The sun had barely risen, yet Rejhan was already up and about. Taking a deep breath, she commenced her morning stretches out on the lawn, stretching her muscles until she could feel them start to resist her efforts. Ten minutes later, and she was off and running.
Arriving back home an hour later, she was just in time to see Gohan making his way down the stairs and into the kitchen. With one hand covering a yawn, he waved at his twin with the other.
"Good morning to you too," Rejhan said with a smile, as Gohan threw both of his arms up into the air, stretching his back out.
"How is it that you're always so chirpy in the morning?" he asked, and Rejhan shrugged.
"Years of sneaking around behind everyone's back has made me a morning person," she replied, leading the way into the kitchen.
Gohan sat himself down at the table, laying his head on his folded arms as he watched his twin prepare breakfast for the two of them. It must be a relief for her not to have to sneak around anymore, and Gohan couldn't help but smile, remembering how determined his sister could be at times. With a frown, he suddenly remembered his other, just as determined, sister.
"Rej, have you seen Emily this morning?"
Rejhan paused for a moment, letting the bacon sizzle away in the pan. "No," she answered, finding it odd that Emily hadn't made an appearance yet.
Turning around and catching the look on Gohan's face, she noted that he too found the teenager's absence a bit odd. Abandoning the bacon for the moment, Rejhan headed up the stairs.
Approaching her sister's room, she only prayed that the younger girl was just sleeping in.
'Please be in bed. Please be in bed. Please be in bed,' she repeated in her head as she reached out and turned the doorknob.
Slowly opening the door, she noted that it was kind of cold and breezy in the room. Opening the door all of the way, the first thing that she noted was that the cold breeze was coming from the open window. The second thing that she noticed was that her sister's bed was empty. In fact, it hadn't even been slept in, as the sheets were still neatly made.
"I'm gonna kill her," Rejhan growled, stomping back down to the kitchen.
"Let me guess," Gohan started, clearing seeing the look of annoyance and anger on his twin's face. "She's not in her room."
Rejhan slammed her fists down onto the table. "When I find her, I swear …"
Gohan sighed. "I guess it was wishful thinking that we would actually have an easy time of it with just Emily to watch, hey?"
Rejhan nodded, taking several deep breaths to calm herself. "Give me two seconds to find them, and we can go join mum and Bulma," Rejhan said, closing her eyes, and Gohan laughed.
"I have a better idea. Although, yours isn't that bad, either," he conceded. "How about you use that sight of yours to find Emily? She's probably only up in the mountains somewhere anyway. Then you can drag her back here and vent some of that frustration on her."
"Why do I have to be the one to drag her home?" Rejhan whined, folding her arms.
"Because she actually listens to you." Rejhan raised an eyebrow in disbelief. "Well, move than she listens to me, anyway."
The young woman sighed, dropping her hands to her sides. "Fine. I'll go find her."
Closing her eyes, Rejhan focused her energy onto Emily's ki signature. A moment later, and she could feel the younger girl's unmistakable ki. Another moment, and she had converted what she could feel into an image that she could see on the inside of her eyelids. The blue light form of Emily was laying down somewhere, not moving, yet her ki was strong. Heading out of the door, Rejhan followed her senses to the girl's location.
Touching down in a small clearing, Rejhan sighed as she saw that Emily was fast asleep under the trees; the remnants of a fire not too far away. Walking over to where she lay, Rejhan knelt down, putting a hand on the girl's bare shoulder to wake her up. Gasping, she pulled her hand away. Emily was freezing cold!
A shudder suddenly ran through Emily's body, and Rejhan quickly picked her up in her arms. Jumping into the sky, she flew back home as fast as she could.
"Gohan!" she yelled, bursting through the door. "Get upstairs and run a hot bath. Emily's freezing!"
With a surprised nod, Gohan did as he was told, and Rejhan quickly followed after him. Throwing Emily into the bathtub, clothes and all, Rejhan told her twin where she had found her.
"You think she's been out there all night?" Gohan asked, looking down at the shivering form of his little sister.
Rejhan nodded grimly. "Her bed hasn't been slept in, which means that she must have crept out after I left her last night."
Suddenly Emily gave a gasp, and sat bolt upright in the tub.
"What the … ? Hot! It's hot!" she cried, making a lunge for the taps, yet Gohan grabbed her and pushed her back down.
"Oh no you don't. You were nearly frozen to death, so you will sit there in the hot water and think about what you've done," he said sternly, and Emily glared at him.
"Honestly, what were you thinking, sneaking out like that?" Rejhan asked, kneeling down on the tiles so that she was on Emily's level.
"Well, you wouldn't let me go back for my fish, so I snuck out instead," Emily replied simply, not really seeing the problem in what she had done.
"After what we told you about catching pneumonia?" Gohan cried, barely controlling his rage. Emily just rolled her eyes.
"I'm fine, aren't I?" she shot back, and after a brief stare off between her and Gohan, the oldest demi finally left the room in a huff.
"What's his problem anyway?" Emily asked, and Rejhan glared at her.
"He was worried about you," she said, getting to her feet.
"Yeah? Well, his idea of worry looks a lot like my idea of anger."
Rejhan bristled, yet refused to enter into a debate with the teen. "Just sit there and soak, ok? Get out when the water starts to get cold, get dry, get dressed in something warm, and then get into bed, ok?"
Emily nodded, and Rejhan sighed, hoping that she actually meant that nod for once. Leaving the bathroom, she made her way downstairs where she found her twin flicking through channels on the TV. Sitting down next to him, they both shared a look of relief before settling into the couch.
Meanwhile, back upstairs, Emily contemplated her current situation.
'Why did I have to fall asleep for?' she growled in her mind. She had found her fish, and had even cooked one up as a late night snack, enjoying in her sense of freedom at having snuck away from the twins. Yet sitting around the fire had eventually got too much for her, and she had found herself drifting off to sleep.
The next thing she remembered before waking up in the boiling hot bathtub, was being chased by a purple dinosaur.
Emily shuddered as she remembered the dream. 'Evil Barney,' she thought with hatred, noticing that the bath water was starting to get cold.
With a sigh, she pulled herself out of the tub, and wrapped a towel around her dripping body. Opening the door that led to her bedroom, she promptly stripped and put her pyjamas on. Before jumping into bed however, she paused as an idea struck her.
"This could really work to my advantage," she said quietly, rushing back into the bathroom.
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Half an hour later, Rejhan decided that she had better go and check on her little sister. Gohan only snorted when she asked him if he wanted to come too, so Rejhan was left to go up on her own.
Entering Emily's room, the young woman was relived to see that Emily was in fact in bed, and covered up to the neck in her blankets no less.
Rejhan smiled at her as she turned to look at her visitor. "How are you feeling?" Rejhan asked, and Emily frowned slightly.
"Not sure. I feel kinda funny," Emily replied in a quiet voice, and Rejhan frowned as she sat down on the edge of the bed. Putting a hand on Emily's forehead, she was alarmed to feel that the younger girl was burning up!
"Don't move," Rejhan said before rushing into the bathroom to find a thermometer. Finding it in a draw, she ran back into her sister's room and jammed it into her mouth.
"Waywhan, was dat thor?" Emily mumbled around the thermometer, and Rejhan shushed her.
"I'm checking your temperature, so don't take it out of your mouth, ok?"
Emily nodded, and Rejhan headed towards the door. "I'll be back in a few minutes. Don't take that out of your mouth, and leave it under your tongue, all right?" Emily nodded again, and Rejhan left the room.
The second that the door had closed, Emily pulled the thermometer out of her mouth. Sitting up in bed, Emily turned and lifted up her pillow. Underneath was a hot water bottle.
"Thank you Trunks," Emily whispered as she jammed the thermometer under the hot water bottle. It might have been enough to make her head hot, but there was no way that a hot water bottle under the pillow would raise her body temperature enough to convince the twins that she was in fact sick.
A few minutes later, and Emily could hear the sound of footsteps approaching her room. Quickly, she pulled the thermometer out from under her pillow and shoved it back into her mouth, grimacing at the slight rubbery taste.
No sooner had she settled herself back under her blankets, than Rejhan had opened the door. Sitting herself down on the edge of the bed again, she reached over and pulled the thermometer out of Emily's mouth.
Putting on her best woeful look, Emily was inwardly laughing at Rejhan's alarmed expression.
"Kami, you are sick!" Rejhan exclaimed, and Emily tried to look as frail as possible. "That's it, you're not to leave this bed until that fever breaks, ok?" Emily nodded slightly, and Rejhan sighed. "Hopefully it's nothing too serious, but if you're still sick tomorrow, I'll have to call a doctor."
Emily was slightly worried about a doctor coming, but was relieved to note that she still had all day to make the twins wait on her, hand and foot. And make then she would.
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"I swear, if she rings that bell one more time, I'm gonna wring her neck!" Rejhan growled as the sound of a bell could be heard ringing somewhere upstairs.
"Well, it was your brilliant idea to give her the damn bell in the first place," Gohan complained from over on the couch, stuffing a pillow over his ears.
"Don't remind me," Rejhan groaned as she picked up the mug of chicken noodle soup that she had been preparing, and headed off up the stairs.
Not wanting to give Emily an excuse to get out of bed, Rejhan had given her a small bell to ring whenever she needed something. The only problem was that Emily seemed to need or want something every five minutes.
Opening her bedroom door, Rejhan found the younger girl propped up against one of her pillows, bell in hand.
"Here you go. One cup of chicken noodle soup," Rejhan announced, handing over the steaming mug. Emily frowned.
"I rang just now to remind you to cut up some bread into soldiers for me. I can't eat this without any bread," Emily said, and Rejhan had to stifle the urge to throttle her.
"Ok, I'll be back in a minute," Rejhan said carefully, and left the room. "The brat wants bread soldiers," she announced, entering the lounge room, and sitting herself down next to Gohan.
"Why are you telling me for?"
"Because it's your turn to go up," Rejhan shot back, and Gohan groaned as he pushed himself off of the couch.
Walking into the kitchen, Gohan set about buttering a few slices of white bread, and then cutting them into strips to make the 'soldiers'. Piling them onto a plate, he trudged his way upstairs.
"'Bout time. My soup was starting to get cold," Emily said once Gohan had entered her room.
"Sorry, we forgot," Gohan replied, holding back a scathing comment. "I hope this makes you feel better," he added and meant it. The sooner she got better, the sooner he could stop acting like a butler.
Emily watched Gohan leave the room, before she eagerly dug into her bread and soup. She was starving! But all too quickly, she was out of food.
"How do they expect me to survive on just bread and soup?" she wailed melodramatically. "I'm so hungry."
With a huff of annoyance, Emily realised that her great plan was falling apart, simply because of her Saiyan stomach. The twins believed that she was actually sick, and were therefore feeding her what any normal sick person would eat – mainly liquids, and nothing too solid. She couldn't take it anymore! She needed real food, and she needed it fast.
Throwing her covers aside, Emily crept out of her room and made her way down the hall towards the stairs. Creeping halfway down, she sunk onto her knees and peered through the bars. In the lounge room, she could see the tops of both Rejhan's and Gohan's heads over the top of the couch, and she smirked.
Avoiding the creaking step, she made her way down the rest of the staircase, and quietly entered the kitchen. With a long practised flick, she opened the cupboard without making a sound, and pulled out a bag of chips. Frowning, she realised that the chips weren't going to be enough.
Quietly closing the cupboard, she turned her attention to the fridge. There was one weak spot in the fridge seal, and slipping a fingernail into it, the rest of the seal gave way without a sound. With a grin of triumph, she pulled out the plate of slightly overcooked bacon from that morning's breakfast, as well as a bottle of soft drink.
Easing the fridge door closed, she turned to make her way back towards the staircase, and froze.
"Oh, you are SO busted!" Rejhan exclaimed, standing in her little sister's path, hands on hips. Behind her, Gohan had a murderous glint in his eyes, and Emily suddenly realised that she wasn't that hungry anymore.
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Author's note. Hey all! Rejhan here. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and please review! We'd love to know what you all think! Anyway, Emily is up next, so keep an eye out!