((Okay, I know I took awhile for that last update, but I'm a high school student with finals and mid-terms. I'm a freshmen getting used to everything. So give me a break. I have no free time. I'll try and be better.))
Chapter 3:
About 15 minutes after his exit, one of Kurijo's servants came through the wooden door leading out to a hallway. She was a pretty girl, probably Ayeka's age. Sasami felt a warm sort of glow about her as she came and sat by her bedside. But it was not enough to stop her aggravation.
"Excuse, Miss Sasami, but his lordship requests your presence at the dinning hall for breakfast." She gave a soft smile and began tiding up the bed sheets.
"Tell him I'm not hungry and I won't eat until he sends me home!"
"Oh, now what is the problem?" She took Sasami's hands in hers and looked her in the eyes. "I see no reason for your unhappiness. His lordship is a fine young man, and he truly cares for you. Why he's spoken of nothing but you since I've worked here. He loves you, you know. It breaks his heart that your acting so cold towards him." She crossed to close the French doors, and then pulled the large white drapes across the windows.
"I never asked to be kidnapped here. He took me from my home, my family, Ayeka, Tenchi…" Sasami shook the tears out of his eyes and continued, "Besides, it's not as if I'm not grateful for all of this…but I don't love him like that. It would be wrong of me to mislead him in the first place."
The servant gave her a pleasant smile and extended her hand. "What's the harm of coming down to eat? I could hear your stomach from the other side of the room."
Sasami giggled and stood out of the bed. "I am just a bit hungry...I guess it would be alright."
At Tenchi's home…
"All of her vital signs are…a bit softer than normal. I'm getting vivid brain signals though. That seems the only part of her that's as active as it should be." Washu turned to face everyone who was crowded around Sasami's limp body, which was propped up on a floating table. "It's almost as if…as if she's only dreaming."
"Awful violent scream before for just a dream, wouldn't you say Doc?" Ryoko piped, poking the body with one of her fingers.
Ayeka slapped her hand away. "This is no time to be joking Ryoko. Have you forgotten that we could also be in danger? If Sasami is incapacitated, then what about Tsunami? If the something or someone that took her is extremely dangerous, then Tenchi would hardly be able to help us fend it off." She wiped her hand quickly across her eyes and clutched to Tenchi's arm. "The best thing to do is find out what is happening with Sasami." She slowly turned her head toward Washu. "Is there anything we can do? To help, I mean?"
"I don't know. It's too soon to tell. The diagnosis will take awhile." The scientist turned and smiled at them, "I don't suppose anyone in this house would want to cook some lunch. I hardly trust any of you to cook, but you could try."
The girls knodded and began out the door. Tenchi looked after them and called out "Is there anything I can do?"
"Well Tenchi, you could always help me out in the lab," Washu said, slowly approaching him and grinning eagerly.
"Over my dead body!" Ryoko said, grabbing him and pulling him into the kitchen.