Prisoner of Destiny:
Summary: Sequel to Water and Fire. Now that the elementals rule the three worlds, everything is under their reign- ningens and youkai alike have all been enslaved, even the YYH gang….and Kiya can't do anything about it. Or can she? Alone she will try to uncover the elementals weakness and use it to return the worlds to their rightful state. But…… where's Hiei? HieixOC.
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Alas! It is winter break and I can type until my poor fingers fall off! WOOT! Anyways, again, THANK YOU for all the wonderful (and hilarious) reviews! I got some reviews after this last chapter that made me laugh my ass off! I've got some funny readers, I do.
So here's a new chapter, I hope you like it! (Oh, I've decided to speed things up a bit, so there'll only be about 3 more chapters in this story, not including the epilogue (and there will be one)) This one will be extra long solely because of the fact that I get two weeks off from school and I have nothing better to do than type! So be happy!
Forgive the grammar issues; I was, again, hurried into finishing a chapter. I still hope you like it…
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Previously:
"No…..give us a moment…" I muttered, my eyes not leaving Hiei's peaceful face as I removed my body from beneath his and placed him gently on the ground next to me. I sat on my knees next to his unconscious form and gazed at him lovingly.
"Hiei-koi….." You're alright. Thank Kami-sama, you're alright…
…now we can go maul those Elementals…
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Chapter 8: The Fight Part 1:
Wow………
Just, wow.
Hiei is alive…..he's with me, lying on the ground next to me, perfectly fine save for a few scratches on his body and his obvious fatigue.
He looks so peaceful when he sleeps, not at all the stoic, threat-machine I came to know and love, I mused to myself as I stared down at Hiei's form that was completely unmoving except for the rhythmic rise and fall of his chest as he breathed slowly. I shifted myself, carefully raising Hiei's head until I was sitting right behind him, his head resting on my folded legs. I gingerly brushed aside a piece of ebony hair as it fell into his eyes.
"You know, the first time I had met Hiei, he was flinging me across the gym in your school….." Haku chuckled, trying to make conversation- while I just ignored him. "Good times," he mumbled. "So, he's your mate, now?" He asked suggestively, cluing in on a certain action of mates.
"No," I muttered, my eyes not leaving Hiei as I inspected his body for any extruding bones or missing skin for the twentieth time. I had never been this concerned about anyone in my life, and although it was weird to me, I didn't care. "We're not technically mates until we……you know…….why the hell am I even telling you this?"
"I don't know."
I sighed, re-tying Hiei's fallen bandana across his forehead before saying, "We have to get out of here…"
----------------------------WITH THE YYH GANG---------------------------------
"We have got to get Kiya out of there."
"I agree, Yusuke, but let's not forget about Hiei." Kurama added as he, Yusuke and Kuwabara all hurried towards the Elemental's lair. Sasha flew in the air above them, unwilling to allow them to rescue Kiya without her being there to help. Sasha had told them that if they didn't leave soon, the chances of bringing Hiei and Kiya back alive would be slim, so they all decided to leave as soon as possible. Kurama had become more and more concerned for the two especially because of the fact that he could no longer connect with Hiei telepathically.
"I'm gonna kick all their asses!" Kuwabara yelled as the lair soon came into sight.
Kuwabara cringed at Kuwabara's loudness. "Kuwabara, might I remind you that this is to be a quiet rescue? We do not want to attract attention to ourselves." On the inside, Kurama was seriously contemplating going into the large building without the other two…it would be quiet without them- and easier to bring out Kiya and Hiei safely.
"Kurama's right. We have to be quiet….or come up with a subtle way of getting into the place…" Yusuke stopped walking, staring in the direction of the Lair. Kurama's and Kuwabara's gazes followed suit to see a very peculiar sight indeed. Peculiar, but very-very helpful.
"Someone up there must like us," Mumbled Yusuke, still in awe at the sight before him. This seemed almost too easy.
"Indeed." Kurama mused.
Kuwabara just stood there, his mouth wide open, and a small trail of drool traveling down his chin.
--------------------------------WITH KIYA-----------------------------------
"Do you have anything to eat?"
"Nani?" (What)
"Do you have anything to eat?" I asked again, slightly irritated. "Hiei needs food."
"Uh," Haku dug around in his pockets, his eyes lightly up when he obviously found something. He pulled it out. "Aha! One partially eaten granola bar!"
Haku tossed the bar to me and I removed the rest of the wrapper. "I hope Hiei likes granola." I lightly placed my hand on Hiei's chest, having to reach over his head. He stirred and I spoke to him softly. "Hiei, open your mouth, I'm going to feed you something."
Either Hiei didn't hear me, he was still unconscious, or he was ignoring me. I could guess by the uneven falling of his chest that he was awake and that it was the latter of the three. "Hiei, open your mouth." I said again, more forcefully.
I could hear Haku move around behind me, and I thought he had said something about 'finding a way out of this place'.
Hiei still didn't respond to my command, which was very like him. Hiei did not like being told what to do- even if he was unconscious and it was for his own damned good. I groaned in annoyance.
"Fine, you stubborn jackass. I guess I'm going to have to use force." I smirked to myself- Hiei was in for it. I know- I'm such a good nurse, using unnecessary methods to feed my wilted patients, but oh well, Hiei could pay me back for this later.
Biting off a small piece of the granola bar, I forced myself not to eat it despite my own hunger, and I pushed it into the side of my mouth to be used momentarily. Then, I removed Hiei's head from my lap and moved so that I was right next to his body again. Poor Hiei, I was moving him around so much.
Leaning over Hiei, I lowered my face until it was inches from his own. Then, closing my eyes, I slowly closed the distance between the both of us by pressing my lips to his.
Hiei, although in very bad shape, almost immediately reacted- no matter how faintly. I felt his lips weakly press against my own and I felt one of his hands rise to the nape of my neck, trying to pull my face closer to his own.
So he was awake!
Triumphantly, I licked Hiei's lips with my own, initiating the invitation this time and he complied awkwardly, obviously not use to me taking the initiative in a kiss. With his lips parted in invitation, I quickly got the now-soggy piece of granola out of my cheek and shoved into his mouth with my tongue.
I sat up and watched in amusement as Hiei nearly gagged with the new addition to his mouth, and as he gingerly chewed it and swallowed.
"That was disturbing." Came Haku's voice from next to me. I raised my narrowed eyes to glare at him. "You were feeding him like he was a baby bird." Shaking his head in disapproval, Haku turned back to searching the walls for an exit.
I smirked once my mind returned to Hiei, and I looked back down at him.
The smirk fell from my face as Hiei's crimson eyes opened slowly to glare at me.
Even if he had just woken up from passing out, Hiei still had one hell of a glare. His hand fell limply from my neck and he growled faintly.
"Onna…" The one-word warning clearly demonstrated his state of un-happiness.
"Don't get mad at me! You were ignoring me, and I had to feed you somehow!" You know you liked it as much as I did…..
I gasped at my thoughts. Kiya! You naughty, naughty girl! Well, at least Hiei was too weak to have his Jagan read my mind- thank Kami-sama. (god)
Hiei growled again faintly, before closing his eyes tightly as he attempted to sit up. I placed my hands on his back gently, helping him up.
"What is this despicable place?" The first intelligible sentence that came from Hiei's mouth was in a low and parched voice.
"The dungeons beneath the Lair." I stood up as Hiei did, watching him warily in case he wavered. I quickly walked over to get Hiei's katana for him and strapped it to his waist, ignoring the glares he was sending towards me.
"Uh, Kiya. I think I found it…." I cringed at hearing Haku's excited voice. The reunion between Haku and Hiei was not going to be a pleasant one. Haku's so flipping lucky that Hiei's not in the shape to kick his ass.
"You," I heard Hiei growl beside me and I felt his body stiffen.
"Uh…..nice to…erm…..see ya again….." Haku let out nervously, his hand behind his head.
"What did you find?" I interrupted the two male's awkward meeting.
Haku was grateful for the disruption, for he was finally able to pull his widened eyes away from Hiei. "It's right over here. Come look." He pointed to a corner in the room. "There's a small hole," he explained as Hiei and I walked slowly over to him- slowly because I had to both make sure that Hiei didn't fall and that he didn't spontaneously attack Haku.
I walked over to Haku's side, ignoring Hiei's narrow-eyed glare, and looked at what he was pointing to.
There was indeed a small hole in the corner of the wall, and beyond that was nothing but darkness. The hole was about 1 ½ feet tall and 1 ¾ feet wide….and by the way Haku was looking at the hole and then me, I could tell he had something planned.
"I think you're small enough to fit through there."
Pause.
Yeeeaaahhhno.
I'm not going in there! Hell no!
………..It's not that I'm afraid of the dark…..it's just that……think of all the…….spiders …that would be in there.
Shudder.
I hate spiders.
Big ol' nasty looking demons I can handle, no problem…….Elementals about to kill me; no sweat…..but spiders? I don't do spiders, sorry.
I know, I know….I'm being very selfish. That's what I tried to keep telling myself: that if I wanted to get out of here so that Hiei wouldn't die of starvation, then I'd have to suck up my fears and get it over with.
I looked again to Haku, who was looking at me expectantly.
I groaned. "Fine…"
------------------------BACK AT GENKAI'S TEMPLE--------------------------
"Come you three, into the basement." The old psychic ordered as she and the teenage Koenma tried to herd Keiko, Yukina and Shizuru all into the basement. (Let's just pretend that Genkai's temple has a basement.)
"Why? Where's Yusuke?"
"Yusuke went to go rescue Kiya and Hiei. You have to go in the basement because-" Koenma started slowly, but the inpatient Genkai cut him off.
"Because if you don't you'll be blown to bits, understand?" She took a deep breath, looking up at Koenma. "Something big is about to happen, good or bad I don't know. It would not be wise to question me right now, so go!" Genkai threw open the basement door for the three and gave them a little push down into the dark basement.
Gankei slammed the door shut and from behind it, she could hear Shizuru yelling," If my baby brother dies, someone's gonna lose a body part!"
"Those dimwits better not mess up…" Genkai mumbled as she and Koenma walked back to the living room. "I'll be back." Genkai walked out the front door, leaving a confused Koenma behind. "Don't have kittens, I'm just going to go meditate."
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The Detective, the Fox and the human all stared at the sight before them.
There, entering the large, opened gates of the Elemental Lair, were hundreds of cloak-concealed people, Youkai or Ningen, the group couldn't tell. All they did know was that this was their chance, their chance to get into the inner perimeters of the Lair unnoticed.
"Come quickly." Kurama took off at a sprint, who was closely followed by Yusuke and Kuwabara. Kurama stopped in front of the last three travelers in line to enter the gates.
Not wanting to have to resort to forceful measures, Kurama spoke calmly as to not frighten the stricken ningens, as he came to conclude.
"We need your clothing, if you would please part with the cloaks and allow my friends and I to borrow them, we'd be very grateful."
The poor ningens only stared at Kurama, their eyes wide.
"Please, I will not harm-" Kurama was cut off by Yusuke and Kuwabara successfully knocking out all three ningens (two males and one female: Yusuke had to knock out the female because Kuwabara refused to do so) with a swift hit to the nape of their necks.
Kurama sighed while Yusuke removed the cloaks from the unconscious adults and threw one to Kuwabara and Kurama. "I do not think you handled that situation in the best way, Yusuke."
"Yeah, well, screw the 'best way'. Kiya and Hiei need our help." With that said, Yusuke took off to catch up with the rest of the ningens waiting to enter the gated community.
Kuwabara and Kurama followed suit. All three of them were quick to pull their hoods on, and Kurama was especially careful to hide his hair behind his back, because besides his green eyes, his red hair was a very noticeable physical trait.
"Kurama, why are the Elementals letting all these people into their place?" Kuwabara asked in a hushed tone as soon as the two of them were right next to Yusuke at the back of the line.
"I suppose it's to count them all, to keep record of how many ningens live in the general area. The Elementals aren't unintelligent to not know that it is beneficial to be organized."
Kuwabara was quiet for a moment, trying to understand what the spirit fox had just said…
…which wasn't going too well.
The line moved quickly and soon the three of them were facing a large, burly looking youkai guard. Kurama and Yusuke tried not to scoff: this loser was only a D class demon and if it were not for their current state of caution, they would have taken him down in a heartbeat.
The youkai guard narrowed his eyes at the three, before leaning in for a closer look at all of them. The first subject of his scrutiny was Yusuke.
After examining Yusuke for all of 3 seconds, the guard spoke to his partner, who was standing to the side with a large scroll and a writing utensil in his hands. "Male."
His eyes went to Kuwabara. The guard scrunched his nose and furrowed his brow, immediately grunting, "Male. Too ugly to be female."
The guard's partner snorted as he wrote down a tally for Kuwabara on his paper and the guard moved along to Kurama, who made sure to empty his eyes of any emotion.
"And one female. Get inside." Yusuke tried not to bust out laughing at Kurama's faltered state of composure at the guard's accusation. Once inside the gates, Yusuke grinned at Kurama from beneath his hood.
"Now is not the time for your jokes, Yusuke." Kurama scolded before tuning him and Kuwabara out and scanning the large house, his fox-ness coming up with a million ways to infiltrate the seemingly poorly-secured house. He opted for the only conspicuous option.
He turned back to Kuwabara and Yusuke, who he found to be giggling, and gave them a calm look before saying, "This is what we have to do…."
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I readied myself to enter the small, probably spider infested hole. Fun fun.
The hole was only two feet off the ground, so I had no problems getting into it. I slowly placed one leg into the hole, careful not to touch the sides in fear of a spider getting on me. Once I felt the ground on the other side, I quickly dove through the hole, levitating above the ground.
Alright: 1st level…..passed.
I looked back at the opening of the hole to see not Haku, but Hiei, his protective eyes watching me intently.
"I can't see anything…." I admitted. The only thing I could see was Hiei and the hole, everything inside the hole around me was engulfed in darkness.
It's times like these I sometimes wished my element was fire. Oh well.
Hiei, understanding like I knew he would, held his hand in the hole, palm up, and I watched quietly as a small purple flame appeared two inches above his hand. The flame slowly grew bigger until the large room around me was illuminated in a dim glow.
"Thanks, Hiei."
I got no response.
Looking around at my surroundings, I almost immediately gasped.
"What is it?" Came Haku's curious voice from behind Hiei.
"Those….."I began as my silver eyes widened. 'Those……bastards!"
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Kurama had just finished telling his two companions what it was they had to do to get inside the Lair. Now, the trio was subtly winding their way to the side of the Lair, where they could enter a first story window without being noticed.
The group came to the window, climbed through it, and bada-bing! They were in the Elemental's lair.
This seems too easy.. Kurama mused to himself for the 4th time that day.
"They're in there, I can sense it." Yusuke pointed down the long, empty hallway they were in to a pair of large doors.
Kurama nodded in agreement. He looked to Kuwabara, to see the human's brows furrowed in concentration. It's not often that Kurama was able to see the two detectives so focused, but at the moment he was grateful for their lack of seriousness.
Kurama inhaled deeply. This was it.
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Those no good…..dirty sons of……hope they rot in ……murder…
I steamed.
They had no right taunting us like this! Twice!
I could feel Hiei's Jagan enter my mind, trying to find out what I was so pissed about. I immediately sent him the image of what I was seeing and I felt his anger blow up more so than mine had.
Right in front of me….like a large sign proclaiming my stupidity….was a large transparent wall.
All along the wall:
About 10 even spaced, glowing red bars, creating the same familiar force field/ barrier that had surrounded Hiei when he was in the cell.
Goddamn it! We had been in a fake dungeon the whole time!
Wait…….that meant that there had to be another button, and I doubt the Elementals were stupid enough to put that button inside the 'dungeon'. Which meant it had to be in the room I was in. Problem was: I couldn't see farther than Hiei's flame reached.
"Hiei, I'm-," I began, about to tell him that I needed him in there with me, but I was silenced by said fire apparition appearing at my side, his flame wavering slightly.
I clutched my chest. "Gods, Hiei. Don't do that, you'll be the death of me, I swear it."
The look Hiei gave me made me stand stock still. His eyes were hard, and almost stoic except for the distant look of protectiveness that was deep within the mesmerizing crimson orbs.
"Never." He growled at me, and it took me a moment to process what he had said. When I did, I flushed.
I coughed, trying to draw attention away from my colored cheeks and I said, "Hiei, I'm going to need you to walk around with me with your flame, so that I can see the button…..wherever it is."
Hiei looked at me intensely a moment longer, then began walking with me as I studied the walls, floor and ceiling of the hidden room.
Little did I know that if Haku were not staring at both Hiei and I from the hole in the wall, Hiei would have done some very…..inappropriate things that he had been waiting to do with me since I had gone to the Elementals. Hiei just told himself that he and his demon side would have to wait for a more appropriate moment to allow himself to remind me who it was that I belonged to.
Such relevant things to be thinking at the moment, ne?
As Hiei and I both turned around to check the far wall, we stopped dead.
Hanging from the ceiling, right in front of us, a tattered rope around its neck, was the pale and slightly decomposed body of Markusho, the partner of the Elementals.
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Kiya and Hiei had been in Keiko's hospital room after she had been attacked and left for dead. Kiya had hugged Hiei, searching for comfort and in a moment of complete un-characteristic ness, Hiei had embraced her back.
"Aw, how sweet. Too bad I have to ruin your little moment." Came an unfamiliar male voice from the corner of the room. Kiya immediately let go of Hiei and he let go of her, and they both looked at the figure that the voice belonged to.
He was tall. 6' 0" easily. His long brown hair fell into his black eyes. His muscular build was hidden beneath a black suit. A long scar trailed down his right cheek to his neck. He looked to be about 40. Kiya almost immediately sensed that something wasn't right with this man and Hiei must've sensed it too, because he grabbed Kiya by the arm and pulled her behind him protectively.
"Look at you, Hiei. The Forbidden one trying to protect the one he has claimed? Tisk, tisk." The man stepped closer to them and Hiei unsheathed his katana. Kiya spoke.
"Who are you? How do you know Hiei's name?"
"The name's Markusho, darling, and I know a lot of things." He turned his attention to Hiei. "Oh, come now, put that away. I only came here to have a little chat with Kiya-chan."
Hiei didn't budge.
Markusho smiled evilly at Kiya and said, "You may know my partners. The other elementals. They told me to come here and relay a brief message to you…"
Hiei cut him off by disappearing and reappearing behind him. He swung his katana down towards Markusho's head, but Markusho merely transported over to Kiya. Before Hiei had the chance to attack Markusho again, he whispered something to Kiya. "Your time is nearing, darling.." Hiei attacked again. He brought his katana down on top of Markusho's head and……
……..it went right through him. Markusho grinned a sadistic smile a t Kiya before disappearing completely, yet his voice boomed once more throughout the tiny room. "If you chose not to join us, your friends will die. Every. Last. One of them…." He laughed. "Ciao, darling."
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So, apparently the Elementals had grown tired of the poor fool and 'disposed' of him.
I snorted. Served the dude right.
Walking around the body in a clear display of disrespect, Hiei and I gazed at the large wall in front of us, the only wall that I hadn't checked.
I groaned.
On the wall, there had to be over a hundred identical silver buttons.
"Damn it damn it damn it damn it….." I swore over and over again. The Elementals were really good at pissing me off.
….I wish Kurama was here. I could use his foxy intelligence to get me out of this frustrating situation.
"Button, button...which button?" I asked myself as Hiei and I stepped closer to the wall.
"Careful, guys! If you press the wrong button, this whole place may collapse!" Haku warned from the hole.
Hiei turned to glare at the poor silver haired teen. "Do not think you can order me around, boy."
Haku was wise and decided not to respond. As I said before, the guy's a quick learner.
"How clichéd," I muttered, responding to what Haku had said about the place collapsing.
I turned back to the wall, as did Hiei, and I furrowed my brows before lifting my hand, readying it to push some random button.
Hey, randomness has always worked for me in the past…..I think.
I was about to push the button in front of me when I felt a warm, strong hand constricting my wrist gently albeit firmly. I looked next to me to see Hiei's crimson eyes boring into my own.
"Not that one." Hiei then walked to the other end of the wall -not limping, I noticed; he must heal quickly- and pushed another button, leaving no time for hesitation or a reaction on my part.
Before I could say anything, the bars from the one transparent wall disappeared… along with the rest of the walls surrounding us.
My eyes widened, then narrowed severely.
Let me get this straight. We were in a fake room……inside a fake room?
I sympathized with Hiei, because he was in a fake cell, in a fake room, in a fake room….
Oop, here comes a headache.
My eyes were shut due to the pain seeping into my head, that I didn't even notice the three figures sitting in front of us until one of them spoke.
"Glad you finally found your way out. We're disappointed really; we didn't think it'd take you that long to figure out how to get out, but oh well."
I knew that voice, I knew it well.
Jasaro, that seething, arrogant, sunuva……..murder….
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Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara all walked hastily towards the door. If they were going to do this, they had better do it quickly.
Because Kurama saw no chance at sneaking Hiei and Kiya out of the Lair considering they had no clue where the two were, he figured that all they could do was go in to face the Elementals and hope for the best.
As soon as they had reached the doors, Kurama opened them with a quick shove, to reveal a sight he was not expecting.
Sure he was expecting to see the Elementals….which he did, but he was not at all prepared to see the two people who they had gone there to find in the middle of the room.
Kiya looked quite shaken, her long blue hair was awry and her clothing was tattered, but her current state of appearance was nothing compared to Hiei's.
The koorime's clothing was almost completely tattered, missing pieces here and there and there were many scrapes and bruises on his exposed flesh. However, he didn't at all seem concerned about his injuries, judging by the way his cold eyes were trained on something at the front of the large room.
Kurama's attention was ripped from his friends when he heard a chuckling voice coming from the Elemental of Fire himself, looking like the son of Hades atop his exaggerated throne.
"Ah, finally; you are all here. Now we can get to what I have been dying to witness ever since I laid eyes on all of you…
"…your demises."
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Alright, thus starts the action!
On a small note, I got a couple reviews asking when the lemon would be (implying that because this story is rated M that there should be a lemon). Okay, the M rating is solely for my language- which I know can get a little out of hand sometimes- and I didn't want fan fiction on my ass. Also, if there is a lemon, it will not be in this story. If there is a lemon and if I make this story into a trilogy, the lemon will be in the third part, I promise.
(But, if any of you would like to help with the writing of the lemon, I would be very grateful….I'm not too good with that stuff. But if none of you can help, I'm sure I can make it through. I will whoever helps me major props and maybe even perhaps their own character in the story!) If I have a lemon….
Oh yeah….I'm that utterly obvious.
Also, the craziness and humor that I usually have in my fics will return eventually. It's just absent due to the situations the characters are in.
Anyways, here's two jokes supplied by the great, fantastic, magnificent, hilarious, and ever-helpful Jokes Jessy! (I'm glad you're back and thank you for the props!)
An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough."
"Pop, what are you talking about?" the son screams.
"We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man says. "We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her," and he hangs up.
Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. "Like hell they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care of this." She calls Phoenix immediately, and screams at the old man, "You are NOT getting divorced. Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?" and hangs up.
The old man hangs up his phone, too, and turns to his wife. "Okay," he says, "they're coming for Thanksgiving. Now what do we tell them for Christmas?"
And joke number two: (this one's rated pg-13 for safety)
The mother of a 17-year-old girl was concerned that her daughter was having sex. Worried the girl might become pregnant, and adversely impact the family's status, she consulted the family doctor. The doctor told her that teenagers today were very willful, and any attempt to stop the girl would probably result in rebellion. He then told her to arrange for her daughter to be put on birth control and, until then, talk to her and give her a box of condoms. Later that evening, as her daughter was preparing for a date, the woman told her about the situation and handed her a box of condoms. The girl started to laugh and reached over to hug her mother saying, "Oh Mum! You don't have to worry about that! I'm dating Susan!"
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