Here's Chapter two!

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Chapter 2: Why not to hold Sam while she sleeps.

When they arrived at Genkai's temple, Botan noticed that Sam was asleep and ran in to tell everyone so they'd be quiet and let her rest.

When Hiei got inside with her, Kathleen looked up at him and said, "Hi, I'm Kathleen, Sam's friend and new sister…oh dear." She had noticed Sam's grip on Hiei's shirt, and continued, "I'm sorry you had to be the one she grabbed onto when she fell asleep."

Hiei raised an eyebrow at her, asking, "What do you mean?"

"What I mean is," Kathleen started, motioning for him to sit down, "Sam has a problem. When she sleeps, she instinctively grabs onto something and doesn't let go until she wakes up. It's like a death grip, you can't get her to let go even if your life depended on it."

"Why is that?" Genkai asked, looking shocked as she looked at the peacefully sleeping Sam.

"To tell the truth," Kathleen said, "and although I just met everyone, I feel you should know since I don't know how long we'll be here and it might happen again. When Sam was five months old, or so the police say, the family she used to live with till three weeks ago, kidnapped her from her crib." The girls in the room gasped as she continued, "Since then, she's had a horrible childhood. They used her as a slave, a maid so to speak, but when they were drunk or swore she did something wrong, or if their biological children said she did something to them, she'd get beaten, badly. She wears makeup all over her to keep people from seeing her scars."

Genkai looked at Sam again as she asked, "How do you know, Kat? May I call you that?"

Kat smiled slightly, answering, "I'd prefer it. In answer to your question, the eldest son of this family was actually really nice and told me when he picked Sam up from school one day. He was killed the next day cause his parents found out. Sam told me about that part."

After Kathleen finished speaking, Sam started shivering and whining in her sleep. She started to cry and tears mixed with a cold sweat ran down her face. Kathleen got up and ran to get a wet cloth. She came back and placed one on Sam's forehead, saying solemnly, "She's having THAT dream again. One she's had since she was eight. I somehow found myself in her dream one time so if you want to know I could tell you, but I would think it to would be better if she told you…and only if she wanted to."

Everyone nodded at this then jumped (Except Hiei) as Sam screamed, then her body went slack for a minute before she started smiling in her sleep, her grip on Hiei, loosening, then moving until it found another place to rest and grab hold of something lightly. Kathleen smiled, yawning, and said, "She'll sleep peacefully now, she always does after the nightmare ends."

Genkai smiled and stated, "We'll figure out what to do with these two after they've both rested peacefully. Yukina, can you show them to the guest rooms. Kurama, you know where yours is?" Kurama nodded and got up with Kathleen, Hiei, and Yukina and followed them towards the rooms.

Yukina went into her room and brought out a black teddy bear and came back out, saying, "Sam-san can use this to hold onto when she sleeps…well after tonight, she seems to have grabbed Hiei-san's hand at this moment." Hiei looked down to see what Yukina had said was true, Sam's hand had grabbed his wrist without him noticing since he'd been listening to Kathleen.

Hiei sighed and thought, 'Stupid humans and their fears.' He laid Sam down on one of the guest beds as Kathleen was shown the room across the hall. He then found that what Kathleen had said was also true as Hiei could not pry her hand off his wrist. Again sighing, pulled a chair to the bed and sat down, laying his head on the bed and waited for sleep, hoping the morning would come soon.

Across the hall, Kathleen got dressed into pajama's that Yukina handed to her and climbed into the bed, saying to the Koorime, "Thanks for everything, Yukina-san." Yukina smiled and left the room.

A.N: I'll start doing cliffhangers when the story gets going but please R&R and tell me of my mistakes cause I know I've probably made some. Bye bye