Botan blushed a bit and answered, "He's my…lover." It was honestly the best word she could think to use, she wasn't sure they could be called fiancé's any more. Hiei scowled at the word, "Botan that makes it sound dirty; we're engaged." 'Ok, apparently we are still engaged then.' She thought, blushing a bit. "Yes, I suppose that is a much better word…now we've got to get Mica and Kiyo to bed. I'll see you all tomorrow." Botan said quickly as the rushed towards the elevator, pushing Kiyo in the stroller.
Hiei lagged behind as she sped out of the room and smirked to himself as Kurama walked into the administration area. He caught eyes with Hiei and scoffed. So he'd obviously won over the children, Kurama knew he'd never win back Botan's affections. "Daddy?" Mica asked, looking up at Hiei with her lavender eyes, "Are you going home with mommy today?" Hiei smirked as he saw Kurama tense at the girl's words, and he looked down at his daughter, pulling her off his leg and bringing her up to his face, "Yes I am. Mommy and I have a lot to catch up on; we'll both be back in the morning though." Mica squealed happily and flung her arms around Hiei, causing Kurama to scowl deeply and leave the room.
Mica tugged the collar of her dad's shirt and giggled, "Did he leave?" Hiei chuckled, "Yeah, he left. Now c'mon, your mom's bound to notice we're not behind her." He walked towards the elevator, still carrying Mica, and saw Botan holding the door open. He smirked at her and she rolled her eyes, "Couldn't help yourself could you?" She asked rhetorically. They reached the top floor and found everyone in the hall, almost as if they were waiting for them to get there.
After about two seconds, an elderly man shouted, "It's true! Botan's got a man! And he's a doctor!" Then all hell broke loose, it was a flurry of people rushing towards them until they were cornered and asking, "So how long has this been going on?" "Yes Botan, tell us!" "Please?!" Botan sighed and bit back some giggles. "It hasn't happened for four years." Everyone (minus Hiei and the two kids) gasped, "You mean you broke up?" "And he came back to you?!" Botan was about to respond when Hiei put his hand over her mouth, "Yes, now we've got to put these two in their beds, because we have plans for the rest of the day."
A simultaneous "Awe" broke out and the way to Kiyo and Mica's room was cleared so that they could leave the hall. Once Mica and Kiyo were in bed an asleep, (at around noon) Hiei's shift was over and Botan was ready to take him back to her place. They only made it half way down the now deserted hall before Hiei grabbed her from behind and kissed her neck, "Do we have to walk all the way to your place?" He asked, while continuing to kiss her neck making her shiver. "You're a demon, you could run us there." She said with a gasp, this was too good to be true; him kissing her and touching her like this. "Where do you live?" He pulled away from her neck and picked her up, making her giggle. "I live on Haring St. It's the dark blue house."
Hiei got them to her house in the blink of an eye, and would have marveled at the size (considering it was just she and the kids before) if he weren't dying to get her inside. "Where's your room?" She giggled and pointed to the middle window on the top floor. "My rooms on the top, Mica and Kiyo are on the first floor." She climbed out of his arms and unlocked the front door, ushering him in and locking it behind him. She pulled him up the stairs, although he didn't need prompting to follow her.
She opened the door to her bedroom and he noted that it was identical to the one they had shared, and now they would share it again. He closed her bedroom door behind him and watched her go over to the bed. It had been so long since they last made love; it took every ounce of his self-control to not jump her and relieve the tension that had been building up in him for four years. "Should I bring up a bottle of wine?" Hiei shook his head and pulled off his shirt as he started walking towards her, "We won't need any."
"But you love wine when we make love." She said, starring at his chest; it was still as muscular as ever. Sometimes she didn't think it was fair how beautiful a demon could be, or how smart, talented and lucky. Most doctors, lawyers, policemen and politicians were demons. He pushed her back on the bed, climbing on top of her, and trapping her beneath him. "I can do without it this time; it takes too long." He rested his forehead on hers and looked deeply into her eyes, "Can we start fast?" He asked, pressing his hips against her, making her moan, "Ok, but then we have to go slow after."
(Lemon was here, but removed)
The phone rang and Hiei froze. "Should I get that?" Botan nodded to him, she was pretty sure that if she stood up, she was going to fall flat on her face. Her legs felt like jelly. Hiei pulled himself out of her and walked over to the phone (conveniently located in scenic Botan's bedroom :P) and picked up the receiver, pressing talk. "Who's calling?" He asked, rather pissed off that they had to stop what they were doing to answer a phone.
'Hello, this is Gina from the hospital, I need to speak with Botan for a moment. It's her children.' He scowled and scoffed, "They're my children too. Tell me and I'll pass on the message; she's rather busy." Gina sighed on the other end, 'Alright Dr. Jaganashi, tell her this: Kiyo's gone code blue.' Hiei dropped the receiver and turned to Botan, fear written all over his face. "Hiei, what's wrong, who is it?" She sat up, fixing her clothing nervously, and he bent down, picked up the receiver and growled, "We'll be right there." Before hanging the phone up and walking over to Botan, "Hiei tell me what's wrong!"
She was scared; she'd never seen him look so hurt; other then in the park that morning. "There's a code blue. It's Kiyo, we have to go." She jumped off the bed and tossed him his pants, and looked around for his shirt. Within five minutes he was dressed and they were at the hospital, being greeted by Gina. Gina glanced at Botan's mussy hair and rumpled shirt and raised her eyebrow, "You musta run here pretty fast Botan, your shirt looks like you threw it on at the last moment." Botan blushed bright red and hid behind Hiei so she could reach around and do up her bra. They had left in such a rush that she had completely forgotten it was undone.
Once that was fixed Botan turned her focus to getting to her baby, "Where is Kiyo? Is Mica with him?" Gina shook her head, "Mica's in room 2006 with Larisa, Kiyo's in ICU room 26." Botan rushed down the hallway to the left, with Hiei following close behind, and stopped in front of a room filled with doctors surrounding their son. She could see Kurama fiddling with a needle before sticking it into Kiyo's arm. Within seconds the unconscious boy was thrashing around and crying out in pain.
Hiei narrowed his eyes at Kurama and discreetly sniffed the air; it was a drug to induce an accelerated heart rate. That could kill Kiyo. He opened the door and walked over to Kurama angrily, "What do you think you're doing! That drug could kill him!" Kurama was surprised that Hiei had picked up the scent of the drug and identified it through a door. "Are you trying to kill my son?!" Kurama didn't answer, but something sinister shone in his eyes and Hiei punched him. "You stay away from my son and my daughter, I'll take over caring for them." He turned to his convulsing son and grabbed his arm, just bellow where Kurama had stuck the needle.
Botan watched from the door as Hiei grabbed a clean needle out of a sanitary container and stuck into Kiyo's arm, drawing some tainted blood. He scanned the tube of blood for a second and turned to the closest nurse, "Get me penicillin. Now." He turned to Botan, "Is he allergic to penicillin?" She shook her head and he smiled faintly. The nurse came rushing back and handed him a vile of penicillin, and within seconds it was injected into Kiyo's arm, and he had stopped thrashing.
The doctors and nurses in the starred at him in awe, "How did you know what do? Kurama hasn't been able to figure out how to stop Kiyo's heart problems for almost a year!" Hiei scowled and turned to face Kurama, who was struggling to stand back up, "If I find out you've been practicing bad medicine on my kids, I'll kill you. And we both know it'll be perfectly legal." He turned back to the other medical professionals, "Don't you even think about letting that idiot near my children again, or I'll report all of you."
Botan rushed into the room while he was threatening everyone and hurried over to her son, "Kiyo? Can you hear mommy?" She grabbed his hand and gave it a light squeeze. To the amazement of Hiei (all the others had seen this happen many times) Kiyo opened his eyes and squeezed his mother's hand, "M-mommy?" Botan felt a few tears roll down her face, "Kiyo, you were very good for your doctor, I'm proud of you Kiyo." She kissed his hand and he smiled at her, "Don't let Dr. Manimino near me mommy. He's a bad man!" Hiei took a few steps closer, so he could see his son's face and gave a small smile. "Oh he won't be coming anywhere near you or your sister. I'm your new doctor." Botan and Kiyo looked at him, happiness shining in their eyes, but Kiyo was the one who spoke, "Thank you daddy." Before he closed his eyes and went to sleep.
Botan picked Kiyo up, stood up and bowed to the doctors, "Thank you for once again helping my son." She walked out of the room, planning on bringing Kiyo back up to his and Mica's room. Hiei walked up behind her and grabbed her arm softly, "Botan, there's no reason he should still be here. The only thing wrong with his blood was that c-r-a-p Kurama was injecting into him." Botan shook her head and kept walking, "That can't be right Hiei. This has been happening for almost a year, he'd have to be pretty sick bastard to poison three-year-olds for a year." Hiei gave her a skeptical look but shook his head in annoyance, "We'll find out as soon as I start my shift tonight. But first, I believe there is something we need to finish."
They collected Mica from Larisa's room, and put the two (sleeping) children in their beds before warning the nurses to keep Kurama away from the children, so they could leave and finish what they had started. Right after they left the hospital, Botan was feeling guilty for leaving her kids there alone, but Hiei reminded her that they weren't alone; the whole staff minus Kurama were watching over them. They got back to her house, but didn't even make it upstairs.
I've got to re-write the next chapter a bit...it might end up being the last chapter as well. I wanted to make the story longer, but I don' know just how long I can stretch this before it gets old, you know? Nothing is worse than reading a story and wondering "When will this torture stop! Why won't it END!" So...yeah...maybe two more chapters, though I think will suffice for ending this well.