Chapter 11
"Well that was a waste of time!" an entirely to pessimistic Lita commented to an already downcast group of people.
However, Ami the ever optimistic one was happy with what they had found out, even though all they had was some new leads and some ideas that were even no being worked on by some of her sources.
Not commenting on what Lita said, indeed totally ignoring what she said, Ami almost but not quiet as it was not her way, ordered everyone to go home and eat or check up on their contacts. Looking closely at the guys when she said that as if to say, " I know you know more then you are saying", which of course there blank looks seemed to imply they didn't.
Unfortunately tact was never Duo's strong point. As soon as the door closed behind the girls retreating backs, he almost yelled the question he had been holding in since he had first arrived at the entrance to the asylum, "is that the place the blonde bi….."He stopped at the dirty look Quatra through at him and shrugging his shoulders sheepishly continued, "Barbie stalker was sent?"
Nobody could answer. "After all…" he continued "there can't be that many places in the industry with that kid of name!"
Suddenly it occurred to him, Heero would most certainly know where she had been put, he did after all have a near perfect photographic memory and he never forgot faces.
Explaining his idea to Trowa and Wu Fei, he was thoroughly surprised when Wu Fei could find nothing to complain about.
Parting ways to go and have some more talks with their contacts, Trowa's parting words summed up their feelings in one "finding Heero has become our number one priority"
Not half an hour later Quatra rang on multi-caller and reminded them of where they all went when they where in trouble.
Trowa and Wu Fei were nominated to go and get him while the other two guys kept an eye on Usagi.
If it was who they thought it was, then she was sure to try again.
Meanwhile Usagi opened her eyes with a start. Something wasn't right.
Right at that particular moment, a large growling echoed through out the small white hospital room, and she smiled. It wasn't often that she let her stomach get to such a point that it actually had to tell her it needed sustenance.
As her thoughts started to focus on food a large calloused hand smelling faintly of motorcycle fluid covered her mouth and her instinctive reaction to cream was trapped in her throat.
For some reason this seemed to much for her and she fainted, her head falling limply against the hand.
Heero starred down at Usagi with a mixture of horror and surprise. All he had wanted t do was stop her from shouting and drawing attention to this room. It had been hard enough trying to get past the battle-axe of a head nurse who had orders to keep everybody but hospital staff out of her room.
Now she appeared to be unconscious and he couldn't ask her what was with all the security?
Grabbing the chart from the end of the bed he tried to make sense of all the scribbles and numbers written on the sheets but he couldn't make sense out of half of them.
What he did gather was that she was recovering and that was all he needed to know.
Unfortunately that did not solve his immediate problem. How was he going to wake Usagi up and find out what the hell was going on. His impatience rising with every thought, he banged the chart against the base of the bed and caused a loud noise to echo through the room. Convinced outside would hear, he divided for the closet beside the bed and through some amazing mixture of acrobatics and adrenaline, he managed to fit into the small cubbyhole, just as the door opened.
Nurse Prudence stuck her head in through the door and quickly scanning the room found what had made the noise. Pushing the door open she crossed to the bed and fixed the chart back to its rightful place at the foot of the bed. Some doctors where so careless, she thought to herself.
She stopped to check on the patient and smiled serenely at the innocent image the little girl made. The girl would be hungry when she awoke, Prudence thought. Closing the door behind her, she headed towards the kitchen to prepare a meal for the little angel, her white hospital regulation shoes squeaking slightly between the washed and dried areas of the corridor floor.
Usagi slowly opened her eyes and looked around the room before sniffing slightly. She would recognize that smell anywhere but unfortunately she couldn't figure out where the hell he was. I mean according to her nose, which had been one hundred percent accurate since well forever, he was right beside her.
She decided to softly call his name so that if he wasn't naturally in the room, then she could save herself the embarrassment of trying to explain it to the guards who were sure to be outside after the attempt on her life.
"Heero?" her voice barely above a whisper, she sighed. So her mind it appeared was actually paying tricks on her!
There were chocolate bars in her cubbyhole, if she remembered rightly. Opening the door, she reached in and grabbed at something, which elicited a moan of surprise, realizing that what she had grabbed was definitely not a chocolate bar, with a start of surprise.
Retracting her hand from the hole, she smiled "so I'm not crazy! Hello Heero!" leaning back in the bed, the sarcastic side of her nature came out and she commented, "Long time no feel!"
To which Heero felt he had no reply but "didn't realize you had had one in the first place, a feel of me that is!" only realizing after he had said it how full of himself he sounded.
Pushing her still hovering hand away, he awkwardly climbed out of the locker and pulling his clothes into their rightful places, he decided to ignore the whole embarrassing incident and focus on one thing.
"Why have you guards on your door?" winching at the sound of his own voice gruff with worry but obviously coming across as something else entirely by the expression on Usagi's face.
Glossing over the hurt she made light of the situation "obviously to keep someone out, but since you are obviously here, then I guess its not working!" her tone raised in insult, Heero could almost feel the knives about to be thrown at him. Sometimes he thought, words were a lot more painful then knives.
He ignored most of her words, or at least didn't show any outward reaction. These words were said in pain and he deserved them. Instead he focused in on the words "keep someone out" with fanatical intensity.
Not that much had happened since he had gone; it was then he realized that she still didn't know why or where he had gone.
Opening his mouth to try and explain. A length of silence took over the room.
Usagi took this as a sign that he was confused and decided to explain, and put him out of his misery. In an emotionless voice, she started "recently it would seem that somebody has been trying to kill me. The first time was when somebody sabotaged the car I was racing a few days after you left," raising her hand to stop his questions, she continued "and I know what you are going to say, the car was a rite of but Ami is the BEST and it has been independently tested. However until recently we didn't relies the attempt was aimed specifically at me!"
His voice curious, the only emotion he would allow to show in his voice, he asked, "What happened recently?"
She smiled, it was a smiled without any real joy or happiness behind it and Heero nearly stepped back in shock when he realized it was a sadly bitter smile "Why somebody tried t kill me here, drug overdose so it would look like an accident, luckily I had come out of my coma at that point and could fight her of!" she laughed at his shocked expression "yes, it was a she makes a changed, no?"
When he didn't reply, she looked into his eyes and recoiled from the furry she saw there "Heero?"
He didn't reply. Stepping over to her closet he grabbed some shoes out of it and stepping over to her bed, ripped the blankets off and shoved her feet into them. It didn't hit her what he was going to do till he had swung her into his arms and was waking out of her room, and down he stairs to his car.
Her voice mildly curious, she queried "Where exactly are you taking me and why?"
He didn't answer for minutes and while he was driving to their destination, he told her "Somewhere safe. If this is who I think it is your in a lot of trouble!" and silently he thought to himself so am I if she is once again loose on the world.
okay just to apologize to those who are having trouble following the quick pace of the story, I'm trying to base it on the whole speed thing so its got to move fast to emphasis well the speed.
But for those who don't understand I'm sorry and ill try and slow it down towards the end which I have to say I actually getting quite near.
I never thought I would actually get this close to actually finishing a story.. it's very strange, like loosing something special to you.
But it as to be done so I can focus on all my other little projects. To tell the truth I'm working on a rogue/remy story and trying to get just the right mix of humor and seriousness but its hard work.. I'm not that familiar wit the characters. Plus I've decided not to add anymore stories up until I have a few nearly finished and the ones going up finished or nearly there. Saves me the effort of relying to emails from annoyed reviewers who want all the story and now.
Anyway thanks to all those who have reviewed and I hope you have enjoyed the story so far
Laters to all
Review (always helpful to remind people in case they forget
Willow1986
