Once again, its been too long since I've updated…sigh I know I know, ur all probably ready to throttle me…again, but its not my fault, I got really really really sick, which I've been doing a lot lately, I was throwing up for three weeks straight, and we finally figured out what the problem was…my stupid doctor gave me the wrong dosage of a new medication…anywayz, I'm back now…tho I don't know for how long, actually I'm supposed to be doing one of two thesis papers that are due tomorrow, but…I got bored, and I lost my train of thought and spent fifteen minutes trying to get it together again, but alas, it was not meant to be. Looks like im going to have to pull another all-nighter. Good news is I got both my thesis statements done, which means…THE HARD PART'S OVER! YAY! …ahem, soooooo I guess I shouldn't hold out much longer seeing as how u really really really want to read the next chappie…sooooo here it is! ENJOY!

Chapter 7

Sakura stood wide-eyed staring at the tests. She could feel her thoughts running wildly around her head, and put a hand to her temple to try and steady herself. She couldn't break down, not now, not in front of 007 and Eleanor. She'd have to wait, she could cry when she was alone tonight. But she absolutely downright refused to cry in front of Li.

She forced a smile and looked at Li, "Well honey? What'd you think?"

Li still hadn't absorbed all of it. He nodded absently, "It's great Hayley. Just a bit surprising that's all."

Miss Eleanor snorted, "Surprising! Pshaw, please, what do you expect when you—"

Hayley cut in, "Yes, thank you for that Miss Eleanor. Would you mind terribly if Chris and I had a moment alone?"

Eleanor merely smiled. "Of course, I'll be back in an hour to help you out with that horrid thing you call a back yard. Sound good?"

"Perfect." Hayley replied, with a smile still pasted on her face.

Eleanor gave one last glance towards Li then turned and headed back out the door, with him trailing behind. Once the door was closed he locked it, then turned back to face Sakura, "I thought you took care of this at the hospital."

She snapped, "Well there wasn't enough time to find out."

Li rolled his eyes, "Haven't you ever heard of a morning-after pill?"

The hurt in Sakura's eyes finally shone through along with a string of tears, "Thank you for your sensitivity Chris," she articulated that one word as if to emphasize the lie behind it, "You sure do have a way with words." She bit back sarcastically.

Li's head rolled back, "Well I'm sorry, but you do realize that this complicates everything."

Sakura scoffed at him, the fire raging right along side the water in her eyes, "Yes I do realize that this complicates everything, a lot more so than you think! Do you think I wanted to have my rapist's baby?"

Li took a step towards Sakura, "Hayley…"

"NO! Don't give me your sympathy crap! I don't want or need any of it! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

And with that she turned on her heel, ran down the long hallway towards her bedroom and slammed the door shut and locked it. She leaned against it and slid down until she was sitting then wrapped her arms around her knees and hugged them to her chest. Who did he think he was?

'Morning after pill my butt. I'll give him a morning after pill. For goodness sake I wasn't even conscious the morning after!'

She had barely been crying for two minutes when she felt, more than heard a knock on the door. "Hayley?" she heard Li's apologetic voice behind it. "Hayley open up. Look I'm sorry for what I said ok? Just open the door and we can work this out."

She scoffed, then stood up and walked away from the door. "Hayley, come on talk to me."

'Talk to him? Ok fine I'll talk to him.' She thought bitterly.

She walked over to the door, unlocked it and opened it angrily, "GO TO HELL!"

She slammed the door in his face and locked it once again. She almost felt sorry for…the door. She could here Li's pounding fists against it and she retreated to the bathroom. Just to be on the safe side, she shut and locked that door too. Better safe than sorry.

She trudged over to the sink and turned on the cold water. Grabbing a washcloth from the rack she ran it under the water and splashed it on her face. She grabbed a towel from the same rack and dried her face off and looked over at her reflection in the mirror.

The woman staring at her was a complete stranger. Her shoulder length auburn hair was in disarry and her once sparkling emerald green eyes were now sullen and dull, and dark circles surrounded them. Her once tan skin was now fading back to its original color. She didn't recognize that woman at all.

Sighing she went over to the Jacuzzi/tub and turned on the hot water. She opened the mirror and took out some bubble bath that she had purchased at the supermarket the other day. Warm Vanilla Sugar. Well it certainly smelled good that was for sure. She poured a good deal of the bottle into the running water and watched as the bubbles formed and overtook the tub. Once it had reached the top she turned the water off and started taking off her clothes. She was mindful of the bruises and especially her abdomen, which was still very sore.

Sakura stepped into the wonderfully steaming water and, sighing, sat down against one side and let the water wash away all her stressors and worries. She didn't want to think about anything but the bubbles and the smell of warm vanilla sugar emanating from the hot water.

She relaxed even more when the pounding on the bedroom door stopped. Unfortunately her mind kept wandering back to one word. Pregnant. She thought about all the complications of raising a child in this kind of environment. Raising a child in one big lie. Teaching it to believe that its father was…Li. That was the scariest thought of all. Nevermind the fact that it was Kisho's baby, or that she wasn't at all ready to have kids and the thought of labor scared her to death. She was raised with values, and honesty was a BIG one. Raising a child inside a lie was a bit hypocritical to her.

Sighing, something that she had gotten good at over the past few days, she shook her hair out from the tight pony tail it had been in for a good twenty-four hours, and her scalp protested at the change of hair-styles.

She scooted forward and laid her head back so only her face was uncovered by the bubbles. She had to figure out what she was going to do about the baby. She knew that Li was going to suggest an abortion, but she wouldn't do it. The values that she had been raised with absolutely rejected the idea. No, she was going to have and raise this baby. Besides having an abortion now would raise too many suspicions, and knowing Miss Eleanor, the entire town would know about her pregnancy now. Well at least this denounced the fact that she and Chris weren't intimate. She scoffed at the thought.

She started when she heard a knock on the door. "Hayley?" she recognized Li's deep voice immediately, but the cold calculating tone was gone. And in its place was a tenderness that she had only witnessed once before. When they had been at her apartment and she had seen the bloodstain on the floor.

"Don't you dare come in!" she yelled back through the door.

"Hayley if you don't open this door in five seconds I'll break it down."

Her eyes widened at the implication, but she didn't think he'd do it. "Go to hell!"

A moment later the door caved in and Li stood in the doorway. Sakura screamed and grabbed a towel from the rack with lightning speed and covered her very nude body. Technically the bubbles covered up everything, but the towel seemed like a good idea. "GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!" she screamed at a now very flushed Li who was just standing there staring at her.

"GET OUT YOU JERK!" she picked up the bubble bath bottle and threw it at him. "GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!"

Li finally snapped back to reality and quickly exited the bathroom and then the bedroom, while muttering about something to himself that Hayley couldn't quite catch. Still breathing hard from the whole ordeal she stood up and wrung out the now drenched towel and threw it in the laundry bin. After grabbing the last clean and dry towel from the towel rack she dried herself off and quickly scurried into the bedroom, grabbed some clothes and hurriedly donned them. Oooh Li was going to get a piece of her mind after that little stunt. She was going to set up some boundaries, and if he so much as put a toe over one of them she would bite his head off. Not that she wasn't going to bite it off then, after what he had just pulled, he deserved everything she was about to give him.

Sakura tugged hard on her blue peasant blouse and rearranged her khaki capris. She ran her fingers through her hair and once she was satisfied with her appearance she stalked angrily out of the room. Her face was still flushed from anger, or at least that's what she kept telling herself.

She made her way down the hall and into the living room where Li was pacing in the living room obviously waiting for her to make an appearance. She folded her arms and gave him her "kaijuu" glare that her brother accused of her of having whenever she got downright angry. She doubted she could scare Li with one look, but she was going to stare him down and make him as uncomfortable as she had felt when he came into the bathroom three minutes ago.

She remained silent, standing next to the living room wall near the foyer, and boring holes into his face with her gaze. He shifted uncomfortably and she smirked. Good, he deserved every uncomfortable feeling that was coming his way. She was going to let him make the first move and then she'd lash out at him. But he had to say something soon otherwise her appearance of confidence would crumble and rage would take over.

He finally sighed and said remorsefully, "Hayley, I'm sorry."

She just stared at him, saying nothing with words, and yet everything with her eyes. They mocked him, those emerald orbs derided him and bored into him with open contempt. 'Sorry for what?' they seemed to ask.

"I'm sorry for the way I've been treating you. This afternoon's events are all the proof we need that our disdain for each other has…jeopardized any tolerance we have for each other. Especially your tolerance of me."

She raised an eyebrow, in a most defiant way.

Li rolled his eyes. "Look I know you dislike me, ok so you despise me," He corrected at her little ridiculing scoff. "But, these occurrences this afternoon have proven that our obvious lack of respect for each other's personal space has put our cover in jeopardy. I for one am not going to let that happen."

Sakura rolled her eyes, "Right, so I'm just another job to you. You think that once you prove yourself by keeping me alive that it'll get your superior's attention and get you promoted. Wonderful, that makes my self-esteem just soar right up there."

She could tell Li was struggling to maintain his temper, "I didn't mean it like that."

"Then what the heck did you mean?" Sakura nearly yelled.

"My assignment is to protect you. I intend to carry it out, not because of the hubris you claim me to have, but because it's my duty as an F.B.I. agent. Now, I think it would be wise if you started trusting me."

She scoffed at that. "Trust you? Trust you! Do you know what happened the last time I trusted a man that said he wanted to protect me? Well let me give you a hint; it's the reason I'm here having this conversation with you right now!"

Li pinched the bridge of his nose, a sign that he was getting very frustrated, "Look I'm here to protect you. Whether you like it or not. Whether I like it or not. My point is, we need to start trusting each other if we're going to get through this. I'm not Akita, Sakura."

Sakura's head snapped up at the mention of her real name. He hadn't ever spoken her real name out loud before. She wanted to trust him. But she couldn't. Not after what happened with Kisho. She was willing to tolerate him though, on a friendly basis, not the tense one they'd been dealing with the past week. But if she had any doubts about his intentions what he said next erased all of that.

"Syaoran. My name is Li Syaoran."

She looked at him. She looked into his amber eyes, and saw something that had never been there before. Compassion. Honest to goodness compassion. She wanted to yell at him, to scream at him, but she couldn't. Not after what she saw. Sighing in defeat she stepped forward and outstretched her arm, "I'm Sakura, nice to meet you Syaoran-san."

She had obviously surprised him, but he took her hand anyway. "The honor is all mine Sakura-san."

Their hands lingered like that for a few moments. Sakura was the first to pull away. "I should go start dinner." And walked away towards the kitchen.

Syaoran smiled. Maybe this wasn't going to be so bad after all. He followed her and after finding out that she was heating a casserole, turned off the oven and told her to grab her coat. They were going out to dinner tonight. He had just accomplished a great feat, he was not about to celebrate it by having a casserole.

A/N: OK! And that's a wrap for chapter 7! And surprise surprise, I won't be able to update for a few weeks, I'm having surgery Dec 21. getting my ankle reconstructed. So ill be pretty high on drugs over winter break. I'll try to update before then though. But I still have two other stories to work on too and I have to read like three books before the 17th aaaaaaaaaaaaand a whole bunch of papers including three thesis' on top of a science fair project and my regular homework….oy and parents think they have stress…I feel like im in college already, stars help me. well wish me luck I have to finish my two papers tonight….grr….my head hurts, sigh well this is what I get for procrastinating. .