rei was saying as she rushed around the temple, gathering books and neatening up.

"Don't bother, I will be able to walk by tomorrow, and I can take care of myself for one day," Wufei said, limping over to the couch. Rei ran to grab his arm.

"Don't get ahead of yourself. Besides, Ami still hasn't woken up, and she still has a major fever."

It was true. After Ami had awoken the night before, she had slept through the night and was still asleep that morning. It was Monday morning, and finally the horrific, eventful weekend was coming to an end. Rei shook her head. And at such a loss. Greg was dead, Lara and Josh turned out to be villains- it was a weekend Rei was neither proud of nor near getting over.

Rei walked over to where Ami lay, re-checking her fever.

"Still boiling, see? I can't leave." Rei removed the medical wrap from Ami's head. As she had thought, teh cut was closed up, and there was only a slight bruise there from what she could see. Wufei looked impressed, but still argued his point.

"Yes you can. Just check back on us at lunch." Rei got a wet cloth for Ami's head, and returned. Ami had returned to a fitful sleep, muttering and shaking. Rei gazed at her sadly, as the cloth slipped off of her forehead with all of her turning. Rei returned the cloth, biting her lip to keep from crying. Ami was suffering, as were the rest of them. This had by far been the worst school year for attacks, and it was only November.

"Was Greg a friend of yours as well," Wufei asked.

"Well, yes. He was friends with all of us. He was by far closest with Ami. They were like best friends, but we knew he wished for something more with her. A true shame." Rei paused, changing the subject. "Setsuna has corrupted everyone's memories so that they think he is at foreign exchange for the next month. That is until we can gather our thoughts and think of a good story. His family will be crushed. We'll leave them happy for the month, or a shorter time if we think of something sooner."

Wufei shook his head at her. "Such disrespect. Give him a propal buriel right away."

Rei sighed.

"We have no body, remember! He wasn't annihilated! We have to figure out what our enemy did with the body, why they would take a dead body! Anyways," Rei said, calming down, "we're hoping it's not to use his body for some evil purposes. Now that is disrespect, using a dead body as part of a scheme." Wufei was silent after this, and Rei sighed and looked back over at Ami. She was still restless, unable to wake but turning and shaking.

"Ami?" Rei walked over and got onto her knees next to Ami, taking her hand. Rei was more than surprised when Ami's hand tightened around hers, asif she was awake, only she wasn't.

"That must be some dream she's having," Wufei said. Rei nodded.

"Fever makes you hallucinate sometimes, makes you have more vivid dreams too." She moved the cloth back on Ami's head and looked up. "I'm not going, she needs me."

Wufei looked down at the two. Ami held Rei's hand so tight, that her knuckles were turning white. Strange amount of force too.

"I'm here with her. Besides, doesn't that note on the table over there threatennot graduatingif you are apsent any more? How many times have you missed school?

Rei glared at him for reading her letters, and stood.

"Far too many. Same with the other girls. If Ami was consious she's be sragging herself there." She stood, lightly removing Ami's hand, "but I guess you're right. I can't risk being held back a year. I'll be back to check on you two at lunch. My grandpa is out of town with Chad for the next two weeks, so don't worry about him coming home. Bye."

Rei left and Wufei grabbed the remote off of teh table in front of him, turning on the tv. His eyes flickered over to Ami, whom was lying on the same mat only in the living room now. They hadn't put her on a thick bed with sheets for fear of her getting over heated and her temperature going up.

HE tried to concentrate on the show he was watching, but his eyes kept moving over to Ami.

'Damn,' he thought, 'what's wrong with me? Why do I care about her rest or well being?'

But try as he might, Wufei did care. He had cared at the beach. He had cared Saturday night when they had found her in their apartment. He had cared last night, when he had seen what Josh had tried to do to her. And Wufei didn't know why.


Ami's eyes fluttered open, and she gave a small groan. Someone's hand wa son her forehead, and she intictively turned her head to the side.

"Oh good, you're up. Take it easy though, your fever went down a bit, but only just a bit." Ami focused on Rei as she spoke, and attempted to sit up, finding not one pair of hands but two helping her do so. Michiru was sitting on Ami's other side, holding her up while Rei wrung out the cloth in a little bowl.

"I'm sorry Rei. I'm really a bother," Ami said quietly, attempting to sway from Michiru's grasp without success.

"You're not a bother," Rei said firmly, and Ami could seethat Wufei was sitting on the couch, looking fine, and Hotaru was sitting next to him, Haruka standing behind the couch. Rei stuck a thermometer in her mouth before she could object.

"The other girls will be here soon as well," Rei continued, "but Minako has volleyball- she'll bring the other guys, and Makoto is teaching my class. Mamoru will pick Usagi up after his work and her detention, and get Rini." Rei pulled it out.

Ami coughed, as she had been, and Rie looked at the thermometer she had in her hand.

"103, good," Rei said.

"That's good," Haruka questione, "that's horrible!"

"Actually, her temperature was 105 this morning, so she is slowly getting better," Rei corrected, and Haruka nodded.

"Are you alright Ami," Michiru asked, the soothing voice of a mother drifting into the room, "perhaps you should sleep some more."

Ami's horrible nightmares flashed through her head once more, and sheshook her head. "I don't want to sleep anymore." Rei gave her a look of sympathy, Wufei catching on as well. Michiru gave Rei a questioning glance, and Rei returned with a look that said, 'I'll tell you later.'

"I healed Wufei's side Ami," Hotaru said proudly from the couch, "and I barely even got tired."

"That's great hotaru," Ami said in the same quiet voice, only slightling adding enthusiasm for Hotaru. She glanced at Wufei, whom nodded.

"My back is still a bit scratched up, but it's nothing. She healed the important injury. I'll be in school tomorrow," Wufei said.

Ami's eyelids were very droopy, and Rei took notice.

"You know Ami, maybe you should sleep. I'm sure you won't have any trouble," Rei said. Ami shook her head, but Rei gave her a small cup of herbal tea.

"Trust me, you'll have a nice, dreamless rest. You haven't really rested yet, tossing and turning the way you have been." Ami nodded and accepted the tea, drinking it in a few sips, as Rei urged her to. Rei moved her mat back into the empty room where the fire was, currently not lit, and Michiru helped her walk there, holding her arm as Ami took uneasy steps, getting more tired by the minute. Just what herbs had Rei put in the tea? Not that Ami wasn't dizzy already, so she was happy to lay down, and fell asleep only a few minutes later.


After everyone had arrived at the temple, Wufei gave a quick explanation of what he knew, and Setsuna arrived a few minutes after.

"Sorry if I kept you waiting," she said, but Rei stopped her at the door, pulling her outside.

Setsuna was surprised, but heard her out.

"I did a great fire reading Setsuna. I found out exactly what Lara and Josh did, I had a vision of what happened. Now I want you to tell me something. Why is Ami getting deathly sick evey time she uses those strange powers?"

Setsuna looked surprised again. "Rei, do you think I have something to do with this whole mess? I do have a good idea of the defferent timelines that could happen, several, depending on the choices made. Everything must be this way."

"You didn't answer my question.Why is she getting sick?"

"I told you, it has to be that way."

"Bull."

Setsuna tipped her head. She had never seen Rei so ticked off.

"You're not telling us something. Something big. Why can Ami access these powers now? Why only her? Why is the enemy after her alone? Her strength? I doubt it. And if you don't tell us, this is gonna happen more and more, and there won't be a Sailor Mercury- forget Mercury, there won't be an Ami!"

"You know I'd tell you ifI could. I sware, I will try my hardest to guide you girls in the right path. You're all my friends, I care for you all very much. Tell me, why exactly are you so fired up Rei? Ami has a fever and she's dizzy, I knew that."

"You," Rei spat out, "have not been worried all day, taking care of Ami, being forced to do other things and checking back constantly. I lied to Ami earlier. I told her that her tempurature was 105 and then it went down to 103. It was 107 Setsuna. 107! That's insanity! I thought she was done for an hour ago, then her temperature went down. Back to 103, still relatively high but a huge improvement."

"Do the others know?"

"They didn't, but I bet they're all sitting listening behind the door now, so they know," Rei said, turning to the screen where everyone sat, mouths hanging open.

"107!"

Rei nodded, she and Setsuna turning to head back inside, everyone clearing from the doorway.

"No wonder you seemed so upset when we arrived," Michiru said. Rei nodded.

"I was so relieved when Ami woke up after this morning. When I saw her temperature at lunch, I thought she'd never open them again. I had no car to take her to the hospital out of town, nothing."

"Is Ami still restless," Wufei suddenly asked.

Rei stood up and walke dto teh other doorway, standing a moment before returning.

"Sleeping very peacefully. I should have given her herbs in the tea to begin with, instead of letting her go on tossing and turning from all of those nigtmares."

"Nightmares," questioned Usagi, and Rei nodded. "Yes. All night, and most of today."

"I can't believe her temperature went up to 107," Wufei said, shocked. "I was home with her,watching her mutter and turnbefore you checked in at lunch, and I didn't even bother toget up and check hertemperature."

"No worried Wufei," Makoto said, surprised by his sudden concern, "You couldn't have known. It must not have just occured to you."

"I have to leave soon," Setsuna said, standing. "I only came here to tell you girls that to figure out what is going on with Ami, you have to figure out exactly who the enemy is. I leave it in your capable hands." With that, Setsuna peaked into the next room at Ami and left.

"Hmm, the enemy. I wonder who their leader is," Minako wondered out loud.

"Shouldn't we be more concerned with Greg, what to do about him," Quatre said.

"We have a month for that, besides I have a feeling that the enemy has other plans for greg," Rei said.


Sorry about typos. I know it's hsort, but it's all I could give you for now! I've been waiting to update so long! REVIEW