Chapter 20

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Kagome woke up on a bench… in a holding cell. She tried to sit up. Her body was sluggish and wouldn't cooperate. She sniffed the air lightly and found the source coming from her upper arm. There was a whole just big enough for a needle to fit. She'd been drugged. Kagome growled and sat up.

" Those bastards." Kagome hissed as she struggled to stand up.

" Higurashi." One of the two jail guards called to her from her door.

" What is it!" She snapped. One of the guards took out a key, and unlocked the door.

" You're needed for questioning in the office." Kagome made her way over to the door, and the second officer grabbed her arm.

" You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to an attorney, If you-" Kagome ripped her arm from the officer's grasp.

" I know my rights baka!" The officer looked down his nose at her agitated that he didn't know what she just called him. " You said I was needed for questioning in the office, so where is this said office."

" Right here." The other officer said, opening the door to their right. Kagome was left alone in the office to wait for her appointed attorney, and a judge.

' What happened?' She asked herself plopping into one of the chairs. A smirk crept across her features as she remembered.

" That's right. I nearly killed her." The smirk turned into a frown. " And they stopped me." The door suddenly opened, stirring her out of her thoughts.

" I assume you're Kagome Higurashi." Kagome leaned back and put her hands behind her head.

" Depends on who's askin'."

" I'm your attorney."

" Alright, give it to me straight. Why am I here?" She asked, sending dark looks towards the two men.

" You're facing charges of attempted murder. If not that, man slaughter."

" What! Why!"

" You sliced off three of her fingers. She's in critical condition in a hospital in New York."

" I had every right!" Kagome argued.

" You nearly disenbolwed her. She may never walk again."

" Shut up! You're not helping!"

" If you would please lower you voice. The cameras have sensitive microphones." The judge said gesturing towards the security camera in the corner. Kagome growled, and gripped the armrests of her seat.

" Let's get on with the questions, Richard." The judge looked stunned for a moment. " It's on your nameplate dumbass."

" First off Miss Higurashi, this isn't a questioning, it's a private trial. And that's Judge Carber to you." Kagome sat back in her chair, and closed her eyes, trying to calm herself. Her lawyer laid some papers down on the desk, and slid them over to the judge.

" Your honor, I believe that the charges brought up against my client brought up against my client are false-" Kagome snorted.

" Oh, they're real. Just as real as the carpet under my feet. I hate that woman to the bottom of my soul. I tried to kill her. If what I did didn't kill her, than she'll die some other day. It is an inevitability." A malicious smile spread across her face. " And when she does die… I'll keep her memory alive by dancing on her tombstone." Kagome stopped for a moment. ' Where have I head that before?' She ignored the feeling and chuckled darkly to herself. The two men said nothing. The lawyer grabbed the extra papers.

" I'm of no use here. I can't defend a client who's obviously guilty."
He grabbed his brief case, and left. And there was silence in the room. Kagome crossed her arm across her chest and said,

" Well, What's going to happen to me Richard?" The judge sighed angrily and flipped through the papers on his desk.

" You're too young to go to prison, and in this case juvenile hall wouldn't work."

" Why not."

" When you were brought in one of the medics looked you over, and found all those cuts." Kagome jumped forward in her seat.

" What about 'em?"

" They would imply self mutilation in which you would need psychiatric help."

" That doesn't answer my question." He flipped through some more papers and found what he was looking for. Then slid the document across the desk to her.

" You'll be staying there until deemed healthy. Then you'll finish your sentence in Juvenile hall." Kagome picked the paper up, and skimmed it.

" But… this place… it's in Rhode Island." She said slowly.

" Yes."

" No, I can't go to Rhode Island. Everything I have is here."

" There's nothing that can be done. I called in advance. You're leaving in an hour." Kagome paled and stood up abruptly.

" Phone call! I supposed to phone call, right!"

" Yes."

" I want my phone call!"

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Meanwhile back on the ranch, (My tribute to Lemony Snicket) Kurt's still in his uniform, and Shippo is sitting on his desk in a dark green nightshirt. (Cause it's late at night)

" So where is she?"

" That just it Shippo. I don't know. After Scott pulled me back I don't remember much." Kurt sighed angrily as he plopped down on his bed.

" Well what happened before you left?"

" Kagome got in a fight with that Inuyasha guy." Shippo jumped and stood on the desk.

" Inuyasha was there?"

" But it wasn't him. It was Mystique."

" Mystique?"

" She's a shape shifter, and when Kagome found out she was pissed as hell. Went crazy. And I just… couldn't move." Kurt hung his head in his hands. Shippo hopped off the desk and ran over to him, and sniffed him lightly.

" You really care about my mom don't you." Shippo stated more than asked. Kurt looked up at him, and nodded. " Are you in love with her?" Shippo asked with a straight face. Kurt's eyes widened.

' Love? Is that what this is? I'm not sure.' " I don't' know Shippo… but I'm getting there." Shippo stood there in front of Kurt with a straight face. As if making one of the most important decisions of his life. Which he was.

" I give you permission." He said finally. Kurt raised a blue brow.

" What?"

" I give you permission to court my Mom." Kurt smiled down at Shippo and said.

" Thanks Shippo." There tender moment was cut off by the phone ringing. He picked up the reciever. " This is Kurt." Shippo turned around to sit back down on the desk. This obviously didn't concern him.

" Kagome where are you?" Kurt asked into the phone. This obviously DID concern him.

" The Police Station? Why are you there?" Kurt Ah-huhed a few times then hung up the phone.

" So where is she?" Shippo asked in glee hopping up and down beside him. Shippo had grown a lot, so he reached about Kurt's waist, like a regular third grader.

" The police station."

" Well let's go!"

" She said to get her some clothes, she's still in her slaying armor. She said she'd tell the rest when I got there."

" I'm coming too!" Shippo yelled as he bounded out the door towards Kagome's room. Kurt sighed and followed him.

' So Kagome's at the police station.' That much he knew, but why? He caught up with Shippo at her door once he finished his thought. The once happy Shippo was now shivering, and looked terrified. " Shippo, what's wrong?"

" I can't go in there. The air is too heavy with moma's blood.

" It's alright Shippo, you don't have to go in if you don't want to." Kurt comforted him with a pat on the head. Then went in by himself. It was the same as last time, but it smelled a little older for not being touched for days. Kurt wandered over to the corner and grabbed her black backpack, and emptied it's contents out on the bed.

They consisted of Kagome's costume for the Fine Arts Night earlier, and a hairbrush. Kurt grabbed the hairbrush and tossed it into the bag. Then made his way over to the dresser, and started shifting through the drawers. Most articles of clothing were black, and dark.

But Kurt wanted to get Kagome away from that. Finally he found a pair of black slacks. Just a pair of loose dress pants.

" These will do." Kurt moved up from the bottom drawer to the middle one to start looking for a shirt. A fruitless search for a proper shirt. Kurt finally dug his way to the back of the drawer and found one.

A dark turquoise T-shirt that said ' The Mad Woman of Chiott'. He turned it over and read the back. It said 'RAGPICKER' in black bold capitalized letters and underneath a quote read " The pimps are taking over the world." Kurt raised another blue brow, but pt the shirt in the bag and way. He went up another drawer and picked out a pair of socks. (Yes she has a drawer in her dresser JUST for socks. What of it?)

Kurt dreaded the next drawer… don don dooooon… the top drawer. Which eve he knew was where most girls, if not all, kept their… unmentionables.

Kurt opened the drawer slowly, and quickly pulled out a article of clothing. He opened his eyes to see he'd pulled out a black underwire bra. Just as quickly as he pulled it out he stuffed it into the bag.

' Is that a thong?' the thought passed through his head when he spotted another black garment in the corner of the drawer that looked like it was paired with the other one. He picked it up and discovered, no it wasn't a thong, but low cut bikini style.

Kurt of course didn't know this, but he picked them up none the less. He turned dark blue at the thought of what Kagome would look in them. Quickly he stuffed them into the bag, and moved over to the closet and opened it. He looked to the bottom and spotted a pair of black converse. Just like the other clothes her stuffed them into the bag, and moved on.

' What else will she need?' Kurt thought. A cold breeze blew threw the broken window. ' Jacket. She'll need a jacket.' Kurt went over to the bed and picked up Kagome's sweatshirt to find it wet. He let it go instantly and smelled it lightly. A smell so foul Kurt had to reach up and cover his nose.

" Pookie!" There came a meow from under the bed. Kurt glared down at the small fury ball of cuteness. " Well, Kagome CAN'T wear that now." Kurt poofed into his room and grabbed his jacket. Then poofed at Kagome's door. " Okay Shippo. Let's go." Kurt grabbed Shippo's hand and poofed into the alley behind the police station.

" Do I have to transform?" Shippo asked digging into his pocket. Kurt looked to the opening of the ally, and a few people walked nonchalantly by.

" Yeah, I think so." Shippo drew a leaf out of his pocket and placed it on his head. In a puff of blue smoke Shippo changed into his 'normal boy' form. Landing back on the ground he and Kurt walked out of the ally. Then into the police station.

" Excuse me." Kurt said as he walked up to the front desk.

" Yes," A secretary answered.

" I'm here to visit Kagome Higurashi… and bring her some clothes." Kurt gestured towards the bag. The secretary pushed a button, and spoke into the microphone.

" Mike, bring Kagome Higurashi to Conference room #1." She turned the mic off. " I'll need to check that bag." Kurt handed her the bag with out a fuss then turned back to Shippo. Who looked like he'd just won the lottery, if he knew what it was. He was going to see, talk and make a conversation with his mom. Which he hadn't done for the past two weeks.

The secretary handed the bag back to Kurt and told him that the conference room was down the hall and to the left. Kurt walked while Shippo was bouncing down the hall. They rounded the corner, and Kurt immediately saw Kagome through the door window. She was hunched over in her chair, and looked like she was crying.

Kurt rushed into the room, and slammed the door behind him and Shippo. Kagome's head jerked up at the sudden noise. She hadn't been crying, but she looked like she was about to burst. She was in front of Kurt within seconds, crying out.

" Kurt they're locking me up in a loony bin! I'll never get out! I-" She was silenced by one of Kurt's three fingers on her mouth.

" Okay." He removed his finger. " Now, what's going on?" Kagome turned and sat back down I her chair, and motioned Kurt to sit in the other one. Then she noticed Shippo was there. She patted her lap, and Shippo jumped up and sat in it.

" I'm facing charges of attempted murder." She said finally.

" What?"

" But they'll lessen the charges if I go to this… this," Kagome gave a heavy sigh," They say I'm not mentally stable. One of the medics found my scars. I'm going to a loony bin! In just a few minutes!" Kagome stood up, making Shippo jump off her lap. " In Rhode Island!" She stomped over to Kurt's side of the table.

" I can't go to Rhode Island Kurt! You're here! Everything I have is here! I can't loose you!" by now Kagome was crying and yelling. Kurt's eyes widened.

' She can't loose me? Wait Rhode Island. That's too far for me to teleport.' It was he who threw her arms around her this time.

" Just because you're going to be in Rhode Island doesn't mean I'm not going to come see you. You've hooked me, it's going to take more than this to chase me away." He pulled away and looked at her. " Now get dressed. I doubt you want to stay in that outfit."

" Just a second." Kagome said, digging around in the bag until she found her brush. " If I may?" Kagome asked taking a strand to hair from Kurt's head, and pulled it out.

" What was that for?" Kurt asked itching the spot where his hair was pulled.

" Just watch." Kagome said cryptically winding his hair into her brush. She set it on the table and snapped her fingers. A light escaped the brush and spread itself over the window that led to the hall, like an over head projector.

" What's that?"

" It's a disguise. Any of the guards who look in here will see us talking instead of what we're doing." Kagome took the bag from the table and looked inside. She smiled and bonked Kurt playfully over the head. " Tell my Kurt, did you pick this out on purpose… or close your eyes and stick you hand in the drawer and pull out what ever you hand first touched?" Kurt blushed and turned around as Kagome undid the clips of her outfit. An awkward silence filled the room as Kagome's armor fell to the floor.

" So you were in a play?"

" Huh?"

" The shirt I picked usually when people are in plays the cast gets shirts for it."

" Yeah, I was in a play. The Madwoman of Chiott if you couldn't tell. I was the Ragpicker." Kagome said as she slipped the pants over the underwear Kurt picked.

" But Kagome, you were always in the past with me. How could you act and not have Dog-boy blowup?" Shippo asked. Kagome slipped into the shirt.

" I was in it before I found the past." Kurt turned around as Kagome was pulling the sock on.

" But what about the sentence on the back? ' The pimps are taking over the world'?" Kagome looked up from her shoes and laughed.

" It's a quote. He heh. And I said it." She laughed as she pulled on her other shoe and question marks flared over Kurt's head. " You'd have to see the play to understand."

" Oh… so you like the clothes?" Kurt asked. Kagome paused with her brush in her hair, the spell obviously drooped. She'd picked causing the illusion in the window to fall, they didn't need it any more.

" Ah… if you like them." A light blush spread across her cheeks for the first time in a long time. Shippo smiled and edged out the door and closed it behind him. Clearly this was an adult moment.

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Kurt walked forward and grabbed her hand gently. " You really scared me… back there at the construction site." She ran her fingers across his disguised ones.

" I'm sorry. When I came here I was cold and emotionless, right."

" Yes," She let go of his hand, and put her arms around his neck.

" You're starting to make me feel again… and I like it." Kagome went up to her toes and kissed him lightly on the lips. And to her surprise her kissed her back. Even more to her surprise when Kurt picked her up, and ran his tongue across her bottom lip, begging for entrance. Kagome complied, and… there was a sharp knock on the door. And an officer came in. They abruptly stopped, and Kurt set Kagome back on the floor.

" It's time to go Higurashi." Kagome grabbed Kurt's hand and they were led out the door, and across the station.

" I don't want to go Kurt. I could just blast the whole place, and escape." She whispered quickly to Kurt.

" You can't. It'll just cause more trouble."

" But-" Kurt put a finger over her mouth again to quiet her. They were already at the front of the station, and there was a van waiting for her outside.

" I'll come visit you Friday." He said, and kissed her quickly.

" It's a date." Kagome let of his hand and crawled into the back of the van, while Kagome looked out the window in the back at Kurt. Who was shrinking in the distance as it started to snow.

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That's twenty! And sorry that's all you're getting for a while….. I'm off to work on Harry Potter! Please review!