The bell rang, freeing the students from the boring history class as they all headed like cattle to the cafeteria. Heero smiled a little bit at the jokes that Lei tried to make him laugh at. Some of them were light humor, others...not quite funny at all.

"Okay, here's another one; 'I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't cuss'." She told him with a smirk when she thought about the next line; "Damnit, I left my cigarettes at the bar'!" She said with drama and made Heero laugh a little as she accidentally hit a student. She mimicked what she just did "accidentally" hitting the student again.

"Hey, Heero!" Duo called, rushing up and even leaping over a couple of unfortunate students.

"Hi." Heero said with no emotion. He felt a tinge of pain rush through his back when a student pushed into him.

Quatre looked up, realizing the person he had run into was none other than the former Wing pilot and was even more surprised when he felt a jab of pain rush through his spine, stopping him in his tracks.

"Quatre," Heero seemed to be forcing himself to speak but none other than Quatre noticed it, or felt it.

"Hi, Quatre!" Lei said cheerfully, smiling at him. "So what's up with you? Where's Trowa? Where's that Relena girl or something?" Lei questioned to Quatre all at the same time.

Quatre looked confused for a moment and let everything register despite Lei's fast-talking. She seemed to do it purposely at times. "I'm quite good myself. Trowa is right," He pointed to a tall figure making his way through a clearing crowd in front of him. "Behind me, or was." He muttered a little bit in the end. Obviously he wasn't used to such crowds. "And Relena--"

A hand landed on Lei's shoulder, making her tense and grab the hand, twirling her predator in front of her. "And I am right here." Relena hissed, not taking much to the fact that Lei got to be closer to Heero than her. "Where's Heero?" She questioned with a glare at Lei.

Lei raised an eyebrow and then glared a little before putting on her clown mask. "Are you blind or deaf? He's right behind me, silly!" She laughed, Relena looked up, surprised to see Heero standing by the door, about to enter the cafeteria.

"Hey, Heero!" Duo came running up as Trowa finally made his way to the group of friends. "Whatchya doin'?" He shouted loudly.

"Nothing." Heero muttered, looking at his watch before getting up from the spot of the doorframe he was leaning on. "I have to go."

"Where?" Lei questioned when she saw Heero walking off.

"Somewhere." He told her before heading off to the doors that lead outside of the school.

"That guy is still so mysterious to me." Duo sighed, wondering where Heero was going off to during school. He looked out the window and saw a car come and pick up the teenager, the person driving none other than his mother, or foster mother.

"Yeah, you would think that after fighting a--" Wufei threw in as he approached before clamping his mouth shut when Lei raised an eyebrow.

"Whatever," Lei muttered grudgingly. She turned and walked over to her table with all her hyper friends who were in the middle of having a debate over whether or not soldiers of OZ and Romefeller should be allowed to be citizens after what they did and turn away from the bloody road they chose.

"They should be! Everyone has scars from battle, they shouldn't be any different! They were fighting for a good cause! Whether to protect their family or to protect something else!" Someone argued.

"They shouldn't, how can you say that? They killed so many people! If they wanted to protect their family, then why didn't they stay and protect them instead of running off to join a war!?" Another threw back almost immediately.

Lei sat down quietly and the debate stopped as her friends looked at her. "Hey, whazzup Lei-lei?" Tom, one of her friends questioned teasingly. "Boy problems?"

"Are you forgetting that you yourself are a guy?!" Another one of Lei's friends threw back.

"Hey, do you know where Heero is?" Jake asked, ruffling his dark brown hair that was spiked a little bit. "We got a football game in two days and need to get working on the plays." He said almost to himself.

"Heero's not here; he got early dismissal."

"Aww.... He's so lucky!" An thus the day continued on in the lunch room, ending up with people covered in ketchup and other miscellaneous food items that had been tossed about in a quarrel.

"How was school?" His mother asked tersely as she clutched the steering wheel tightly to not slap her son for being so late though it was her who was late.

"It was good." Heero said dully yet cautiously. He always had to be on his guard now. No matter what.

"Did you have lunch yet?" His foster mother questioned further.

"No," He said, getting what she was hinting at. He dug through his pockets and produced two crinkled two one-dollar bills. "Here." He put the bills into her purse.

She didn't say anything in response; not even a slight thank you or tilt of her head. "Dr. Karnagy is going to be in today, I couldn't schedule it any other day." She hissed out of her teeth. Everyone but Dr. Karnagy could be bribed with the family's extensive power and wealth.

Heero bowed his head. 'Great, an even crappier day...' His mind muttered to himself. He took a sharp intake of breath when they hit a bump and the mother's eyes widened as she swerved off onto the side of the road, cars that zoomed by rocking the car back and forth with the velocity of them.

His foster mother's eyes held both fury and a sort of fear or something. She put the car into park and quickly undid her seat belt as she made her way quickly to her foster son. She lifted his brown unruly bangs and checked his faces for any bruises and found a couple, quickly pulling out her makeup and got some cover up from her purse and applied the substance to hide the bruises.

She fumbled around for something and took out a syringe. Heero backed up, unsure of the liquid that the syringe held within it.

"Get your ass over here." She hissed. "This stuff should work almost immediately. It should numb your body and hopefully none of the doctor's will think that the bruises are from..." She wandered off from her sentence and quickly jabbed it in Heero's arm as he winced and tried pulling away but only got more pressure applied to his arm.

"Good, now buckle up, we are going to be late." She muttered to him, toying with her hair a little bit and putting some strands back into place. She put the car into drive and pulled off into the traffic, heading to the doctor's office in a rush.

She got there in no time, traffic wasn't a big deal whether the city was big or not. She stopped the car and then pulled the keys out the ignition, drawing a swift breath as she looked at her son who seemed to be lost in thought.

"Get up," She commanded as she opened the door and he got out a little stiffly and seemed a little sluggish with his limps. 'The medication is working...' Her mind noted subconsciously. 'Good.'

She was still worried, no doubt about that. Karnagy was sly, almost as cunning as they were. She had a lot of power also, in the medical department and the world. She, in fact, had known Une personally during the war. There was suppose to be a specialist from the Preventer's here today to check on all the patients, 'perfect.' She thought grudgingly.

"Let's go," She smiled to her son warmly, fooling the people walking around who smiled warmly in return to her. Some nodded their head in their direction, some waved, and others smiled.

"All right." Heero said, following her through the double glass doors.

"Ah," A woman with blue eyes turned and flicked some blonde stands out of her face that came out of her loosely done bun. "Heero." She smiled in her direction and grabbed a folder with his name printed on it with the foster family's last name printed on it too. "Please come this way, I was just about to call your name,"

Heero nodded in an almost jerky motion and then followed the doctor, his foster mother pacing over to the waiting room and glancing nervously around while trying to calm her demeanor. The doctor's office was actually also a hospital, so there was never any shortage in rooms.

The doctor, Fayte Karnagy, opened a door and led the young teenager into the room. She silently noted how he seemed more sluggish and his limps were slower on the reaction time it seemed, odd for a football player. "And how are you?"

"Fine." Heero lied. He was a good liar at least.

The doctor nodded and told him to take off his shoes as she brought out a scale. Heero got on the scale as usual. The doctor made a 'tsk' sort of noise. Heero looked at her, as if expecting an explanation. "Heero, you've dropped some pounds, about five!" She said blinking at the chart as if to confirm. He did seem a little thinner than a normal teen was suppose to be at his age when she first saw him, but he was already thin as it was though he was at least in shape.

Heero looked away and obeyed her command when she told him to take off his shirt. She took out a stethoscope and took his pulse and noted how it was slower than normal, as though his body was numb and was cutting off some blood flow. She furrowed her brow slightly.

She lifted up Heero's bangs, looking as she noticed some blotches of what looked like make up. She had always suspected something of the family that Heero was currently living with. She took a sterile wet cloth and wiped it across his face, some bruises appearing on his face.

She furrowed her brows once again and then picked up the knee hammer thing and brought it down on his knee, noticing how his knee didn't moved at all. She poked some of his bruises and took off the bandages to some of his cuts and all, wrapping them and treating those that were infected. He had a little of a fever and his body seemed too cold, yet his face was flushed.

"Heero," The doctor said, startling Heero from whatever place in his mind he found himself straying to and quickly met her eyes. She held an empty needle. "I'll need to take some blood and you'll have to spend the night. I need to get rid of your fever." She told him softly, noting how his fever had risen.

"All right." He managed as he let her push his body against the cool white sheets. She smiled and took some blood samples and then left the room to deliver it to the lab.

"Oh, Dr. Karnagy!" A woman with twin golden plaits said as she bumped into the good doctor. The vials of blood almost spilled and shattered onto the hard tile floor.

Karnagy's bun came loosed as she looked up to see the Preventer's representative. As leading hospital in the nation, they were to be under certain inspections as well as their patients held under their roof currently. "Oh, good to see you too." She mumbled, regaining her composure.

She flagged down a nurse and called her over to deliver the blood to the lab so she could discuss the events and patients in the hospital with her superior.

"Whose blood is that, vampire girl?" The Preventer teased.

"Someone who is going to stay the night for sure here. I feel so sorry for him, he's been drugged I believe." She whispered to the representative.

"Is that so, let me guess, teenager?" The woman questioned with a smart intellect.

"Yeah," She looked at the person, being quite familiar with the representative. "Sally, you can go and check up on him in a sec, I have to put some sedatives into him before he gets restless." She gave the vials to the nurse to send to the lab and dragged Sally Po off to the room.

"So, what this patients name? You seem quite fond of him." Sally pointed out.

"Heero Yuy." Sally blinked in shock as the handle to the heavy oak door slowly turned.

TBC

Author's note:

. I hope that y'all liked it a lot! The angst is yet to begin! I'm so happy that this story has so many reviewers that it inspired me to write this as fast as I could! I just couldn't resist. Your reviews make me feel to warm and fuzzy inside!

To my reviewers:

-tarigarma12: We can all take a vote to see what type of story this would be. i never really though about the pairings. So please readers tell me what you would like in your reviews; 1XR, !Xother pilot, 1X2, 1Xother character. I might do them, I might not (i'm not very good at romance).

-gundam girl: Would those girls be the people that flock over him? If so...possibly, but currently i believe he is suffering from depression. The verbal and physical abuse he's recieving is getting to his mind. After a certain while, some people can believe what people yell at them that it's their fault, etc.

-A Minor Pentatonic, Vahsh-daughter, & Jinglebells: Thank you for the compliment!

-Rekkaboziegirl, blade the dragonwolf, yuniestwin: I will update, i'm just so happy that people like my story!

Thankyou everyone for making me happy with your reviews and i hope you liked this chapter! Red Tail