Shinn had already 'armed' himself with pen and paper and was waiting outside the operation room. It seemed as if he had waited for an eternity when the door all of a sudden burst open.

One of the surgeons, a man dressed in a green plastic suit had come out.

"How is she?" Shinn wrote on a piece of white paper he had found under a stack of pink forma.

The surgeon nearly freaked out but then he realized that whoever who wrote those words must have been the one who had brought the girl in.

"Can... Can you hear me?" he felt kind of stupid talking to thin air but somehow he couldn't help but feel Shinn's presence.

"Like duh," Shinn rolled his eyes as he wrote it down.

"She's OK. The operation was a success. The cut was pretty deep though. How can we notify her parents?" the surgeon asked.

"Notify her parents?" Shinn asked himself. The file had not said anything about that. He flipped it open and found the word he had dreaded under parents - 'DEAD'. But there was a number to call, so Shinn wrote it down and wrote Stellar's name.

"Er, um, thanks: the surgeon half grinned and ran off.

"Her parents are dead?" Shinn said to himself as he flipped the pages of the file lazily.

Then he finally came to the last page where there was a huge black rectangle. All of a sudden, it became a 'screen' which flickered to life.

"Yo," Mwu La Fllaga's rosy-cheeked face and weird grin filled the screen.

"Woah!" Shinn yelled and nearly dropped the file. "How the hell did you appear?!"

"This is a communication screen kid, communication," Mwu said with a smirk on his face.

Shinn rolled his eyes. "Whatever, pops. What do you want?"

"Don't call me pops!" Mwu made a face. "Heard that Stellar got injured again. Apparently she stabbed her left wrist with a knife. Kid, what happened?"

"What the-" Shinn stared at Mwu. "You serious? She did that? I don't know, I only found her after she was stabbed and brought her to the hospital. AND WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT NO ONE WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE OR HEAR ME?!"

"Chill out, kid," Mwu said, shaking his head. "No big deal, right? Just slipped my mind. So... You learned the hard way. Anyway, your task is to find her phobia and cure her. Simple?"

"Yeah right," Shinn twisted his mouth a bit so it resembled Mwu's. "Simple," he imitated him. "Oh yeah, one more thing. How come I can carry Stellar? Why am I solid to her when I can pass through walls?"

"Well, you see..." Mwu shifted uncomfortably in the screen. "That's, er... Because you're a, uh, 'special case'..."

"Yeah right," Shinn said dully. "I'm a special case."

"OK! So... Gotta go now! Bye kid! Hang in there!: and with a wave, the screen went blank.

"Kill me," Shinn muttered under his breath. "I'm being watched by a raving lunatic who has clearly lost his mind."

Just then, the doors of the operation room burst open and out came Stellar on a movable hospital bed. She was being wheeled by two nurses dressed in pink to a ward.

Shinn followed them, half floating in the air. He noticed that Stellar had been connected to a drip. She looked so peaceful, it seemed as if, to Shinn, she was nicely asleep. Then the fact that she really was asleep occured to Shinn.

He hit himself for his stupidity.

The two nurses wheeled Stellar into a ward and they left.

Shinn decided to stay there and watch over her. After all, there was not much for him to do anyway and it was his job to look after her...

A/n: omg thank you for your lovely reviews! sorry, this fic has been 'dead' for a long time and well, to the latest reviewer, you made me go look for the exercise book it was written on and well, it's back! (: review? (: