Mush and Casey went back to the lodging house to go and find Rinoa and see if they could work everything out with her. Mush walked up the stairs and into the bunkroom to find Rinoa not in there. He turned around to face Casey.

"Where is she?" He asked. Casey shrugged and looked around the room. She found Race looking out the window. It felt really weird just seeing Race standing not making any movement and just staring blankly outside the window.

"Race!" Casey called jogging over to the window. Race didn't reply he just kept staring out the window. "Race, what's wrong?" Mush asked tapping him on the shoulder. Race hung his head a little and still didn't say anything. "C'mon, please say something....what's wrong?" Casey said shaking his shoulder.

"Rinoa..." Race said shutting his eyes. Casey could of swore that she saw some tears come out of his eyes. "Oh my god, Race! Rinoa! Where's Rinoa?" Casey said fretfully placing her hands on his shoulders and turning him around. She shook him roughly by his shoulders.

"Rinoa's gone..." Race said slowly. "Where is she?!" Casey yelled in panic. "Look, we're blowing this way out of proportion." Mush said stepping in. "Unless you count the delancy's beating the shit out of her out of proportion!" Race yelled with tears streaking his face. He pushed them to the side and ran out of the room.

"NO!" Casey yelled running after Race in full speed. Mush followed quickly behind. "Race come back please!" Casey said stopping him. "Where is she?" She asked tears running down her face. "She's at the hospital." Race said shortly running out of the lodging house.

"Mush, why would the Delancy's hurt Rinoa?" Casey asked. "Dunno, but when I find them I'm going to kick their ass!" Mush yelled running past her and out the door.

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Mush ran around looking for the Delancy's. There was no sign of them. He ran over to the newspaper office. He found Oscar lifting Papers onto a cart.

He was grabbed from the behind by Mush and thrown to the ground. "What the hell is your problem Mush?" Oscar yelled trying to get up. Mush kicked him in the side causing him to fall down again. "You know damn well." Mush replied picking up Oscar by the collar and holding him up.

"No, I actually don't know... now let me go this is not the most comfortable position..." Oscar said. "What about Rinoa huh? Was beating the shit outta her comfortable for her?!" Mush yelled throwing him completely into the wall.

"Who's Rinoa?" Oscar asked weakly. "Oh how about the girl you beat up today huh? So you beat up more then one today?" Mush yelled angrily. "I don't know what you're talking about..." Oscar said trying to stand up. "Just tell me what I need to know then I might leave you alone."

"Alright fine. I know about the girl. But I didn't beat her up. It wasn't me or Morris." Oscar said. "Then who was it?" Mush asked. "It was some guys. I think they were from Brooklyn..." Oscar said trying to recall. "Alrught fine." Mush said running off to the hospital.

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Casey walked slowly into the room. Rinoa was lying on the bed. Her skin was paler then snow. She looked colder than ice. There were a lot of cuts on her face and dirt. Dirt covered her hands and face. The blanket on her had blood on it. It looked like something had smashed into her head. Her black hair was covered in blood and there was a bandage around her head.

"Rinoa...I'm so sorry..." Casey whispered letting her head fall onto the bed. She sobbed into the covers. She held one of Rinoa's hands tightly. Mush walked in quietly. "Oscar said he didn't do it. Neither him, or Morris. This is serious...I'll probably have to go and get Spot on this one." Mush said shaking his head. "Yeah maybe." Casey said wiping the tears off her face. "Casey, are you alright?" Mush asked sitting on the chair right next to her. "No, Mush...she hates me and she won't forgive me. She could of died hating me and we never could set it right." Casey said sadly shaking her head.

"Point is, you still have time...not many people do get the chance." Mush said rubbing her back. The doctor came in at that minute. His clipboard was in one hand and the other was at his side.

"What happened?" Casey asked. "She was somehow in a fight or something and she was beat up severely and she had a brick or huge rock smashed into her head. She took some severe injuries to the head. She will recover though." The doctor reassured her.

"That's good." Mush said sighing. "But one more thing I should tell you..."The doctor said tensing up.

--Sorry to leave you guys like this, but I'm at a friend's house on her computer. She wants me to watch the rest of D2 with her. Yeah I watched that while writing this, I'll post more tomorrow when I get back home. But I'm starting to feel sick so that's not good. (

-Alex